I hope you liked the last post in this series: ‘Hasrat Jaipuri Song Of The Week #3 – Ye Kya Kar Dala Tune‘.
Lets proceed with his Song of the Week #4:
Ehsaan tera hoga mujh par
Just to remind you that that this is the fourth 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).
Hasrat Jaipuri Song of the Week (HJSOW)
(This post appeared on YKDN on 24 Jan 2020)
Shammi Kapoor, the Quintessential Romantic Hero
When we were boys, we were not allowed to watch Shammi Kapoor movies. He enacted his romantic roles with such intensity that we would tend to believe that Love and Romance were the two most important objectives of life. On top of that, he enacted the title roles of bad sounding names such as Bluff-Master, Budtameez, Janwar, Laat Sahib and even Pagla Kahin Ka.
His sensuous roles and songs would certainly make us feel – well – uncomfortable. I saw the 1964 movie Rajkumar and I watched him perform on Is rang badalti duniya mein with Sadhana and my first reaction as a mere ten year old was that why wasn’t such sensuousness censored! He filled each word of Hasrat Jaipuri’s song with meaning that was dying to come out and be seen.
And this was going to be the first movie in colour and how could we see Shammi Kapoor in his true colours, so as to say?
Therefore, I saw the 1961 Subodh Mukherjee movie Junglee, 55 years after it was released, on my computer. Primarily, I wanted to see him enacting the songs Chahe koi mujhe Junglee kahe and Ai ai aa suku suku. However, the song that I remembered the most after seeing the movie was this, sung by Mohammad Rafi for him.
There wasn’t any brashness in the song at all. There was only gentlemanliness and gentleness. Just like in Kashmir Ki Kali, he was heir to a rich family and expected to be a spoiled brat. As soon as Love dawned on him like a benign sun, he became as far from spoiled brat behaviour as he could get. No wonder his heroines adored him.
Mohammad Rafi Singing for Shammi Kapoor
Mohammad Rafi had a great talent in that he could sing for his heroes in the style of the hero and not in any characteristic Rafi style. Hence, when he sang for Shammi Kapoor, these songs instantly became Shammi Kapoor songs and less Rafi songs. As an example, if you listen to Kashmir Ki Kali’s Deewana hua baadal, you feel as if Shammi is actually singing.
Incidentally, some of the best songs of Rafi are picturised on Shammi Kapoor and Hasrat ji had a lot to do about them (of course there would be a rare, say, Qamar Jalalabadi number too such as Main bewafa nahin hoon tere pyar ki kasam.
Shankar Jaikishan
I thought I would steer clear from their Raaga based songs since on my blog I have quite a few of them under ‘Raaga Based Song of the Day’. Indeed, my first two posts are of both Hasrat Jaipuri and Shankar Jaikishan: #1 Tum mujhe youn bhula na paoge (Raag Jhinjhoti, Tal Kaherava) and #2 Unake khayal aaye to aate chale gaye (Gara, Kaherava).
However, it is difficult avoiding such songs. This one is in Raag Kalyan, with the commonest of Tals Kaherava. Kalyan is the basic and first raag taught to lovers of classical music.
As seen by me, the #1 song of Lata Mangeshkar happens to be in Shuddha Kalyan belonging to the Kalyan Thaat and that too was penned by Hasrat Jaipuri.
S-J’s composition here is so good that you want to enter the screen, get hold of Saira Bano and make her take Shammi Kapoor seriously!
Hasrat Jaipuri
I take it that scenario of a song with it fitting into the overall scheme of things of the director would be explained to the lyricist two to three years before the movie is shot. He has the difficult job at hand to convert the scenario into the spoken emotions of the protagonist (s), often in line with a tune that has already been given by the composer. I am sure that HJ had been explained that Shammi Kapoor belongs to a family wherein laughter is strictly prohibited. Saira Bano makes him laugh but the misunderstanding between them makes him sad. So, he comes up with the best lines of the song:
Tumne mujhako hasana sikhaya,
Rone kahoge ro lenge ab;
Aansu ka hamare gham na karo,
Ye behte hain to behne do…
Terrific indeed. Love does it to lovers frequently. In another song, a lover had this to say:
Jo tumko ho pasand wahi baat kahenge,
Tum din ko kaho raat to hum raat kahenge.
Basically, Love makes you forget your own importance and you are ready for:
Ye dard-e-mohabbat sehne do!
Please enjoy Mohamamd Rafi singing for Shammi Kapoor: Ehsaan tera hoga mujh par…
(By the way, Kalyan literally means ‘good luck’ and whether he sang to her and later she sang to him, good luck ensued)
Ehsaan tera hoga mujh par
Dil chahta hai vo kahne do
Mujhe tumse muhabbat ho gayi hai mujhe
Palkon ki chhao mein rahne do
Ehsaan tera hoga mujh par
Dil chahta hai vo kahne do
Mujhe tumse muhabbat ho gayi hai mujhe
Palkon ki chhaon mein rahne do
Tumne mujhko hasna sikhaya aa oo
Tumne mujhko hasna sikhaya
Rone kahoge ro lenge ab
Rone kahoge ro lenge
Aansu ka hamare gam na karo
Vo bahate hain to bahane do
Mujhe tumse muhabbat ho gai hai mujhe
Palkon ki chhaon mein rahne do
Ehsaan tera hoga mujh par
Chahe bana do chahe mita do
Chahe bana do chahe mita do
Mar bhi gaye to denge duayen
Mar bhi gaye to denge duayen
Ud ud ke kahegi khaak sanam
Ye dard-e-muhabbat sahne do
Mujhe tumse muhabbat ho gayi hai mujhe
Palkon ki chhaon mein rahne do
Ehsaan tera hoga mujh par
Dil chahta hai vo kahne do
Mujhe tumse muhabbat ho gayi hai mujhe
Palko ki chhaon mein rahne do
Ehsaan tera hoga mujh par
I hoped you liked my choice of Hasrat Jaipuri Song of the Week #4.
Please await the next song in the series.
