Dil kya chaahe kaise boloon

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Rajesh Khanna – The Phenomenon – 12
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Today 18^th July 2023 is the ‘eleventh remembrance’ anniversary of Rajesh Khanna.

He was born on 29^th December’1942 and he passed away on 18^th July’2012.

Much has already been written about him in the media (print & digital) and on this blog and much has been known to movie-goers and general public too.

So I am not going to repeat it here again.

In the Indian Film Industry the Rajesh Khanna era started with ‘Aradhana’ in ‘1969’. Peoples like me, who were born in the end-sixties or early seventies and after that, were too young to witness that ‘mass hysteria’ that people with first hand experience are never tired of telling us.

Even in the reality shows nowadays on TV, guest celebrities who were co-stars of Rajesh Khanna always mention it that ‘irrespective of the controversies surrounding him and the negative aspects being talked about him he was a ‘great actor’ and nobody in the film industry have got the ‘love and affection’ from people like Rajesh Khanna got .

In this episode we are going to have a look at Rajesh Khanna movies from the year ‘1985’.

The year ‘1985’ saw as many as nine Kaka movies released during it. The list of these nine movies is as given below.

Out of the ten movies mentioned above one movie ‘Baayen Haathh Kaa Khel’ was not released and it remains an unreleased movie till date.

The movie ‘Baabu’ was passed by Censor Board in ‘1983’ but it was released in theatres in ‘1985’.

During 1983 to 1985 I was staying in Akola with my grand-parents for my 11^th-12^th studying there in vocational junior college. However as I have mentioned earlier I was more on ‘cricket’ and ‘movies’ than into my studies and finally I failed in the exams (as expected by me ).

I remember I had watched ‘Zamaana’ at Akola before moving to Parli-Vaijnath as my 11th-12th was completed (or finished ). Overall it was an ‘average movie’ if I am correct.

After reaching at Parli-Vaijnath I had joined a company for job and was working there. However, there was a cricket tournament at Akola and so my friends called me back there and I went to participate in this tournament.
During this time I had watched ‘Masterji’ there at Akola and I remember how disappointed I was, as I do not like the movie at all.

Then I watched ‘Oonche Log-1985’ at Parli-Vaijnath which had good music by R.D. Burman and everything was good in the movie except Salma Agha so this movie of Kaka was another flop movie.

The company I was working with at Parli-Vaijnath had their head quarter at Nagpur. Once I was sent for some work at Head Office at Vijay Nagar (near Sadar) Nagpur. After finishing the official work I took time to watch ‘Aakhir Kyon?’ at ‘Panchsheel’ theatre at Nagpur. I remember I liked this movie and Kaka’s role in it very much.

Out of the remaining movies from the list now, I remember I watched ‘Alag Alag’ and ‘Baabu’ at Parli Vaijnath either in theatres or in video parlors. The reviews of ‘Baabu’ were very good and the movie had a good collection too in its first week. But it didn’t keep it further.

I do not get to watch the remaining movies further.

If we take a look at the list of ‘highest grossing movies’ of ‘1985’ on IMDB it mentions the following Rajesh Khanna movies as ‘Hits’ in this list.

(There are 47 movies in IMDB’s list as highest grossing movies of ‘1985’ out of which the first 31 are considered as ‘super-hits’ (?) and the rest 16 as ‘average’ movies’. I hope this analysis must be supported by factual figures (?) The topper of this list is ‘Ram Teri Gangaa Maili’ about which nobody should have doubts of-course.)

Today I am presenting a song from the movie ‘Oonche Log-1985’.

‘Oonche Log-1985’ was directed by Brij for ‘Dynamo Enterprises, Bombay’.

It was produced by Sayeeda Sadanah, R.K. Kapoor, and R. P. Sharma.

It had Rajesh Khanna, Salma Agha, Prem Chopra, Preeti Sapru, Deven Verma, and Danny Denzongpa, Pradeep Kumar, Pinchoo Kapoor with Raza Murad in special appearance.

Story and screenplay of this movie was written by Surhid Kar. Dialogues of this movie were written by Ved Rahi.
Editing of this film was done by Waman Rao (I guess he is from the famous duo of Waman Rao Bhonsle-Guru Dutt Shirali).

‘Oonche Log-1985’ was passed by Censor Board on 06.05.1985.

This movie has five songs written by Anjaan and composed to music by R.D. Burman.

Kishore Kumar and Salma Agha had given playback to the songs in this movie.

The songs of this movie are very good if not great. Out of the five songs Kishore Kumar and Salma Agha have sung three solo and one solo song respectively. And one song is a duet song sung by Kishore Kumar and Salma Agha.

