Din shuru hota hai tere naam se
Posted on: October 2, 2026
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‘Zulm Ko Jalaa Doongaa’ (1988) was produced and directed by Mahendra Shah who also wrote the story and the screenplay. The cast included Naseeruddin Shah, Sumeet Saigal, Vasantsena (Seema Kapoor), Suparna Anand, Kiran Kumar, Feroz Irani, Sadashiv Amrapurkar, Subbiraj, Bhagwan, Manek Irani, Piloo Wadia, Tina Ghai, Adi Irani etc. Aruna Irani, and Parikshit Sahni made the special appearances in the film.
This was Seema Kapoor’s first film who was introduced with a screen name, Vasantsena. But in TV serials, she appeared with her real name. She is supposed to have acted in the highest number of TV serials. The screen name, Vasantsena was given probably to differentiate her from another Seema Kapoor who was the dancer and doing supporting roles in many Hindi films of 1970s and 80s. There was another well-known Seema Kapoor, the sister of Annu Kapoor. She was the ex-wife of Om Puri who did not act but worked behind the camera as a writer, producer and director.
In this film, two real brothers, Feroz Irani, Adi Irani and their real sister, Aruna Irani worked together. They were the children of theatre actor, Fardoon Irani and Saguna Irani (nee Bhosle). Feroz Irani is a well-known supporting actor in Gujarati and Hindi films. In this film, he is in the role of the main antagonist, Thakur. His other brother, Indra Irani (Indra Kumar) is a well-known producer-director. The Irani/Bhosle families have connections with Gujarati/Hindi actresses, Sarita Joshi (nee Bhosle), and Padmarani, the real sisters whose mother and Aruna Irani’s mother, Saguna Irani were real sisters. Additionally, Padmarani is married to Gujarati theatre producer-director, Namdar Irani, the brother of Fardoon Irani. Saguna Irani had a step sister, Jyotsana Desai (nee Bhosle), a stage artist whose husband was Nanubhai Desai, the producer of the silent films and the owner of Saroj Movietone. Their daughter is Bindu. Ketaki Dave, another Gujarati/Hindi film actress is Sarita Joshi’s daughter.
The film’s story is generally in line with many of the 1980s and 90s Hindi films in which the nexus between police, criminals and politicians terrorise the law-abiding common citizens in a village/town. Among the common citizens, one person rises against the nexus and fights with them. In this film, the nexus operate to exploit and oppress the marginalized segment of a village to an extreme level. In this milieu, even a submissive protagonist in the film rises to a rebellious mood when he loses his newly married sister’s husband. He smashes the nexus with ruthlessness. The film is an action oriented social drama with a tragic ending.
The story of the film in some detail is as under:
The film opens with Thakur (Feroz Irani) flogging a poor farmer in front of the villagers for defying the set rules he has prescribed in maintaining the caste boundaries in Gangapur village. The farmer dies because of the excessive flogging. Thakur reminds the villagers that anyone who dares to oppose his rule of authority will be dealt with similarly. He orders villagers not to carry farmer’s dead body for cremation. This set the narrative of the film’s story.
Hariya (Naseeruddin Shah) belonging to a caste who generally handles the funeral, comes to pick up the dead body of the farmer. He carries himself the dead body alone to give him a decent funeral. The police inspector, Mangesh (Sadashiv Amarapurkar) of Gangapur police station visits Thakur and tells him in a sarcastic and friendly manner that he cannot take law in his own hand when there is the law-enforcing agency and he will have to face the legal consequences.
Next day, Hariya is summoned by Thakur for defying his orders when Dharamdas (Kiran Kumar), a local politician and Mangesh are also present along with villagers. This time, Thakur instead of killing him, gives a punishment to keep him under his servitude by asking to serve him as his personal horse cart puller as his horses deserve some rest. While travelling in the horse cart, Thakur whips Hariya in the same way as he does for his horses.
Hariya goes to a railway station to pick up Dr Paras (Sumeet Saigal) who has been posted in Gangapur village. After getting to know from Hariya the exploitation of people on caste basis by the troika of Thakur, Dharamdas and Mangesh, initially Dr Paras decides not to stay in the village and go back to the city. But after Hariya’s plea, he decides to work in the village for the upliftment of the marginalised caste. Dr Paras gets a grand welcome from the villagers as well as from Thakur, Dharamdas and Mangesh. He opens a dispensary and appoints Tulsi (Vasantsena), the sister of Hariya to assist him. Dr Paras starts visiting all the patient requiring medical help in the settlement area of marginalised caste and he becomes popular among them.
