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This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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In the aftermath of Kargil War of 1999, some Hindi films have been made on this subject, mostly as war films like ‘LOC Kargil’ (2001) and ‘Lakshya’ (2004). In the recent period, ‘Gunjan Saxena’ – The Kargil Girl’ (2020) and ‘Shershaah’ (2021) were also made on the subject. I was not aware that ‘Dhoop’ (2003) was also related to Kargil War of 1999. When I watched the film, I became aware that this film was based on a true story of Captain Anuj Nayyar, MVC who laid down his life while capturing Point 4875 in the Tiger Hill sector in Kargil War. He was posthumously awarded Maha Veer Chakra and his family was granted franchise for operating a petrol pump.

While other films on Kargil War are mostly events from the war front, ‘Dhoop’ (2003) begins the story after the Kargil War ends. The film is about how martyr’s parents faced massive bureaucratic red tapes and corruption at various levels, apart from humiliation to get the petrol pump operational which was allotted to them by the Government of India. However, after a gap of more than 2 years, with the intervention of the Prime Minister, the petrol pump became operational.

I had heard that our bureaucratic systems and the level of corruption do not leave even the dead bodies. After watching the heart-touching film, ‘Dhoop’ (2003), I was ashamed they did not leave even the Kargil war martyrs. I googled on this subject and read some related articles one among which was an article appearing on Outlook India. The article revealed that bureaucratic apathy and corruption faced by war martyrs was wide spread. I quote below the part of the article relevant in the case of Captain Anuj Nayyar:

Prime Minister Vajpayee started his Independence Day speech from Red Fort by paying his respects to those who had laid down their lives for the nation. This year, however, the celebrations were slightly different. Prof S.K. Nayyar, Captain Anuj Nayyar’s father, went up to the PM and said: “I gave my son to the country in its war against Pakistan but now I am fighting a war against your bureaucracy.” This is how families of most of Kargil’s martyrs feel now – betrayed and let down.

Two years ago, the Vajpayee government, still flush with victory, had offered petrol pumps and gas agencies to all such families. Now, Prof Nayyar, proud to be a Mahavir Chakra awardee’s father, risks becoming a mere statistic tucked away in government files. So have all the others. Of the 446 families that applied for retail outlets for either petrol pumps or LPG agencies, only 308 letters of intent have been issued, and of these only 113 are operational.

The bureaucracy – be it in the office of the DCP Licensing, the water department or the electricity department—has spared no family, it seems. Prof Nayyar’s application for an NOC gathered dust in the DCP Licencing’s office and all pleas came to nought till he wrote to home minister L.K. Advani. He had to, for petrol being an ‘explosive’ item, a NOC is the first step in the many to follow before the pump becomes a reality. Nayyar got his NOC within two hours of Advani reading his letter, but as he says: “How are wives of jawans living in remote villages ever going to access the home minister and why do we need to approach the highest authority for something that the government itself promised us?”

When the Government allotted the petrol pump franchise to Captain Anuj Nayyar’s father, as a part of the compensation, his wife was not interested in accepting it as she felt that loss of her son cannot be compensated. His father also said that they do not need petrol pump for a living as both of them earns enough to sustain. It was only after the persuasion by Captain Anuj Nayyar’s boss, a Major in his regiment to accept it as part of perpetuating the memory of their martyr-son, they accepted the allotment. With this acceptance, the parents’ nightmare started as pointed out in the article referred to above. After the petrol pump became operational, Professor S K Nayyar, Captain Anuj Nayyar’s father aptly named the petrol pump as ‘Kargil Height Filling Station’. After his retirement from Delhi School of Economics, he started looking after the ‘Kargil Height’ which is located in Vasundhara Enclave in Delhi. After his death in October 2014, his wife, Meena Nayyar is looking after ‘Kargil Height’. The income from the petrol pump goes to a trust which grants financial assitance to the childrens of poor family for education and other needs.

‘Dhoop’ (2003) was directed by Ashwini Chaudhary. The cast included Om Puri, Revathi, Sanjay Suri (special appearance), Gul Panag (debutant), Gopi Desai, Yashpal Sharma, Virendra Saxena, Murli Sharma, Preeti Dayal, Ehsaan Khan, Rohitashva Gaur, Ashutosh Jha etc. This low budget film got a limited theatrical release on November 7, 2003, without marketing and fanfare.

The idea of making this film came to Ashwini Chaudhary when he watched a TV interview of Professor S K Nayyar, the father of Captain Anuj Nayyar in which he described his long-drawn struggle to make the petrol pump allotted to him to become operational. Ashwini Chaudhary was moved by his tale. He met Professor S K Nayyar in Delhi and told him that he wanted to make a film on his long journey of struggle to get the petrol pump operational. Initially, he discouraged him by saying that not many would watch a film with a story of an old couple. But realising that Ashwini Chaudhary was emotionally affected by what he saw during his TV interview, Professor S K Nayyar agreed. Ashwini Chaudhary says that the three persons who greatly contributed with their inputs were Professor S K Nayyar, Om Puri and Jagjit Singh. (Source: Times Entertainment, July 26, 2020).

In the film, ‘Dhoop’ (2003), the names of Captain Anuj Nayyar, his parents and his fiancée have been changed. The events in their lives are depicted in the film more or less the same with a few additions for dramatisation. The gist of the story of the film is as under:

Suresh Kapoor (Om Puri) is the professor of economics in Delhi School of Economics. His wife, Sarita Kapoor (Revathi) works as a Librarian in University of Delhi. They have a son, Captain Rohit Kapoor (Sanjay Suri) who is posted in the war zone of Kargil sector. One day, Professor Suresh Kapoor receives a telephone from the Army Head Quarters that his son has laid down his life while capturing an important peak in Kargil Sector. His parents are devasted. So is his fiancée, Peehu Verma (Gul Panag) who were to get married in a couple of months.

Captain Rohit Kapoor is awarded Maha Veer Chakra. Professor Suresh Kapoor gets a letter from Army Head Quarters that they have been offered a petrol pump in the memory of their son which can also be a source of living for them. But Sarita Kapoor does not want to accept the offer. Professor Suresh Kapoor also feels that both of them are earning enough to sustain their lives. Major Kaul, who was the head of the Jaat Battalion to which Captain Rohit Kapoor was attached, persuades Kapoors to accept the offer to perpetuate the memory of their son. Peehu Verma seconds the suggestion. Professor Kapoor accepts the offer.

Little did Professor Kapoor and his wife know of the nightmare they would go through for nearly two years from the date of the allotment of petrol pump. When they approach various Government departments and local authorities for land allotment, water supply, electric supply, obtaining NOCs from police, fire brigade and under Explosive Act, he finds that no paper would move unless the concerned officials are bribed. And when he refuses to pay bribes, they are humiliated. For these officials, the war time is their peak season for earning money as more the martyrs more the money for them. It is only when Sarita Kapoor gets threatened by some hooligans because of the upright stand taken by her husband, Professor Kapoor decides to give up the offer of petrol pump. At that moment, Peehu Verma, comes with a good news that Prime Minister has given them an appointment for 5 minutes and it is right now.

Professor Suresh Kapoor, his wife and Peehu Verma meets the Prime Minister in his chambers and submit a file containing his two years of his journey of struggles with the various Government departments and other bodies. The next day, the newspapers carry reports of the suspension of those officials who were creating obstacles for Professor Kapoor. He gets land allotted, water and electricity connections and NOCs from the required authorities. The petrol pump becomes operational with the name ‘Kargil Heights’. Professor Kapoor sets up a trust to channel income from petrol pump for children’s education of poor families.

