Anta habeebi anta rafiqui

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#the Decade of Sixties – 1961 – 1970 #
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The song being discussed in this article is from the movie ‘Golden Eyes-1968’. It was a movie belonging to the genre of ‘spy thriller’. I was under the impression that ‘jasoosee’ movie is a ‘detective’ movie or ‘detective’ and ‘spy’ are same, but now I have learnt that there is a difference in their purpose and ‘modus operandi’.:) I think ‘spying’ is more correct word here. I had always liked to watch movies in this genre. In my childhood days I used to read and like the detective stories of ‘Inspector Dhananjay’ written by Baburao Arnalkar very much. (Interested readers can read more about him in this article written by our respected In-house Encyclopedia Shri Arunkumar ji on the blog.

If one goes through the various ‘genre’ of movies for Hindi films (mentioned in the Geet Kosh Vol-I to VI i.e. 1931 to 1985) the following list of ‘genres’ emerges from which movies are made, and that are mentioned for each film in HFGK. (There also some cases where the ‘genre’ for the movie is not mentioned. But such cases are very rare and for very few movies only.) Out of these, maximum movies, more than 75% movies or more, say -75% to 85%- movies are in the ‘genre’ of ‘सामाजिक’ or ‘social drama’ kind of movie.

Here is the list of all ‘genres’ of Hindi movies. (I have tried to note all different kind of ‘genres’ mentioned in the Geet Kosh for films from 1931-1985. Still, I apologise if I have missed any to include in the list below).

S No	Genre	Remarks
1)	सामाजिक –	social drama (e.g.’Sholay-1975, etc – many movies, or all movies except from the following genres)
2)	रहस्य प्रधान/रहस्य –	mystery/suspense (e.g. Qismat Ka Khel-1956,The Train-1970, etc)
3)	स्टंट –	stunt (e.g. Bade Saaheb-1951, Diamond King-1961 etc) (I don’t know why the Hindi word for ‘Stunt’ is not mentioned )
4)	भक्ति प्रधान –	devotional (e.g. Ishwar Bhakti-1951 etc)
5)	पौराणिक –	mythological (e.g. Bholaa Shanker-1951 etc)
6)	धार्मिक –	religious/religion based (Chhath Maiyaa Ki Mahimaa-1979, Khwaajaa Ki Deewaani-1981, etc)
7)	ऐतिहासिक –	period / (historical ?) – (e.g. Aandolan-1951, Anand Math-1952 etc)
8)	देश भक्ति प्रधान –	patriotic (e.g. Shaheed-1965, Kraanti-1981, Desh Premi-1982 etc)
9)	काल्पनिक –	fictional (e.g. Alladin Aur Jaadui Chiraagh-1952, Jaadui Angoothhi-1964 etc)
10)	स्वप्नचित्र –	fantasy (e.g. Baghdad-1961, Jaadoo Nagri-1961, etc)
11)	जीवनी संबंधी –	biographical (e.g. Vidyaasaagar-1952, Baapu Ne Kahaa Tha-1962, etc)
12)	जासूसी –	spy (/detective?) – (e.g. Mera Saaya-1966, Aankhen-1968 etc)
13)	विज्ञान संबंधी –	science fiction (sci-fi) (e.g. Professor X-1966 etc)
14)	हास्य/ हास्य प्रधान –	comedy (e.g. Bahaar-1951, Do Dooni Chaar-1968, etc)
15)	वेषभूषा प्रधान –	costume drama (e.g. ‘Baadal-1951, Arabian Nights-1967 etc)
16)	अपराध –	crime (e.g. ‘Baazi-1951’, ‘Jaal-1952’, C.I.D.-1956, Train Dakaiti-1984, etc)
17)	आख्यात्मक –	legend/folklore (e.g. Talaash-1952, Lailaa Majnoon-1953, Heer Ranjha-1970, etc)
18)	शास्त्रीय संगीत प्रधान –	Classical Music Based (e.g. Baiju Baawaraa-1952 , Shabaab-1954, Jhanak Jhanak Paayal Baaje-1955 etc)
19)	संगीत प्रधान –	Musical ( e.g. Pratibha-1937, Sangeet Samrat Tansen-1962)
20)	वृत चित्र –	Documentary type (e.g. Gautam Buddha-1957, Jain Teerthkshetra Darshan-1975, etc)
21)	यौन शिक्षा संबंधी –	sex educational (e.g. Gupt Gyaan-1973, etc)
22)	शैक्षणिक / शिक्षा संबंधी –	educational (e.g. Cancer Aur Gupt Rog-1981*) *HFGK Vol-VI mentions this movie in the foot note on this movie page as ‘A moral movie on Sex Education’
23)	रहस्य-रोमांच –	Suspense Thriller (e.g. Rocket Girl-1962, Tower House-1962)
24)	साहित्यिक-	Literature based (e.g. Chandrashekhar-1948,)
25)	बाल-फिल्म –	Movies for Children – (e.g. Diler Bachche-1981)

