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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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Today’s song is from the film Hospital-1943.

The film was directed by Sunil Mujumdar. Music was by Kamal Dasgupta, who was one of the pioneers in making NFS popular all over India through many singers from Bengal. The cast of the film was Kanan Devi, Agindra Chaudhari, Heeralal, Tulsi Chakraborti, Poornima, Manorama and many others.

When we talk of Calcutta or films made in Bengal, we generally think of New Theatres only. You will be surprised that there were at least 20+ film companies and studios, before and after New Theater started and some of them even made Hindi films too. Since the beginning of British Rule in India, Calcutta was the Capital of India. In the year 1911, the British shifted the Capital to Delhi. Till then Calcutta had a mixed population. people from all parts of India lived there. However business minded and hard working Gujarati and marwadi communities ruled the business of all types, including the film industry in Calcutta, much before the establishment of New Theatres. Sharmishtha Gooptu, the well known film historian has written this about the beginning of film business in Calcutta….

” Marwari and Gujrati businessmen had been quick to appreciate the scope for profit in the fast-growing cinema industry. One of the first to invest in the industry was Lalji Haridas, a businessman from Kathiawar, who founded M/S Lalji Hemraj Haridas in Calcutta, a firm dealing in piece goods. In 1918 he secured the Bengal agency for the Kohinoor Film Company of Bombay, and became an agent for Sharda Pictures in 1926. In 1930 he was managing Jupiter Cinema in Calcutta. With the advent of the talkies, he secured the distributing rights of, among others, Bombay’s Wadia Movietone, Paramount Film Company, and Shree Vishnu Cinetone. In 1936/37, Haridas managed the Bharat Laxmi Theatre in Calcutta. By 1937-38, he was one of the leading distributors of Indian films in Eastern India, Burma, and the Far East, with offices in Calcutta, Rangoon, and Singapore respectively. In 1938, Lalji Hemraj Haridas were the sole agents of Wadia Movie tone, Paramount, Indian Liberty Pictures, Shree Vishnu Cinetone, Jaybharat Movietone, Diamond Pictures, Daryani Productions, and Wishvakala Movietone for Bengal, Bihar, Orissa, and Assam.

Similarly, Bajrang Lal Khemka, one of the first among the Marwaris to go into the film business, had been a dealer in piece goods, jute, and Hussein; an importer of sugar and motor spare parts; and invested part of his profits therein in the fast expanding film industry. In 1932, soon after New Theatres was formed, Khemka started the East India Film Co. In 1937 he launched the Metropolitan Pictures in Calcutta. Soon he owned cinema houses in various parts of the country.

Radha Kisen Chamria of Radha Film Co., Babulal Chowkani, proprietor, Bharat Laxmi Pictures, and exhibitor/distributors H. M. Chamria and Chandanmal Indrakumar were other Marwari business magnates who claimed a plum share of profits accruing from Bengal’s film industry. These businessmen were close competitors of the Bengali bhadralok, men like B. N. Sircar; Anadi Bose, proprietor of Aurora Film Corporation; P. N. Ganguly, proprietor of Kali Films; Sir P. C. Tagore, chairman of the board of directors of the Film Corporation of India Ltd.; or producer/distributor Prafulla Ghosh, proprietor of Prafulla Pictures formed in 1936.
Aurora, for instance, though one of the leading “Bengali” distributors in Calcutta was evidently operating on a much smaller scale than Lalji Hemraj Haridas. Compared to the latter’s holding of sole distribution rights of eight Bombay concerns, Aurora, in 1938, was distributing for New Theatres Ltd., Radha Film Co., Bharat Laxmi Pictures, and Kali Films. Further, Aurora was not distributing for New Theatres in the most-significant eastern region, as revealed by Dossani Film Corporation’s claim of being the sole distributing agent for Bengal, Bihar, Orissa, Assam, and Burma for New Theatres Ltd.

Until the mid-1920s, there was no evidence of Bengali Muslims’ involvement with the cinema. The first involvement came in 1927 when members of the family of the Nawab of Dhaka made an experimental short film, Sukumari. In 1929, the same group embarked on the project of a full-length film, released as The Last Kiss in 1931. These initiatives apart, Bengali Muslim involvement in the film industry, through the 1930s was confined to solitary figures like Kazi Nazrul Islam and Abbasuddin Ahmed. Though later initiatives like the Chalachhitra Darshak Samiti (1939) and Bengal Tiger Pictures (1941) were patronized by some Muslim elites like Fazlul Haq and Humayun Kabir, they were marginal projects, and Bengali Muslims, by and large, remained detached from the film industry, so much so that Dhaka had no organized film industry until after independence. ”

Today’s film was made by M.P.Productions, Calcutta. Bajranglal Khemka, owner of the East India Film Company established Metropolitan Pictures Production co. in 1937. Film Hospital-1943 was made in Calcutta with all Bengali artistes. It is very difficult to get detailed information on Bengali actors as it is only available in Bangla languages, mostly. However, I could get information about the film’s Hero Ahindra Chaudhari, from The Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema by Ashish Rajadhyaksha. Here it is….

Ahindra Choudhury, born on 6th August, 1896, was a legendary theater actor and director of the Bengali stage who also enjoyed a long career in Bengali cinema.
Ahindra Choudhury’s theater debut was for the Art Theater at the Star, in Aparesh Chandra Mukhopadhyay`s “Karnarjun” i.e. “Karna and Arjun” in 1923. Interestingly, his film debut preceded his stage appearance by a year. His first film appearance came in the year of 1922 in the silent film ‘The Soul of the Slave’ (Dir. Prafulla Ghosh; produced by the Photography Syndicate of India). He continued to regularly feature in lead as well as character roles in significant films of important directors such as Madhu Bose etc till the 1950s.

His two-volume autobiography is titled “Searching for my Lost Self” (Nijere Haraye khunji), which is full of important information about and insight into professional Bengali theater of the early twentieth century.

Actor born in Calcutta. Major Calcutta Theatres stage star launched with the key role of Arjun in epochal production of Karnarjun at Star Theatre (1923). Stagework in e.g. Iraner Rani, Bandini, Chirakumar Sabha, Mishar Rani etc. had an impact comparable to that of Sisir Bhaduri, who had a similar career. Early films at Madan Theatres, usually by Jyotish Bannerjee who continued to direct him into the talkie era, included stage successes like Mishar Rani and Karnarjun. At Madan also filmed scenes from his stage plays in early sound experiments. In 1928 attempted, unsuccessfully, to start the Ahindra Film Studio at Ultadanga, North Calcutta. Then directed some Telugu films for Aurora (Ansuya, Vipranarayana). Was a regular genre actor in Bengali cinema, notably in films by Sailajananda Mukherjee, P.C. Barua and Modhu Bose, until he retired in mid-50s. Wrote a two-volume autobiography, Nijere Haraye Khunji (1945). His collection of theatre and film memorabilia forms the Ahindra Choudhury Archives at Chetla, Calcutta. He died on 4-11-1974.

HOSPITAL-1943 was a film depicting a different atmosphere and a novel story matter, which made it a film worth a look. Added to it, the melodious music by Kamal Dasgupta and haunting songs by Kanandevi made the film a successful one at the Box office.

The film,a M.P.Production was directed by Sunil Muzumdar who was basically a writer.He used to write stories,Dialogues and Screenplays of films.Even in this film,he joined hands with Pt.Bhushan in Dialogue writing ,with Manmath Ray in its story and with Premendra Mitra in writing the screenplay. Lyrics were by Pt.Madhur and Pt.Bhushan.

