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‘Naukri’ (1978) was produced under the banner of R S J Productions and was directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee. The cast included Rajesh Khanna, Zaheera and Raj Kapoor in main roles supported by Om Shivpuri, Pratima Devi, Tom Alter, V Gopal, Meena Roy, Vijay Sharma, Aarti, Lalita Kumari, Master Akbar etc. Nadira, A K Hangal, Jayshree T and Younus Parvez made the friendly appearances and Keshto Mukherjee, Padma Khanna and Deven Varma made guest appearances in the film. The film was released in the theatres on June 09, 1978. The film’s story was written by Salil Chowdhury who also provided the background music.
After the box office success of Hrishikesh Mukherjee-Rajesh Khanna combination in ‘Anand’ (1970), ‘Baawarchi’ (1972) and Namak Haraam’ (1973), Hrishikesh Mukherjee commenced shooting of ‘Naukri’ (1978) sometime in 1974 in which he also took his close friend, Raj Kapoor. However, the film took relatively longer time to complete in Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s standard. While I could not get authentic information as to why the film got delayed, it appears that there was some disagreement between Rajesh Khanna and the film’s producers which made the shooting schedules going awry. My guess is that when two super stars are working in the film, getting the fresh common dates from them becomes difficult. I also came to know from Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s biography that he lost interest in the film due to delay as well as the prevailing political situation in the country (Emergency during 1975-77).
The film had an unusual story of a World War-II soldier who has become physically challenged after the war. After the end of the war and till few days before India’s independence in 1947, he has remained unemployed. Hence, he cannot take care of his mother, sister and a brother. In desperation, he commits suicide. The interesting part of the story of the film begins at this point when he meets a Captain who reveals that both of them belong to a different world (ghosts’ world) now. The rest of the film is about sharing their past lives and mingling with other ghosts who in turns also share their past lives. The detailed story of the film is as under:
Physically challenged Ranjit (Rajesh Khanna) stays with his widowed mother (Pratima Devi), a teenage sister, Rekha (Aarti) and an adopted younger brother in a small house. Due to his physical condition, Ranjit is not able to get employment and to take care of his family. His landlord has asked him to vacate the house within 24 hours because he has not paid the rent for months. Depressed with the family’s condition, Ranjit commit suicide by jumping from the bridge over a passing train. He is dead.
A crowd gather watching the dead body of Ranjit. Suddenly, a bewildered Ranjit finds himself with the crowd. At that moment, Swaraj Singh (Raj Kapoor) appears and introduces himself as Captain to Ranjit. He points out that both of them now belong to the community of ghosts and people around them would not feel their presence nor would they hear their voices. First, Ranjit refuses to believe what Captain says. But when he realises that both his legs have become normal and his dead body still lies on the railway track, he tends to believe what Captain has told him.
Captain introduces other ghosts, one of them being a couple (Deven Varma and Jayshri T) who had committed suicide when their parents opposed their marriage. They get united in the ghost community. However, as they are ghosts, they cannot be physically close. Then, there is Rasiklal (Yunus Parvez) who is after Deven Varma for running away with his wife of previous birth (Jayshri T) but cannot catch them physically. Ranjit also meets a former British police officer, Anderson (Tom Alter) who was killed by two revolutionaries. Ranjit is surprised because being a British national, he should have been in their community of ghosts. Captain explains that he is here because apart from his bonhomie with two revolutionaries who are also here after they were hanged till death, his lover, Ferozabai (Padma Khanna) is also here.
Captain tells Ranjit that, now it is the time for him to tell as to why he has committed suicide. Ranjit starts his story from the college days when he spent good days with his family. He was a mixed doubles champion in Badminton in the college with his partner, Ramola (Zaheera) who was in love with Ranjit. However, Ranjit was not sure that their love for each other would convert into a marriage as Ramola was from a wealthy family and her father (Om Shivpuri) would not agree for the marriage. Ranjit’s father who was not keeping good health had to mortgage his house to run the family. After his death, he sold the house and shifted to a small house with his family.
Ramola continued her relationship with Ranjit. Even Ramola’s father was agreeable for the marriage provided he joined his company and proved his worthy of being his son-in-law. Ranjit was not agreeable, and the marriage proposal was terminated. At this stage, Captain interrupts Ranjit and tells him that his life story sounds like a Hindi film story – like Devdas, and he knows as to what next stage of his story would be. He presumes that after separation from Ramola, either Ranjit would get soaked in alcohol or he would start singing ghazals of separation. Ranjit tells Captain that he has not done anything of those sorts. Instead, he joined the army and in a war front, he got badly injured on both the legs. He was hospitalised and after recovery, he was on the crutches making his life miserable and for the same reason, he was unemployed. He could not get compensation from the army despite persuing for months because he could not prove that he lost his legs in the army operations. So, he committed suicide.
Curiosity makes Ranjit to ask Captain as to how he has landed in the community of ghosts. Captains says that his story is simple. As his name. Swaraj Singh suggests, he was from a freedom fighter’s family. However, he lost his father in the freedom struggle, and he had to look for some job to earn money for the family. So, he came to Mumbai and joined the film industry as a body double. During a scene picturisation when he was sitting astride on the horse as a body double for the hero, the horse suddenly slipped and fell in the deep valley killing him.
Ranjit is worried as to how his mother, sister and brother are managing to sustain. Captain points out that now it is none of his business to worry about them. If he was really concerned about them, he would not have committed suicide. Nonetheless, Captain takes him to show that his mother has become a beggar. His sister has become a prostitute, and his younger brother is selling candy in the train. Ranjit is devasted seeing his family’s flights. But he cannot help them as he is a ghost. Captain reminds him that he should have thought of this before committing suicide which is akin to running away from one’s responsibilities.
