Ek lafz e mohabbat ka adnaa sa fasaana hai
Posted on: September 9, 2025
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‘Beraham’ (1980) was produced by K D Shorey and was directed by Raghunath Jhalani. The cast included Sanjeev Kumar, Mala Sinha, Shatrughan Sinha, Reena Roy, I S Johar, Keshto Mukherjee, Rinku Jaiswal, Manmohan, Raj Mehra, Dev Kumar, Helen, Padmini Kapila, Brahm Bhardwaj, Viju Khote etc. Moushumi Chatterjee made a special appearance in the role of a qawwali singer. It was a last film for Mala Sinha in a lead role.
Delhi-born Raghunath Jhalani started him filmy career in 1950s joining Bimal Roy as assistant director. He assisted him in about half a dozen films until Bimal Roy’s death. He debuted as an independent director in J Om Prakash’s ‘Aaye Din Bahaar Ke’ (1966). He directed 10 films, most of which were musical family dramas. It was a rare occasion for him when he admirably handled the genre of crime-action-thriller film, ‘Beraham’ (1980).
The story of the film is as under:
The story revolves around two police officers – Anand (Sanjeev Kumar), the Police Commissioner and his subordinate, Chandramohan (Shatrughan Sinha), the Police Inspector. Chandramohan has very high regards for Anand for his honesty and integrity. Similarly, Anand treats Chandramohan more like his brother for his upright stand. Anand regards policemen as special type of civilians who performs their duties to the utmost perfection while keeping their public image intact. This is what he said when he finds Chandramohan enjoying his dinner with wine and dances with his love interest, Kiran (Reena Roy) who is a journalist.
One day, Anand faces the dilemma in following his own sermon to Chandramohan when he accidentally kills Ghanshyam (Manmohan), a bad character at an ill-reputed house of his ex-sweet heart, Maya (Mala Sinha). Maya has gone missing but after many years, Anand finds her married to Ghanshyam (Manmohan) who had forced Maya to become a prostitute. When Anand is about to report to the police about his killing, Maya stops Anand from reporting to the police and pleads him to leave the house at once to keep him away from any scandal which may tarnish his image. Later, a police team visit the place and arrest Maya on the suspicion of killing Ghanshyam. She is in the police custody for interrogation. Maya is afraid that she may, under pressure, reveal the name of Anand as the killer. Maya commits suicide in the police lock-up.
Inspector Chandramohan has been assigned to investigate the suicide of Maya. His preliminary investigation gives him some clues that a senior police officer may be involved in Ghanshyam’s murder case. However, he respects Anand so much that he suspects in the police department everyone except him. In the meanwhile, PK (Kader Khan), Anand’s college-mate who is now involved in illegal activities, tries to bribe Anand. PK’s act of attempted bribing makes Anand suspicious of him. After getting information about PK’s current activities one of which is to kidnap a scientist, Anand has planned to prevent him from kidnapping for which he is waiting for a telephone call from his team in his office.
In the meanwhile, Chandramohan has gather a clue from a drunkard (Keshto Mukherjee) that a person with the uniform of a senior police officer was seen in the Maya’s house. After getting rebuff from a couple of very senior police officials while interrogating them, Chandramohan visits Anand’s office and requests him to answer a few questions about the murder of Ghanshyam. His first question is as to where he was when Ghanshyam’s murder has taken place. At first, Anand gets irritated but later pleads that at this juncture, he is not in a position to answer his query as he is on an important assignment awaiting a telephone call. However, Chandramohan insists on getting his answer to his question and does not allow Anand to pick up the ringing telephone. Anand point his revolver at Chandramohan and picks the telephone. He gets the information that the police team is ready to follow PK who has already kidnapped the scientist (Brahm Bhardwaj). Anand orders Chandramohan to accompany him for a chase of PK to stop him from leaving the country with the kidnapped scientist. He assures Chandramohan that after finishing his assignment, he will answer his question. Chandramohan follows Anand’s order.
In the climax scene, the police team led by Anand and Chandramohan are following the PK’s vehicle in which the kidnapped scientist is being taken to a private airfield. When Anand finds PK along with the scientist who has already boarded the plane, he drives his jeep on the runway to dash against the plane on a take-off, resulting in burning the plane. Anand gets seriously injured, However, before he dies, he walks towards a shocked Chandramohan and hands over a letter confessing the accidental killing of Ghanshyam in Maya’s house by him. The film ends with Chandramohan throwing Anand’s confession letter in his funeral fire.
When I decided to watch this film, I had no great expectations especially when the film belonged to crime-action-thriller genre. Director, Raghunath Jhalani has been known to direct mainly the musical family drama films. I was pleasantly surprised that film has kept me engrossed in watching in one sitting. The reason is that the story flows smoothly, well supported by the excellent performances by Sanjeev Kumar and Shatrughan Sinha. The highlight of the film is the heated debate between Sanjeev Kumar and Shatrughan Sinha when the later suspects the former of his presence in Maya’s house on the day of Ghanshyam’s killing. I S Johar and Keshto Mukherjee, who were usually getting the buffoonery roles in their later career, have played interesting part in the film.
The film had six songs written by Verma Malik (5) and Jigar Muradabadi (1) which were set to music by Laxmikant-Pyarelal. Four songs have been covered on the Blog. I have checked and found that the remaining two songs are not in the film’s DVD. It is quite possible that these two solo songs by Asha Bhosle may have been edited out before the film was released. The reason may be that the film was already long (19 reels with the duration of nearly 2 hours 45 minutes).
