Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs


This article is written by Satyajit Rajurkar, 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 article is his 100th post in the blog.

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6257 Post No. : 19355

This post is my 100th on Atul Song A Day blog created by Atul Ji and well supported by a bunch of film & music enthusiasts.

I started this journey on 20/01/2014, with Rafi Saab song “Chup chup chup kyun baithhi ho ” from Hamrahi 1974.

Since then lot has happened in terms of my family structure (going from being parents to two boys – to becoming grandparents to two cute and chubby kids – a boy, Arjun and a girl, Takshavi), to downsizing our house (from a 5 bedroom house to a 3 bedroom house – because the children moved out in 2016 & 17), to changes in my physical structure, from being a full bodied person to becoming an amputee (1. having lost all my toes on my left foot).

On my health front, I also got diagnosed with and treated such from Breast Cancer.

However, I have always maintained a never say die attitude. Full marks to my wife, Sharwari, who has stood behind me as a rock, making it possible for both of us to face all these life challenges.
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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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6257 Post No. : 19354

Today’s song is from a comedy film- Aap ki Marzi-1939.

This was a film from Sudama Productions, Bombay. It was directed by Sarvottam Badami, well known in those times, for comedy film The music was by the veteran Gyan Dutt and the cast included Sabita Devi, Motilal, Vasanti, Mazhar, Khurshid, Sunalini Devi, K.N.Singh, Jagdish Sethi and others. This comedy film was based on the popular Hollywood film “Paradise for 3 “-1938.
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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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6256 Post No. : 19353

Today, September 03, 2025 is the 28th Remembrance Day of a well-known lyricist who wrote more than 1300 songs in over 300 films. His name was Lalji Pandey but his college friends gave him a pseudo name, ‘Anjaan’ while participating in mushaira in the college functions as well as elsewhere. He retained this pseudo name when he started writing articles, poems and later lyrics.

Anjaan (28/10/1930 – 03/09/1997) was born in Odar village, about 30 kms from Banaras. His father was working as a peon in Central Bank of India, Banaras. After completing the primary school in his village, Anjaan came to Banaras and completed high school. His father was keen that he also joins the bank services like him. So, he put him in commerce stream of Banaras Hindu University from where he passed B.Com. In this way, Anjaan became the first graduate from his village.
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This article is written by Satyajit Rajurkar, 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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6256 Post No. : 19352 Movie Count :

5127

This is my 99th post and I wanted it to be a Kishore Kumar song, as I have covered Mohd. Rafi Saab and Asha Bhosle in my past posts.

I could manage to find a song which fit my criteria of being rare and by Kishore Da. I hope you will enjoy this song!!!

Siskiyaan 1982 was produced and directed by Rana Jung Singh. It had music by Sapan Jagmohan. The songs were written by Naqsh Layallpuri and Shiv Kumar Saroj.

The movie starred Danny Denzongpa, Sonia Gill, Kalpana Iyer, Madhu Kapoor, Bhagwan, Narendra Chanchal, etc
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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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6256 Post No. : 19351

Hullo Atuldom

“Hamjoli” (1970) was produced by Prasan Kapoor for Tirupati Pictures meaning it was Jeetendra’s home production. T. R. Ramanna was the director.

“”Hamjoli” was the remake of the 1964 Tamil hit ‘Panakkara Kudumbam’ (transl. Rich Family) starring M. G. Ramachandran. That film released on 24 April 1964, and ran for more than 150 days in theatres. The film was remade in Hindi in 1970 as ‘Humjoli’, in Kannada in 1978 as ‘Bhale Huduga’, and in Telugu in 1984 as ‘Intiguttu’. All versions except ‘Intiguttu’ were directed by the same director, T. R. Ramanna.
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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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6256 Post No. : 19350

#the Decade of Fifties – 1951 – 1960 #
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The song in this post is from the movie ‘Charnon Ki Daasi-1959’. This movie had made its debut on the blog on 20.08.2020, with its song ‘aajaa re…. dukhiyaa dharti tujhe pukaare’. That remains the only song from this movie in the blog. That post marked the 100th composition of music director Avinash Vyas on the blog. According to an estimate he has composed 437 songs for 52 Hindi movies. The blog has so far covered 145 songs composed by Avinash Vyas.

