I hope you liked the last post in this series: ‘Hasrat Jaipuri Song Of The Week #2 – Nain So Nain Nahin Milao‘.
Lets proceed with his Song of the Week #3:
Ye kya kar dala tune
Just to remind you that that this is the third post in
Our Dedication to a Lyricist to Whom
We Owe the Title of Our Songs Group*
(My Facebook group ‘Yaad Kiya Dil Ne‘ or YKDN for short.
Remembering OP Nayyar on His Birth Anniversary Today
(This post appeared on YKDN on 16 Jan 2020)
Shankar Jaikishan fans (may God increase their tribe) will be shocked that I am remembering a composer other than S-J in the same breath as paying tribute to Hasrat Jaipuri. They are like Charminar cigarette smokers or Old Monk rum drinkers; for them there can never be another smoke or tipple.
I am as devoted a fan of S-J as anyone else. Much before anyone formed a group to honour them, on my page Lyrical, I paid a 45 days tribute to them.
However, I don’t feel sorry to appreciate MDs, Lyricists, Singers and Actors other than those associated with S-J.
OP Nayyar was born on 16 Jan 1926 in Lahore (now in Pakistan). At the age of 23, OP Nayyar composed the background score for the movie Kaneez. Three years later, in 1952, he was a full fledged music director for the movie Aasman. OP Nayyar perfected songs whose beats (often horse-trot beat such as in 1957 movie Naya Daur’s song Maang ke saath tumhaara) became so popular that people were often heard humming these everywhere. He also delved into raaga based songs although, in all humility, he claimed that he had no knowledge of classical music. Raag Peelu or Pilu, followed by Pahadi, were his favourite raagas in songs.
He didn’t like to have Lata Mangeshkar sing any of his songs as he didn’t find her voice sexy. Most of his female songs have been sung by Shamshad Begum, Asha Bhosle and Geeta Dutt. He depended heavily on Asha Bhosle and in a television interview he said, “She was almost like a wife to me.” OP Nayyar and Asha Bhosle parted in 1974. Soon after that, in 1974, she received Filmfare Best Female Playback Singer Award for his song: Chain se hamako kabhi aap ne jeene na diya that was intended to be used for the 1973 movie Praan Jaaye Par Vachan Na Jaaye but didn’t find a place in the final cut.
OP Nayyar paired with major lyricists Majrooh Sultanpuri and Sahir Ludhianvi. With the latter he received the Filmfare Award for 1957 movie Naya Daur.
Hasrat ji stayed mostly with Shankar Jaikishan. However, he was the Shehanshah-e-Rumaniyat and his romantic songs were composed by almost all important composers. Here in this series started by me in the New Year 2020, I have already given you two of them: SD Burman and Vasant Desai.
Hasrat ji paired with OP Nayyar in the 1957 Ved Mohan movie Johnny Walker with the comdeian Johny Walker in the title role. He wrote all six songs of the movie for OP Nayyar. Howrah Bridge and Kabhi Andhera Kabhi Ujala in 1958 also had Hasrat Jaipuri’s songs composed by OPN including this one.
The 1960 Rakhan movie starring Ashok Kumar, Padmini and her sister Ragini had most of the songs penned by Qamar Jalalabadi (two of these find mention in my Raaga based songs blogs: Beqasi hadd se jab guzr jaye and Tu hai mera prem devta that has both Travancore sisters dancing). However, Hasrat ji and Raja Mehdi Ali Khan had one song and four songs respectively in this movie too. Hasrat’s song was: O ji sawan mein tu beqraar sajanwa se.
Howrah Bridge
The last part of the song takes you under the Howrah Bridge, a miracle of its times. Built over the Hoogly River, it was commissioned as a cantilever bridge in 1943 and happened to be the third longest such bridge in the world (presently the sixth longest).
The bridge has featured in many movies and fills all Indians with romantic nostalgia such as in Woh sham kuchh ajeeb thi ye sham bhi ajeeb hai in the picturisation of which Rajesh Khanna in a polo neck and Waheeda Rehman in saree and cardigan pass under the bridge in their boat within the first minute of the song.
The movie Howrah Bridge was directed by Shakti Samanta who was used to making a super hit movie once every two years or so.
The story in short is that Ashok Kumar and his brother are running a business of their father in Rangoon when his brother disappears one day with family heirloom to sell it in Calcutta. He is deceived by smugglers and Ashok Kumar comes looking for them.
Ashok Kumar pretends to have fallen for the hotel singer Madhubala (her name is Edna in the movie).But, actually he wants to use her contacts to locate the smugglers.
At this juncture, she is actually in love with him and she sings this to him in a tonga to express her feeelings of elation for having found the love of her life.
Hasrat ji does an impressive job of her expressing her feelings through song. Asha Bhosle sings it in great style.
The song has one of the longest whistling in the prelude.
Lyrics
One would expect remarkably good lyrics form Hasrat Jaipuri and he doesn’t fail us:
Ye kya kar dala tune dil tera ho gaya
Hasi hasi me jalim dil mera kho gaya
Wo khel dikhaya tune madhosh banaya tune
O jadugar matwale, bechain banaya tune
Tune re piya, kaisa diya, najro ka paymana
Ye kya kar dala tune dil tera ho gaya
Hasi hasi me jalim dil mera kho gaya
Jab aankh mile sharmaun main khoi khoi jaun
Aankho ki kaliyan kampen jab samne tujhko paun
Sun mere dil, sapno me mil, dard hua diwana
Ye kya kar dala tune dil tera ho gaya
Hasi hasi me jalim dil mera kho gaya
Pehle tha zamana feeka ab laage teekha teekha
Mausam ka dil bhi dhadke kuchh haal na puchho ji ka
Ye kya kar dala tune dil tera ho gaya
Hasi hasi me jalim dil mera kho gaya
One look at her face and histrionics tell the story of her being head over heels in love with him. He looks amused since his primary aim is different.
You see Calcutta by night in the year 1958 and it surprises you to see that it was as crowded in 1958 too!
Please Enjoy
Ye kya kar dala tune dil tera ho gaya…
I hoped you liked my choice of Hasrat Jaipuri Song of the Week #3.
Please await the next song in the series.