Dharamdas resents the visits of Dr Paras in the houses of marginalised caste as the doctor’s services was meant for the upper caste patients. By his visit to their houses, Dr Paras has also ‘violated’ the unwritten caste discrimination rule of the troika. Dharamdas organises the villagers’ protest march outside Dr Paras’s dispensary asking him to quit the village. Dr Paras tries to convince them that caste discrimination has been given up long ago in the country. He emphasises that they are also human beings like the upper-caste people. At that point of time, Dharamdas’s wife comes with her injured son to the dispensary who has fallen from the tree. Dr Paras attends to Dharamdas’s injured son while Tulsi holds the lamp to enable him to stitch the wound. During this period, Tulsi gets burn on her fingers but she still holds the lamp. The whole scene makes Dharamdas to mellow down.
There is a change of heart in Dharamdas about the caste-discrimination which is not liked by Thakur and Mangesh. He becomes a traitor in their eyes and he is no longer shielded by them. For any oppressive acts by Thakur and Mangesh, Dharamdas stands in support of the oppressive class along with Dr. Paras. Thakur says that he will first tackle Dr. Paras. Meanwhile, Dr. Paras and Tulsi falls in love with each other. Tulsi often meets Dr. Paras outside her duty in his dispensary and they have almost decided to get married but she is afraid to talk about it with her brother, Hariya.
One day, Thakur summons Dr. Paras to his house to check one of his maid servants who has fallen ill. After checking the maid servant, Dr. Paras reveals to Thakur that she is pregnant. His guess is that she may be pregnant from Thakur to whom she was an attendant. He reports the matter to police station. Before the police inspector, Mangesh reaches Thakur’s house, the maid servant is found dead. Mangesh charges Dr. Paras to be the suspects for her pregnancy. However, before the post mortem report becomes available, Thakur manages through Hariya the cremation of the maid servant. He is also fed with the news that it is Dr Paras who whose baby the dead maid was carrying.
Immediately after cremation, Hariya wants Dr. Paras to quit the village before he takes an extreme step against him. After returning home, Hariya warns Tulsi not to work in the dispensary for Dr. Paras and also not to meet him as one cannot rely on a city-bred man. Obviously, Hariya has been brain washed by the Mangesh to create a divide within the group who are working for the cause of marginalised caste of the village. But Tulsi meets Dr Paras and they are determined to marry since they are adult. This angers Hariya and he beats Tulsi for the first time. Thakur and police inspector are happy that they have been able to create a divide between Hariya and Dr. Paras.
Next day, Tulsi visits Dr. Paras and requests him to forget about their union for the sake of his own safety. At that very moment, Hariya comes with a loaded gun along with a large group of villagers, warning Dr. Paras that if he did not quit the village at once, he will shoot him. Dr. Paras announces in front of the villagers that he will marry Tulsi and applies blood from his hand on the forehead of Tulsi in token of his commitment to marry her. This surprises Hariya as it is a pleasant surprise for him against the propaganda devised by Mangesh against the doctor. The marriage ceremony takes place and this itself is the challenge to Thakur and Mangesh who have set the rules of the caste divide in the village. And they are not keep themselves lying low as this would erode their authority over the village.
On the wedding night, Dr. Paras gets a medical emergency case because of which he has to go out leaving Tulsi alone in the house. This appears to be a trap laid by Mangesh as he sexually assault Tulsi to set the example before the villagers of the consequences of breaking the caste divide rule set by Thakur. When Dr. Paras returns to the dispensary and gets to know what has happened to Tulsi during his absence, he rushes to the police station and trashes Mangesh very badly. However, other policemen overpower Dr. Paras who is kept in the interrogation room where he is found dead (probably due to the third-degree method by Mangesh).
For Hariya, one of his happiest days turns into a cruel tragedy in the same night. Fate once again makes him to carry the dead body of Dr Paras for cremation. After cremation, Hariya gets charged as if a spirit has taken over him. He takes a vow that he will put all those on the funeral fires who had precipitated and committed the heinous crime against his sister, Tulsi and son-in-law, Dr Paras. He does that to Thakur and Mangesh, the police inspector after which he surrenders to the police.
The film ends with judge pronouncing the judgement of death by hanging to Hariya.
