Mujhko mohabbat mein dhokha to na doge
Posted on: August 26, 2026
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Today’s song is the last and final song from a romantic comedy film Dil deewana-1974.
This light comedy film was made by Rose Movies, Bombay. Directed by Narendra Bedi, the film had music by R.D.Burman. Anand Bakshi wrote the songs. The cast included Randhir Kapoor, Jaya Bhaduri, Aruna Irani, Satyen kappu, Manmohan, Paintal, Tun Tun, Rasheed khan, Durga Khote and a loooong list of other actors, including Komal (I remember her in one of my favourite films- Chameli ki Shaadi-1986) and Jagdish Raj – the permanent Police Officer since 1956. We have seen him promoted to police Commissioner from just a Sub Inspector in films.
The film was an ordinary entertainer with predictable scenes. The story of the film was….
The film’s main character, Vijay (Randhir Kapoor), is a wealthy and carefree playboy. He sleeps all day and parties and spends the night with his girlfriend. Vijay Travels to Kashmir, where he meets Geeta (Aruna Irani). He spends time with her, spends the night with her, and introduces himself as her husband.
Upon returning to Bombay, Vijay falls in love with Sunita (Jaya Bhaduri). Sunita also falls in love with him. However, Sunita misunderstands that Vijay has another woman named Neeta in his life, while Neeta is simply an employee at Vijay’s firm.
When Vijay decides to leave his former, colorful life behind and marry Sunita, his past comes flooding back to haunt him. His old girlfriend from Kashmir (Geeta) suddenly reappears in his life with a child and claims to be his wife. Vijay then realises his responsibilities, and all the mysteries and complications are resolved at the end of the film.
1974 was an year when the older lot of actors were thinning out from the film casts and within next few years, most of the old timers like Durga Khote and Jagdish Raj disappeared from the cast lists.
Out of the 132 films released in 1974, as many as 30 films were Hit films.Manoj Kumar took up the common man’s needs in his film ” Roti, Kapda aur Makan”, whereas a disturbed family life was discussed in ‘ Kora Kagaz”. The film emphasized that both husband and wife were equally responsible for a happy married life.
One of the best ‘Middle of the line’ films in Hindi- Rajanigandha entertained not only in 1974, but also for many more years thereafter. I like it even today.
Some other notable films of 1974 were Roti, Aap ki kasam,Premnagar, Chor machaye shor, Dost, Amir Garib, Haath ki Safai, Bidai etc etc.
Another ‘New Wave’ songless film was Ankur.
The Film institute of Poona was renamed Film and Television Institute of India (FTII). Waheeda Rehman, Jeetendra and Simi got married in 1974 and actor Nasir Khan-brother of Dilip kumar- died in Bombay.
There is one name of an actress in the cast who was not much talked about. Let us know more about her. Believe it or not, but there is some kind of an unseen hand of Destiny that shapes Human life. In the film industry, one can see very strange cases. Some people gracefully retire when they are on Top of their careers and some have to retire because there is no work for them. Some people join the industry in a department of their choice,but Destiny changes their life and they end up working and succeeding in an entirely different field of activity.
Some examples are, Guru Dutt (Choreographer to Actor/Director), Ashok Kumar ( Lab Technician to Actor), Mehboob Khan ( Extra actor to Producer/Director), Shashi Kapoor Sr. ( actor to Professor of Maths in USA ), Ashraf Khan (actor/singer to Sufi Saint), Mukund Rai Trivedi (Music composer to Mine owner/Businessman) etc etc.
Uma Devi, who became a singing sensation overnight with her ” Dard “-47 song ” Afsana likh rahi hoon “, left singing and became a Comedy actress. What a turn of events to her Career ! There are a few other cases like Amirbai Karnataki, who left acting to concentrate on singing, Singer Shyam who was forced to do only acting in later life as there were no song assignment for him and Sailesh Mukherjee, who became a hero in films-with a New name, Shrikant Gaurav- after leaving singing/composing.