“Charnon Ki Daasi-1959” was directed by Ramesh Vyas for Chandra Prakash Pictures, Bombay. It was passed by the Censor Board on 27.01.1959. Beni Talwar was the producer of this movie. The cast of this movie had Nirupa Roy, Manhar Desai, Madan Puri, Jagdish Sethi, Leela Mishra, Jayshree Gadkar, Nand Kishore, Rooplakshami, Ameerbai Karnataki, Heera, Suryakant, Poonam, Narbada Shankar, Jagdish Kanwal and others. This movie has six songs written by Bharat Vyas and composed by Avinash Vyas. The singers for this movie are Asha Bhonsle and Manna Dey. Asha Bhonsle sang five solo songs (two of them accompanied by chorus). Manna Dey sang one solo song in this movie. That Manna Dey solo song is the song being presented on the blog today.
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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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6256 Post No. : 19349

Today’s song is from an unknown film of 1948 – Adalat-1948.

1948 was an year when the filmmakers breathed a sigh of relief, because now there was no restriction on making films openly on our Independence efforts or having songs of patriotism and Indian culture.

Film Shaheed made by Filmistan was based on the 1942 Quit India Movement. This was Dilip Kumar’s first Hit film.

Bombay Talkies made Majboor on the exit of the British from India. There was a song also describing it.

Internationally famous dancer Uday Shankar made ‘Kalpana’ glorifying different dances of india. It ran well in Calcutta, but other places it had a lukewarm reception.

Suhag Raat by Kidar Sharma -his best in career- presented Geeta Bali (who resembled his wife Kamla Chaterjee), as a Heroine for the first time. She too did justice to her role.

Raj Kapoor established his RK Studio and made Aag with 3 heroines- Nargis, Kamini Kaushal and Nigar Sultana. He did not match them, but managed well with good songs.

Another Dilip film Mela was full of melodious songs. Suraiya’s Pyar ki jeet too was a musical.

Chandralekha from the South created history with its impressive challenge to Hindi films. Lavishly made and released with over 600 prints all over India at the same time it indicated the future competition from southern films !

Dev Anand’s Vidya and Ziddi made an impression.

Kishore Kumar sang his first song in Ziddi. Asha Bhosle sang her first solo in Chunaria.

Anokhi Ada with veteran Naseem and Surendra was successful.

Grihasthi, Pagdi, Gopinath, Nadiya ke Paar etc were other notable films.

Among these famous and hit films, a film made with artists who were unknown to Hindi film audiences had no chance to succeed. Additionally, the film had nothing unusual about it…story, music, songs or anything else It was the first film with this title. Later on came the more famous and successful film Adalat in 1958 and then Adalat in 1976.

This film was produced by Mangal Pictures. It was directed by Vasant Joglekar and the music was provided by Datta Davjekar, for songs written by Mahipal and Narendra Sharma. Yes, he is the same Mahipal who became a regular feature in 131 Hindi Stunt, Action, Costume, Historical and Mythological films. Incidentally, Adalat-48 was Mahipal’s last film as a Lyricist. he wrote 13 songs in 4 Hindi films.

The cast of the film was Baburao Pendharkar (brother of Bhalji Pendharkar),Salvi, Jog, Madgulkar, Jaysingh, Saroj Borkar, Sudha Apte, Nalini Dhere, Shalini and Rajan (Jawale). The cast, MD, Director all singers except Mohd.Rafi were Marathi people. Most of them are unknown to Hindi audiences.

Jaysingh was the son of director Bhalji Pendharkar, from his first wife. From his second wife(Miss Leela aka Leela Chandragiri) he got another son Prabhakar. Combining the names of these two sons, Bhalji named his new studio “Jayprabha” at Kolhapur. During the riots against the Bramhins, after the murder of Gandhi, this studio was burnt, because Bhalji Pendharkar was a Brahmin. The studio was rebuilt. It was later purchased by Lata Mangeshkar,only to get embroiled in court cases with the Maharashtra Government, for a long time.