A gloomy Ranjit suddenly sees Ramola and a smile comes to his face. Ramola is also happy to see Ranjit and tells him that she committed suicide when she came to know that he had committed suicide. With this happy coincidence, Captain arranges a party for community of ghosts to cheer up Ranjit who has now got the company of Ramola. In the party, Captain is surprised to find his acquittance, Lily (Nadira), a call girl who had met Ranjit when he was alive and was in depressed mood. She gives a good and bad news to Captain. The good news is that India has got independence, and the bad news is that India is partitioned on the basis of Hindi and Muslim. Captain is devasted by the second news who was a firm believer of an united India. Captain vanishes into thin air.
Ranjit and Ramola exchange the events which led to their respective suicides. She laments that if he had apprised her of his problems, she would have managed to get him some work and in that case lives of both of them would have been saved. Now since both of them are ghosts, she wants to hear from him that he still loves her. When Ranjit tells her the same, she says she has remained ghost to hear these words. Having heard so, she is now free to renounce her present form. After this, Ramola also vanishes into thin air as if she has got salvation after Ranjit’s affirmation that he still loves her. Having left alone, Ranjit sees a procession in which his mother, sister and brother are participants. A police van comes and a police officer fires on the procession in which most of the persons are killed including Ranjit’s family. The film has a very unusual, surprising end.
The film is stated to be loosely inspired from Hollywood film, ‘It is a Wonderful Life’ (1946) by Frank Capra. While the basic idea may have been derived from this film, ‘Naukri’ (1978) is different in terms of story background and supernatural events peculiar to India. The first half of the film has been beautifully crafted which has Hrishikesh Mukherjee touch. However, in the second half of the film, Hrishikesh Mukherjee touch is majorly missing. Towards the end of the film, there are some preachings on the lines of what IPTA members would usually raise in their films. As mentioned earlier, it was said that Hrishikesh Mukherjee had lost interest in this film due to delay in completing the film.
Nonetheless, I found the film to be interesting one to watch. More than two-thirds of the film have Raj Kapoor and Rajesh Khanna in the frames. I always liked Rajesh Khanna in unconventional roles and this film was no exception. The role of Raj Kapoor in this film was dominant one whereas Rajesh Khanna was in a subdued role. The super stars in their contrasting roles gave their excellent performances worthy of watching them together for the first time in this film. Despite the presence of two super stars, the film failed at the box office. I feel that the film was not well publicised as I do not even recall this film. R D Burman’s average compositions failed to make the songs popular. As often happens, most of the delayed films do not perform well on the box office. By the way, it was the last film, both for Raj Kapoor and Rajesh Khanna with Hrishikesh Mukherjee.
The film had 4 songs written by Anand Bakshi and set to music by R D Burman. I am presenting the first song from the film, ‘upar jaake yaad aayi neeche ki baaten’ to appear on the Blog. The song is rendered by Mukesh for Raj Kapoor. Rajesh Khanna and Zaheera are also present in the audience.
The background to the song is that on the eve of India’s independence and also for the first time, Captain (Raj Kapoor) has seen Ranjit (Rajesh Khanna) in a happy face, (Raj Kapoor ) arranges a party for the ghost community. Ranjit is happy that his beloved Ramola (Zaheera) has also joined the ghost community after her suicide. Incidentally, much before this song sequence, Captain (Raj Kapoor) has actually delivered the dialogue which corresponds to the first two lines of the song when Ranjit starts worrying about the well beings of his mother, sister and brother.
Video Clip:
Audio Clip:
Song-Oopar jaa ke yaad aayin neeche ki baaten (Naukri)(1978) Singer-Mukesh, Lyrics-Anand Bakshi, MD-R D Burman
Female voice
Lyrics:
ae……….hee…………ee aa haa
hee hee hee hee o o
oopar jaa ke yaad aayi neeche kee baaten
honthhon pe aayi dil ke peechhe kee baaten
arre oopar jaa ke yaad aayi neeche kee baaten
honthhon pe aayi dil ke peechhe kee baaten
ae haseenon…. aao
ae haseenon aao meraa dil behlaao
reshmi zulfon ke jaal bichhaao
zindagi se bhi lambi hai ye kaali raaten
honthhon pe aayi dil ke peechhe kee baaten
arre oopar jaa ke yaad aayi neeche kee baaten
honthhon pe aayi dil ke peechhe kee baaten
hee…………. hee hee hee
hee tu tu tu
yaa tu tu tu tu tu…
yaa tu tu tu tu tu…
doston…… dushmanon
doston dushmanon galey mil ke zaraa
chhed do koi kisse dil ke zaraa
kaun jaane kab hongi phir ye mulaaqaaten
honthhon pe aayi dil ke peechhe kee baaten
arre oopar jaa ke yaad aayi neeche kee baaten
hothhon pe aayi dil ke peechhe kee baaten
chaahe aahen bharo chaahe chhedo taraane
log mil baithne ke dhoondhen bahaane
chaahe aahen bharo chaahe chhedo taraane
arre log mil baithne ke dhoondhen bahaane
ek jaise lagte hain janaaze aur baaraaten
honthhon pe aayi dil ke peechhe kee baaten
arre oopar jaa ke yaad aayi neeche kee baaten
honthhon pe aayi dil ke peechhe kee baaten
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