Hawwaa Aziza Hawwaa
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This song post marks the 300th song of Usha Khanna in the blog as a music director.
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‘Main Hoon Alladin’ (1965) was produced by K N Sippy and was directed by Mohmmed Hussain. The cast included Ajit, Saeeda Khan, Madan Puri, Maruti, David, Amar, Jagirdar, Sham Kumar, Ratnamala, Mumtaz Begum, Munshi Munaka, Mulchand, Khalil, Nazir Kashmiri, Habib and others. The film was based on ‘Arabian Nights’ stories and belongs to ‘costume and fantasy’ genre.
The film is available in the VCR format. Though the film is in colour, the quality of both video and audio is not up to the mark. There appears to be some deletion of scenes at a few places as the story does not give a feel of a smooth changeover. As it is, the story of the film itself appears to be an amalgam of sub-plots. The first part mostly covers the character around Alladin and his love interest, Salma while the second part mostly gives the impression of a repeat of the fairytales of ‘Alladin and the Wonderful Lamp’. Still, the film is interesting to watch and all the songs are melodious.
The story of the film is as under:
Alladin (Ajit) stays with his father (David), a tailor by profession and the mother (Ratnamala). Alladin does nothing but whiles away most of his time. He is in love with Salma (Saeeda Khan) who also likes him. But her father (Gajanan Jagirdar) does not like Alladin. Alladin’s father is worried about his son’s care-free nature and suggests his best friend, Abdullah (Maruti) to reign him.
In order to impress Salma’s father, one day, Alladin goes to the market and buys some costly dresses. In the marker, he meets his friend, Abdullah who is carrying a wedding outfit for the kotwal. Alladin persuades him to spare the dress for some time to impress Salma’s father as a wealthy man so that he consents for Salma’s marriage with him. With his newly acquired dress, he along with his friend, Abdullah go to a restaurant owned by Salma’s father.
Once in the restaurant, Salma’s father is impressed by Alladin presuming to be a wealthy man who can be a potential groom for Salma. Unfortunately, Abdullah’s father and the prospective bride’s father enter the restaurant. Fearing that he would be exposed, Alladin escapes from the restaurant.
The scene shifts to a battlefield. Wazir (Madan Puri) has set up his big camp in the vicinity of the town as prelude for a war with an adjoining kingdom. While his soldiers are fighting, Wazir is enjoying watching a dance by Salma. Soon after the dance performance gets over, Kasam (Habib) enters Wazir’s camp to announce that his troops have won the battle. After the victory celebrations through the streets of the town, Wazir visits the palace of his Sultan (Amar) to personally convey the victory over the enemy. There is another dance performance by Salma whose performance attracts Wazir. He recommends to the Sultan to give Salma a status of the guest of the palace and the Sultan agrees.
As usual, there has to be some secret which comes out unintentionally. Salma’s father reveals to Wazir that Salma is not his daughter but she is the daughter of Sultan who was kidnapped by him from the Sultan’s caravan about 15 years back. The child’s innocence made him shade his criminal mind to live in the life of a common man. Wazir orders Salma’s father to keep this secret to himself. Salma continues to meet Alladin clandestinely.
The scene shifts from the palace to a dungeon where a lady with garland is sleeping and appears ill. Her son (Sham Kumar. I will use his character’s name as ‘Sham’ in the absence of his character’s name in the film) enters her room with some herbs to cure her illness. But she says that nobody can avoid death. Before she dies, she reveals that she had kept from him the secret of a magic lamp which is lying about 50 miles away in a dangerous cave where their family cannot reach. Again the scene shifts to the palace where Salma is seen singing a Hamd and Sultan is very much impressed with her singing. Wazir is also fond of her but for a different reason. He tries to woo her but is met with a rebuke.
As usual, in the night, Salma secretly comes out of the palace to meet Alladin. This time, she is followed by Wazir and his men. She meets Alladin and discloses him about Wazir’s intention. After she leaves, Wazir’s men attack him but he successful repulses their attack and escapes. Wazir tries another way to trap Alladin. During Salma’s dance performance, he instructs one of his men to throw a knife at Salma and arrests Alladin who was standing away in disguise, for throwing the knife. Sultan announces the death sentence for Alladin and he is put behind the bar.
