Apna mijaaz aashiqaana
Posted on: September 13, 2026
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Today’s song is the Non – Stop 25th YIPPEE SONG from the Costume film Main Hoon Alladin-1965.
The character of Alladin became famous from the Arabian Nights stories for its wonderful lamp. But our highly creative minded filmmakers made films using his name with stories which had no trace or connection with the original Arabian Night Stories.
While a total of 8 films were made on the original story of Alladin and the wonderful lamp, there were films like Alladin ka Beta (films), Alladin and Laila (2 films) and Alladin ki Beti, which tried to expand the world of Alladin- without his permission ! An extra creative filmmaker even made a film Sinbad, Alibaba and Alladin-1965, combining 3 heroes !!
Today’s film is also one such film, whose story was a mixture of some new ideas along with the old ones. This colour film was made by Ramkishen Films, Bombay. It was directed by Mohd. Hussain and the music was by Usha Khanna. Usha Khanna was the number one prolific Female Music Director in Hindi films, though there were several earlier female MDs, with a few films only to their kitty. They were….Ishrat Sultana aka Bibbo, Jaddan Bai, Saraswati Devi (33 films), Munni Bai, Mukhtar Begum, Gauhar Karnataki, Amirbai karnataki and Shanta Apte . Usha khanna gave music to 172 Hindi films, composing about 1000 songs. She also sang 150 songs in films.
The cast included Ajit, Sayeeda Khan, Jagirdar, Shyam Kumar, David, Madan Puri, Maruti, Ratnamala, Mumtaz Begum and many others. The story of the film was…..
Alladin (Ajit) stays with his father (David), a tailor by profession and the mother (Ratnamala). Alladin does nothing but whiles away most of his time. He is in love with Salma (Saeeda Khan) who also likes him. But her father (Gajanan Jagirdar) does not like Alladin. Alladin’s father is worried about his son’s care-free nature and suggests his best friend, Abdullah (Maruti) to reign him.
In order to impress Salma’s father, one day, Alladin goes to the market and buys some costly dresses. In the marker, he meets his friend, Abdullah who is carrying a wedding outfit for the kotwal. Alladin persuades him to spare the dress for some time to impress Salma’s father as a wealthy man so that he consents for Salma’s marriage with him. With his newly acquired dress, he along with his friend, Abdullah go to a restaurant owned by Salma’s father.
Once in the restaurant, Salma’s father is impressed by Alladin presuming to be a wealthy man who can be a potential groom for Salma. Unfortunately, Abdullah’s father and the prospective bride’s father enter the restaurant. Fearing that he would be exposed, Alladin escapes from the restaurant.
The scene shifts to a battlefield. Wazir (Madan Puri) has set up his big camp in the vicinity of the town as prelude for a war with an adjoining kingdom. While his soldiers are fighting, Wazir is enjoying watching a dance by Salma. Soon after the dance performance gets over, Kasam (Habib) enters Wazir’s camp to announce that his troops have won the battle. After the victory celebrations through the streets of the town, Wazir visits the palace of his Sultan (Amar) to personally convey the victory over the enemy. There is another dance performance by Salma whose performance attracts Wazir. He recommends to the Sultan to give Salma a status of the guest of the palace and the Sultan agrees.
As usual, there has to be some secret which comes out unintentionally. Salma’s father reveals to Wazir that Salma is not his daughter but she is the daughter of Sultan who was kidnapped by him from the Sultan’s caravan about 15 years back. The child’s innocence made him shade his criminal mind to live in the life of a common man. Wazir orders Salma’s father to keep this secret to himself. Salma continues to meet Alladin clandestinely.
The scene shifts from the palace to a dungeon where a lady with garland is sleeping and appears ill. Her son (Sham Kumar. I will use his character’s name as ‘Sham’ in the absence of his character’s name in the film) enters her room with some herbs to cure her illness. But she says that nobody can avoid death. Before she dies, she reveals that she had kept from him the secret of a magic lamp which is lying about 50 miles away in a dangerous cave where their family cannot reach. Again the scene shifts to the palace where Salma is seen singing a Hamd and Sultan is very much impressed with her singing. Wazir is also fond of her but for a different reason. He tries to woo her but is met with a rebuke.