Jayant is the son of Dr.Deen Dayal.He is educated but a vagabond and always in need of money. Once Deen dayal tells him that unless he gets married and does something for a living,he will not get any money.Dr.Deen Dayal is a widower and has established a hospital in a village for the benefit of poor people,in the memory of his departed wife.He goes to the Hospital from time to time.Jayant is introduced to Pratima(Kanan Devi) by Sandeep, her distant cousin and a friend of Jayant.

one day Jayant proposes to Pratima to act as his wife,only for a day, so that he can fool his father and extract some money from him.Pratima,after lot of cajoling,agrees to do so and they go to Dr.Deen dayal.The father is very happy to see his daughter in law.He not only compliments Jayanta for his choice but also gives him lot of money. The work having been achieved, Pratima wants to go away, but the Doctor would have none of it. He forces her to go with him to the village Hospital.

Dr.Bhatt, his assistant is a hidden enemy of Deendayal and wants to throw him out to usurp the hospital.He suspects that Jayanta and Pratima are not married.He employs detectives and confirms this.In the meantime Jayant and Pratima start loving each other.Pratima also finds out that Dr.Bhatt has misappropriated Hospital money for Medicines.She exposes him before he exposes her and the Doctor is removed from the Hospital. By now, Deen dayal also has found out that these two are not married. He gets them married.

Today’s song is a duet sung by Kanan Devi and Jagmohan Sursagar. HFGK does not mention the male singer’s name. However, Sunil Trivedi ji of Surat who was a family friend of Jagmohan Sursagar has informed that Jagmohan himself told him that this song was sung by him. Sunil ji’s comments to this effect are available on this Blog. Enjoy….


Song- Ae ronewaale hansne ke din door nahin hain(Hospital)(1943) Singers- Kanan Devi, Jagmohan Sursagar, Lyrics-Pt. Madhur, MD- Kamal Dasgupta
Both
Jagmohan Sursagar + another male voice

Lyrics

Man ke haare haar hai
man ke jeete jee ee ee ee eet
raat dhale
din hot hai
ye duniyaa aa aa aa ki reet

ae ronewaale
hansne ke din door nahin hain
jo aaj hai mazboor
kal majboor nahin hai
ae ronewaale
hansne ke din door nahin hain
jo aaj hai mazboor
kal majboor nahin hai

ae ronewaale
hansne ke din door nahin hain
jo aaj hai majboor
kal majboor nahin hai

bahti nahin hai zindagi bhar
dukh ki dhaara
door nahin hai
door nahin hai

bahti nahin hai zindagi bhar
dukh ki dhaara
majboor nahin hai
majboor nahin hai

gahra jo samandar hai to uska bhi kinaaraa
gahra jo samandar hai to uska bhi kinaaraa
aakhir to kahin hai
aakhir to kahin hai
aakhir to kahin hai
ae ronewaale
hansne ke din door nahin hain
jo aaj hai majboor
kal majboor nahin hai

duniya mein maraj bhi hai
ae ae ae ae ae ae
dua bhi hai dawaa aa aa aa bhi
duniya mein maraj bhi hai
dua bhi hai dawaa bhi
duniya mein maraj bhi hai
dua bhi hai dawaa bhi

baadal mein jahaan rahti hai bijlee to hawaa bhee
baadal mein jahaan rahti hai bijlee to hawaa bhee
paanee bhee wahin hai
paanee bhee wahin hai
paanee bhee wahin hai
ae ronewaale
hansne ke din door nahin hain
jo aaj hai majboor
kal majboor nahin hai


This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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Today’s song is from the film Room No. 9 (1946).

There were 2 more rooms on which films were made – Room No. 17 and Room No.203. I wonder what happened to the other rooms ? I am also hurt by the title of a film as ” B-13 -Fear has a New Address” made in 2009. My flat number in Mumbai is B-13 and I never ever saw any Atulite frightened in my flat when so many ASAD meetings were held here ! And also when some members had stayed here overnight also ! However, I did not file any case against the film’s producer, lest it became ‘ an address to fear ‘ for him !

Certain years in Film industry are quite significant for its changing phases. One of these years was 1946. By 1946 to 1950 old towers shook hard to crumble. The studio system almost disappeared. Film industry could now boast of people highly educated, talented and hard working. Even artistes with International experience and success like Dewan Sharar, Shakuntala Paranjpye, actor Ranjan, Balraj Sahni etc contributed to Indian films. The old horse of Calcutta-New Theatres broke down and actors, directors and Music specialists from Bengal made a Bee-Line to Bombay, thus making it the strongest ever film centre.

1946 was also an year of consolidation, in a sense that due to the iminent Partition of India on the basis of Religion, agreed upon by Gandhi-Nehru combine, made Muslim artistes and filmmakers plan to pack their bags and move over to the new Utopia across the border. Their vacancies were to be filled up by the waiting second line of actors, directors and MDs. The film industry was to have a complete new look within 1-2 years and the beginning was from 1946. Thus the year was very important.

The year 1946 was an year which saw many changes in the film industry. The IInd world war had just ended. Rationing and control on many items had created Black marketing. This made many people Millionaires. The extra income started getting invested in Film making. The increased cost of Raw Films made filmmaking 7 to 8 times costlier. A film which was made in about 1 Lakh rupees in 1940, needed 8 Lakhs now. Studio system was waning and artiste rates increased in Lakhs instead of thousands.

In 1945, only 74 films were made. This number increased to 153 films in 1946. Further, in 1947, the film industry produced a record number of films – 181, but of course that was due to Partition. The quality of films was sacrificed at the cost of the quantity of films made in 1946. However, some quality films were made in 1946, indicating the changing face of filmmaking.

Film Dharati ke Lal-46 was made by IPTA people and it became the first film to be exhibited in Russia. Neecha Nagar-46 won the Grand Prix award in the French Film Festival. Film Dr. Kotnis ki amar kahani-46 was dubbed in English as ‘ The journey of Dr. Kotnis’. It was shown in the USA and then in the Venice Film Festival. Two musical films- Anmol Ghadi and Shahjahan were made in 1946.

Year 1946 also saw the Debut of several stars and artistes. In fact one can call 1946 as the ” Debut year” of the Hindi film industry. See this….

Nirupa Roy debuted in film Amar Raaj-46

Nasreen (real name Zareena), daughter of Rafiq Gaznavi and Anwari bai had debuted in her first released film ” Shahjahan-1946.

Geeta Bali debuted with a dance in film Badnami-46

Geeta Roy sang her first film song in film Bhakta Prahlad-46

Balraj Sahni debuted in the film Insaaf-46. It was a small role,though.

K A Abbas-Director, Pt.Ravi Shankar-MD, Balraj Sahni as Hero and Damayanti Sahni as Heroine made their Debut in film Dharti Ke Lal-46.

Meena Kapoor sang her first released Hindi film song in the film Eight Days-46. She also recorded her first Hindi film song in the film ‘Door Chalen’-1946, which was released later than film Eight Days-46.

Sudhir Phadke debuted as MD in film Gokul-46

P L Santoshi as Director, Dev Anand, Rehman, Rehana and Kamla Kotnis debuted as actors in film Hum Ek Hai-46.

Chitragupta did his first film as MD in Lady Robin Hood-46.

Ram Ganguly became MD with film Maharana Pratap-46.

Abhi Bhattacharya debuted in Hindi film Milan-46.

Chetan Anand as Director, Uma Anand and Kamini kaushal as actresses debuted in film Neecha Nagar-46.

Hansraj Behl debuted as MD with film Pujari-46.

Majrooh Sultanpuri wrote his first Hindi film song in film Shahjahan-46

S D Burman as MD and Kishore Kumar as an actor debuted with film Shikari-46

So, you will find the year 1946 was truly an year of change. The winds of Partition were already blowing and the second line of supplementary artistes was ready to replace the Migrators, after the Partition.

Film Room No.9 was produced by S.R.Rajguru and directed by Vedi. The banner was Navyug Chitrapat, Bombay. The music was by R.A.Atre. By a strange coincidence the owner of the banner Navyug was P.K.Atre -a writer, dramatist, novelist, poet, director, a Newspaper owner and a big Politician in his later years !