The film had eight songs (including a double version song) written by Anwar Sagar (6) and Madan Pal (2) which were set to music by Nadeem-Shravan. The film makes a debut on the Blog with its first song, a double version song, ‘din shuru hotaa hai tere naam se’ rendered by Mohammed Aziz and Asha Bhosle who sing for Sumeet Saigal and Vasantsena (Seema Kapoor) respectively. The song is written by Madan Pal.
The context of the song is that Tulsi (Vasantsena) who works in the dispensary of Dr. Paras (Sumeet Saigal) have fallen in love with each other which is strongly opposed by Tulsi’s brother, Hariya (Naseeruddin Shah) as he believes that the city-bred doctor will succumb to the pressure of upper caste and later leave her as it had earlier happened with one of the village girls who was discarded. He forbids her working in the doctor’s dispensary and meeting him. However, Tulsi meets the doctor without the knowledge of Hariya with a prelude vocal which gives an indication of an intense love and longing for each other. The song follows thereafter.
The context of the sad version of the song is that on the wedding night when Dr. Paras goes to attend a medical emergency leaving Tulsi alone in the house, she is sexually assaulted by police inspector, Mangesh (Sadashiv Amrapurkar). A humiliated Tulsi is slowly walking toward the dispensary when the song runs in the background.
This is a melodious, passionate romantic song. The accompaniment, mainly of Santoor and Sitar alongside the vocal renditions of mukhda lines lend support to the intense feelings of love for each other.
I have attached the Mp4 clip of the song incorporating prelude vocal and the main song combining with a sad version of a part of one of the antaras of the song.
Video Clip:
Audio Clip:(Happy Main version)
Audio Clip: (Sad version)
Song-Din shuru hota hai tere naam se (Zulm Ko Jalaa Daaloonga)(1988) Singers-Md Aziz, Asha Bhonsle, Lyricist-Madan Pal, MD-Nadeem ShrawanBoth
Lyrics: :
Happy Version: :
tere bin naheen jeenaa hainaheen jeenaa hai
naheen jeenaa hai
tere bin mar jaanaa hai
ho tere bin naheen jeenaa hai
naheen jeenaa hai
naheen jeenaa hai
din shuru hotaa hai tere naam se
shaam bhee dhhaltee hai tere naam se
din shuru hotaa hai tere naam se
shaam bhee dhhaltee hai tere naam se
zindagee jaise amaanat ho teree
haay
bachke rehtaa hoon har ek iljaam se
din shuru hotaa hai tere naam se
shaam bhee dhhaltee hai tere naam se
zindagee jaise amaanat ho teree
bachke rehtee hoon har ik iljaam se
din shuru hotaa hai tere naam se
shaam bhee dhhaltee hai tere naam se
hai naheen aasaan hamaara ye safar
ek dooje ko chalenge thhaam kar
aa chhupaa loon tujhko seene mein kaheen
lag na jaaye is zamaane kee nazar
aa bithhaa loon tujhko palkon pe sanam
maang meree bhar de tere naam se
zindagee jaise amaanat ho teree ee
bachke rehtee hoon har ik iljaam se
din shuru hotaa hai tere naam se
shaam bhee dhhaltee hai tere naam se
tujhko chaahaa tujhko poojaa hai sanam
ham na mil paaye to lenge dujaa janam
toot jaaye chaahe rishtaa saans kaa
toot na paayegee apnee ye kasam
ho gaye do jism ab ek jaan ham
dar naheen lagtaa kisee anjaam se
zindagee meree amaanat hai teree
bachke rahtee hoon har ek iljaam se
din shuru hotaa hai tere naam se
shaam bhee dhaltee hai tere naam se
zindagee meree amaanat hai teree
bachke rahtee hoon har ik iljaam se
zindagee meree amaanat hai teree
haay
bachke rahtaa hoon har ik iljaam se
din shuru hotaa hai tere naam se
shaam bhee dhaltee hai tere naam se
zindagee jaise amaanat ho teree
bachke rahnaa tu har ik iljaam se
bachke rahnaa tu har ik iljaam se
ho o
bachke rahnaa tu har ik iljaam se
bachke rahnaa tu har ik iljaam se
bachke rahnaa tu har ik iljaam se
Sad Version: :
hai naheen aasaan hamaaraa ye safarek duje ko chalenge thhaam kar
aa chhupaa loon tujhko seene mein kaheen
lag na jaaye is zamaane kee nazar
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