Dil waalon pyaar kar lo
Posted by: Atul on: February 25, 2026
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Today’s song is from a C grade Costume film (labelled in HFGK as a Social film) – Awara Shehzada-1956.
It was produced and directed by Pyarelal, for the banner Hind pictures, Bombay. There were 2 MDs namely Jimmy and Nashaad and 3 Lyricists. The film cast was composed of Meena Shorey, Daljit, Johnny Walker, Sheila Ramani, Malika (sister of actress Mumtaz), Shaikh, Habeeb, Heera Sawant and other usual C grade film artists.
Awara seems to be a favourite prefix of film titles. There are a total of 14 film titles having Awara in it. Funnily, the original “Awara Shehzada”was a film of 1933. It took 23 years to bring about a female version of the Title with Awara Shehzadi in 1956 ! Incidentally, the film ‘Awara Shehzada’-33 was the First Talkie film, having a Double Role. Shahu Modak had done the roles of the Prince ( Rajkumar) and the Pauper ( Bholaram) in this film. It was directed by Master Vithal, the First Hero of First Talkie of India, “Aalam Ara “-1931. Master Vithal himself was the First Hero to do a double role in the silent film ‘Prisoner of Love’ aka ‘ Raj Tarang ‘-1927, made by Sharda Films.
Film Awara Shehzadi-56 was produced by Hind Pictures and the Producer/Director was one Pyarelal. I do not know anything about this Pyarelal, but Hind pictures was originally established and owned by the successful Actor and Director Nazir Ahmed Khan. During the Partition riots, Hind pictures studio was burnt by the mob. Nazir Ahmed stood there,smoking a cigarette,watching his property turn into ashes. He must be glad, nobody recognised him. He knew that in Lahore, the same type of frenzied mob had burnt Dalsukh Pancholi’s studio to ashes and he had expected its repercussions in India too. After this, shortly,he left everything he had earned in India here only and with only worn clothes left for Pakistan. There he started from scratch again and became Pakistan’s successful producer/Director. This time he had his third wife, actress Swarnalata with him. His second wife Sitara Devi had eloped with his nephew K.Asif ( he ran a Tailoring shop then) to Delhi. Under the “Enemy Property law”-48, Hind picture studios must have been allotted to some person who had lost everything in Pakistan. Maybe this was Pyarelal. I do not know. He produced and directed 4 films under the same banner-Hind pictures.
The story of the film Aawara Shehzadi-1956 was a typical one. The lead pair was Meena Shorey and Daljit. Daljit ( real name Jogender Puri) was born on 17-9-1931. He acted in 43 films and directed 2 films. All Stunt and action films. He had done 11 films with Chitra.
The story was….
Meena is an unfortunate princess, who was abandoned by her father, because she was declared as a girl with a lot of misfortune. A loyal maid took her and brought her up for 20 years. When she comes to know the truth, she decides to regain her position and heads to the Capital of the kingdom.
On her way, she meets a dancer. She takes her costume and proceeds. She meets the hero, who is like a Robin Hood. They fall in love. After completing the mandatory songs around trees etc, they proceed to the city. There are a series of funny and daring incidents. They are arrested as thieves, jailed, put in mental asylum and also sentenced to death. However with the help of good luck, friends and the team of Director and script writers they finally reach the king and reveal their identity. Everything is fine after that and the lovers sing a song before the film closes.
After this film was completed, the film’s Heroine Meena Shorey and her husband were invited to come to Pakistan to make a film. The result was Miss 1956 (1956), a copy of Guru Dutt’s Mr and Mrs 55 (1955) starring Meena Shorey, Santosh Kumar, Aslam Pervez, Shamim Ara, Zarif and Charlie with music by the great GA Chisti. Though the film did just average business, the adulation that Meena got on returning to Lahore was tremendous. She decided to relocate to Pakistan, even at the cost of her marriage.
Meena’s most successful film in Pakistan was Sarfarosh (1956) co-starring Sabiha Khanum and Santosh Kumar. According to Meena, she was signed on to play the lead role of a princess in the film, but later on Sabiha was given the role and Meena was asked to play the ‘lesser’ role of a bandit queen. She says she walked out of the film but on the pleading of the director, Anwar Kamal Pasha and his father, she relented. Nevertheless, she still made a strong enough impact in the film and perhaps the best song in the film, Teri Ulfat Mein Sanam, sung by Zubaida Khanum was picturised on her. She also became the first Pakistani actress to model for Lux Soap, thus becoming the ‘Lux Lady of Pakistan.’
Meena lived the last few years of her life in abject poverty in Pakistan. She had no savings and was reduced to living in a couple of rooms in Lahore’s Mohni Road. There was no one to look after her and she subsisted on a small stipend paid to her by the Pakistan Arts Council and sometimes the Rotary Club. It is said she compared herself to a dried up tree in a grove full of green young saplings that everyone was out to destroy and burn.
Meena Shorey died on 3-9-1987, a lonely and poor actress. Her burial was arranged with charity money and few came to attend her funeral.
