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Hullo Atuldom
“Dosti Dushmani” (release date 31st October 1986) was directed and produced by T. Rama Rao. It had the team of Anand Bakshi- Laxmikant- Pyarelal giving us five songs that had Mohammad Aziz, Suresh Wadkar, Shailendra Singh, Kavita Krishnamurthy, S. Janaki & S.P. Balasubramaniam as playback singers.
Jeetendra, Rishi Kapoor & Rajnikanth played fast-friends (soulmates) with Pran & Sowcar Janaki, who are the biological parents of Jeetendra (in the film), being the anchors in the life of the friends. Bhanupriya, Kimi Katkar & Poonam Ddhillon were the ladies in the lives of the heroes. Amrish Puri, Shakti Kapoor, Kadar Khan, Asrani, Shafi Inamdaar & Gurbachan form the supporting cast.
This film was a remake of the Telugu film “Mugguru Mithrulu” (1985). The Telugu film was also remade in Kannada as “Brahma Vishnu Maheshwara” (1988).
I have seen the film, in parts, whenever it shows on some satellite television channel. I have seen that Jeetendra is forced into a fake marriage with Bhanupriya to shield Poonam Dhillon, who is Rajnikanth’s wife, from defamation or some such thing. In this fake marriage, Rishi Kapoor, Pran & Sowcar Janaki are the co-conspirators. Then there is an angle of Kimi Katkar, who has an axe to grind against Amrish Puri, falling in love with Rishi Kapoor. Plus, we come to know that Bhanupriya & Rajnikanth are siblings & Amrish Puri is their father who had abandoned the family at the start of the film. Additionally, Rajnikanth had got separated from his family & was fostered by Pran. What an uncomplicated masala film!!!!
This film is making it’s debut on the occasion of the 75th birthday of actor Rajnikanth who has a cult, God-like status among his fans particularly in South India. He has acted in films of all four South Indian languages though the number of Malayalam films is only one or two. His name appears in the credits of a Bengali film too, as ‘Guest Appearance’. He has acted in around 25/26 Hindi films. He has also produced & wrote screenplay for a few films (learnt this today)
Rajinikanth was born as Shivaji Rao Gaikwad on 12 December 1950, in a Marathi family, in Bangalore, Mysore State (present day Karnataka). His mother was a homemaker and his father, Ramoji Rao Gaekwad, was a police constable. He was the youngest of four siblings; he has two older brothers & a sister.
A fact about his early life, which is not well – known (or I should say I learnt today) is that his brother enrolled him at the Ramakrishna Math. Here, he was taught Vedas, tradition & history and also began acting in plays at the Math. His aspiration towards theatre grew at the Mathh and was once given an opportunity to enact the role of Ekalavya’s friend from the Hindu epic Mahabharata. His performance in the play received praise from the Kannada poet D. R. Bendre.
Upon completion of his school education, Rajinikanth took up several jobs including that of a coolie, before getting a job in the Bangalore Transport Service as a bus conductor. He continued to take part in plays after the Kannada playwright Topi Muniappa offered him a chance to act in one of his mythological plays. He decided to take up an acting course in the newly formed Madras Film Institute after coming across an advertisement. During his stay at the institute, he was noticed by the Tamil film director K. Balachander. Balachander provided Rajinikanth with his stage name to avoid confusion with fellow actor Sivaji Ganesan. The director advised Rajnikanth to learn to speak Tamil, a recommendation that he quickly followed. Although he can read the language, he cannot write in it. (Me too, I can read the language with some difficulty but not write it. I think I am qualified to be Rajni Saar’s fan. 🙂 )
Rajinikanth played supporting and “villainous” roles in most of the films released during the initial years of his career with lead roles which were few & far-between. His first film as one of the main leads, in Tamil came in 1978 in a remake of ‘Amar Akbar Anthony’. He first played a positive character in Telugu in 1977. I am unable to find out which was his first film as a positive lead in Kannada. His Hindi debut came in 1983 with ‘Andhaa kanoon’.
Rajnikanth is married to Latha Rangachari & has two daughters – Aishwarya & Soundarya- both of whom are connected with the film industry. Aishwarya Rajnikanth is a film director & playback singer while Soundarya is a film producer/ director along with being a graphic designer. Soundarya was the first woman director to direct Rajnikanth in ‘Kochadaiiyaan’ (2014).
The Government of India honoured him with the Padma Bhushan in 2000 and the Padma Vibhushan in 2016. He was awarded the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 2019, though he has won only one Filmfare award for best actor in 1984 for a Tamil film, IFFI (International Film Festival of India) conferred on him the Satyajit Ray Lifetime Achievement Award this year- 2025.
