Kisine Apna Banake Mujhko...

Kisine Apna Banake Mujhko-Lata Mangeshkar-Film Patita 1953-Lyrics Shailendra-Music Shankar Jaikishan

Usha Kiron had been in a relationship with the already married producer-director Amiya Chakraborty when she was signed for this high voltage melodrama, and only the second opposite a big hero, the first being the Dilip Kumar-Nimmi starrer, Daag where she had an insubstantial role. Although this was, perhaps, her fourth or fifth film, Usha Kiron provided a subdued and superlative performance, stealing the show with an author-backed role as the fallen woman. Amiya Chakraborty handled the difficult subject with sensitivity .Usha Kiron is the piece de resistance of the whole show.

it is the story of a beggar, Radha (Usha Kiran), making ends meet and supporting her crippled father in a shanty. She is forced to meet the landlord, Manohar (Shivraj) who assaults her instead. Pregnant, she leaves the job and the habitat. Nirmal (Dev Anand), an educated man with an idealistic outlook, not only falls for her, he even wants to marry her. The father, Sadhu Ram (Krishnakant) dies of shock. She tries to commit suicide but is prevented by a friendly vagabond, Mast Ram (Agha), an orphan himself.

Radha gives birth to a child named Chandu, starts living with him in a make-shift structure. She refuses to admit the child to the orphanage managed by Guruji (B.M. Vyas). In time Nirmal locates her, and persuades her to marry him promising to reveal the truth about her to his mother (Lalita Pawar). Circumstances prevent him from doing so. The cunning Manohar tips off her of truth, choosing a moment when Nirmal is away.

All hell breaks loose. To save her honour again Radha kills Manohar, and is tried. Follows a lengthy moralistic speech by the mother, ostensibly in a court room, that acquits Radha of murder, acting in self defence. In between is an interlude of a car with Nirmal crashing into a bridge, and he is believed dead but using a cinematic devise his presence and being alive is effectively conveyed to the audience, including the only solo that the hero gets to sing. Performance-wise, both Usha Kiron and Agha (he even gets two solos to lip sync) steal the thunder from Dev Anand who is missing from more than half the narrative, and is just about passable.

Shankar Jaikishen’s mellifluent compositions to some of Shailendra’s memorable lyrics in Talat Mahmood’s sonorous voice – “Andhe jahaan ke andhe raste jayen to jayen kaha”, “Hain Sab se Madhur woh Geet Jine Hum Dard ke Swar Mein Gaate Hain” (inspired by Shelley’s ‘Our sweetest songs are those that tell of the saddest thought’), “Tujhe Apne Pass Bulati Hai”; coupled with Lata Mangeshkar’s rendering of “Kisi Ne Apna Bana Ke”, “Mitti Se Khelte Ho” contributed substantially to the success of the film. Hasrat Jaipuri contributed the duet “Yaad Kiya Dil Ne Kahaan Ho Tum” rendered by Hemant Kumar and Lata Mangeshkar. It added value to the product.

Patita was a block buster hit, because of it's tight narrative, superb acting by Usha Kiran and Agha, and off course wonderfully composed music by Shakar Jaikishan duo. This song comes in the film, when Nirmal proposes Radha for marriage. Being destitute till then, she has not experienced the feelings of immense joy. Her penniless life had been spent so far in harsh conditions. And then suddenly this good news of marriage proposal from a handsome, wealthy and compassionate young man makes her ecstatic. Her whole world, which was hither to, dull and full of miseries ,changes to acquire the rainbow colours. She is overwhelmed by his generous offer. She expresses her joyous feeling in this song. She has not imagined such thing even in her wild dreams, but her beloved has brought it into reality. He has brought love and laughter in her life. He had changed her life beyond comprehension and filled it with twinkling stars of happiness.

Shailendra's powerful lyrics bring out the feelings of involvement into mystique transcendence of first love and the overwhelming joy it brings in one's life. Shankar Jaikishan's tune , based on Raag Bhairavi, is full of gaiety and zest. Lata , as usual in her honey sweet voice renders the song professionally. The song which transports you to paradise of love.

किसी ने अपना बना के मुझको मुस्कुराना सिखा दिया
अंधेरे घर में किसी ने हँस के चिराग़ जैसे जला दिया
किसी ने अपना बना के मुझको मुस्कुराना सिखा दिया
शरम के मारे मैं कुछ न बोली -2
नज़र ने परदा गिरा दिया
मगर वो सब कुछ समझ गये हैं
के दिल भी मैंने गँवा दिया
किसी ने अपना बना के मुझको मुस्कुराना सिखा दिया
न प्यार देखा न प्यार जाना -2
सुनी थीं लेकिन कहानियाँ -2
जो ख़्वाब रातों में भी न आया
वो मुझको दिन में दिखा गया
किसी ने अपना बना के मुझको मुस्कुराना सिखा दिया
वो रंग भरते हैं ज़िंदगी में -2
बदल रहा है मेरा जहाँ
कोई सितारे लुटा रहा था
किसी ने दामन बिछा दिया
किसी ने अपना बना के मुझको मुस्कुराना सिखा दिया
अंधेरे घर में किसी ने हँस के चिराग़ जैसे जला दिया



Patita 1953
Starcast: Dev Anand , Usha Kiran, Lalita Pawar, Shivraj, Agha
Lyrics: Shailendra & Hasrat Jaipuri.
Music: Shankar Jaikishan
Produced and Directed by Amiya Chakraborty