This is one of those rare melodramatic films which is heart-touching. Despite slow pace of story, especially in the first half, I did not get bored mainly because of the intense high-quality performances of Om Puri and Revathi in the role of parents of the martyr. The debutant Gul Panag also the supporting performance. The story in the second half of the film becomes more interesting as it is in this part that melodrama ends, and Om Puri’s journey starts to get his petrol pump operationalised during which he faces obstacles at every stage. Some of the dialogues are hard-hitting. The best part of the film is that it emotionally connects to the audience. The only drawback of the film, if I may say so, is that there are 8 songs in the film most of which, I felt, did not add to the progress of the story. In my view, only 2-3 songs would have been right numbers with one each song at the beginning and the end of the films which are the tone setting songs of the film.

The film failed at the box office mainly because it was meant for audience who like to watch sensible films. I feel that the makers of this film were aware that the film may not be a success in terms of box office collections. Hence, they did not spend money for marketing of the film.

‘Dhoop’ (2003) had 8 songs written by Nida Fazli which were set to music by Lalit Sen. I am presenting the first song, a ghazal from the film, ‘har ek ghar mein diyaa bhi jale anaaj bhi ho’ to appear on the Blog. The song is rendered by Jagjit Singh using Nida Fazli’s one of the published ghazals. The original ghazal has two more couplets.

The soft and melancholic singing of Jagjit Singh with flute rendition by Ronu Majumdar camouflage Nida Fazli’s hard-hitting ghazal. The sum and substance of the ghazal is that every household must have light and food to eat (‘diya jale’ and ‘anaaj’ are symbolic of prosperity in the household). If these are not there, people should be ready to protest (ehtijaaj). The poet further says that changing the ruler is not impossible (muhaal). It is the need to have a society that can change the ruler. How long one can keep the better days in the imprisonment of assurances for tomorrow? Why not today? The last couplet is symbolic of what Om Puri in the film had gone through. Instead of spending about 2 years, running from pillar to post, that time could have been productively utilised for other works if the authorities had done their work promptly.

This ghazal is very relatable to the story of the film.

Video Clip:


Audio Clip:

Song-Har ek ghar mein diya bhi jaley anaaj bhi ho (Dhoop)(2003) Singer-Jagjit Singh, Lyrics-Nida Fazli, MD-Lalit Sen

Lyrics (based on audio clip):

ae ae ???????
har ek ghar mein diyaa bhi jaley anaaj bhi ho
har ek ghar mein diyaa bhi jaley anaaj bhi ho
agar na ho kahin aisaa to ehtjaaj bhi ho
agar na ho kahin aisaa to ehtjaaj bhi ho
har ek ghar mein diyaa bhi jaley anaaj bhi ho

hukoomaton ko badalnaa to kuchh muhaal nahin
hukoomaton ko badalnaa to kuchh muhaal nahin
hukoomaten jo badaltaa hai wo samaaj bhi ho
hukoomaten jo badaltaa hai wo samaaj bhi ho
agar na ho kahin aisaa to ehtjaaj bhi ho
agar na ho kahin aisaa to ehtjaaj bhi ho
har ek ghar mein diyaa bhi jaley anaaj bhi ho

rahegi kab talak waadon mein qaid khushhaali
rahegi kab talak waadon mein qaid khushhaali
har ek baar hi kal kyun kabhi to aaj bhi ho
agar na ho kahin aisaa to ehtjaaj bhi ho
har ek ghar mein diyaa bhi jaley anaaj bhi ho

na karte shor sharaabaa to aur kyaa karte
na karte shor sharaabaa to aur kyaa karte
tumhaare shahar mein kuchh aur kaam-kaaj bhi ho
tumhaare shahar mein kuchh aur kaam-kaaj bhi ho
har ek ghar mein diyaa bhi jaley anaaj bhi ho
agar na ho kahin aisaa to ehtjaaj bhi ho


This article is written by Peevesie’s mom, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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Hullo Atuldom

Unbelievable!!!! It is already one year. I don’t know if it is coincidence or the creator thought it was the best date to recall his beloved creation.
Basant Panchami, celebrated as Saraswathi Pooja in many parts of India, marks the preparation for the arrival of Spring. Everything everywhere is dressed in the colours of Yellow- the flowers of the mustard crop a colour associated with Mata Saraswathi. People dress in yellow dresses, make delicacies that are yellow in colour etc. Many families mark this day by sitting with babies and young children, encouraging their children to write their first words with their fingers, and some study or create music together.

And what happened last year- on Basant Panchami 2022 ? India’s ‘Swar Kokila’ ‘Nightingale’ (and all the epithets that we have used to describe Lata Didi) bid goodbye to this mortal world. The news was broken to the world on the morning of 6th February that her illness took a turn for the worse on 5th and the end came in the early hours of 6th.

She was the voice that generations woke up to. Her’s was the voice that was soothing to listeners. Her songs were the inspiration for generations that followed to try singing- classical, semi-classical, devotional, light-hearted etc. Her career spanned from 1942 to 2015 (when she was last heard in a Hindi film). She is said to have recorded in 36 languages – Indian & a few foreign put together. Her last recorded song was “Saugandh mujhe iss mitti ki” was released on March 30, 2019 as a tribute to the Indian Armed forces and the Nation.

She was conferred the Bharat Ratna in 2001 by the Government of India; the other singer who was conferred the Bharat Ratna was M.S. Subbulakshmi in 1998. Lata Didi was also a Dadasaheb Award winner along with numerous other awards.

But, of course, whatever I have written till now is all public knowledge.

She had reduced assignments in films after 2000. Atulji’s series “Yearwise review of Lata Mangeshkar HF songs” had 63 episodes and we have a near complete list of her work in Hindi films, with statistics of her association with the music directors, lyricists through her career. This was the last post in the series. I have taken help from the list that Atulji has provided in the series to decide on a song with this post.

“Page 3” (2005) was a film produced by Bobby Pushkarna & Kavita Pushkarna and was directed by Madhur Bhandarkar. It had a cast of semi-realistic movie-specialists:- Atul Kulkarni, Konkona Sen Sharma, Sandhya Mridul, Soni Razdan, Tara Sharma, Suchitra Pillai etc. Plus there was Boman Irani, Anju Mahendroo, Kunika, Navni Parihar, etc in the cast. It was a take on the interactions between ‘Page3’ celebrities and media. How the so-called ‘High Society’ beings behaved with each other and loyalties changed with the coming & going of people’s fortunes. How money & sponsors controlled what appeared as headlines.
One dialogue by the drivers of these celebs has stayed with me “why do people wear dark sunglasses when they come for condolences?’ Another driver replies “to coverup blood shot and hangover- laden eyes” (This is not verbatim, but gist of the conversation).

The movie had a song which almost gave the plot of the movie in its lyrics. The song was written by Sandeep Nath & Ajay Jhingran. Shamir Tandon was the music director. That song was sung by Lata Mangeshkar.

Thinking of Lata Didi with this song.

Normal version

Sad version

Song-Kitne ajeeb rishte hain yahaan pe (Page 3)(2005) Singer-Lata Mangeshkar, Lyrics-Sandeep Nath, MD-Shamir Tandon

