Kaise din jeewan mein aaye
Posted on: June 28, 2026
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This article is the 20400th song post in the blog.
| Blog Day : | 6554 | Post No. : | 20400 |
Previous blog century (20300th song post) appeared on 30 May 2026. 29 days later, we reach the next blog century viz blog post number 20400.
It appeared like we reached the coveted summit of song post 20000 just recently. And now we havealready added another 400 songs to our tally.
In case of the previous century, the century song was identifed in advance. Here in this case, I decided on the song last evening, but when I looked at the songs that preceded the century song, I decided that the century song needed to sound as good as the songs that preceded it early in the day. So I have picked a song that I had earlier earmarked for some other special occasion. I decided that a century post is as special an occasion as any for that song.
This song is from “Apne Paraaye”(1980). This movie in a way is a throwback to those days of yore when story of the movie was taken from a novel written by an eminent littérateur and the movie made on the story would be faithful to the story line contained in the literary masterpiece.
“Apne Paraaye”(1980) was based on a Bengali novel, ‘Nishkriti’ (1917) by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay. Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay needs no introduction, of course. His stories have been made into a large number of well known movies in several languages. His story of “Devdas” itself has been made into over 20 movies in various languages, four of them being in Hindi alone.
If we confine ourselves to just Hindi movies, then “Biraj Bahu”(1954), Devdas (four versions), Parineeta (four versions), “Majhli Didi”(1967), “Chhoti Bahu”(1971), “Khushboo” (1975) and “Swaami”(1977) are some well known movies based on storied penned by Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay.
I had heard of a famous Hindi book called “Aawaara Maseeha”. It is only now that I have come to know that this book in Hindi written by Vishnu Prabhakar is Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay’s biography in Hindi.
“Apne Paraaye”(1980) was produced by Mushir-Riyaz and directed by Basu Chatterjee for M R Productions, Bombay. The movie had a stellar cast including Amol Palekar, Shabana Azmi, Utpal Dutt, Ashalata Wabgaonkar, Girish Karnad, Bharti Achrekar, Maneesha, Manik Dutt, Gopi Sapru, Zareena, Amal Sen etc in it.
The movie had four songs in it. Three songs have been covered in the past. Here are the details of the songs that have been covered so far:
| Blog post No | Song | Date of post | Singer(s) | Lyricist | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9051 | Shyaam rang ranga re | 24 November 2013 | Yesudas | Yogesh | Picturised on Amol Palekar |
| 13900 | Gaao mere man | 10 January 2018 | Yesudas | Yogesh | Picturised on Amol Palekar and Shabana Azmi. Blog century songpost number 13900. Post by Sudhir Jee |
| 19586 | Halke halke aayee chal ke | 10 November 2025 | Lata Mangeshkar | Yogesh | Picturised on Shabana Azmi and Ashalata Wabgaonkar. Post by Sadanand Kamath jee |
Sadanand Kamath jee, who wrote the previous post on this movie, gaave a detailed story of the movie. I reproduce the story again:-
Elder brother, advocate (Utpal Dutt) lives with his wife, Siddheshwari (Ashalata), step-brother, Chandranath (Amol Palekar) and his wife, Sheela (Shabana Azmi) with their children in a joint family system in Kolkata. Advocate’s immediate younger brother, Harish (Girish Karnad) with his wife, Nayantara (Bharati Achrekar) lives in Patna as a practising lawyer. Chandra does not earn anything while his wife, Sheela is a strong-willed woman who is also a disciplinarian for the children in the family. Because of her these qualities, Siddheshwari has entrusted the running of the household to Sheela despite the fact that her husband does not contribute anything in terms of money. The family has been living together happily with elders and children bonding with each other.
The happiness in the family is disturbed when Harish and his wife, Nayantara and their only son decide to shift to Kolkata and joins the joint family. Harish assists his elder brother in his law firm. Within few days, Nayantara’s ego is hurt and she develops jealousy toward Sheela as despite being youngest, it is Sheela who has been running the household and admonishing children in the family if they break her discipline. Nayantara is not happy that Sheela’s husband does not contribute money in the household expenditure but if she requires any money, she has to ask from Sheela.
Things become out of control when Nayantara creates a rift between Siddheshwari and Sheela by accusing the latter of mismanagement of the household’s finance. To bring the peace in the joint family, Advocate decides to shift Chandra, Sheela and her children to the ancestor’s house in the village where he can tend some agricultural land to sustain his family. However, the caretaker of the village house and agricultural field siphons off the agricultural income and misrepresents to Nayantara that Chandra has been lavishly spending the agricultural income. Nayantara instigates her husband to file a case against Chandra for vacating the village house as it belongs to the entire family and he has no exclusive right on the agricultural income.
Months have passed and Siddheshwari has no information as to how Chandra and his family have been carrying on. She is worried and requests her husband to make a visit to the village to meet Chandra and his family and presents some gifts to them on the occasion of Durga Pooja. He reluctantly agree despite the fact that he has to be present for the final hearing of the court case involving the family’s property dispute.