Actor Rajan (Jawle) was a Marathi actor. He is the person who lived with and looked after actress Hansa Wadkar in her later bad days in her life, till she died. Actress Nalini Dhere was a Marathi actress but had done few Hindi films like Nagad Narayan-43 etc. In Hindi film industry, at some or the other times, there were as many as 8 Nalini’s operating as actresses and singers – Nalini Tarkhad, Nalini Jaywant, Nalini Nagpurkar, Nalini Gupte, Nalini Dhere, Nalini Saraf (who became Seema Deo-wife of actor Ramesh Deo), Nalini Chonkar and Nalini Korgaonkar (singer-Jail Yatra-47).

Our film industry is full of ungrateful people. There is nothing like true friendship here. So called friends do not hesitate to cut the throat of others for selfish purposes. There are hundreds of such instances here. However for every rule there is an exception and there was ONE friendship which was used as an example here. That is the friendship of Vasant Joglekar and Ashok Kumar. They were true friends and their friendship ended only when Joglekar died.

Vasant Joglekar, actor-by compulsion and producer/Director-by choice was born on the Christmas day, 25th September 1914 at Nagpur. He started his filmi career as asstt. to Master Vinayak in 1942. In the struggling days he met Ashok Kumar and they became friends forever.

Starting with Aap ki seva mein-47, in which Lata Mangeshkar sang her first Hindi film solo, Joglekar produced 10 films and directed 20 films ( 11 Hindi and 9 Marathi). In one of the Marathi films directed by this young man-Vasant Joglekar, actress Sumati Gupte was acting in it. They fell in love and soon got married in 1943. Sumati became Sumati Gupte Joglekar. In due course, the couple had 3 daughters- Meera, Chanda and Madhushri.

In almost all his films Ashok Kumar was a fixture. There was a time when Ashok kumar was involved in 30 films at one time,still the 31st film was that of Joglekar. The only condition Dadamuni used to put was that Joglekar’s wife, actress/housewife Sumati Gupte Joglekar should provide him food Tiffin cooked by her own hands, at the shooting place ! . He was very fond of her cooking. No wonder, Sumati was a CKP by birth-a fish eater and Bangali babu liked Fish dishes very much !

Joglekar’s Filmography as a Director in Hindi films – Aap ki sewa mein-47, Adalat-48, Nand Kishore-51, Jeet Kiski-52, Firdaus-53, Samaj-54, Karigar-58, Aanchal-60, Aaj aur kal-63, Ek Kali Muskayee-68 and last film Prarthana-69. Vasant Joglekar tried to promote his daughter Meera as a Heroine in Hindi films, with the film Ek Kali Muskayee-68. However, she was not successful and the film was a flop. Vasant Joglekar died on 13-1-1993.

One of the cast members was G.D.Madgulkar. Though this name is unknown to most Hindi film lovers, he has contributed to films in a substantial way In marathi literature and films, his name is taken with respect. Gajanan Digambar Madguḷkar (1 October 1919 – 14 December 1977) was a Marathi poet, lyricist, writer and actor. He was born in village Shetphal, Atpadi Taluka, Sangli district in Maharashtra. His family hailed from village Madgule in the same Taluka.

He is popularly known in his home state of Maharashtra by just his initials as Ga Di Ma (गदिमा). He was awarded Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1951 and Padma Shri in 1969. He has written 157 screen plays and over 2000 songs in his career. He was called Adhunik Valmiki (the modern Valmiki) of the current era due to his composition of Geet Ramayan ( Ramayana in Songs) as the most notable work. 2019 was celebrated as his Birth Century year. The Government of Maharashtra hosted various events and festivals to grace the occasion.

Madgulkar wrote poetry, short stories, novels, autobiographies and scripts, dialogues and lyrics for Marathi as well as Hindi movies. His poems have been adapted to a wide range of musical forms such as Sugam-Sangeet (light music), Bhav-Geet (emotional songs), Bhakti-Geet (devotional songs), and Lawani (a genre of folk songs in Maharashtra). Madgulkar entered the world of movies in 1938 at Kolhāpur. He contributed to 157 Marathi and 25 Hindi movies. He was also an artist. He loved to draw nature scenes. Special mention must be made for the films, Jeewan Jyoti-53-S/play and dialogues, Toofan aur Diya-56- story, and Do aankhen barah haath-57-Story, S/play and dialogues.

A noteworthy fact about Madgulkar is that during his peak period in Marathi films, he created a World Record. He teamed up with Music Director Sudhir Phadke and director Raja Paranjape. Together, as a team, they gave a total of 11 Hit films,in a row in 18 years- from 1948 to 1966 … a record for a Team.

