RMIM Archive Article "97".
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# Subject: Sahir's Parodies on Iqbal's Taarana-e-Hind and Taarana-e-Milli
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# Source: Posts of 1) [email protected] ([email protected])
# 2) [email protected] (Sandeep S Bajwa).
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[email protected] (Ikram Ahmed Khan) asked:
> I guess this is where I get to ask an old question that I had but never
> got around to asking. Did Iqbal write "Saare Jahaan se achchha" as we
> know it? I know for a certain fact that he did write the similar sounding
> " Cheen-o-arab hamara" but if I remember right it had a lot of hi-fi Urdu
> so he May have modified it into the more Hindi-ised version which we now
> know as "Saare Jahaan se achchha", but I have no idea whether he did do
> this or not.Or whether this is a totally separate nazm/geet of his.
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> Btw,Sahir , as you all know did a take-off on the "Cheen-o-arab" in Phir
> Subah Hogi. He used to specialise in this or what?? He has also done this
> routine on the TajMahal (i.e. take a well established metaphor and
> totally invert the meaning. The effect is quite powerful)
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> Later,
> Ikram.
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Hi!
Iqbal did write both "saare jahaan se achchaa" (Tarana-I-Hind) and "cheen o
arab" (Tarana-I-Milli). Here are two great posts, saved earlier from RMIM,
one posted by [email protected] ([email protected]) and the second by:
[email protected] (Sandeep S Bajwa).
Hope these will help you find the answers to your questions.
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bye
satish
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Old Post 1.
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Song: chin-o-arab hamaaraa
Posted by: [email protected] ([email protected])
I was just planning on posting this song myself. To the best of my
knowledge, it is Sahir's, and it is a very very clever take-off of
Iqbal's Tarana-e-milli. It most definitely does appear in Phir Subah
Hogi.
Chin-o-arab hamaara
hindostaan hamaara
rehneko ghar nahin hai, saara jahaan hamaara
Just to show what a clever parody this is of Iqbal, the first verse of
Taraanaa-e-milli goes as follows:
Chin-o-arab hamaara
hindostaan hamaara
muslim hai hum, vatan hai saara jahaan hamaara
(which was composed most probably in the late thirties when he was a
figure in the Pakistan movement)
The real beauty of the first verse is that it turns around Iqbal's
arguably communal and national hymn into a cry of of the oppressed and
anguished that is neither communal nor chauvinist nor nationalist, but
internationalist.
The rest is somewhat as follows: (parts are also recognizable as being
borrowed from Iqbal's hymn of INDIAN nationalism, "Taraana-e-Hind")
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Film: Phir Subah Hogi
Lyrics: Sahir
Chin-o-arab hamaara
hindostaan hamaara
rehneko ghar nahin hai, saara jahaan hamaara
sone ko hum kalandar
aate hai bori bandar
har ik kuli yahaan ka
hai raazdaan hamaara
jitni bhi buildingen thi
sethon ne baatli hai
footpaath bambai ke, hai aashiyaan hamaara
koli (?) bhi chhin gayi hai
benchen bhi chhin gayi hai
sarkon pe ghoomta hai
ab kaarvaan hamaara
jeben hai apni khaali
mite tawar mein gaali
voh santari hamaara
voh paasbaan hamaara
taalim hai adhuri
milti nahin majoori
ma'lum kya kisi ko
dard-e-nihaan hamaara
patla hai haal apna
lekin lahu hai gaada
faulaad se banaa hai
har naujawaan hamaara
mil-jul ke is watan ko
aisa sajaaenge hum
ghairat se mu sakegaa
...saara jahaan hamaara
Some of the references are easily identifiable, especially to Indians
who know "saare jahaan se achha".
e.g. ae aab-e-rud-e-Ganga,
voh din yaad hai tujhko
utra tere kinaare jab kaarwaan hamaara?
To which the parody goes "sarkon pe ghoomta hai ab kaarwaan hamaara"
or the final line to "saare jahaan" which most people don't know, goes
as follows:
"iqbal, koyi mehrum apna nahin jahaan mein,
ma'lum kya kisi ko, dard-e-nihaan hamaara"
Here, of course, it is:
"milti nahin majoori,
ma'lum kya kisi ko dard-e-nihaan hamaara"
or, from Taraana-e-Milli, the line goes:
ae gulistaan-e-andalus, voh din yaad hai tujh ko
tha teri daliyon mein jab aashiyaan hamaara?
contrast that with "footpaath bambai ke hai aashiyaan hamaara"
Overall, it seems that the song (I may be wrong about Sahir) takes a
somewhat dim view of the lofty and grandiose nationalism of Iqbal by
presenting some home-truths about real prsent day life
to end with another line from a song from the same film:
- jab anbar dhool se naachengi
jab dharti naghme gaaiyegi
...voh subah kabhi to aaiyegi
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Old Post 2.
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'Iqbal' (Tarana-i-Hind) (Translated into english too)
Posted by: [email protected] (Sandeep S Bajwa)
Takhaloos : 'Iqbal'
Name :- Mohammad Iqbal
Born at:- Sialkote Died at :- Lahore 1938 A.D.
Tarana-I-Hind
Sare Jahan se achachha Hindustan hamara,
hum bulbulen hainiski yeh gulistan hamara!
Ghurbat men hon agar ham rehta hai dil watan men,
Samjho wahin hamen bhi dil ho jahan hamara!
Parbat woh sab se uncha hamsaya aasmaan ka,
woh santari hamara, woh pasban hamara!
Godi men khelti hain iski hazaron nadiyan,
Gulshan hai jinke dam se rashke jinan hamara
Aiy ab-e-rood-i-ganga ! woh din hain yaad tujhko,
utra tere kinare jab karavan hamara!
Mazhab nahin sikhata apas men bair rakhna
Hindi hain ham watan hai Hindustan hamara!
Yunan-o-misr-o-Roma sab mit gaye jahan se,
ab tak magar hai baqi nam-o-nishaan hamara!
Kuchh bat hai ki hasti mitthi nahin hamari,
sadiyon raha hai dushman daur-i-zaman hamara
Iqbal! koi mehram apna nahin jahan men
Ma'loom kya kisi ko dard-i-nihan hamara!
National Song of India
The best in the world
our India!
In its gardens of delight
we are the nightingales.
Although in far-off lands,
driven by our desire
we reach you in spirit.
The world's highest mountain
is our sentinel, our protector, heaven's confidante.
And prancing on your lap
a thousand rivers
make you a garden-country, outrivalling heaven.
o flowing waters of the river Ganges!
Do you recall the times
when our caravan pitched its tents
upon your banks?
religion does not teach
mutual discord.
strug on a single strand
we are one
we are Indians.
Rome, Greece, Egypt have become reduced to relics
of dead civilizations;
only India remains.
threatened for centuries
by world powers
our civilization still flourishes.
Iqbal! you have no kindred soul.
Who will understand the pain concealed within your heart?
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bye
satish
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