Ye zindagee kya hai ek safar hai
Posted on: January 27, 2026
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6401 | Post No. : | 19860 |
“Razia Sultana”(1961) was directed by Devendra Goyal for Movie India, Bombay. This historical movie had Nirupa Roy (in title role), Jairaj, Kamran, M Kumar, N A Ansari, Agha, Sadhana Chaudhary, Leela Mishra, Rajan Kapoor, S M Sagar, Narad Muni, Madhumati, Jeewan Kala, Meena, Maqbool etc in it.
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6401 | Post No. : | 19859 |
“Ratnaghar”(1955) was produced by Sudhir Phadke and Y H Joshi and it was directed by Yashwant Pethekar for Navbharat Chitra Bombay. The movie had Raja Paranjpe, Shakuntala, Lalita Pawar,Suryakant, Madan Mohan, Takalkar etc in it.
The movie had five songs in it.
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Wo mittee ke bete
Posted on: January 26, 2026
This article is written by Avinash Scrapwala, 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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6401 | Post No. : | 19858 | Movie Count : |
5182 |
#the Decade of 2020s– 2021- TO – 2030 #
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Today we celebrate the 77th Republic Day of our country India. Our Independence is already above seventy-eight years now. We gained our hard fought freedom on 15th August 1947. So we gained independence more than 78 years ago, whereas India became a republic on this date in 1950.
We are all aware of the supreme sacrifices made by our freedom fighters and common people. The country was blessed to have some visionary leaders who led this freedom struggle. Once independence was achieved, they ensured that this hard fought freedom was not squandered but used for the benefit of the country and its population. Drafting a constritution for this newly idependent vast nation and making it a republic, where every citizen was guaranteed equality,irrespective of their caste,creed,religion and gender, was something unprecedented in the entire history of India. India became a republic on 26 January 1950 and from that day onwards, India has been governed according to the Indian constitution that came into force on that date.
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O Mrignainee Madhubainee Menaka
Posted on: January 26, 2026
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This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, 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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6401 | Post No. : | 19856 |
Mr. Sampat (1952) was produced and directed by S S Vasan under the banner of Gemini Pictures. The film starred Motilal, Padmini, Vanaja, Sundari Bai, Swaraj, Agha, Kanhaiyalal, Badriprasad, Kailash Nath, Ramamurthy, J S Casshyap, B S Kalla etc. The film was adapted from R K Narayan’s novel, ‘Mr. Sampat – Printer of Malgudi’ (1949). It is a satirical film. This was Padmini’s first Hindi film in a lead role while Motilal was in the title role of Mr. Sampat. The film was first made in Tamil in 1948 but R K Narayan made some revision in the story based on which the Hindi version was made.
I have already given the story of the film in some detail while covering one of the film’s songs, laila laila pukaaroon main ban mein. So, I will cover here only the gist of the story which is as under:
Mr. Sampat, (Motilal) sustains himself by coning the people through presenting himself in immaculate western attires with his smooth and humourous talks. He has the power to convince his potential targets with his believable schemes. One of his potential targets is Malini (Padmini), a stage artist who has a good fan base. Simultaneously, he has one more target, Seth Makhanlal Gheewala (Kanhaiyalal) who is standing for a municipal election. Sampat uses Malini in the guise of an interview for a newspaper and brings her at Gheewala’s tea party for her. Because of Malini’s fan base, Gheewala wins the municipal election thus creating a confidence in the ability of Sampat.
With this success, Sampat spells out a scheme, both for Malini and Gheewala to start a bank by offering the customers a high interest rates on deposits. The new bank thrives in its business and attract huge deposits. Raj Mohan (Kailash Nath) from a former royal family member has put a large chunk of deposits in the banks because he has developed infatuation with Malini. For Sampat, things are working nicely as per his plans and he has now improved his status. One day, Malini rejects Raj Mohan’s advances which angers him. He immediately withdraws his entire deposits from the bank. Soon the bank collapses and the entire investments made by Malini and Gheewala are lost. Creditors are queuing up and to meet their demand, Malini’s house is under auction. Knowing that he has nothing to gain now, Sampat leaves them after pocketing Malini’s theatre collections and moves on to select his next potential target for coning. And this time, he has been seen as a godman giving an impressive lecture to his followers.
The film was under production before India became a republic in 1952 and before the first general election took place. So, there was no major corruption and fraudsters cases at the time of making the film. The Haridas Mundra case and much later, Natwarlal’s coning instances came to light only sometime in mid-1950s though he was involved in theft and cheatings during the British Rule. Hence, it is to the credit of story writer, R K Narayan that he could foresee such scenarios which became realities in India in the later years. The film is still relevant and it is for the reason that film is enjoyable to watch even after seven decades from its release. Despite the role of Sampat having some negative shades, Motilal in the title role, has given an excellent performance and has been successful in creating an impression on the audience of his likeable character mainly because of his natural acting.
The film had 13 songs written by Pandit Indra (10) and others (3) which were set to music by Balkrishna Kalla and E Shankar Shastri. All are the stage songs. Surprisingly, not a single song was picturised on Motilal.
Five songs have been represented on the Blog. I present the 6th song, ‘o mrignaini madhubani……o bairaagi banwaasi’ which is tandem song rendered by Talat Mehmood, Shamshad Begum and Geeta Dutt. The soundtrack of the song in the film appears as a continuous song. Due to technical reasons, this song on gramophone records have been released in two parts. Geeta Dutt parts of the song is composed in Baul style, a type of kirtan song, which has been prevalent in Bengal.
