Aa bhee jaao saajnaa
Posted on: May 22, 2026
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Today’s song is from a social film, Actor-1951.
The film was produced by Kerawala and Bhojani for the banner of Sarosh Pictures, Bombay. It was directed by Ramji Bhai Arya, for whom this was his last film as a Director. He had spilled over from the Silent films. He started as an assistant to several directors before starting as an independent director of Talkie films. He directed films like Hindi ke laal-40, Manthan-41, Jungle ki pukar-46, Bhedi Dushman-46 and Sher e dushman-47. There were 2 Music Directors – Aziz Hindi and Ibrahim. Both names had an aura of mystery around them.
In Hindi films, there were two names of Composers – Aziz Khan and Aziz Hindi. Many people thought that these were two separate persons, but the fact is they are the names taken by One composer only. Many years ago our friend Shri Sadanand Kamath ji had dug out some important, revealing and authentic information from an Internet site of Parvez khan-the International Sitarist, son of Aziz Khan.
Ustaad Waheed Khan was a well known and respected player of Sitar and Surbahar. His place in the Etawah Gharana was high up. He had 3 sons. Bande Hassan, Hafiz Khan and Aziz Khan. Waheed Khan was very keen that his sons should continue his profession, earn name and shine in classical music of Etawah Gharana. He thought that working for music in films was below their dignity and a shame. Bande Hassan specialised in vocal music and became a famous qawali exponent. Second son Hafiz Khan, after initial training in classical music turned to film singing, without his father’s knowledge. Not only that, he also accepted the pen name of Mastana-awarded by composer Meer Sahib- to hide his identity from father. The third son Aziz Khan also went the film way, using the name Aziz Hindi sometimes.
Though Aziz Khan did not continue his family profession, he ensured that his son Pervez took the training and became an International Sitarist,settling in the USA. Even the son of Pervez- Shakir became a famous Sitarist. He continues the Etawah gharana tradition now.
A senior RMIM member Mr. Jayraman reported in 2008 that he had traced, found and met the only son of Hafiz khan Mastana,in Mahim,Mumbai. His name was Zaheer aka Alla Rakha. The son confirmed all the above facts and also that Aziz Khan was Aziz Hindi.
Though this fact was confirmed, books like “Dhunon ki yatra” (Pankaj Raag) mentioned Aziz Khan and Aziz Hindi as two different persons. However, as the book was published in 2006, he can not be blamed for this. But since it is mentioned in a book, for many readers this wrong information is ‘authentic’ and this is quoted by many in their writings. This is because the findings of Mr. Jayaraman did not get enough publicity.
In addition to this revelation, one more sort of Revelation has been made by Aziz Khan’s grandson-Shakir Khan-International Sitar player himself, on his own site http://www.shakirkhan.in . According to him, Aziz Khan gave music to 4 films, along with Khayyam. Those films are Heer Ranjha-48, Parda-49, Beevi-50 and Pyaar ki Baaten-51. As per HFGK, Aziz Khan’s name is mentioned only for Heer Ranjha-48 and Beevi-50, while there is no mention of his name in the other two films. It is also interesting to note that singer Hafeez Khan Mastana was the elder brother of composer Aziz Khan. To fulfil his father’s wishes, that if not him, at least his son Shahid Parvez should become an Etawah Gharana Sitar expert, Aziz Khan left the film world after 1958 and devoted himself to train and teach his son. Thus Shahid Parvez became an International Sitarist.
Aziz Khan gave music to these film-sometimes as Aziz Hindi and with other composers in few films-
Flying Prince-46, Pandit ji-46, Intezar ke baad-47, Utho Jago-47, Parivartan-49, Roomal-49, Shoharat-49, Putli-50, Beewi-50, Actor-51, Zamane ki hawa-52,Dhoop Chhaon-54, Danka-54 and Chalta Purja-58.
Ibrahim, the joint MD in this film as well as two other films- Utho Jaago-1947 and Bachelor Husband-1950 was considered to be the brother of Ghulam Mohd. MD. This Ibrahim worked as assistant to Naushad for a long time, after Ghulam Mohd. expired. For many years these 3 films were credited to his name. Even author Pankaj Raag, in his book ” Dhunon ki Yatra’ Mentioned the same thing.
