Hum Do Daaku Rang Rangeele
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Today’s song is from the social comedy film ‘Hum Do Daku’ (1967).
The film was produced and directed by Kishore Kumar and the music director was also Kishore Kumar. All 5 songs were written by Shailendra. The cast included Kishore kumar, Anup Kumar, Leena, Ganga, Sunder, Bhagwan, Maruti etc. The story of the film was….
Mannu (Kishore Kumar) and Jaggu (Anup kumar) are brothers. They venture out to discover the treasures of Mohenjodaro and Taxila, in their old car – a Ford Toner – 1928 model car named ‘Champion’. They lose their way and stray into the dacoit infested jungle of Chandanpur. They are caught by dacoit Guru Ghantal’s men.
Gurughantal is happy to see their singing and dancing and makes them his team members. They are given the task of kidnapping the two princesses Ranjana and Anjana from Chandanpur. When they reach Chandanpur palace, they meet these girls and instead of kidnapping, they fall in love and spend time singing love songs. When they see the Maharaja they are surprised to see his striking resemblance to Gurughantal. After waiting for a few days, Gurughantal comes to Chandanpur and takes away both girls with plans to get them married to his assistants Samar Singh and Amar Singh.
To rescue them, Jaggu and Mannu take the Maharaja with them and come to the dacoit’s hideout. The brothers are caught, but Maharaja deceives the dacoits in the disguise of Gurughantal. Meanwhile the Army reaches there and in the final funny fighting, Gurughantal and other dacoits are arrested. All come back to the palace and Jaggu and Mannu get married to Ranjana and Anjana.
Kishore Kumar (04 August 1929 – 13 October 1987) was a playback singer, actor, lyricist, composer, producer, director, and screenwriter. He is considered one of the most successful playback singers in the Hindi film industry. Apart from Hindi, Kishore Kumar sang in many Indian languages including Bangla, Marathi, Urdu, Assamese, Gujarati, Kannada, Bhojpuri, Malayalam, and Odia. He has also sung in private albums in several languages especially in Bangla, which are noted as all time classics. He won 8 Filmfare awards for Best Male Playback Singer and holds the record for winning the most Filmfare awards in that category. He was awarded the “Lata Mangeshkar Award” by the Madhya Pradesh Govt. in the year 1985-86. In the year 1997, the Madhya Pradesh Government initiated an award called the “Kishore Kumar Award” as a contribution to Hindi cinema.
Kishore Kumar was born on 04 August 1929 in a Bengali family in Khandwa, Central Provinces, undivided India, now in Madhya Pradesh, as Abhas Kumar Ganguly. His father, Kunjalal Ganguly (Gangopadhyay) was a lawyer and his mother, Gouri Devi came from a wealthy Bengali family. Kunjalal Gangopadhyaya was invited by the Gokhale family of Khandwa to be their personal lawyer. He graduated from Christian College, Indore.
While Kishore was still a child, his eldest brother Ashok became a Bollywood star actor. Anup Kumar, the brother elder to him, was a trained classical singer. Spending time with his brothers, Kishore became interested in films and music. He became a fan of singer and actor KL Saigal, whom he considered his guru and tried to emulate his singing style.
After Ashok Kumar became a star of Hindi films, the Ganguly family visited Bombay regularly. Abhas Kumar changed his name to Kishore Kumar and started his cinema career as a chorus singer at Bombay Talkies, where his brother Ashok Kumar worked.
Kishore Kumar’s first film appearance was in Shikari (1946), in which his brother, Ashok played the lead role. In the film ‘Ziddi’ (1948), music director Khemchand Prakash gave Kishore the debut break, with the song “Marne Ki Duaayen Kyon Maangun“. After this, Kishore was offered many other assignments. In 1949, he settled in Mumbai. Kishore Kumar played his first role as a hero in the Bombay Talkies film ‘Andolan’ (1951), directed by Phani Majumdar. Although he got a few acting assignments with the help of his brother, he was more interested in becoming a singer.
