Ishqe di dor na tootey
Posted on: September 5, 2026
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‘Parbat Ke Us Paar’ (1988) was produced by Anand Prakash under the banner of Mohit Films and was directed by Raman Kumar. The cast included Abhinav Chaturvedi, Lubna Siddiqui in lead roles supported by Bharat Kapoor, Rama Vij, Rakesh Bedi, Yunus Parvez, Avtar Gill, Aziz Qureshi, Manju Mishra, Kundan Kumar, Vikas Anand etc. Deepak Tijoriwala (Tijori) made his special appearance in the film. Abhinav Chaturvedi, Lubna Siddiqui and Deepak Tijori made their acting debut with this film. Most of the actors were with the theatre background and connected with IPTA and so were Director, Raman Kumar and screenplay and dialogue writer, Javed Siddiqui. The film was extensively shot in the Lolab Valley in Kupwara district of Kashmir.
The film’s lead actress, Lubna Siddiqui (Salim) was born in Mumbai to playwright, screenplay and dialogue writer, Javed Siddiqui and Farida Siddiqui, a costume designer. She studied in Mithibai College where she was active in inter-collegiate drama competition. She won several awards including the prestigious Balraj Sahni award for best actress. As a child, she has acted in some plays and grew up acting on the stage. So, for her, other career options were subsidiary. She debuted in Hindi film under discussion. After working in Shyam Bengal’s TV Serial, ‘Bharat Ek Khoj’ (1988), she got married to theater actor-director, Salim Arif whom she had met when he was assisting Shyam Benegal.
After her marriage in 1991, she took sabbatical for a decade or so from theatre, films and TV serials. She returned to one of the most popular TV Serials, ‘Baa Bahu Aur Baby’ (2005-09). Her second Hindi film was after 19 years when she acted in Meghna Gulzar’s ‘Just Married’ (2007) and after another 5 years in ‘OMG – Oh My God’ (2012). Thereafter, she has been occasionally appearing in Hindi films, TV Serials and for modelling assignments. She is also a voice-over artist. Currently, she is also seen in some Web Series.
It appears that theatre has been her preferred career. She has acted in many Hindi/Urdu plays which included ‘Kachhe Lamhen’ (2005), ‘Lakeeren’ (2010) and ‘Paansa’ (2012), based on Gulzar’s short stories, ‘Gudamba’ (2019) written by Javed Siddiqui, ‘Mera Kuchh Saamaan’ (2019) based on Gulzar’s short stories. She is the founder and producer of the well-known theatre group, Essay Ensemble.
The VCD of the film was uploaded on a video sharing platform about two years back. However, the quality of the video is so bad that one cannot recognise the actors even in mid-shot. They are recognizable only when their scenes are shot in close up. Even the synopsis of the film’s story is not available online. When I asked AI to give the synopsis of the film’s story, it gave a 10-line synopsis with a happy ending. But when I watched the film, it had a tragic ending.
The straightforward narratives in the film has helped me in writing the story of the film which has the same tragic ending as in the folklore of Laila-Majnu. The film’s story was written by Surendra Prakash, a well-known writer of Urdu short stories and the recipient of Sahitya Akademy Award (1989).
The story of the film is as under:
Bulandi Khan (Bharat Kapoor) is a wealthy landlord with timber business. He stays with his wife (Manju Mishra). He is worried as he does not have a heir to inherit his vast property and business after his death. Despite opposition from his wife, Bulandi Khan marries a girl from a poor family for the second time with a hope that she will bear him a son. She is called Chhoti Begum (Rama Vij). The first wife commits suicide.
One day while on a hunting expedition with Munshi Tarachand (Yunus Parvez), Bulandi Khan discovers an abandoned child. Munshi suggests Bulandi Khan to take the child to his house and make an announcement about the abandoned child so that anyone who has missing child can pick up from his house. However, even after two weeks, no one comes to claim the child. Chhoti Begum suggests to adopt the child so that they can have the heir to his property. Bulandi Khan outrightly rejects the suggestion by telling her that he wants his own heir. However, he sarcastically suggests to Chhoti Begum that she can bring up the child if she needs for her old age.
The child grows up as Shadab (Abhinav Chaturvedi), the name given by Chhoti Bahu who is pampered by her. Bulandi Khan has an indifferent attitude toward him because he spends most of his time with his friends (Rakesh Bedi and Deepak Tijori), without helping him in managing his vast property.
During his daily round of village to meet his friends, Shadab accidentally falls in a slush which results in flashing of dirt on his face. A girl, after looking at his face, laughs loudly and walks away. Shadab is smitten by her beauty but he does not know who she is and where she stays. His friends tries to locate her but without success. After few days, Shadab decides to visit the other side of the hill during which he finds the same girl taking a herd of goats in the forest. He follows her and she hastens to go back to her house with her goats. An old man sitting outside that house recognises Shadab as Chhote Khan and invites him to his house. He introduces his daughter as Shabnam and asks her to bring a glass of hot milk for Chhote Khan. She deliberately brings the milk in a very hot metal glass as a punishment for stalking her. But Shadab is so mesmerised by her beauty that he forgets that he is holding a very hot metal glass because of which his fingers get burnt. Shabnam feels very sorry for her childish prank but the seed of love for Shadab has been sown in her heart.
Shadab goes back to his house and reveals Chhoti Begum that he has fallen in love with a girl, Shabnam and wants to marry her. She assures him that she has no problem and she would take the permission from Bulandi Khan. But first he has to know whether Shabnam is willing to marry him. Next day, Shadab meets her and proposes Nikah with her which she accepts.