Here is the brief about the story of this movie…

Rai Bahadur (Pinchoo Kapoor) is big businessman and Jagdev Singh (Rajesh Khanna) is his son. Jagdev Singh gets married to a girl (I am unable to identify the actress) who has saved his life, against his Father’s wish who wants him to marry him with his friend’s daughter. Jagdev Singh leaves his father’s home with his wife and they are expecting a child.
Raju (who grows up as Rajesh Khanna later) and his mother met an accident by a car of Thakur Vikram Singh (Pradeep Kumar). In this accident Raju loses his mother while his father had already passed away earlier.
Thakur Vikram Singh brings Raju to his home to stay with them. However Vikram Singh’s son Maan (Danny Denzongpa as a grown up Maan) hates Raju while Vikram Singh’s daughter Poonam (Salma Agha as grown up Poonam) likes Raju.
Thakur Vikram Singh sends Maan to boarding school since he do not approves his habits and style of living.

Thakur Vikram Singh has a brother Thakur Pratap Singh who is a womanizer and spends money on alcohol and racing too. He is eyeing on his brother’s property and gets him smothered. Raju watches this which Pratap Singh is unaware of.

After Thakur Vikram Singh’s death Raju’s life becomes more miserable. Pratap Singh calls Maan back to home and throws Raju in the stable where a good soul Khan (Raza Murad) has a soft corner for Raju and treats him kindly always.

Raju grows up on bad treatment and constant beating by Maan for reason one another but doesn’t want to leave the place because of Poonam. Many times Poonam helps him and Raju also saves Poonam on several occasions too (like during horse riding, snake biting etc).

Raju and Poonam love each other which Maan gets noticed and beats Raju black and blue.
To save Raju from Maan, Poonam tells Raju that she didn’t love him. Raju decides to leave but in between Pratap’s men caught Raju on the way to get him killed.
They tie Raju with ropes to horses and dragged him to the hills and thinking him dead throws him for the vultures.

However Rai Bahadur and his accomplice Mubarak Ali (Deven Verma) with their gunmen and driver, who are on hunting around that location, save Raju.
Rai Bahadur is more than happy to meet his grandson which Raju also gets to know when Rai Bahadur shows him photographs of his father.

Now Raju becomes Rai Bahadur Rajiv Singh and on the other side Maan Singh is losing financially day by day due to wine, women, horse-racing and an embezzling uncle.

Rai Bahadur Rajiv now plans for his revenge with Maan so he sends a profitable business offer to Maan through Mubarak Ali and Maan starts losing more in shares on the advice of Mubarak Ali. There is a suspicion when Maan and Pratap meets Rai Bahadur Rajiv Singh or Raju however Raju never gives them a chance and keep them suspecting and he also starts flirting with Sonia (Preeti Sapru who is fiancé of Maan Singh). (That is also to hurt Poonam more)

Finally when Raju is telling Pratap about the secret of him which he is a witness to, Maan secretly listens to their conversation and the reality of Pratap is dawned upon him. Maan plans to take revenge of his father’s killing by Pratap and took Pratap near the valley and on the gun-point he gets Pratap Singh thrown in in the ‘valley of death’.

Raju returns everything to Maan and forgives Maan for his all cruelties on him, because his father’s kindness who had given him a shelter in his childhood after he lost his mother.
While Raju leaves the ‘haveli’ Maan asks his sister Poonam to go with Raju who is her true love.

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Now one dialogues from the movie by Rajesh Khanna which I like most …

(This is when Sonia (Preeti Sapru) asks Raju (Kaka) why he is suffering (like a ‘ghulaam’) and questions him why he does not leave and lefts this place…)

“Shaakh kaanton ko sirf isliye bardaasht karti hai memsaab, ke us par kaanton ke saath saath phool bhi khilte hain.
Main bhi usi shaakh ki tarah hoon jo pyaar ke phool ki khaatir zulm aur nafrat ke kaante bhi bardaasht kar rahaa hoon”

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Today’s song happens when Raju is feeding horses in the stable and starts reminiscing about his childhood days with Poonam.

We have Rajesh Khanna (in Kishore Kumar’s voice) and also Salma Agha in the picturisation of this lovely song.

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Now we will have a look on the Kaka movies released in ‘1975’ (ten years back of 1985) that is around forty-eight years back from now, we have the following movies of Rajesh Khanna released in the year ‘1975’.

Censor Board

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Today’s song is the first song from the movie ‘Oonche Log-1985’ in the movie and on this blog too. This movie makes its debut on the blog today and joins the movie with the same title which was released in the year ‘1965’.

