Band ho mutthhee to laakh kee
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Today’s song is the last and final song from a gross entertainer by manmohan Desai – Dharam Veer-1977
This is the 10th consecutive “Last and Final Song’ of a film that I have identified and presented. In the month of July also I wrote on 2 such songs. While rummaging through the ” List of song Moviewise”, I noticed some films where only one song was left uncovered. I decided to identify such films’ songs, make a list and check the covered songs to find out which song was yet to be covered. For many films, I found that such an uncovered song was the one for which a record was not issued. Most such other films were not available on YouTube to see and copy the song (by extraction method).
However in almost 50% casesthe song was available. I selected those songs, found out the film story with a lot of difficulty and started presenting them. This process will continue hereafter also. This will help the Blog to increase the number of films, where all songs are covered.
These are some of the difficulties I am facing….
1.The song is not available on the internet. For such songs, I request my collector friends and they send me the songs in most cases.
- The film story is not available.
- If the film is from the 1980 onward period, it is difficult for me to make up material for my post.
Despite these problems, I intend to continue this search and writing posts.
Today’s film Dharam Veer-1977 was made by S.S.Movietone, Bombay, produced by Subhash Desai and directed by his brother Manmohan Desai. Manmohan Desai was known for his family-centered, action-song-and-dance films which catered to the tastes of the Indian masses and through which he achieved great success. His movies defined a new genre called masala films. A common theme in his films were the lost and found plot where family members would be separated and reunited.
Manmohan Desai (26 February 1937 – 1 March 1994) was a film producer and director. He was one of the most successful filmmakers of the 70s and 80s. Desai was an influential and sought-after film director of Bollywood and a pioneer of making Masala films. His most successful films are Amar Akbar Anthony, Dharam Veer, Chacha Bhatija, Parvarish, Suhaag, Naseeb, Coolie and Mard. He directed a total of 22 films in his career.
Manmohan Desai was of Gujarati ancestry. His father, Kikubhai Desai, was an Indian film producer and owner of Paramount Studios (later Filmalaya) from 1931 to 1941. His productions, mainly stunt films, included Circus Queen, Golden Gang, and Sheikh Challi. Manmohan Desai’s elder brother, Subhash Desai, became a producer in the 1950s and gave Manmohan his first break in the Hindi film Chhalia (1960). Subhash later went on to produce Bluff Master, Dharam Veer, and Desh Premee with Manmohan as the director.
His wife was Jeevanprabha Desai. She died in April 1979. He was engaged to actress Nanda from 1992 until the time of his death in 1994. He had one son Ketan Desai who is still involved in the film industry. Ketan is married to Kanchan Kapoor, daughter of actor Shammi Kapoor and actress Geeta Bali.
On 1 March 1994, as per news Manmohan Desai fell from the balcony and died. There are doubts that he jumped to his death due to health issues.
The cast of the film was Dharmendra, Jeetendra, Zeenat Aman, Nitu Singh, Ranjit, Sujit Kumar, Jeevan, Pran, Dev Kumar, Chand usmani and many many others. The music was by laxmikant-Pyarelal, for the songs written by Anand Bakshi The film was Costume film. Innolden times such films were treated as C grade films made for a specific low-grade audience. Nowadays ofcourse, these films are made with top stars, MDs and Directors and its audience is also top grade. All this makes these films “A” grade !
The story of this film was…..
Maharani Meenakshi is a princess who, one day while out hunting, is rescued from a handful of attackers by a hunter-warrior, Jwala Singh, who lives alone in the jungle, accompanied only by his pet falcon, Sheroo. She offers him a reward for saving her life, but he only wants her hand in marriage, which her father had previously denied him.
During the night, they are awakened by another tiger, and Jwala goes to slay it. The tiger kills a villager, and Jwala puts his poncho over him to cover the dead body. He wrestles with the tiger, and they both fall over a cliff. The Princess sees the villager’s dead body, thinks it is Jwala’s, and goes into shock. Her father eventually marries her off into another royal family. Unbeknownst to Jwala, Meenakshi is pregnant with his child.
Satpal Singh, Meenakshi’s brother, is told in a prophecy that he will be killed by his eldest nephew, Dharam, the future king of the land. To prevent this, he pleads poverty and moves in with his sister. The Queen gives birth to a healthy baby boy. Satpal takes the baby minutes after it is born and tosses it out of a window. Instead of falling to its death, however, the baby is caught by Sheroo, who flies him to his master. Jwala has been injured by a tiger and is being healed by a poor arrowsmith and his wife. They are childless and are pleased when the bird brings the baby, believing it to be a gift. They explain what happened to Jwala when he awakes, and he assents to them keeping and raising the child as their own. In the meanwhile, we learn that the Queen gave birth to twins, and Satpal only dealt with the firstborn. He is satisfied that the prophecy has been averted and now plans to help himself further by swapping his sister’s baby with his own. While he is asleep, though, his wife swaps the children back.
As the children grow up, Satpal mistreats his own child, whom he believes to be the prince, and dotes on the prince, whom he thinks is his own son. The twins grow up. The elder, Dharam, grows up to be an arrowsmith like his foster father. The younger, Veer, is the crown prince. The boys become best friends and do not realize that this is because they are actually twin brothers.
Dharam is smitten with a princess, Pallavi, who gets angry when he proposes to her. She orders her troops to arrest Dharam and forces him to endure grueling and life-threatening trials. This includes making him participate in gladiatorial-style combat in her personal coliseum and torturing him by whipping. Eventually, Dharam escapes and kidnaps her. Then she stabs and badly injures him, but he lets her go. Later, an injured Dharam meets Jwala Singh, who is a master of swordsmanship. Jwala Singh cures him and later teaches Dharam the skills of swordsmanship, resulting in Dharam also becoming a master swordsman. Eventually, Pallavi realizes that she has fallen in love with Dharam, and the two declare their love for each other. Meanwhile, Veer also falls in love with a gypsy girl, Rupa.