Advocate visits the village and meets Chandra and his family and is shocked to see their pathetic conditions as they have been living from hands to mouth and all the jewellery of Sheela is missing from her person as they had to sell to fight the court case and to sustain themselves. Advocate gets to know as to who is behind to make their life miserable. He stays with them for a couple of days more.
On the same day when Advocate is on a visit to his village, Harish comes back home completely disappointed as he has lost the court case about property dispute as his elder brother, Advocate has transferred the ownership of the village house and agricultural field in Chandra’s name and the caretaker has been dismissed. With their conspiracy exposed and Harish, realising that he should not have listened to Nayantara, decides to leave the house with his family and go back to Patna to resume his law practice. After a couple of days, Advocate returns home with Chandra’s family and is surprised that Harish and his family are leaving to go back to Patna. Harish pleads with Advocate that his leaving for Patna would be in the best interest of the family. Nayantara assures Siddheshwari that they will occasionally pay a visit to them. All the children are happy that they will be pampered by Siddheshwari. It is Advocate and his mild-mannered wife, Siddheshwari whose efforts keep the family from disintegration.
A few days ago, I decided to post the fourth and final song from the movie as a part of my YIPPEE pursuit. But when I saw the picturisation of this song, I realised that this song and this movie deserved a special mention and honour in the blog.
So here is this special song from “Apne Paraaye”(1980). Sung by Kishore Kumar, it plays in the background as Chandra (Amol Palekar) and Sheela (Shabana Azmi) are thrown out of the joint family household by Harish (Girish Karnad) and Nayantara (Bharati Achrekar) much to the chgrin of Siddheshwari (Ashalata) and the children in the household. A very p;oignant and moving picturisation indeed.
Yogesh is the lyricist. Bappi Lahiri, in his pre disco avatar, had given a memorable score. Those were the days when I considered Bappi Lahiri as the new version of R D Burman. But sadly, his compositions like this failed to advance his career and so he finally decided to switch to chaalu plagiarised tunes and that yielded instant succeess to him.
Come what may, it is undeniable that Bappi Lahiri is today remembered for songs like this rather than for his disco songs. At least that is the case with me.
With this song, 20400th song in the blog, we reach another landmark which means today we will take fresh guard and start afresh for the next century destination.
With this song, all the songs of “Apne Paraaye”(1980) are covered in the blog and the movie joins the list of movies that have been YIPPEED in the blog.
Here is hoping that we keep reaching many more destinations and in the process keep discovering lots and lots of musical gems on the way.
I take this opportunity to thank one and all whose suppport and encouragement in various forms is the fuel that keeps this musical bandwagon going.
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Song-Kaise din jeewan mein aaye (Apne Paraaye)(1980) Singer-Kishore Kumar, Lyricist-Yogesh, MD-Bappi Lahiri
Lyrics:
kaise din jeewan mein aaye
huye wo apne paraaye
dwaar dehree wo ghar aangan
ban gaya pardes
kaise din jeewan mein aaye
huye wo apne paraaye
dwaar dehree
wo ghar aangan
ban gaya pardes
sabhee apne khoyen sukh mein aen
sabhee apne khoyen dukh mein
o o sabhee apne khoye sukh mein
sabhee apne khoye dukh mein
kaun dekhe mere man pe
lagee hai kya thhes
ban gaya pardes
chhoota apna des
dwaar dehree
wo ghar aangan
ban gaya pardes
mere avgun sabhee dekhen aen
mere durgun sabhee dekhen
mere avgun sabhee dekhen
mere durgun sabhee dekhen
koi na poochhe ujda kaise
mere man ka des
ban gaya pardes
chhoota apna des
dwaar dehree
wo ghar aangan
ban gaya pardes
saare bandhan saare naate ae
yoon na pal mein bikhar jaate
ho o o
saare bandhan saare naate ae
yoon na pal mein bikhar jaate
log badle jaise badle
yahaan mausam bhes
ban gaya pardes
chhoota apna des
dwaar dehree
wo ghar aangan
ban gaya pardes
kaise din jeewan mein aaye
huye wo apne paraaye
dwaar dehree wo ghar aangan
ban gaya pardes
2 Responses to "Kaise din jeewan mein aaye"
June 28, 2026 at 8:12 pm
YYIIPPEEEE!!!! To *Apne Paraye* & this blog on reaching 204KP
I think we should adopt KP to represent “posts” like “Rs” denotes Rupees; KP shall henceforth denote “thousandth post” whatsay!? Atulites?
This blog has made many “Paraye”/s into “Apne”/s
Congratulations Atulji
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June 28, 2026 at 6:39 pm
Heartiest Congratulations 🎊 👏 💐 🥳 🙌 Atul jee and all associated with this blog on the occasion of this 20400th post.
Nice post Atul jee. I like songs of this movie very much. Thanks for this post.
Regards,
Avinash
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