Bata Do Ae Dil Dil Lagana......

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  Bata De Ae Dil, Dil Lagana-Lata Mangeshkar- Film Pooja 1954- Hasrat Jaipuri- Music Shankar Jaikishan

POOJA (1954) was produced under the banner of Varma Films and directed by Bhagwandad Varma. Bharat Bhushan and Poornima were the lead actors with Om Prakash, Shankuntala, Raj Mehra, Hiralal, Ulhas, Janaki Das, Badri Prasad and S Nazir in supporting roles. From the synopsis of the film posted on Indian Films Trade website, the story revolves around a village temple where Keshav Das ( Om Prakash) is a temple singer. One day, Kala (Purnima), his young daughter who is a child widow, goes to temple to sing the song instead of her father who was ill. The temple priest likes her and she goes to the temple regularly and worships ‘Tulsi’ plant. When the priest comes to know that Kala was a widow, he forbids her from worshiping the ‘tulsi’ plant. As a protest, Kala’s father takes a decision never to visit the temple.
Now the temple priest is looking for a singer who could sing in the temple in the next temple festival. Not finding any other singer in the village, the Village Head invites a singer from the adjoining village. Here comes Deepak (Bharat Bhushan). Since his sitar was hidden by the Village Head’s daughter, he borrows another sitar from Keshav Das. Apparently, both the temple priest and Keshav Das are pleased with Deepak’s singing. Deepak shifts to Keshav Das’ house to learns more music from him and as one can foresee in the Hindi film, he falls in love with Kala without knowing that she was a widow. Kala does not respond to his overtures though she also likes him. But it often happens in most of the Hindi films, love is not smooth sailing and in an environment of a small village, there are many hurdles to cross them. So Bharat Bhushan finds an easy way out. He runs away from the village taking Kala with him and the films ends here.
One can well imagine as to why the film failed at the box office. The story was weak and the end was abrupt with no conclusion drawn. I think, the director developed cold feet on the question of taking a firm stand on the topic of child widow remarriage and the audience rebuffed him by cold shouldering his film. This may be one of the rare instances where the lucky mascot Bharat Bhushan could not save the film in spite of getting opportunity to lip sync as many as four outstanding Mohammed Rafi songs in a film.
Lata had three songs pictured on actress Purnima and Baby Shakuntala, namely " Mori Vipada Aan Haro", "Bata De Ae Dil" and "Mai Murlidhar Murali Layee". Kala being widow, cannot express the affinity towards Deepak, yet the flame of love is alive in her heart. Caught in the dilemma of whether to acknowledge and reciprocate his love, or obey be chained in the shackles of unjust social norms, her mind is filled with torment of uncertainty.

बता दे ऐ दिल ,दिल लगाना 
 रास न आये तो क्या करूँ 
 किधर जाऊँ मै ये ज़माना 
 रास न आये तो क्या करूँ
 बता दे ऐ दिल…… 
 
ज़मानेकी परवाह तस्वीर हूँ मैं 
 बँधी अपने पावमें ज़ंज़ीर हूँ मैं 
 मुझे तो क़िस्मत बनाना 
 रास न आये तो क्या करूँ
 बता दे ऐ दिल…… 
 
गगनके बसियां तू धरतीपे आ जा 
 उठाले तू अब मेरे दिलका ज़नाज़ा 
 मुझे मौत को मनाना भी ना 
 रास न आये तो क्या करूँ
 बता दे ऐ दिल…… 

Beautiful lyrics of Hasrat Jaipuri depicting the intense melancholic mood of a bleeding heart and soulful, tender tune from SJ makes this song a musical gem from Lata-SJ combo.


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  • Pooja 1954
  • Starcast: Purnima, Baby Shakuntala, Bharat Bhushan, OmPrakash, Badri Prasad, Ulhas.
  • Lyrics: Hasrat Jaipuri, Shailendra.
  • Music: Shankar Jaikishan.
  • Produced and Directed by Bhagwan Das Warma
  • A Warma Production Film