For information on films made during the period 1937 to 1949, an authentic source is the archived issues of the magazine FILM INDIA, online.One can get information on films of this period through the films’ advertisements and reviews in these issues. Though the editor Baburao Patel rarely ever praised any film, direction, music or acting, still the factual information like release date and theatre, cast in details,other credits and the story of the film etc. is available here. Information about this film is given in the august 1946 issue of Film India. The film was released on 15-6-1946, at Krishna Theatre in Bombay.The review is full of pointwise criticism of the film.

Here is its story, adapted and given by Sadanand Kamath ji a few years back…..

Geeta (Geeta Nizami) is an heiress to a huge fortune left by her father. With this, Geeta’s life is at risk as her uncle is eyeing on her fortunes. For the attainment of his objective, he employs Pratap (K N Singh) a crook to do the needful.

For completing the formalities of handing over the fortunes to Geeta, Barrister Premchand (Raj Bishwas), the executor of the will, comes to the city and stays in a hotel where his son, Shyam (Shyam) escorts Geeta to the hotel room. However, Geeta suspects Shyam to be a crook without knowing that he is the son of Barrister Premchand. Instead, she relies on Pratap, the crook who kidnaps her. However, Shyam rescues her.
Thakur Ajit Singh (Randhir) who is a regular guest in the hotel gets attracted towards Geeta though he already has Rani (Saroj Borkar) as his mistress who is a disgraced wife of Barrister Premchand and the mother of Shyam. Neither Rani nor Shyam is aware that they are mother and son.

In Geeta’s room, Thakur Ajit Singh tries to molest her and, in this milieu, Thakur is shot dead. Thinking that Geeta must have shot him, Shyam takes the crime on himself and runs away from the police. However, he is arrested and put on trial for the murder of Thakur Ajit Singh. Based on the evidence given by Rani, Shyam is sentenced to death by hanging.
Barrister Premchand appeals to the high court for the review of the lower court’s verdict. In the court, he produces the childhood photograph of Shyam with his mother Rani. The mother in Rani makes her confess that she had shot dead Thakur Ajit Singh in that fateful night. Shyam is acquitted and there is a happy end to the film.

The Music Director Rasheed Atre was not a very famous or successful composer while in India. After his migration to pakistan, post its formation, he became quite successful. It is a matter of surprise that barring a few well known MDs, like Ghulam Haider, K.K.Anwar, and Kamal Dasgupta, all other MDs like Firoz Nizami, Rasheed Atre, G.A.Chishti, Nissar Bazmi, Naashad and Tufail Faruqi etc who were only B or C grade Mds in India, became big names after migrating to Pakistan. Naturally so, because the Pakistani film industry was taking a shape and growing big in the initial years and these ready-made composers got many films, name and fame. However, history indicates that there was no second line of MDs in the making and after these migrated MDs retired, the film music scene in Pakistan became weak and pathetic.

Composer RASHEED ABDUL ATRE was born in Amritsar on 15-2- 1919. His father Khushi Mohammed was a well known musician and singer. Rasheed learnt music from Ustad Khan saheb Ashfaq Hussain. Then he went to Calcutta and worked under R.C.Boral. During his stay in Calcutta he is presumed to have composed songs for films “Pardanasheen”-1942 and “Mamta”-1942, under the name R.A.Atra. After coming back to Bombay he joined Jhande Khan and Gobindram in composing songs for “Pagli”-43. He was assistant to composer Amir ali in “Panna”-44. With Pt.Amarnath,he composed songs for “Shirin Farhad”-45. Then came Room No.9-46,Nateeja-47,Paro-47 and Shikayat-48. From 43 to 48 he gave music to 6(confirmed) films. Not much, but then he did not get much time either.

Nateeja was a Muslim social made by Bombay Talkies and he was specially called for it. Nateeja music was his best in India and all its songs became very popular. for Room No 9-46,he worked in Navyug Chitrapat co. where one of the owners was P K Atre, a noted Marathi writer and Dramatist. P K Atre was ,of course, a Hindu,but it was a coincidence.

After Partition Atre went to Pakistan. He first served Radio Pakistan, Rawalpindi and then at Lahore. He prospered in Pakistan and gave music in 54 Urdu and Punjabi films. He was awarded the coveted Nigar Award 3 times in a row. The famous Marching song of Pakistan ” Allah o Akbar ” was composed by Rasheed Atre. The first Pakistani film for which Rasheed Attre lent his music was director Masood Pervez’s Beli (1950).

Three years after Beli, Rasheed was in-charge of music for director Nazir Ahmed Khan’s Punjabi film, Shehri Babu (1953), whose evergreen songs still are popular in Pakistan . Attre’s music for director W.Z. Ahmed’s 1954 family-friendly film Roohi (1954) was a huge success.

Rasheed Attre’s music is all very praise-worthy in director Nazir Ahmed Khan’s film Khatoon, which was popular for its thumri. Attre’s composition exhibits an astonishing range and power in director Anwar Kamal Pasha’s superhit film Sarfarosh (1956). In 1956, Rasheed was also given the responsibility of composing songs for director Anwar Kamal Pasha’s golden jubilee punjabi film Chann Mahi (1956) (lyrics: Tufail Hoshiarpuri, starring: Bahar, Aslam Pervaiz). Attre was, indeed, a powerhouse of a musician and a case in point is director W.Z. Ahmed’s all-time favorite film, Waada (1957), which happened to be a movie from a more idealistic time. At the height of his fame, Attre came up with his magical composition for film director Anwar Kamal Pasha’s semi- historical movie, Anarkali (1958). To be precise, it was a joint venture of 2 film music composers Rasheed Attre and Master Inayat Hussain.

Rasheed Attre passed away on December 18, 1967, at the age of 48.

Today’s song is sung by a chorus-a comedy song- and some unidentified male and female voices also can be heard in it. Enjoy…..


Song- Apna apna kaam kiye jaa (Room No. 9)(1946) Singers- Amirbai Karnataki, unknown male voices, Lyricist- Nakshab Jarachavi, MD- Rashid Atre

Lyrics

Apna apna kaam kiye jaa
apna apna kaam kiye jaa
duniya hai deewaani
duniya hai deewaani
Apna apna kaam kiye jaa

taaza taaza makkhan aaya
toast ye taiyyaar
taaza taaza makkhan aaya
toast ye taiyyaar
sabzi aaloo ghiya tamaatar
??
??
?? ulloo
??
aate hain sarkaar

garam garam hai chaawal machhli
butter chicken biriyaani
kuchh khaalo mere jaani
kuchh khaalo mere jaani
apna apna kaam kiye jaa

raat suhaanee
din hai suhaanaa
raat suhaanee
din hai suhaanaa
aankh milaakar dil se milaana
aankh milaakar dil se milaana
preet ?? hai
preet nibhaana
preet ?? hai
preet nibhaana
apne waade bhool na jaanaa
apne waade bhool na jaanaa

hum bhi musaafir
hum bhi musaafir
baat hai ye sab jaanee
Apna apna kaam kiye jaa
duniya hai deewaani

O my sweet
O my sweet
ye bhi dekho
ye bhi chakho
main tumse good bye
?? murgi ?? andaa
khhaalo meree jaan
ajee kuchh khaa lo meree jaan
ajee kuchh pee lo meree jaan

whisky whisky whisky
whisky whisky whisky
beer brandy rum aur whisky
whisky whisky whisky
pee lo meree jaan

johny walker pee kar dekho
right hai yaaron
hic
one eighteen twenty
??
?? going ??

mad ke rasiyaa
o matwaale
mad ke rasiyaa
o matwaale
der na kar ??
gar tu uthhaa le
der na kar ??
gar tu uthhaa le

rut pe nahin hai
peene waale
rut pe nahin hai
peene waale
aag miley yaa panee
aag miley yaa panee
apna apna kaam kiye jaa
apna apna kaam kiye jaa
duniya hai deewaani
duniya hai deewaani


This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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5472 Post No. : 17892

Today’s song is from the film Biwi (1950).

