Ajab hai ye duniya ajab zindagee hai
Posted on: December 20, 2025
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#the Decade of Sixties – 1961 – 1970 #
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Today’s song is from the movie ‘Bandish-1969’. It is a nice song lyrics wise as well as composition wise. However this song has been forgotten, which might be for various reasons viz. the movie not doing well or the movie itself getting forgotten and so few music lovers getting to listen to this song.
I had presented a song from this movie earlier, where I had mentioned that I was not aware of this song till 2018 when I presented a write-up on Singer Jaspal Singh on 02.04.2018.
This movie “Bandish-1969” was directed by Charandas Shokh for ‘J.J. Films, Bombay’. It had Sonia Sahni, Shailendra, Azra, Ulhas, Brahmachari, Shyam Kumar, Sarita Devi, S.K. Prem, Mirza Musharraf, Uma Dhawan, Sushma, Kundan, Dhanraj, Habib, Madhumati, Manmohan and others. This movie has six songs composed to music by Usha Khanna. Akmal Hyderabadi is the lyricist of the songs in this movie.
Asha Bhonsle, Krishan Kalle, Mohd Rafi, and Jaspal Singh (as Jaspal Phokela) are the singers in this movie. Three songs from this movie have so far been covered on the blog.
Here is the brief about the story of this movie as mentioned by Shri Arunkumar ji in his comments on one previously covered song of this movie.
The story of this film is about CID Inspector Anand, who is a courageous, loyal and is devoted to elimination of traitors of the country. I thought this was CBI’s job, but the producers of this film firmly believed that CID does this work. Anand is sent abroad to many countries and returns victorious every time after eliminating traitors. But the supply of traitors is in plenty in India, hence he is appointed now in India.
He meets Shabnam in a train journey and becomes involved with her. The traitors kidnap Shabnam (why her?) and Anand and they are brought to Lobo’s den. He wants secret information from Anand. That time Anand realizes that Shabnam is their accomplice. He escapes from there and finds out that Shabnam’s father is held by the traitors. After few reels, Anand, as expected, traces the culprits, arrests them and also captures Shabnam. Culprits are handed over to the police and Shabnam, he keeps for himself!
Today I am presenting the fourth song from this movie ‘Bandish-1969’. It is a solo song in the voice of Asha Bhonsle.
Regulars on this blog might have noticed that there is already an ongoing series oo Asha Bhonsle where our dear Satyajit jee is covering Asha Bhonsle’s lesser heard songs. I am also chipping in with other Asha Bhonsle songs. Asha Bhonsle has sung a mind boggling figure of 7874 song. The blog so far has covered “only” 3516 of them. So, we have plenty of Asha Bhonsle songs, including songs from the 1950s-1960s and further, to chose from.
Today, let us listen to this wonderful philosophical song about life viz zindagee, which is one of the most used word and topic in the songs of our Hindi films, and which has given us some memorable, and immortal compositions.
Song-Ajab hai ye duniya ajab zindagee hai (Bandish)(1969) Singer-Asha Bhonsle, Lyricist-Akmal Hyderabadi, MD-Usha Khanna
Chorus
Lyrics
ajab hai ye duniyaa
ajab zindagee hai
kaheen hai andheraa
kaheen raushnee hai
aa aa aa aa
abhee jal rahaa thhaa
aa aa aa
charaag e mohabbat
aa aa aa
abhee hasraton kee
aa aa aa
chitaa jal rahee hai
aa aa aa
ajab hai ye duniyaa
aa aa aa
ajab zindagee hai
aa aa aa
kaheen hai andheraa
aa aa aa
kaheen roshnee hai
aa aa aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa
aa aa aa
aa aa aa
na dekhe jahaan mein
koyee khwaab kal kaa
yahaan to bharosaa
naheen ek pal kaa
aa aa aa
na dekhe jahaan mein
aa aa aa
koyee khwaab kal kaa
aa aa aa
yahaan to bharosaa
aa aa aa
naheen ek pal kaa
aa aa aa
yahaan har nazaaraa
ghadee do ghadee hai
kaheen hai andheraa
kaheen raushnee hai
aa aa aa
abhee jal rahaa thhaa
aa aa aa
charaag e mohabbat
aa aa aa
abhee hasraton kee
aa aa aa
chitaa jal rahee hai
aa aa aa aa aa aa
aa aa
aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa aa aa aa
koyee kaarwaan se
judaa ho gayaa hai
koyee raah kee gard mein
kho gayaa hai
aa aa aa
koyee kaarwaan se
aa aa aa
judaa ho gayaa hai
aa aa aa
koyee raah kee gard mein
aa aa aa
kho gayaa hai
naa jaane kahaan se
ye aandhee chalee hai
kaheen hai andheraa
kaheen raushnee hai
aa aa aa
abhee jal rahaa thhaa
aa aa aa
charaag e mohabbat
aa aa aa
abhee hasraton kee
aa aa aa
chitaa jal rahee hai
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