Ik mandir mein do deep jaley

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#the Decade of Seventies – 1971 – 1980 #
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# Bhoole-Bisre Geet # (Singer Manna Dey Birth Anniversary)
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Today 1^st of May 2025 is the one hundred and sixth birth anniversary of one of the legendary singers in the history of Hindi Films – Manna Dey. He was born on 1^st of May 1919 and he passed away on 24^th October 2013. On this occasion as a tribute to him I am presenting a sung by him from the movie ‘Pal Do Pal Kaa Saath-1978’.

‘Pal Do Pal Ka Saath-1978’ was directed by B.R. Ishara for ‘Kaveri Films, Bombay’. This movie was passed by Censor Board on 07.04.1978. It had Shekhar Kapoor, Rama Vij, Shyamlee (New Discovery), and Asit Sen, Paintal, Johny Whisky, Aarti, Tiger, Mishri Lal, Mohammad Ali, Amal Sen, Narayan Gwalani, Hameed, Sitaram, Jasbir, Prakash Joshi, Vijay Nangia, Bhaiyalal Sharma, Kashi Prasad Chaurasia and others.

This movie had four songs penned by Naqsh Lyallpuri, Yogesh, Balkavi Bairagi and Dev Kohli. Music for this movie was composed by Shyam Saagar.

This movie made its debut on the blog on 22.09.2014 where its’ song ‘Phir wahi shaam… chupke se peechhe se aa ke’ sung by Rafi Saab was presented by our Respected Shri Sudhir jee. The lyricist for this song is Dev Kohli. While presenting the above song Sudhir jee had mentioned in his post that this movie seemed to be an obscure movie though it had gems of songs (‘veritable gems’ as Sudhir jee has mentioned in his post). Later I presented the second song from this movie on the blog on 26.04.2018 and this song was ‘Anuraagi man sab kuchh seh le’ sung by Mukesh and penned by Yogesh. I had neither heard about his movie in my growing years nor heard its songs prior to the above post.

This movie is not even available to watch now which means it must be a very obscure movie of its time. No information about the story or other details about this movie are available on internet. When I presented the song sung by Mukesh from this movie I had not listened to the other songs except the Rafi song (since it was already here) from this movie. Moreover, when I presented the Mukesh song, the remaining two songs from this movie were not available online.

Later we added the third song from this movie ‘Sajaa lee teri bindiyaa… Ye Raadha Kanhaiyya ka naam kaise le’, on the blog on 13.05.2023 after the audio of this song became available online. This song is sung by Asha Bhonsle and the lyricist of this song is Balkavi Bairagi.

Today’s song is the final song from this movie ‘Pal Do Pal Kaa Saath-1978’. This song was lying ready for long but I was searching for information about the plot or story of this movie but I couldn’t find anything to add here. Only some information about the actress Shyamlee, added by some readers have become available. Her father was working in a bank where singer Kishore Kumar used to visit and the actress’s father had approached Kishore Kumar for his daughter’s entry into films and that is how she got into films. Her real name was Shyamlee Nadkarni. Her first Hindi film was ‘Dil Se Miley Dil’ which had a delayed release. She also appeared in movies like ‘Dulhan Wohi Jo Piya Mann Bhaaye-1977’, ‘Darwaza-1978’, ‘Pal Do Pal Ka Saath-1978’, ‘Ahinsaa (1979)’, and ‘Door Waadiyon Mein Kaheen-1980’. She got married to Masood Ali (aka Pucky Ali) the eldest son of comedian Mehmood and they had two sons from this marriage. After her marriage she was seen less in films and years later in 1992 she was found dead under mysterious circumstances in her flat. While some claimed it was suicide there were stories alleging foul play, and the case remained unsolved. Masood Ali, who acted in few films, left the film industry as he got disinterested in film line and later shifted to Bangalore and is said to be still living there.

Coming back to the song under discussion, this song is sung by Manna Dey. Only the audio of this song is available. Naqsh Lyallpuri , the lyricist has penned some great verses here as was usual for him.

With today’s song all songs for this movie ‘Pal Do Pal Kaa Saath-1978’ are covered on the blog. I would request knowledgeable readers and our seniors who would have watched this movie to throw more light on this movie and its songs please.

Here is the list of all the song of this movie:-

Let us now listen to this song and pay our tributes to the legendary singer Manna Dey, remembering him on his birth anniversary today.

Audio

Song-Ek mandir mein do deep jaley (Pal Do Pal Ka Saath)(1978) Singer-Manna Dey, Lyrics-Naqsh Llayalpuri, MD-Shyam Sagar

Lyrics

Ik mandir mein do o
deep jaley
ik mandir mein ae do
deep jaley ae ae
deep jaley ae
deep jaley ae ae
ik mandir mein do
deep jaley ae

ek deep kee jyot mein jaage
chanchal man kee aaaas
dooje ke vyaakul nainon mein
hai anmit see pyaas
donon ko hai
bhor se milnaa
jaane kab
raat dhhaley ae
ik mandir mein ae do
deep jaley ae ae
ik mandir mein ae do
deep jaley ae ae

donon hain ik
path ke raahee
donon ka ik meeeet
pawan jhakodon ke dar se hain
donon hee bhaybheet
kiske man kee ee
daalee phoole
jaane kiskee aas phaley
ik mandir mein ae do
deep jaley ae ae

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Devnagri Script lyrics (Provided by Avinash Scrapwala)
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इक मंदिर में दो ओ
दीप जले
इक मंदिर में दो ओ
दीप जले ए ए
दीप जले
दीप जले ए ए
इक मंदिर में दो ओ
दीप जले ए

एक दीप की ज्योत में जागे
चंचल मन की आस
दूजे के व्याकुल नैनों में
है अनमिट सी प्यास
दोनों को है
भोर से मिलना
जाने कब
रात ढले ए
इक मंदिर में दो ओ
दीप जले ए ए
इक मंदिर में दो ओ
दीप जले ए ए

दोनों हैं इक
पथ के राही
दोनों का इक मीत
पवन झकोड़ों के डर से हैं
दोनों ही भयभीत
किसके मन की ई
डाली फूले ए
जाने किसकी आस फले
इक मंदिर में दो ओ
दीप जले ए ए