9 Responses to "Brij ke Nandlala Radha ke saanwariya"
August 10, 2012 at 3:33 pm
Atul ji,
TAKSAL-1956 was a Hemen Gupta Prodn. film,Produced and Directed by Hemen Gupta himself.Hemen Gupta was a well known name in Bangla filmdom,but he also dabbled in Hindi starting with Taqdeer-1944,followed by Anand Math,Ferry,Minar,Babar,Kabuliwala and finally Netaji Subhashchandra Bose in 1966.
The midfifties was era in India where the hugh middleclass was besotted with Nehru’s Socialism.Indian Film Industry did not lag behind and in this period many films were made either openly or subtly supporting the socialist cause.Mehboob,K.A.Abbas and others of the ilk were sold to this ideology and made films on such themes.Film makers like B.R.Chopra was another who espoused the cause of social anti evils like prostitution,Communal feelings etc.The dignity of labour(Naya Daur) and Villege life of poor farmers(Mother India) were made into films.
For the common man socialism meant all rich is bad,all poor is good.
Those making money,even honestly,were looked down upon.
Taksal was yet another such movie which stressed that Money is not the solution to all problems and money is only the means and not the End.
…….contd.
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August 10, 2012 at 4:06 pm
Jatin mukherji (Balraj Sahni)an honest and brilliant lawyer,his wife Maya(Nirupa Roy),3 children and his unmarried sister(Smriti Biswas) are happily living together.Maya is very religious.She does not allow Jatin to tak any case of cheating,murder or crime.Slowly his practice goes down and he becomaes so poor that his son Ram dies for lack of treatment.Same time,his sister commits suicide when she is raped by her employer.
Jatin thinks that all his problems are because he is poor,so he decided to make money by hook or crook.He does so,by indulging in many illegal affairs,against the advice of maya.he becomes very rich.
The “Lambe haath of kanoon” catch up with him one day and no amount of money saves him.he realises then that Money can not solve all problems.But it is too late.
The music is by Roshan,assisted by H.K.Maria.The film had 3 very good bhajans.There were 8 songs and 6 singers-Lata,Rafi,SDBatish,Uma Devi,Laxmi Shankar and Ratna Gupta.
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August 10, 2012 at 5:43 pm
Thanks for the synopsis of the film. Like Atul, I had no idea as to how the title of the film ‘Taksaal’ (Mint) could be a theme for the movie when I saw a 78 RPM record of this film in a shop in the Fort area in early 70s. It was only when I listened to this song that I decided to buy the gramophone record.
Now it is very clear that the name of the film ‘Taksaal’ is a metaphor. Balraj Sahani as a lawyer was poor when he worked honestly. But the moment he turned to dishonesty, he ‘minted’ money. But his ‘taksaal’ could not save him from the clutches of the law.
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August 10, 2012 at 5:52 pm
Thanks for the details.
Any idea about the picturisation of this song ?
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August 10, 2012 at 6:58 pm
Atul ji,
I am not very sure,but it is filmed on Nirupa Roy.As she is shown very religious she actually sings 3 Bhajans in this film.I vaguely remember that when their 3rd child is born,there are celebrations and this song takes place.
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May 29, 2013 at 11:23 pm
The best song from this film is “Dil Bhi Tera, Hum Bhi Tere” by Lata Mangeshkar. The audio is available on YouTube.
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November 18, 2013 at 11:04 am
प्रेम धवन, रोशन और लताबाई के चमत्कारी हुनर का ये भजन एक नमूना भर है … बहुत सारे भजन हिंदी फिल्मों के सुने हैं पर जितनी सरलता और सहजता से ये भजन हमें ईश्वर के चरणों से जोड़ता है उतना शायद कोई दुसरा भजन नहीं – कम से कम मेरे साथ तो ऐसा जरूर है ।
मैं मानता हूं कि हिंदी फिल्मों के सभी मधुरत्तम कृष्ण भजनों में रोशन का ये ”टकसाल” का भजन सर्वोतम है । क्या अद्भुत ईशवरीय धुन है इस भजन की … सीधे और तुरंत प्रभु से जोड़ती है ।
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August 10, 2012 at 2:06 pm
Very good lilting tune
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