He had knowledge of 10 languages including Marathi, Hindi, English, Urdu, Bengali, Gujarati, Punjabi, Kannada, Tamil and Telugu.

Madgulkar was married to Vidya (Padma Patankar, Kolhapur) and they had 3 sons (Shridhar, Anand, Sharad Kumar) and 4 daughters (Varsha, Kalpalata, Deepa, Shubhada). The popular Marathi writer, Vyankatesh Madgulkar was his younger brother.

His home in Pune (‘Panchavati Bungalow’) has become a place of attraction for his fans.

I was based in Poona during the period 1974 to 1976. In this period one of my local friends took me to Madgulkar’s bungalow and introduced me. When Madgulkar came to know that I hailed from Hyderabad, he was very excited and asked me several questions. I spent about 4-5 hours with him and had lunch also with him, on his repeated insistence. He was a good conversionist and loved to talk and listen. I will never forget this meeting. Those days he was not keeping good health.

I have not seen this film, but I know that this was a film based on a Love marriage which goes sour ending up in a family court for a divorce. However, the skillful judge tries and the couple reunite with greater love and return to their sweet home happily.

Here is a 77 year old song, sung by V.S.Jog. This must be his first song on this Blog. V.S. Jog was a notable Indian actor, primarily known for his work in Marathi films and theatre, with notable films including Pratibha (1937), Lagna Pahave Karun (1940), and Amrit (1941). He was involved in the Marathi theatre scene, particularly in a period when naturalism was gaining prominence, with connections to the Natyamanwantar group and actor-writer K. Narayan Kale.

He made a comedy pair with Damuanna Malavankar. He also was ‘Gundyabhau’ in some films of a known popular character ‘Chimanrao’, along with Damuanna Malavankar.
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Song- Beet gaya beet gaya Prabhu Raam ka raaj re (Adalat)(1948) Singer- V S Jog, Lyricist- Mahipal, MD- Datta Davjekar

Lyrics

Beet gaya aa aa aa aa
beet gaya aa aa aa

Beet gaya
Beet gaya
Prabhu Raam ka raaj re
Prabhu Raam ka raaj re
Beet gaya
Beet gaya
Prabhu Raam ka raaj re
Prabhu Raam ka raaj re
kalah ka Raavan ghar ghar janma
kalah ka Raavan ghar ghar janma
nasht bhaye sab kaaj re
nasht bhaye sab kaaj re
nasht bhaye sab kaaj re
nasht bhaye sab kaaj re
Beet gaya
Beet gaya
Prabhu Ram ka raaj re
Prabhu Ram ka raaj re

dukh ke madir(??) baraabar bikhre
dukh ke madir(??) baraabar bikhre
aaj sanehee sanehee ko bisre
dukh ke madir(??) baraabar bikhre
aaj sanehee sanehee ko bisre
palat gaye patwaaar
palat gaye patwaar
samajh ke
ulta beech(?) jahaaj re
ulta beech(?) jahaaj re
ulta beech(?) jahaaj re
ulta beech(?) jahaaj re
Beet gaya
Beet gaya
Prabhu Raam ka raaj re
Prabhu Raam ka raaj re

Danav ka avtaran hua hai
Danav ka avtaran hua hai
Seeta maa ka haran hua hai ae ae
Seeta maa ka haran hua hai
koi upaay karo Prabhu aisa
koi upaay karo Prabhu aisa
Lanka dahan ho aaj re
Lanka dahan ho aaj re
Lanka dahan ho aaj re
Lanka dahan ho aaj re ae ae ae


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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6255 Post No. : 19348 Movie Count :

5126

I had never heard of the film, ‘Ladies Tailor’ (1981). When I checked the cast, I could never imagined that Sanjeev Kumar was in the role of a ladies tailor. The film was produced and directed by Khalid Akhtar. The cast included Sanjeev Kumar, Reena Roy (in double role), Amjad Khan, Deven Verma, Pran, Aruna Irani, Bindu, Mukri, Raj Kishore, Urmila Bhatt, Manju Singh etc. Sharmila Tagore, Rekha, Moushumi Chatterjee and Parveen Babi appeared in cameo roles as themselves. The film belongs to light comedy genre with the background of Lucknawi cultural milieu. The film was released on March 21, 1981.
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This article is written by Satyajit Rajurkar, 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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6255 Post No. : 19347

Kamsune/Unsune songs of Asha Bhosle – 48

1973 had been the year in which many silver/golden jubilee films were released. Some of the major blockbusters were Bobby, Jugnu, Daag, Zanjeer, Yaadon Ki Baraat, Kahani Kismat Ki, Loafer, etc etc.

