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Hey Re Dayamay, Apni Daya Se
Posted on: September 18, 2023
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This article is written by Sudhir, 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.
This is the 18,000th post on this blog.
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The Voice of Mukesh #77
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We are now in the 16th year of the existence of this blog. The centenary anniversary of Mukeh has just passed. Today is the five thousand five hundred and fortieth day of publication of this blog. A little while back, earlier today, we had the 16 million, 48 thousand and seven hundredth visitor, to come visit this part of the virtual universe, maybe looking for a specific song, or information or lyrics. We are now a standard benchmark in the online world.
And we bring to you today, the 18 thousandth post being added this incredible library.
Is time real? Is there this invisible milieu that stretches forever in all directions? Or this is just an awareness that progressively witnesses a changing world around us? Is there a changing, decaying entity with in us, which actually experiences this awareness and generates a perception of a flow? And we name this time.
I do not recall where was I on the 19th July of 2008. Must have been a normal day, and a normal flow of experiences. Wonder what others may recall for that day. I am sure Atul ji and Raja ji will surely recall. For they were the doers of setting in motion, this phenomenon. Nothing grandiose was on the horizon. Just that an engineer with Railways, with a penchant for music of Hindi films, wanted to start writing about that music. All in a very humble way.
The expectations may not even have materialized in Atul ji’s mind. Maybe a thousand posts, for a thousand songs, and then to move on to a new endeavor. Maybe something more about cricket. Or may be, another thousand songs, kind of the total Hindi film universe that was inside Atul ji’s mind.
Maybe what Atul ji also did not realize at that time. His humble initiation of this effort, would soon take on a life of its own. Ah yes, it did. And it slowly, imperceptibly transformed into this amazing wonderment on the internet – the ASAD phenomenon.
People recognize it now, they talk about it. The mention of ASAD in certain type of gatherings sounds normal. Everyday nearly three thousand people will visit here. That makes it an average of 120 visits per hour, and so on and so forth – the math can be extrapolated in so many diverse ways.
The phenomenon is in the making. It is generating a history of its own. The richness of information that is being compiled everyday provides many views into the ASAD universe. Maybe, maybe, in some future, this blog will be a subject of research and analysis.
The table below provides a very simple view into the progression of the thousandth milestones over the past years.
| Milestone | Song Title | Film and Year | Date and Day | Blog Day | ||
| 1000 | Piya Ham Saat Mulk Ka Paani | Lootmaar | 1980 | 30-Mar-09 | Mon | 255 |
| 2000 | Dhakdhak Karti Chali Jeewan Ki Rail Re | Dilruba | 1950 | 27-Sep-09 | Sun | 436 |
| 3000 | Maa Mujhe Apne Aanchal Mein Chhupaa Le | Chhota Bhai | 1966 | 20-Sep-10 | Mon | 794 |
| 4000 | Kyaa Se Kyaa Ho Gayaa Bewafaa Tere Pyaar Mein | Guide | 1965 | 13-Jun-11 | Mon | 1,060 |
| 5000 | Hamen To Loot Liyaa Mil Ke Husn Waalon Ne | Al Hi Laal | 1958 | 13-Nov-11 | Sun | 1,213 |
| 6000 | Geet Kitne Gaa Chuki Hoon | NFS – Asha Bhosle | 1960 | 23-May-12 | Wed | 1,405 |
| 7000 | Falak Se Utre Zameen Pe Taare | NFS – Mohammed Rafi | 1960s | 13-Nov-12 | Tue | 1,579 |
| 8000 | Beautiful Baby Of Bombay | Ek Phool Chaar Kaante | 1960 | 28-Apr-13 | Sun | 1,745 |
| 9000 | Ankhiyan Sang Ankhiyaan Laagi Aaj | Badaa Aadmi | 1961 | 13-Nov-13 | Wed | 1,944 |
| 10000 | Phul Rahin Belariyaan Dolen | Trapped | 1931 | 20-Jul-14 | Sun | 2,193 |
| 11000 | Kaam Ki Dhun Mein Hain Rawaan | Gyaarah Hazaar Ladkiyaan | 1962 | 31-Mar-15 | Tue | 2,447 |
| 12000 | Door Desh Se Aane Waale. . . Piya Milenge | Gaja Bhaau (Marathi) | 1943 | 20-Apr-16 | Wed | 2,833 |
| 13000 | Dil Tumse Lagaaya Kyun Hamne | Captain Azaad | 1964 | 4-Mar-17 | Sat | 3,151 |
| 14000 | Khayaam Hai Allah Waala | Omar Khayyaam | 1946 | 1-Feb-18 | Thu | 3,485 |
| 15000 | Deepak Jo Gaaye So Paaye Gyaan Dhyaan | Shahenshah Akbar | 1943 | 21-Apr-19 | Sun | 3,929 |
| 16000 | Ham Wafaadaar Nahin Tu Bhi To Dildaar Nahin | Toofaani Teerandaaz | 1959 | 27-Oct-20 | Tue | 4,484 |
| 17000 | Kadamb Taley Aa Jaiyo Ho Kateele Kaajalwaale | Zaalim Jawaani | 1932 | 12-Jun-22 | Sun | 5,077 |
| 18000 | Hey Re Dayamay, Apni Daya Se | Ghar Ghar Ki Kahani | 1970 | 18-Sep-23 | Mon | 5,540 |
Prior to the five thousandth post, the passing of the first four thousandth milestones were kind of non-events. Not ignored, but also not celebrated as we do now. For example, the thousandth song, while acknowledging the milestone, was in fact a short write up, and just two comments – from Lalitha ji and Raja ji.
