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Le pee zaraa aur pee
Posted on: February 28, 2024
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‘Toofaan Mein Pyaar Kahaan’ (1966) was produced by S H Munshi and was directed by Phani Majumdar. Ashok Kumar and Nalini Jaywant were in the lead roles, supported by Jayshree Gadkar, Sailej Prakash, Lata Sinha, Madhumati, Achala Sachdev, Tarun Bose, Tiwari, Sundar, Bhagwan Sinha etc. This was the last film of Nalini Jaywant as a lead actor after which she had a long hiatus of about 15 years to reappear as a character actor in ‘Bandish’ (1980) and ‘Naastik’ (1983).
The film is available to watch in VCD format on one of the video sharing platforms. I have watched the film. The duration of the film is around 90 minutes. Those days, Hindi masala films would normally be around 2:30 hours of duration. It appears that VCD of the film is heavily edited out. There are some ‘disconnects’ in the story line. Also, as against 8 songs listed for the film, the VCD contains only 5 songs. Lastly, the sound quality of many dialogues in the film are so poor that it is difficult to understand them fully.
The film has an unusual story by the standard of mainstream Hindi films. Ashok Kumar, the hero works as driver for Tiwari who is a trader and also indulges in smuggling goods across the border from Tibet. Jayshree Gadkar, the side heroine, loves Ashok Kumar but he does not reciprocate because of his drinking habit and also his job which he dislikes. He does not want to spoil her life with him. Ashok Kumar rescues Nalini Jaywant from a gang of girl trafficker, falls in love with her and she reciprocates. Both wants to get married. However, Tarun Bose, who is the brain behind girl trafficking, plans to sell her across the border in the pretext of marrying her. Unaware of Tarun Bose’s antecedents, Ashok Kumar actually brings Nalini Jaywant and Tarun Bose together so that they can marry. In the end, Tarun Bose, in connivance with Tiwari kidnaps Nalini Jaywant to sell her across the border. However, the jeep taking them meets with an accident killing all the three. Jayshree Gadkar meets Ashok Kumar and reiterates her love for him. Both are united. Is it not an unusual story of love triangle in which the hero, Ashok Kumar loves the heroine, Nalini Jaywant but at the end, he gets united with side heroine, Jayshree Gadkar?
The detailed story of the film is as under:
Shamu (Ashok Kumar) is a truck driver of trader, Mahajan (Tiwari) who indulges in business of smuggled good across the border with Sikkim. Due to his good relationship with the Police Inspector, Shamu has saved Tiwari from check-post. He lives in a den with Mahajan and others when they are not on duty. However, Shamu feels bad about saving Mahajan for his smuggling activities. He would have stopped working for Mahajan, but he has to take care of Rami (Achala Sachdev), a Tibetan and her daughter because he had promised Rami’s husband just before his death that he would take care of them. He treats Rami as his sister and had helped her to start a tea shop where Tibetan traders take a break. Because of his kindness, Tibetans traders have high respect for Shamu. Mahajan takes the advantage of Shamu’s status in his trading activities as every truck that stops at Rami’s tea shop sells their goods to him.
In a different place, Shanta (Nalini Jaywant) is being readied to depart for her marriage with Raimohan (Tarun Bose) against her wish. She runs away from the house. However, she is picked by a person who happens to be Raimohan’s man, who was to take her for her marriage with Raimohan. Instead, he brings her to his house. When she realises that his intention is to molest her, she runs away from his house. Two men are after her to bring her back. In the shuffle, Shamu hears the scream from Shanta. He roughs up two men and gets Shanta released from them. In guise of her marriage, she was a part of girl trafficking across the border.
Since Shanta has nowhere to go, Shamu brings her with him and gives shelter in his den in an adjoining room. The next day, he tells her to find a place for her stay as his den is full of bad people. However, she finds Shamu a kind person. So, when Mahajan visits the den, for her safety, Shanta gives him the impression that she is the wife of Shamu. Tiwari believes her but Pulma (Jayshree Gadkar), who runs a tea shop and is in love with Shamu, does not believe that Shanta is Shamu’s wife.
