Akalmand :: That song of Mohammed Rafi that opened the GATE for many a COMEDIAN film






U Tube :: Song :: Doh Akalmand , Huey Phikarmand 

Akalmand :: That song of Mohammed Rafi that opened the GATE for many a COMEDIAN film

That was the year 1965 . The Indo Pak war was just over . It was during the month of October that the infamous comedian Mr I.S.Johar was full of idea to make a FILM on the Indo-Pak war giving it a comical twist and rather than hitting the sentiment of the people of Pakistan and India , he taught it better to give it a sense of comedy involving the height of laughter that the Pakistani and the Indian can provide to create a war like situation which would be fought between the villain's of the films and the comedians. With this intention he created a film which was named as AKALMAND.


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 U Tube :: Song :: Clipping Of The Song 

The Film Akalmand :: Rafi Sahab and Kishorda open the FLOODGATE of the comedy film

Akalmand in Hindi is “ One Who Applies Brain For Everything ”   .This was a film that I.S.Johar wanted to make and he made it.The Film was all about the NON-SENSE of Pakistan to wage a war over India and eventually lose the battle against India because of it’s unwise decision to evaluate the Indian situation and think that the MODERN weapon can win the war. In 1965 America had given Pakistan the WORLD BEST Fighter plane, the SABRE JET and the Patton Tank and with that Pakistan had taken the victory for granted. It lost to India because of the MENTAL planning and the brain that the Indian used to outclass Pakistan at every sector of the war.This is what Mr I.S. Johar portrayed in the entire film.

In the film the villain Mr Sheikh Mukhtar was portrayed as Pakistani. The Heroine Sonia Sahni whom many would not ever know and about whom many have never even have seen her acting was potrayed as KASHMIR. Incidentally  Madam Sonia Sahni who was the Miss India and then a film heroine was from Kashmir and she knew how to act as a Kashmiri and that is why she was chosen for the film. Her Father was a Civil Engineer in the Government of Kashmir and her sister Madam Sundari Sahni was an Air-Hostess who later had married Feroze Khan who again  was a film personality.

The HEROES of the Indo-Pakistan war were portrayed as I.S.Johar and Kishore Kumar whom we call him as Kishoreda . No further introduction about the film, please .

The film was full of comedy .In the film the Heroine’s were abducted by the villain which actually meant that Kashmir was raided by Pakistan and the two comedians who actually were the heroes of the movie, I.S.Johar  and Kishore Kumar go and take out the heroine’s from the clutches of the villain's , ie the enemy and that was Pakistan. This is what the movie was and is all about.

Akalmand- ie the BRAINY was the theme of the movie which the Indian Army and the defence unit was and it was a message to the movie goers to apply their mind on a PSYCHOLOGICAL manner and process to understand the movie as well as the indo-Pak war of 1965. That was the film all about.

Mohammed Rafi and his song with Kishoreda opened the flood gate for the COMICAL movies further

Mohammed rafi was s serious personality when it boiled down to business. However he had a GIFT provided to him by the almighty.  HE WOULD ALWAYS LAUGH AT ANYTHING OR GRIN AT EVERYBODY HE SAW.  That was his USUAL habit of greeting the people, but when he stood for recording he meant business. However he also would grin and laugh at anybody to greet him and that was his habit of saying HELLO to everybody that he made. In this movie there was a song DOH AKALMAND HUEY PHIKARMAND, AB SOCH RAHAY HAI KYA KARNA HAI DILBAR JAANI.

The reality of that song is THAT SONG NIETHER HAD ANY HEAD OR ANY TALE AND ANY MEANING ATTACHED TO IT. He was recording that song with Kishoreda who had a habit of being a MIME to make everybody laugh. During the time of recording this song ,  the words of the songs and the lines that Rafi Sahab would sing or recite would burst him into laughter and looking into that Kishoreda would make some kind of a face that Rafi Sahab would completely blow the laugh without any control . The one’s who were in the recording studo , at first had taken it as a natural habit of Rafi Sahab repeating his act but again and again the re-recording of the song pulled the hats off their head. Something was going wrong they felt.

