Beautiful Duet Series
I started this series on my Facebook group Yaad Kiya Dil Ne on 23 Aug 20. Since then, many other members have put up these songs. Here, I shall be giving you one of my own, per day.
Last time, I gave you Beautiful Duet #23 – Tere mere milan ki ye raina. So here, then, is the next one:
Song #25
Deewana mastaana hua dil jaane kahan hoke bahar aayi
A Different Chemistry with Dev Anand
Dev Anand always had beautiful chemistry with his heroines. Here in this movie Bambai Ka Babu he is with Suchitra Sen. He loves her but, since he has accepted to feign as the lost son of a rich man, she happens to be his sister!
This is how it came about:
In Bombay, he accidentally killed a villain during a fist fight. He ran away from police to Joginder Nagar in Himachal Pradesh. There, a cunning bloke asks him to feign as the lost son of a rich man so that they (Dev Anand and this bloke) can divide the loot of the rich man between themselves. Suchitra Sen is the daughter of this rich man and hence she happens to be his sister for all practical purposes. To cut a long story short he has to sacrifice his love for the sake of the parents whose son (it comes out later) was accidentally killed by him.
So, two things happen in the song:
The setting is that of Joginder Nagar; a most beautiful hill station.
Their chemistry is between a brother and a sister. When he closes her eyes in the second stanza, she has a momentary distrust but then she feels that her brother has joined him in a general song of happiness and joy and there is nothing more to it than that.
Sachin Dev Burman – Asha Bhosle and Mohammad Rafi
SD Burman composed many songs that appeared to be in raaga but came very close to the raagas only.
Asha Bhosle starts enjoying the bahar (spring) in the hills and goes through sargam as well. When Rafi joins in for Dev Anand, she teases him that he won’t be able to sing as well. However, not only that he sings better (after all Rafi!) but sings the sargam too.
All in all, SD Burman couldn’t have asked for better singers to achieve what he wanted to.
Lyrics
This was a 1960 movie; three years after Sahir broke up with SD Burman and hence Majrooh was very much in the saddle
Ladies and gentlemen, please enjoy: Deewana mastana hua dil…
आशा: आआ आ आ …
प म ग म रे ग प म ग म, आआ आ …
सा नी ध प म ग रे सा नी नी नी …
दीवाना, मस्ताना, हुआ दिल,
जाने कहाँ होके बहार आई
तन को छुए, छुए घट काली
छेड़े लहर, लहर मतवाली
तन को छुए …
ओ हो तन को छुए, चुए घट काली
छेड़े लहर, लहर मतवाली
बात कोई अन्जानाअ
दीवाना, मस्ताना, हुआ दिल,
जाने कहाँ होके बहार आई
ओ हो हो कुछ अनकही, कहे, मेरी चितवन
बोले जिया, लिखे मेरी धड़कन, कुछ अनकही …
ओ हो हो कुछ अनकही, कहे, मेरे चितवन
बोले जिया, लिखे मेरी धड़कन
एक नया अफ़साना …
रफ़ी: दीवाना, मस्ताना, हुआ दिल,
जाने कहाँ होके बहार आई
ओ ओ ओओ
जाने कहाँ होके बहार आई
रफ़ी: ओ हो ओ सावन लगा, मचल गए बादल
आशा: देखूँ जिसे, हुआ वही पागल
रफ़ी: सावन लगा, मचल गए बादल
आशा: देखूँ जिसे, हुआ वही पागल
रफ़ी: कौन हुआ दीवाना …
आशा: दीवाना, मस्ताना हुआ दिल
रफ़ी: दीवाना मस्ताना हुआ दिल
आशा: जाने कहाँ होके बहार आई आ आ आ …
रफ़ी: जाने कहाँ होके बहार आई
हो ओओ, जाने कहाँ होके बहार आई
आशा: आ आ आ, जाने कहाँ होके बहार आई
I hope you liked my choice of Beautiful Duet #24.
Please await Beautiful Duet #25- Jeet hi lenge baazi hum tum.