This tandem song is a part of the mythological story of Menaka and sage Vishwamitra being staged in a theatre. In the first part of the song, Menaka (Padmini) is directed by Lord Indra () to entice sage Vishwamitra (Ramamurthy) who is on a deep meditation to attain the highest status of a Brahmarishi which can dethrone Lord Indra in heaven. In the second part of the song, Menaka goes from heaven to earth and starts singing and dancing. Towards the end of the song, Menaka is successful in breaking sage Vishwamitra’s meditation and he gets attracted to Menaka.
Incidentally, HFGK shows the song under discussion as two different songs because it has been issued on 78 RPM gramophone records with two different matrix numbers. In the film, it is a continuous but tandem song. Since the theme of both the songs is a part of the same story with continuity in stage performance, I felt that both the songs should form a part of the single post for the better understanding of the context of the song.
Video Clip (Part-1):
Video Clip (Part-2):
Audio Clip (Part-1):
Audio Clip (Part-2):
Song-O mrignainee madhubainee Menaka (Mr Sampat)(1952) Singers-Talat Mehmood, Shamshad Begum/ Geeta Dutt, Lyricist-Pt Indra Chandra, MD-B S Kalla
Chorus
Lyrics:
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Part-1 (Based on Video Clip)
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Devendra dev ki jai jai jai
?? kee jai jai jai
Gajpati Narendra kee jai jai jai
Gajpati Mahendra kee jai
Mahendra kee jai
Mahendra Kee jai
[Dialogues]
o o
mrignaini madhubaini Menaka
tum ho kahaan
tum ho kahaan
swaami ee
o o o o
haazir hoon main naath yahaan
haazir hoon main naath yahaan
haazir hoon main naath yahaan
o o o
mrignaini madhubaini Menaka
tum jaao
tum jaao
o o o
o o
meree laaj aabroo
ab to tumheen bachaao
salonee jaao
tum jaao
ab tajo shok tum swaami naath hamaare
ab tajo shok tum swaami naath hamaare
naath hamaare
sab bade bade brahmchaaree mujhse haare
mujhse haare
main jaaun
main jaaun aur suljhaaoon sabhee samasya
taphaaree kee kar aaoon
bhang tapasyaa
bhang tapasyaa…..aa
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Part-2 (Based on Audio Clip)
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o o o
bairaagee banwaasee..ee
o o o
bairaagee banwaasee ee
charnon kee daasee
darash ko pyaasee
bairaagee banwaasee
o o o
bairaagee banwaasee ee
ab nain khol kar dekh re
ab nain khol kar
ab nain khol kar dekh
dwaar tere chhaayee pooranmaasee
o bairaagee banwaasee
main daaroongee galbaiyaan
tod de maala
main daaroongee galbaiyaan
tod de maala
main apnaa hriday bichhaaoon
phenk mrigchhaala
dho daal bhaal ke bhabhoot
bhagwa taj de
?? ang ang ras bhar le
dho daal bhaal ke bhabhoot
bhagwa taj de
?? ang ang ras bhar le
preet mohse kar le
preet mohse kar le
preet mohse kar le
chhod udaasee
preet mohse kar le
chhod udaasee
o banwaasee
o banwaasee
o banwaasee
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6400 | Post No. : | 19855 | Movie Count : |
5181 |
Today I introduce a song from a movie which makes a debut on this blog. The movie I am talking about is “Laila” released in 1984 and the song is a fast romantic one sung by Kishore Kumar – “Ho Gaye Deewane Tum Ko Dekh Kar”.
The 1984 film Laila is a romantic drama directed by Saawan Kumar Tak. It is notably remembered as one of the early films of Anil Kapoor’s career, though its release was slightly delayed, leading to Woh 7 Din being his official debut as a leading man.
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6400 | Post No. : | 19854 |
“Kaala Samundar”(1962) was directed by R P Ashq for Deepak Chitra Production. The movie had Jairaj, Chitra, Bir Sakuja, Maruti, Hiralal, Radhika, Tuntun etc in it.
“Kaala Samundar”(1962) had seven songs in it. Four of these songs have been covered in the past.
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Pahle na jaana thhaa
Posted on: January 25, 2026
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6400 | Post No. : | 19853 |
“Ratnaghar”(1955) was produced by Sudhir Phadke and Y H Joshi and was directed by Pethekar for Navbharat Chitra Bombay. The movie had Raja Paranjpe, Shakuntala, Lalita Pawar, Suryakant, Madan Mohan, Takalkar etc in it.
The movie had five songs in it. Three songs have been covered so far.
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Aa main tujhko pyaar karoon
Posted on: January 24, 2026
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, 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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6399 | Post No. : | 19852 |
‘Shaarda’ (1981) was produced by K K Talwar and was directed by Lekh Tandon. The cast included Jeetendra, Rameshwari, Usha Kiran, Om Prakash, Deena Pathak, Kalpana Iyer, Madan Puri, Jagdeep, Iftekhar, Pinchoo Kapoor etc. Sarika and Raj Babbar made guest appearances. The story of the film seems to be partly inspired from a Hollywood film, ‘How To Murder Your Wife’ (1965). While the Hollywood film was a black comedy, Lekh Tandon converted his Hindi film into a family drama. The shooting of the film started in 1978. The film got released on April 10, 1981.
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