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Rafi Sahab’s Legendary Associations – 13
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15th August, 2023 – Independence Day
“2023 15 August
As we know, India is going to celebrate 77th Independence Day on 15th August 2023 and this day marks the memory of the end of 200 Year British Rule. On this day, all the religious leaders, political leaders, prominent personalities and Students deliver Independence Day Speech 2023 and pay tribute to freedom fighters.”
This is the result Google showed on searching 15th August, 2023. Fair enough. I thought it to be this way and the sitting diety of the World Wide Web is also correct and succinct. This diety has almost run its course and is in the final leg of its life circle “as a diety”. We have relied on it long enough and it served us best as it could.
So we commemorate India’s 77th Independence Day and pay tribute to freedom fighters, with this song from the film “Minister” (1959). As the title suggests, the movie must have been on politicians.
Mohammed Rafi and Asha Bhosle are singing this song alongwith various choruses. It is written by Rajendra krishan and composed by Madam Mohan. These are two legendary associates of Rafi Sahab, who had a huge role is his career and successes.
Asha Bhosle and Rafi Sahab are singing this song in tandem mostly and with choruses also. This song is more than 8 minutes long, and writing down the lyrics was enjoyable, even though I was not familiar with the song. But the song did touch a core inside, with the glimpses of Mahatma Gandhi’s bhajan and the folk associated with Bhagat singh. Not to mention the ‘shair” of Bismil. It is a showcase of Rafi Sahab’s repertoire. Rafi Sahab runs away with the song, with Asha Bhosle close at his heel, struggling to catch up. And he does it without trying and without meaning to outrun Asha.
These songs of the film are already posted in the blog:
| Song | Date of post |
|---|---|
| Un aankhon mein neend kahaan | 30 March 2010 |
| Aji biwi ko ghar pe bithhlaa ke | 28 April 2012 |
| Hello hello hello mizaaj to huzoor ke hain achche | 7 July 2012 |
| Tere mukhde ka til kaala kaala | 7 July 2022 |
This song talks of many things, starts with the ‘Gadar” of 1957, pays tribute to the martyr’s, to the leaders, the stalwarts of the nation building, post-independence. It ends with the final stanza, talking of poverty and eradication of it here:
iss desh mein jab tak
ke hai koyi bhi bhikaari
mit jaaye na iss dharti
se jab tak ye bekaari
samjho ke saraa-sar
hai yeh tauheen hamaari ee
samjho ke saraa-sar
hai yeh tauheen hamaari ee
This takes me to an essay I had written 2 years ago, as indicated in the title.
Independent India @ 75: Self Reliance with Integrity
The topic for today’s essay is a mouthful. The title itself needs careful dissection. As is my wont, I will start this dissection with the last word, i.e. Integrity.
The simple one-liner meanings of “Integrity” thrown up by google are:
1. the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles
2. the state of being united or undivided
of being united or undivided
Leaving aside the second meaning, we will concentrate on the first. Again, I am tempted to trouble the google guru to find what it says is the meaning in urdu. Hmmmm…. this is interesting. In urdu first meaning of integrity popping up is ‘saalmiyat’ and second in ‘dayaanatdari’.
‘dayaanatdaari’, honesty, strong moral principles, integration, integral, being united are all beautiful words. Do these concepts consist even a small part of modern day india’s psyche? I dont think so.
The meaning of integrity when one thinks of it, the mind draws nice pictures of a neat clean green landscape of natural beauty, with a frothing waterfall in between. This picture is fantastically beautiful.
But the reality of the picture is the opposite of it. Opposite of integrity is ‘hypocrisy”, which is all pretence, and no substance of integrity is part of the make up here. And we are all living in denial of the international democracy index and hunger index and poverty index. Even the happiness quotient of the nation is in the pits.
The people world over, have suffered the economic and psychological fall out of the pandemic and they are trying to deal with them. We in this country are in denial of the problems faced by the common person. Un-employment, poverty, inflation, denial of justice, persecution of marginalized sections, mental health issues, climate change, pollution, corruption, dehumanization of the people, division of people in them and us, polarization in society, deep gashes in the social fabric of the society, etc. you name it, and we have it. The issues, I mean.