Kishore Kumar next starred in Bimal Roy’s “Naukri” (1954) and Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s directorial debut film ‘Musafir’ (1957). Salil Chowdhury, the music director for ‘Naukri’, was initially dismissive of Kishore Kumar as a singer, when he found that he had no formal training in music. However, after hearing his voice, Salil Chowdhury gave him the song “Chhota Sa Ghar Hoga, Baadlon Ki Chhaaon Mein“. Kishore starred in the films ‘New Delhi’ (1957), ‘Aasha’ (1957), ‘Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi’ (1958), ‘Half Ticket’ (1962), ‘Ganga Ki Lehren’ (1964) and ‘Padosan’ (1968).
In the movie ‘Half Ticket’, for one of the songs “Aake Seedhi Lagi Dil Pe Jaise Kataria“, the music director Salil Chowdhary had a duet in mind and wanted Kishore Kumar & Lata Mangeshkar to sing the song. However, since Lata Mangeshkar was not available for recording and Salil Chowdhury had to record that song before she could return, Kishore Kumar solved the problem by singing both the male and female parts of the song himself. The duet is actually for Pran and Kishore Kumar on the screen dressed as a woman. It just turned out to be fine as he did admirably well singing both in male and female voices.
In the 1970s and 1980s, Kumar sang for Rajesh Khanna, Amitabh Bachchan, Dharmendra, Jeetendra, Sanjeev Kumar, Dev Anand, Shashi Kapoor, Vinod Khanna, Mithun Chakraborty, Dilip Kumar, Shammi kapoor, Randhir Kapoor, Rishi Kapoor, Rajiv Kapoor, Aditya Pancholi, Sanjay Dutt, Naseeruddin Shah, Sunny Deol, Anil Kapoor, Rakesh Roshan, Pran, Sachin, Vinod Mehra, Rajini Kanth, Chunky Pandey, Kumar Gaurav Sanjay Khan, Feroz khan, Kunal Goswami, Govinda and Jackie Shroff. And the music direcors he sang for include SD Burman, Salil Choudhary, Khemchand Prakash, C Ramchandra, Chitragupt, Shankar Jaikishan, RD Burman, Kalyanaji Anandji, Ravindra Jain, Rajesh Roshan, Lakshmikant Pyarelal, Khayyam, Naushad, Hridaynath Mangeshkar, Sapan Chakraborty, Bappi Lahiri and others.
An unreleased song of Kishore Kumar was sold for Rs 15.6 lakh at the Osian’s Cinefan Auction, New Delhi in 2012, the highest price bid for any Indian singer. The song was “Tum Hi To Ho Wo” written by Kulwant Jani with music by Usha Khanna. This was for a film called ‘Khel Tamasha’ by Rakesh Kumar which never got made. The song was recorded just three days before the legendary singer’s demise on 13 October 1987.
During the Indian Emergency (1975-77) Sanjay Gandhi asked Kishore Kumar to sing for an Indian National Congress rally in Mumbai, but he refused. As a result, the then Information and Broadcasting Minister Vidya Charan Shukla put an unofficial ban on playing Kishore Kumar songs on state broadcasters AIR (All India Radio) and TV (Doordarshan) from 4 May 1976. The ban was lifted in June 1976 after Ashok Kumar negotiated a compromise between Kishore Kumar and VC Shukla.
Kishore Kumar produced and directed some movies in his career. The movies are ‘Door Gagan Ki Chhaon Mein’ (1964), ‘Hum Do Daaku’ (1967), ‘Door Ka Raahi’ (1971), ‘Badhti Ka Naam Dadhi’ (1974), ‘Shabash Daddy’ (1978), ‘Door Wadiyon Mein Kahin’ (1980) (unreleased) and ‘Chalti Ka Naam Zindagi’ (1981), which was released after his death. This was his last appearance as an actor.
Kishore Kumar married four times. The first time, he married Ruma Ghosh (later Ruma Guha Thakurta) – a small-time actress in 1950. There was stiff opposition from his family, because they wanted him to marry a girl from non-filmi background, selected by them, like his brother Ashok Kumar. This marriage caused him many mental problems and if Dada Burman had not helped him that time, Kishore would have gone back to Khandwa. The first marriage lasted up to 1958, but gave him a son Amit Kumar.
