Na tumse hui na hamse hui
Posted on: May 14, 2026
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‘Raja Rani’ (1973) was produced by Jagdish Kumar under the banner of Filmkunj and was directed by Sachin Bhowmick who also wrote story and the screenplay. The cast included Rajesh Khanna and Sharmila Tagore in the lead roles supported by Raj Mehra, David, Iftekhar, Suresh, Asit Sen, Brahma Bhardwaj, Manmohan, Uma Dutt, Pravin Paul, Dulari, Naaz, Kanu Roy, Indrani Mukherjee etc. There were some more well-known actors, like Mumtaz, Farida Jalal, Sujit Kumar and Achla Sachdev who appeared in cameo roles but was not credited in the film’s credit titles. Producer of the film, Jagdish Kumar was the production controller in J Om Prakash’s film production banner, Filmyug. So, in a way, the film can be regarded as J Om Prakash’s home production. This is the only film Sachin Bhowmick directed during his filmy career.
I had missed to watch this film in the theatre when it got released in 1973. However, a couple of songs from the film were very popular. It is for the first time that I have watched the film on a video sharing platform and have liked it for Rajesh Khanna’s unusual role of a professional thief who often gets caught by the police. In a lighter vein, his blue dress becomes his identity for the police to easily catch him! The film, however, raises an important issue as to how difficult it is for those who wants to live a honest life by giving up their anti-social professions. The protagonists of the film raises a question as to how far the society accepts them at their face value. The story of the film is as under:
The film starts with black and white mode during which a widow, Janaki (Indrani Mukherjee) is shown as rushing to her employer’s house requesting him for money for the treatment of her son, Raja who is ill. The employer gives money on the condition that she should meet him every evening. She agrees and gets the money. Raja recovers from his illness. But on a second thought, her conscious tells her that she cannot meet her employer’s demand. She commits suicide by hanging, leaving Raja as an orphan. Raja is forced to take up stealing to survive in his childhood.
Now the story of the film moves on the colour mode as Raja (Rajesh Khanna) grows up as a professional thief but gets caught by police quite often spending much of his time in jail. Lala (Asit Sen) is a person who provides him cash against the stolen items. Raja has a close friend, Tony (V K Sharma) who is a conmen and also a professional thief. Both stay in an abandoned boxcar (railway wagon).
One night, Raja is chased by the police who takes shelter in a house where a wedding ceremony is taking place. The groom, Suresh has fled from his arranged marriage leaving his wedding outfit. In order to avoid the police detection, Raja wears the wedding outfit. The groom’s father, a judge (Iftekhar) calls for son for the marriage ceremony. Instead Raja comes out with his wedding outfit and gets married to the bride, Nirmala (Sharmila Tagore) who has been brought up by her maternal uncle (Uma Dutt) and the aunt (Praveen Paul). After the marriage, Raja hurriedly leaves from the back exit after taking out his wedding outfit. Nirmala thinking him to be Suresh is shocked. Eventually, Raja is caught by the police and is sent to the jail. In the same night, Suresh dies in an accident. Next day, Nirmala is sent back to her maternal uncle’s house. Her aunt expels Nirmala from the house. After wandering in the night on the streets, she lands in a courtesan’s house.
After few months, Raja is set free from the jail. Things have drastically changed. Raja goes to the house where he got married and finds that after Suresh’s death, the family has left the house. He also finds that his boxcar is occupied by another family to whom Tony has sold it. With short of money, Raja goes for a stealing and again gets caught in the police chase. He takes shelter in courtesan’s house where Nirmala, now called Ranibai has been entertaining one of her big clients, Govardhan Das (Raj Mehra) who tries to molest her after the dance and Raja prevents him from doing so. After some initial conversations between Raja and Ranibai, both have shown inclination to like each other. Their subsequent meeting strengthens this belief when he comes to know that Ranibai protected him when the police had made enquiry about him with her.
Raja catches up with Tony who is now known as Zebrinski operating as a conman on the footpath. They both rejoin in a room provided by Lala. To celebrate their reunion, Raja takes Tony for watching Ranibai’s singing. Even though it is her off day which she spends on fasting and worshipping, she sings for them reinforcing her liking for Raja albeit with some reservation. One day, while stealing a handbag, Raja is caught by the public who assault him badly. Fortunately, Ranibai, who was traveling in a taxi, sees him and take him to her house for recuperating. During this period, they decide to give up their respective profession and live a honest and respectable life together.
Raja gives up stealing and does some manual work. Ranibai says that she would give up her profession and stay with him in his house only when he gets a good job. But it is easier said than done as both find that their past create obstacles to live a honest life. One day, Shamlal (Suresh) visits Ranibai’s house to watch her mujra. Instead, she advises him to learn to enjoy the pleasure in his own house with his family. The conversations with them will give him the sound of the anklet bells of a courtesan. His wife, Usha (Naaz) is very happy that her husband comes home in the night early and spends quality time with his family because of the sermons by Ranibai. She becomes a friend of Ranibai after she gives up courtsen’s profession.
One of her regular clients, Govardhan Das cautions Ranibai that she can dream of becoming a good wife but she cannot become one in reality. Her past will haunt her and she will return as courtesan. To avoid the taunts from her clients, Raja shifts Ranibai in his house to start a new life. Raja starts working as school bus conductor but soon his former identity as thief becomes known and he is sacked. Both start different businesses but their former professions put them in difficulty.
