Juda na kar chaltee saansen jisam se
Posted by: Atul on: August 30, 2026
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‘Habari’ (1978) was produced by Thakur Hitkaran Singh and was directed by Sher Jung Singh. The cast included Mahendra Sandhu, Preeti Sapru, Narendranath, D K Sapru, Raju Desai, Prakash Gill, Salima Din, Ajit Singh Deol, Mohan Baggad, Gurubachan Singh etc. Mithun Chakraborty worked in the film in a small role as villain’s henchman but was not credited. Director, Sher Jung Singh is the brother-in-law of Dharmendra, his sister being married to him. Actor, Ajit Singh Deol is the younger brother of Dharmendra.
The film’s title, ‘Habari’ appears to have been drawn from Swahili language which is the national language of Kenya. ‘Habari’ is a colloquial way of greetings in Kenya which means ‘how are the things’? or ‘how is the life’?. Since the outdoor shooting was done majorly in the National Parks of Kenya, probably, the producer/director thought of giving this title.
The first National Park in India was established in 1936 which is currently known as Jim Corbett National Park in Uttarakhand. However, there were no laws to protect the wildlife as well as their forest homes. After coming into effect of The Wildlife Protection Act, 1972, there is a ban on hunting the protected wildlife, birds and plants. The Act also provides for creating safe zones for wildlife and birds. The National Parks are meant to be the exclusive zones for wild animals and birds, while wildlife sanctuaries may have some rights of controlled entries strictly within the buffer zones for tribals who have been living for centuries.
Even after the passing of the Act, rampant hunting and poaching of wild animals and birds continued. ‘Habari’ (1979) appears to be the first Hindi commercial feature films which centres around the theme of conservation of wildlife and anti-poaching measures. However, the main theme is supplemented by the usual Hindi films’ formulae of romance, villain, fights and the redemption to make sure that there are some box office ingredients. These box offce ingredients will also ensure that the film does not give a feel of a documentary film.
I have watched the film only recently. The VCD of the film available on a video sharing platform is of poor quality. I am also not sure whether the VCD contains the full film. I feel that if the film in original quality without much of editing was available, it would have been a visual treat to watch with natural scenes of forest with wildlife.
The story of the film is as under:
The film starts with Vijay (Prakash Gill), a wildlife researcher being appointed as the warden of a newly created national park with the main task of protecting the wildlife in the national park. He has also been assigned to submit a report as to what needs to be done to protect the wildlife and their habitats. Vijay shifts in the quarter along with his wife and the son in the national park. His brother-in-law Ajeet (Mahendra Sandhu) visits his new home who is also pursuing degree in game warden. Vijay expects that after the completion of his game warden’s degree, Ajeet will join him to help protect the wildlife in the national park.
Within in few days of his taking the job of the warden, Vijay realises that hunters and poachers have almost free access to the national park. They hunt and poach the wildlife at their pleasure with no one to question them. They are armed and Vijay has no security staff. One of very active poachers of wild animals is Ranbir (Narendranath) who works for a businessman, Shikarwala (D K Sapru) who deals in smuggling of wild animal skin. The new warden, Vijay, becomes obstacle to Ranbir’s poaching operations. Ranbir tries to bribe him to overlook his poaching activities and to desist from presenting his report to the Government about poaching. But Vijay remains true to his mission of protecting the wildlife. Ranbir with his henchmen kill Vijay and his wife and leave their dead bodies outside their home.
Ajeet, after completing his degree in game warden, visits Vijay’s house to give him and his sister the good news. Instead, he finds their dead bodies lying outside the house with his nephew (Raju Desai) surviving during the attack. As promised to Vijay, Ajit takes over a new warden of national park and he also becomes the guardian for his nephew. This time, the Government also provides security staff to him.
Pinky (Preeti Sapru), daughter of Shikarwala has returned home from abroad after a long time. She is interested in hunting wild animals. Shikarwala entrusts the work to Ranbir of taking Pinky to national park in the helicopter for a bird’s eye view of the national park and thereafter for hunting expedition. He is happy to accompany her as he has an eye on her being the only daughter of his boss, Shikarwala, who is inclined to marry Pinky to him. While Ranbir with Pinky along with other members of the group were hunting, Ajeet reaches on the spot after hearing a gunshot and watches them killing a wild animal. But he has to retreat as he was alone and they were all carrying fire arms.