The second marriage was with Madhubala, who was still recovering from the break up with Dilip Kumar. She had undergone a lot of mental agony arising out of the court case by BR Chopra and Dilip’s statement in court against her and her father Ataulla Khan. Kishore also knew about her heart illness. This marriage was opposed from both sides. Kishore had even converted to Islam for her sake. Within a few days of their marriage, Madhubala returned to her father’s home. This marriage lasted till her death in 1969.
The third marriage with Yogita Bali was so casual that it was almost a joke. In the private and hurried marriage ceremony, Mehmood acted as Kishore’s father and Shammi Kappor did the kanyadaan as Yogita’s father. This marriage lasted for 2 years on paper, but Yogita returned to her home, when she fell in love with Mithun Chakraborty.
Finally, Kishore Kumar got his ultimate love, satisfaction and happiness with his 4th marriage with Leena Chandavarkar. Just before marriage, she had undergone mental trauma of being present when her first husband – son of Goa CM – DB Bandodkar, committed suicide in front of her. Kishore was already over 50 years of age at this time, but he became extremely happy when they got a child, Sumit Kumar, from this marriage. It remained a happy marriage till he suddenly died in 1980.
Here is a part of the interview where Kishore talks about each of his marriages. Interviewer is Pritish Nandy-
Pritish Nandy: What went wrong with Ruma Devi, your first wife?
Kishore Kumar: She was a very talented person but we could not get along because we looked at life differently. She wanted to build a choir and a career. I wanted someone to build me a home. How can the two reconcile? You see, I’m a simple minded villager type. I don’t understand this business about women making careers. Wives should first learn how to make a home. And how can you fit the two together? A career and a home are quite separate things. That’s why we went our separate ways.
Pritish Nandy: Madhubala, your second wife?
Kishore Kumar: She was quite another matter. I knew she was very sick even before I married her. But a promise is a promise. So I kept my word and brought her home as my wife, even though I knew she was dying from a congenital heart problem. For 9 long years I nursed her. I watched her die before my own eyes. You can never understand what this means until you live through this yourself. She was such a beautiful woman and she died so painfully. She would rave and rant and scream in frustration. How can such an active person spend 9 long years bed-ridden? And I had to humour her all the time. That’s what the doctor asked me to. That’s what I did till her very last breath. I would laugh with her. I would cry with her.
Pritish Nandy: What about your third marriage? To Yogeeta Bali?
Kishore Kumar: That was a joke. I don’t think she was serious about marriage. She was only obsessed with her mother. She never wanted to live here.
Pritish Nandy: But that’s because she says you would stay up all night and count money.
Kishore Kumar: Do you think I can do that? Do you think I’m mad? Well, it’s good we separated quickly.
Pritish Nandy: What about your present marriage?
Kishore Kumar: Leena is a very different kind of person. She too is an actress like all of them but she’s very different. She’s seen tragedy. She’s faced grief. When your husband is shot dead, you change. You understand life. You realize the ephemeral quality of all things. I am happy now.
[Interview by Pritish Nandy]
Kumar is said to have been paranoid about not being paid. During recordings, he would sing only after his secretary confirmed that the producer had made the payment. On one occasion, when he discovered that his dues had not been fully paid, he appeared on set with makeup on only one side of his face. When the director questioned him, he replied “Aadha paisa to aadha make-up.” (Half make-up for half payment.) On the sets of Bhai Bhai, Kumar refused to act because the director MV Raman owed him ₹ 5,000. Ashok Kumar persuaded him to do the scene but when the shooting started, Kishore walked a few paces and said, Paanch Hazaar Rupaiya (five thousand rupees) and did a somersault. After he reached the end of the floor, he left the studio. On another occasion, when producer RC Talwar did not pay his dues in spite of repeated reminders, Kumar arrived at Talwar’s residence shouting “Hey Talwar, de de mera aath hazaar” (“Hey Talwar, give me my eight thousand”) every morning until Talwar paid up.
Many journalists and writers have written about Kumar’s seemingly eccentric behaviour. He placed a sign that said ‘Beware of Kishore’ at the door of his Warden Road flat. Once, producer-director HS Rawail, who owed him money, visited his flat to pay the dues. Kumar took the money and when Rawail offered to shake hands with him, reportedly Kishore put Rawail’s hand in his mouth, bit it and asked “Didn’t you see the sign?”. Rawail laughed off the incident and left quickly.
