Wo kaun hai duniya mein jisey gham naheen hotaa
Posted on: December 27, 2025
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A few weeks back while going through Deepti Naval’s filmography on her Website, I found the mention of one of her films, ‘Anant’. I have never heard of this film. I did not find the mention of this film on any regular film/song-based websites, like IMDb, myswar.in etc. Fortunately, a video clip of the film was available on one of the video sharing platforms which was uploaded by the producer of the film. I watched the film in one sitting and liked it immensely.
Anant (1999) was a tele film which was produced by Project Smita Society and Voluntary Health Association of India and was directed by Raman Kumar. The cast included Deepti Naval, Kanwaljeet Singh, Seema Biswas, Satyadev Dube, Bhakti, Javed Khan, Nanda and Avtar Gill. The story of the film was written by Alok Mukhopadhyay mainly to create an awareness about AIDS/HIV+ . Vinta Nanda wrote the screenplay and dialogues. The film was premiered on Star TV on December 1, 1999, on World Aids Day. Later, it was dubbed in nine languages for being telecast on the regional TV channels. The film was produced in mainstream cinema format with the focus on creating the awareness of AIDs for the people at large. The film is of 70 minutes’ duration.
The crux of the story is that four patients from different walks of life find themselves in the AIDs Ward of a hospital. The first one is a film star who finds himself a HIV positive which he has acquired due to his addiction to drug substance abuse through syringe which he has shared with other substance abusers. The second is a house wife and her daughter who got inflicted with AIDS through her husband who was a regular visitor to sex workers. The third is a sex-worker. They all are under emotional trauma due to discrimination and the society’s attitude to keep away from them. All four of them are now bound by the common problems and they become friends. They resolve to overcome odds and enjoy their remaining life with a positive attitude. The story of the film in detail is as under:
The film starts with a film shooting of a song picturised on a film star, Rahul Khanna (Kanwaljeet) when half-way through the shooting, Rahul finds himself in some discomfort. He goes to his make-up room to inject himself with a substance drug when he find his father (Avtar Gill) already waiting to talk to him. Rahul hates his father’s presence as he holds him responsible for falling in the trap of the drug. He asks him to get out of his make-up room. Before getting out, his father reveals him that his blood report has confirmed that he is a HIV+. Rahul is momentarily shocked but does not want to believe in his father’s words.
Rahul leaves the shooting half way and drives to reach home. He takes a bunch of sleeping pills to kill himself. His father who has followed him reaches home and find Rahul unconscious. He admits him in a hospital where he recovers from the impact of the sleeping pills. From his blood report, the doctor also comes to know that Rahul is HIV+ and reprimands the father for admitting him in the general hospital when he was aware that his son is HIV+ and he should have admitted in a hospital which specialises in handling HIV+ patient. The father retorts by saying that his first priority was saving the life of his son. He is shifted to AIDS ward.
When Rahul wakes up in the midnight, he finds himself in the hospital and is confused. He calls for nurse and no one responds. Because of his shouting, the AIDS patients in the adjoining room wake up. One is Meetali (Deepti Naval) with her daughter, Mallika (?) and another one is a sex worker, Meena (Seema Biswas) who recognises Rahul as a film star. They all talk together and share their background.
Meena reveals that at the age of 14, her uncle brought her to Mumbai in the pretext of making her a singer, Instead, she was confined to a cage like room and was forced into prostitution. Her diagnosis of AIDS came very late by which time, she may have passed on this disease to many persons. Now, she is happy that she got AIDS because, for the first time, she feels that she has got a real freedom. She is now freed from narcissists, psychopaths and sadists men folks. Meetali and her daughter, Mallika are from a middle-class family whose husband was a regular visitors to the sex workers. When he was diagnosed with AIDS, he concealed this from her. It was only when she was in an advanced stage of her pregnancy, she was also diagnosed with AIDS by which time it was too late for abortion. After few years, her husband passed away.