A similar handling of the two thousandth post. Acknowledge the milestone, the write up maybe a little longer than the one for the first thousandth, and three people commented.
Things started to become more interesting with the third thousandth milestone. It was a long post, written by Raja ji. Eight people commented on the post, out of which 4 were simply requests for an English translation of the lyrics. But the write up is really great.
With the fourth thousandth post, we step into the space of real serious writing, accompanied by serious discussions and comments. The write up is classic. [Raja ji – where are you, missing your presence on the blog for a long time now]. Ten people commented – and real serious discussions in comments too, with multiple back and forth conversations.
By the time we arrive at the fifth thousandth post, the pattern is now set in seriousness. The search and choice of the song, and the write up itself, discussion in comments – everything has now become a considerable enterprise.
Beyond that, the search for songs has become a major effort. The attempt is to bring on board songs with a dramatic uniqueness, and a quality of rarity associated with it. Let us come to the song for today’s eighteenth thousandth post.
The centenary celebration for Mukesh has just happened some weeks back. A back and forth conversation has been happening between Mahesh ji and myself, apropos this song – when to uncover this and when to post.
The song being presented today is in a category of rarity all of its own. In a manner of speaking this song is simply one of its kind. As far as I have been able to ascertain, there is no other song of this type. Yes, it is a Mukesh song. And the remarkable feature of this song – it also has the voice of Nitin Mukesh. As far as I could search and confirm, this is the only song that contains the voices of this father son singer duo. This makes it special, as well as rare.
The aspect of rarity is really a uniqueness of this song, and also the reason that it has remained away from limelight since its creation more than 53 years ago. It was created and recorded but it did not appear in the movie. The producer/director of the movie made a decision not to include it in the film. And the next misfortune that befell this song is that it never got published on a gramophone or a vinyl record. In essence, this song was lost to the outside world, for good.
Well almost. It most probably survived on a spool tape after it was recorded. It never got forwarded to the gramophone company to be published. It would have been part of some original planning sheets for the songs of the film. When the decision was made to exclude it, then it got excluded even from the booklet and other publicity material prepared for the film. And so, except for some very secluded existence, this song was obliterated from view of the known world.
We get the first inkling of its existence when the Surat based film historian and die hard Mukesh fan Shri Harish Raghuvanshi ji listed it in the updated and enlarged 2nd edition of the Mukesh Geet Kosh, which he pubished recently in 2020. There were murmurs heard earlier about the possibility of a song containing the voice of this father son duo, but nothing proven ever came to light.
And even so, in the 2nd edition of the Mukesh Geet Kosh, Harish ji identifies and lists this song at number 978, he still does not identify two major features of this song. First, he has included this song in the non-film songs section of the book. Secondly, the name of Nitin Mukesh is not listed as one of the singers. For that matter, the name of Sushma Shreshtha is also not listed. However, a foot note is added for good measure, which says that based on available information, this song was created by Kalyanji Anandji for the 1970 film ‘Ghar Ghar Ki Kahani’, and that it was excluded from the film.
The actual song itself makes it first appearance online a little over five years ago. There is YouTube channel by the name ‘Pavan Tanay’. The owner of this channel uploaded this song on 28 November, 2017. All good so far. A kind hearted gentleman who brings forth one of the rarest treasures of HFM, and puts it on his channel without much fanfare.