Meanwhile, Shanta receives a letter from Raimohan that he would return very soon to take her across the border where they would get married. But she now knows as to what purpose she would be taken across the border. By now, Shamu has fallen in love with Shanta. He goes to Shanta to talk about the marriage and to propose her. While Shanta is not present in her room, he gets hold of the letter of Raimohan who had written to Shanta about their marriage. He assumes that Shanta is in love with Raimohan, and he has no right to ask for hand in marriage. He decides to help Shanta by finding Raimohan and to get them united.
When Shanta comes to know from Pulma that Shamu wants to marry her, she is eagerly waiting for Shamu to propose her. Instead, Shamu returns with Raimohan and tells them to reconcile. Shamu leaves her room. Shanta knowing very well as to what Raimohan is up to, she drives him out of her house. Next morning, before she could explain to Shamu about Raimohan, she finds that Shamu has left the place with Pulma.
Raimohan meets Mahajan who is his old friend. They conspire to kidnap Shanta and send across the border to sell her at a high price. However, Rami gives shelter to Shanta and sends Bahadur (Sundar) and Kancha (Sailej Prakash) in search of Shamu. However, Mahajan and Raimohan get the information about Shanta’s hiding in Rami’s house. Both visit Rami’s house and take Shanta with them. A complain is lodged in the police station by Bahadur about kidnapping of Shanta by Raimohan and Mahajan who are driving towards border crossing.
When Shamu comes to know about Shanta’s kidnapping, he takes out his truck with Pulma and follow the jeep in which Shanta is being taken. While driving on a jig jag hill road, the jeep roles down from road to valley killing Shanta, Raimohan and Mahajan. Pulma reiterates her love for Shamu and gets united.
From the story above, one would wonder as to what roles Sailej Prakash as Kancha and Lata Sinha as Gulu had in the film. I guess, they are another love pair who are working for Mahajan (Tiwari). There are two songs which are picturised on both of them. Some songs in the film appear without any link to the story. Probably, the scenes before the songs got edited out in the VCD of the film.
The film had 8 songs written by Prem Dhawan which were set to music by Chitragupt. Two songs have been covered on the Blog. As mentioned earlier, the film’s VCD contains only five songs. I am presenting one of the ‘missing’ songs, ‘le pee zaraa aur pee’ which is rendered by Mukesh. Surprisingly, the video clip of the song is available which means that the song was picturised and was retained in the film’s soundtrack. The song is picturised on Sailej Prakash. Lata Sinha is present during a major part of the song picturisation. The song gets an abrupt ending, but it appears from audio clip of the song that it was deliberate as after the abrupt end of the song, a dialogue follows.
Video Clip:
Audio Clip:
Song-Le pee zara aur pee (Toofaan Mein Pyaar Kahaan)(1966) Singer-Mukesh, Lyrics-Prem Dhawan, MD-Chitragupta
Lyrics
le pee
zaraa aur pee
le pee
zaraa aur pee
naa khushi rahe naa gham rahe
ae dil
ab hosh mein
naa tu rahe naa hum rahen
le pee
zaraa aur pee
pass hai may ki pari
main jahaan se door hoon
pass hai may ki pari
pass hai may ki pari
main jahaan se door hoon
kuchh na poochho mujhse koi
main nashe mein choor hoon
le pee
zaraa aur pee
naa khushi rahe naa gham rahe
le pee
zaraa aur pee
wo zamaana pyaar kaa
ek fasaanaa ho gayaa
wo zamaana pyaar kaa
wo zamaana pyaar kaa
ek fasaanaa ho gayaa
jaise chamkaa koi taaraa
aur kahin pe kho gayaa
le pee zaraa aur pee
naa khushi rahe naa gham rahe
le pee zaraa aur pee
hosh se achchi lagey
mujhko ye behoshiyaan
hosh se achchi lagey
hosh se achchi lagey
mujhko ye behoshiyaan
ab to yaaron ek main hoon
aur meri madhoshiyaan
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