As usual, in the night, Salma secretly comes out of the palace to meet Alladin. This time, she is followed by Wazir and his men. She meets Alladin and discloses him about Wazir’s intention. After she leaves, Wazir’s men attack him but he successfully repulses their attack and escapes. Wazir tries another way to trap Alladin. During Salma’s dance performance, he instructs one of his men to throw a knife at Salma and arrests Alladin who was standing away in disguise, for throwing the knife. Sultan announces the death sentence for Alladin and he is put behind the bar.
Salma appeals to Sultan for pardon to Alladin but fails. Salma’s maid arranges to get the key to the prison in which Alladin is held and facilitates his escape from prison. Sultan’s soldier follows him but from nowhere Sham comes to his rescue and drops him to his house. Sham introduces himself as his long lost uncle to Alladin. He, however, cautions Alladin that staying in his house is fraught with danger as soldiers can drop here any time for searching him. In gratitude for saving him, Alladin agrees to accompany Sham to locate the magic lamp.
After reaching the place where Sham once stayed, he opens a way to the underground cave and drops Alladin to the cave from the rope. Alladin is able to locate the magic lamp which he picks up. When he reaches the point from where he needs to be pulled up through a rope, Sham gets annoyed over an argument with Alladin and walks out of the place putting Alladin in a lurch. He, however, manages to come out and reaches home with a magic lamp.
Next day, Alladin asks Abdullah to clean the lamp so that while selling, it can fetch a higher amount from the junk dealer. However, cleaning the lamp results in appearance of Genie during which Alladin asks for the food. He and Abdullah have assorted food to their hearts’ content.
Alladin makes a visit to Sultan’s palace to meet Salma where he finds Wazir is about to kill Sultan in his bedroom. Alladin fights with Wazir who falls in the river while losing balance. Sultan is happy with Alladin for saving his life. He is prepared to grant a boon for whatever Alladin asks. Obviously, he wants Salma as his bride. By this time, Sultan has come to know from Slama’s father that she is Sayeeda, his daughter whom he had kidnapped. He has submitted the proof of her locket. Now Sultan is not ready to marry Salma to Alladin for class difference as he is a commoner.
Alladin through Genie creates a bigger and luxurious palace for him opposite the Sultan’s palace by next morning. People in the town are surprised as to how Alladin has constructed the palace in one day. In the crowd is Sham who gets the hint. Now he wants to retrieve the magic lamp from Alladin. He plays the trick. He goes to Alladin’s house in the guise of a junk dealer and asks for an old lamp. Alladin’s mother sells the lamp. Now the magic lamp is in the hands of Sham.
Meanwhile, Alladin visits the Sultan’s places with a precious presentation. Sultan is impressed. He gives consent for his marriage with Salma. Suddenly, Alladin comes back to his original status and all the precious presents vanish. Obviously, Sham has asked Genie to shift the palace, and Salma to a faraway land. Alladin knows the reason but he keeps mum. Sultan is shocked and pronounces death for Alladin for cheating and orders his troop to search for Salma. Alladin requests Sultan to give him 10 days’ time to bring back Salma as his troops will not be able to get back Salma.
Alladin and his friend Abdullah are in search of Salma. On the way, they feel hungry but there is nothing in the vicinity. However, Abdullah sees a deer and wants to kill it to cook food. However, Alladin prevents him from killing the deer. In the night, suddenly someone from the sky appears and appreciates Alladin’s kindness towards the deer. As a gratitude, he guides him to walk seven miles more where he would get a magic carpet which will take him to his destination in search of Salma.
Alladin lands in the palace through the magic carpet and meets Salma on the terrace of the palace. However, he is not able to take back Salma on the magic carpet as Genie has been assigned to ensure that Salma does not leave the palace. With the usual tricks of dance and wine, Salma is able to retrieve a magic lamp. Alladin and Sham fight for the lamp in which Sham is killed. With magic lamp in his hand, Alladin asks Genie to shift the palace opposite to Sultan’s palace. Salma and Alladin gets married and stay in Sultan’s palace. Alladin asks Genie to take back the magic lamp as with Salma as his bride, he does not need the lamp. (Thanks to Sadanand Kamath ji).
One less written about actress in the cast was Mumtaz Begum. Born on 7-4-1923 she was a veteran actress of Bollywood. She acted as a character actor in movies like Chaudhvin Ka Chand (1960) Mere Mehboob (1963), Ayee Milan Ki Bela (1964) and many More. She acted in 104 Hindi movies and sung songs in 10 movies. She also acted in Punjabi & Gujarati movies. Mumtaz Begum was the aunt of Bollywood actress Nazneen.
