barfii ke bahaane gangaa aur jamunaa ke sangam me.n chimat ke baiTh gayaa hai

Film : Mujhe Jeene Do

Year of release : 1963

Spoken by : Thakur Jarnail Singh (Sunil Dutt)

Spoken to : Chamelijaan (Waheeda Rahman)

Dialogue writer : Agha Jaani Kashmiri

A romantic scene between Thakur and Chameli after the two are married. She eats a piece of barfii and the silver foil sticks to her lips. Thakur sees this and remarks,

"isko kyaa haq thaa?"

She asks,

"kisko?"

He says

"chaandii ke is TukDe ko. jo barfii ke bahaane, gangaa aur jamunaa ke sangam me.n chimaT ke baiTh gayaa hai"

"चान्दी के इस टुकडे को. जो बर्फ़ी के बहाने, गंगा और जमुना के संगम में चिमट के बैठ गया है"

Nice prelude to a kiss. The best I have heard or seen in a Hindi film. 

Usne kahaa thaa

Film : Usne Kaha Tha

Year of release : 1960

Spoken by : Nandu (Sunil Dutt)

Spoken to : Havaldar (Tarun Bose)

This Bimal Roy production based on Chandradhar Sharma Guleri's most famous short story 'Usne Kahaa Thaa' is not directed by Bimal Roy himself. He is merely the producer. It is directed by Moni Bhattacharjee. Although it is based on a very famous short story, I would prefer the other 1960 Bimal Roy film Parakh any day over this one. But I will write on that great film some other day. The story is about a simple village man Nandu who meets Kamli for the first time when both of them are kids. Nandu has a soft corner for the girl, but the girl Kamli leaves the village. She comes back years later as a beautiful young girl. It takes very little time for the love to be rekindled. However Nandu is a lotus eater, who depends on his mother Paro's (Durga Khote) sewing machine heroices to make his ends meet. Kamli's uncle refuses to accept Nandu's marriage proposal on this pretext. A disappointed Nandu goes and joins the Army. When he later comes back he is shocked to find that Kamli is now engaged to be married. What he does not know is that she is engaged to his boss the Havaldar. This is revealed to him at the railway station when the entire company is leaving Ambala Cantt to go to the Rangoon front to fight the Japanese. A tearful Kamli says to Nandu

"Nandu, jang pe jaa rahe ho...apnaa Khayaal rakhnaa aur ..."

Nandu asks her

"Aur kyaa?"

She says,

"unkaa Khayaal rakhnaa"

Nandu is mortally wounded in the battlefield while he is transporting a wounded Havaldar to safety. In the hospital, the Havaldar asks Nandu

"MaiN tumse ek baat poochhnaa chaahtaa hooN Nandu...tumne merii jaan bachaaii lekin mujhe bachaane ke liye tumne jaan boojh ke apnee zindagii Khatre meN kyoN Daalee"

"मैं तुमसे एक बात पूछना चाहता हूं नन्दू...तुमने मेरी जान बचाई लेकिन मुझे बचाने के लिये तुमने जान बूझके अपनी ज़िन्दगी ख़तरे में क्यों डाली?"

I think you would have guessed the response. Nandu says

"usne kahaa thaa"

"उसने कहा था"

and dies. So how far would you go on someone's say so. Far enough to endanger your life.

UTh jaayenge do chaar mulaaqaatoN meN

इसे हिन्दी में पढने के लिए यहाँ क्लिक करें

Film : Waqt
Year of release : 1965
Spoken by : Ravinder Kumar Khanna aka Ravi (Sunil Dutt)
Spoken to : Raja (Raj Kumar)

When Meena (Sadhna) goes to the airport to receive Ravi, Raja also goes there, looking for Meena. The exchange between Ravi and Raja, which clearly underlines their rivalry in love has been briefly covered in one earlier post - goyaa voh alag baandh ke rakkhaa hai.

Ravi appreciates the diamonds on Raja's coat and says they are very good. Raja retorts

बढिया तो हम भी बहुत हैं, मगर ये आपको अभी पता नहीं चलेगा

badhiyaa to ham bhee bahut haiN, magar yeh aapko abhee pataa naheeN chalegaa

इतने पर्दे डाल रक्खे हैं आपने - कोई बात नहीं - उठ जायेंगे दो चार मुलाक़ातों में

Itne parde Daal rakhe hai aapne – koee baat nahee – uTh jaayenge do chaar mulaaqaatoN me

I am reminded of the famous couplet from the Mehdi Hasan ghazal

प्यार जब हद से बढ़ा सारे तक़ल्लुफ़ मिट गये

आप से फिर तुम हुये फिर तू का उनवां हो गये

The formalities between friends disappear after a few interactions.

goyaa wo alag baandh ke rakhaa hai jo maal achchhaa hai

This film incidentally won Akhtar-Ul-Iman, the Filmfare award for best dialogue in the year 1966. I don’t have a very high opinion of Filmfare awards in India, given the fact that Shankar Jaikishen were able to win the best music director award for Pehchaan and Beimaan. Listen to the music of these two films and other nominees of those years and you would realize what I mean. I mean to leapfrog over Pakeezah, Shor, Talaash and Do Raaste is unbelievable. I mean for Jai bolo Beimaan kee to win over Chalte chalte and Mausam hai aashiqaanaa. Ridiculous. Anyways, in the case of Waqt – I think that justice was done. One of the earliest lost and found multi starrer dramas in Hindi films. Two brothers – Raja (Raaj Kumar) and Ravi (Sunil Dutt) (no the third brother was not called Varma) – separated due to an earthquake, grow up to be a thief and lawyer respectively. Both desire the same girl – Meena (Sadhna). Meena has gone to the airport to receive Ravi who is coming from Delhi. Raja meanwhile goes to Meena's house and finds that she has gone to the aiport. So he too lands up at the airport with a bouquet of flowers - or as he calls it 'is mausam ke pehle phool'. Then he asks her who has she come to receive. He puts in his inimitable Raaj Kumar style

Aap lene aayee hain to koee Khaas hee aadmee aa rahaa hogaa

And as he goes on further pressing his suit with his dialogues, Ravi lands up. He takes the bouquet from Meena assuming that she had brought it for him. The moment he sees Raja in the backdrop, he seeks to be introduced. Meena says

yeh Mr Raja haiN

Ravi responds with a silly but lovable

to mujhe apnee prajaa samajhiye.

As Meena leaves to collect Ravi's luggage. Ravi says to Raja

BaDee khushee huyee aap se milkar

Raja responds with an acerbic

Khushee to hogee par abhee mulaaqaat huyee kahaaN
अभी मुलाक़ात हुयी कहां
Ravi rejoinds with a very interesting line

goyaa wo alag baandh ke rakhaa hai jo maal achchhaa hai
गोया वो अलग बान्ध के रखा है जो माल अच्छा है
I liked the line more for the way it was said and fineness of the language – नफ़ासत as they call it.

A great line to use at vegetable stores. I wonder why they always hide the good 'bhinDees' under the counter. Give them only to the beautiful girls who they have a secret crush on. Of course you can use this line elsewhere too.