According to another reported incident, once Kumar was due to record a song for producer-director GP Sippy. As Sippy approached his bungalow, he saw Kumar going out in his car. Sippy asked Kumar to stop his car but Kumar increased his speed. Sippy chased him to Madh Island where Kumar finally stopped his car near the ruined Madh Fort. When Sippy questioned his strange behavior, Kumar refused to recognize or talk to him and threatened to call the police. The next morning, Kumar reported for the recording session. An angry Sippy questioned him about his behavior the previous day but Kumar said that Sippy must have dreamt the incident and said that he was in Khandwa on the previous day.
Once, a producer went to court to get a decree that Kumar must follow the director’s orders. As a consequence, he obeyed the director to the letter. He refused to alight from his car until the director ordered him to do so. After filming a car scene in Bombay, Kumar drove until he reached Khandala because the director forgot to say “Cut”. In the 1960s, a financier named Kalidas Batvabbal, who was disgusted with Kumar’s alleged lack of cooperation during the shooting of Half Ticket, reported to the income tax authorities, who raided his house. Later, Kumar invited Batvabbal to his home, asked him to enter a cupboard for a chat and locked him inside. He unlocked Batvabbal after two hours and told him, “Don’t ever come to my house again”.
Kishore Kumar was a user of Brylcreem and was seen in a newspaper advertisement endorsing it. As per one set of statistics, Kishore Kumar has sung a total number of 2909 songs and the break up is,
Hindi film songs – Solos – 1135, Duets – 1320, Mixed – 195, Total Hindi film songs – 2650, Number of Films – 1094,
Hindi NFS – 13,
other Language Film songs – 177,
Other language NFS – 69.
Grand Total– 2909
Kishore first gave music to film ‘Jhumroo’ (1961), mainly due to the insistence of Shankar Bannerjee, the producer and director of the film. Shankar da had full faith in his capabilities, having heard Bangla songs composed by Kishore. There were some excellent songs in ‘Jhumroo’ like, “Koi Humdum Na Raha“, “Main Hoon Jhum Jhum Jhum Jhum Jhumroo” and “Thandi Hawa Ye Chaandni Suhaani” etc. After this film, Kishore was upset that he was not recognized as a good composer. He then produced a serious film ‘Door Gagan Ki Chhaon Mein’ (1964). It had even better songs.
He went back to his comfort zone and made ‘Hum Do Daku’ (1967), a comedy film with brother Anup Kumar. Its songs were just OK. In 1971, he made another serious film – ‘Door Ka Raahi’ with very good songs. He was invited to Madras by AV Films, to compose songs for ‘Zameen Asmaan’ (1972). He made ‘Badhati Ka Naam Daadhi’ (1974), a comedy film and made IS Johar, Maruti, Bhagwan and Sunder to sing in its songs. He also gave comedy roles to KN Singh and Bhappi Lahiri. In 1978 he made ‘Shabash Daddy’ with Yogita Bali and Amit kumar. After divorcing Yogita, he made ‘Chalti Ka Naam Zindagi’ (1981) and then a songless film ‘Door Waadiyon Mein Kahin’ (1982).
His unreleased films were ‘Mamta Ki Chhaon Mein’, ‘Pyaar Ajnabi Hai’, ‘Neela Asmaan’, ‘Band Master Chic Chic Boom’, ‘Dinoo Ka Deenanath’ and ‘Jamuna Ke Teer’.
In all the 15 films where he gave music, none of the songs were shadowed by any composer’s style. This showed his genius and individuality in music field. He was basically a serious person and made good serious movies. He was branded as a comedian and the producers wanted him to act and sing comedy songs.
Kishore Kumar’s speciality was his ‘Yodelling’, which he learnt from the Austrian record collection of his brother Anup Kumar. Some claim that music director Jimmy (James Singh) taught him how to yodell first (Ref- Dustedoff)
Undoubtedly, he was a versatile singer. He is the only singer who has sung two songs in films in male and female voice-
1. “Bainya Chhodo Balam Ghar Jaana Re” – ‘Rangeeli’ (1952), and
2. “Aake Seedhi Lagi Dil Pe Jaise Kataria” – ‘Half Ticket’ (1962)
Kishore sang 327 duets with Lata, as against 440 duets of Lata – Rafi. In 1969, after Rajesh Khanna sang in his voice in ‘Aaradhana’, he sang for Rajesh Khanna in 91 films. There were 32 films where Rajesh Khanna, RD Burman and Kishore Kumar worked together. Between 1970-1987 Kishore was the highest paid male singer. Kishore died on the birthday of his brother, Ashok Kumar.
