Ab jung shuru kal se

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Every 23^rd January we pay our tributes to the great visionary, a courageous and brave leader of our freedom struggle Netaji Subhashchandra Bose.

All of us are aware of his biographical details and details about his fight for the freedom of people of India and how he led his own fight in the way he thought was the best way to deal with the ‘British Empire’ then.

In one of my earlier posts on the blog here we have also discussed about the various movies based on the life of Netaji Subhashchandra Bose.

While we all celebrate his birth anniversary on 23^rd January there are different versions about his last days (16 to 18th Aug 1945) and the last journey that he took from Taiwan to fly to Russia where he thought he would get support from the Russians in his fight against the Britishers.

However, 18^th August 1945 is mentioned as that ‘unfortunate’ day in the history of ‘freedom struggle’ of India when Netaji Subhashchandra Bose was last seen alive. Remembering him and paying our tributes to him here is a song from the 1966 movie ‘Netaji Subhashchandra Bose’.

Earlier only audio of this song was available. Now I have came across a video clip of this song which shows this song as a background song with the ‘titles’ of the movie.

(However, the wordings of the song suggest that it must have been based during his last few years when after Gandhiji’s ‘do or die’ call Netaji Subhashchandra Bose was inclined towards Gandhiji and was thinking of writing a letter to him extending his support.)

“Netaji Subhashchandra Bose-1966’ was directed by Hemen Gupta for ‘Adarshlok’. It had Abhi Bhattacharya, Jaymala, Bipin Gupta, Ulhas, Padma Devi, Niranjan Sharma, N.R. Madholkar, Maxworth, Leela Mishra, Rajeshwar Dayal, Sudharshan Sethi, Chand, Ramesh Sharma, Arvind Sharma, Iqbal, Jadish Kanwal, Kishan Raj, Lila Jaywant, Rehana, Jamuna, Snehmala, Madhurika, Meenakshi, Moni Chatterjee, Kant Kumar, Paresh Kumar, Munshi Niyamatulla, Mohan Kaul, Jaisingh Sawant, Kamal Kapoor, Bazeed Khan, K.C. Supariwala, Panna Kapoor, Murray, Woolga, Harry, Peace, Kelly and others.

Story and Screenplay of this movie was written by Adarsh while Editing of this movie was done by I.M. Kunnu.

This movie had five songs written by Kavi Pradeep and composed to music by Salil Choudhary. Mohd Rafi, Manna Dey, Hemant Kumar and Savita Bannerjee had given their voices to the songs in this movie.

So far four songs of this movie have been posted on the blog as following;

Today’s song is sung by Mohd Rafi. Lyrics are by Kavi Pradeep and music is composed by Salil Choudhary.

With this song all songs from the movie ‘Netaji Subhashchandra Bose-1966’ have been covered on the blog.

Let us listen to this poignant song.

Video

Audio

Song-Ab jung shuru kal se (Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose)(1966) Singer-Rafi, Lyrics-Kavi Pradeep, MD-Salil Chaudhary

Lyrics

ab jung shuru kal se
ab kal se hai sangraam
sweekaar karo baapu
ye Subhash ka pranaam
ab jung shuru kal se

sevak ye tumhaara ab
aur iska har sipaahi
sevak ye tumhaara ab
aur iska har sipaahi
kal se banega baapu
jwaala ke path ka raahi

aasheesh tum mujhe do
kar jaaun apna kaam
kar jaaun apna kaam
ab jung shuru kal se
ab kal se hai sangraam
sweekaar karo baapu
ye Subhash ka pranaam
ab jung shuru kal se

hum ja rahe hain ab to
seene pe khaane goli
hum ja rahe hain ab to
seene pe khaane goli
maa ki deewaali ke hit
khelenge kal se holi
hum ja rahe hain karne
raushan watan ka naam
raushan watan ka naam
ab jung shuru kal se …
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Devnagri Script lyrics (Provided by Avinash Scrapwala)
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अब जंग शुरू कल से
अब कल से है संग्राम
स्वीकार करो बापू
ये सुभाष का प्रणाम
अब जंग शुरू कल से

सेवक ये तुम्हारा अब
और इसका हर सिपाही
सेवक ये तुम्हारा अब
और इसका हर सिपाही
कल से बनेगा बापू
ज्वाला के पथ का राही

आशीष तुम मुझे दो
कर जाऊं अपना काम
कर जाऊं अपना काम
अब जंग शुरू कल से
अब कल से है संग्राम
स्वीकार करो बापू
ये सुभाष का प्रणाम
अब जंग शुरू कल से

हम जा रहे हैं अब तो
सीने पे खाने गोली
हम जा रहे हैं अब तो
सीने पे खाने गोली
माँ की दिवाली के हित
खेलेंगे कल से होली
हम जा रहे हैं करने
रौशन वतन का नाम
रौशन वतन का नाम
अब जंग शुरू कल से …