Salma appeals to Sultan for pardon to Alladin but fails. Salma’s maid arranges to get the key to the prison in which Alladin is held and facilitates his escape from prison. Sultan’s soldier follows him but from nowhere Sham comes to his recue and drops him to his house. Sham introduces himself as his long lost uncle to Alladin. He, however, cautions Alladin that staying in his house is fraught with danger as soldiers can drop here any time for searching him. In gratitude for saving him, Alladin agrees to accompany Sham to locate the magic lamp.
After reaching the place where Sham once stayed, he opens a way to the underground cave and drops Alladin to the cave from the rope. Alladin is able to locate the magic lamp which he picks up. When he reaches the point from where he needs to be pulled up through a rope, Sham gets annoyed over an argument with Alladin and walks out of the place putting Alladin in a lurch. He, however, manages to come out and reaches home with a magic lamp.
Next day, Alladin asks Abdullah to clean the lamp so that while selling, it can fetch a higher amount from the junk dealer. However, cleaning the lamp results in appearance of Genie during which Alladin asks for the food. He and Abdullah have assorted food to their hearts’ content.
Alladin makes a visit to Sultan’s palace to meet Salma where he finds Wazir is about to kill Sultan in his bedroom. Alladin fights with Wazir who falls in the river while losing balance. Sultan is happy with Alladin for saving his life. He is prepared to grant a boon for whatever Alladin asks. Obviously, he wants Salma as his bride. By this time, Sultan has come to know from Slama’s father that she is Sayeeda, his daughter whom he had kidnapped. He has submitted the proof of her locket. Now Sultan is not ready to marry Salma to Alladin for class difference as he is a commoner.
Alladin through Genie creates a bigger and luxurious palace for him opposite the Sultan’s palace by next morning. People in the town are surprised as to how Alladin has constructed the palace in one day. In the crowd is Sham who gets the hint. Now he wants to retrieve the magic lamp from Alladin. He plays the trick. He goes to Alladin’s house in the guise of a junk dealer and asks for an old lamp. Alladin’s mother sells the lamp. Now the magic lamp is in the hands of Sham.
Meanwhile, Alladin visits the Sultan’s places with a precious presentation. Sultan is impressed. He gives consent for his marriage with Salma. Suddenly, Alladin comes back to his original status and all the precious presents vanish. Obviously, Sham has asked Genie to shift the palace, and Salma to a faraway land. Alladin knows the reason but he keeps mum. Sultan is shocked and pronounces death for Alladin for cheating and orders his troop to search for Salma. Alladin requests Sultan to give him 10 days’ time to bring back Salma as his troops will not be able to get back Salma.
Alladin and his friend Abdullah are in search of Salma. On the way, they feel hungry but there is nothing in the vicinity. However, Abdullah sees a deer and wants to kill it to cook food. However, Alladin prevents him from killing the deer. In the night, suddenly someone from the sky appears and appreciates Alladin’s kindness towards the deer. As a gratitude, he guides him to walk seven miles more where he would get a magic carpet which will take him to his destination in search of Salma.
Alladin lands in the palace through the magic carpet and meets Salma on the terrace of the palace. However, he is not able to take back Salma on the magic carpet as Genie has been assigned to ensure that Salma does not leave the palace. With the usual tricks of dance and wine, Salma is able to retrieve a magic lamp. Alladin and Sham fight for the lamp in which Sham is killed. With magic lamp in his hand, Alladin asks Genie to shift the palace opposite to Sultan’s palace. Salma and Alladin gets married and stay in Sultan’s palace. Alladin asks Genie to take back the magic lamp as with Salma as his bride, he does not need the lamp.