Here is a song from the film ‘Hum Do Daku’. Enjoy vintage Kishore….
Song – Hum Do Daaku Rang Rangeele (Hum Do Daakoo) (1967) Singer – Kishore Kumar, Lyricist – Shailendra, MD – Kishore Kumar
Kishore Kumar + Anup Kumar
Chorus
Lyrics (Provided by Sudhir)
hum do daaku rang rangeele
rang rangeele chhail chhabeele
dil ki daulat jeetne nikle
arey hum do daaku
hum do daakoo..
hum do daakoo..
hum do da..aakoo
top se na talwar se ho
kaam jo pal mein pyaar se ho
fauj na thanedaar se ho
baat jo ik dildaar se ho
pyaar karo
kaam jo ho
pyaar se ho
hum do daaku rang rangeele
(aaaa aaaa aa aa ha ha)
rang rangeele chhail chhabeele
(aaaa aaaa aa aa ha ha)
dil ki daulat jeetne nikle
(aaaa aaaa aa aa ha ha)
arey hum do daaku
hum do daakoo
hum do daakoo
hum do da..aakoo
maambo
maambo
maambo
chhambilo chhambilo chhambilo
goro niro titi
chhambilo chhambilo chhambilo
goro niro titi
chhambilo chhambilo kasumbo keeee pipi
oy oy
haa hu haa hu haa
yaaa
haa hu haa hu haa
haa hu haa hu haa
aag na nafrat ki bhadka
preet ka koi geet suna
ban ja meet aur meet bana
pyaar ki sargam ko dohra
geet suna
meet bana
geet suna
hum do daaku rang rangeele
(aaaa aaaa aa aa ha ha)
rang rangeele chhail chhabeele
(aaaa aaaa aa aa ha ha)
dil ki daulat jeetne nikle
(aaaa aaaa aa aa ha ha)
arey hum do daaku
hum do daakoo
hum do daakoo
hum do da..aakoo oo oo
Hindi script lyrics (Provided by Sudhir)
हम दो डाकू रंग रँगीले
रंग रँगीले छैल छबीले
दिल की दौलत जीतने निकले
अरे हम दो डाकू
हम दो डाकू..
हम दो डाकू..
हम दो डा..कू..
तोप से ना तलवार से हो
काम जो पल में प्यार से हो
फौज ना थानेदार से हो
बात जो इक दिलदार से हो
प्यार करो
काम जो हो
प्यार से हो
हम दो डाकू रंग रँगीले
(आsss आsss आ आ हा हा)
रंग रँगीले छैल छबीले
(आsss आsss आ आ हा हा)
दिल की दौलत जीतने निकले
(आsss आsss आ आ हा हा)
अरे हम दो डाकू
हम दो डाकू..
हम दो डाकू..
हम दो डा..कू..
माम्बो
माम्बो
माम्बो
छम्बीलो छम्बीलो छम्बीलो
गोरो नीरो टीटी
छम्बीलो छम्बीलो छम्बीलो
गोरो नीरो टीटी
छम्बीलो छम्बीलो कसुम्बो की पीपी
ओय
ओय
हा हू हा हू
या
हा हू हा हू
हा हू हा हू
आग ना नफरत की भड़का
प्रीत का कोई गीत सुना
बन जा मीत और मीत बना
प्यार की सरगम को दोहरा
गीत सुना
मीत बना
गीत सुना
हम दो डाकू रंग रँगीले
(आsss आsss आ आ हा हा)
रंग रँगीले छैल छबीले
(आsss आsss आ आ हा हा)
दिल की दौलत जीतने निकले
(आsss आsss आ आ हा हा)
अरे हम दो डाकू
हम दो डाकू..
हम दो डाकू..
हम दो डा..कू..ऊ..ऊ
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