Yahee to kehta hai mausam
Posted on: October 19, 2026
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‘Andhera’ (1975) was produced by Fatehchand Ramsay who also wrote the story. It was directed by Tulsi and Shyam Ramsay. The cast included Sameer, Vani Ganapathy, Imtiaz, Krishan Dhawan, Satyen Kappu, Shekhar Purohit, Aravind Pandya, Kumud Tripathi, Ashoo, Dulari, Helen, Mukri, Bhagwan, Tuntun, Madhu, Seema Kapoor (dancer), Hiralal, Murad, Krishna Kumari etc. The film was delayed for a couple of years because of censor problems. The intimate scenes between the lead pair on the beach as well as the violence scenes had to be toned down to get the censor certificate. The film is a revenge story common in some of Hindi action films.
The film’s producer, Fatehchand Ramsay (real surname: Ramsinghani) belonged to Karachi, Sind (now in Pakistan). He had a shop each in Karachi and Lahore selling electronic goods and radios. Most of his customers were Britishers who were finding difficulties in pronouncing his surname. So, he shortened his surname to Ramsay. After partition, he along with his family migrated to Mumbai in 1947 and set up a shop in Girgaon area in South Mumbai selling electronics goods and radios and also as a cloth merchant. The shop was on the ground floor of a 3-story building which was later known as ‘Ramsay House’ where Ramsay Films’ office was once located. Now the building is unoccupied as it is in depleted ccondition.
Those days, many celebrated film producers and artists were based in around Girgaon. So, Fatehchand was lured by Hindi films. He wished to have his own film company in which all his seven sons will be involved. In 1954, he with other migrated Sindhi businessmen financed the film, ‘Shaheed-e-Azam Bhagat Singh’ (1954) which flopped. After a gap of about 9 years, he produced ‘Rustam-Sohrab’ (1963) which also failed at the box office. Again, after 7 years, he produced ‘Ek Nanhi Munni Ladki Thhee’ (1970). This film also flopped. With these two loss-making films, he realised that poeple in the film industry can take the producer for a ride which can result in exceeding the budgetted cost. He felt that he should have his own trusted men in the important film making departments. He gave exposure of all his seven sons in the various departments of the film making. His two sons, Tulsi and Shyam Ramsay while watching their film, ‘Ek Nanhi Munni Ladki Thhee’ (1970) in the theatre, noticed that the audience used to scream when a particular scene of a masked man appears. They got a clue that the audience have appetite for horror films. They shifted to make the films in the horror/mystery genre
Fatehchand Ramsay converted his family unit into Ramsay Films in which his two sons Tulsi and Shyam concentrated manily in film direction. The most educated among his sons, Kumar specialised in screenplay and dialogues. Gangu, who was a photographer, learnt the art of cinematography. Kiran was associated with the sound recording and post-production processes while Arjun learnt the art of editing the films. Keshu mainly took to producing and directing non-horror films besides occasionally acting in the films. He and his seven sons became the part of Ramsay Films. The banner produced its first horror film, ‘Do Gaz Zameen Ke Neeche’ (1972), with a total cost of 3.5 lakhs, taking newcomers and avoiding studio sets to restrict the expenses. The film became a super hit, earning the gross box office collection of around Rs.45 lakhs.
Fatehchand Ramsay believed in making films with low budget and completing the shootings within 30 days. So, in their films, engaging ‘A’ grade film actors was out of question. Their films generally used to engage newcomers in the main roles with costumes picked from their personal wardrobes at least during their initial film making. Most of their films’ shootings used to take place in Mahabaleshwar where the entire film units from lead actors to spot boys will be accommodated in a single hotel. For them, Mahabalshwar was like a self-contained film studio where all the requirements of a film’s scenarios were available. The hotel rooms were used as set for home/office scenes’s shooting, Venna and other lakes become the venue for song sequences. Dense forest, Christian cemetry and some hilly areas places were used for shooting horror scenes etc. In this way, Ramsay Films saved cost of studio hiring and costly sets. The films with low budget was their USP which used to withstand even the stiff competitions from the films of ‘A’ grade stars like Dharmendra, Rajesh Khanna, Amitabh Bachchan etc.