Dharmendra had 9 releases, whereas Rajesh Khanna had 3 releases, Big B had 3 releases.

And I was in my 7th standard. In this year I started bunking classes regularly to watch a new release and some old movies on repeat runs every week. For me 1973 holds some strong nostalgic memories which makes me happy and sad in that singular moment.

So here’s a rare song from a film released in early 1973. The song, “Kash Pe Kash Lagane De” from Naya Nasha (1973), is sung by Asha Bhosle, written by Anand Bakshi and composed by Sapan Chakraborty.
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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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6255 Post No. : 19346

#the Decade of Fifties – 1951 – 1960 #
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Today’s lovely song is in the voice of Suman Kalyanpur and it is from the movie ‘Coffee House-1957’.

‘Coffee House-1957’ was passed by the Censor Board on 26.03.1957. This movie was directed by Hari Walia who was also the producer of this movie, for Neeti Art Productions, Bombay. The cast of this movie had Geeta Bali, Shammi Kapoor, Vijaylakshmi, Chanchal, Jeevan, Kumud Tripathi, Pal Sharma, Rajan Kapoor, Bhagwan, Helen, and others.

It has been mentioned in a previous post on the blog that the prints of this movie were lost. I guess that there is very less information available about this movie and its songs. Obviously no videos of this movie are available.

‘Coffee House-1957’ has eight songs in it. Prem Dhawan penned six songs. Shailendra and Hasrat Jaipuri wrote one song each. Music for this movie was composed by Roshan.

The singers for this movie are Asha Bhonsle, Geeta Dutt and Suman Kalyanpur which means all the songs in this movie were sung by female singers. Not only that, these songs are all female solo songs. One of these songs has female chorus as well.

The song unde discussion is that song which has female chorus accompanying the main singer viz. Suman Kalyanpur.

This is the only song in this movie in the voice of Suman Kalyanpur. Other songs are sung by Asha Bhonsle (four songs) and Geeta Dutt(three songs).

Three songs from this movie have been covered on the blog so far. Today we are going to listen to the fourth song from this movie ‘Coffee House-1957’. Prem Dhawan is the lyricist and music is composed by Roshan.

Let us now listen to this joyous dance song.

audio

Song-Ghir aaye ree kaare badraa (Coffee House)(1957) Singer-Suman Kalyanpur, Lyrics-Prem Dhawan, MD-Roshan
chorus

Lyrics

ghir aaye ree kaare badraa
main to daaroongee nainon mein kajraa
ke jiyaa moraa maane naa
o ho o
ke jiyaa moraa maane naa

chhum chhunak paayal moree chhankee
kaho kis’se lagan haaye man kee
ke piyaa moraa jaane naa aa
o ho o
ke piyaa moraa jaane naa

aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa aa
ho o o

aise aaye re jhonke hawaa ke
udey jaaye moree dhaanee chunariyaa aa
do haathhon mein mukhdaa chhupaa ke
maine neeche jhukaa lee najariyaa
bal khaaun ghabraaun
dar jaaun
ke koyee pehchaane naa
o ho o
ke koyee pehchaane naa

ghir aaye ree kaare badraa
main to daaroongee nainon mein kajraa
ke jiyaa moraa maane naa
o ho o
ke jiyaa moraa maane naa

aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa
ho o o o

bhed khotey kharey kaa naa jaane ae
bade bholey ree sainyyaan hamaare
meree nazron mein aake to dekhen
aaj kehte hain kyaa ye nazaarey
ye hawaayein ghataayein kab aayen
ke haaye koyee jaane naa
o ho o o
ke haaye koyee jaane naa

ghir aaye ree kaare badraa
main to daaroongee nainon mein kajraa
ke jiyaa moraa maane naa
o ho o
ke jiyaa moraa maane naa

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