Aarti karo Shankar ki
Posted on: March 10, 2013
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
MAHASHIVRATRI greetings to all readers !
In India all our social customs, traditions, calenders and Festivals are linked to Agriculture, because basically,even today, we are an Agricultural country. With almost over 70% population (as against 85% in 1947) living in Villages and depending on farming, even in these days. No wonder if all our major events have an Agricultural base.
SHRAVAN or Saawan is the month in Hindu calender which is the FIRST month of the rainy season. It is a month of rejoicing too, as many of our Festivals fall in this month.
The 5th TITHI or the 5th day of Saawan is celebrated as NAAG PANCHAMI. On this day, Naag/Cobras or simply any snake in general is worshipped. This is because Snakes are considered as Farmer’s friends. Snakes eat the mice, which destroy the stored grains and standing crops too. Mice also spread many diseases in villages.
Worshipping Snakes is a symbolic way to acknowledge their importance to the Farmers and spread the message of environmental balance. On this day, young girls in the villages tie Jhoola(swing) on trees and sing songs.
As expected there are hundreds of stories in Puranas about the snakes or Naags. It is believed that like Swarg Lok and Pataal Lok, there is also a Naag Lok, which is ruled by a King of Snakes/Naags.
Naags ,not being independent or a major Devata, have their stories in Puranas, connected with some other Gods. for example,in Bhagwat puran there is a story of ” Syamantak Mani” and Lord Krishna and in Shiv Puran,there is a story of Manasa, the snake queen who is the daughter of Shiv.
The film NAAG PANCHAMI-1953 was produced by Vinod Films of Vinodchandra Shah. Directed by Raman B Desai, it had music by Chitragupta for Lyrics written by G S Nepali.
The cast of the film was Manhar Desai, Nirupa Roy, B M Vyas Durga Khote, Ramesh Tiwari etc.
The real name of Manhar Desai was Malcolm Alfredo D’souza. was born in Goa on 3-8-1917. He came to Bombay in 1940 and did some small roles in films. His first film as Hero was “Toofani Sawar-1947”.
In 1948 he was cast opposite Nirupa Roy in her film ‘Gun Sundari’ which became a hit. Later he paired with Nirupa Roy in more than 30 films.
In Madhosh-51,he acted opposite Meena Kumari.
Naag panchami-53 was his first Dharmik film with Nirupa Roy. Hhis face became identified with Dharmik films in later days though he acted in many stunt films also. He died on 25-2-1992 in Bombay.
The story of the film is-
Actually this film is a story of Sati Behula.
Once upon a time there was a king called Chandrabhan, who was a great Shiv bhakta. Manasa was the Queen of the Naak Lok. She was also the daughter of Shiv. She wished that all people should worship her, instead of Shiv.
God Shiv told her that if Chandrabhan worships her all people will do it. Inspite of her many attempts, Chandrabhan does not agree to give up Shiv Pooja and do Manasa Pooja. She gives him the curse that his son will die on his wedding night with a snake bite.
His son the Raajkumar marries the princess Behula of the neighbouring kingdom.On their wedding night, though all precautions were taken, a snake bites him and he dies. Behula a Shiv bhakta herself, perform pilgrimmage carrying her dead husband’s body with her.
Seeing her devotion and Bhakti Lord Shiv makes the Raajkumar alive again.
To please Mansa, He gives her a boon that on the 5th day of Shrawan all snakes will be worshipped and the day will be called NAAG PANCHAMI for ever.
On this auspicious day of MAHASHIVRATRI let us all listen to this Aarati of Shankar from this film. The lyrics are by G S Nepali, music by Chitragupta and it is sung by Asha Bhosale and Chorus…..
Song-Aarti karo shankar ki (Naag Panchami)(1953) Singer-Asha Bhonsle, Lyrics-Gopal Singh Nepali, MD-Chitragupta
Chorus
Lyrics
om nama shivay
om nama shivay
om nama shivay
om nama shivay
aarti karo hari har ki karo
natwar ki bhole shankar ki
aarti karo shankar ki
aarti karo hari har ki karo
natwar ki bhole shankar ki
aarti karo shankar ki
sir par shashi ka mukut sanwaare
taaron ki paayal jhankaare
sir par shashi ka mukut sanwaare
taaron ki paayal jhankare
dharti ambar dole tandaw lila se natwar ki
aarti karo shankar ki
aarti karo hari har ki karo
natwar ki bhole shankar ki
aarti karo shankar ki
phani ka haar pahan’ne waale
shambu hain jag ke rakhwaale
phani ka haar pahan’ne waale
shambu hain jag ke rakhwaale
sakal chara char ag jag naache
ungli par vish dhar ki
aarti karo shankar ki
aarti karo hari har ki karo
natwar ki bhole shankar ki
aarti karo shankar ki
mahaadev jai jai shiv shaknar
jai shiv shankar
jai shiv shankar
jai gangadhar jai damrudhar
jai ganga dhar jai damru dhar
he devo ke dev mita do
tum vipda ghar ghar ki
aari karo shankar ki
aarti karo hari har ki karo
natwar ki bhole shankar ki
aarti karo shankar ki
aarti karo hari har ki karo
natwar ki bhole shankar ki
aarti karo shankar ki
5 Responses to "Aarti karo Shankar ki"
March 10, 2013 at 10:18 am
Atul ji,
The first word in the second stanza must be ” phani ka” haar pahan ne wale”,because Phani means snake.
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March 10, 2013 at 12:59 pm
Thanks for the post and the informative write-up Sir !!!
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March 10, 2013 at 10:59 pm
Interesting post Arunji!
Very interesting fact about Manhar Desai there!
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March 13, 2013 at 8:11 am
Mohd. Rafi has sung a beautiful song in the film. I hope it has been covered.
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March 10, 2013 at 7:14 am
Atulji and his team,
Happy Mahashivratri to all. 🙂
Arunji,
Thank you for introducing this song and greetings to you too on this auspicious day.
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