Mohe prem ke jhooley jhulaa do koi
Posted on: September 18, 2011
The realisation that there are no more K L Saigal songs to discuss now gives me an empty feeling, but with that also comes the satisfaction of a job well done. The satisfaction that the blog now has all the K L Saigal songs in Hindi/Urdu that are available- movie songs as well as non movie songs is immense.
Sudhir ji has described in details the postings of various K L Saigal songs. When I began this blog, I had no idea how many songs of Hindi movies of various artists were there to be discussed. And that included K L Saigal songs too. As with the case of other songs, I too discussed K L Saigal songs without any definite plan. But with time, I received such great and useful suggestions and advises from the regulars of this blog that my posting of songs became more systematic and purposeful. For example, the stats page was a result of Raja’s suggestion. Both of us were brought up following cricket and its statistics in 1970s and the stats page is a result of that.
Now, thanks to this page, I can keep track of the number of songs of various artists. This gave me the idea that I needed to have individual centuries for various artists. Thus, instead of discussing songs without any definite plan, I began to give more coverage to songs of those artists who had not yet completed their centuries in the blog. This gave my postings a definite direction.
That is how lots and lots of artists were brought up to the century mark. In fact, before the stat page was begun, this blog had only about 20 centurions. Now the number has more than doubled.
When I looked at the number of K L Saigal songs in the stats page, I would find the number of songs against him in 20s. I sometimes wondered if I would ever see a century against his name. It was early this year when our knowledgeable readers, mainly Mr Arunkumar Deshmukh informed me about the statistics of K L Saigal songs and where to find them. And then we in this blog took the decision to discuss all the available K l Saigal songs, be they movie songs or non movie songs.
As non movie songs of K L Saigal was hardly my speciality, Sudhir jee very kindly volunteered to take the responsibility of discussing these songs on his shoulders. And what followed continously in the three months or so has been stupendous. There are few fans for songs as old as 1930s and 1940s, but for those fans, as well as historians and researchers of K L Saigal songs, now there is no better place in internet to look than this blog.
In fact, I think that the indepth and erudite discussions on various K L Saigal songs, especially the non film songs, full with the meanings of difficult words and phrases, is the stuff of thesis that can easily earn people PhDs from most universities. “A study and analysis on the entire works of K L Saigal in Hindi/Urdu” could well be the title of a PhD thesis if all these writeups were to be presented as a Thesis. In fact, I sincely hope that a few unscrupulous people should not try and present it as their own research paper in some university. Hopefully in these days of internet, such plagiarism will be easy to detect, but one never knows. This blog is a hobby blog and a labour of love, but the time and energy and the intellect involved in the writeups do not come for free. So I would request all those who decide to use these write ups for any purpose should give proper credit to the author of these outstanding source materials on K L Saigal, namely Mr Sudhir Kapur.
Each and every K L Saigal writeup by Sudhir jee have been a labour of love. He has mostly been able to find time only after midnight (when most people are sleeping) to write these articles and he has been giving up his sleep continously for over three months to bring us these wonderful insights into K L Saigal songs. I cannot thanks him enough for what he has been doing for the cause of Hindi movie music of yesteryears.
His contribution is not limited to discussing K L Saigal songs. He has added an entirely new dimension to the discussions in this blog with his knowledge and his ability to dig up rare informations and missing songs. We all look forward to many more great articles from him on other artists as well.
The fact that we in this blog were able to discuss all K L Saigal is a result of sharing of ideas by some die hard music lovers. I thank all the regulars who have given their inputs and valuable informations /suggestions/corrections etc in these write ups.
Being able to successfully complete the discussion of all K L Saigal songs serves as a great source of hope for the future. We now know that we can take on daunting targets and achieve them. What we need is an idea of the kind of target we have in mind. For instance, we should have an idea of how many songs each artist had figured in and how many of them are likely to be available. With time, I have obtained a fairly good idea of the number of songs that many of the major artists (singers, lyricists and music directors) were involved in. In fact, I now have a fairly good idea of the number of songs that were ever created in Hindi movies. I will present my finding about these numbers in a future post.
For the time being, I take this opportunity to thank Sudhir jee on my behalf and on behalf of all the readers of this blog for successfully completing the onerous task of discussingall K L Saigal songs that were there to be discussed.
K L Saigal songs are over, and now we can look forward to discussing songs of other artists from that era. For instance I realised recently that very few songs from the decade of 1930 (1931-1940) are discussed in this blog. One main reason for this is the fact that very few records from this era are actually available. And in case a few records are available, information about these songs and their movies are difficult to come by.
Here is an extremely rare song from a movie called “Jeewan Lata” (1936). when I listened to this song, my first impression was that this song is sung by a western born woman with experience of singing in choirs. But when I found her name, it was Sabita Devi. On digging up further, it turns out that she was indeed an Anglo Indian. She joined Hindi movies in late 1920s in the silent era. She managed to have a successful innings in the talking era too, since she was one of the few Anglo Indians who was able to speak/ sing in Hindi, even if with an accent.
