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Today’s song is the last and final song of the film Hatimtai-1956.
I have a very funny memory about this film’s name, Hatim Tai. During my school days, when I first got the book “Stories of Hatim Tai”, from my school Library for reading, I thought these were the stories of the elder sister of someone called Hatim. I thought so because in marathi, ” TAI” means ‘Didi’ or elder sister. However, once i started readingthe book, I realised that I was wrong and Hatimtai was the name of the Hero of the stories. For many years thereafter, I kept on wondering about this misleading name. Finally, in another book I got the answer to my curiosity.
Abid Allah Bin Sa’d at – Tayyi was an Arabic Christian knight and Chief of the TAYYI tribe of Arabia. He was very generous, brave and adventurous. His son Adi Ibn Hatim was the companion of Prophet Muhammad of Islam. After the death of this chief, an author Sayad Haider wrote a book on him titled ” Qissa- E-Hatim Tai” ( Tai is actually the short form of TAYYI – his tribe’s name) The story book is about how Hatim Tai solved the 7 riddles of the beautiful Husn Banu and won her love. The book is full of adventure stories of Hatim Tai. This also clarifies that Hatim tai is not a character from Arabian Night stories.
When films started being made – first Silent and then the Talkie, the filmmakers would not miss such ” Masaledar’ adventures without making a film on Hatim Tai. The first silent film on Hatim Tai was made in 1929 by Krishna Film company. All over the world and the Hindi film world films were made on Hatim Tai.
Bharat Movietone of Bombay made 4 films serially on Hatim Tai as Hatim Tai-1, 2, 3 and 4. Marutirao Pehelwan, a handsome and well built actor was the hero of these films. He was the same actor who did the lead role of the first Gujarati language talkie film ” Narsi Mehta’-1932. He was the husband of actress Tara (sister of Alaknanda and Sitara Devi0 and father of the Dancer Gopi Kishen. Later on the following films came on this story…
Hatim Tai ki beti-1940
Hatim Tai ka beta-1945
Hatim Tai-1947
Hatim Tai ki beti-1955
Hatim Tai-1956
Hatim Tai ka Beta-1965 and
Saat sawal-1971
HATIMTAI(1956), a Basant Pictures film, was produced and directed by Homi Wadia. The MD was S.N.Tripathi and lyrics were by Raja Mehdi Ali Khan, B.D.Mishra, Akhtar Romani and Chand Pandit. The cast was Jairaj, Shakila, B.M.Vyas, Meenakshi, Krishnakumari, Bhagwan, Ranibala, Neena, Shaikh etc.
The story was,
Hatimtai wants to find out about a Pearl, as big as an ostrich egg, in which the owner can see anybody and anything in this world. He also wants to know the secret of Hamamabad. Princess Meher tells him that the pearl is with magician Amalak. Husn Pari loves Hatimtai but the magician has kept her in captivity. Hatimtai fights with the magician on the top of the tower, where the Parrot(in which the Magician’s life is kept) is killed and the magician dies at Hatimtai’s hands. Hatimtai breaks the magic Pearl to forbid its wrong use and releases all captives-including Husn pari, with whom he marries and becomes king of Hamamabad.
Jairaj, the hero of the film Hatim Tai-1956 was very popular in Hyderabad state, in the 50’s as “The son of Hyderabad”. He was born in Karimnagar district of this Muslim state. In Telugu he was called ” Man wadu” ( मन वाडू ), meaning ” our man”. Surprisingly, in his illustrious career of 70 years, he did not work in even one Telugu film- his mother tongue. When the film Hatim Tai was released in Hyderabad on 16-3-1956, the Nizam of Hyderabad was the chief of the state as “Raj Pramukh” appointed by the Government of India, with a hefty Privy Purse. He was quite anxious to see this film of Jairaj. So, a special show was arranged in Zamarrud Mahal Talkies, the nearest and the most luxurious theatre of those times, for H.E.H. the Nizam and his entourage.
When the song “Paravar digar e aalam ” started on the screen, the Nizam, a devout person, got emotional. He asked for a replay of the song as many as 7 times ! After 2-3 days, this news appeared in the local paper The Deccan Chronicle. This enhanced the curiosity of people and the film celebrated the Silver Jubilee in Hyderabad ! The record of this song had a record sale in the local shops too !!
Jairaj ( 28-9-1909 to 11-8-2000) was from a cultured, rich, Zamindar family. He acted in 11 Silent films from 11929 to 1931 and over 200 Talkie films from 1932 onwards. In his 70 years’ career he worked in Gujarati and Marathi films, directed 3 films, produced 3 films and acted in 3 English films. He married a Punjabi girl and had 2 sons and 4 daughters. He was the First kissing star of Hindi films. He acted in 16 films with Nirupa Roy.
When talkie films came Jairaj was handicapped by the fact that he was no singer. Jairaj too was expected to sing songs. He did not like singing, because he was horrible at singing. The Music Director of the film Patit pawan-33 was Prof.B.R.Deodhar, who was a classical singer himself. (Later on he established a musical school). He was determined to make Jairaj sing a song. Finally a song was recorded and filmed-“prem magan sakhi”. Jairaj had sung it so badly, that the song was removed from the film from the second show itself. Jairaj is probably the only Hero of those days who never sang in films. Even as a lip syncher of songs (after playback singing became the norm), Jairaj has sung only 28 songs on screen despite acting in nearly 215 movies! But he managed to stay in the reckoning by starring in action films. With the introduction of playback singing, he forged forth with films like Rifle Girl, Bhabhi, Panna and Mahasagar No Moti – which were all hits.
Today’s song is the last and final song of this film, making the film YIPPEED ! Enjoy….
Song- Dil kis pe aa gaya hai tumhaara jawaab do (Hatimtai)(1956) Singers- Mubarak Begam, Asha Bhosle,Lyricist-Raja Mehdi Ali Khan, MD- S.N.Tripathi
Chorus
Lyrics
Dil kis pe aa gaya hai tumhaara jawaab do
dil kis pe aa gaya hai tumhaara jawaab do
ghaayal hua hai kaun bechaara jawaab do
ghaayal hua hai kaun bechaara jawaab do
dil kis pe aa gaya hai tumhaara jawaab do
ghaayal hua hai kaun bechaara jawaab do
jo baat poochhti ho wo kaise bataaun main
jo baat poochhti ho wo kaise bataun main
wo raaz haay kis tarah honthon pe laaun main
wo raaz haay kis tarah honthon pe laaun main
kyun chhedti ho mujhko khudaara jawab do
ghaayal hua hai kaun bechaara jawaab do
dil kis pe aa gaya hai tumhaara jawaab do
ghaayal hua hai kaun bechaara jawaab do
sharma ke aankh jhukti hai kyun har sawaal par
sharma ke aankh jhukti hai kyun har sawaal par
surkhi si daud jaati hai kyun gorey gaal par
surkhi si daud jaati hai kyun gorey gaal par
kab mil rahi ho unse dubaara jawaab do
kab mil rahi ho unse dubaara jawaab do
ghaayal hua hai kaun bechaara jawaab do
dil kis pe aa gaya hai tumhara jawaab do
ghaayal hua hai kaun bechaara jawaab do
allah bachaaye kaisi mili hain saheliyaan
allah bachaaye kaisi mili hain saheliyaan
jeene na dengi ye mujhe shaitaan ki cheliyaan
jeene na dengi ye mujhe shaitaan ki cheliyaan
chup ho na jab tak inko karaara jawaab do
ghaayal hua hai kaun bechaara jawaab do
dil kis pe aa gaya hai tumhaara jawaab do
ghaayal hua hai kaun bechaara jawaab do