When we salaried people go out somewhere, shopping or hotelling or whatever, and a poor person accosts us and asks for help. He is having some small item to sell, and it is night, he still must go home and feed his family, without much income by his own admission. We give him fifty rupees and silence our conscience, saying to ourselves that we have done our bit. Is this integrity? Why shall a poor person be poorer, and the rich become richer every second? Is this not happening with the active and passive connivance of the so called enlightened middle class of this country? These are some of the questions and more, we need to ask ourselves, before we talk of integrity and self- reliance also for that matter. Self- reliance of the privileged class to be celebrated by the whole country as a festival ! they include the people living below poverty line, for decades, with no hope of coming up the lower middle class levels and more and more such people are pushed below poverty line, which is the lowest in the world as it is.
(Nazm writer – Adil Tanveer Adil)
Jab ham pe zarurat aan padi
Aur khatre mein thhi jaan padi
Tab ham ne kya ye sochaa thha
Aur khud se kya yeh poochha thha
Ambulance mein le jaane waala
Doctor se milwaane waala
Oxygen dilwaane waala
Plasma chadhaane waala
Aur khaana bhijwaane waala
Laashon ko dafnanen waala
Aur laashen jalaane waala
Kitna hi zyada nek thha woh
Ham mein se koyi ek thha woh
Koyi naam hamen maaloom na thha
D’costa singh ya shaikh thha woh
Ham saare jab pareshan thhe na
Uss waqt to ham insaan thhe na
Ham saare jab pareshan thhe na
Uss waqt to ham insaan thhe na
Ek doosre ke saathh thhe ham
Ham mil kar hindustaan thhe naa
Ab netaaon ke ladwaane se
Media ke bhadkaane se
Jhooti mooti afwaahon ke
Chakkar mein aa jaane se
Ham kyun batwaara karte hain
Mera ya tumhara karte hain
Bewajah aapas mein lad kar
Galti yeh dubaara karte hain
Ham sab ab ye tthaanna hai
Ab sab ko hi apnaa manna hai
Hindu muslim eesaayi sikh
Sab ek hi hai yeh jaanna hai
Ek dusre ki jaan banen
Iss mulk ki ham sab shaan banen
Arey bahot hua hindu muslim
Sab mil kar hindustan banen
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Come to think of it, I wrote this 2 years ago. That is not a long time, but the matters have not changed. The issues are there, however much we try to brush them under the carpet. Climate change is not going anywhere, so is the case with other matters. Unless the collective will is there to change, to reverse the folly, to come out of the false bonhomie and see the real picture.
The world’s history is right front of us to see, as the Mayans believed. They believed the past is in front of us and we are walking backwards towards the future. Their logic was that, as the future cannot be seen so it is behind us. There is lot, that the wise can read here.
No society has ever flourished without peace. No prosperity without complete peace. And the only way to achieve “Peace” is complete justice. The cycle thus completes “A just society.”
Audio:
Video:
Song-Lo aaj suno apne shaheedon kee kahaanee (Minister)(1959) Singers-Mohammed Rafi, Asha Bhonsle, Lyrics-Rajinder Krishan, MD-Madan Mohan
Both
Chorus
Lyrics
aa aa
aa aa aa aa
Lo aaj suno
apne shaheedon ki kahaani
lo aaj suno…..
………
…….
………liya apne shaheedon ne saveraa
roke se nahin rukti hai dariya ki rawaani
lo aaj suno
aaa aaaaa
aaaaaaaa
kitonon ka bahaa khoon
sataawan ke gadar mein
mar mitne ka armaan thhaa
parwaanon ke sar mein
mar mitne ka armaan thhaa
parwaanon ke sar mein
ladte raho azaadi ki
sub-ha hai nazar mein
lalkaar uthhi jhaansi se
yoon laxmi raani
Lo aaj suno
is des ki woh devi
kamar baandh ke aayi
maata ke liye beti ne
talwar uthhaayi
dene lage angrez bhi
ghabra ke duhaayi ee ee
aa aa aa
gaddar magar chal hi gaye
chaal puraani
lo aaj suno
raani ka balidaan magar
log na bhoole
katte hi rahe taake
chaman desh ka phoole
sindoor lute maang se
soone huey jhoole
hans hans ke lutaa daali
jawaanon ne jawaani ee
lo aaj suno…..