Wish you a very Happy Birthday Rajnisaar (‘Thalaiva’ which translates as ‘leader’ but also used to mean ‘BOSS’). May you continue to entertain your fans. Stay Healthy. 🙂
Audio
Video
Song-Yaaron humko dekh ke kahe ye duniyaa saaaree (Dosti Dushmani)(1986) Singers-Mohammad Aziz, Shailendra Singh, Suresh Wadkar, Lyricist-Anand Bakshi, MD-Laxmikant Pyarelal
All three
Chorus
Lyrics
ho o o o
o o o
ho o o o
o o o
aa aa aaa aa
ho o o o
laa laa laa laa
laa laa laa laa
laa laa laa
yaaron humko dekh ke
kahe ye duniya saaree
yaaron humko dekh ke
kahe ye duniya saaree
yaaree ho to aisee ho
arre yaaree ho to aisee ho
haan haan haan haan
yaaree ho to aisee ho
jaisee apnee yaaree
arre yaaron humko dekh ke
kahe ye duniya saaree
ho o
yaaree ho to aisee ho
arre yaaree ho to aisee ho
haan haan haan haan
yaaree ho to aisee ho
jaisee apnee yaaree
yaaron humko dekh ke
kahe ye duniya saaree
kaun kisee ke liye bhala marne ko taiyyaar hai
arre
kaun kisee ke liye bhala marne ko taiyyaar hai
duniya mein har ek ko apnee jaan se pyaar hai
duniya mein har ek ko apnee jaan se pyaar hai
arre humko apnee dostee
arre humko apnee dostee
haan haan haan humko apnee dostee
apnee jaan se pyaaree
yaaron humko dekh ke
kahe ye duniya saaree
yaaree ho to aisee ho
jaisee apnee yaaree
kaheen kaheen par phool ye khilte hain naseeb se
kaheen kaheen par phool ye khilte hain naseeb se
is duniya mein dost to milte hain naseeb se
arre is duniya mein dost to milte hain naseeb se
kitnee achchee doston
arre kitnee achchee doston
haan kitnee achchee doston
hai taqdeer hamaaree
yaaron humko dekh ke
kahe ye duniya saaree
yaaron humko dekh ke
kahe ye duniya saaree
bansee baajee jamuna paar
saare gwaale hain taiyyaar
Govinda
bansee baajee jamuna paar
saare gwaale hain taiyyaar
arre gokul ashtmee ka tyohaar
aao aaj manaayen yaar
gokul ashtmee ka tyohaar
aao aaj manaayen yaar
hey galee galee mein macha shor
aaye aaye maakhan chor
galee galee mein macha shor
aaye aaye maakhan chor
ye matkee hum todenge
maakhan kha ke chhodenge
ye matkee hum todenge
maakhan kha ke chhodenge
aaj ke din hum dekhenge
ban ke kishan muraaree
Govinda
Govinda Govinda Govinda
Govinda Govinda Govinda
sambhal ke
hey sambhal ke
hey
ek to
do teen
teen chaar
hey
hey
hey
hey
hey
hey
hey hey hey
hey hey hey
hey hey hey
hey hey hey
hey hey hey
hey heyyyy
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The Holy Festival of Chhathh Pujaa is going on at present. This festival is dedicated to ‘Chhathh Maiyyaa’ (Mother Chhathh) and ‘Surya Devta’ (Lord Sun). ‘Chhathh Pujaa’ is one of the biggest festivals of India which was confined to the states of Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, and some parts of Uttarakhand in the past. But nowadays now it is observed all over the country whereever people from these states have migrated for job and cannot make it to their native places. Moreover those who have settled elsewhere in India have started to observe it in their new residences instead of going back to their original native places on this occasion. Read more on this topic…
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I cannot but help notice that the festivals of Holi and Deepawali are almost diametrically opposite to each other. They fall six months apart. Holi is observed on Poornima. Deepawali is observed on Amawasya. Holi is celebrated in day time (mostly first half of the day). Deepawali is celebrated at night time. On the day of Holi, roads are deserted. Public transport services that are usually jam packed run empty on this day. During Deepawali, public transport services run overbooked and there is no way one can get accomodation on trains on this day. Read more on this topic…
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#the Decade of Seventies – 1971 – 1980 #
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Today is the last day of the ten-day long ‘Durga Pooja Utsav’ or ‘Navraatree festival’ of this year 2025. The effigies of the demon Ravana are being burnt all over the country to celebrate the victory of Good over the evil. The ten day long staging of Ram Leela will also come to an end today.
Ram Leela is performed in many parts of our country. I was thinking of the past decades from the mid-eighties onwards and I realised that many changes have taken place in the presentation of Raamleelaa thanks to the advancement of technology with time. This can be noticed when the scene on the stage changes from one part to other, where the set up is required to be changed. In olden times the curtains were rolled down to change the backdrop of the characters performing on stage. My guess is that this would have undergone a sea change nowadays where we have technology to help us.