Mumtaz Begum was born on 7 April 1923 Patiyala on 7-4-1923 S and started acting in films at 20 yrs of age.her first film was Vakil Saheb-1943(she was credited as Miss Mumtaz begum).So far she acted in about 105 films,but she was NEVER a Heroine,always a supporting role.Important films are Dahej,Yasmin,Jagriti,Hum sab chor hain,Mujrim,Aas ka panchhi,Dil hi to hai,Sunghursh,Lawaris,Razia sultan.Her last film was in 1998. She was an actress who was a very prominent face in many Hindi movies as a character artiste. She received fame and popularity with many popular films such as Dahej, Arjoo, Jagriti, Jhanak Jhanak Payal Baaje, etc. When she made her debut in Dahej, she got to play a heroine role with Prithviraj Kapoor. It was a V Shantaram film and a social drama film based on the dowry system. Later, she essayed either a mother role or an aunt role in every film. In her next film ‘Deewana’, she got a chance to play a supporting role with Suraiya.
Mumtaz Begum’s prominent roles include in ‘Chirag Kahan Roshni Kahan’ where she played legendary actress Meena Kumari’s mother-in-law. She had to face a huge competition with many actresses such as Durga Khote, Leela Chitnis and Lalita Pawar, who also bagged mother and mother-in-law roles in many Hindi movies. Hence, Mumtaz Begum was perhaps the most under-rated actress. This actress lived up to the expectations of the public. She acted in movies with Madhubala, Waheeda Rehman, B Saroja Devi, Dharmendra, Rajendra Kumar and Shashikala. Since she did not get a chance to play only the hero’s mother hence got eventually to play a villain’s mother or even mother and aunt of comedian heroes too. She did portray any role she got in hand. She was the most under-rated actress and was never paid too high. As many of her films were a blockbuster, she did get high recognition for her role. She acted with superstars like Rajendra Kumar, Shammi Kapoor, Rishi Kapoor and even Rajesh Khanna.
Mumtaz Begum acted for five generation artistes from Motilal to Rajesh Khanna and immortalized any character that she had performed on screen. She was a favorite mother for Rajendra Kumar & Dharmendra on screen. After the 1980s, she did not appear in many films.
Here is the last and final song from today’s film, sung by Lata Mangeshkar. It makes this film YIPPEED !
Song- Apna mijaaz aashiqaana (Main Hoon Alladin)(1965) Singer- Lata Mangeshkar, Lyricist- Faruk Kaiser, MD- Usha Khanna
Lyrics :
siyahposh joKaabe ko Kais ne dekha
hua na japt to
chilla uthha
ke aa Laila
apna mijaaz aashiqaana
tera andaaz mehboobaana
dil naadaan dil maasoom
kya hoga kya maaloom
dil naadaan dil maasoom
kya hoga kya maaloom
aa aa aa
aa aa aa
aa aa aa
aa aa aa
allma husn-e-yaar
allma jalwa tera
ae mere dil ke phool
ho qubool sajda mera
allma husn-e-yaar
allma jalwa tera
ae mere dil ke phool
ho qubool sajda mera
hum tere dar pe sar rakhkar
bekhabar ho gaye
duniya ke saare gham jaise be-asar ho gaye
wallah aa aa aa
aa aa aa
aa aa aa
aa aa aa
apna mijaaz aashiqaana
tera andaaz mehboobaana
dil naadaan dil maasoom
kya hoga kya maaloom
dil naadaan dil maasoom
kya hoga kya maaloom
thham gayeen dhadkanen
saamne koi aa gaya
id ke chaand kee
daastaan dohra gaya
thham gayeen dhadkanen
saamne koi aa gaya
id ke chaand kee
daastaan dohra gaya
haaye allah haaye allah
dhadkan raaz na kaheen khol de
khamoshee honthon pe rahegee
aankh na kaheen bol de
wallah aa aa aa
aa aa aa
aa aa aa
aa aa aa
apna mijaaz aashiqaana
tera andaaz mehboobaana
dil naadaan dil maasoom
kya hoga kya maaloom
dil naadaan dil maasoom
kya hoga kya maaloom
aa aa aa
aa aa aa
aa aa aa
aa aa aa
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