Zindagi or Jeevan Songs Series
I started this series on my Facebook group Yaad Kiya Dil Ne on 18 Oct 20. Since then, many other members have put up these songs. Here, I shall be giving you one of my own, per day.
I hope you liked my choice for Song #20 – Zindagi mein aaya toofan in Zindagi or Jeevan Songs series. Let’s start with Song #21.
Song #22
Beqraar karke hamen youn na jayiye
Theme-word: Last stanza: Zindagi ke raste ajeeb hain
Shakeel Badayuni
No matter who and where you are; you do deserve a song by Shakeel Badayuni, every now and then. And this is from the 1962 Biren Nag Film Bees Saal Baad for whose song Kahin deep jale kahin dil Shakeel received his third (of the only hat-trick in Hindi movies) Filmfare Award for Best Lyricist and Lata Mangeshkar received Best Playback Singer (Female) Award.
The popularity of the song Beqraar karke hamen youn na jayiye continues to be there nearly sixty years after Shakeel wrote it. At the outset, lets admire the beauty of the lyrics:
(बेक़रार करके हमें यूँ न जाइये आपको हमारी कसम लौट आइये ) - २ देखिये वो काली काली बदलियाँ ज़ुल्फ़ की घटा चुरा न ले कहीं चोरी चोरी आके शोख बिजलियाँ आपकी अदा चुरा न ले कहीं यूँ क़दम अकेले न आगे बढ़ाइये आपको हमारी... (देखिये गुलाब की वो डालियाँ बढ़के चूम ले न आप के क़दम ) - २ खोए खोए भँवरे भी हैं बाग़ में कोई आपको बना न ले सनम बहकी बहकी नज़रों से खुद को बचाइये आपको हमारी... ज़िन्दगी के रास्ते अजीब हैं इनमें इस तरह चला न कीजिये खैर है इसी में आपकी हुज़ूर अपना कोई साथी ढूँढ लीजिये सुनके दिल की बात ना मुस्कुराइये आपको हमारी...
Hemant Kumar on Hemant Kumar
Hemant Kumar was one singer who would at the fastest transport you to the world of the lyrics of the song. So, if he sang Sahir’s Pedon ki shaakhon pe soyi soyi chandini, or Kaifi’s Raat haseen ye chand haseen tu sabse haseen mere dilwar, your imagination donned wings and you didn’t hear him from far; you were already there at the scene of the song (even if you had never seen the video!)
This flight of your imagination by Hemant’s voice was the best if he’d sing on his own composition.
Take any of Hemant Kumar songs on Shakeel’s lyrics and you’d know; eg, Chandan ka palna. However, if Hemant is singing on his own composition of Shakeel’s songs, then it is sheer magic; eg, Zindagi kitani khubsurat hai and Jab jaag uthe armaan to kaise neend aaye.
This movie also happens to be Hemant Kumar’s production, like Khamoshi.
Bees Saal Baad
The movie was based on Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes story The Hound of Baskervilles. It starred Biswajeet and Waheeda Rehman in the lead roles. It was the most super hit movie of 1962 thanks, to a great extent to Shakeel – Hemant Kumar songs.
The Song
Ladies and gentlemen, please enjoy: Beqraar karke hamen youn na jayiye…
I hope you enjoyed my choice for Song #21 in the series.
Please await Song #22 – Babuji dheere chalna.