Once the truth about his son is revealed to Satpal, he attempts to get rid of Veer. Before doing so, he realizes he must first break the bond between him and his staunchest supporter, Dharam. The Kingdom has “an eye for an eye” as the ultimate law. Dharam’s father is accused of shoddily preparing a chariot wheel, which caused a soldier to lose his hands. In reality, Satpal and his son Ranjeet sabotaged it. The Queen is forced to chop off Dharam’s father’s hands in retribution. Dharam vows never to forgive Veer for this. Satpal and his son then kill Dharam’s mother and use one of the prince’s royal arrows. Dharam finds this and accuses the prince of the murder. In retribution for the mother he has lost, Dharam demands the Queen become his mother.
Although Veer strongly protests, the Queen submits, stating that she must be seen to uphold the law or no one will. For this act, Veer begins to bitterly hate Dharam. Veer challenges Dharam to a duel, and Dharam accepts. Satpal and his son know that in this duel, Dharam will kill Veer, and they will get Dharam executed for Veer’s murder. While the boys are fighting, the poor blacksmith reveals the story of how Dharam came to him and his wife. He shows the Queen the cloth the baby was wrapped in. The Queen realizes that this was, in fact, her own child, whom she believed to have been carried off by a falcon. She stops the fight just in time to stop the brothers from killing each other and reveals their relationship. Reunited, the brothers now face the challenge of disposing of the forces that Satpal Singh has gathered. In the end, Satpal is killed by Dharam.
Let’s also take a look at the scene in the film industry in 1977….
In the year 1977, two directors were very active. One – Manmohan Desai, who made highly commercialmand entertainment oriented films, while the other Shyam Benegal was into combining the ” Middle of the road” films with a commercial angle.
Manmohan Desai’s 4 films came this year – Amar Akbar Anthony, Dharam Veer, Parvarish and Chacha Bhatija. All were very successful and had famous and popular stars in his films.
I feel Manmohan Desai, Nasir Hussain and Master Bhagwan (of the 40s and the 50s) were of the same clan. All 3 used only One story, by making minor changes like names, background and stars in their films. One common factor among them was that almost all their films were Hits. Was it due to their skills or luck ? I guess it was a solid mix of both !
This year the ‘Parallel’ or ‘middle of the road’ films did an excellent business. There was Bhimsen’s Gharonda, Basu Chaterjee’s Swami and Khatta Meetha, Rajashree’s Dulhan wohi jo Piya man bhaye and Benegal’s Bhumika. All films made their marks. Like manmohan desai, Nasir Hussain also came with Hum kisi se kam nahin. In this race Gulzar fell flat with his film Kinara. Despite having Jeetendra and Hema Malini the film was not popular at all.
the first Hindifilm of Satyajit ray Shatranj ke khiladi and Krishna Shah’s Shalimar did not gain much approval from the audience.
Bhumika was the first ever film made on the real life of a film actress -Hansa Wadkar. Her Marathi autobiography -” Sangtye Aika” (listen to me) was the basis of this film. Next such biographic film on an actress was Zubeida made on the life of actress Zubeida Jr, (not the Alam Ara fame wali) in the year 2000. Benegal’s film Bhumika was preceded by his other films like Ankur-74, Nishant-75, and Manthan-76. However his second film in 1977 – Kondura failed miserably.
1977 held an International Film Festival in Delhi. Amrit Nahata remade his burnt down film Kissa Kursi ka and released it again. There was a strike by Dancers and Musicians of the industry for increase in wages.
Today’s last and final song from this film is sung by Lata, Asha and chorus. With this song all songs are covered and the film gets YIPPEED !
Song-Band ho mutthhee to laakh kee (Dharamveer)(1977) Singers-Lata, Asha Bhonsle, Lyricist-Anand Bakshi, MD-Laxmikant PyarelalBoth
Chorus
Lyrics :
aa aaaa aa aa aa
aa aa
aa aa aa aa
aa aa
aa aa aa aa
aa aa
aa aa aa aa
baat ko dil mein dabaaye rakhna
naheen keh dena
chup hee rehna
band ho mutthhee to laakh kee
khul gayee toh phir khaak kee
band ho mutthhee to laakh kee
khul gayee toh phir khaak kee
raaj khul jaaye na khayaal rakhna
naheen keh dena
chup hee rehna
band ho mutthhee to laakh kee
khul gayee toh phir khaak kee
band ho mutthhee to laakh kee
khul gayee toh phir khaak kee
khushboo
aur pyaar
chhupaaye naheen chhupte
pyaar karne waale
jahaan se naheen darte
sehte naheen julm
sitam bhee naheen sehte
ham hain dilwaale
jubaan se naheen kehte
aas kaa deepak jalaaye rakhna
jalaaye rakhna
aas kaa deepak jalaaye rakhna
gham seh lena
muskura lena
band ho mutthhee to laakh kee
khul gayee toh phir khaak kee
band ho mutthhee to laakh kee
khul gayee toh phir khaak kee
khul jaaye
mutthhee
anjaam jaaney kya ho
ho jeet ho pyaar kee
yaaree na badnaam ho
paayal jhanke
toh jeena haraam ho
hey chhoodee khanke
har chaal kaamyaab ho
zulmee se khud ko bachaaye rakhna
bachaaye rakhna
zulmee se khud ko bachaaye rakhna
naheen keh dena
chup hee rehna
band ho mutthhee to laakh kee
khul gayee toh phir khaak kee
band ho mutthhee to laakh kee
khul gayee toh phir khaak kee
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