Tun Tun. The name conjures up the image of a roly-poly, funny woman. She was christened thus by none other than Dilip Kumar. She was working with the thespian in her first film Babul which had Nargis in the romantic lead. And the impact that she made with her debut was so “heavy” that Tun Tun emerged an overnight star. She was indeed Hindi cinema’s first-ever comedienne and roles were specially written for her. She did not make a special pair with any one comedian but she was paired with everyone from Bhagwan Dada, Agha, Sunder, Mukri, Dhumal, Johnny Walker to Keshto Mukherji.
The funny thing was that while all other heroines were on a constant diet, watching what they ate, Tun Tun made it a point to carry a dabba with her all the time, nibbling on junk food and mithai every minute she was on the sets. “I had to maintain myself,” she often joked.
But Tun Tun, whose real name was Uma Devi, did not join the film industry to become an actress. She was born on 24-12-1923 in a poor Khatri family, in the village Alipur,near Mathura,in U.P. She wanted to be a singer. In fact, even as a child she only dreamt of becoming a singer. And not just that, she, at the age of eight, had some great, almost impossible dreams. If and when she would sing, it had to be for Naushad only! She would not sing for any lesser music-director. Naturally, she had to struggle very hard to realise her dream.
Orphaned as an infant, Uma was raised by her chacha in an obscure village near Mathura. Girls were not sent to school as a matter of course. Consequently, as a child Uma would climb on imli trees, play on farm yards and listen to film songs on the radio. She would listen to the names of the singers and music directors being announced on the radio and dream of hearing her name on the air waves.
However, a major hurdle stood in the way. Singing was taboo in her orthodox North Indian household. She began practising singing on the sly. Ramlila and film songs were her source of inspiration. She taught herself to read and write Hindi and later picked up a smattering of Urdu and English to get by in showbiz.
Luckily for Uma, her friend from Delhi came to her village. She was educated and had connections in the Bombay film industry. She wrote to her director friend in the tinsel-town to help Uma. In 1946, at the age of 23, Uma boarded the train to Bombay without informing her chacha. In Bombay she struck up an instant friendship with actor-director Arun Ahuja and his singer-wife Nirmala Devi (Govinda’s parents). They introduced her to various music directors.
One of them was Allah Rakha who agreed to give her one song in the film Wamiq Azra, the others being sung by Mallika Pukhraj. Thus, Uma Devi sang “Hai do dil milte milte reh gaye…” and got paid Rs 200, a princely sum those days.
The quest for Naushad continued. Finally, A.R. Kardar, who was looking for a fresh female voice for his heroine, viz Munawwar Sultana, introduced her to Naushad. She told him if he did not give her a chance, she would jump into the sea, which happened to be right across the bungalow where they were. The great music director asked the chubby Uma what was the “sur” she sang in. Uma was blank. She asked him to listen to her and decide. After listening to her for 10 minutes, Naushad gave the nod. A contract was signed and Uma was enrolled at Kardar Productions. She was paid Rs 500 as advance and arrangements were also made for her stay at the official guest house where the staff stayed.
Uma sang “Afsana likh rahi hoon, dil-e-baqarar ka, aankhon mein rang bhar ke tere intezar ka”… for Munawwar Sultana. The song floored the nation and established her as a front-ranker in the era of Noor Jahan Shamshad Begum and Mallika Pukhraj (Lata Mangeshkar had not yet arrived on the scene). She became Naushad’s favourite singer and he would reserve at least two songs for her in each of his films.
Uma Devi’s “Kahin jiya dole…” and “Dil ko lagaya humne…” from Anokhi Ada cemented her popularity. She was offered Chandralekha by director S.S. Vasan of Madras. She had to sing seven classical songs for music director S.S. Rajeshwar Rao. Uma realised these were beyond her capabilities. However, Rajeshwarrao worked hard on her and helped her sing the compositions.