Lyrics

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Normal version
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kitne ajeeb rishte hain yahaan pe
kitne ajeeb rishte hain yahaan pe
kitne ajeeb rishte hain yahaan pe
do pal milte hain
saath saath chalte hain
do pal milte hain
saath saath chalte hain
jab mod aaye to
bach ke nikalte hain
kitne ajeeb rishte hain yahaan pe
kitne ajeeb rishte hain yahaan pe
do pal milte hain
saath saath chalte hain
do pal milte hain
saath saath chalte hain
jab mod aaye to
bach ke nikalte hain
kitne ajeeb rishte hain yahaan pe
kitne ajeeb rishte hain yahaan pe

yahaan sabhi apni hi
dhun mein deewaane hain
yahaan sabhi apni hi
dhun mein deewaane hain
kare wo hi jo apna dil thheek maane hai
kaun kisko poochhe
kaun kisko bole
kaun kisko poochhe
kaun kisko bole
sab ke labon par
apne taraane hain aen
sab ke labon par
apne taraane hain aen
le jaaye naseeb
kisko kahaan pe
kitne ajeeb rishte hain yahaan pe

khwaabon ki ye duniya hai
khwaabon mein hi rahna hai
khwaabon ki ye duniya hai
khwaabon mein hi rahna hai
raahen le jaayen jahaan
sang sang chalna hai
waqt ne hamesha yahaan naye khel khele
waqt ne hamesha yahaan naye khel khele
kuchh bhi ho jaaye yahaan
bas khush rahna hai ae
kuchh bhi ho jaye yahaan
bas khush rahna hai
manzil lage kareeb
sabko yahaan pe
kitne ajeeb rishte hain yahaan pe
do pal milte hain
saath saath chalte hain
do pal milte hain
saath saath chalte hain
jab mod aaye to
bach ke nikalte hain
kitne ajeeb rishte hain yahaan pe
kitne ajeeb rishte hain yahaan pe
kitne ajeeb rishte hain yahaan pe
kitne ajeeb rishte hain yahaan pe
kitne ajeeb rishte hain yahaan pe
kitne ajeeb rishte hain yahaan pe
kitne ajeeb rishte hain yahaan pe
kitne ajeeb rishte hain yahaan pe
kitne ajeeb rishte hain yahaan pe
kitne ajeeb rishte hain yahaan pe

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Sad version
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do pal milte hain
saath saath chalte hain
do pal milte hain
saath saath chalte hain
jab mod aaye to
bachke nikalte hain
kitne ajeeb
rishte hain yahaan pe
kitne ajeeb
rishte hain yahaan pe

thhokar bhi khaana hai
chalte bhi jaana hai
thhokar bhi khaana hai
chalte bhi jaana hai
waada kiya to wo
kisko nibhaana hai
yahaan sabko saare
daanv aazmaane hain aen aen
yahaan sabko saare
daanv aazmaane hain
sabhi ek dooje se
zyaada sayaane hain aen
sabhi ek dooje se
zyaada sayaane hain

kitne ajeeb
rishte hain yahaan pe ae
kitne ajeeb
rishte hain yahaan pe


This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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Today’s song is from the film Laadla-1954.

The same title was used for two more films in 1966 and 1994. As if to give company to this title, two films called ” Laadli” were made in 1949 and 2001 ! Sometimes I wonder why the Hindi filmmakers use the same titles for their films, as if there was a draught of different and novel titles.

The other day I was going through the Hollywood film Index and I did not find such phenomenon in English films. There were hardly 5 to 6 films having same titles. A cursory look at the Hindi Film title Index will give many such examples. Films with the same title 2 or 3 times is so common that I left my counting halfway. Titles used 4 times were 80, 5 times were 23, 6 times were 5 and one title has the highest of films – ” INSAF “. Films with this title were made 7 times in 1937, 1946, 1956,1966,1973, 1987, and 1997. Was it compulsory to name at least one film as “Insaaf”, in every decade ? Looks like so !

One word “EK ” beats all other words in starting a film title. As many as 206 film titles started with the word “EK” from 1931 to 2012.

32 film Titles started with with “EK AUR…..” and finally 22 film titles had a suffix of the word “LAAL”. After this research, I got tired and stopped my statistical time-pass and closed the Index Book !

Today’s film Laadla-54 was made by Varma films. Its cast included Shyama, Karan Dewan, Agha Raj Mehra, S.Nazir, Maruti, Krishna Kumari, Dar Kashmiri and others. In this cast, who was Dar Kashmiri ? Some people may say this was the early name for actor Jeevan. But that is not true and unfortunately no one ever tried to find out about this Dar Kashmiri. Almost all sites show him as actor Jeevan in this film. Let me clear the confusion.

Dar Kashmiri was a Pseudo-name used for Om Prakash Dar- a Kashmiri actor, who was the elder brother of actor Jeevan and who came to work in Hindi films much earlier than Jeevan had.

Om Prakash Dar was born into a large family, he had 23 siblings. His grandfather was the Governor of Gilgit in Gilgit-Baltistan. He lost his father when the youngest- Jeevan- was 3 years old and his mother died at childbirth. Being the eldest, he came to Bombay in search of jobs and entered films. Instead of his original long name, he was called Dar Kashmiri.

Actually, When Jeevan came to Bombay in search of film roles, Om Prakash Dar aka Dar Kashmiri, his elder brother, was already working in films. Jeevan appeared first time in Fashionable India-35. Since his name was Onkar Nath, he was billed as O.K.Dar (and not Dar Kashmiri-please note).
His elder brother Dar Kashmiri acted in these films:

Noor Mahal 1934
Vatan Parast 1934
Cheen Kaa Saahookaar 1935
Jeevan Naatak 1935
Kisakee Pyaaree 1937
Veer Kesaree 1938
Imperial Mail 1939
Dorangiyaa Daakoo 1940
Yaad Rahe 1940
Abalaa 1941
Saugandh 1942
Angooree 1943
Nayaa Taraanaa 1943
Devadaasee 1945
Din Raat 1945
Room No 9 1946
Paaro 1947
Huaa Saveraa 1948
Majaboor 1948
Kisee Kee Yaad 1950
Jhaansee Kee Raanee 1953/td>
Chakradhaaree 1954
Laadalaa 1954
Bhedee Luteraa 1955
Ghar Ghar Men Deevaalee 1955
Jay Mahaadev 1955
Kundan 1955
Patit Paavan 1955
Pyaaraa Dushman 1955
Ayodhyaapati 1956
Jay Shree 1956
Raam Lakshman 1957
Raaj Pratigyaa 1958

There are 4 films in which the brothers Dar Kashmiri and Jeevan acted together:

Kisee Kee Yaad 1950
Jay Mahaadev 1955
Patit Paavan 1955
Jay Shree 1956

In every film, he was billed as Dar Kashmiri only.

Jeevan was billed as O.K.Dar (Jeevan) from film Romantic India-36 onwards and then on as Jeevan only-except still a few films where he was billed as O.K.Dar(Jeevan).

In film Patit pawan-1955, both brothers acted and they were individually billed as Jeewan and Dar Kashmiri. This settles their name issue decisively. (Most of this information comes from Filmdom-The All India Film Directory and Who’s who in Indian Film Industry-1946, along with my own notes.)

Film Laadla -54 was directed by Surya Kumar. Yes, he is the same Choreographer who brought Helen in limelight first. Not many people know that Suryakumar had also acted in films and also directed some films, in addition to Choreographing in films.

The story of Dance Director brothers Krishna kumar and Surya kumar is very interesting. Anthony (Tony) Lazarus was born in 1918 and his younger brother Robert Lazarus was born on 14-12-1924. They lost their parents and were raised in an orphanage, from where the famous film dancer Azurie picked them and trained till they became good dancers. Tony became Krishnakumar and Robert took the name Suryakumar. Krishnakumar started acting and doing choreography in films of the 40s and early 50s. In every film of Mehboob and Kardar, he was present. Soon he became famous. However, he also developed some enemies. Krishnakumar was murdered by his enemies on 7-7-1951. The culprits were never captured.

It is believed that it was Krishna Kumar, who taught Master Bhagwan his famous Dance steps (later copied by Amitabh Bachhan also), making his film ‘ Albela ‘ a blockbuster. In one of the famous songs in Albela, you can see Krishnakumar’s photo kept on a table, as a tribute to him.

Robert aka Suryakumar was born on 14-12-1924. He started his film career as asstt. in the sound department in Saigal’s last film,’Parwana’-1947. During this period,yesteryear actress/Dancer Azurie trained him in Dancing. In those days the term ‘Choreographer’ was not used. They were simply called ‘Dance masters’ or ‘Dance Directors’.

Actress Azurie,had a German father and an Indian mother. She is considered as the pioneer in Film dancing in India. She was so famous in films,that Cuckoo modelled herself on her dancing skills and succeeded. Azurie(1907-1998) trained Suryakumar in dancing.