In the HFGK the title of this film is spelt as BEEWEE, whereas elsewhere on YouTube and the entire internet sites which I saw, the spelling is BIWI. A simple word like BIWI became BEEWEE for reasons known only to the makers of this film.

My many attempts to find a copy of this film were fruitless.

In the era of silent films, I remember, every film was advertised in different languages in different states. For example, if the film Title was SOLDIER, it would get the name of Sipahi in North, Sainik in Maharashtra, Gujarat and Bengal, Sainikudu in Andhra Pradesh, Cippay in Tamil and so on and so forth for all other states. Sometimes the approved title itself would have two or even three names, e.g. Goddess of love or Naseeb ni Devi, Mysterious Eagle or Husn ka daku, Kaala Pahad or Masked Terror, Nanand Bhojai or Victim of Society, Gunsundari or why husbands go astray, Leather face or Badmash ka Beta etc.etc. The point is the title of films, sometimes, are pointless or even misleading !

I have no idea of what type of story this social film had, as I had not seen this film and no information about this film was available anywhere during my search. may be the film booklet would divulge the secret. The film was made by Paristan Pictures, Bombay, owned by the heroine’s (Mumtaz Shanti) husband Wali Sahab (Wali mohd. Khan), who made lots of money with his wife’s work in films.

There were two Music Directors – Aziz Khan aka Aziz Hindi and Sharmaji aka Khayyam. In the beginning of his career Khayyam used to give music in the name of ‘Sharma ji’. His first film was Heer Ranjha (1948). For that film, his Co-MD was Varma ji (Rehman Varma), who migrated to Pakistan. Khayyam continued his name as Sharma ji. In one of his interviews, Khayyam has described how he started using his own name ‘Khayyam’ for films.

Khayyam, Music Director started his career with the film ” Heer Ranjha”-1948 in which he used the name “Sharma ji” for himself. Subsequently, for films Parda-49, Biwi-50 and pyar ki Baten-51 also he used the “Sharmaji” name.

In 1953, Khayyam was to get Footpath as a composer. Khayyam describes his first meeting with the owner of Ranjit Studio, Sardar Chandulal Shah,in an interview,thus….

” When I got the film Footpath,everyone knew that I was Sharmaji. My meeting with Director Zia Sarhadi and Sardar Chandulal Shah,the Ranjit owner and a legend in his times,was arranged. Sarhadi had already heard my tunes and approved of them. It was only a formal meeting before work started. I entered the cabin and saw Chandulal Shah for the first time. Seth ji was sitting on a big chair. His white shirt,white coat and dark Black colour was showing him as a Photo negative. As soon as I entered,he asked me in a LOUD voice,” Naam Kya Hai ? “. I knew that he did not like my name Sharmaji. I also replied in a LOUDER voice ” Mohammed Zahoor Khayyam Hashmi “. He was not to be outdone. He almost shouted in LOUDER than me ” aaj se Khayyam Likho “.

The interview ended and I came out wiping my forehead ! ” ( Thanks to “Rasrang” July 1969 issue ).

The film Biwi was directed by Kishore Sharma. he directed only 5 films in his career namely, Dr.Kumar-44, Zanjeer-47, Middle fail-48, Biwi-50 and Sheesham-52. The cast of the film was Mumtaz Shanti, Veena, Madhuri, Nasir, Pran, Ramlal, Murad and many others. The heroine with a hybrid name of Mumtaz Shanti was born in 1922 to a Muslim Father Mumtaz Shahi and a Hindu mother Shanti. She was born as Mumtaz Begum but took the name as Mumtaz Shanti as a memory of her parents, who died when she was a child.

The actor Nasir, mentioned in the cast is not Nasir Khan – Dilip Kumar’s brother but a very handsome actor Al Nasir. Al Nasir is a name which is a part of SAME NAME CONFUSION. Many people mix up Nasir Khan (Dilip Kumar’s brother) and Al Nasir and their filmographies are mixed up. Let us know today about the lesser known AL NASIR.

ABDUL REHMAN AL NASIR GAZNAVI ( popularly known as Al Nasir ) was born on 27-11-1922 in Kabul. His father was a big shot-Chancellor of Law.He was related to the Begum of Junagadh and also to the Nawab of Bhopal. His schooling was done in Dehradun upto Sr. Cambridge and degree was obtained from Kabul college. He was a tall and handsome young man,who was keen on joining the AirForce. He went to Bombay in 1941 for this purpose. While in National studios to meet a friend, Mehboob spotted him and offered him a job. He was taken on the rolls of the studio.

For the next 6 months there was only pay, but no work. In 1942 National Studios closed down, but Mohan Sinha offered him a Hero’s role in the film Preetam-42. His father did not like this. However Al Nasir worked in 17 films till 1957.

Being handsome and polished he impressed women. He was a womaniser. During Prithvi vallabh-43 ‘s shooting he married Khursheed Jehan commonly known as Meena ( Shorey). Whenever she was away, he would run after women. He had an affair with Nigar Sultana. After the divorce with Meena, he married actress Manorama, when he had gone to Lahore.

He divorced Manorama in 1946 and married actress Veena. They had 2 children. Daughter Huma became a Professor and his son was Altamash. Al Nasir was fond of hunting and reading English books.

He acted in Preetam, Prithvi vallabh, Pathron ke Saudagar, Shehar se door, Dhamkee, Shalimaar, Khamosh Nigahen, Aarsi, Ek roz, Daastaan, Bewee, Kashmir, Mr. and Mrs. 55, Hatimtai ki Beti, Sakhi Haatim, Indra sabha and Mera Salam-57. Al Nasir died at the age of only 35 years,on 17-10-1957.

Mumtaz Shanti was very attractive. Her name was famous as an actress of Hit films. Mumtaz Shanti or Mumtaz Begum was born in 1922 at village Dinga in Punjab (now in Pakistan). Her mother was Shanti – a Hindu and father was Mumtaz Shahi – a Muslim.. She lost her parents early and she was brought up by her uncle who was a Police constable. After his transfer to Lahore,Mumtaz was able to continue her schooling. She learnt dancing and Music. She started a Theatre group, ” Mumtaz Variety show”.She was also an expert in household chores. She was first rejected by Shorey Pictures,but then the famous writer/Lyricist Wali Saheb helped her and took her to Calcutta’s East India Film co. to work in a Punjabi film ‘Sohni Kumharan’-37. She also did another Punjabi film ‘Chambai ki Dali’-41 in Calcutta. Meanwhile,she was invited by Shorey Pictures to Lahore to act in their Punjabi film ‘Mangti ‘-42.This film ran for 65 weeks giving her name and fame. It seems, her uncle Barkat Nizami ( husband of actress Geeta Nizami) had brought her in films and he used to take away 75% of her earnings ( 50% for himself and 25% for his son). However, after her marriage to Wali saheb, this had stopped.

Rai Bahadur Chunilal Of Bombay Talkies offered her a role in their film Basant-42. She came to Bombay and did Basant and Kismet-43. Both the films were hits and us all over India. Mumtaz was good looking, tall and lithe, so looked attractive. After Kismet she became a freelancer and worked with many different studios in Badalti Duniya and Sawal-43, Bharthari, Lady Doctor and Pagli Duniya-44, Chand chakori-45, Shravan Kumar, Dharati, Magadhraj and Pujari-46, Dekho Ji and Doosri Shadi-47, Padmini, Heer Ranjha and Ghar ki izzat-48, Putali, Biwi and Aahuti-50. Her last film in India was Zamane ki Hawa-52. In all she worked in 21 Hindi and 4 Punjabi films. She did 2 films in Calcutta, 4 in Lahore and the rest in Bombay.

