Door door se kyaa jaata tum
Posted on: October 10, 2012
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
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Lesser known singers- Singer 5 (Bela Mukherji)
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In the initial period of films, Calcutta was in the forefront of making meaningful films with melodious music. The early 30s were dominated by Calcutta Film industry.
Later on, several film companies and a galaxy of stars in Bombay helped Bombay stole a march over Calcutta’s Film industry. Many actors and musicians took the road to Bombay. The world war II too affected the Calcutta Film Industry. So much so that big production houses like Madan Theatres downed shutters in late 30s, and New Theatres almost stopped production in the early 50s. They made only four films from 1950 to 1955.
In 1955 it was almost a close down for New Theatres.
Talented and not so talented but needy artists made a bee line to Bombay from late 30s onwards. Anil Biswas in 1934, Ramchandra Pal in 1939, Pannalal Ghosh in 1940, S.D.Burman in 1946, Hemant Kumar in 1952 and Salil da in 1953, shifted their bases to Bombay. The imminent partition of the country made wise producers shift from Lahore to Bombay quickly in 1945-47. Many artists from East and West Bengal came to Bombay. Even Pankaj Mullick operated in Bombay-Calcutta. Bombay thus became the strongest Film centre in India.
In Bombay, there were two clear cut groups of Bengal Music-East Bengal and West Bengal. The East Bengal Group was spearheaded by Anil Biswas and S D Burman and West Bengal group was led by Salil da and Hemant Kumar.
Artist from respective areas flocked under their leaders.
BELA MUKHERJEE was one singer from West Bengal who made it to Bombay and not only joined Hemant Kumar’s group but also married him.
BELA MUKHERJEE was born in Murshidabad(WB),on 29-5-1928. She spent her early years in Calcutta, completed school education and took lessons from Kamal Dasgupta-the famous classical singer(NOT the MD). She came to Bombay and at the age of 15 years sang 3 duets with Asit Baran in KASHINATH-1943. These songs were popular. She was taking lessons from Hemant ji and in 1945 when she was just 17, she married her teacher/Guru Hemant kumar. After marriage she was busy raising family. However she sang some songs with Hemant da. They also sang a few Non-Filmi songs.
Her filmography is Maaldaar-51, Bandhan-56, Bahu, Fashion, Sahara, Faraar etc. There was a characteristic Bengali sweetness in her voice initially.
She helped Hmant da in managing Geetanjali pictures which produced 11 films. After ‘love in Canada’-1979, they shifted to Calcutta and continued in Bengali films.
Bela Mukherjee died on 25-6-2009 at Calcutta.
Here is an interesting song from Film BAHU-1955. This song is ‘door door se kya jaata tum’. This song is a light hearted duet which is sung by Ravi (Hemant Kumar’s assistant and later a leading music director) and Bela Mukherji. S H Bihari is the lyricist. Music is composed by Hemant Kumar.
Song-Door door se kyaa jaata tum (Bahu)(1955) Singers-Ravi, Bela Mukherji,Lyrics- S H Bihari, MD-Hemant Kumar
door door se kya jaata tum
paas jo hamra aayenga
ham tumse pyaar karenga
door door se kya jaata tum
paas jo hamra aayenga
ham tumse pyaar karenga
tumra hamra pyaar jo aake
daddy hamra dekhenga
to phir ham kya karenga
tumra hamra pyaar jo aake
daddy hamra dekhenga
to phir ham kya karenga
daddy tumhra friend hamaara
daddy se kya darta
arre tumhra gaana sunke darling
ham to tumpar marta
od leye
dee ood leye
ood leyee ee ee
daddy tumhra friend hamaara
daddy se kya darta
arre tumhra gaana sunke darling
ham to tumpar marta
?? ??