Suryakumar then assisted Madame Simka(a disciple of Uday Shankar),in the film “Awaara”-1951,when he first directed Helen who was in the chorus of Dancing girls that time. Suryakumar later directed Helen in 31 films. Their last film together was Bombay 405 Miles-1980. Suryakumar was also very friendly with dancer Edwina. He visited her London home many times, after she settled after marriage in London.

Suryakumar himself also trained Suryanarayana, Oscar and many others. After 1970,Heroines themselves became dancing girls and the roles of Dance masters reduced considerably. Posh Choreographers came on the scene.

Suryakumar had a penchant for acting. He would himself appear in most of his dances in films. During our college days, it was our pastime to look for him in Helen dances. Surya kumar acted in 7 films, in small roles – Singar-49, Naya Raasta-53, Shesh Naag-57, Bus Conductor-59, Aankh Michauli-62, Har Har Mahadev-74 and Shravan Kumar-88. Surya kumar also directed 4 films – Kamal-49, Nakhre-51, Laadla-54 and Saazish-59.

He then worked as a Production assistant and as an editor too, before retiring. His last days were spent in poverty and he died on 19-8-1987 in Bombay.

I have seen this film when it was released. Here is the film’s story….

Prakash ( Karan Dewan) was a son of a very rich person. He had all the pleasures of life at his beck and call. Precisely this was what bothered him too much and he decided to venture into the world as a nobody to get its experience. In this his companion was Johnny (Agha)- his servant by job, but actually his friend Philosopher and Guide in life.
They come to Bombay and Prakash takes u
p a job. Here these two meet Nilu(Shyama) and Sheelu(Krishnakumari) and they fall in each other’s love. After a few love songs and scenes etc., one day Prakash meets Motilal(S.Nazeer) and they become thick friends. When Prakash goes to his home, seeing the photographs etc, he realises that Motilal is his long lost brother. Now the usual hitch appears. Both Prakash and Motilal love Nilu. Motilal falls sick in her love and Prakash is in a dilemma whether to opt for Love or Brother ?

Finally, he decided to go away and forget Nilu, so that Motilal gets Nilu. But Nilu makes it clear that she only loves Prakash and NOT Motilal. Motilal hears this and his eyes open wide. He decides to go away to Africa and the problem is solved thus.

8 songs of this film are already on this Blog, including a long 2-part song, out of total 10 songs.

Today’s song is sung by Asha Bhosle and chorus. Music Director Vinod, who shot to All india fame with the song “Lara lappa Lara Lappa” from film Ek thi Ladki-1949, could never repeat this success again in his career over 28 films. Ladla was a film when his career was on decline. After this film he did only few more films before he died on 25-12-1959.


Song-Haaye haaye re zamaana dekho (Laadla)(1954) Singer-Asha Bhonsle, Lyrics-Dev Krishna, MD-Vinod
Female chorus

Lyrics (Provided by Prakashchandra)

haayye haayye rey zamanaa aaa aan aaa
aan aaaa dekho
dekho zamaney ki raftaar
matlabi duniyaa matlabi yaar
haayye haayye rey ae zamanaa aaa aaa
dekho
dekho zamanaaa aaaa
zamaanaaa
dekho zamanaaa aaaa
zamaanaaa
dekho zamanaa dekho zamaanaa dekho zamaanaa dekho
haayye haayye rey zamanaa aaa aaa dekho

suno sunaayein ek kahaani
suno sunaayein ek kahaani
lakhpati seth hamaaraa
munh mein daant naa
aant pet mein
khaanw khaanw karey bechaaraa
(coughing sound)
munh mein daant naa
aant pet mein
khaanw khaanw karey bechaaraa
saanjh ki belaa khadaa akelaa
karey hamein ishaarey
saanjh ki belaa khadaa akelaa
karey hamein ishaarey
jab poochhaa to kehne lagaa
hum tere ishak ke maarey ae
jab poochhaa to kehne lagaa
hum tere issakk ke maarey
??? ???? kyaa sharmaanaaa
haayye haayye rey zamanaa aaa aaa aan dekho
dekho zamaaney ki raftaar
matlabi duniyaa matlabi yaar
haayye haayye rey zamanaa aaa aaa aa dekho

naam hai in kaa lattoo saahab
din ko dekhein taarey aey ae ae
din ko dekhein taarey
oyye din ko dekhein taarey ae ae
ek biwi do bachchey bhee hain
phir bhi baney kunwaarey aey ae ae
phir bhi baney kunwaarey ae
oyye phir bhi baney kunwaarey ae
ghar par biwi ration maangey
to ho jaate tang a..a
ghar par biwi ration maangey
to ho jaate tang a..a

baahaar ki farmaaish sun kar
phir jaaye inn ka rang a.a
baahaar ki farmaaish sun kar
phir jaaye inn ka rang a.a

aisey mardon se bach rehnaa
inn ka nahin thhikaanaa
aisey mardon se bach rehnaa
inn ka nahin thhikaanaa

naa doctor na vaidya samjhe
aisaa mard anjaanaa
haayye haayye rey zamanaa aaa aaa dekho
dekho zamaney ka raftaar
matlabi duniyaa matlabi yaar
haayye haayye rey zamanaa aaa aa aa dekho


This article is written by Avinash Scrapwala, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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5283 Post No. : 17306

#the Decade of Seventies – 1971 – 1980 #
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# Bhoole-Bisre Geet # (A Tribute to Poet/Lyricist ‘Neeraj’)
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Today 4th January is the ninety eighth birth anniversary of Poet-Lyricist Gopaldas Saxena whom we know mononymously by the name of ‘Neeraj’.

He was born on 04th January’1925 and passed away on 19th July’2018.

On the occasion of his birth anniversary today as a tribute to him, I am presenting a song from the ‘1974’ movie ‘Aashiaana’.

“Aashiaana-1974” was directed by Saiyyad Hasan for ‘Dev Kala International, Bombay’.
It had Sunil Kumar, Neetu Singh, Harindranath Chattopadhyay, Ramesh Deo, Habiba Rehman, Khalid Almas, Safdar, Dunlop, Hyderabadi and others.
Jayshree T., Gajanan Jagirdar, Ratnamala, Suhail, and Roopesh Kumar had guest appearance in this movie.

This movie has three songs written by Neeraj and music for this movie was composed by Hari-Arjun.

Here is the list of songs this movie has.

SNo Song Title Singer/s Posted On
01 Kaisi mehfil hai ye, kaisa melaa hai ye Mohd Rafi Being presented today
02 Main mera tera jogi Mohd Rafi
03 Pyaare pukaare singaar pukaare Asha Bhonsle, Mahendra Kapoor 13.03.2020

This movie ‘Aashiaana-1974’ seems to be an obscure movie of its time. No video of the movie or the songs seems to be available as of now. However luckily the audio of the songs is available which has been uploaded by passionate music lovers.

Today’s song is sung by Mohd Rafi and it is composed by Hari-Arjun.

One song from this movie has already been posted on the blog earlier on 13.03.2020. Today’s song is the second song from this movie to be posted on the blog.