People born before nineties who would have attended Raamleelaa shows in their town or villages must have been witness to funny situations arising during the plays because of various reasons such as forgetting the dialogues, or disruptions due to sudden power-cut etc. These unplanned events during the show would have created situations of laughter and comedy for the audiences. Read more on this topic…
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19426
#The Decade of Eighties – 1981 – 1990 #
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“Jaag Uthhaa Insaan-1984” was directed by K. Vishwanath for Film Kraft, Bombay. It was produced by Rakesh Roshan. This movie was passed by Censor Board on 24.05.1985. The cast of this movie included Rakesh Roshan, Mithun Chakravarty, and Sri Devi, Deven Verma, Sujit Kumar, Kanan Kaushal, Sudhir Dalvi, Yunus Parvez, Beena, Master Chhotu (2), Surekha, R.R. Somaiyya, Master Subramanyam, Somaiyya Jelu and others. Parikshit Sahni and Paintal made a guest appearance in this movie. The Director of this movie K. Vishwanath also wrote the story and screenplay of this movie other than doing directing this movie. Read more on this topic…
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“Har Har Gange-1968”, a mythological movie was directed by Babubhai Mistry for Nitin Chitra, Bombay. It had Jayshree Gadkar, Abhi Bhattacharya, Mahesh Kumar, Sulochana, Jeevan, Bhartee, B.M. Vyas, Arvind Pandya, Uma Dutt, Vishwas, S.N. Tripathi, Sudarshan, Babu Raje, Tun Tun, Polsan, Dalda Hindustani, Mahesh Bhatt, Rajkumar, Shri Bhagwan, Saraswati Devi, Bhairavi, Uma Khosla, Meena Pankaj, Malti Shashi, Master Gopee, Prakash, Munna Bagla, Madhumati, Bela Bose, Helen and others. Read more on this topic…
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19419
#The Decade of Eighties – 1981 – 1990 #
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After the holy month of shraavan, Ganesh Utsav, Eid and other regional festivals it is time for celebration of another big festival all over the country.
It is time for Mahaalayaa. From tomorrow onwards, nine day long or ten day long nav-durgaa festival will commence all over India. In the state of Gujarat where I have been residing for last twenty-one years, people take ‘pad yaatraas’ (walking on foot) during this festival and offer their prayers to the Goddess Ambe (Amba jee), Chamunda Devee (Chotila), Kalika Maataa (Pavagadh) and many other shrines. Read more on this topic…
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19335
Today’s song is from an 88 year old film Jeevan Prabhat-1937.
In the initial era of Talkie films, Calcutta’s New Theatres and Poona’s Prabhat were the most well known filmmakers. They used to make films on social issues. Particularly, Prabhat was famous for keeping their films centred on the Reform themes like,Dowry, Child Marriage, Second Marriage, Cast difference etc.From the mid 30s one more company came into limelight and that was Bombay Talkies- founded by Himanshu Rai and Devika Rani. They also followed the trend and films on social issues like Untouchability, illiteracy etc were made. Today’s song is from a film made by Bombay Talkies- Jeewan Prabhat-37. Read more on this topic…
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6232
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Today’s song is from an absolutely unknown film, Laaj-1946.
The film was directed by 3 people – Shehzada Ayyaz, Syed Munawwar and H.Qasim, under the banner of Ayyaz productions, Bombay- probably owned by one of the directors. The music was given by Ramchandra Pal and the cast was Shamim, Radha Rani,Ramesh, H.Prakash, Rajan, Rehana, Master Nissar and others.
I had never heard of this film, let alone seeing it. This was because neither the film nor any of its songs were famous. Even the cast did not boast of any of the famous or popular stars of that time. Only one of the cast members attracted the attention and that was the old time hero Master Nissar.
I tried hard to know more about this film but was not able to get anything. Then I wrote to Shri Harmandir Singh Hamraz ji and he, very kindly, promptly sent me the photograph of the film’s booklet. Thanks to Hamraz ji for this. Read more on this topic…
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The festival of ‘Rakshaabandhan’ is being celebrated all over the country today (9 August 2025). It was mentioned by me in my earlier post today that this will also mark the end of the month of saawan in the northern parts of India. However in the southern parts including Central India the month of saawan will continue till the amaavasyaa falling on 23rd of August. We have been posting saawan songs ever since saawan commenced all over the country. Today we are ending this series here. So, in this post we have a raakhee song as this festival of ‘Rakshaabandhan’ is also associated with the month of saawan. Read more on this topic…
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