One day, Usha invites Ranibai and Raja for her child’s birthday and provides Ranibai with her good quality saree and a necklace for the occasion. After the birthday party, Shamlal offers Raja a permanent job in his office. With this, Raja and Ranibai decide to get married in a temple. When they are in the temple premises, Ranibai sees her father-in-law (Iftekhar) in the temple, She runs away to her room. Raja follows her when she reveals to him that she was a married woman whose husband died in a car accident in the wedding night. Raja also reveals that the groom had left before her marriage ceremony and it was he to whom she got married in the circumstances beyond his control. Now they are really the married couple. At that point, Ranibai sees that the necklace she had put on was missing which was given by Usha for the occasion.
To make good the cost of necklace, both Raja and Ranibai go back to their old professions without the knowledge of each other. One day Raja enters a palatial house for stealing and gets caught by staff. He is taken to the owner of the house who is none other than Govardhan Das who is enjoying Ranibai’s mujra dance performance. Raja is shocked but he is confined to a separate room. During the dance performance, Govardhan Das starts misbehaving with Ranibai and starts molesting her when the dance ends. Raja rushes to save her from him by breaking the glass partition. Before he balances himself, he finds that Govardhan Das has been killed. Raja is arrested on the charge of murdering Govardhan Das.
In the court, the prosecution lawyer (Brahma Bhardwaj) submits that at the time of killing, only Raja and Ranibai were present and Raja has already admitted in the court having killed Govardhan Das. So, it is a ‘open and shut’ case. At that time, Govardhan Das’s wife (Achala Sachdev) in the witness box reveals that she saw her husband molesting Ranibai which was worse than an animal will behave. Ranibai has done that in self defance.
The judge absolves Raja from the charge of murder and sets free Ranibai on the ground that to save herself from molestation, she had to decapacitate Govardhan Das which resulted in his death. Raja and Ranibai, now Nirmala gets proper marriage in the presence of Suresh’s father, Shamlal and his wife who have provided him the lawyer (Kanu Roy) for defending them.
The film had seven songs written by Anand Bakshi which were set to music by R D Burman. Six songs have been covered on the Blog. I present the 7th and the last song, ‘na tumse huyee na hamse huyee’ which is rendered by Lata Mangeshkar and is picturised on Sharmila Tagore as a mujra dance performance for Raj Mehra. This song starts with the first antara of the song, main ek chor tu meree raanee to remind each other (Raja and Ranibai) what was their dream of having a house and to live a honest and respectable life. But the fate has put them differently as of now.
The context of the song is that after the loss of necklace given to Ranibai (Sharmila Tagore) by Usha (Naaz) on the occasion of the birthday of her child, both Raja (Rajesh Khanna) and Ranibai have gone back to their original professions without the knowledge of each other to make good the amount of the necklace. While Raja gets caught in the house of Govardhan Das (Raj Mehra) during stealing, he finds Ranibai performing the mujra dance for her former client, Govardhan Das.
With this song, all the songs of ‘Raja Rani’ (1973) have been covered on the Blog.
Video Clip:
Audio Clip:
Song-Na tumse hui na hamse hui (Raja Rani)(1973) Singer-Lata, Lyricist-Anand Bakshi, MD-R D Burman
Lyrics:
ham donon ne dekhaa thhaa ik sapnaa
kaheen pe chhotaa saa ik ghar thhaa apnaa
aangan mein utree thhee chaandnee raaten
ham baithhe karte thhe pyaar kee baaten
wo baaten wo raaten
bhool jaayen ham
to hamen
yaad dilaanaa
haan
bhool na jaanaa
na tumse huyee
na hamse huyee
ha
na tumse huyee
na hamse huyee
donon se muhobbat ho na sakee
donon se muhobbat ho na sakee
na tumse huyee
na hamse huyee
na tumse huyee
na hamse huyee
tumse bhee ye shiqwaa ho na sakaa
hamse bhee shiqaayat ho na sakee
hamse bhee shiqaayat ho na sakee
na thhaa aisaa iraadaa
kiyaa thhaa hamne waadaa
magar taqdeer hai ye
koi zanjeer hai ye
isse ham tod dete
zamaanaa chhod dete
magar jeenaa padaa hai
zahar peenaa padaa hai
kasam tum tod aaye
wafaa ham chhod aaye
chalo insaaf kar den
khataayen maaf kar den
ho o
tum se bhee sharaafat ho na sakee
tum se bhee sharaafat ho na sakee
ham se bhee sharaafat ho na sakee
ham se bhee sharaafat ho na sakee
na tumse huyee
na hamse huyee
na tumse huyee
na hamse huyee
donon se muhobbat ho na sakee
donon se muhobbat ho na sakee
falak jo kaam de de
jise jo naam de de
badal saktaa naheen wo
sambhal saktaa naheen wo
hamaara naam kyaa hai
hamaara kaam kyaa hai
wahee karnaa padegaa
yoonhee marnaa padegaa
shareefon mein hamaara
naheen hogaa guzaaraa
lutee ulfat hamaaree
gayee izzat hamaaree
hmm
tumse bhee hifaazat ho na sakee ee
tumse bhee hifaazat ho na sakee
hamse bhee hifaazat ho na sakee
hamse bhee hifaazat ho na sakee
na tumse huyee
na hamse huyee
na tumse huyee
na hamse huyee
donon se muhobbat ho na sakee
donon se muhobbat ho na sakee ee
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