Hamri laaj nibhaao
Posted on: January 18, 2014
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in sites like lyricstrans.com and ibollywoodsongs.com etc then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
LAGAN (1941) was produced under the banner of New Theatres and was directed by Nitin Bose. The star cast included K L Saigal, Kanan Devi, Nawab Kashmiri, Nemo, Jagdish Sethi, Girdhari Lal Vaid, Naresh Bose, Rohmat Bibi etc. There were 11 songs in the film, all penned by Arzoo Lucknowi which were set to music by R C Boral. The film was 5th largest grosser on the box office for 1941 and got the Bengal Film Journalists Association’s award for the best film of 1941. Incidentally, after this film, both K L Saigal and Kanan Devi left New Theatres, the former to Bombay (Mumbai) and the latter joined M P Productions of P C Barua. K L Saigal, however, returned to New Theatre for doing ‘My Sister’ (1944) which was his last film for New Theatres.
The film is about a relationship between a poet-music teacher (K L Saigal) and a budding singer Kusum Kumari (Kanan Devi) who is one of the students of a Music College. During the annual social gathering, the Principal (Nemo) of the Music College finds himself in a piquant situation when the singer does not turn up for the occasion. Kusum Kumari saves the situation by playing a gramophone record of a song composed by an unknown poet. The Principal is impressed with the poet’s composition and brings him from his native village to the college.
On the occasion of the next annual social gathering of the Music College, Kusum Kumari is chosen to sing a composition by the poet who trains her for the occasion with his best efforts to make her a successful singer. The Poet spends a lot of time with her during training and he gets attracted by her charming disposition and talents. The annual social gathering is successfully concluded and she is mobbed by the audience who showers praises on her. The Chief Guest (Nawab) at the annual social gathering is an unmarried middle aged rich businessman. He also praises Kusum Kumari for her singing. The poet feels ignored and unrecognised. He leaves the hall.
The businessman is now attracted towards the beautiful and talented Kusum Kumari. He is in love with her and wants to get married to her. The Principal of the Music College plays a role of a facilitator in arranging their marriage. The father (Jagdish Sethi) of Kusum Kumari is a happy man as one of the richest men of the city would be his son-in-law. The Poet comes to know about her impending marriage and rushes to her house. He protests and in the milieu, he blurts out his love for her. Kusum Kumari is surprised as she always respected him as her teacher. Her marriage takes place with the middle aged businessman takes place.
The poet goes missing. Kusum Kumari is happily married. Her husband adores her. She lives like a queen. But she starts missing her poet-teacher. The husband senses her predicament and makes all out efforts to trace the poet as he feels that the poet must get all the fame and honours he deserves. The poet is found and the husband ensures that the poet is honoured and reaches to the top. Both wife and husband are happy now. But the poet misinterprets the motives and once again his old attraction towards Kusum Kumari surfaces. She tries to reason with him but he is madly in love with her. Now the husband misunderstands her and she in turn misunderstands her husband. The once happily married couple are in the midst of a serious crisis. [ Based on Film’s booklet reproduced in nthwall and partial video clips of the film with songs.]
I have no idea as to how the film ended. But I guess that the poet in the film has to get ousted from the triangle if one goes by a song ‘hamri laaj nibhaao swami’ in the film, which is sung by Kanan Bala which I am presenting here. In the interregnum of the song, there is a dialogue by Kanan Devi ‘mera tumhaara naata itna hi hai ki tum guru ho main cheli hoon’ (The relation between you and me is that of a teacher and a disciple).This should give an idea as to how the film would end. The song was penned by Arzoo Lucknowi and was set to music by R C Boral. This blog has covered 7 songs from the film. It is interesting to note that all the 11 songs of the film were solos shared by K L Saigal (6) and Kanan Devi (5).
Note- Today (18 january 2014) is the 67th death anniversary of K L Saigal. As All K L Saigal songs have already been covered in the blog, it is not possible to discuss any more of his songs on the occasions of his anniversaries. So we take this opportunity to present this song from a K L Saigal movie as a tribute to the legend.
Song-Hamri laaj nibhaao (Lagan)(1941) Singer-Kanan Devi, Lyrics-Aarzoo Lucknowi, MD-R C Boral
Lyrics
hamri laaj
nibhaao
swaami
hamri laaj nibhaao o o
hamri laaj nibhaao swaami
hamri laaj nibhaao
mauj bhanwar mein aan phansi hai
prem vachan ki naav
mauj bhanwar mein aan phansi hai
prem vachan ki naav
hamri laaj nibhaao swaami
hamri laaj nibhaao
sunti hoon
sunti hoon
sunti hoon aisi baaten aen
paap ki hai jo ghaaten
tum ho devta main pativarta
sat agni dahkaao o o
aur mujhe apnaao o o
aankh se ghat mein samaao o o
hamri laaj nibhaao swaami
hamri laaj nibhaao
[ Dailogue of Kanan Devi :
Dekho, ye baaten chhodo
Mera tumhaara naata itna hi hai
ki tum guru ho, main cheli hoon]
vinati ee
vinati ee
vinati
vinati mori maano o
bhale bure ko jaano
bacho aap bhi dukh sankat se
aur mujhe bhi bachaao o o o
bacho aap bhi dukh sankat se
aur mujhe bhi bachaao o o
hamri laaj nibhaao o o
hamri laaj nibhaao
Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
January 18, 2014 at 9:42 am
Oh! I missed K L Saigal’s death anniversary date. Had I known, I would have included one of remaining songs from this film ‘madbhari madbhari matwari’ in which K L Saigal plays piano and Kanan Bala sings during the annual social gathering of the Music College I referred to in the write-up.
The video clip of the song :
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