lo aaj suno
apne shaheedon ki kahaani
badhhte huye chadhhte huye
bhaarat ki zabaani
lo aaj suno
phir desh mein goonj uthha
Tilak ji ka ye naaraa
azaadi Janam se hai
adhikaar hamaara aa
azaadi Janam se hai
adhikaar hamaara aa
iss naare ne doobi hui
naiyya ko ubhaaraa
ghatne laga hatne lagaa
majdhaar ka paani ee
lo aaj suno…
Raghupati Raghav Raja Raam
patit paawan Seeta Raam
Raghupati Raghav Raja Raam
patit paawan Seeta Raam
Eeshwar Allah tere naam
sab ko sanmati de bhagwaan
Raghupati Raghav Raja Raam
patit paawan Seeta Raam
phir aa gaya wo sant
jise kehte hain Gandhi
kaaya thhi ahinsa ki
magar josh mein aandhi
bikhri hui yeh qaum jo
ik taar mein baandhi ee
bhaarat pe naye rang se
phir aayi jawaani ee
lo aaj suno
lo aaj suno
apne shaheedon ki kahaani
badhhte huye chaddte huye
bhaarat ki zabaani
lo aaj suno
phir maata ka ik aur
bhagat aaya Bhagat Singh
saath apne pahaadon ka
jigar laaya Bhagat Singh
sooli pe bhi chadhte huye
yoon gaaya Bhagat Singh
yoon gaaya Bhagat Singh
mera rang de basanti chola maa
mera rang de basanti cholaa
mera rang de basanti chola maa
mera rang de basanti cholaa
mera rang de basanti chola
basanti cholaa basanti chola
Basanti cholaa
mera rang de basanti chola maa
mera rang de basanti cholaa
sooli pe bhi chadhte huey
yoon gaaya Bhagat Singh
yoon gaaya Bhagat Singh
hogi na kabhi yaad
Bhagat Singh ki puraani ee
lo aaj suno
Kakori ka ek sher thha
par naam thha Bismil
wo Raam ka Parshad
ghulaami ka thhaa qaatil
yeh kehte huye aur
shaheedon se gaya mil
shaheedon se gaya mil
paas jo kuchh bhi hai
maata ki nazar karte hain
khush raho ehl-e-watan
ham to safar karte hain
khush raho ehl-e-watan
ham to safar karte hain
yeh kehte huye aur
shaheedon se gaya mil
shaheedon se gaya mil
bhoolenge nahin Hindi kabhi
uss sher ki baani ee
lo aaj suno
lo aaj suno
apne shaheedon ki kahaani
badhhte huye chaddte huye
bhaarat ki zabaani
lo aaj suno
bapu ke dikhaaye huye
raste pe chala des
Subhash ki aur Das ki
godon mein pala des
Subhash ki aur Das ki
godon mein pala desh
Lajpat ki aur Azad ki
Sewa se phala desh
Lajpat ki aur Azad ki
Sewa se phala desh
aur aaj hai sab se badhkar
ye bhala desh
dekhe koyi iss desh
mein Ganga ki rawaani ee
lo aaj suno
Vallabh ne sanwaara
to Jawaahar ne nikhaara
aao zara ab sochen
hai kya farz hamaara
aao zara ab sochen
hai kya farz hamaara
hai laal qile se yeh
Jawahar ka ishaara
manjdhaar se nikle hain
mila to hai kinaara aa
par yeh na samajhna
ke hui khatam kahaani ee
lo aaj suno
aaa aaaaaaa
aaaaaa aaaaaaaa
aaa aaaaaaa
aaaaaa aaaaaaaa
iss desh mein jab tak
ke hai koyi bhi bhikaari
mit jaaye na iss dharti
se jab tak ke bekaari
samjho ke saraa-sar
hai yeh tauheen hamaari ee
samjho ke saraa-sar
hai yeh tauheen hamaari ee
badhte raho
aaa aaa aaa
badhte raho oo oo
aaa aaa aaa
badhte raho
badhte raho
badhte raho ooo
badhte raho
manzil ki taraf
hindustaani ee
badhte raho
badhte raho
badhte raho ooo
badhte raho
manzil ki taraf
hindustaani ee
badhte raho
badhte raho
badhte raho ooo
badhte raho
manzil ki taraf
hindustaani ee
badhte raho
badhte raho badhte raho
badhte raho o o
badhte raho badhte raho badhte raho
badhte raho o o
badhte raho badhte raho badhte raho