Find Of The Week: ‘Hinglish’ Song
I had mischievously put forward a trivia question: First ever Hinglish Film song?, to the PFC authors. I did not know the answer, but I was confident that the Trimurti: PavanSaab, RKSaab & SubratSaab would know the answer, or Google will have the answer. I had a backup as well; I would have bluffed Kishore Kumar’s song “Oonche Sur Mein Gaye Ja” as the first ever Hinglish Film song, if nobody knew.
Now what are the chance of me bluffing to the Trimurti and getting it away? Zero.
I did not had to bluff or google because Subrat came up with a gem of Hinglish song “Meri Jaan Meri Jaan Sunday ke Sunday” from film “Shehnai”, which was released in year 1947! So that song beat the song I thought was the first ever Hinglish song by whopping eight years.
Anyway, the point of me posting this blog is, “Meri Jaan Meri Jaan Sunday ke Sunday ” is one hell of an amazing song and I thought it deserves a post, albeit it will be a very short blog. The song is sung by Chitalkar and Meena Kapoor. Chitalkar sings in a phoren twang, which does not sound funny or strange. And he has also composed the track. I could not find a video of the song, but you can listen to the song here.
..Aao Haathon Mein Haath Le Walk Karein Hum
Aao Sweet Sweet Aapas Mein Talk Karein Hum..
It does not sound cheesy, does it? But If those above lines were of a today’s song – then would people have been burning effigies of the writer/lyricists?
I had not heard of this movie before, so obviously, not have seen the film and hence ain’t got a clue about the film.
According to Pavansaab, in his own words, “Devika rani sung a full fledged english song in 1933 in the film Karma and so did Shanta Apte in Dunia na Mane a few yeas later”. And he reckons, in fact, strongly believes that we should be able to find a Hinglish song from late ’30s or early ’40s.
So can you beat that year – 1947 – and find an earlier example of Hinglish song to have come out from the Hindi Film industry? (Or better, find the total number of Hinglish songs produced so far.)
Tags: Songwriting
Anurag Kashyap
Abhay Deol
Dibakar Banerjee
Hansal Mehta
Khalid Mohamed
Kundan Shah
Anish Kuruvilla
Jaideep Verma
Manish Gupta
Navdeep Singh
Bhavani Iyer
D. Santosh
Onir
Ashvin Kumar
Ramu Ramanathan
Sudhir Mishra
Pankaj Advani
Revathy
Saurabh Shukla
Shilpa Shukla
Sujoy Ghosh
Suparn Verma
Santosh Sivan
Shashank Ghosh
Shivajee
Pavan Kaul
Partho Sen-Gupta
Prroshant Naryannan
Sam Langoria
Satish Kasetty
HG: Talking of Duniya Na Mane, it was released in 1937. You can listen to the English song from that film here:
http://hindi-films-songs.com/duniyanamane37-09-in-the-worlds.mp3
Thanks for this post! Got me thinking and I couldn’t get something better than Sunday ke Sunday! So, its good to know about Duniyaan na maane.
Meri Jaan Meri Jaan Sunday ke Sunday
Thats where they got the lines for the Ad jingle
Meri Jaan Meri Jaan Murgi ke Anday.
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About First English Song
“Now The Moon Her Light Has Shed” sung by Devika Rani for the film Karma (1933) under the baton of music director Earnest Broadhurst.
Found it here:
http://usefullforall.blogspot.com/2007/11/first-in-indian-movie-cinema.html
A list of lot of firsts.
I’m not sure if Karma really qualifies as a Hindi film with an English song. It was made as a bilingual and I don’t think the Hindi version had the English song.
And yes, Karma is known better for another “scandalous” reason.
Please enlighten me on what the scandalous reason was… thanks…
@Sarang : An almost 4 minute lip lock between Devika Rani and Himanshu Rai, with Devika Rani lying on top of Himanshu Rai (of course, fully clothed). Now, that was scandalous for 1933, even though the people in question were married to each other.