But in doing this favor to the world, he also created an exacerbating problem for all. He provides completely erroneous information about the antecedents of this song. He links this song to the 1982 film ‘Hum Sab Ek hain’, with MD’s name given as Khayyam, and the lyricist’s name given as Jaan Nisar Akhtar.
[Author’s Note: This post was planned to be done yesterday. But then this spin on the correct credits of this song took away practically my entire day in trying to resolve this confusion. Mahesh ji has been part of that multi pronged effort of mine yesterday.]
I have this song in my collection for a while now. It was given to me by another dear friend and collector of Hindi films and songs, Ahsaan Qasim, who is based in Hapur, near Delhi. So when Mahesh ji sent me the link from the ‘Pavan Tanay’ channel some days back, and I viewed it now just as part of the preparation for this post – it felt like a googly bowled at me.
So more research started. The first discovery was that yes there is a film by a similar name in 1982, listed in the Geet Kosh volume 6. I say similar, because the correct name of the film is ‘Hum Ek Hain’, and not ‘Hum Sab Ek Hain’. That actually pointed us towards the fact that this ‘Pavan Tanay’ channel could well be full of erroneous information. Mahesh ji then confirmed this thought with his message that yes, the channel contains a lot of erroneous info.
But still, the confirmations had to be done. So I was in back and forth conversation with many friends, including Zafar Bhai (who in turn tried to get confirmation from RMIM group of which he is a member), Ahsaan Bhai, Mahesh ji, Vishkarma ji, Bakhshish ji, Javed Bhai and others.
As I checked the Geet Kosh volume 6, the entry listed for this film is completely blank except for the name of the production company and censor details. It is obvious that Hamraaz ji could not also find any additional info, other than what he may have extracted from the censor data. But ‘Pavan Tanay’ upload did point us in the direction of Khayyam. I recalled that Vishwas Nerurkar ji of Bombay has published the filmography and sonography of Khayyam in book form. I then also initiated conversation with him, to confirm. His response was quite clear. Yes the film of 1982 does have music by Khayyam, lyrics by Jaan Nisar Akhtar. But this song is definitely not from that film. He pointed me towards the entry of this film in his book, where two songs are listed. One is a solo in the voice of Mukesh and the second is duet in the voice of Mukesh and Jagjeet Kaur. This four singer song is definitely not from that film.
That settled one part of the controversy. Mahesh ji also pointed out that there is another film from 1969 with the same title ‘Hum Ek Hain’, which is listed in the Geet Kosh volume 4. But that film has music by Usha Khanna, and so it does not stand in contention with the credits for this song. Mahesh ji then also dug out two Wikipedia pages. One page is for Nitin Mukesh. It has this song listed in the list of songs that Nitin Mukesh has sung with other singers. The second Wikipedia page is for the 1970 film ‘Ghar Ghar Ki Kahani’. This page also, thankfully lists this song.
So after much ado (really about nothing – Shakespeare would have been delighted), we agreed to decide in favor of ‘Ghar Ghar Ki Kahani’. It was well past midnight by the time I firmed up this conclusion and decided to go ahead with the post. And as they say – man proposes, fatigue disposes, my writing energy lasted till about 2 am and then I crashed. I wrote to Atul ji that this post will have to wait for the next day, i.e. today, 17th September, 2023, the 5540th day on the blog calendar.
Ah yes, I should have noted this earlier. Although Harish ji’s Mukesh Geet Kosh is silent about the two additional singers, other than Mukesh and Asha Bhosle, the identity has been established and confirmed by listening to the song, and conferring with other knowledgeable friends who have confirmed that the song does have the voices of Nitin Mukesh and Sushma Shreshtha.
Those who have seen the 1970 film ‘Ghar Ghar Ki Kahani’, will recall. The film is a very traditional family drama. The main family has five members, Balraj Sahni and Nirupa Roy as the upright and honest parents, and three children Ravi, Roopa and Raja (roles played respectively by Mahesh Kumar, Baby Sonia (aka Neetu Singh) and Master Ripple). This song sounds like a prayer that the family sings together at Pooja time in their home. Given the cast of actors, and without having a video to support my statements, I would say that Mukesh gives playback to Balraj Sahni, Asha Bhosle gives playback to Nirupa Roy, and Nitin Mukesh and Sushma Shreshtha are giving payback to the child characters Ravi and Roopa.