Let us pay our tributes to the great Poet-Lyricist ‘Neeraj’ ji and listen to today’s song …

Audio

Song-Kaisi mehfil hai ye kaisa mela hai ye (Aashiana)(1974) Singer-Rafi, Lyrics-Neeraj, MD-Hari Arjun

Lyrics

kaisi mehfil hai ye
kaisa melaa hai ye
hain farishte sabhi
koyi insaan nahin een een
kaisi mehfil hai ye
kaisa melaa hai ye
hain farishte sabhi
koyi insaan nahin ee ee
kaisi mehfil hai ye
kaisa melaa hai ye

ham khilauna baney
ham tamaasha baney
ham khilauna baney
ham tamaasha baney
teri mehfil mein ae ham
jaane kya kya baney
teri mehfil mein ham
jaane kya kya baney
dil se khele koyi ee
gham se khele koyi ee
sab khilaune yahaan
koyi insaan nahin ee ee
kaisi mehfil hai ye
kaisa melaa hai ye/em>

ek se ek qaatil nigaahen yahaan
ek se ek qaatil nigaahen yahaan
ek se ek rangeen adaayein yahaan
ek se ek rangeen adaayein yahaan
kaisa gulshan hai ye
kaisa aalam hai ye
hain meherbaan sabhi
koyi insaan nahin een een
kaisi mehfil hain ye
kaisa melaa hai ye
hain farishte sabhi
koyi insaan nahin een een
kaisi mehfil hain ye
kaisa melaa hai ye


This article is written by Avinash Scrapwala, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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4754 Post No. : 16494

#The Decade of Seventies – 1971 – 1980 #
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# Bhoole-Bisre Geet # 147 # Balidaan -1971#
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Today 24th July 2021 is the eighty-fourth birthday (born as Harikishan Giri Goswami on 24th July’1937) of actor Manoj Kumar.
I have mentioned it in my earlier posts that Manoj Kumar and his movies have a special place in our heart or in the heart of those, who like me, have grown during the decade of seventies.

People of my generation got to see his earlier movies as well as his movies made when he was on the verge of retirement.

I mentioned earlier movies of Manoj Kumar because old black and white movies of 1960s and 1950s used to have their re runs on screens in 1970s, sometime in one or two shows, and sometimes even in full regular shows in theatres.

We may not have got the opportunity to his initial movies like ‘Fashion’, ‘Sahaara’, ‘Panchayat’, ‘Kaanch Ki Gudiya’, ‘Piya Milan Ki Aas’ etc, But we have been fortunate to get to watch his movies like ‘Woh Kaun Thhi?’, and ‘Hariyaali Aur Raastaa’ from the black and white era.

We also got to watch ‘Gumnaam’, ‘Upkaar’, ‘Saajan’, ‘Purab Aur Paschhim’, ‘Pehchaan’, ‘Roti Kapdaa Aur Makaan’, ‘Sanyaasi, ‘Dus Numberi’, ‘Shirdi Ke Sai Baba’, etc.

I may have seen some more of his movies too with elders without realising it as I was still a child. Some songs from such movies have been in my memory since my childhood. E.g., ‘ik taaraa boley sun sun sun, kya kahe tumse’ from ‘Yaadgaar-1971’. I do not remember to have watched this movie, but this song keeps haunting me as if I had watched it.

I cannot forget my uncles teasing me with the song ‘Ye Gangaram ki samajh mein naa aaye’ in my childhood, may be because I was a ‘gol-matol-healthy boy’ 😊

There were some old movies which used to get screened in noon shows in the seventies and eighties. That is how I got to watch ‘Do Badan’, ‘Saawan Ki Ghataa’, ‘Patthar Ke Sanam’, ‘Anita’, ‘Amaanat’, ‘Neel Kamal’, when I was a grownup boy.

His movies when he was on the verge of retirement included ‘Kalyug Aur Ramayan’, and ‘Clerk’ etc. In between I remember I had watched ‘Shor’, ‘Mera Naam Joker’, ‘Be-imaan’ and ‘Pehchaan’ on VCR.

But I am sure I had not watched today’s movie i.e., ‘Balidaan-1972’. Also, I could not remember if I had listened to any songs of this movie except today’s song, which I think I must have heard earlier.

“Balidaan-1971” was directed by Ravi Tandon for ‘Verma Films Enterprises, Bombay’. It was produced by Aroon Varma and Darshan. It had Saira Banu, Manoj Kumar, Dev Kumar, Bharat Bhushan, Manmohan, Poornima, Manmohan, Anwar Hussain, Randhir, Asit Sen, Polsan, Heeralal, Janki Das, Bhushan Tiwari, Devraj, Gulab Singh, Kirti Kumar, Ranveer Raj, Om Sahni, Mahesh Raj, and Bindu and others. This movie introduced Devyani.

Story of this movie was written by Balkrishna Mouj. Editing of this movie was done by Harish Pathare. Additional dialogues and final screenplay were written by Manoj Kumar.

This movie was passed by Censor Board on 27.12.1971.

‘Balidaan-1971’ had six songs including one multiple version song. All songs for this movie were written by Verma Malik and composed by Shankar-Jaikishan.

The details of the songs in this movie are as given below.

SNo Song Title Singer/s Posted on the blog
01 Pranaam karo is dharti ko jisne hamko janam diya Mahendra Kapoor
02 Haay haay ri daiyya mui main to kyun jawaan hui Asha Bhonsle,
Mahendra Kapoor
17.05.2019
03 Manjeera baaj rahaa chhun chhuk chha chhun Mahendra Kapoor Being covered today
04 O jhoothhi muhabbat ke bhookhe darinde Lata Mangeshkar 22.08.2020
05 Chaley aao dil mein bachaa ke nazar Lata Mangeshkar 22.08.2010
06 Pranaam karo is dharti ko jisne hamko janam diya Krishna Kalle

We can see from the above table that three songs from this movie have been posted earlier on the blog.

Today’s song is the fourth song from this movie to be presented here.

This song is sung by Mahendra Kapoor. Manoj Kumar performing on this song on screen. We can see Saira Banu, Dev Kumar and many others in the picturisation of this song.

Let us now listen to today’s song which Verma Malik has written in his characteristic style lamenting the decadent ways of the modern society.…

Video

Audio (Longer)

Song-Manjeera baaj raha (Balidaan)(1971) Singer-Mahendra Kapoor, Lyrics-Verma Malik, MD-Shankar Jakishan

Lyrics

manjeera baaj rahaa
chhun chhuk chha chhun
chhun chhuk chha chhun
chhun chhuk chha chhun
chhun chhuk chha
manjeera baaj rahaa
chhun chhuk chha chhun
chhun chhuk chha chhun
chhun chhuk chha chhun
chhun chhuk chha
hans lenaa bhi gunaah
gham sehnaa bhi gunaah
kuchh kehna bhi gunaah
chup rehnaa bhi gunaah
arey kaisi teri duniya hai
waah bhai waah
manjeera baaj rahaa
chhun chhuk chha chhun
chhun chhuk chha chhun
chhun chhuk chha chhun
chhun chhuk chha
o manjeera baaj rahaa
chhun chhuk chha chhun
chhun chhuk chha chhun
chhun chhuk chha chhun
chhun chhuk chha

ultee ho gayi duniya saari
ultey ho gaye kaam
bete ka naam Dashrath hai
aur baap ka naam hai Ram
aaj ki seeta beech kachehri
ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee
mitwaa aa
aaj ki seeta beech kachehri
Ram se kare byaah
arey kaisi teri duniya hai
waah bhai waah
manjeera baaj rahaa
chhun chhuk chha chhun
chhun chhuk chha chhun
chhun chhuk chha chhun
chhun chhuk chha
manjeera baaj rahaa
chhun chhuk chha chhun
chhun chhuk chha chhun
chhun chhuk chha chhun
chhun chhuk chha

sasur bahu donon peete hain
saath saath mein jaam
maa aur beti ek club mein
roz guzaaren shaam
jis ghar ki ye haalat hogi ee
ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee
mitwaa aa
jis ghar ki ye haalat hogi
aakhir huaa tabaah
arey kaisi teri duniya hai
waah bhai waah
manjeera baaj rahaa
chhun chhuk chha chhun
chhun chhuk chha chhun
chhun chhuk chha chhun
chhun chhuk chha
o manjeera baaj rahaa
chhun chhuk chha chhun
chhun chhuk chha chhun
chhun chhuk chha chhun
chhun chhuk chha