With the success of their first horror film, Ramsay Films have mostly confined to making films in horror/mystery genre under the banners of Ramsay Films/Ramsay Brothers/Ramsay Pictures. In all, the banners produced around 35 films between 1972 and 2014. One of the 7 Ramsay brothers. Keshu believed more in the action genre than the horror genere. From early 1980s, he directed about a dozen action/thriller films which included films for other banners. Haveli (1985), ‘Saaya’ (1987), ‘Khoj’ (1989), ‘Mahal’ (1990) were some of his films which he directed. He has the distinction of producing as many as 10 films of action genre with Akshay Kumar like the Khiladi franchise such as ‘Sabse Bada Khiladi’ (1995), ‘Khiladiyon Kaa Khiladi’ (1996), ‘Mr and Mrs Khiadi’ (1997), ‘International Khiladi’ (1999) and ‘Khiladi 420’ (2000). One of his other films which was a multi-starers was ‘Khakee’ (2004). Ramsay Brothers also ventured into Television with their longest run ‘Zee Horror Shows’ with 600 shows. [Notes: Most of the information has been gathered from the recent Podcast of Deepak Ramsay, the son of Tulsi Ramsay and an article on ‘Ghost Stories’ issue of Motherland magazine,May 2012].
Fatehchand Ramsay passed away sometime in 1989. All the seven Ramsay Brothers passed away between 2010 and 2024. Some of their children are associated with films in one capacity or the other while others have settled abroad.
The story of the film is as under:
The film opens with two cars ostensibly in ‘car race’ – one car occupied by a notorious smuggler, Ranjeet (Imtiaz) and his sister, Asha (Vani Ganapathy) and driven by Ranjeet’s driver while other car is driven by Deepak (Sameer) who is a reckless driver. He is accompanied by his elder brother Amar (Surender). In the race, Deepak overtakes Ranjeet’s car which impresses Ranjeet. He offers to hire him as his driver which he accepts as he is in needd of money for paying examination fee for his brother, Amar. This is resented by Amar because Deepak will be working for Ranjeet who is a smuggler.
Ranjeet goes on a business trip to Cochin during which he assigns Deepak’s driving duty for Asha. During the driving duty, it is Asha who always initiates conversation with him as Deepak has a reserved disposition towards Asha being the daughter of his employer, Ranjeet. However, gradually, he gets drawn to Asha. But he is still hesitant to express his love for her openly. During the Holi celebrations, Deepak dances with Asha, which is resented by Ranjeet’s smuggling partners, Sharaafat (Satyen Kappu), Jugal (Prem Dhawan) and Tripathi (Kumud Tripathi). They all warn Deepak to refrain from mingling with Asha.
Amar has passed his final examination and he has been selected for Police Inspector’s training for which he will be out of his house for six months. Deepak, on the other hand, has shed his inhibition against Asha. They secretly meet, sometime spending time in intimate relation. One day, Asha realises that she is pregnant. When Ranjeet comes to know about it, he calls Deepak to his wood cutting factory. Ranjeet tells him that he has brought down his family pride by his unpardonable action. Ranjeet says that he is ready to marry Asha. But having already decided about punishing him, Ranjeet amputates both the arms of Deepak. Next, he drags Asha during which she falls from the staircase resulting in loss of her unborn child. On the advice of his partners, Ranjeet sends Asha to Kashmir for recuperation.
Deepak has become a completely handicapped person unable to help his mother(Dulari). On the contrary, he is now fully dependent on his mother. This very thought makes him suffer from depression. Watching a depressed Deepak, one day, his mother visits Ranjeet for some financial help. But instead, he and his partners humiliate her badly. Ashamed by Ranjeet’s behaviour, she commits suicide. After completing his police training, Amar returns home in his police inspector’s uniform. He is shocked to find Deepak with amputated arms and his dead mother on the bed.
After mother’s cremation, Amar joins his duties as police Inspector. One night, an unidentified person having a metallic hand with a sharp dagger wearing a black costume enters the room in which one of Ranjeet’s partners, Jugal, is sleeping after a late-night party. Next morning, he is found killed with a dagger. Amar is the police inspector who is handling the case. After questioning all those who were with him during the party, and the circumstantial evidences, Amar thinks that the murder appears to be the result of some kind of enmity.
In the meanwhile, Asha returns from Kashmir and lands in Deepak’s house. She tells him that she still loves him and she will take care of him. But Deepak says that he does not want that she should suffer from a handicapped husband. Amar has heard their conversation who supports Asha and tells Deepak that at least there is someone close to him who is ready to take care of him. He gets them married so that she can stay with Deepak.
Deepak continues his vengeance against the gang members. He works in the night so that no one can see him except the victim. He kills Darshan (Shekhar Purohit) followed by another gang member who is killed by forcefully drowning him in a swimming pool. Police has no clue as no fingerprints on the victims are found. In this milieu, the remaining gang members like Tripathi and Sharaafat start suspecting each other for the killings. Next, Deepak kills Sharaafat also in his swimming pool when he finds him too drunk to come out of water.
