Suno jee suno jaanee ye duniya deewaanee hai
Posted by: Atul on: January 9, 2026
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‘Gul Sanobar’ (1953) was produced and directed by Aspi Irani under his banner, Super Pictures. The cast included Shammi Kapoor, Shayma, Agha, Zilloobai, Rajni, P Kailash, Jagdish Kanwal, Nazir Kashmiri, Agha Shapur, Habib, Alka, Ruhi etc.
The story of Gul Sanobar is an ancient Persian folklore which spread to the middle east Arab region and became a part of the bigger ‘One Thousand And One Nights’ of the Arabian Night traditions. I was expecting that the story of Gul Sanobar may have been first staged by the Parsi Theatres knowing their interest in staging many Arabian Night stories. But I could not find any mention of Gul Sanobar being staged by any theatre group. Even Kathryn Hansen, in her book, ‘Stages of Life‘ is silent on staging ‘Gul Sanobar’. Finally, I got a clue from Internet Archive which has posted in its website Parsi Theatre’s booklet of 75 songs in Gujarati ‘Gul Sanobar No Gaayano’ (Songs of Gul Sanobar) which indicates that the Parsi Theatre had staged the play in Gujarati.
The silent film, ‘Gul Sanobar’ (1928) was directed by Homi Master, a veteran actor of Parsi Theatre with Khalil and Yakbal in lead roles. When the talkies came, Homi Master once again directed ‘Gul Sanobar’ (1934) with Sulochana (Ruby Mayer), D Billimoria, Zubeida and Ghulam Mohammed in main roles. Many years later, a TV Serial, ‘Gul Sanobar’ was telecast on Doordarshan during 1999-2000 with the main cast of Parikshit Sahni, Seema Kapoor, Saeed Jaffrey and Aashif Sheikh.
The story of ‘Gul Sanobar (1953) is as under:
The film opens with a King (probably Nazir Kashmiri) of Magical kingdom, sitting on his throne in the midst of cobwebs making a pronouncement that he wants all the human beings to be slave to his kingdom. But he is aware that Prince Badar (Shammi Kapoor) is one human being who is going to attempt to smash his kingdom. In the other kingdom, Prince Badar (Shammi Kapoor) whose parents have put him under the surveillance of Namak Halal (Agha) out of the fear of King of Magical kingdom, has run away from the palace. His father orders Namak Halal to bring Prince Badar back to the palace.
Namak Halal meets Badar in the midway to request him to return home. But he refuses. Both of them reach the kingdom of Khorastan where he sees Princess Mehrangez (Shyama). Badar is mesmerised by her beauty Princess Mehrangez also likes him. They meet for the first time when Princess Mehrangez cautions him the danger he is exposed to because she is under surveillance of Asif, the King of Khorstan (Jagdish Kanwal).
Badar leaves and proceeds to meet the King Asif who has put a condition that whosoever answers to the question of the Princess which she will put him through a dance expression and gestures has to guess the question correctly after which he will proceed to find the answer correctly to marry her. Many aspirants have failed in this riddle and they are languishing in the jail. Since Badar has correctly guessed the riddle, ‘what did Gul do to Sanobar’? Princess puts a garland in the neck of Prince Badar but by doing this she tries to suffocate him. Prince Badar gets an impression that the Princess is trying to kill him. However, after his second meeting with her in her palace, he gets to know that she is under the magical spell of King Asif who is under the influence of the king of the magical kingdom.
Badar, in his efforts to solve the riddle, goes through thrilling adventures before he reaches the kingdom of Sanobar. On the way, he encounters a man who was on a hunting expedition and now is surrounded by a tribal force. Badar saves him from the tribals. To his surprise, the hunter happens to be the Prince of Sanobar (P Kailash) to whom he wanted to meet to get the answer to the riddle. Prince Sanobar refuses to divulge that answer because if he does that, he has to kill the person to whom he has divulged the secret. Badar also insists that he had also come to Sanobar to get the answer to the riddle and he cannot go back until he gets the answer. Prince Sanobar takes Badar to his palace where he finds Gul (Rajni), the most beautiful woman in chains, is being whipped by salves.
