RRR SONG #18 – MUJHE LE CHALO AAJ US GALI MEIN

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 #17: Bhooli huyi yaadon mujhe. Here is the next song:

Song #18
Mujhe le chalo aaj phir us gali mein

Sharabi – 1964 Movie

When it came to women, the roles in which each one of them had to show their mettle were as courtesans and the ones in which they could dance in wet saree.

Men also had equally cliched roles. One of these was to act sharabi (intoxicated). One would feel that great actors did justice to this in many films: Raj Kapoor (eg, Ruk jaa o jaane wali ruk jaa, perhaps the only song that he addressed to a liquor bottle, Dilip Kumar (eg, Mujhe duniyawalo sharabi na samajho), Raaj Kumar (Chhu lene do naazuk honthon ko), Rajendra Kumar (eg, Chhalke teri aankhon se sharaab aur zyadah), Shammi Kapoor (eg, Ye duniya usi ki zamaana usi ka) and Dev Anand.

It appears that Dev Anand was particularly suited for this since he was asked to do it gain and again; whether in a put up drunkenness in Kaala Pani with the song: Hum bekhudi mein tumko pukare chale gaye or in Manzil Yaad aa gayin woh nasheeli nigaahen. Lets face it; he was good at it. In his own movie Guide, for example, when he sang Din dhal jaaye haay raat na jaaye, most people had their paisa wasool.

This 1964 Raj Rishi movie had the complete movie with him as Sharabi; obsessed with liquor. Though he tried to make amends, his love for Madhubala and liquor won over everything.

This Song

It is considered by me as the best song of the movie competing with other drunken songs such as Kabhi na kabhi, kahin na kahin, koi na koi to aayega and Sawan ke maheene mein.

First of all, it is a super slow song of Rafi in league with such slow numbers as Main ye soch kar uske dar se utha tha of Haqeeqat. Secondly, it talks about the first time when he fell in love and stumbled. Thirdly, the lyrics of Rajinder Krishan and composition of Madan Mohan have the requisite regret and repentance. You don’t know whether to hate him or love him for what he had become.

Lets take the extraordinary lyrics:

मुझे ले चलो, आज फिर उस गली में
जहाँ पहले-पहले, ये दिल लड़खड़ाया
वो दुनिया, वो मेरी मोहब्बत की दुनिया
जहाँ से मैं बेताबियाँ लेके आया
मुझे ले चलो …

जहाँ सो रही है मेरी ज़िंदगानी
जहाँ छोड़ आया मैं अपनी जवानी
वहाँ आज भी एक चौखट तज़ा
मोहब्बत के सजादों की होगी निशानी -२
मुझे ले चलो …

वो दुनिया जहाँ उसके नक़्श-ए-कदम हैं
वहीं मेरी खुशियाँ, वहीं मेरे ग़म हैं
मैं ले आऊँगा खाक उस रहगुज़र की
के उस रहगुज़रा की, तो ज़र्रे सनम है -२
मुझे ले चलो …

वहाँ एक रँगेएं चिलमन के पीछे
चमकता हुआ उसका, रुख़सार होगा
बसा लूँगा आँखों में वो रोशनी मैं
यूँ ही कुछ इलाज-ए-दिल-ए-ज़ार होगा -२
मुझे ले चलो …

मुझे ले चलो, आज फिर उस गली में
जहाँ पहले-पहले, ये दिल लड़खड़ाया
वो दुनिया, वो मेरी मोहब्बत की दुनिया
जहाँ से मैं बेताबियाँ लेके आया
मुझे ले चलो …

My Own Poetry

Here is how to correct the mistake Dev Anand did with Madhubala in this movie:

Mujhe Peene Do

रुह कांप गयी उसे जब चला पता,
घर में आज शराब खत्म है;
कैसे हो गई यह शर्मनाक खता?
खता नहीं हक़ीक़त में सितम है।

पूरे घर को छान मारा,
कहीं न मिले गांधी वाले नोट,
सोचा आज करते हैं मय से किनारा,
हालांके दिल पे लगेगी चोट।

फिर देखा बीवी गयी है नहाने,
बाहर छोड़ गई है सोने की चेन,
बाद में उसके सुनेंगे ताने,
पहले हो जाये शराब का लेन देन।

बोतल गयी अंदर, झूम गया आलम,
बन गए कल्लू मियां तानसेन,
बीवी ने पूछा सुनते हो बालम,
कहाँ गयी मेरे सोने की चेन?

“भूल जाओ आज ज़िन्दगी के गम” वो गाये,
“चेन से तुम कई गुना हो हसीं”
बीवी चिल्लाई: “मैं मर गयी, हाय,
इसकी भी शराब तो न पी ली कहीं?”

रसोई से बीवी ने बेलन उठाया,
और दिया कल्लू के सर पर मार;
तानसेन झट हो गया पराया,
उतर गया फितूर ए खुमार I

भाईयो इसमें छुपी है एक गहरी सीख:
गरीबखाने में गर शान से जीना,
और मांगनी न पड़े किसी से भीख
तो बीवी को भी सिखा दो पीना।

गोल्ड चेन के सारे ख्वाब,
उसके चले जायेंगे दूर;
हसीं लगेगी उसको भी शराब,
चढ़ा रहेगा हरदम सरूर।

देर मत कीजिये, बीवी को है सिखाना,
आज ही शुरू करें online class,
Women empowerment का है ज़माना,
उसके लिए अलग बोतल और गिलास।

Ladies and gentlemen, please enjoy: Mujhe le chalo aaj phir us gali mein…

I hope you liked Song #18 in this series.

Please await Song #19: Tumhen zindagi ke ujaale mubarak.

Author: Sunbyanyname

I have done a long stint in the Indian Navy that lasted for nearly thirty seven years; I rose as far as my somewhat rebellious and irreverent nature allowed me to. On retirement, in Feb 2010, the first thing that occurred to me, and those around me, was that I Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (you will find an article with this title in this blog) and hadn't lost all my noodles and hence thought of a blog titled 'This 'n That'. I later realised that every third blog is called 'This 'n That' and changed the name to 'Sunbyanyname'. I detest treading the beaten track. This blog offers me to air 'another way' of looking at things. The idea is not just to entertain but also to bring about a change. Should you feel differently, you are free to leave your comments. You can leave comments even when you agree and want to share your own experience about the topic of the blog post. Impudent or otherwise, I have never been insousciant and I am always concerned about the betterment of community, nation and the world. I hope the visitors of this blog would be able to discern it.

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