There are some exceptions also where the movies are mentioned with a ‘joint genre’ e.g. सामाजिक-स्टंट – Jawaahir-E-Hind-1937, स्टंट-रहस्यप्रधान – Naujawaan-1937. Also in the decade of 1931-1940 a movie titled ‘Heer Ranjha (alias ‘Hoor-e-Punjaab’)-1932- is mentioned from the ‘genre’ ‘आध्यात्मक –Spiritual(?) which I guess is a printing mistake and it should be ‘आख्यात्मक’ ‘genre’ which is mentioned with other movies with the same title.

(‘Genres’ for very few movies are not mentioned, which may be because of unavailability of their details or any other reason, e.g. ‘Do Dulhe-1955’, ‘Night In London-1967’, etc.)

A film producer in India (or an applicant whoever it is) has to mention the ‘Kind of film/Genre’ in the application form, while applying for certificate from the ‘Central Board of Film Certification in India’. The details of this application and its guidelines are available on the website of CBFC and ‘cinepramaan’. However, while going through the guidelines I noted one thing which I find strange is that for the ‘kind of film/genre’ it is mentioned that ‘it should be in accordance with the duration of the film’, but for example in the ‘demo’ it mentions the ‘genre’ (i.e. crime) only. So I guess that the ‘duration of the film’ has no role for this particular field there.

If one goes through the ‘genres’ for films produced in initial decades i.e. 1931-1951 one can notice that majority of movies of those days fell under ‘social’, ‘costume drama’, ‘fictional’, ‘fantasy’, ‘stunt’, ‘mythological’, ‘devotional’ etc. This trend continued till 1970 and even later. However movies in the ‘genre’ of ‘fantasy’, ‘costume drama’ got reduced over the years. Movies in the ‘genre’ of ‘suspense thriller’ were also introduced. And movies in the ‘spy genres’ were made only in the decade of 1961-1970. Movies with ‘spy stories’ might have been produced in later years also, but they were mentioned under other ‘genres’. Gradually the different ‘genres’ merged into ‘social’ movies as can be seen from movies made in 1971-1985. For example a title ‘Paataal Bhairavi-1952’ was a ‘fantasy movie’, but movie with the same title made in 1985 was made in the ‘genre’ of ‘social’ movie. (I hope to come with more detailed statistics on this in a future post on the blog).

Let us come back to the ‘genre’ of today’s movie i.e. ‘Spy film’. In the decade of the sixties the first movie based on the character of James Bond created by Ian Fleming was released in ‘1962’ . It was ‘Dr No’ featuring Sean Connery as James Bond or Secret Agent 007. ‘Farz-1967’ is considered as the first Hindi movie inspired by the character of James Bond and it was later followed by many such movies. However if one goes through the ‘genre’ of the movie, ‘Farz’ is mentioned in Geet Kosh as a ‘Social’ movie. (This is the same case for other movies by the same director i.e. Ravikant Nagaich where movies based on ‘spy stories’ have been categorized under the same ‘genre’ i.e. ‘social movie’ (e.g. ‘Keemat-1973’, ‘The Gold Medal-1975’, ‘Surakshaa-1979’, ‘Wardaat-1981’ etc).

The first movie in the ‘genre’ of ‘जासूसी’ फिल्म to appear in the Geet Kosh is ‘Mera Saaya-1966’. I think ‘detective film’ should be the right word for this ‘genre’ going by the story of this movie, or should it be ‘suspense thriller’?, or may be ‘rahasya pradhaan chitra’ I guess.

The next movie coming in this genre chronologically is ‘Aankhen-1968’ which is a ‘spy thriller’ and this movie perfectly fits in for this genre. It is also one of my favorite movies from this ‘genre’. I might have watched many movies from this ‘spy-stories’ but I particularly remember ‘Aankhen-1968’ and like it very much. In the later years another ‘spy’ movie which I liked is ‘The Hero-The Love Story of a Spy-2003’. And I think the ‘genre’ of this movie was correctly mentioned as ‘Spy Thriller’.