Prince Sanobar gives the reason for the harsh punishment to Gul who is his beloved. Once he has followed her in the night as he suspected her that she is secretly meeting someone else. He caught her red-handed and wanted to kill her for unfaithfulness. But he thought that instead of killing her, it is better to give her the harsh punishment perpetually. Badar explains him that Gul is innocent and whatever she did was under the influence of the magic spell of the King of Magic Kingdom. He has himself observed that in case of Mehrangez when she was trying to kill him by suffocation. He pleads to Prince Sanobar to release Gul from chains. Satisfied with his explanation, Prince Sanobar releases Gul from the captivity. Gul weeps and smiles on her release and looks at Badar who is surprised to see that her weeping and smiling have transformed into pearls and flowers, respectively. He tells Prince Sanobar that these are the proof that Gul is innocent and pure. With this, Badar proceeds to Khorstan as he has found the answer to the riddle.
But in Khorstan, the King Asif, instead of rewarding him for getting the correct answer to the riddle, gets Badar arrested and brings him before Mehrangez who pronounces him death sentence under the magical spell of King Asif. However, Prince of Sanobar with his army attacks the kingdom of Khorstan and enter the palace. He gets Badar released who fights with King Asif. After a long sword fights and trick scenes of Babubhai Mistry, King Asif is killed and with this the magical spell on Mehrangez disappears. Prince of Sanobar brings princess Gul with him. It transpires that Princess Gul is the sister of Princess Mehrangez and they are pleased to see each other after a long time.
The film ends with Prince Badar along with Princess Mehrangez returning to his parents and his mother (Zilloobai) thanks god for listening to her daily prayer to bring back Prince Badar safely.
The film had seven songs written by Kaif Irfaani (4) Nazim Panipati (2) and Raja Mehdi Ali Khan (1) which were set to music by Bulo C Rani (4) and Khayyam (3). Five songs have been covered on the Blog. I present the 6th song, ‘suno jee suno jaani ye duniyaa deewaanee hai’ rendered by Asha Bhosle and chorus. The song is written by Nazim Panipati and is set to music by Khayyam. It is a dance song which is picturised on a dancer whom I am not able to identify. Among those present to watch the dance are Shammi Kapoor and Agha.
The context of the song is that Prince Badar (Shammi Kapoor) has run away from his palace to Khorastan to participate to win the hands of a beautiful princess Mehrangez (Shyama) by solving a riddle. Prince Badar’s father has sent Namak Halal (Agha) to bring the Prince Badar back home. Both meet at the kingdom of Khorastan where they are offered juice. Agha becomes friendly with one of the girls serving juice and she entertains them with a dance as per his request.
Video Clip:
Audio Clip:
Song-Suno jee suno jaanee ye duniya deewaanee hai (Gul Sanobar)(1953) Singer-Asha Bhonsle, Lyricist-Nazim Panipati, MD-Khayyam
Chorus
Lyrics:
suno jee suno jaanee
suno jee suno jaanee
ye duniyaa deewaanee hai
jo dil mein hai kar
na duniyaa se dar
jawaani anjaanee hai
suno jee suno jaanee
suno jee suno jaanee
ye duniyaa deewaanee hai
jo dil mein hai kar
na duniyaa se dar
jawaani anjaanee hai
suno jee suno jaanee
suno jee suno jaanee
mere sarkar aayee hai bahaar
kahoon main baar baar
tujhpe nisaar hoon main
teree beemaar hoon
la la laa la
la la la
mere sarkar aayee hai bahaar
kahoon main baar baar
tujhpe nisaar hoon main
teree beemaar hoon
nayee hai pahchaan
naye hain armaan
ye duniyaa puraanee hai
suno jee suno jaanee
suno jee suno jaanee
ye duniyaa deewanee hai
jo dil mein hai kar
na dunyaia se dar
jawaanee anajanee hai
suno jee suno jaanee
suno jee suno jaanee
tere qurbaan mera imaan
mera dil jaan
teree majboor hoon main
haaye majboor hoon
la la laa la
la la la
tere qurbaan mera imaan
mera dil jaan
teree majboor hoon main
haaye majboor hoon
padee hoon mushkil
raho jee mere dil mein
ye duniyaa phaani hai
suno jee suno jaani
suno jee suno jaani
ye duniya deewaanee hai
jo dil mein hai kar
na duniyaa se dar
jawaanee anjaanee hai
suno jee suno jaanee
suno jee suno jaanee
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