tan beparda
man beparda
beparda hai chehraa aa
kitni hai aazaad jawaani
tod ke laaj ka pehra aa
sharm hayaa ki devi dekho o
o o o o o o o o o
mitwaa aa
sharm hayaa ki devi dekho
maange aaj panaah
arey kaisi teri duniya hai
waah bhai waah
manjeera baaj rahaa
chhun chhuk chha chhun
chhun chhuk chha chhun
chhun chhuk chha chhun
chhun chhuk chha
o manjeera baaj rahaa
chhun chhuk chha chhun
chhun chhuk chha chhun
chhun chhuk chha chhun
chhun chhuk chha

farz karo main ban jaata hoon
daaku chor luteraa aa
main bhookhon ke pet mein
bhar doon
maal loot kar dheraa
phir bhi duniya ki nazron mein ae
ae ae ae ae ae ae ae
mitwaa
phir bhi duniya ki nazron mein
maine kiya gunaah
arey kaisi teri duniya hai
haan waah bhai waah
manjeera baaj rahaa
chhun chhuk chha chhun
chhun chhuk chha chhun
chhun chhuk chha chhun
chhun chhuk chha
o manjeera baaj rahaa
chhun chhuk chha chhun
chhun chhuk chha chhun
chhun chhuk chha chhun
chhun chhuk chha
hans lenaa bhi gunaah
gham sehnaa bhi gunaah
kuchh kehna bhi gunaah
chup rehnaa bhi gunaah
arey kaisi teri duniya hai
waah bhai waah
manjeera baaj rahaa
chhun chhuk chha chhun
chhun chhuk chha chhun
chhun chhuk chha chhun
chhun chhuk chha
o manjeera baaj rahaa
chhun chhuk chha chhun
chhun chhuk chha chhun
chhun chhuk chha chhun
chhun chhuk chha


This article is written by Peevesie’s mom, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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4702 Post No. : 16405

Hullo Atuldom

2nd June 1988. 33 years ago, Raj Kapoor who was also called the greatest Showman, bid adieu to this mortal world.

He was first an actor who turned a filmmaker early in his career. It is said that he had done roles as a child actor in the late ’30s, but his first adult role happened in 1947 in ‘Neel Kamal’ with Madubala as his heroine. Within a year he turned a producer-director, set up the RK Banner and came up with “Aag” and went on to produce and direct nine more movies – the last of which was “Ram Teri Ganga Maili”. Additionally he produced ‘Biwi-o-biwi’, ‘Dharam Karam’, ‘Kal Aaj Aur Kal’, ‘Jis Desh Mein Ganga Behti Hain’, ‘Ab Dilli Door Nahin’, ‘Jaagte Raho’, Boot Polish’, ‘Aah’ i.e. the total output of RK banner during Raj Kapoor’s lifetime was 18. His sons Randhir- Rishi- Rajeev tried to keep the legacy of the banner alive and made a few more movies.

Of the movies that RK Banner produced in the ’70s two were directed by Randhir Kapoor viz. ‘Kal Aaj Aur Kal’ and ‘Dharam Karam’.

“Kal Aaj Aur Kal” had a lot of interesting aspects associated with it. (1) It was the acting and direction debut of Randhir Kapoor. (2)It had three generations of the family :- grandfather Prithviraj Kapoor, father Raj Kapoor and Randhir kapoor. (3) It marked the last acting assignment of Prithviraj Kapoor and I have read somewhere that he dubbed for the movie almost from his death-bed. (3) The movie starred Raj Kapoor’s future daughter-in-law Babita. (4) This was the last RK movie for which Shankar- Jaikishan gave music. Apparently Jaikishan had completed recording the music for this movie before he passed away.

Mehmood gave a tribute to the RK family in a song from “Humjoli” (1970) when he played the grandfather, father and (modern) son.

KAAK had six songs of which the blog has four songs. Today’s song shows Raj Kapoor as the father of a stubborn young son and son of stubborn old father. He is torn between his love for his father and son. He does not want to take sides in the tug-of-war of the two generations and both father and son have asked him to choose who is more important. We have Raj Kapoor expressing all his emotions through his beautiful light-eyes (remember the reference to those eyes in the song “masti bhara hain sama”.)

The song is written by Neeraj and sung by Manna Dey.

Audio

Video

Song-Dekhiye to kya ajeeb haal hai (Kal Aaj aul Kal)(1971) Singer-Manna Dey, Lyrics-Neeraj, MD-Shankar Jaikishan

Lyrics

dekhiye toh kya ajeeb haal hai
sochiye toh kya ajeeb baat hai ae ae
ek paanv chal raha alag alag
doosra kisi ke saath saath hai ae ae
dekhiye toh kya ajeeb haal hai

ek daal iss tarah phooli phali
ek ek paat phool ban gaya
ek daal iss tarah phooli phali
ek ek paat phool ban gaya
ek daal iss qadar magar luti
ek ek phool dhool ban gaya
aaj aur kal ki dhoop chhaanv mein aen
iss liye samay ke soone gaanv mein
ek paanv chal raha alag alag
doosra kisi ke saath saath hai ae ae
dekhiye toh kya ajeeb haal hai

ek hawa chali ke khil uthha chaman
ek hawa chali ke sab ujad gaya
ek kadam uthaa ke raah mil gayi
ek kadam uthaa ke path bichhad gaya
ek hawa chali ke khil uthha chaman
ek hawa chali ke sab ujad gaya
ek kadam uthaa ke raah mil gayi
ek kadam uthaa ke path bichhad gaya
iss liye dilon ki jeet haar mein aen
iss liye kisi ke preet pyaar mein aen
ek paanv chal raha alag alag
doosra kisi ke saath saath hai ae ae
dekhiye toh kya ajeeb haal hai ae
sochiye toh kya ajeeb baat hai ae ae
ek paanv chal raha alag alag
doosra kisi ke saath saath hai ae ae
dekhiye to kya ajeeb haal hai
hmm hmm h hmm hmm
aa aa aa aa aa


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4576 Post No. : 16184

“Baaghi Haseena”(1965) was directed by Ram for Award Films, Bombay. This obscure movie had Jairaj, Chitra, Sherry, Sheikh Helen etc in it.

One obscure song from this obscure movie has been covered in the past. Here is the second song from “Baaghi Haseena”(1965) to appear in the blog. The song is sung by Rafi. Lyricist is not knon. Music is composed by P D Sharma.

Only the audio of this song is available. I request our knowledgeable readers to throw light on the movie as ell as on the picturisation of this song.


Song-Ek ek tinke par yoon kab tak insaanon ka khoon bahega(Baaghi Haseena)(1965) Singer-Rafi, MD-P D Sharma
Chorus

Lyrics

kya ye gareeb insaan jahaan mein aen
jeene ke haqdaar nahin
jaise tumhi duniya ke khuda ho
aur koi paalanhaa aar nahin

ek ek tinke par yoon kab tak
insaanon ka khoon bahega (aa aa aa aa)
aakhir is duniya mein hamesha
kaun raha hai kaun rahega (aa aa aa aa)
ek ek tinke par yoon kab tak

insaanon ke haathon aakhir
bikta rahega insaan kab tak
maan behanon ki izzat se yoon(aa aa aa aa)
maan behanon ki izzat se yoon
khelenge ye haiwaan kab tak
khelenge ye haiwaan kab tak
aur kahaan tak kamzoron par
taaqatwar ka zor chalega (aa aa aa aa)
aakhir is duniya mein hamesha
kaun raha hai kaun rahega(aa aa aa aa)
ek ek tinke pe yoon kab tak

jung ke baadal chhant jaayenge
aman ke parcham lehraayenge
ho ke rahegi aisi sahar bhi ee ee(aa aa aa aa)
ho ke rahegi aisi sahar bhi
jis se andhere mit jaayenge
jis se andhere mit jaayenge ae ae(aa aa aa aa)(aa aa aa aa)


This article is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in sites like lyricstrans.com and ibollywoodsongs.com etc then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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4481 Post No. : 15992

Hello everyone,

My appearances here on the blog are becoming increasingly infrequent, not unlike the cameo visits of an MP/MLA to his constituency post-elections. 🙂

I will not get into reasons for my long absence from here – no excuses. Mea culpa.