There is one name “Sheila Ramani” in the cast. I wonder how many readers will remember her, who was once very active and a major artist in Hindi films. Sheila Ramani, a forgotten name today, but many of us still remember her in Navketan’s Taxi Driver (1954) ( I remember her in Funtoosh-1956), where she was cast as an Anglo-Indian club Dancer – Sylvie. Sheila was born on 2-4-1931, in Karachi. She was selected as “Miss Mussoorie – 1948” and judged “Miss Simla – 1950”. Made her debut as Champa, the femme fatale of “Badnam”-52, and revealed herself as a danseuse of charm in “Anand Math”-52. She was one of the few Sindhi actresses besides Sadhana, who made it big in Bollywood. She was mostly seen as an upper class mod girl in the 50s, a role she enacted to perfection all through that swinging era in films like V. Shantaram’s Teen Batti Char Raaste (1953), Sheikh Mukhtar’s Mangu (1954), Meenar (1954), Railway Platform(1955), and Funtoosh (1956).
Her Uncle Sheikh Latif alias Lachchu was a famous Pakistani producer who produced films like Pathan (1955), Khizan Kai Baad (1955), Darbar-e-Habib (1956) etc. Sheila visited Karachi – Pakistan on the request of her Uncle, to play the lead in Pakistani film Anokhi (1956). The film was based on Hollywood’s “Fabulous Senorita”. “Gari ko chalana babu, zara halkey halkey halkey, zara dil ka jaam na chalkey” sung by Zubeda Khanum was the popular song from the film which did modestly good business in Pakistan. The movie’s great music was composed jointly by Timir Baran (a bengali who came from India for this purpose) and Hassan Latif. Sheila went back to India and remained as a middle-of-the-range performer in Bombay films. In the later part of her career, she was reduced to obscure films with titles that sounded like Jungle King (1959), and The Return of Superman (1960 – one of the last films composed by Anil Biswas). In all, she acted in 24 films. Her last film was Awara Ladki-67.
Sheila was very fond of sports, especially football and swimming. Ballroom dancing was a virtual addiction for her and she used to go out dancing as often as she could. Sheila was 5 feet four inches tall, and was so fastidious that any dress she would wear won’t be repeated for six months to come at least.
According to her son Rahul Cowasji, she married Jall Edi Cowasji on 31st March 1963 and had retired from acting in 1962. Part of her family that remained in Pakistan converted to Islam. She was a Hindu. She used to live in Mumbai with her husband Jall Cowasji (President of Bombay Dyeing) till 1981. They moved to Khartoum for 3 years and then to Sri Lanka for 3 years. After her husband’s death in 1984 she migrated to Australia on her own in the late 80’s and lived in Sydney and Surfers Paradise until health problems required her to return to India in the new millennium. She used to live in her husband’s ancestral home in Mhow, near Indore (M.P.). She was frail and bedridden for a few years before her death on 15-7- 2015.
Her favorite Hindi film of her career was Taxi Driver (1954). Sheila was also the leading lady of independent India’s first Sindhi film after partition – Abana (1958), in which young Baby Sadhna played her younger sister’s role. By the way, the First Sindhi film of India before Partition was ” Ekta “-1940, made by Wadia Movietone and directed by Homi Wadia. ( Thanks to Cineplot for some of the information in this Bio and my notes ).
Here is a song from this film, sung by Mubarak Begum and Shashikant. I do not know who this Shashikant was. Enjoy the song….
Song-Dil waalon pyaar kar lo (Aawaara Shahzaadi)(1956) Singers-Mubarak Begum, Shashikant, Lyricist- Sartaj Rehmani, MD- Nashaad
Mubarak Begam + chorus
Mubarak Begam + Shashikant + chorus
Lyrics
kar lo jee pyaar
kar lo jee pyaar
dil waalon pyaar kar lo
dil waalon pyaar kar lo
humse iqraar kar lo
dekho daghaa na dena jee
haan jee
dekho daghaa na dena jee
aa ha ha ha
dil waalon pyaar kar lo
dil waalon pyaar kar lo
humse iqraar kar lo
dekho daghaa na dena jee
haan jee
dekho daghaa na dena jee
aa ha ha ha
dil waalon pyaar kar lo
looto bahaar
looto bahaar mazedaar dil haar ke ae
nazren milaao din hai pyaar ke
o pyaar pyaar pyaar ke hey
laayee hai shaam
laayee hai shaam ye payaam mere naam se ae
nazren hataa loon dekho jaam se
aa aa aa aa
aa ha ha
aankhon ko chaar kar lo
dil ko sarkaar kar lo
chaahe dua na dena jee
haan jee
chaahe dua na dena jee
aa ha ha ha
dil waalon pyaar kar lo
dil waalon pyaar kar lo
humse iqraar kar lo
dekho daghaa na dena jee
haan jee
dekho daghaa na dena jee
aa ha ha ha
dil waalon pyaar kar lo
dil gol maal
sab jhol jhaal
ho teen taal
chham chhakka
chham chhiki chhiki
chham chhiki chhiki
chham chhiki chhiki
chham chhakka
na gol maal na jhol jhaal
na teen taal
ye pakka
na dhinak dhinak na tinak tinak
na tinak tinak hai samba
dil mein armaan
dil mein armaan hain
mehmaan itna jaan lo o
aaj isko mera kehna maan lo
ajee maan maan maan lo
ho o
aao deedaar kar lo
sab ka israar kar lo
hum ko bhula na dena jee
haan jee
humko bhula na dena jee
aa ha ha ha
dil waalon pyaar kar lo
dil waalon pyaar kar lo
humse iqraar kar lo
dekho daghaa na dena jee
dekho daghaa na dena jee
aa ha ha ha
dil waalon pyaar kar lo
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February 25, 2026 at 10:15 am
Arun Ji
thanks for detailed account Sheila Ramani’s life and Filmograph. I liked her in some of her movies that I saw.
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