She married Lyricist/writer/Director Wali Saheb in 1947. He directed her in 3 films in India. He was very strict and forced her to come to studios only in Burqa. She was not allowed to talk to anyone. They migrated to Pakistan after 1953. She retired from films and remained a housewife only. Wali saheb did 3-4 films, without much success. He died in 1977. Mumtaz Shanti also died in 93/94,unsung and unknown in Pakistan.

Today’s song is a funny song, sung by Khan Mastana and Asha Bhosle.


Song- Aao halla gulla halla gulla karen jee (Biwi)(1950) Singers-Khan Mastana, Asha Bhonsle, Lyrics-Nazim Panipati, MD-Sharma ji and Aziz Hindi
Female chorus
Male chorus
All singers+all chorus

Lyrics

Aao halla gulla halla gulla halla gulla karen jee
aao thhammak thhulla thhammak thhulla thhammak thhulla karen jee ee
Aao halla gulla halla gulla halla gulla karen jee
aao thhammak thhulla thhammak thhulla thhammak thhulla karen jee

o halla gulla
o thhammak thhulla
o halla gulla
o thhammak thhulla
hahahahahaha
aahaha
hahahahahaha
hahaha

ye duniya hai aisi waisi
aisi waisi
o o is duniya kee aisi taisee
aisee taisee
ye duniya hai aisi waisi
aisee waisee

is duniya kee aisi taisee
aisee taisee

jo karna ho khullam khulla khullam khulla khullam khulla karen jee
o khullam khulla karen jee ee
Aao halla gulla halla gulla halla gulla karen jee
aao thhammak thhulla thhammak thhulla thhammak thhulla karen jee

aaj bhula do saare gham
saare gham
gham ko maaro atom bomb
atom bomb
bade shauk se ae ae
bade shauk se jee hum jilla jee hum jlla
jee hum jlla karen jee

ho jee hum jlla karen jee ee
Aao halla gulla halla gulla halla gulla karen jee
aao thhammak thhulla thhammak thhulla thhammak thhulla karen jee

aa haa haa haa haa haa
aa haa haa
haa aa aa
ha aa
aa ha ha

hanste jaao
khil khil khil
gaate jaao
mil mil mil
hanste jaao
khil khil khil khil khil khjil khil
gaate jaao
mil mil mil mil mil mil mil
khaalee peelee ee ee
khaalee peelee ee ee
baagad billa baagad billaa
baagad billaa karen jee

o baagad billaa karen jee
Aao halla gulla halla gulla halla gulla karen jee
aao thhammak thhulla thhammak thhulla thhammak thhulla karen jee

haa aa aa
ha aa haa
aa ha ha
haa aa aa
ha aa
aa ha ha


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Blog Day :

5449 Post No. : 17854

“Manager”(1947) was directed by I P Tiwari for Tiwari Productions, Bombay. This social movie had Poornima, Jaiprakash, Sarla, Aziz, Tiwari, Aminabai, Sakeena, Lal, Govind etc in it.

HFGK mentions Kumar Sharma as the lyricist and Ramkrishn Shinde as the music director. Seven songs are listed under this movie, but details of singers are missing.

One song from “Manager”(1947) has been covered in the blog. That article (by our beloved inhouse encyclopaedia Mr Arunkumar Deshmukh) added considerably to our knowledge about this highly obscure movie.

This movie was the first and last movie to this production house floated by this person I P Tiwari. Little is known about this movie. One article in Film India magazine in those days contains a comment about this movie. According to that comment, it was a film about mill workers and their relations with its Manager.

The movie may have been titled “Manager”, but the mukhda of the songs mentioned in HFGK hardly suggests that. The songs are mostly about haal e dil, except one song that was about haal e mill. :).

The one song that has been covered was rut rangeeli aayi sajaniya, which is clearly a love long, and not a song about the working of a mill.

The second song under discussion is “kise main apna haal sunaaun”. The singing voice sound like a child but the song is about “beet gaye din apne suhaane gaate thhe jab pyaar ke gaane”. Imagine a child like voice singing like he was in love long time back. 🙂

Only audio of the song is available. The song was uploaded six years ago, and in these six years only obtained three likes and three comments. But one of the comments in invaluable. It says that all but one song from this movie appeared in “Kiski Jeet”(1948) as well. This movie “Kiski Jeet”(1948) has not yet debuted in the blog. This comment suggests that by default, this movie too has got onboard. On looking at the entry of “Kiski Jeet”(1948), we find that this movie too was a Tiwari Production movie, but here the director was Safdar Mirza. Sarla, Aminabai, Tiwari, are three names that are there in “Kiski Jeet”(1948) as well. In addition, this movie has Indu Kulkarni, Pushpa, Chandrika,Sadiq, Maqbool, Mustafa, Vakeel, Bismillah, Mohammad, Sandow etc as well.

So, some interesting informations have become known about this movie thanks to a chance remark in Film India in 1947 and another chance remark in a youtube link in 2022. 🙂

Here is this obscure song from “Manager”(1947). This song, and also the first song of this movie covered in the blog, appear in “Kiski Jeet”(1948) as well.


Song-Kise main apna haal sunaaun (Manager)(1947) Singer-Unknown voice, Lyrics-Kumar Sharma, MD-Ramkrishn Shinde

Lyrics

kise main apna haal sunaaun
kya karoon
kya karoon
kise main apna haal sunaaun
kya karoon
kya karoon

chaaron oar chhaaya andhiyaara
chaaron oar chhaaya andhiyaara
toot gaya asha ka taara
toot gaya asha ka taara
kya karoon
kya karoon
kise main apna haal sunaaun
kya karoon
kya karoon

beet gaye din apne suhaane
beet gaye din apne suhaane
gaate thhe jab pyaar ke gaane
gaate thhe jab pyaar ke gaane
pyaar ke kisse huye puraane
pyaar ke kisse huye puraane
beete dinon ko kaise bhulaaun
beete dinon ko kaise bhulaaun
kya karoon
kya karoon
kise main apna haal sunaaun
kya karoon
kya karoon


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Blog Day :

5443 Post No. : 17839

“Din Raat”(1945) was directed by Shori Daulatavi for the banner of Navyug Chitrapat Ltd, Bombay. The movie had Snehparbha Pradhan, Paresh Bannerji, Sulochana Chatterjee, Vasant Thengadi, Firoza, Dar Kashmiri etc in it.

“Din Raat”(1945) had eight songs in it. Two songs have been covered in the past.

Here is the third song from the movie to appear in the blog.

HFGK mentions this song as sung by Snehparbha Pradhan and Paresh Bannerji. On listening to this song, it is clear that the song is a female solo song. Moreover, the singer is unmistakably Rajkumari.

Since HFGK got the singer(s) wrong, even the uploader of this song faithfully reproduced the same information while uploading the song. By the way, we already have one duet song sung by Snehparbha Pradhan and Paresh Bannerji in the blog, and also one female solo sung by Snehprabha Pradhan from this movie in the blog. So we can easily compare the voice of Snehprabha Pradhan with Rajkumari and can see that the two voices are nowhere close to each other.

By the way, HFGK credits Rajkumari for two other songs in the movie (not yet covered in the blog).

Lyrics are by Santokh Nadim. Music is composed by Dada Chandekar.

Only audio of the song is available. I request our knowledgeable readers to throw light on the picturisation of the song as well as on the movie itself.