Uma’s career as a singer was short-lived. New singers entered the industry. It was impossible to keep pace with Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosle. “Rakhi”-brother Naushad used to compose songs to suit her range. But that could not have continued for long.
Her luck changed when she went to Madras in 1948,to sing in S.S.Vasan’s ” Chandralekha”-48. In doing so,she broke the contract conditions laid down by the Kardar studios,for whom she was singing in Bombay. Director A.R.Kardar was so furious that he ensured that no singing assignments came her way. Still she sang in almost 12 films in 1949,before work stopped. There was a gap in her career.
When she resumed in 1950,the singing scenario had changed drastically with new singers and she was forced to take up acting,to survive. As a comedy actress she was extremely successful. As a singer she sang about 120 songs in 42 films. Even after becoming an actress,she did sing in some films,but except in Deepak-52,all were duets,trios or chorus songs. her last song was in ‘Premi Gangaram’-1978
It was time to change tracks. Naushad advised her to switch to acting. He felt she would make an excellent comedienne for she had a natural flair for the funny stuff.
Once again, Uma wanted the best. She said she wanted a role opposite Dilip Kumar. Naushad couldn’t stop laughing, but he talked to Dilip. A role was created for Uma and she got her first film Babul in 1950. A scene required her to chase Dilip around a charpai (cot), but she ran so fast that she would leave the hero behind. Ultimately, after repeated takes, she pulled him in front of her. But in the process she fell on the charpai and Dilip fell on her. The shot was canned and they retained the shot. The credits announced her name as Uma Devi, but they decided to give her a screen name. It was Dilip Kumar’s idea to call her Tun Tun.
Tun Tun did many films later. She had a fan in Guru Dutt and acted in almost all his films. Her favourite role too was from Guru Dutt’s “Mr and Mrs 55” in which she played a Christian lady.
Having more or less left films, Tun Tun, alias Uma Devi, led a retired life in a middle-class residence at Andheri, Mumbai. She spent her time playing with her grandchildren or listening to her favourite songs on All-India Radio. It was, after all, listening to the radio that got her attracted to the film industry in the first place.
Uma Devi aka Tun Tun died on 24-11-2003, after a long illness.
Today’s song is the last and final song from this film. It is sung by Asha Bhosle and Kishore Kumar. With this song, the film gets YIPPEED !
Song-Mujhko mohabbat mein dhokha to na doge (Dil Deewaana)(1974) Singers-Asha Bhosle, Kishore Kumar, Lyricist-Anand Bakshi, MD-R D BurmanLyrics :
Aearre mujhko mohabbat mein
dhokha to na doge
haan haan
dhokha to doonga
mujhko mohabbat mein dhokha to na doge
dhokha to doonga
bol na
mujhko shiqaayat ka mauka to na doge
mauka naheen doonga
haan
arre mujhko shiqaayat ka mauka to na doge
mauka naheen doonga
dil leke kya karoge
main bhaag jaaoogna
so jaaoongee main jab to
main jaag jaaoonga
laa laa
la la la la laa
mera kya haal hoga
tum pachhtaaogee
achcha to jaatee hoon main
kal phir aaogee
arre yoonhee sharaarat mein dhokha to na doge
dhokha to doonga
achcha
mujhko shiqaayat ka mauka to na doge
mauka naheen doonga
dekho mazaak chhodo
kya ye mazaak hai
phir apna pyaar kya hai
bas ittafaak hai
laa laa
laa laa laa laalala
waada kiya thha tumne
waada nibhaaoonga
kaise yakeen kar loon
ye kal bataaoonga
are mujhko is haalat mein dhokha to na doge
dhokha to doonga
o mujhko shikaayat ka mauka to na doge
mauka naheen doonga
mujhko mohabbat mein dhokha to na doge
dhokha naheen doonga
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August 26, 2026 at 9:29 pm
many thanks for this post 🙏
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