Today, September 9, 2025, is the 65th death anniversary of Jigar Muradabadi (06/04/1890 – 09/09/1960) who is regarded as the last of the classical Urdu poets of Indian sub-continent. On this occasion, I present the 5th song from ‘Beraham’ (1980) which is one of the two deleted songs from the film. It is a famous ghazal, ‘ik lufz-e-mohabbat kaa adnaa saa fasaanaa hai’, written by Jigar Muradabadi and rendered by Asha Bhosle. Only the audio clip of the song is available. One can visualise that the song may have been picturised on Mala Sinha because the lyrics of the ghazal suit her character in the film.
Jigar Muradabadi has often been called as ‘shaayar of beauty and love’. Jigar confined his poetry mostly covering his admiration for beauty, love, and emotions. From 1920 to 1938, his life was captivated by alcohol. He had numerous love affairs, all of which turned out to be failures. These are all reflected in his ghazals. Jigar can find happiness even in his failed love because, for him, the experience of love itself is a joy.
Jigar did not have any formal guide to develop his interest in writing Urdu ghazals and nazms. He believed that the bookish knowledge was harmful for writing poetry. He did not have any disciples though he was a source of inspirations and mentors for poets like Behzad Lucknawi, Majrooh Sultanpuri, Shakeel Badayuni, Khumar Barabankvi etc. Incidentally, in 1945, Majrooh Sultanpuri had accompanied his mentor, Jigar Muradabadi to Bombay for participation in a Mushaira. A R Kardar who had attended the mushaira was keen to engage Jigar Muradabadi to write songs for his film, ‘Shah Jahan’ (1946). However, he declined the offer and instead suggested him to take Majrooh Sultanpuri who had impressed the audience with his poetry in the mushaira.
Jigar considered Urdu poet, Asgar Gondvi as his mentor and respected him a lot like his family elder. In order to make Jigar away from alcohol and settle in life, Asgar got his sister-in-law married to him. But it had an opposite effect because he married her out of respect for his mentor. However, things got out of control when he was frequently found missing from his house for long durations, Asgar reprimanded Jigar for the neglect of his wife. In fits of anger, he told Jigar that he better divorced his wife rather than neglecting her. Again, out of respect for his mentor, he divorced his wife. When Asgar Gondvi was on death bed, he wrote a Will in which he gave an option to Jigar’s divorced wife that if he gives up alcohol completely, she should remarry him. Again, as a mark of respect for his departed mentor, Jigar gave up drinking alcohol completely and remarried his divorced wife. They stayed together until Jigar’s end on September 9, 1960.
Coming back to the song under discussion, the original ghazal has 22 couplets of which only four couplets have been picked up for the song. The first couplet sets the mood of the ghazal. It gives a deeper analysis of love. Jigar says that the word, ‘Mohabbat’ (love) sounds like a simple story, but in reality, the word has a larger connotation. If love shrinks, it finds a place in lover’s heart. If it expands, it can embrace all the people of the world.
Asha Bhosle has beautifully rendered this ghazal to bring out its emotional contents behind each of the couplets.
Audio Clip:
Song-Ek lafz e mohabbat ka adna sa fasaana hai (Beraham)(1980) Singer-Asha Bhonsle, Lyricist-Jigar Muradabadi, MD-Laxmikant Pyarelal
Lyrics:
aa aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa
aa aa aa
ek lafz-e-mohabbat kaa
adnaa saa fasaanaa hai
ek lafz-e-mohabbat kaa
adnaa saa fasaanaa hai
simte to dil-e-aashiq
simte to dil-e-aashiq
phaile to zamaanaa hai
ek lafz-e-mohabbat kaa
adnaa saa fasaanaa hai
ek lafz-e-mohabbat kaa
ye ishq naheen aasaan
itnaa hee samajh leeje
ye ishq naheen aasaan
itnaa hee samajh leeje
ye ishq naheen aasaan
ik aag kaa dariyaa hai
ik aag kaa dariyaa hai
aur doob ke jaanaa hai
ek lafz-e-mohabbat kaa
adnaa saa fasaanaa hai
ek lafz-e-mohabbat kaa
kyaa husn ne samjhaa hai
kyaa ishq ne jaanaa hai
kyaa husn ne samjhaa hai
kyaa ishq ne jaanaa hai
kyaa husn ne samjhaa hai
ham khaak-nasheenon kee
ham khaak-nasheenon kee
thokar mein zamaanaa hai
ek lafz-e-mohabbat kaa
adnaa saa fasaanaa hai
ek lafz-e-mohabbat kaa
aansoo to bahut hain
aankhon mein Jigar lekin
bindh jaaye so motee hai
bindh jaaye so motee hai
bindh jaaye so motee hai
rah jaaye so daanaa hai
ek lafz-e-mohabbat kaa
adnaa saa fasaanaa hai
ek lafz-e-mohabbat kaa
adnaa saa fasaanaa hai
ek lafz-e-mohabbat kaa
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September 9, 2025 at 5:19 pm
Great song!! And here’s the video clip link https://youtu.be/Pwb2hhHZ9o8?si=hrxgGNdptbGaM-sC
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September 10, 2025 at 6:53 am
I had already seen this video clip which has been made by using mainly the video montages of another song from the film: https://atulsongaday.me/2016/11/11/haseenon-ki-duniya-khudgarz-hai/
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