As usual, my appearance here marks a special occasion.
This time it has to do with Sahir Ludhianvi’s death anniversary.

The legendary poet & lyricist passed away exactly 40 years ago, on the 25th of October 1980.

What can I write about Sahir that I haven’t already written here in previous posts?

Hardly anything, to be honest.

I’ve written so much about him here, on many of his birth and death anniversaries, that anything I write will be repetitive.

And yet I cannot let the occasion go by without marking it with my small contribution here. It has almost become a ritual for me now. 🙂

One thing though.

I might be a big Sahir fan, but I´m nothing compared to Avinash ji.
As usual, he contacted me a few days ago requesting me to do a post for this occasion.

And, as usual, he sent me a song with lyrics.

That was all the motivation I needed to come out of hibernation. 🙂

Prompted by the lyrics of this song, Avinash ji also shared some of this thoughts with me. Wide-ranging reflections on society, politics, media, polarization and other topics.

I must say I agree with his views – sobering thoughts for these times.

So today, perhaps the best tribute I can give Sahir is not to repeat what I’ve said so often about his poetry and lyrics, but to just reflect on where we are as a society, much as Sahir often did.

So kindly bear with me as I share a few thoughts.

You don’t have to agree with me at all – that’s perfectly fine.
We can disagree – and still be friends. 🙂

So if Sahir were around today, how would he have felt about today’s India?

Indian society, politics, media, justice system. . . everything that touches the common man’s life.

Am specifically talking about the common man, because clearly Sahir used his voice most to speak up for the aam aadmi and underprivileged against the powerful.

I’m not sure Sahir would’ve had many kind things to say.

The religious divide he warned us about, the exploitation of women he lamented, the oppression of labor class that he railed against, the caste inequality that he talked about – all of them exist, and even flourish, to this day.

At least in the early years post-independence, one can argue that India was still struggling to find its feet. It was besieged with a whole lot of baggage, including mass illiteracy and mass poverty, a colonial hangover, lack of institutions and infrastructure.

Not that any of this is an excuse to justify oppression, but India was still a baby then, and had huge challenges to deal with on multiple fronts. It had a history of feudalism that ensured a master-slave mentality between the haves and have-nots.

Today, many decades later, it’s not unfair to expect India to have matured more as a democracy. With more concern for people’s rights and freedoms, a greater regard for the dignity of every individual.

And yet how much have we really matured as a democracy?

We keep thumping our chests, claiming to be the world’s largest democracy. But what should democracy really mean?

Many think it is the right to vote.
But is that all there is to a democracy?
The right to vote?
That’s too narrow and limiting a function of a democracy.

For me, in a democracy (as opposed to a dictatorship), each person has a voice, has a right to express an opinion.

In fact, voting is one way of expressing your opinion.
But it’s just ONE way.

When farmers go on a nationwide protest to draw attention to their issues, they are also exercising their right to express themselves.

When citizens protest on the streets against what they believe to be an unfair law, they are similarly exercising their right to express themselves.

As long as the protests are peaceful, they are legitimate in a democracy.

In fact, even before independence, Gandhi ji and other leaders led peaceful protests against colonial rule. So it is nothing new in India.

Many of Sahir’s songs are actually a protest against exploitation by those in power. Imagine if he were not allowed to express his thoughts!

Do we even want such a society?

Do we want everyone to be a blind conformist, not to have independent thoughts of his own, to be fearful of expressing himself, to kowtow to those in power without a murmur?

Then we might as well just call ourselves a nation of slaves.

There’s no point in a nation being free, if its people aren’t.

A nation is nothing without its people.

And people, whether some of us like it or not, have the power to think.

And when they think, they might not exactly think in our way.

Just because we have power, it doesn’t entitle us to stifle their voice.

That goes against the very grain of a democratic mindset, in which each person has a voice.

Unless the person is inciting violence, no one has the right to shut him up.

Not even the State.

If you disagree, put forth a better argument to make your case.

Don’t use your brute power to threaten, intimidate or (in the case of the State)  arrest those you disagree with.
Just because you can.
That’s sheer abuse of power.

This has nothing to do with any particular political party. Many of them are guilty in their own ways of suppressing people’s voices.

If they get their way, what will we end up with?

A people living in fear, afraid to express an opinion that might be frowned upon by those in power.

Everyone becoming a conformist – whether by choice, or out of sheer fear.
In short, a nation of sheep.

Is that what we want?

Let’s pause, and reflect on this for a moment.

Speaking purely for myself, I like to express my views rather openly, even if they’re not exactly reflecting popular sentiment of the moment.

If I have to check myself every time, out of fear for repercussions, I’d feel extremely stifled.

As Sahir would too.

There are many more topics one can reflect on (and Avinash ji’s thoughts traversed many of them), but I’m limiting myself to just this one topic today because it sort of syncs with the song for today. Need to also leave material for future posts on Sahir, right? 🙂

Today’s song from ‘Naach Ghar’ (1959) is  Sahir’s sarcastic piece of advice to society.  “Just observe things happening, but don’t  speak up. Just let them happen. Don’t upset the apple-cart. Even call the dark of night, “day” if you need to”.

I quite like the rendition by Lata Mangeshkar.

Music is by N. Datta, for whom Sahir wrote excellent lyrics also for ‘Dhool Ka Phool’, also a 1959 film. And for ‘Dharmputra’ (1961). So theirs was quite a fruitful partnership.

In fact, I’ve already written a post for a song from Naach Ghar (1959) on the occasion of Sahir’s 500th song on this blog – “Tere Shehron Se Raja Hamen Ban Hi Bhaley

That is a straightforward lament, today’s song is a sarcastic take on society.

I like both songs a lot, but then I’m biased towards Sahir so my opinion should be taken with a truckload of salt. 🙂

So please listen to the song, and judge for yourself.

In closing, I’d like to say Sahir was one of a kind.  They don’t make his type anymore.

 

Song – Ae Dil Zubaan Na Khol (Naach Ghar) (1959) Singer – Lata Mangeshkar, Lyrics – Sahir Ludhianvi, MD – N Datta
Chorus

Lyrics

aye dil zubaan na khol sirf dekh le
kisi se kuchh na bol sirf dekh le
hmm hmm hmm hmm
aye dil zubaan na khol sirf dekh le

ye haseen jagmagaahatein ae
hmm hmm hmm
aanchalon ki sarr saraahatein en
hmm hmm hmm
ye haseen jagmagaahatein ae
hmm hmm hmm
aanchalon ki sarr saraahatein en
aanchalon ki sarr saraahatein
ye nashe mein jhoomti zameen
hmm hmm hmm
sabke paanv choomti zameen
hmm hmm hmm
ye nashe mein jhoomti zameen
hmm hmm hmm
sabke paanv choomti zameen
hmm hmm hmm
kis kadar hai gol sirf dekh le
aye dil zubaan na khol sirf dekh le

kitna sach hai kitna jhooth hai ae
kitna haq hai kitni loot hai
rakhh sabhi ki laaj kuchh na keh
kya hai ye samaaj kuchh na keh
dhol ka ye pol sirf dekh le
aye dil zubaan na khol sirf dekh le

maan le jahaan ki baat ko
hmm hmm hmm
din samajh le kaali raat ko o
hmm hmm hmm
maan le jahaan ki baat ko
hmm hmm hmm
din samajh le kaali raat ko o
hmm hmm hmm
din samajh le kaali raat ko
chalne de yoon hi ye silsilaa aa
hmm hmm hmm
ye na bol kisko kya milaa aa aa
hmm hmm hmm
chalne de yoon hi ye silsilaa aa
hmm hmm hmm
ye na bol kisko kya milaa aa
hmm hmm hmm
taraazuon ka jhol sirf dekh le
aye dil zubaan na khol sirf dekh le