Bulandi Khan has assigned some work to Shadab in another village for which he has to be away from home for a long time. He takes leave of Shabnam assuring her that he will try to visit her every alternate night after finishing his daily work. In another development, Bulandi Khan is conspiring to take over the ownership of a piece of land belonging to a begum who has passed away but does not have any heir. So, she has executed a Will that after her death, the land should be used for setting up a Madarsa with Patwari (Avtar Gill) being the Trustee of the land. Bulandi Khan forcibly takes the signature of Patwari to transfer the ownership of the land to him. Patwari reminds Bulandi Khan that he has also no heir and after his death, his entire property will go for the charity. This ignites Bulandi Khan to get married for the third time as his second wife has also not given him the heir.
Once Bulandi Khan is travelling with Munshi when he sees Shabnam standing near the same tree where the abandoned child Shadab was found some years back. She is waiting for Shadab. Wanting to have a heir, Bulandi Khan decides to marry Shabnam. He gives the work to Munshi to call Shabnam’s father to his house to discuss the marriage. In other place, Shadab meets Shabnam when she talks about finalising their marriage date. Shadab assures her that he will send the message to his house and her father will be called by Bulandi Khan. As expected Bulandi Khan calls Shabnam’s poor father and he reluctantly agrees for the Shabnam’s marriage with Bulandi Khan after he writes off his debt and additionally he offers to give him a piece of land. Shabnam assumes that her father has given consent to Bulandi Khan for her marriage with Shadab and firming up the Nikah date. She is happy and conveys the decision to Shadab when he meets her.
On the marriage day, Shadab returns from the nearby village where he has been temporarily working and is happy to join the wedding procession believing to be his own marriage celebrations. Shabnam also prepares herself for the marriage thinking that it is her marriage with Shadab. The wedding rituals go ahead. When Kazi announces her marriage uttering the name, Bulandi Khan, Shabnam is shocked and she sees the face of Bulandi Khan by removing her veil. She says no to the Nikah. However, her Aunt closes her mouth by hand and pronounces yes to agree to the Nikah. It is an emotional devastation for Shadab. He leaves the house and spends time wandering in the forest recalling his good days with Shabnam.
In Bulandi Khan’s household, Shabnam refuses him to be close to her. He entrusts Chhoti Begum to convince Shabnam to mend her way. When Chhoti Begum comes to know that Shabnam was to marry Shadab in which case she would have been her daughter-in-law, she decides to help her. She secretly arranges Shabnam’s meeting with Shadab during which she asks them to flee from the village to a distance place because Bulandi Khan’s writ works in nearby villages and their life will be in danger.
When Bulandi Khan comes to know about the conspiracy facilitated by Chhoti Begum, he kills her. Thereafter, he pursues the fleeing Shadab and Shabnam with the intention of killing both of them. After a long constant running in the forest, the fully exhausted Shadab and Shabnam take refuge in a Dargah. In the meanwhile, the villagers under the guidance of Patwari and Shabnam’s father gather in large numbers near the Dargah. When Bulandi Khan reaches near Dargah, the villagers throw stones at him injuring him badly. With more stones thrown at him, he gets buried under the heap of stones while Shadab and Shabnam die of exhaustion inside the Dargah.
The film had eight songs written by Naqsh Lyallpuri (5) and Nida Fazli (3) which were set to music by Khayyam. One song has been covered on the Blog. I present the 2nd song, ‘ishque di dor na toote’ written by Naqsh Lyallpuri. The song is rendered by Asha Bhosle and Mohammed Aziz who sings for Lubna Siddiqui (Salim) and Abhinav Chaturvedi, respectively. It is a folk-based composition reminding of Heer-Ranjah love songs. Kayyam’s composition for the film is very pleasing to the ears.
The context of the song is that Shadab and Shabnam have spent a long time together during which Shabnam’s herd of goats go missing. She is afraid as her father will question her about the missing goats. Shadab tells her to go home and he will search for the goats and bring them back home. However, when Shabnam returns home she is pleasantly surprised that the herd of goats have already returned. She runs back to inform Shadab about it so that he does not spend time in searching for goats. This time, Shadab says that she cannot run back home immediately as he has put his ‘shackles of love’ in her legs. The song follows.
Video Clip:
Audio Clip:
Song-Ishqe di dor na toote (Parbat Ke Us Paar)(1988) Singers-Asha Bhosle, Mohammed Aziz, Lyricist-Naqsh Llayalpuri, MD-KhayyamBoth
Lyrics:
aa jaaraanjhan yaara
aa jaa
aa jaa
aa jaa
o dildaara
aa jaa
aa jaa
ishque di dor naa toote
o o
ishque di dor na toote
raanjhan yaara
ho jag roothhe
tu naa roothhe
ho o o
jag roothhe
tu naa roothhe
o dildaara
ho ishque di dor naa toote
do dil ik aawaaz main dhadke
jhoom uthe eye waadi
aaj faza mein pyaar ne jaise
khushboo see bikhara dee ee
aa khwaabon ke
khwaabon ke khile gul boote
raanjhan yaara
ho khwaabon ke khile gul boote
o dildaara
ho ishque di dor naa toote
mere seene main dil tera
tujh mein jaan ho meree ee
main pehchaan teree ban jaaoon
tu pehchaan ho meree ee
haathhon se
haathhon se haathh na chhoote
raanjhan yaara
o haathhon se haathh na chhoote
o dildaara
ho ishque di dor na toote
darr hai adhoora naa reh jaaye
chaahat kaa afsaana
apnee jaan bhee tujh par sadke
kar degaa deewaana aa
waade naa
waade naa karna jhoothhe
o o o
waade naa karna jhoothhe
raanjhan yaara
o jag roothhe
tu naa roothhe
ho o o
jag roothhe
tu naa roothhe
o dildaara
ho ishque di dor naa toote
ishque di dor naa toote
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