This is the fourth killings and yet there is no clue as to who is behind these killings. Police Commissioner (Murad) takes a meeting during which Amar gives him the progress of investigation. One surprising things during the first and 4th killings is that a woman’s finger prints have been found on the lockers in the victims’ rooms. Police Inspector, Amar is confident that soon the killer will be found. Asha is worried about Deepak as she finds him getting nightmares after which he goes out in the night. He returns home by early morning. Amar assures her that due to the extreme shocks Deepak has faced, it is quite natural to get nightmare few times.
In the meanwhile, police is able to identify that the finger prints are that of Reeta (Ashoo) who is the secretary to Ranjeet. She reveals to Police Inspector, Amar that It was her plan to involve Deepak who was planning to take revenge against Ranjeet and his partners and she wanted to have her share of profits from the smuggling activities. So, she decided to rob the money from their lockers after Deepak killed them one by one. Amar returns home to question Deepak. On the way, Ranjeet dashes his car against Amar’s motor cycle plunging him out of the road. Ranjeet tries to escapes from another car where Deepak was already sitting inside the car. He kills Ranjeet by his metallic dagger and walks towards a cemetery. Having been seriously injured during his fight with Ranjeet and exhausted, Deepak takes rest inside the cemetry. The police team surrounds Deepak only to find that he is dead.
I find it an interesting coincidence to note that in this film, Imtiaz Khan amputates both the arms of Sameer while in ‘Sholay’ (1975), his brother, Amjad Khan amputates both the arms of Sanjeev Kumar. ‘Andhera’ (1975) was certified by Censor Board in April 1975 whereas ‘Sholay’ (1975) was certified in August 1975.
The film had four songs written by Gulshan Bawra which were set to music by Sonik-Omi. Two songs (one song with double version) have been covered on the Blog. I present the third song, ‘kuchh to samjho aatee hai kis liye jawaanee’ rendered by Asha Bhosle who sings for Vani Ganapathy.
The context of the song is that Asha (Vani Ganpathy) is in love with Deepak (Sameer). But he is hesitant to express his love for her being the driver of her brother, Ranjeet, who is a smuggler. Also, Ranjeet’s partners have warned him to refrain from mingling with Asha. It is at this stage, Asha asks him to drive to a river shore after which Asha sings the song giving him a hint as to why the stage of youth comes in one’s life. She herself gives the answer that one should enjoy to fall in love during the youth. She asks him not to hold back the thrill of romance. In a way, she is pushing Deepak to openly express his love for her.
Video Clip:
Audio Clip:
Song-Yahee to kehta hai mausam (Andhera)(1975) Singer-Asha Bhonsle, Lyricist-Gulshan Bawra, MD-Sonik Omi
Lyrics :
kuchh to samjhoaatee hai kis liye jawaanee
ho jaatee hai pyaar mein
apnee cheez begaanee
mazaa pyaar kaa loot sanam
yahee to kehtaa hai mausam
yahee to kehtaa hai mausam
ho o o o
kuchh to samjho
aatee hai kis liye jawaanee
ho jaatee hai pyaar mein
apnee cheez begaanee
aaj to mausam apnee tarah jawaan hai
jawaan hai yaaraa
pyaar pe uskaa josh to hosh kahaan hai
kahaan hai yaaraa
machal machal kehtaa hai dil
door naheen apnee manzil
aa aa aa aa aaa
mazaa pyaar kaa loot sanam
yahee to kehtaa hai mausam
yahee to kehtaa hai mausam
ho o o o
kuchh to samjho
aatee hai kis liye jawaanee
ho jaatee hai pyaar mein
apnee cheez begaanee
jhoom ke mujhko baahon mein tu le le
tu le le sajanaa
jeewan ab to katataa naheen akele
akele sajanaa
itnaa bhee naadaan hai kyun
pyaar se tu anjaan hai kyun
aa aa aa aa aaa
mazaa pyaar kaa loot sanam
yahee to kehtaa hai mausam
yahee to kehtaa hai mausam
ho o o o o
kuchh to samjho
aatee hai kis liye jawaanee
arre ho jaatee hai pyaar mein
apnee cheez begaanee
mazaa pyaar kaa loot sanam
yahee to kehtaa hai mausam
yahee to kehtaa hai mausam
kehtaa hai mausam
kehtaa hai mausam
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