In the decade of ‘sixties’ there were two more ‘jaasoosi movies’ i.e. ‘Golden Eyes-1968’ and ‘Spy in Rome-1968’. One more movie ‘Khilaadi-1968’ is said to have a ‘spy story’ but it is covered under the ‘genre’ of ‘social’ movie. Moving forward to the decade of ‘seventies’ there are no movies especially under this genre ‘spy thriller’ or ‘jaasoosi movies’ though movies may have ‘spy’ content in their stories. Some examples have already been given above. There are more such examples. A ‘spy movie’ ‘Agent Vinod-1977’ is covered under the ‘genre’ of ‘suspense/mystery’-रहस्य प्रधान. The movie ‘Bond-303-1985’ was categorized as ‘Social movie’.

We can find many movies having ‘spy’ content which got covered under the ‘genre’ of either ‘stunt’, ‘action’, ‘crime’ or ‘suspense/mystery’ or simply as ‘social movies’:) . And same thing can also be noted for films produced outside India too. (I am not going in the details for such movies for now because I am not sure if the information about the ‘genre’ of the movies is mentioned correctly in the online information i.e. it is the same for which the movie was officially certified for).

The ‘spy’ stories got revived during the recent years in our country with movies like ‘Agent Vinod-2012’ and ‘Ek Tha Tiger-2012’ and subsequently we have ‘created’ our own ‘spy universe’ now (The YRF spy universe’). And our ‘spy-agents’ have become stronger now as they can even save our ‘neighboring country’s PM too’ (‘Tiger-3 ). But these movies have been categorized under the ‘genre’ of ‘Action/Drama/Thriller’ and like that, if the online sources which mentioned them are correct.

The plot of such ‘spy’ movies have been on similar lines where there is some ‘secret formula’ or ‘sensitive secret documents/map’ etc which ‘greedy anti-nationals’ are looking to sell it to an ‘enemy country’ or an ‘enemy country’ trying to get the formula to use for their own benefit. Or the enemy-nation agents are planning to and kidnap ‘scientists’ of our country, and demand ‘some important secrets or formula or demand to release their terrorists friends in our custody etc.

‘Golden Eyes-1968’ has a similar plot where two groups are vying for a ‘secret formula’ of ‘making of a bomb from helium gas’ which is developed by Indian Scientists. This formula has been saved in ‘microfilms’ in two parts and getting those both parts is the sole agenda of two different groups. Do they succeed in getting this or the ‘Secret Agent 007’ prevents them is what is to be watched in this ‘entertaining movie’. The movie is now available on online platform but sadly the ‘quality of print and the audio of the film’ is very poor’ which takes off all the ‘thrill’ of watching it.

“Golden Eyes” (alias ‘Secret Agent 077’) was directed by Kamal Sharma for ‘Madan Chitra, Bombay’. It was produced by Ramkumar Bohra. It had Mumtaz, Shailesh Kumar (as Secret Agent 007), Helen, Ram Kumar, Ravi Kumar, B.M. Vyas, Shabnam, Madhumati, Asit Sen, Ulhas, Rani, Rajan Haksar, Saudagar Singh, Samson, Rajan Kapoor, Ramesh Kant, Shaikh, Jeevankala, Khurshid, Ratan Gaurang, Nazir Kashmiri, H. Prakash, Amrit Rana, Vijaylakshami, Narbada Shankar, Musha Chang, Maqbool, Bhaskar, Ganesh, Bashir, Arvind, Abu Baker, Juliyan, Sayyad, Rachna, Rita, Baby Camne, Mohammedali, Steelman, Sattar Master and others. Story and dialogues of this movie was written by H.M. Singh and screenplay was written by Shreeram Bohra. Editing of this movie was done by S.R. Sawant.

This movie has six songs which all were written by Shewan Rizvi and music for this movie was composed by Baldev Nath or B.N. Bali. The playback for the songs in this movie is given by Asha Bhonsle, Mahendra Kapoor, Usha Balsawar and Kamal Barot.

The song under discussion is sung by Asha Bhonsle and it is picturised on Helen. Shailesh Kumar is also seen in the picturisation. Lyrics are by Shewan Rizvi and music is composed by B.N. Bali.

The lyric contains ‘arabic words’ like ‘anta habibi’ and ‘anta rafiqui’ for which the online sources mention the meaning as ‘my beloved’ for ‘anta habibi’. I am aware of the words ‘habib’, ‘rafiq’ and ‘rafiqui’ which mean a beloved, a friend and friendship respectively. However, I would request knowledgeable readers to throw more light on this or any valuable information they can add please.

Let us now enjoy this wonderful song and extend our birthday greetings to Helen whose birthday falls today (21 November).

