Ae mere Bhagwaan tu hi bata kyaa karoon
Posted on: February 28, 2013
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Sometime back I had written that the producers of Tarzan Films always tried to add some kind of masaala to their basic story to make it different and appealing. Today’s film TARZAN AUR JADUI CHIRAG, is easily the Top ranking masaala film in the Tarzan series which included a variety of characters and actors in the film. More about it later…
The set of actors and actresses working in stunt/Action films in C grade movies were a fixed lot. In a way they ‘specialised ‘ in this sort of films. In almost all the stunt films of Nadia( she did few social films too), the fixed crew and cast included the Bilimoria brothers, John Cavas, Jal Khambata, Minoo the mystique(Minu Cooper), Sardar Mansoor, Boman Shroff, Sayani Atish etc. Not everyone was in every film, but they took turns in appearances.
Stunt films were made more attractive by including wild animals and regular animals like Horse, Dog, cat, parrot, Lion, Tiger, Elephants etc. In some films there were Hyenas and pythons too.
From 1935 onwards stunt films ,including Nadia’s,had a Horse named ‘Punjab ka Beta”, a Dog named ‘Tiger’, a motor car name ‘ Rolls Royce ki beti’.
After Wadia brothers split and Homi started his Basant pictures, Nadia joined him and another set of animals like, Rajpoot(Horse), Moti(Dog) and Austin ki bachhi(a motor car) were included. In addition there was a Motor Cycle called ‘Runnio’ as well.
I was very keen to know more about animals in films. Who trained them, how are they handled and whether the animals are not scared of the strangers and the Arc lights etc were my questions. I did not know how to get this information.
Then suddenly I remembered having read an article-PDF- by some Mala Doshi, on Memsaab’s Blog , sometime ago. I tried but could not locate it. As usual the kind hearted memsaab came to my rescue and she provided me the link to it. I read it completely. However this did not have answers to my questions, though it is also quite informative(we will discuss this too, later).
I contacted one of my friends in Pune and he told me that an article giving all this information was published in RASRANG-a Marathi film magazine, years ago. This was a poor clue, but I started searching for it without any result for a long time. My luck smiled on me one day, when I was reading a book RUPERI SMARANYATRA (memories of the silverscreen) by Prof.Subhash Savarkar. That article , which I was searching so desperately was reprinted in this book !
The article is written by Mr. Vasant Bhalekar who also holds its copyright. This article must have been published in the late 60s or so. I thank Mr.Bhalekar for this information.
Agha mehmood was in the Film Industry since 1930 onwards supplying trained animals.
‘Punjab ka beta’ was trained by him. The Horse was born in Ahmedabad, trained in Surat and worked in Bombay. He was very intelligent. His first film was ‘Ishq ki Laila’-a silent film. In 1936 Punjab ka Beta or PKB joined Wadia movietone. His original name was GAZI which was changed by JBH Wadia to PKB, when he first worked in “Hind kesari”.
He was expert in running, trotting, falling, sleeping-like dead, jumping, walking on knees, standing on 2 legs etc. Nadia used him first time in ‘Lutaru Lalna’ and PKB was her horse till it died. In Diamond queen PKB and Nadia jumped through wild raging fire. Both were burnt, but the shot came off fantastic.
In Jai Bharat, PKB carried Master Chhotu in his mouth for a distance and gave close ups too. In Flying Prince there was a shot when the Heroine chases a Train and jumps onto it. PKB was ridden by Hasim, son of Agha, in Heroine’s clothes and boarded the train, but both were a little hurt.
Punjab ka beta died soon after working in Hind ka laal. Agha trained another horse Rajpoot just like PKB.
Rajpoot gave a deadly shot in Baabul, where he had to climb and come down stairs of a 30 feet set. Agha first took the horse around the sets and up and down 4-5 times. The horse got the idea of the shot and he gave it superbly, though this shot was very life threatening.
Rajpoot also acted in Darvesh and Cobra Girl in which he had to do some back kicking (like an ass). Actually back kicking is the first thing all trainers make the horse to forget before horse’s training starts. Now Rajpoot had to be taught what he was made to forget. For this Agha used to rap his hind legs and make a sound on the Tin sheet kept behind him. After 2-3 days the horse understood what is to be done and started back kicking.
In film Zabak, the horse was supposed to smile and wink at the Hero. Agha knew that when a Foal (colt or filly- young horse) is brought before a Horse it starts making a laughing face and sounds. Hence be brought a colt and took the shots of Rajput smiling. Then for winking, they used water used after washing crackers. When horse’s eyes are washed with this water, horse winks for one hour ! Thus this shot was also taken.
Agha also trained horse Moti and elephant Ramchandra for film NAVRANG. They both were trained to do dancing steps for a month. Sandhya danced with these animals and it has come out wonderfully.
(Thanks to Shri Vasant Bhalekar,the copyright owner of the article).
There is more and more information on Animals in films, which will be shared in future episodes….
TARZAN AUR JADUI CHIRAG-1966 was a Unique pictures, Bombay film,Directed by Babubhai Bhan ji. The Music Director pair was of Shafi-Shaukat and the lyrics were by Aziz Ghaazi.