Rafi Sahab actually DID NOT sing any kind of a COMIC or a song which was fully meant for the comedian, then, and till then. This kind of a song which was such a MEANINGLESS song with no idea into it was something new to Rafi Sahab and the entire  recording unit which was so stunned by his habit on that day and his uncontrollable laughing gesture made it very clear that day that  he found himself into a very unusual situation which was full of laughter.Add to his laugh were the acts of Kishoreda who was a INFAMOUS comedian star as well and his act in PADOSAN too would make one to realize that.

Somehow after many a struggle and control over the laugh, the song was recorded. The film had Dev Anand as a guest star  and his comments and commentary before the start of the film was the added feature of the film. The film was released .It did not do well in the box office as the Hindi cinema goers would not understand the PHILOSOPHY that were added to the film and it did not at all do well in the box – Office but somehow it could break even .That was it.

What made the World Of Hindi cinema notice was the amount of LAUGH that Rafi Sahab while recording with Mr Kishore Kumar of that song , had spend and that made ONE to realise that if Rafi Sahab could laugh so much, the COMEDY of the INDIAN FILM did have a ROOM for themselves in the Hindi cinema. That added SPICE to the CURRY of the Indian cinema then and the after thought made many to come up with NICE Comedian film and there were many comedians who made their LIFE and career through comedy.

Akalmand was the FIRST in that list. Add to the list were PYAAR KIYE JAA featuring Shashi Kapoor and Kishore Kumar, and then there was PADOSAN , Johar Mehmood  In Hong-Kong, Johar Mehmood in Goa,  DOH DOONI CHAAR, and many more later .

Had it not been the laughs and the burst of them while recording that song, by Rafi Sahab,  perhaps COMEDIAN film and PADOSAN would not have seen the light of the day .

I have added the clip of the song which is so very old and so fade that the one who watches that would not be able to appreciate it.Also the wordings of the song at places are not proper . That is the reason that I have put the songful version of the U-Tube here for the readers to listen to the song. 

THANKS RAFI SAHAB for your LAUGH during the recording of the film and the song of AKALMAND and if you did not LAUGH that manner while recording that song  WE WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN ABLE TO SEE THE LIKES OF MEHMOOD, JOHHNY WALKER, RAJENDRANATH, MUKRI, MOHAN CHITI  to name a few and PERHAPS never a FILM like PADOSAN.

For your laugh made the film fraternity to believe that if a serious minded brain , ie AKALMANI DIMAAG of Mohammed Rafi can laugh so badly , while singing for a song of a comedian film,  there is no reason why the comedian  Hindi films would fail if produced and the REST is a HISTORY .

This article is my humble TRIBUTE to Mohammed Rafi sahib on his birth anniversary today.

A GREAT MAN, A GREAT SINGER A GREAT HUMAN BEING AND A GREAT ARTISTE .

PROUD TO CALL HIM A “ APOSTLE”  OF PEACE AND A “ EPITOME ” OF HUMANITY.

The one’s of this generation would NOT have heard that song from the FILM “ AKALMAND ” .I put it here for the listeners to listen to it. A COMPLETELY meaningless song BUT  IT GOT  CARRIED  TO THE LIPS OF EVERY INDIAN,  TO SING IT FROM KASHMIR TO KANYAKUMARI FROM 1966 TO ABOUT 1972 WITHOUT FAIL.

NOTE- : I would like to add some more lines about the film Akalmand .Till thin please read the same . 

That is it.

Well , that is it and That sums it all.

Regards and Thanks

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Shyamal Bhattacharjee 

Mr Shyamal Bhattacharjee, the author was born at West Chirimiri Colliery at District Surguja, Chattisgarh on July 6th 1959 He received his early education at Carmel Convent School Bishrampur and later at Christ Church Boys' Higher Secondary School at Jabalpur. He later joined Hislop College at Nagpur and completed his graduation in Science and he also added a degree in    B A thereafter. He joined the HITAVADA, a leading dailies of Central India at Nagpur as a      Sub-Editor ( Sports ) but gave up to complete his MBA in 1984 He thereafter added a Diploma In Export Management. He has authored THREE books namely Notable Quotes and Noble Thought published by Pustak Mahal in 2001 Indian Cricket : Faces That Changed It  published by Manas Publications in 2009 and Essential Of Office Management published by NBCA, Kolkatta  in 2012. He has a experience of about 35 years in Marketing .






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  1. Oh I C. Just got to seeing the flood gate of bollywood being opened up by virtue of Akhalmand....... another jaunre of rafi came into existence. Wah bhai wah.

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