RRR Songs (Songs of Regret, Repentance and Ruefulness)
I started this new series on 17 Jan 21 on my Facebook Group Yaad Kiya Dil Ne. My efforts failed to involve people in writing their own stuff about songs and music rather than copying and pasting from here and there or worse, just sharing url of songs from YouTube. Hence, I had decided to give the group a burial that it deserved rather than making it like thousands of groups on Facebook about songs with nothing unique about them at all.
Hence this series shifted to my page Lyrical.
I hope you liked RRR Song #11: Jis dil mein basa tha pyar tera. Here is the next song:
Song #12
Rehte the kabhi jinake dil mein
Mamta – 1966 Movie
The movie happens to have story similar to 1958 Kalidas movie Adalat starring Nargis, Pradeep Kumar and Pran. That movie had some of the greatest songs of Madan Mohan on the lyrics of Rajinder Krishan.
Surprisingly, this one is not a plagiarised story. It is a remake of Asit Sen’s Bengali 1963 movie Uttar Falguni. It appears that women being wrongfully forced into prostitution was a common theme all over India.
This Asit Sen movie (remember Asit Sen? He was the director of Hemant Kumar’s Khamoshi) starred Suchitra Sen as the one forced to become a courtesan after Ashok Kumar’s family refused to own her up after Ashok Kumar left for England to get education to become a barrister.
Until that time, to become a barrister was thought of as a noble profession for the intellectual. We had the most famous barrister of them all: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, who was so noble that he is addressed as Mahatma (Saint). Nowadays, law is considered an outlet for those who want to make quick buck at the expense of others.
Similarly, courtesans are nowadays the women of worthless character and morals.
Nihar Ranjan Gupta and Krishan Chander wrote the story and in the final stages gave it a twist from Adalat by having a child who was never to be seen earlier and thus justifying the name Mamta.
Courtesans and prostitutes with golden heart are an obsession with Hindi films industry and everyone is happy with the situation especially lyricists and music directors.
Majrooh and Roshan
This movie had Majrooh and Roshan doing to its songs what Rajinder Krishan and Madan Mohan did to Adalat songs. They made the following:
- “Chahe To Mera Jiya Lele” Lata Mangeshkar
- “Chupa Lo Yun Dil Mein Pyar Mera” Lata Mangeshkar, Hemant Kumar
- “Hum Gavanwa Na Jayibe Ho” Lata Mangeshkar
- “Rahen Na Rahen Hum (solo)” Lata Mangeshkar
- “Rahen Na Rahen Hum (duet)” Mohammed Rafi, Suman Kalyanpur
- “Rahte The Kabhi Jinke” Lata Mangeshkar
- “In Baharon Mein” Mohammed Rafi, Asha Bhosle
Majrooh has laid nice and thick whilst writing the lyrics; her hopelessness is adequately laced with self pity:
रहते थे कभी जिनके दिल में
हम जान से भी प्यारों की तरह
बैठे हैं उन्ही के कूचे में
हम आज गुनहगारों की तरह – २
दावा था जिन्हें हमदर्दी का
खुद आके न पूछा हाल कभी – २
महफ़िल में बुलाया है हम पे – २
हँसने को सितमगारों की तरह – २
रहते थे…
बरसों से सुलगते तन मन पर
अश्कों के तो छींटे दे ना सके – २
तपते हुए दिल के ज़ख्मों पर – २
बरसे भी तो अंगारों की तरह – २
रहते थे…
सौ रुप धरे जीने के लिये
बैठे हैं हज़ारों ज़हर पिये – २
ठोकर ना लगाना हम खुद हैं – २
गिरती हुई दीवारों की तरह – २
रहते थे…
My Own Poetry
WAQT GAYA BAAT GAYI
बातों बातों में बात निकल जाती है,
वह मिलते नहीं, मुलाकात निकल जाती है।
इंतज़ार करते करते आंख कुछ ऐसे लगे,
खुलते ही देखा हैयात निकल जाती है।
सदियों से पड़े हैं तन्हा और बेकसी में,
लोग क्यूं कहते हैं मजबूरी ए हालात निकल जाती है?
घर के सामने खड़े थे उनकी उम्मीद में हम,
वह नहीं निकले पर बारात निकल जाती है।
सामने होंगें तो ज़रूर पूछूंगा ऐ खुदा,
मुझे अकेला छोड़ के कहां कायनात निकल जाती है?
जब भी भीगने की ख्वाहिश उठी, रवि,
उसी वक़्त देखा बरसात निकल जाती है।
The Song
Lata Mangeshkar has sung it as well as any of Adalat songs.
Please enjoy: Rehte the kabhi ham jinake dil mein…
I hope you liked Song #12 in this series.
Please await Song #13: Woh jo milate the kabhi.
