Amma roti de baba roti de
Posted on: April 12, 2013
“Sansaar” (1951) was a Gemini Pictures production. It was directed by S S Vasan. Most actors of this movie were from South Indian movie industry. The movie had Ishwarlal, M. K. Radha, Vanaja, Mohana, Agha, Meera, J. S. Kashyap, Anil Kumar, Kalla, Ratnappa, Pushpavalli, Swaraj, David Abraham etc in it.
Three songs from this movie have been discussed in the past. Here is the fourt song from themovie. This song is sung by Lata. It is picturised on two kids who are shown begging for food. I know that it is a movie, but I cannot bear to watch such picturisations. My heard goes out to the small kids,who incidentally may be in their sixties today, and hopefully well settled in their lives.
Pt Indra Chandra is the lyricist. This movie had several music directors viz M D Parthasarathy, E Sankara Sastry, B S Kalla and V Sarala. This song is apparently composed by M D Parthasarathy, going by the information available on internet.
This song incidentally has another version too but I have not been able to locate it.
Song-Amma roti de baba roti de (Sansaar)(1951) Singer-Lata, Lyrics-Pt Indra Chandra, MD-M D Parthasarathi
Lyrics
ammaa roti de,
baabaa roti de
bhool gayaa bhagwaan hamen ab
tum bhi bhool na jaanaa
galiyon ke mehmaan banen ham,
daataa haath badhaanaa
ammaa roti de,
baabaa roti de
am bhi kisike raajdulaare
hain nainon ke taare
qismat ke maare dukhiyaare
aaye dwaar tumhaare
ammaa roti de,
baabaa roti de
naa maangen ham doodh malaayi
naa maangen ham maal mithaayi
ammaa roti de
naa maange ham doodh malaayi
naa mange ham maal mithaayi
rookhaa sookhaa tukdaa de do,
le lo puyya kamaai
dukhiyon kii tumhen duhaai
ammaa roti de,
baabaa roti de
ammaa roti de,
baabaa roti de
8 Responses to "Amma roti de baba roti de"
April 12, 2013 at 3:53 pm
Some of the south Indian film producers seem cavalier about credits those days. The Telugu version Samsaram came first with L.V.Prasad as director and Susarla Dakshinamurty as MD. Many tunes in the Hindi remake are the same (though Susarla copied at least one Hindi tune himself) but the Gemini team is given credit for the music. I think that the same happened with other Gemini films.
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April 12, 2013 at 8:47 pm
I earnestly request, as requested once before also, how to post actual video in an email to my friends, because all I get is the utube link. There’s an Indian forum for all Indian serials that I am an active member of. There they have their own “format code” which does post the actual video. But that code does not work away from the forum. It will mean a lot to me if you have such coding or some other way. Thanks in advance.
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April 12, 2013 at 9:30 pm
A youtube link = a video.
Not sure what is it that ur looking for. Seems to me that u cant see the video link getting embedded in ur email (see the video thumbnail). Try using gmail and post the video link and u would see the video thumbnail AFTER u have sent ur email. Even if u cant see the video thumbnail, its ok. Your friends can click on the link in ur email and they would get to watch the video.
ACTUAL video cant be posted in the email. Most of them anyways, since they are bigger than the size allowed in any single email. To send actual videos in the email, u need to download them first from web and then attach them in ur email, just like u attach pictures and other files in the email.
Hope this is clear to u. If not, try getting help from some school/college going youngster in ur surroundings.
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April 12, 2013 at 9:37 pm
Oh I see. Thanks a lot! Yes, more than clear. No wonder I dont get actual video in my email. Of course, clicking the UT link brings up the video, no problem there. But I was wondering if, short of downloading, if there was another way (like in that forum). Because my email contacts could then watch the video and read the lyrics simultaneously, as here on Atul’s blog.
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4 | Bharat Upadhyay
April 13, 2013 at 9:59 am
I too hate beggar songs, including Ravi’s famous ‘Ek paisa de de’ etc. But if the story demands depicting real life tragedies, we have to bare with visuals like that.
But I am writing this comment for a very different reason. You will put your heart to peace and be glad to know that the kids acting as brother and sister, Anil kumar and Rathnappa are now happily married Husband and Wife and are very well settled in Houston.(TX, USA). Anil kumar was my Boss as I worked with him at his Video Production firm. Ms Rathna Kumar is an internationally famous Bharatnatyam and Kuchipudi dancer. She is the Director of an Indian performing culture center and teaches dance there for a period of more than thirty years. I am proud to be associated with them. Ms Rathna Kumar, winner of hundreds of awards, is acclaimed as a cultural ambassador of India there.
How about this “beggars to bright carrier’ story?
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April 13, 2013 at 10:09 am
Thanks a lot for the information. It is nice to know about the present whereabout of them. The fact that they are well settled and also the fact that you knew them personally means that now we have lot more information available about this song that I ever imagined to possess when this song was discussed.
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April 14, 2013 at 1:03 pm
we may detest such songs sung by beggars, particularly children. But the bare fact remains that one third of the population goes to sleep without a square meal.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
April 12, 2013 at 2:01 pm
You better avoid the song from Samaj Ko Badal Daalo (70, not sure if its posted already or not). In that one also there is similar begging song, plus a lorie where the mother is crying while singing and mixing poison in the last remaining food for kids and herself.
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