Jaago Mohan Pyare

Jago Mohan Pyare-Lata Mangeshkar- Lyrics Shailendra- Music Salil Choudhary

A poor man comes to the city from the village and is looking for water to quench his thirst. It is night time. He is alone and terrified in a city where he knows no one. He roams the streets, searching for some source of water.

He sees a dog lapping up water inside an apartment complex and enters the gates. But he is spotted by security guards and mistaken to be a thief. An alarm is raised and the panicked residents set out to hunt him down.

In his attempts to desperately escape his pursuers, he enters the homes of some of the inhabitants, and sees the depraved and morally corrupt lives that they are leading under the veneer of respectability.

greedy Brahmin priest offering predictions for horse races, a drunkard who prefers the company of brothels and liquor instead of his ‘boring’ devoted wife, a husband attempting to steal his wife’s ornaments for gambling, a respectable philanthropist Rambabu printing fake notes in his secret hideout; the film offers vignettes on the reality of the lives led by its supposedly virtuous residents. 

Based on a Bengali play, " En Din Ratre", Jagte Raho sheds light on the duplicity of corruption infested and morally defunct society. Raj Kapoor has very few dialogues in the film, save for long monologue at the end about the hypocrisy of the amoral society.

However the film ends on optimistic notes, that there is certainly light at the end of the dark tunnel. The bhajan 'Jaago Mohan Pyaare' ushers in a new day and a sense of hope, taking forward the symbolism of light and darkness in the film.

Nargis appears at the fag end of the film in this song in a cameo role of a girl, who finally quenches Raj Kapoor's thirst. This was the last appearance of Nargis in R.K.Banner film. The long and romantic association of Raj and Nargis came to end. The end of an era and beginning of a new one.

जागो 

जागो जागो
जब उजियारा छाये
मन क अन्धेरा जाये
किरनों की रानी गाये
जागो हे, मेरे मन मोहन प्यारे

जागी रे जागी रे जग कलियां जागी जागी रे जागी रे जागी रे
जागो मोहन प्यारे जागो जागी रे जागी रे जग जग नव युग चूमे नैं तिहारे
जागी जागी रे जग कलियान जागी जागो, जागो मोहन प्यारे जागी रे जागी रे जागी रे

ये नैइ भोर तोहे अंग लगाये 

जागी रे जागी रे जग जग 

भीगी भीगी अँखियों से मुसकाये
दुनिया को उसने ही उजला पाया 

बाहें फैला ओ दुखियारे जागो मोहन प्यारे ... 

जिसने मन का दीप जलाया
ज्योत का प्यासा प्यास बुझाये 

मत रहना अँखियों के सहारे 

जागो मोहन प्यारे ... 

किरन परी गगरी छलकाये फूल बने मन के अंगारे
जागो मोहन प्यारे ...

Jaagte Raho 1956

Star Cast: Raj Kapoor, Nemo, Nargis (Cameo), Pradip Kumar, Sumitra Devi, Pahadi Sanyal, Motilal, Smriti Biswas
Iftikar, Nana Palshikar.
Story by K.A.Abbas.
Cinatography: Raghu Karmarkar.
Lyrics: Shailendra, Prem Dhawan.
Music: Salil Choudhary.
Produced by Raj Kapoor
Directed by Shambhu Mitra