Song-Aayi rangreliyon ka zamaana le kar mast jawaani aayi (Din Raat)(1945) Singer-Rajkumari, Lyrics-Santokh Nadim, MD-Dada Chandekar

Lyrics

aayi
rangreliyon ka zamaana le ke
mast jawaani aayi
aayi
rangreliyon ka zamaana le ke
mast jawaani aayi
chitvan kamaan laayi
nainon ke baan laayi
chitvan kamaan laayi
nainon ke baan laayi
baala joban ka khazaana le ke
haan aan aan
baala joban ka khazaana le ke
mast jawaani aayi
aayi
rangreliyon ka zamaana le ke
mast jawaani aayi
aayi

aankh michauli khelen taare
chaand gagan se kare ishaare
chaand gagan se kare ishaare ae ae ae
sundar roop suhaana le ke
sundar roop suhaana le ke
mast jawaani aayi
aayi
rangreliyon ka zamaana le ke
mast jawaani aayi
aayi

joban se chingaari lekar
jag mein aag laga de ae ae ae ae
ae ae ae ae ae ae
joban se chingaari lekar
jag mein aag laga de
soyi huyi aashaaon ko phir
ek baar tadpaa de
soyi huyi aashaaon ko phir
ek baar tadpaa de
haan
aaye bahaar ke din
aaye bahaar ke din
solah singaar ke din
aaye bahaar ke din
solah singaar ke din
navjeevan mastaana leke
navjeevan mastaana leke
mast jawaani aayi
aayi
rangreliyon ka zamaana le ke
mast jawaani aayi
aayi
rangreliyon ka zamaana le ke
mast jawaani aayi


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Blog Day :

5418 Post No. : 17767

#the Decade of Fifties –1951 – 1960 #
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In this post I present a song from the movie “Aazaadi Ke Baad-1951”.

I became aware about this movie through HFGK Vol-III (1951-1960) and through this blog.

“Aazaadi Ke Baad-1951” was directed by D. K. Chatterjee for ‘The Great Oriental Pictures, Calcutta’.

HFGK mentions the date of passing of this movie by Censor Board as on 09.07.1951.

The cast of this movie included Asit Baran, Meera Mishra, Tandon, Parbati, Miss Pearl, Kalpana, Faiz, Shareef Dehalvi, Dr. Roz, Puttan, Pannalal Bose, Vrindavan, Shri Nripen, Rekha, Sudha, Leela, Sujata, Bela and others.

Here is some additional information about this movie which our in-house encyclopedia respected Shri Arunkumar ji had mentioned in his post while presenting a song ‘saamne hai yaar ka’ from this movie on the blog.
(I am reproducing the following selected paragraphs from his post here, which mentions about the songs, the director of this movie and the music composer of this movie).

HFGK shows 10 songs for this film. It does not give record numbers or singer’s names (except for 2) for the songs.
The film was made in Calcutta by The Great Oriental Pictures. It was directed by D.K. Chatterjee. I found only this one film for this director in HFGK. The music was by K.P. Sen. This name may not be known to most readers.

K.P. Sen, Music Director of today’s film had given music to 3 more Hindi films- Baap-46, Do Baten-49 and Shaadi ke Baad-49. Film Aazaadi ke baad-5’ was his last Hindi film. No more information about him is available. I have always stated that it is extremely difficult to get information on most Bangla artistes in any other language than Bangla.

As mentioned above HFGK lists ten songs for this movie all written by M. Razi Banarasi.
However it mentioned the singer’s names for only two songs.

So far, the following three songs from this movie have been presented on the blog. These three songs include one song which is not mentioned in HFGK Vol-III for this movie.
I am again reproducing the text from Shri Arunkumar ji’s post about this song which he presented on the blog on 20.02.2022. (This will give idea to readers about the obscureness of the songs and the difficulty in compiling the information about the songs of this movie).

Today’s song is not listed on this page, for whatever reasons. Nevertheless, it is confirmed that this song is from this film only, as the up-loader has given the photo of this record on RMIM and also mentioned on YouTube that this song is not listed in HFGK. Possibly, at the time of compilation, the record details with singers’ names etc were not available to Hamraz ji. It happened in some other film cases too.

S.No Song Title Singer/s Posted On
01 Keh do keh do Not known/Suprabha Sarkar* 30.04.2016
02 Mera toota sapna pyaara Not known/Suprabha Sarkar* 18.10.2020
03 Saamne hai yaar ka Song not in mentioned in HFKG/Asit Baran* 20.05.2022

(Note – * – Singer’s names considered as mentioned by the up-loader of these songs on internet).

Today I present the fourth song from this movie where again the singer’s name is not mentioned in HFGK and we are considering it as mentioned by the up-loader of this song.
The singer for today’s song is again Suprabha Sarkar as mentioned by the up-loader.

Lyrics for the song are by M. Razi Banarasi and music is composed by K.P. Sen.

Only the audio of this song is available.

Let us now enjoy this song …


Song-Aayenge saajan hamaare aaj aayenge (Aazaadi Ke Baad)(1951) Singer-Suprabha Sarkar, Lyrics-M Razi Banarasi, MD-K P Sen

Lyrics

aayenge saajan hamaare ae
aaj aayenge ae
aayenge saajan hamaare ae
aaj aayenge ae
aa aa aa aa aa
man ke panchhi gaa re ae ae
man ke panchhi gaa re ae ae
aayenge saajan hamaare ae
aaj aayenge ae

wo jo aayen
to jeewan lutaa doon
un ke charnon mein
aankhen bichhaa doon
oon oon oon
wo jo aayen
to jeewan lutaa doon
un ke charnon mein
aankhen bichhaa doon
chamke jeewan ki
aashaa ke taare ae
aaj aayenge ae
chamke jeewan ki
aashaa ke taare ae
aaj aayenge ae

geet pyaare pawan gaa rahi hai
har kali khil ke sharmaa rahi hain
geet pyaare pawan gaa rahi hai
har kali khil ke sharmaa rahi hain
bhanwaren karte hain dekho ishaare ae ae
aaj aayenge ae
bhanwaren karte hain dekho ishaare ae ae
aaj aayenge ae

dil machaltaa hai
gaate hain armaan
ho rahaa hai khushi kaa ye saamaan
aan aan aan
dil machaltaa hai
gaate hain armaan
ho rahaa hai khushi kaa
ye saamaan
aao preetam
mera man pukaare ae ae
aaj aayenge ae
aao preetam
mera man pukaare ae ae
aaj aayenge ae
aa aa aa aa
man ke panchhi gaa re ae
man ke panchhi gaa re ae ae
aayenge saajan hamaare ae
aaj aayenge ae
aayenge saajan hamaare ae
aaj aayenge ae


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This post is the 17700th song post for the blog.

Blog Day :

5394 Post No. : 17700

Yesterday (24 April 2023), I was on an overdrive, as far as posting of articles in the blog was concerned. I ended up posting as many as eight articles on that day. Posting eight articles in a day was fairly common in the blog one decade ago. For instance, during april 2013, eight articles were covered on ten days and nine articles were covered on another four days. That year saw eight songs posted on as many as 36 days (10% of the days in that year). But things are different now a days. During the last seven years, we have touched this figure of eight songs in a day only four times !

Sudhir Jee noticed this “unusual” flurry of activity and enquired whether I was targetting century post the next day. Indeed that was my target. Earlier in the month, I was maintaining an average of about 3.3 songs per day. That would have led to Blog century getting reached on 28 April 2023 and century of songs for the month on 30 April 2023. But I thought that leaving things that late was not advisable. Leaving things till the last moment can often lead to failure to reach the target due to unforeseen circumstances that may suddenly crop up. Moreover, doing the bare minimum was making things routine and boring. Most articles by me were becoming mere formalities to just keep things going by avoiding DOT days and ensuring blog centuries at the rate of one century per month. Where were articles by me that gave me creative satisfaction and earned appreciation from learned regulars and others in the past ? It is time I got my creative juices flowing again instead of just doing routine work. I have so many topics in mind where I could write articles that readers may find interesting and hopefully useful.