I tried to get a photograph of her, but I could not. The few photos available are of some other women with the same name.
I have no idea who is the lyricist of this song. Music director was Pransukh Nayak.
I request our knowledgeable readers to throw more light on Sabita Devi as well as on this movie and on the lyricist of this song.
PS- Our inhouse encyclopaedia, Mr Arunkumar Deshmukh has come up with some great information about this movie as well as about Sabita Devi. Here is what he has to say –
JEEVAN LATA(1936) was a sagar movietone film directed by Sarvottam Badami. The Music was by Pransukh M Naik and the lyrics were by Pt.Indra.
The cast was Sabith Devi, Motilal, J.Sushila, Pandey, Sankatha, Miss Gulzar, Bhudo Advani, Mehendi Raja etc.
This was a social movie.
SABITHA DEVI was born in 1914 at calcutta in an Anglo-indian affluent family.After education she wanted to join films,but her parents objected.Without their knowledge she sent her photographs to British Dominion Film Co. in 1926.When they agreed,parents kept her in a room .She fell sick and finally parents agreed.
Her first film was “Rupiya kya kuch nahin kar sakta”. She acted in several silent movies and was very popular.When Talkie films came,she learnt Hindusthani,and Urdu along with music with great devotion.
Her first Talkie was “Radha Krishna-1933.It had 23 songs.She sang 16 of them in the film.Then came Shahar ka Jaadu-1934 with Motilal.She did several films with Motilal and they became a popular jodi.
Later she joined East India Film Co. and did Jamuna puline,Ek din ki badshahat,Tasleem,Afta Biwi,Silver King,Chandragupta,Achuta Daman etc.
She was an expert Piano and Harmonium player and proficient in urdu.
She died in 1965 at calcutta.
The song was picturised on herself, seeing that she had appeared in this movie as well.
Song-Mohe prem ke jhoole jhula do koi (Jeewan Lata) (1936) Singer-Sabita Devi, Lyrics-Pt Indra Chandra, MD-Pransukh Nayak
Lyrics
mohe prem ke jhoole jhula do koi
mohe prem ke jhoole jhula do koi
neha prem mein
naiyya doobe mori
neha prem mein
naiyya doobe mori
naawik aake bachaa lo koi
mohe naawik aake bachaa lo koi
prem ke jhoole jhula do koi
jeewan ka sangeet suno meri
jeewan ka sangeet suno meri
veena ke taar hilaa do koi
more veena ke taar hilaa do koi
hmm hmm hmm
hmm hmm hmm
hmh hmm hmm
nadi kinaare haay
chaatak pyaasaa
nadi kinaare haay
chaatak pyaasaa
saathi ki saathi ki duniya milaa do koi
mohe saathi ki duniya milaa do koi
mohe prem ke jhoole jhula do koi
4 Responses to "Mohe prem ke jhooley jhulaa do koi"
September 22, 2011 at 1:10 am
Atul ji,
What a wonderful summarization on the continued efforts on this blog. And heartfelt thanks for your sincere acknowledgements. 🙂
It is all about this music form that is very dear to all our hearts, as is evident from all the communication that continues to happen through the comments section.
And, in true measure, I don’t think we can together thank you enough for creating this wonderful platform that enables so much review and sharing. The key features are definitely much more simple and much more inclusive that most other sites with similar focus.
Cheers to all, and wishes for a great journey up ahead; there is still a ton of great songs to be discussed. 🙂
Rgds
Sudhir
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September 18, 2011 at 12:24 pm
Atul ji,
JEEVAN LATA(1936) was a sagar movietone film directed by Sarvottam Badami.The Music was by Pransukh M Naik and the lyrics were by Pt.Indra.
The cast was Sabith Devi,Motilal,J.Sushila,Pandey,Sankatha,Miss Gulzar,Bhudo Advani,Mehendi Raja etc.
This was a socail movie.
SABITHA DEVI was born in 1914 at calcutta in an Anglo-indian affluent family.After education she wanted to join films,but her parents objected.Without their knowledge she sent her photographs to British Dominion Film Co. in 1926.When they agreed,parents kept her in a room .She fell sick and finally parents agreed.
Her first film was “Rupiya kya kuch nahin kar sakta”. She acted in several silent movies and was very popular.When Talkie films came,she learnt Hindusthani,and Urdu along with music with great devotion.
Her first Talkie was “Radha Krishna-1933.It had 23 songs.She sang 16 of them in the film.Then came Shahar ka Jaadu-1934 with Motilal.She did several films with Motilal and they became a popular jodi.
Later she joined East India Film Co. and did Jamuna puline,Ek din ki badshahat,Tasleem,Afta Biwi,Silver King,Chandragupta,Achuta Daman etc.
She was an expert Piano and Harmonium player and proficient in urdu.
She died in 1965 at calcutta.
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September 18, 2011 at 12:35 pm
Thanks a lot for this fantastic information which is like gold dust for us.
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