Let us enjoy the today’s song now and pay our tributes to Rajesh Khanna on his ‘remembrance day’ today…

Video

Audio

Song-Dil kya chaahe kaise boloon (Oonche Log)(1985) Singer-Kishore Kumar, Lyrics-Anjaan, MD-R D Burman

Lyrics

dil kya aa chaahe ae
kaise ae boloon oon
ho baat ye dil ki
aa ke labon pe
kyun ruk jaaye
main kya jaanoon
dil kya aa chaahe ae
kaise ae boloon oon
ho baat ye dil ki
aa ke labon pe
kyun ruk jaaye
main kya jaanoon
dil kya aa chaahe ae
kaise ae boloon oon

chhod ke tera dar yahaan
kahaan jaaun
dil ki bebasi
kaise tujhko samjhaaun
chhod ke tera dar yahaan
kahaan jaaun
dil ki bebasi
kaise tujhko samjhaaun
arey tujhko naa dekhoon to
chain kahin naa aaye
tujhko naa dekhoon to
chain kahin naa aaye
ho baat ye dil ki
aa ke labon pe
kyun ruk jaaye
main kya jaanoon
dil kya aa chaahe ae
kaise ae boloon oon

maange dil duaa jiski
wo khushi tu hai ae
main to jism hoon
meri zindagi tu hai ae
maange dil duaa jiski
wo khushi tu hai ae
main to jism hoon
meri zindagi tu hai ae
arey tu mujhse
bichhde to
saans meri thham jaaye ae
tu mujhse
bichhde to
saans meri thham jaaye ae
ho baat ye dil ki
aa ke labon pe
kyun ruk jaaye
main kya jaanoon oon
dil kya aa chaahe ae
kaise ae boloon oon

tujhko kya pataa
tere ishq mein kya hai ae
kya junoon hai ye kya nashaa
kya mazaa hai ae
tujhko kya pataa
tere ishq mein kya hai ae
kya junoon hai ye kya nashaa
kya mazaa hai
haay tu dekhe
hanske to
dard dawaa ban jaaye ae
tu dekhe
hanske to
dard dawaa ban jaaye
ho baat ye dil ki
aa ke labon pe
kyun ruk jaaye ae
main kya jaanoon
dil kya aa chaahe ae
kaise ae boloon oon
ho baat ye dil ki
aa ke labon pe
kyun ruk jaaye
main kya jaanoon
dil kya aa chaahe ae
kaise ae boloon oon
hmm hmm hmm hmm …

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Devnagri Script lyrics(Provided by Avinash Scrapwala)
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दिल क्या चाहे ए
कैसे ए बोलूँ ऊँ
हो बात ये दिल की
आ के लबों पे
क्यूँ रुक जाए ए
मैं क्या जानूँ ऊँ
दिल क्या चाहे ए
कैसे ए बोलूँ ऊँ
हो बात ये दिल की
आ के लबों पे
क्यूँ रुक जाए ए
मैं क्या जानूँ
दिल क्या चाहे ए
कैसे ए बोलूँ ऊँ

छोड़ के तेरा दर यहाँ
कहाँ जाऊँ
दिल की बेबसी
कैसे तुझको समझाऊँ
छोड़ के तेरा दर यहाँ
कहाँ जाऊँ
दिल की बेबसी
कैसे तुझको समझाऊँ
अरे तुझको ना देखूँ तो
चैन कहीं ना आए
तुझको ना देखूँ तो
चैन कहीं ना आए
हो बात ये दिल की
आ के लबों पे
क्यूँ रुक जाए ए
मैं क्या जानूँ ऊँ
दिल क्या चाहे ए
कैसे ए बोलूँ ऊँ

मांगे दिल दुआ
जिसकी
वो खुशी तू है ए
मैं तो जिस्म हूँ
मेरी ज़िंदगी तू है ए
मांगे दिल दुआ
जिसकी
वो खुशी तू है ए
मैं तो जिस्म हूँ
मेरी ज़िंदगी तू है ए
अरे तू मुझसे
बिछड़े तो
साँस मेरी थम जाए ए
तू मुझसे
बिछड़े तो
साँस मेरी थम जाए ए
हो बात ये दिल की
आ के लबों पे
क्यूँ रुक जाए ए
मैं क्या जानूँ ऊँ
दिल क्या चाहे ए
कैसे ए बोलूँ ऊँ

तुझको क्या पता
तेरे इश्क़ में क्या हैं ए
क्या जुनून है ये
क्या नशा
क्या मज़ा है ए
तुझको क्या पता
तेरे इश्क़ में क्या हैं ए
क्या जुनून है ये
क्या नशा
क्या मज़ा है ए
हाय तू देखें
हँसके तो
दर्द दवा बन जाए ए
तू देखें
हँसके तो
दर्द दवा बन जाए ए
हो बात ये दिल की
आ के लबों पे
क्यूँ रुक जाए ए
मैं क्या जानूँ ऊँ
दिल क्या चाहे ए
कैसे ए बोलूँ ऊँ
हो बात ये दिल की
आ के लबों पे
क्यूँ रुक जाए ए
मैं क्या जानूँ ऊँ
दिल क्या चाहे ए
कैसे ए बोलूँ ऊँ
दिल क्या चाहे ए
कैसे ए बोलूँ ऊँ
ह्म्म ह्म्म ह्म्म ह्म्म ह्म्म ….