Next day, Rahul’s father visits the hospital to meet Rahul. From their conversations, Meetali and Meena come to know that his father neglected Rahul in his childhood when he lost his mother. His father was more interested in making money from his business than giving attention to his son. With his emotional upheaval, he started with smoking cigarettes to divert his attention, Later, he shifted to taking substance drug tablets. When these could not satisfy him, he switched over to syringe which sometimes he started sharing with other substance abusers.
A kind of camaraderie develops between the four AIDS patients. They regularly meets within their ward in the hospital. Some of the hospital staff and nurses seldom visits them, probably fearing contacting AIDS. One day, Mallika insists that she wants to visit a fair which is visible from her room and enjoy rides. But her mother cannot take her for the fair as they are in hospital dresses and also the hospital authorities will not allow them to go out of the hospital. Rahul says that he is a film star and he can arrange dresses for them and a vehicle too.
From the back stairs of the hospital, they all visits the fair in the night without the knowledge of the hospital staff. While Mallika and Meena enjoy their rides, Meetali is in a sombre mood thinking about her daughter’s future if she dies earlier than her daughter. However, Rahul consoles her by saying that no one can remain in a state of perpetual happiness or sadness in the whole life. We should enjoy the life as it comes and face the sadness in life with a challenge till we depart from this world. While they are ready to return to the hospital, Mallika says that she does not want to go back to hospital. All three echo her suggestion and go for a long drive after which they spend the night in the Jeep.
On the onset of dawn, a Baba (Satyadev Dube) sees them in the jeep and invites them to his Ashram for the rest. He introduces himself as an Ayurvedic doctor who provides shelters for patients with serious illness and also promotes research in Ayurveda as an alternative medicine. Since Mallika does not want to go back to the hospital, Baba suggests all of them to stay in their Ashram. He tells Rahul that now he is aware of him as a film star. He glances at a newspaper on his table in which the front-page has carried out the news that the film star Rahul Khanna has been inflicted with AIDS. They all stay in the Ashram and attend to works like teaching, farming etc.
Six months have passed since Rahul and others stay put in the Ashram. All of them feels that a new dawn has come to them as there is no fear of discrimination, societal pressures etc. Rahul has mellowed down and he no longer hates his father. Meetali’s hatred in creating new relationship due to her bad experience with her husband has vanished as she finds Rahul a well-grounded person despite his status as film star. She suggests him to call his father in the Ashram to reconciliation which he immediately agrees.
Rahul’s father visits the Ashram. Both Rahul and his father hug each other and regret for their past lapses. They all meet Baba during which Rahul wishes to donate all his assets to the Ashram for setting up AIDS Research And Medical Centre which Ashram is contemplating. Rahul’s father also decides to donate his entire earnings to AIDS Research Centre.
The film ends with Mallika losing her battle with AIDS. Rahul, Mitalee and Meena continue to serve in the Ashram.
I liked the film for its crispy presentation by converting a subject suitable for a documentary film into a mainstream cinema. Director, Raman Kumar, and screenplay and dialogue writer, Vinta Nanda deserve accolades for making the film interesting to watch. All the main actors has given excellent performances. Some of the scenes with dialogues are heartbreaking. Nonetheless, Director has ensured that the film does not turn into a melodrama.
The film had four songs written by Yogesh, Nadeem Parmar and Riyaz Khairabadi which were set to music by Jagjit Singh. All the songs are melodious. The credits of the lyrics for individual songs is not available as no audio album of the song was released. The four songs are:
1. ‘Chak jigar ke’ by Jagjit Singh, Lyrics: Nadeem Parmar.
2. ‘Chaand taare sabhee so gaye’ by Deepali Date (Happy Version), Lyrics: Yogesh.
3. ‘Wo kaun hai duniya mein’ by Jagjit Singh and Deepali Date, Lyrics: Riyaz Khairabadi.
4. ‘Chaand taare sabhee so gaye’ by Deepali Date (Sad Version), Lyrics: Yogesh.
I present the first song, ‘wo kaun hai duniyaa mein jise gham naheen hotaa’ to appear on the Blog which is rendered by Jagjit Singh and Deepali Date. The song is picturised on Kanwaljeet and Deepti Naval. In-between Seema Biswas is also seen.
