Sachchaai ka sooraj nikla
Posted on: February 24, 2014
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in sites like lyricstrans.com and ibollywoodsongs.com etc then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
Dadasaheb Phalke chose the subject of a Mythological story to make his first full length silent film “Raja Harischandra”-1913, because people could readily identify with such stories. The fact that his hunch was correct is borne out by the fact that religious and mythological films, as a group, continued to outnumber the other types of films for the next 40-50 years.
Mythological films survived, not because they are historically true or authentic, but because they are held to be so in popular traditions. The mythological moveies showed and glorified popularly held beliefs. The Mythological films, as a Genre, were a powerhouse of cultural expression.
The decade of 50s saw an upward surge in the production of such films and then from 60s onwards there was a decline in the output of religious films and today it has become almost negligible. The reasons for decline were many-political, social, cultural,financial and filmy reasons.
The usual audience group for such films were the elderly people, women, middle class and members of rural sectors. Due to changed social family structures, the concept of joint families was getting not only outdated but also was also becoming increasingly impossible due to nuclear families and constraints of living space. The younger generation which had all the money to spend now in plenty, detested religious films. Once the audience for such movies diminished, making such films became financially unviable. Since the cost of making films ran into crores and the modern publicity requirements and availability of theatres etc made making of such movies as unviable proposition.
The mid 70s,however changed this picture to some extent. The unexpected extraordinary success of “Jai Santoshi Maa”-1975, holding its own against blockbusters of mainstream topics like Sholay, Deewaar, Aandhi, Chupke chupke etc, ignited a ray of hope among makers of such movies. Films like Bhakti mein bhagwan, Dayaar-e-madina, Jain teerthkshetra Darshan, Maya machhindra, Mahapaawan Teerth Yatra, Saraswati Laxmi Parvati, Sri Satyanarayan ki Mahapooja and shri Ram Hanuman Yuddha were made in 1975 itself. For a brief period, mythological movies looked like making a comeback but alas, this turned out to be a case of false dawn.
However, one important thing happened with religious films. They found their way to the Television and then onwards, many Dharmik serials started running on TV in the 80s. These serials had a captive audience of senior citizens and women, who had access to TV without needing to step outside their homes.
The success of serials like Ramayan, Mahabharat and the latest Devon ke Dev-Mahadev, proved that audience for Mythology still existed in India.
B.R.Chopra, the maker of Mahabharat serial was once asked why he was not making a Mythological film. His answer was, “where are the actors these days like Prem Adib, Shahu Modak, Mahipal, Manhar Desai or Trilok Kapoor or like Nirupa Roy, Jayashree Gadkar, Shobhana Samarth or Durga Khote, who did such roles willingly ? Can you ever imagine Rajesh Khanna or Dharmendra as Shri Ram or Shrikrishna ? Where are the specialist composers like S N Tripathi, Avinash Vyas or Chitragupt ?”
Anyway let us accept that no such films or no such Bhajans are going to be made anymore. This is the reality.
Today’s Shiv Bhajan is from the film Shiv Shakti-1980. It is sung by Mohd.Rafi.The film was made by H.M.Movies. It was directed by Satish Kumar and the music was by Chitragupta (Asstt- Harish Dhawan). There were 6 songs in the film. The lyrics were by Bharat Vyas.
Shiv Shakti means two things. One, the power of Shiva and two,Shiv Parvati, because Shakti is another name for Parvati.
This is the story of a princess of the Gandharva Lok. Gandharvas are the Celestial entertainers of Gods. They are experts in Dance and singing. The king of Gandharva Lok had a beautiful daughter-Madalasa. Once she descended on Earth, with her friends. She was aware of her beauty and was proud of it. She said,” even the Moon has black spots, but I am spotless”. hearing this,the Moon God became very angry and gave her a curse, turning her into a stone statue.
Meanwhile Paataal Ketu, king of Paataal Lok became invincible with a boon from ma Durga and started torturing Sanyasis and Devtas. When all went to Lord Shiva, he told them that he will be killed by Madalasa. So,the prince of Ayodhya, Ritudhwaj came to their rescue and turned Madalasa into her normal form. They soon fell in love, but seeing her once, Paataal Ketu kidnapped her and wanted to get married to her. Lord Shiva made him commit so many sins that the boon of Durga given to him were cancelled out and his invincibility wore off. Then Madalasa killed him.Madalasa was asked to do ” SOLAH SOMVAR VRAT ” to redeem herself from another curse from a sage, to avoid separation from Ritudhwaj. She did this Vrat and then she married Ritudhwaja happily, with the blessings of Shiva and Durga.
Let us now listen and enjoy this sweet Bhajan by Mohd.Rafi, from the film Shiv Shakti-1980.
Song-Sachchaai ka sooraj nikla (Shiv Shakti)(1980) Singer-Rafi, Lyrics-Bharat Vyas, MD-Chitragupta
Chorus
Lyrics
om namah shivaay
om namah shivaay
sachchaai ka suraj nikla
dharam ki hoti jai jaikaar
shiv shakti ke sahaare naiya
ho jaati bhav saagar paar
sachchaai ka suraj nikla
dharam ki hoti jai jaikaar
shiv shakti ke sahare naiya
ho jaati bhav saagar paar
om namah shivaay
om namah shivaay
om namah shivaay
om namah shivaay
deen dukhi jo bhi sansaari
shiv ke dwaar pe aata
pa kar ke vardaan daya ka
uska dukh mit jaata
deen dukhi jo bhi sansaari
shiv ke dwaar pe aata
pa kar ke vardaan daya ka
uska dukh mit jaata
madhuban phoolon ka ban jaata
uske kaanton ka sansaar
shiv shakti ke sahaare naiya
ho jaati bhav saagar paar
om namah shivaay
om namah shivaay
om namah shivaay
om namah shivaay
honthon par hai naam piya ka
aur aankhon mein paani
honthon par hai naam piya ka
aur aankhon mein paani
atyaachaaron se takraati
dekho prem deewaani
janam janam ka sang hai jinka
unka sang na chhoote
praan bhale hi jaayen
shiv ki bhakti kabhi na tute
choor choor ho kar reh jaye
zulmi duniya ki deewaar
shiv shakti ke sahaare naiya
ho jati bhav saagar par
sachai ka suraj nikla
dharam ki hoti jai jai kaar
shiv shakti ke sahaare naiya
ho jati bhav saagar paar
om namah shivaay
om namah shivaay
om namah shivaay
om namah shivaay
2 Responses to "Sachchaai ka sooraj nikla"
February 24, 2014 at 5:23 pm
Sir, reading the post was very interesting as I like the subject. and I remember the many mythological films that I get to watch (in my childhood)during early seventies and mid seventies (viz.Janam Janam Ke Phere, Sant Janabai, Bajrangbali, Jai Santoshi Maa etc etc). I always like to watch Mahipal , Manhar Desai and Shahu Modak.
Thanks !!
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February 24, 2014 at 2:48 pm
Though nothing new but you have very nicely presented the story.
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