Aditya,
Did that lip lock created any sort of riots? And where can I hear the Devika Rani’s English song?
So what about an Hinglish song, i.e, a song lyric which is mixture of Hindi and English, from ’30s era? Just like Meri Jaan..
HG: I don’t think the liplock created any “riots”…Raised eyebrows and hushed discussions was all it resulted in probably. Those were relatively liberal times in Indian cinema. Even other actresses like Lalita Pawar(yes she too)and Sitara Devi kissed on screen.
I have been trying to get hold of this English song from Karma for a while now, but haven’t met with much success….
As for Hinglish songs from the 30s and early 40s, nothing comes to my mind readily….
HG: This must thrill you….I found a Hinglish song from 1936. It’s called “Favourite Main Ghoda” from a film called “Miss Frontier Mail”
I can’t decipher all the lyrics as the recording is not clear enough, but words like favourite, jockey, number four, third class, first class, etc are quite clear. Here’s a link:
http://www.musicplug.in/multiple_song_flashplayer.php?songid=9193&br=high&id=1856&page=
Aditya,
That is quite a find!
Here
Aati hai Yaad Humko January Farwary ( Asha-Kishore – Muqaddar, 1950 )
Nice one Aditya. There is one more Hinglish song from that film.
Vinayak.. that cannot be classified as an Hinglish song, can it be? But.. ‘hello’ had replaced ‘namaste’ way before than we think, eh?
I think, Subrat is busy, but this is what he found earlier:
http://www.earthmusic.net/hindi-film-songs.php?movie=Fashionable+India
Could not find a clip of either of those songs…
Honhaar Goonda,
agreed but I couldn’t leave it out..I found the “Hello” too fascinating.
About Fashionable India, the site ( I used the same site for my list) also mentions songs:
daisy daisy give me answer do i am half
and
old jolly good fellow old jolly good fellow
Also,
peris ke namoonewaala yeh bathroom niraala
is from Gentleman Daku ( IMDB date 1937)
and i found one more song
paradise paradise paris haan paris from Hindustan (IMDB date: 1932)
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Couldn’t find any clips. These songs seem to be lost.
Very interesting finds. Thanks for sharing them. Would the song from Patanga 1949 work? Mere piya gaye Rangoon? I would think Telephoone is authentic hinglish
Indeed. Very interesting finds. So, in year 1932, we had first ever Hinglish… “Paradise Paradise Paris” from Hindustant, eh?! I need to hear those songs!
Or can we do better than that?! An Hinglish song from 1920 era?!
That would be stretching this out too far. Alam Ara, the first talkie was released only in 1931.
Sarang,
Mere piya gaye Rangoon although it is tele phoone , still it should count.
Aditya – Devika-HR were not the first people to kiss in films. In the 20’s J. F. Madan ( produced mostly mythological ) used to openly show sex scenes. He used to keep a stock of Anglo-Indian and Jewish girls to do so.
Then the first time Sulochana & Dinshaw Billimoria kissed in films like Anarkali & Heer Ranjha.
Then Zubeida (who was later in Alam Ara ) kissed in the film “Zarina”. It was quite common those days.
I think the first Indian Talkie ( before Alam Ara ), a film by Himanshu Rai, with mostly Indian technicians,( shot mostly in India ) “Karma” ( in Hindi and English )had english words in the hindi songs. I have yet to confirm though.
kcp: Oh no, I never said or implied that Devika Rani and HR were the first persons to kiss on screen.
HG: I just found the video of the song from Actress (1948) that Vinayak mentioned above. Intersting song:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=GPLoz2a_xHA
Aditya… out of all those women which one is the actress! And yes, that song is very interesting…. Some of Today’s Hinglish composers/writers should look up to these songs for inspiration! Or even look at Gulzar’s Hinglish lyrics.. which are top quality.