However while working on the book on the Clarinet Expert Master Ibrahim, Dr. Surjit Singh ji had interviewed Iqbal Ajmeri-Master Ibrahim’s son, who had confirmed that the MD for these 3 films was Master Ibrahim and not Ibrahim, brother of Ghulam Mohd. After reading this in that book, just to confirm this, I wrote to Shri Harmandir Singh Hamraaz ji about my doubt. He promptly replied that he too had met and interviewed Iqbal Ajmeri- who was an expert in Music history of the Hindi films, had also confirmed that these films had music by Master Ibrahim only. Thus, one more correction in the history pages !
The Music Director of this film was – Master Ibrahim, who did only 2 films as independent MD. He, however, gave music, along with Aziz Khan to film “ Utho Jaago-1947″, Bachelor Husband-1950 with Sarswati Devi and film Actor-1951, with Aziz Hindi. In the 50s and the 60s decade, there used to be a programme on Radio Ceylon, titled “Saaz aur Awaz”, at 7 am everyday. In this programme, film songs on different Musical Instruments were played-like Van Shipley on Guitar, Bismilla Khan on Shehnai,Master Ibrahim on Clarinet. After this programme, there was ” Ek hi filmon ke geet” and at 7.30 the evergreen “Purane filmon ke geet” was scheduled.
For many years, I used to wonder as to who this Master Ibrahim was. I had read about Van Shipley and others, but information on Master Ibrahim was not seen anywhere. Finally, when my friend Javed Hamid ji from Delhi, sent me his New book copies, published in Hindi, I found an article on Ibrahim, in one of his books,” Hindi cinema ke sadabahar Sangeetkar “.
His name was Ibrahim Rehmat Ali ( or E.R.Ali or Master Ajmeri, on some Record labels). He was born in 1915 at Ajmer and by his 11th year itself, he achieved expertise in playing a difficult musical instrument like Clarinet. he also learnt classical music from Banne khan, Jere khan and Dinkar Rao. From 1934 to 1936, he worked in Ranjit Movietone’s Music department. Then he joined All India Radio, for the next 6 years. In 1942, he joined H.M.V. and served there for the next 25 years.
In these 25 years, Master Ibrahim played his Clarinet in more than 6000 songs, recorded at HMV. He was also the Pioneer in presenting film songs on Musical Instruments. Even during his service. A.I.R. Bombay used to arrange his Clarinet Mehfil every month. He used to present different Ragas on Clarinet as per time of the day or night.
He gave music to only two films. Both were C grade, in the 40s decade. These films were Parbat Ki Rani-1948 and Bigde Dil-1949. He worked as assistant to many Music Directors like Ghulam Hyder, V K Naidu, Shyam Sundar, Fateh Ali Khan, Gulshan Sufi and Firoz Nizami.
He played not just the Clarinet, but also played the Xylophone, Vibraphone, Alto saxophone, Supranophone and a few others. After his film songs on Clarinet became popular, different artists like Van Shipley on Hawaiian Guitar, Enoch Daniels, Goodi Seervai, Hazara Singhand Sunil Ganguly on Piano Accordion and Brian Silas on Piano also became famous and popular, with their performances.
Master Ibrahim died on 20th September 1980, due to a Heart attack. The work of preserving his music on CDs started by HMV from 2015 and so far 4 CDs are published. His contribution in songs of films like Mughal E Azam, C.I.D., Mere Mehboob, Basant Bahar, Madhumati, Maya, Goonj uthi Shehnai etc is remembered even today. Every year Radio Ceylon pays tributes to him on his death anniversary on 20th September by playing only his records.
He had 3 sons, who all are in the Music industry. They are experts in Vibraphones. Its use is very frequent in films nowadays. Recently, Dr.Surjit Singh ji has published an exclusive book on Master ibrahim. ( I thank Javed Hamid ji for his article in his book ” Hindi Cinema ke Sadabahar Sangeetkar” हिंदी सिनेमा के सदाबहार संगीतकार ).