Coming to the query from Sudhir Jee, I informed him that that yes, I wanted to complete the blog century the next day. And no I had no plans lined up for the century post. We vaguely discussed if any anniversaries are coming or any artist is reaching his century. One artist is reaching his century. But I thought that the century post should contain a song more special than that.

I recalled that may years ago I had discovered several rare songs and I had saved them as text files under headings like “rare”, “Rarer”, “rarest”, “rarest of rarest” etc. I went through those lists. I found that quite a few of those songs have since been covered in the blog. Some of them by me, some by others. Some of them as special posts such as century posts, some of them as just routine posts.

Finally I have chosen a “rarest of rarest” category of song. On checking up, I realised that one song from this movie has already been covered. But thankfully the song that I had picked for this occasion was not that song. 🙂

I listened to the song again. I liked the song. It was a cheerful peppy song, and not a sad melancholic song that we tended to have in plenty those days.
This song is sung by Rafi. Surjeet Sethi is the lyricist. S Mohinder is the music director.

The only thing known about this movie is that it was produced by SS Movie makers and that it had seven plus songs issed under record numbers GE 8672 to GE 8675.

Incidentally when I “discovered” this song many years ago, the lyricist name was mentioned as Sujit Sinha. 🙂 Sadanand Kamath jee, who posted the other song from this movie in the past, had done lots of research on this movie and he had gave facts and figures that I could use in this post. HFGK mentions this song as from an unreleased movie of 1940s called “Geet aur Aansoo”. Sadanand Kamath jee has deduced that this song is from the year 1947 because the lyricist Surjeet Singh and music director S Mohinder first met in 1947 and this appears to be their first collaboration as well as their debut movie in Hindi movies.. This movie may have been unrealesed but its seven songs were planned and recorded in 1947. Sadanand Kamath jee also finds Rafi’s voice in this movie resembling his voice in 1947, such as in the movie “Jugnu”(1947). So all these corcumstancial evidences suggests that this movie and song are from 1947.

This movie does not figure in the filmographies of S Mohinder and Surjeet Sethi. This song is mentioned in HFGK, but singer name is not mentioned there. This song does not figure in the excel sheet listing Rafi songs. That is how rare this song is. For many listeners, this may be the first time they will be listening to this song. A great cheerful Rafi song it is. This song is worthy of being discussed as the blog post number 17700, viz 177th century post for the blog.

This century was reached in 28 days. Hopefully we will be able to reduce the number of days for a century even further in coming months, though I doubt we may touch the heady days of yore when we routinely had centuries in 16 days and less.

PS- When I got to read the post by Sudhir jee posted just prior to this post, that served as a great source of motivation. Yes, that is the kind of articles one needs to write to catch the readers’s attention and keep them mesmerised. So I hope to write at least some posts like that in the days to come. 🙂

I take this opportunity to thank one and all for their continued support in helping this musical bandwagon keep going on and on. Hopefully this bandwagon will keep rolling, perhaps even get second wind, third wind etc and thereby pick speed. We still have a long long way to go in our musical journey and we have yet to many forgotten gems to discover. And the journey resumes with a renewerd vigour and fresh guard as early as tomorrow. 🙂


Song-Do naina ye kaajal waale(Geet Aur aansoo)(1947) Singer-Rafi, Lyrics-Surjeet Sethi, MD-S Mohinder

Lyrics

do o o o o o naina
do naina ye kaajal waale hoy
do naina ye kaajal waale
kar do o
kar do
gori mere hawaale
kar do mere hawaale

nai dulhaniya sharm ke maare
naina nahin uthhaaye
ham donon hain meet puraane
kaahe ko sharmaaye
nainon se ae
nainon se naina milaa le ae ae
nainon se naina milaa le
do naina ye kaajal waale hoy
do naina ye kaajal waale
kar do o
kar do
gori mere hawaale
kar do mere hawaale

matwaare do nain tihaare ae ae
masti barsaayen
bin piye hum hosh ko kho den
aisa haal banaayen
tore nainaa
mad ke pyaale
naina mad ke pyaale ae ae
naina mad ke pyaale
do naina ye kaajal waale hoy
do naina ye kaajal waale
kar do o
kar do
gori mere hawaale
kar do mere hawaale

de do apne naina humko
more naina le lo o
de do apne naina humko
more naina le lo
ek ho jaayen hum donon ab
kuchh de do kuchh le lo gori ee
gori nain uthhaa le ae ae
gori nain uthhaa le ae
do naina ye kaajal waale hoy
do naina ye kaajal waale
kar do o
kar do
gori mere hawaale
kar do mere hawaale ae ae

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Hindi script lyrics (Provided by Sudhir)
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दो॰॰ओ॰॰ओ नैना
दो नैना काजल वाले होय
दो नैना काजल वाले
कर दो॰॰ओ
कर दो
गोरी मेरे हवाले
कर दो मेरे हवाले

नई दुल्हनिया शर्म के मारे
नैना नहीं उठाए
हम दोनों हैं मीत पुराने
काहे को शरमाये
नैनों से॰॰ए
नैनों से नैना मिला ले॰॰ए॰॰ए
नैनों से नैना मिला ले
दो नैना काजल वाले होय
दो नैना काजल वाले
कर दो॰॰ओ
कर दो
गोरी मेरे हवाले
कर दो मेरे हवाले

मतवारे दो नैन तिहारे॰॰ए॰॰ए
मस्ती बरसाएँ
बिन पिये हम होश को खो दें
ऐसा हाल बनाएँ
तोरे नैना
मद के प्याले
नैना मद के प्याले॰॰ए॰॰ए
नैना मद के प्याले
दो नैना काजल वाले होय
दो नैना काजल वाले
कर दो॰॰ओ
कर दो
गोरी मेरे हवाले
कर दो मेरे हवाले

दे दो अपने नैना हमको
मोरे नैना ले लो
एक हो जाएँ हम दोनों अब
कुछ दे दो कुछ ले लो गोरी
गोरी नैन उठा ले॰॰ए॰॰ए
गोरी नैन उठा ले॰॰ए
दो नैना काजल वाले होय
दो नैना काजल वाले
कर दो॰॰ओ
कर दो
गोरी मेरे हवाले
कर दो मेरे हवाले


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5116 Post No. : 17064

Today’s song is from the film Chanda ki Chandani-1948.

The film was directed by Dwaraka Khosla, the lyricist was D.N.Madhok and the music Director was Gyan Dutt.

When I was looking at the cast of this film, my eyes were stuck on one name and a smile came to my face.

From the day films started being made in India, in the first stage, no one was ready to work in films. In the second stage, no one from a respectable family was coming forward to work in films. In the third stage, very few educated people joined the films. However, as the film industry got well established, the picture changed and highly educated people from respectable families joined Cinema world. Not only that, working in films became a matter of prestige. It brought fame and money both ! The film industry attracted all talented people from various places.

Working in films also became an attraction for many producers, directors, lyricists, singers, music directors,cinematographers, choreographers etc. In fact, people who had no direct involvement in the actual role playing too became attracted to be seen on the silver screen. Thus, we find many examples of such ‘ unconnected ‘ film personalities to appear on the silver screen at least once.

Take the case of Music Director S.N.Tripathi, for example. When he joined the film industry through Bombay talkies, for fun, he first did a small role in the film Jeevan Naiya-1936, which was also the first film of Ashok Kumar as a Hero. But after that film, after 10 years, he started acting in films and finally he ended up acting in 83 films in his career, while giving music to 107 films and even directing 10 films ! This is the charisma of films !!. Another example I remember offhand is that of music director Jaikishen ( of Shankar- Jaikishen fame), who appeared as a singer in the film Begunah-1957.