apna mukhda kab tak chhupaayenga
ham tumse pyaar karenga
tumhra hamra pyaar jo aake
daddy hamra dekhenga
to phir ham kya karenga
andar se pyaar kaisa hoinga
ghar ka baahar to aao
my sweet
ham tumko soda lemon
coffee chai pilaayenga
aur khilaayenga
chocolate bhi
aankh milaake ae mister
tum dhokha jo de jaayenga
to phir ham kya karenga
door se kya jaata tum
paas jo hamra aayenga
to ham pyaar karenga
tum bulaaya dekho aaya
aake paas khadela hai
baap re baap
parde ka peechoo mein se aap
arre
dekh ke tumko chakkar aata
tum to ek jhamela hai
arre dekh ke tumko chakkar aata
tum to ek jhamela hai
tum to ek jhamela hai
arre ???? hamko
apna ghar ka jaayenga
ab ham na pyar karenga
arre ????
apna ghar ka jaayenga
ab ham na pyaar karenga
ab ham na pyaar karenga
tata darling tata
ab ham jaata
ab ham kabhi nahin aayenga
8 Responses to "Door door se kyaa jaata tum"
October 11, 2012 at 5:45 am
Arunji,
Thanks for the info on Bela M, Hemantda’s wife (never knew this). In your write up, you have mentioned Pannalal Ghosh’s name who was one of the migratory birds. Can you give some info on him? Bachpan mein radio pe uski baansuri bahut suni hai. But never knew he gave music for Hindi films.
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October 11, 2012 at 10:14 am
Khyati ji,
Pannalal Ghosh and his wife Parul Ghosh(sister of Anil Biswas) was a musical pair of the industry indeed.She was a singer and he was a musician.
When Pannalal was 9 years old,while sitting on the bank of a river,doing nothing worthwhile,he spotted a wooden Bansuri flowing in the water.He dived into the river and got the Bansuri.He went to his Grandfather Hari kumar ghosh and learned how to play it.Later he learnt sitar from his father Akshay kr. Ghosh and singing from his Mama Bhavranjan Mujumdar.He was a state level Boxing champion and also a freedom fighter.Above all he became an expert Flute player.He did many programmes in Bengal and also toured Europe also with a troupe.Then in 1940 he came to Bombay and was employed by Bombay Talkies where he gave music to many Hindi films,starting with Sneha Bandhan-40,Anjaan-41 Basant-42(thoufh the music was by Anil Biswas the orchestration was by pannalal and tunes were done by him.Then he did ‘Duhai’-43,sawal-43Police-44,Beesavi Sadee-45 and Aandolan-51.
he was in calcutta and other places during 46-50 doing Flute programmes..
After 1951,he once agaibn started learning music.He gave flute music in several films,like in Basant Bahar(Main piya teri,tu maane ya na maane) etc. He worked as a National Music Director at AIR.He died at Delhi on 20th April 1960,at the age of just 49 years.
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October 11, 2012 at 11:27 am
Thanks Arunji. Never knew his story other than as a flute player. Died so young!
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October 11, 2012 at 5:58 pm
Atulji, so much of info on Pannalal Ghosh! Many thanks.
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October 11, 2012 at 6:00 pm
Sorry, while composing the previous comment, I thanked Atulji and not Arunji!!
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
October 10, 2012 at 4:26 am
Arunji,
Haha, what a funny, amusing and clever verbal exchanges.
this duet has the couple of surprises
Once again, Kalyanjibhai is playing the tune from Nagin (’54) on clavioline.
and another surprise, Ravisaab is yodeling 🙂
Any way, so… we had three people in 50’s who did the yodeling and singing.
(1) Kishore Kumar did the first yodeling in two songs (a) ek, do, teen char..(b) yad hamko aye January, February mein… in film “Muqaddar” (1950)
(2) Ravi Shankar Sharma did the yodeling In ‘door door se kya jaata tum’ film “Bahu” (1955)
(3) Rafisaab did the yodeling in “unse rippy tippy ho gayee” in film “Agra Road” (1957).
When Hindi is spoken with incorrect in grammatical tense and gender, is this make ‘Indo-Aryan’ or ‘Anglo-Indian’ language?
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October 11, 2012 at 10:16 am
When Hindi is spoken with incorrect grammatical tense and gender,it deserves only to be called a ” BHRASHT LANGUAGE” or simply,very bad Hindi.
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October 12, 2012 at 7:17 am
very true.
In early 70’s, I had a friend from Assam and she always used
“Ayenga” as past tense and in masculine gender 🙂
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