The cast of the film Actor-51 was Ramola, Bhagwan, Indumati, Sundar, Murad,Sulochana Cuckoo and many others. It is a notable coincidence that in 1951, in just One year alone, there were 3 films with almost the same story and Bhagwan was the Hero in all 3 films – Actor-51, Damad-51 and Albela-51. The basic story was that a poor man, without any help, tries to become a Singer or an Actor and how Luck helps him to become a famous artiste.
Film Daamaad was censored on 8-2-51, film Actor was censored on 1-5-51 and Albela was censored on 13-12-51 and released immediately on the next day i.e. 14-12-51. Earlier it was felt by me that film Actor was a failed copy of film Albela. That was before I got the HFGK. Now I know that I was wrong in my assumption. The fact is actually different. Both C Ramchandra and Raj Kapoor were after Bhagwan to start a Social film, instead of making only stunt/action films. After working in these two films, Bhagwan became aware that this story was a winning one, if made into film wisely and if C Ramchandra gives his best music.
Bhagwan started making a draft and writing the story of Albela. Due to his image of a stunt film maker, no mainstream Heroine was ready to work in his film and he could not afford their fees also. He thought of Geeta Bali. When he narrated the story to her, smart as she was, she understood its potential to become a Hit film, and she agreed to work in Albela as a Heroine. The rest, as they say, is History !
There were 10 songs in this film. 2 songs were written by Shevan Rizvi, 4 songs were by Nazim Panipati and 4 songs were written by both together. I can understand two composers working together on one song in the film, but I was surprised to find that even Lyrics are written jointly by two lyricists. I have always wondered how two different poets can write one song together. But in Hindi films this was not a rarity. Actually, a few years back, thinking that this phenomenon was worth discussing, I started finding such songs from the HFGK. After getting names of films where more than one lyricist have jointly written songs, like Chandrtalekha-48, Anyaya-49, Sheesh Mahal-50 Hum Log-51, Buzdil-51, Footpath-53, Chandni Chowk-54, Dhobi Doctor-54, Darbar-55, Miss Bombay-57, Changez Khan-57, pardesi-57…I stopped my search. I realised that this happened in many films and it was not a novelty. I cancelled my idea of discussing this matter in my posts.
Today’s song is sung by Shamshad Begum. Enjoy….
Song- Aaa bhee jaao saajna (Actor)(1951) Singer- Shamshad Begum, Lyricist-Shevan Rizvi, MD- Aziz Hindi
Lyrics(Provided by Prakashchandra)
aa bhee jaao saajnaaa aaa
ho saajnaa aa
aa bhee jaao saajnaa
in saawan kee bauchharon mein aen
jee moraa naa laagey bedardee
tum bin in gulzaaron mein
haayye saawan kee bauchharon mein aen
aa bhi jaao saajnaa
in saawan kee bauchharon mein aen
jee moraa naa laagey bedardee
tum bin in gulzaaron mein
haayye saawan kee bauchharon mein aen
baadal ghir ghir aaye saanwariyaa
mere ghar na barsey ae
naina tumko dekhein lekin
armaan tum bin tarsen aen
ek papeehaa ek main hoon
ulfat ke beemaaron mein aen
jee moraa naa laagey bedardi
tum bin in gulzaaron mein
haayye saawan kee bauchharon mein aen
aa bhee jaao saajnaa
in saawan ki bauchharon mein aen
jee moraa naa laagey bedardee
tum bin in gulzaron mein
haayye saawan kee bauchhaaron mein aen
itney bedardee ban ke balamwaa
ham pe julam ban dhaao rey ae
hampe julam ban dhaao rey
itney bedardee ban ke balamwaa
ham pe julam ban dhaao rey ae
hampe julam ban dhaao rey
jaao tumse pyaar na hogaa
yaad hamein mat aao rey ae
yaad hamein mat aao rey
door se naa phoonkein maaro
dhakey huye angaaron mein aen
jee moraa laagey na bedardee
tum bin in gulzaaron mein
haayye saawan kee bauchharon mein aen
aa bhi jaao saajnaa
in saawan kee bauchharon mein aen
jee moraa naa laagey bedardee
tum bin in gulzaron mein
haayye saawan kee bauchharon mein aen
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