This film had a variety of characters and actions to make it really Unique.
Besides Tarzan, the film had an One eyed monster Cyclops, A magic lamp with genie,P ython-Eagle fight, Tarzan and lion fight, a Chinese magician-Bing Pong, a jungle tribe called Oonga Booga and a chicken headed idol of the tribe.
The story was-
Ramnagar kingdom queen is about to deliver when the evil Dewan tells the midwife to kill the child. The midwife, instead, puts the baby Boy in a basket and leaves it in a river. It reaches a Jungle where Elephants save the child and it grows up there as Tarzan. One day Tarzan sees a lamp floating in the river. He picks it up to dry it, when a Giant Genie appears who takes him on a flying trip through clouds.
Back home, the queen becomes mad and roams in the jungles. The years pass by and the Dewan’s son Uday Singh(B M Vyas) grows up, with sister Anjali(Kammo).
In the Jungle, the tribe Oonga Boonga chief’s daughter Mala (Sunitha-south) falls in Tarzan’s love against and without the knowledge of the tribal laws.
Uday singh wants the magic lamp and a hunter Rai Bahadur wants the tribal treasure. They both join hands and go to the jungle. They come to know that Tarzan has the lamp. With the help of the chinese magician-Bing Pong (Amrit rana), Uday Singh tries to kill Tarzan. But everytime the kind Genie saves Tarzan.
When magician sends Rhino, Genie kills it and when he sends a python, Genie brings an Eagle to eat the Python. The wicked party comes to know of the love affair of Tarzan and Mala. They inform the chief about it. The tribal chief captures Tarzan and Mala and is about to sacrifice them to the Chicken faced Idol,when a One eyed Monster Cyclops comes and stars destruction and killing people.
In that commotion, Uday and party run to Tarzan’s house to get the lamp and Rai Bahadur kidnaps Mala for himself. Tarzan breaks all the chains, fights a hungry lion, some fighters and reaches his house. He fights with Uday and party defeating them. Tarzan also rescues Mala from Rai Bahadur and then with the help of Genie they kill the Cyclops.
The mad Queen arrives there and recognises Tarzan as her own son and declares that he is the true heir to the throne.
All the party comes to the palace and Tarzan and Mala become King and Queen. Tarzan releases Genie for ever.
Song-Ae mere bhagwaan tu hi bata kyaa karoon (Tarzan Aur Jaadui Chiraag)(1966) Singer-Suman Kalyanpur, Lyrics-Aziz Ghaazi, MD-Shafi-Shaukat
Chorus
Lyrics
aankhon mein kajraaa
aa aa aa aa aa
baalon mein gajraaa
aa aa aa aa aa
maathe pe bindiya sajaaye
jeewan ke do raahe pe dulhan
pooche kidhar ab jaaye
mala maaka tiya ho
mala maaka tiya ho
mala maaka tiya ho
ae mere bhagwan
tu hi bata kya karoon
tu hi bata kya karoon
mala maaka tiya ho
ae mere bhagwan
tu hi bata kya karoon
tu hi bata kya karoon
?? mala ho
apne dil mein rakhoon kiski tasweer main
aaj samjhoon kise apni taqdeer main
kisko pehnaaun phoolon ki zanjeer main
gair samjhoon kise
kisko apna kahoon
haay haay haay
ae mere bhagwaan
tu hi bata kya karoon
tu hi bata kya karoon
mala maaka tiya ho
jhoom uthhe hain patange sabhi bin piye
har taraf jal rahe hain khushi ke diye
?? roshni zindagi ke liye
main bujhaaun kise
kiski lau mein jaloon
haay haay haay
ae mere bhagwan
tu hi bata kya karoon
tu hi bata kya karoon
aya laka booma booma la boom
imtihaan ho raha hai mere pyaar ka
aasraa chaahta hoon tere dwaar ka
kaisa dastoor hai dekh sansaar ka
meri duniya lute aur main chup rahoon
haay haay haay
ae mere bhagwaan
tu hi bata kya karoon
tu hi bata kya karoon
mala maaka tiya ho
mala maaka tiya ho
mala maaka tiya ho
ae mere bhagwaan
mala maaka tiya ho
tu hi bata kya karoon
mala maaka tiya ho
kya karoon
aa aa aa aaa
5 Responses to "Ae mere Bhagwaan tu hi bata kyaa karoon"
February 28, 2013 at 9:45 pm
Superb information Sir,
Thank you very much for the informative post, I can identify Sheikh(some initials are there before his name, Is It M.Y or M.I. ??)featuring in the song, But iss Southwaali Sunitaa ko pehli baar dekha maine.
Sachchi mein Arun ji ka jawaab nahin.
Thanks again for the anmol information.
Prakash
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March 1, 2013 at 10:09 am
As Prakashji says, superb information Arunji. What all these animals could accomplish on their own (I mean without the aid computer graphics that is the order of the day) with just training. Super!!
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February 28, 2013 at 8:02 pm
Agha also may have trained the chimpanzee in Insaniyat
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