————————————————————
Hindi Script Lyrics
(Provided by Avinash Scrapwala)
————————————————————

ए दिल जुबां न खोल सिर्फ देख ले
किसी से कुछ न बोल सिर्फ देख ले
हम्म हम्म हम्म हम्म
ए दिल जुबां न खोल सिर्फ देख ले

ये हसीन जगमगाहटें ए
हम्म हम्म हम्म
आँचलों की सर सराहटें एं
हम्म हम्म हम्म
ये हसीन जगमगाहटें ए
हम्म हम्म हम्म
आँचलों की सर सराहटें एं
आँचलों की सर सराहटें
ये नशे में झूमती ज़मीन
हम्म हम्म हम्म
सब के पाँव चूमती ज़मीन
हम्म हम्म हम्म
ये नशे में झूमती ज़मीन
हम्म हम्म हम्म
सब के पाँव चूमती ज़मीन
हम्म हम्म हम्म
किस कदर है गोल सिर्फ देख ले
ए दिल जुबां न खोल सिर्फ देख ले

कितना सच है कितना झूठ है
कितना हक है कितनी लूट है
रख सभी की लाज कुछ न कह
क्या है ये समाज कुछ न कह
ढोल का ये पोल सिर्फ देख ले
ए दिल जुबां न खोल सिर्फ देख ले

मान ले जहां कि बात को
हम्म हम्म हम्म
दिन समझ ले काली रात को ओ
हम्म हम्म हम्म
मान ले जहां कि बात को
हम्म हम्म हम्म
दिन समझ ले काली रात को ओ
हम्म हम्म हम्म
दिन समझ ले काली रात को
चलने दे यूँही ये सिलसिला आ
हम्म हम्म हम्म
ये न बोल किसी को क्या मिला आ आ
हम्म हम्म हम्म
चलने दे यूँही ये सिलसिला आ
हम्म हम्म हम्म
ये न बोल किसी को क्या मिला आ
हम्म हम्म हम्म
तराजुओं का झोल सिर्फ देख ले
ए दिल जुबां न खोल सिर्फ देख ले


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“Aansoo”(1953) was produced by Qamar Jalalabadi and directed by Shanti Kumar. The movie had Kamini Kaushal, Shekhar, Pran, Nawab, Amirbai Karnataki, Indu Pal, Chamanpuri, Rajkumar, Kabil Amritsari, Parvati Devi, C Nazeer, Indira Bansal, Mumtaz Mati, Suhel Chaudhary, Satyarani, Aruna Mehta, Mrs Homi Master, Ghulam Hussain, Madan Singh, Madan Mogan, Sudesh Kumar, Baby Kumkum, Baby Kavita, Baby Suman, Binu Baraar etc in it.

“Aansoo”(1953) had eight songs in it. Five songs from the movie have been covered in the blog so far.

Here is the sixth song from “Aansoo”(1953) to appear in the blog. This song is sung by Shamshad Begam. Qamar Jalalabadi is the lyricist. Music is composed by Husnlal Bhagatram.

Only the audio of the song is available. The song sounds like a background song cum theme song. I request our knowledgeable readers to throw light on the picturisation of this song.


Song-Koi meri sune aurat na bane (Aansoo)(1953) Singer-Shamshad Begam, Lyrics-Qamar Jalalabadi, MD-Husnlal Bhagatram

Lyrics

koi meri sune aurat na bane
ye to mardon ka hai sansaar re
koi meri sune aurat na bane
ye to mardon ka hai sansaar re
bhaai bahan ki suno kahaani
bhaai ki kismat tez
bhaai bahan ki suno kahaani
bhaai ki kismat tez
bhaai ko dekhe hans ke dulhaniya
bahan se maange dahej
haay main mar gayi raam
haay main mar gayi raam
haay main mar gayi
haay main mar gayi
duniya ke baazar mein bikta ik naari ka pyaar re
koi meri sune aurat na bane
ye to mardon ka hai sansaar re
koi meri sune aurat na bane
ye to mardon ka hai sansaar re

beewi ghar mein bhakti aur sewa ki jyot jalaaye
beewi ghar mein bhakti aur sewa ki jyot jalaaye
baabu sair kare duniya ki
gairon se nain ladaaye
haay main mar gayi raam
haay main mar gayi raam
haay main mar gayi
haay main mar gayi
kabhi dil hai yahaan
kabhi dil hai wahaan
haay mardon ka jhoothha pyaar re
koi meri sune aurat na bane
ye to mardon ka hai sansaar re

maa bechaari sab ke aansu apni aankh mein laaye
maa bechaari sab ke aansu apni aankh mein laaye
ye marzi aulaad ki
chaahe ya thhukraaye
haay main mar gayi raam
haay main mar gayi raam
haay main mar gayi
haay main mar gayi
maati main giri hain wo kaliyaan
duniya ka hai jo singaar re
koi meri sune aurat na bane
ye to mardon ka hai sansaar re


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“Aaj Ki Aawaaz”(1984) was produced by B R Chopra and directed by Ravi Chopra for B R Films, Bombay. This movie had Raj Babbar, Smita Patil, Nana Patekar, Om Shivpuri, Dheeraj Kumar, Shafi Inamdar, Vijay Arora, Arun Bakshi, Ashalata, Chandrashekhar, Ifthekhar, Alok Nath, Goofi Paintal, Dalip Tahil, Dinesh Thakur, Bashir Khan, Chaandni, Deepak Kaajir, Sonika Gill, Urmila Bhatt, Raksha Chauhan etc in it.

The movie was based on Hollywood blockbuster “Death Wish”(1974).

“Aaj Ki Aawaaz”(1984) had seven songs in it.

Today (9 january 2019) is the 86th birth anniversary of Mahendra Kapoor (9 January 1934 – 27 September 2008). On this occasion, here is the title song of the movie. This song is sung by Mahendra Kapoor. This song plays in the background as the movie begins with credits appearing on the screen.

Hasan Kamaal is the lyricist. He won Filmfare best lyrics award for this song.

Ravi is the music director.

Lyrics of this song were sent to me by Avinash Scrapwala (long long ago in 2012).

With this song ,”Aaj Ki aawaaz”(1984) makes its debut in the blog.

Audio

Video

Song-Aaj ki aawaaz jaag ae insaan (Aaj Ki Aawaaz)(1984) Singer-Mahendra Kapoor, Lyrics-Hasan Kamaal, MD-Ravi

Lyrics(Provided by Avinash Scrapwala)

Aaj ki aawaaz
Aaj ki aawaaz jaag aye insaan
Waqt kehta hai waqt ko pehchaan
Aaj ki aawaz jaag aye insaan
Waqt kehta hai waqt ko pehchaan
Aaj ki aawaaz

Zindagi kitni
Behifaazat hai
Kal bhi aayegaa
Kya jamaanat hai
Din pareshan hai raat hai hairaan
Waqt kehta hai waqt ko pehchaan
Aaj ki aawaaz

Dar ke saaye mein
Gar jawaan hongi
Ye nayee naslen kal kahan hongi
Hosh me aa ja ab to aye nadaan
Waqt kehta hai waqt ko pehchaan
Aaj ki aawaaz

Kya nagar hai ye
Kaisi basti hai
Ya to mitti se jaan sasti hai
Zindagi mushkil maut hai aasaan
Waqt kehta hai waqt ko pehchaan
Aaj ki aawaaz

Dekh ghar aangan loot nahi jaayen
Pyaar ke rishtey chhut nahi jaayen
Kal bachane ka aaj hi kar dhyaan
Waqt kehta hai waqt ko pehchaan
Aaj ki aawaaz jaag aye insaan
Waqt kehta hai waqt ko pehchaan
Aaj ki aawaaz jaag aye insaan
Waqt kehta hai waqt ko pehchaan
Aaj ki aawaaz


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