Incidentally, Jagjit Singh had recorded this ghazal of Riyaz Khairabadi as a non-film song in 1997 and it was included in the album, ‘Love is Blind’ (1997). However, in the song under discussion, the first two stanzas have been taken from a ghazal written by Riyaz Khairabadi, while the last stanza seems to be freshly written in a non-ghazal format, either by Yogesh or Nadeem Parmar (Real name: Kuljeet Singh Parmar). Probably, the additional stanza may have been written by Yogesh as another song in the film, ‘chak jigar ke’ is a popular non-film song, written by Nadeem Parmar. He is a Canada-based writer, poet and playwright in Urdu, Punjabi and English since 1973 and who passed away in April 18, 2025, in Canada.
The context of this song is that Rahul, Mitalee, her daughter, Mallika and Meena decide to visit a fair in the night without the knowledge of the hospital staff. Rahul manages to arrange dresses for them and a vehicle to visit. While Meena and Mallika enjoy their visit by taking rides, Mitalee is in a sombre mood because she is worried about her daughter in case she dies early and the daughter becomes an orphan. At this time, Rahul consoles her followed by singing together the song.
The writer of the ghazal under discussion, Riyaz Khairabadi (1853 – 1934) was born in Khairabad in Sitapur district of the present-day Uttar Pradesh. Because of his father’s transferable job as a police officer, he spent much of his life in Gorakhpur where he did most of his literary work. After completion of his education, Riyaz Khairabadi also joined as a police officer at Gorakhpur. After his death, about six books of his works have been published. He is known to be a poet of ‘maikashi’ (wine drinking) who was fond of using the words like ‘maikhaana’ (tavern), ‘meena’ (wine-goblet ), ‘saaghar’ (wine cup), ‘saaqi’ (wine server), ‘rind’ (wine drinker) in his poetry. It is said that in his real life, he was a teetotaler throughout his life.
One of Riyaz Khairabadi’s famous couplets was:
aap aaye to khayaal-e-dil-e-naashaad aaya
aap ne yaad dilaayaa to mujhe yaad aaya
The first line of the couplet was used by Sahir Ludhianvi for a song in ‘Gumraah’(1963) while the second line of the couplet was used by Majrooh Sultanpuri for a song in ‘Aarti’ (1962)
Video Clip:
Audio Clip (Jagjit Singh Solo NFS):
Song-Wo kaun hai duniya mein jise gham naheen hota (Anant)(1999) Singers-Jagjit Singh, Deepali Date, Lyricist-Riyaz Khairabadi,MD-Jagjit Singh
Lyrics:
wo kaun hai
duniyaa mein jise
gham naheen hotaa aa
wo kaun hai
duniyaa mein jise
gham naheen hotaa
kis ghar mein khushee hotee hai
maatam naheen hotaa aa
wo kaun hai
duniyaa mein jise
gham naheen hotaa
aise bhee hain
kuchh log jinhen
gham naheen hotaa aa
aise bhee hain
kuchh log jinhen
gham nahee hotaa aa
ik gham hai hamaara
jo kabhee
kam naheen hotaa aa
wo kaun hai
duniyaa mein jise
gham naheen hotaa
kyun tapte huye
sehraa mein
saaya naheen miltaa aa
kyun tapte huye
sehraa mein
saaya naheen miltaa aa
kyun riste huye
zakhmon kaa
marham naheen hotaa aa
jab dhoop yahaan
hotee hai
saaya bhee to hogaa aa
jab dhoop yahaan
hotee hai
saaya bhee to hogaa aa
har waqt to bas ek saa
mausam naheen hotaa aa
wo kaun hai
duniyaa mein jise
gham naheen hotaa
kis ghar mein khushee hotee hai
maatam naheen hotaa aa
wo kaun hai
duniyaa mein jise
gham naheen hotaa
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December 27, 2025 at 11:08 am
Sadanand Ji
Thanks for the post. I never heard of this film.Good story line.
Nice song ,good lyrics
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December 27, 2025 at 12:25 pm
Thank you, Satish ji.
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