Chaltee ko hawa kehte hain
Posted on: April 16, 2026
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This blog reaches landmarks at regular intervals. I have divided this landmarks into two categories:-
Category one landmarks:- which are achieved as a result of posting articles. Example being, century of blog posts, thousands of blog posts, century post of artists, thousandth post of artists etc. As can be seen one needs to post one hundred articles for a century post to materialise and so on.
Category two landmarks:- These are landmarks that are not in our control and they are dependent on time and happen with time largely irrespective of blog post activities . For example, blog completing 100 days or 100 days. Visitors reaching a certain number in the blog etc.
Two days ago (on 14 April 2026), the blog reached a category two landmark when 18 millionth visitor visited the blog. As mentioned earlier, this is a landmark that takes place on its own. It went largely unnoticed but for an alert regular who pointed it out to us on the night of 14 april 2026 that the blog visitors count had reached 18 millions.
This leads to a natural query. If the blog had clocked 18 million visits, then it must have clocked one millionth visit. two millionth vists etc as well. Do we have records of thse landmarks avilable to us. Yes indeed.
Here is a summary of all the million visitors that have taken place in the blog so far :-
| Visitor number | Date achieved | Blog day number | Days taken for the million hits | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 million | 25 October 2010 | 829 | 829 | Slowest one million @ 1206 visitors per day |
| 2 millions | 7 November 2011 | 1207 | 378 | @2645 visitors per day |
| 3 millions | 7 April 2012 | 1359 | 152 | Fastest one million @ 6579 visitors per day |
| 4 millions | 10 December 2012 | 1606 | 247 | @ 4049 visitors per day |
| 5 millions | 29 October 2013 | 1929 | 323 | @3096 visitors per day |
| 6 millions | 12 October 2014 | 2277 | 348 | @2873 visitors per day |
| 7 millions | 4 July 2015 | 2542 | 265 | @ 3773 visitors per day |
| 8 millions | 20 April 2016 | 2833 | 291 | @ 3436 visitors per day |
| 9 millions | 24 February 2017 | 3143 | 310 | @ 3226 visitors per day |
| 10 millions | 14 January 2018 | 3467 | 324 | @ 3086 visitors per day |
| 11 millions | 22 November 2018 | 3779 | 312 | @ 3205 visitors per day |
| 12 millions | 4 July 2019 | 4003 | 224 | @ 4464 visitors per day |
| 13 millions | 8 February 2020 | 4222 | 219 | @ 4566 visitors per day |
| 14 millions | 29 November 2020 | 4517 | 295 | @ 3390 visitors per day |
| 15 millions | 25 January 2022 | 4939 | 422 | @ 2370 visitors per day |
| 16 millions | 21 August 2023 | 5512 | 573 | @ 1745 visitors per day |
| 17 millions | 31 January 2025 | 6041 | 529 | @ 1890 visitors per day |
| 18 millions | 14 April 2026 | 6479 | 438 | @ 2283 visitors per day |
If we take an overall average, the blog has averaged 2778 visits daily from the time the blog started on 19 July 2008.
One can observe that the daily average which used to be over 4000 visits and even 5000 visits daily has come down to below 3000 visitors daily. But what matters is that the blog continues to be patronised by lovers of old HFM.
This occasion needs to be celebrated with a nice song. For this occasion, I have located a song from “Shatranj Ke Mohre”(1974). It was an obscure movie, which was produced by Ashok Chandra and directed by Shibu Mitra for Saket Films, Bombay. The movie had Neetu Singh, Rakesh Pandey, Pradeep Kumar, Satyen Kapoo, Nitin Sethi, Dulari, Geeta Sidharth etc in it.
“Shatranj Ke Mohre”(1974) had 4 songs in it that were written by three lyricists – Neeraj (2), Nida Fazli (1) and Ravindra Jain (1). Music was composed by Ravindra Jain.
One song from the movie has been covered in the past.
Here is the second song from “Shatranj Ke Mohre”(1974) to appear in the blog. This song is sung by Aarti Mukherjee, Rafi and chorus. The song is picturised as a picnic song. Initially the song is lip synce by two minor actors (whom I am unable to identify). But soon, as typically happens in Hindi movies, the lead actors (Neetu Singh and Rakesh Pandey) who are watching the revelry from a distance, begin imagining themselves to be lip syncing the song.
A few days back, a post on Mukesh songs on Rakesh Pandey was covered in the blog. In that post, it was wondered whether Rakesh Pandey had lip synced in the voices of other playback singers apart from Mukesh. So here is the answer. yes, Rakesh Pandey has lip synced in the voice of Rafi. The song may be an obscure song, which is a natural fate for the songs of a movie that failed at the box office. The song itself is quite hummable to listen to.
I request out knowledgeable readers to throw light on the movie as well as on the picturisation of this song on the other actors (apart from the lead actors).
Video
Song-Chaltee ko hawa kehte hain (Shatranj Ke Mohre)(1974) Singers-Aarti Mukherjee, Rafi, Lyricist-Ravindra Jain, MD-Ravindra Jain
Male chorus
Female chorus
All chorus
Aarti Mukherjee + Rafi
Lyrics
ho ho
ho ho ho
ho o o
ho o ho
ho ho ho hoy
ho ho ho hoye
chaltee ko hawa kehte hain
kehte hain
lagtee ko dua kehte hain
kehte hain
dil deke jo milta hai
ho
dil deke jo milta hai ae ae
us dard ko kya kehte hain
kya kehte hain
us dard ko kya kehte hain
chalti ko nazar kehte hain
kehte hain
lagtee ko khabar kehte hain
kehte hain
dil deke jo milta hai
meree jaan
dil deke jo milta hai ae ae
usey zakhm e jigar kehte hain
kehte hain
usey zakhm e jigar kehte hain
usey aag kahen ya paanee
o paanee
dariya se bhee tez rawaanee
rawaanee
rokey jo naheen ruktee
hoy hoy
rokey jo naheen ruktee ee ee
kya cheez hai wo mastaanee
mastaanee
kya cheez hai wo mastaanee
dekho to nasha aa jaaye
aa jaaye
chhoo lo to maza aa jaaye
aa jaaye
naam uska jawaanee hai
meree jaan
naam uska jawaanee hai ae ae ae
jo paanee mein aag lagaaye
lagaaye
jo o o paanee mein aag lagaaye
o o o o ho o
o o o ho o o
jab band nayan hotee hain
hmm hmm
munh mein sapan hote hain
ho ho
hum hote hain neendon mein
haaye
hum hote hain neendon mein aen aen
sapnon mein sajan hote hain
hote hain
sapnon mein sajan hote hain
ho o o
o o o
har sapna sach karna hai
karna hai
ik dooje ka dukh harna hai
harna hai
jo rang bhare man mein
ho
jo rang bhare man mein aen aen
unhen jeewan mein bharna hai
bharna hai
unhen jeewan mein bharna hai
unhen jeewan mein bharna hai
Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
April 16, 2026 at 10:13 pm
Good Evening Sir Ji,
Good song and thanks for sharing.
Blessings
Uma🙏
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