Among lyricists, I remember Dewan Sharar, doing a small role in the film Karma-1933, who ended up appearing in 7 more films in the next 20 years ! Not only this, but even Lata Mangeshkar ( initially as a need), Asha Bhosle, R D Burman etc have appeared on the silver screen. Mukesh and Talat Mehmood had done Hero’s roles too. There could be many such examples and our readers can quote them.

In my younger days ( which was too long ago ! ), I remember Alfred Hitchcock, director of Murder mystery films, had the habit of appearing at least once in evry film that he made, either as a part of a crowd or in a negligible cameo role. During that period, it became a craze all over the world to spot him in his films- which was a difficult task and people saw films many times just to locate him.

All this came to my mind, when I saw the name of Neelkanth Tiwari in the cast of the film Chanda ki Chandani-1948. Tiwari was a well known author and a lyricist in Hindi films. This winner of Sahitya Academy Award, had a penchant for appearing on Silver screen. He appeared in at least 2 films – Apna paraya-1942 and Chanda ki Chandani-1948. He is also said to have appeared along with Dev Anand (with whom he was quite close) in one of his films- name of which I do not know. Not only this he also sang a song in his first film Nirdosh-1941 !

Other members of the cast of this film were Jairaj, Rehana, E.Bilimoria, Moni Chatterjee, Kesari, Veera, Ameer bano etc. The case of E. Bilimoria is strange. He became an actor by accident (reminds me of Motilal and Ranjan too). In the early era of the Talkie films the Bilimoria brothers were very famous. First it was D (Dinshaw) and then came E (Eddie) Bilimoria. Eddie was born at Bilimora,in Gujarat, in 1900. At the age of just 13 years he ran away from house to Kirkee (near Poona), to his uncle, to become a Fireman in Railways. Here, he became a Door keeper in a Cinema house and also learnt operating the film projector. Due to ill health, he was brought to Bombay.

One day he went to Imperial Studio to meet his brother Dinshaw, who worked in films. Mistaking him to be Dinshaw, make-up was done to him and he played a role in the film ‘Punjab Mail’. Then onwards he started working regularly in films. As a Hero his first silent film was ‘Raj Ramani’. He worked as Hero in 7 Imperial films and 10 films of Ranjit Studio. His Heroines were Putli, Shanta, Sultana. Madhuri, Padma, Panna and others. When Talkie films started he was Hero in 32 films made by Ranjit, opposite Gauhar, Shanta, Kamla, Mehtab, Madhuri and Sitara etc. He worked in 15 films opposite Madhuri only. Fencing, shooting and horse riding were his specialties as a stunt Hero. He was the First in India to wear Cowboy dress in stunt films.

Char chakram-32, Miss 1933-33, and Nadira-34 were his Hit films. In the film ‘ Sipahi ki sajni’-36, he jumped into Sea from a flying plane, without duplicate. Daredevil stunts were his hallmark. There were hundreds of stitches on his body. After 1939 he stopped getting Hero roles, so he did other character roles. After 1953, he was reduced to only an Extra. He did acting till 1973 and then took up a job in a Fridge and AC shop. He stayed in a flat in Kemps corner in Bombay. His last days were not very happy. E.Bilimoria died on 18-2-1981 at Bombay.

He acted in 73 Talkie films, directed 1 film ( sone ki chidiya-48) and also sang 4 songs in 4 films. His first film was Radha Rani-32 and last was Honeymoon-73.
( adapted from ‘Inhe na Bhulana’ (in Gujarati) by Harish Raghuwanshi, with thanks.)

Another name of interest was that of Veera. This name too may not be known to many. Veera was from a Parsi family.Her full name was Veera Ankaleshwaria. Obviously, her family came from Ankaleshwar,a small industrial town(now), in Gujarat. She started her career in films as a Heroine opposite Nasir khan in the film Mazdoor-1945. Then came Shikari-46 and later Eight days-46, both had Ashok Kumar as the Hero. Both the films were from Filmistan. Her last film as Heroine was Tohfa, opposite Rehman and Leela opposite Agha , both films from 1947. Then she stopped getting Heroine roles and shifted to side roles. In all she did 22 films.

Her other films were, Veena, Ziddi, Chanda ki Chandani- all 48, Sanwaria-49, Hamara Ghar and hamari beti- 1950, Hamari shaan, Ramjanma and Sagar-1951, Aasmaan, izzat, Moti mahal, Sanskar and Shin shinaki boobla boo-all1952, Dana Pani-53, Boot polish and Sheeshe ki deewar both 1954.

She married Mohsin Abdulla, who had worked in Bombay Talkies as a writer. He was the younger brother of actress Renuka Devi ( Begum Mirza) and ex husband of actress Neena (Shaheeda). After the marriage, both migrated to Pakistan in 1955. No news after that.

Today’s song is a good one, sung by Sulochana Chavan and B. Hussain. I do not know who this B. Hussain was. HFGK mentions the singer of this song as Geeta Roy, but the names on the actual gramophone record are different. This song and the record photo was uploaded by Jaffer Bhai. Thanks to him for this rare song. Let us enjoy this duet – which is the 7th song of this film to feature on this Blog.


Song- Kaali kaali raat hai (Chanda Ki Chaandni)(1948) Singers- Sulochana Kadam, B Hussain, Lyricist- D N Madhok, MD- Gyan Dutt
Both

Lyrics

kaali kaali raat hai
kaali kaali raat hai
gar saas teri so jaaye to kuchh baat hai
kaali kaali raat hai
gar saas teri so jaaye to kuchh baat hai
kaali kaali raat hai
kaali kaali raat hai

lo ghir ghir baadal aa gaye
aa morey raaja
hum ghabra gaye
lo ghir ghir baadal aa gaye
aa morey raaja
hum ghabra gaye
tu to ghabra gayi
mera dhadke hai dil
tu to ghabra gayi
mera dhadke hai dil
tu makkhi ban ke
kabootar ban ke
o sajni aa ke raat beeti jaat hai
raat beeti jaat hai

per maa teri so jaaye to kya baat hai
per saas teri so jaaye to kuchh baat hai
kaali kaali raat hai
kaali kaali raat hai

jo main jaanti
saasu ka raaz ghar mein hoga
jo main jaanti
saasu ka raaz ghar mein hoga
kabhi na aati
kunwaari hi rah jaati
jo main jaanti
saasu ka raaz ghar mein hoga
kabhi na aati
kunwaari hi rah jaati
jo main jaanta
meri dushman hai meri maata
jo main jaanta
meri dushman hai meri maata
zehar ka pyaala pee ke
kabhi ka mar jaata
jo main jaanta
meri dushman hai meri maata
zehar ka pyaala pee ke
kabhi ka mar jaata

udhar padi to khabardaar
ye last hai
kaali kaali raat hai
kaali kaali raat hai
per saas teri so jaaye to kuchh baat hai
per maa teri so jaaye to kya baat hai
kaali kaali raat hai
kaali kaali raat hai


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“Grihasthi”(1963) was directed by Kishore Sahu for Gemini Chitra,Madras. The movie had Ashok Kumar, Manoj Kumar, Nitrupa Roy, Rajshree, Indrani Mukherji, Sudesh Kumar, Lalita Pawar, Bipin Gupta, Jageerdaar, Ifthikhar, Kanhaiyalal, Niranjan Sharma, Achla Sachdev, Pushpavalli, Bhatri Malvankar, Mehmood, Shubha Khote etc in it.
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“Laal Haweli”(1944) was directed by K B Lal for Bombay Cinetone, Bombay. The movie had Surendra, Noorjahaan, Ulhas, Baby Meena (later known as Meena Kumari), Maya Bannerji, Yaakoob, Kanhaiyalal, Brijrani, Vatsala Kumthekar, Badri Prasad, Ghori, Alaknanda etc in it.
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