Nitin Mukesh is born on 27 June, 1950. At the time of recording of this song, he would have completed his 19th year, and would have been in his 20th year. Sushma Shreshtha is born in the year 1960, and would have been just 9 or 10 years old at the time of recording. These ages sound quite right as we listen to these two voices in the second antaraa of this song. That can be considered another piece of evidence in favor of this song being from a 1970 film and not a 1982 film.
Quite an adventure it was – a lot of time spent just because some folks are not careful about the information that they attach to their uploads. At first I was thinking of using the ‘Pavan Tanay’ link for the post, but then decided against it. I then uploaded the song from my own collection, with the correct and complete information.
So we bring this 18,000th offering to this blog. Celebrations delayed by a day, but then what is a day, and what is an era – the feeling of the self inside me is still the same as it was way back in 2010, when I first joined this bandwagon. Nothing has changed. There is music everyday. And that is all that matters. It will be 19 soon, and then 20. And the bandwagon trundles along, along behind the banjaara with a musical instrument on his back, crossing basti basti parvat parvat, without a pause, without a change of pace.
And the music plays on. . .
Let the winds blow
Let the rivers flow
Let the sun and stars
Traverse the skies as they may
Let the music play on
Let the music play on
Time is a figment of imagination
And age is just a number
Let the music play on
Let the music play on
ye hansta hua karvaan zindagi ka na poochho chala hai kidhar
tamanna hai ye saath chalte rahen hum na beete kabhi ye safar
Song – Hey Re Dayamay, Apni Daya Se (Ghar Ghar Ki Kahani) (1970) Singer – Mukesh, Asha Bhosle, Nitin Mukesh, Sushma Shreshtha, Lyrics – [Unattributed], MD – Kalyanji Anandji
Nitin Mukesh + Sushma Shreshtha
All in Chorus
Lyrics
hey re dayamay
apni daya se
hey re dayamay
apni daya se
sachchaai ki shakti do
sab kuchh tum ne hum ko diya hai
bas ek apni bhakti do
hey re dayamay
naam tera is ghar mein goonje
hey giridhar giridhaari
hey giridhar giridhaari
sada phale phoole is jag mein
ye nanhi phulwaari
bhav saagar se
paar kare jo
prem ki aisi kashti do
sab kuchh tum ne ham ko diya hai
bas ek apni bhakti do
hey re dayamay
tum bhi maakhan chor ho mohan
tum bhi maakhan chor ho mohan
hum hain bal gopal re
hum hain bal gopal re
hum se koi bhool jo ho to
karna kshama nandlal re
apne kul ki shaan baney hum
aisi hum ko shakti do
sab kuchh tum ne ham ko diya hai
bas ek apni bhakti do
hey re dayamay
dukh mein hum ko dheeraj dena
sukh mein na abhimaan ho
sukh mein na abhimaan ho
aisi daya karo hum pe dayaalu
sukh dukh ek samaan ho
teri khushi mein khush rahen hum
aisi hum ko shakti do
sab kuchh tum ne ham ko diya hai
bas ek apni bhakti do
hey re dayamay
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Hindi script lyrics (Provided by Sudhir)
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हे रे दयामय
अपनी दया से
हे रे दयामय
अपनी दया से
सच्चाई की शक्ति दो
सब कुछ तुम ने हम को दिया है
बस एक अपनी भक्ति दो
हे रे दयामय
नाम तेरा इस घर में गूँजे
हे गिरधर गिरधारी
हे गिरधर गिरधारी
सदा फले फूले इस जग में
ये नन्ही फुलवारी
भाव सागर से पार करे जो
प्रेम की ऐसी कश्ती दो
सब कुछ तुम ने हम को दिया है
बस एक अपनी भक्ति दो
हे रे दयामय
तुम भी माखन चोर हो
तुम भी माखन चोर हो
हम हैं बाल गोपाल रे
हम हैं बाल गोपाल रे
हम से कोई भूल जो हो तो
करना क्षमा नन्दलाल रे
अपने कुल की शान बने हम
ऐसी हमको शक्ति दो
सब कुछ तुम ने हम को दिया है
बस एक अपनी भक्ति दो
हे रे दयामय
दुख में हमको धीरज देना
सुख में ना अभिमान हो
सुख में ना अभिमान हो
ऐसी दया करो हम पे दयालु
सुख दुख एक समान हो
तेरी खुशी में खुश रहे हम
ऐसी हमको शक्ति दो
सब कुछ तुम ने हम को दिया है
बस एक अपनी भक्ति दो
हे रे दयामय
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