Video

Audio

Song-Anta habeebi anta rafiqui (Golden Eyes)(1968) Singer-Asha Bhonsle, Lyrics-Shewan Rizvi, MD-B N Bali

Lyrics

gulshan pe ghataa chhaayi
bahaar aayi ee
zaraa dekh
aankhon mein mere pyaar ki
gehraayee zaraa dekh
ye dil kaa dhuaan hai
yaa kaleje kaa dhuaan hai
ye dil kaa dhuaan hai
yaa kaleje kaa dhuaan hai
ulfat ne kahaan aag ye
bhadkaayee zaraa dekh

antaa habibi ee
antaa rafiqui ee
antaa habibi ee
antaa rafiqui ee
jaaneman jaanaa naa
dil ye boley
haule haule
naa jaanaa naa jaanaa
habibi ee ho ho ho o
rafiqui ee ho ho ho o
antaa habibi
antaa rafiqui
jaaneman jaanaa naa
dil ye boley
haule haule
naa jaanaa naa jaanaa
habibi ee ho ho ho o
rafiqui ee ho ho ho o

ye rang naa thhaa
ye noor naa thhaa
jab yaar naa thhaa
mehfil mein
kya rang dikhaati
shokh adaa
dildaar naa thhaa
mehfil mein ae
ye rang naa thhaa
ye noor naa thhaa
jab yaar naa thhaa
mehfil mein
kya rang dikhaati
shokh adaa
dildaar naa thhaa
mehfil mein
ye shamaa naa thhaa parwaanaa
naa jaanaa naa jaanaa
habibi ee ho ho ho o
rafiqui ee ho ho ho o
antaa habibi
antaa rafiqui
jaaneman jaanaanaa
dil ye boley
haule haule
naa jaanaa naa jaanaa
habibi ee ho ho ho o
rafiqui ee ho ho ho o

kya kisne kahaa
kya kisne sunaa
ye baat na duniyaa samjhi
ik aankh uthhi
ik aankh jhuki
keh daali kahaani dil ki ee
kya kisne kahaa
kya kisne sunaa
ye baat na duniyaa samjhi
ik aankh uthhi
ik aankh jhuki
keh daali kahaani dil ki
nazron mein rahaa afsaanaa aa
na jaanaa na jaanaa
habibi ee ho o o o
rafiqui ee ho o o o
antaa habibi
antaa rafiqui
jaaneman jaanaa naa
dil ye boley
haule haule
naa jaanaa naa jaanaa
habibi ee ho ho ho o
rafiqui ee yaa hoo

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Devnagri Script lyrics (Provided by Avinash Scrapwala)
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गुलशन पे घटा छायी
बहार आयी ई
ज़रा देख
आँखों में मेरे प्यार की
गहरायी ज़रा देख
ये दिल का धुआँ है
या कलेजे का धुआँ है
ये दिल का धुआँ है
या कलेजे का धुआँ है
उलफत ने कहाँ आग ये
भड़काई ज़रा देख

अंता हबीबी ई
अंता रफीकी ई
अंता हबीबी ई
अंता रफीकी ई
जानेमन जाना ना
दिल ये बोले
हौले हौले
ना जाना ना जाना
हबीबी ई हो ओ ओ ओ
रफीकी ई हो ओ ओ ओ
अंता हबीबी
अंता रफीकी
जानेमन जाना ना
दिल ये बोले
हौले हौले
ना जाना ना जाना
हबीबी ई हो ओ ओ ओ
रफीकी ई हो ओ ओ ओ

ये रंग ना था
ये नूर ना था
जब यार ना था
महफिल में ए
क्या रंग दिखाती शोख अदा
दिलदार ना था
महफिल में ए
ये रंग ना था
ये नूर ना था
जब यार ना था
महफिल में ए
क्या रंग दिखाती शोख अदा
दिलदार ना था
महफिल में ए
ये शमा ना था परवाना
ना जाना ना जाना
हबीबी ई हो ओ ओ ओ
रफीकी ई हो ओ ओ ओ
अंता हबीबी
अंता रफीकी
जानेमन जाना ना
दिल ये बोले
हौले हौले
ना जाना ना जाना
हबीबी ई हो ओ ओ ओ
रफीकी ई हो ओ ओ ओ

क्या किसने कहा
क्या किसने सुना
ये बात न दुनिया समझी
इक आँख उठी
इक आँख झुकी
कह डाली कहानी दिल की ई
क्या किसने कहा
क्या किसने सुना
ये बात न दुनिया समझी
इक आँख उठी
इक आँख झुकी
कह डाली कहानी दिल की ई
नज़रों में रहा अफसाना आ
ना जाना ना जाना
हबीबी ई हो ओ ओ ओ
रफीकी ई हो ओ ओ ओ
अंता हबीबी
अंता रफीकी
जानेमन जाना ना
दिल ये बोले
हौले हौले
ना जाना ना जाना
हबीबी ई हो ओ ओ ओ
रफीकी ई हो ओ ओ ओ