One day while Pinky was hunting a leopard, her gunshot misfires making leopard running toward her to attack. In the nick of time, Ajeet reaches on the spot and rescues Pinky by ordering leopard to go back. Pinky is surprised by Ajeet’s control over the leopard as well as grateful to him. She starts taking interest in wild animals. Ajeet counsels her to start loving wild animals instead of killing them. Pinky now spends more time with Ajeet, his nephew and some wild animals which have been sheltered around Ajeet’s house. Pinky falls in love with Ajeet as well as his wild animals. Her father has no problem with Pinky marrying Ajeet provided he takes care of his illegal wild animal’s skin business after marrying her. Apparently Ajeet turns down the offer. On the contrary, he threatens Shikarwala that any more gun shot on wild animals will not be in his interest.
The clash of interest between Ajeet and Shikarwala leads to the serious differences between the father and the daughter, Pinky leaves the house to be with Ajeet. But Ajeet sees as a ploy by her father to convince him of the marriage deal. However, Ajeet’s nephew becomes the catalyst for their reproachment. It is a big setback for Ranbir’s plan to marry Pinky and eventually to take over the business of Shikarwala. Until he eliminates Ajeet from the scene, Ranbir is not going to succeed in his plan.
From now onwards, the film’s story moves from wildlife to the usual Hindi films’ climax. There are fights between Ajeet along with his security men and Ranbir with his henchmen. Like in Chinappa Devar’s films, finally, it is the national park’s herds of wild animals who help Ajeet by crushing both Shikarwala and Ranbir to death while fighting was going on. Before the death, Shikarwala repents for killing wildlife for the greed of money which cannot save his life now. He directs his daughter Pinky to donate his entire wealth to the well-being of the wildlife.
The film had four songs written by M G Hashmat which were set to music by Sapan-Jagmohan. One song has been covered on the Blog. I present the 2nd song, ‘juda na karo chaltee saanse jism se’ rendered by Mohammed Rafi. It is a background song. The song gets repeated two times in the film with new antaras. There is a vocal prelude before the main song starts which is available on the video clip of the song. However, in the record version, vocal prelude has been excluded.
The theme of the song is that men have no right to separate breath from the body (to take away the life) of anyone because every breath is a divine trust given by the almighty. Every life on earth is the guarantee of the almighty. The song questions as to why the men have become the hunter of voiceless creatures when every life on the earth has the protection of the almighty. The song brings out the divine connection in every life on the earth and protecting them is the true devotion to God.
The song is the beautiful poetry which advocates compassion for all living beings.
Video Clip (Part-1,2 & 3):
Audio Clip:
Song-Juda na karo chaltee saansen jism se (Habari)(1978) Singer-Rafi, Lyricist-M G Hashmat, MD-Sapan Jagmohan
Lyrics (Based on the Video Clip):
Part-1
ye kaisi hai sarsabz makhmal kee waadijahaan saans le zindagee mein aazaadi
ye hanste huye kaafile zindagee ke
subah shaam karte hain khushiyon se shaadi
khudai kee daulat kee rangeen numaaish
kaheen iss se behtar naheen hai
jannat kahaan hai
jise shaayaron ne
yaheen hai
yaheen hai
yaheen hai
juda na karo chaltee saanse jism se
juda na karo chaltee saanse jism se
hai har saans chaltee amaanat khuda kee
khuda saans leta hai har zindagee mein
har ek zindagee hai zamaanat khuda kee
juda na karo chaltee saanse jism se
bane bejubaan goliyon ke nishaane
ye kyun bekason pe zulm ho raha hai
khuda hee muhaafiz raha zindagee kaa
wo insaan ke haathhon qatl ho raha hai
koi phir maseeha bane sar uthhaaye
kare sar uthaa ke hifaazat khuda kee
khuda saans leta hai har zindagee mein
har ek zindagee hai zamaanat khuda kee
juda na karo
Part-2
jab se ye duniya bani haiaadmi kyon shikaari bana
jaan lene kisi kee
maa se liya janam
phir bhee na socha
ye bejubaan bhee to maa hai kisi kee
maa kee bhee tauheen kee aadmi ne
to kis kaam kee hai ibaadat khuda kee
khuda saans leta hai har zindagee mein
har ek zindagee hai zamaanat khuda kee
juda na karo chaltee saanse jism se
Part-3
inhen pyaar deke to dekho zara tumye tum se bhee jyaada tumhen pyaar denge
kabhee koi aafat jo aayegee tum pe
to ye bezubaan tumpe jaan waar denge
ye qurbaan honge ussi meharbaan pe
miley jiske andar mohabbat khuda kee
juda na karo chaltee saanse jism se
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