The film had seven songs written by Farooq Qaiser (4) and Javed Anwar (3) which were set to music by Usha Khanna (6) and Nashaad (1). Five songs have been covered on the Blog. I present the 6th song, ‘hawaa aziza yaa marhaba’ written by Javed Anwar and rendered by Usha Khanna who composed the music for the song.
The song is adapted from a Jewish folk song, ‘Havaa Nagila’ the lyrics of which was written in 1918 to commemorate and celebrate the capture of Jerusalem by British forces. The lyrics were rendered in the chant format. However, over the period of time, the folk song has become a celebration song for Jewish all over the world. Hence, its musical composition over a period of time has undergone changes to reflect the celebrations on any occasion. The song under discussion is adapted from the tune rendered by Harry Belafonte and recorded in 1959 with an Indianised orchestration to suit the picturisation. The lyrics of the song are a mix of Hebrew, Arabic and Hindi words. The lyrics in Hebrew are taken from the original Jewish folk song, Other words are added.
English translation of foreign words:
hawaa neranenah (Hebrew words): Let us sing.
aziza yaa marhaba (Arabic words): Welcome my dear/beloved.
uru achim (Hebrew): Awake brothers.
The sum and substance of these lyrics is, ‘let us rejoice’.
The context of the song in the film is that Wazir (Madan Puri) has set up a luxurious camp from where he is directing the battle with a neighbouring kingdom. While the war is going on, the Wazir is enjoying the dance performance of Salma (Saeeda Khan) in anticipation of his impending victory over the enemy. It is only after the end of the dance performance, Wazir gets the news of the victory over the enemy.
This is the 300th song under the music direction of Usha Khanna to appear on the Blog. She had said in her interviews that she got attracted to music due to her liking for Arabic music. The beautiful rendition of this song in the Arabic genre confirms her interest.
Usha Khanna is the only female music director in the Indian film industry who has been active in her musical career the longest for over three decades. Before her, Hindi cinema had five women music directors – Ishrat Sultana (Bibbo) for ‘Adal-E-Jahangir’ (1934), Jaddan Bai starting with ‘Talaash-E-Haque’ (1935). Saraswati Devi for ‘Jawaani Ki Hawa’ (1935), Amirbai Karnataki for ‘Shahnaz’ (1948) and Shanta Apte for ‘Main Abla Naheen Hoon’ (1949) jointly with M Golwalkar.
Usha Khanna debuted as the music director with ‘Dil Deke Dekho’ (1959) which became a super hit with her melodious compositions. Over a period, Usha Khanna has given the hit songs in ‘Hum Hindustani’ (1960), ‘Shabnam’ (1964), ‘Ek Sapera Ek Lutera’ (1965), ‘Main Wohi Hoon’ (1966), ‘Sabak’ (1973), ‘Hawas’ (1974), ‘Saajan Bina Suhagan’ (1978), ‘Aap To Aise Na Thhe’ (1980), ‘Sautan’ (1983) and many more. She has composed music for 172 Hindi films aggregating nearly 1000 songs and rendered over 150 songs as a playback singer
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Audio Clip:
Song-Hawaa Aziza Hawaa (Main Hoon Alladin)(1965) Singer-Usha Khanna, Lyricist-Javed Anwar, MD-Usha Khanna
Lyrics:
hawaa
aziza hawaa
aziza hawaa
aziza yaa aa marhaba
hawaa neranena
hawaa neranenah
hawaa neranena
yaa marhaba
hawaa
aziza hawaa
aziza hawaa
aziza yaa marhaba
hawaa neranena
hawaa neranena
hawaa neranena
yaaaa marhaba
uru achim
uru achim marsthalina
uru achim marsthalina
hamse yaar hai bedakhmeena
hamse yaar hai bedakhmeena
uru achim
uru achim
aa aa aa aa aaaa
hawaa
aziza hawaa
aziza hawaa
aziza yaa marhaba
hawaa neranena
hawaa neranena
hawaa neranena
yaa marhaba
hawaa
aziza hawaa
aziza hawaa
aziza yaa marhaba
hawaa neranena
hawaa neranena
hawaa neranena
yaa marhaba
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