Rum jhoom ke bajaao bansari muraari

Posted by: Atul on: September 28, 2014

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This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a 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. This is the 300th article in the blog for Mr Sadanand Kamath.

A man with a spiritual bend of mind would believe that his destiny was pre-planned even before he was born. There are others who believe that they can mold their own destiny. Shailendra was one of those who seemed to have believed that he could be master of his own destiny. That he was a member of Indian People’s Theatre Association (IPTA) indicates what destiny he had chosen for himself. He had taken up the task of awakening the Indian masses on their rights and duties in the background of post-independent India. It was therefore no surprise when he spurned Raj Kapoor of his offer of taking his inspirational song for the film Aag (1948) telling him that his poems were not for sale. However, Raj Kapoor left his address with him in case he had a change of mind.

What made Shailendra to change his mind? In the words of Dinesh Shailendra, the youngest son of Shailendra:

A few months later when my mother developed some complication during pregnancy, he went to meet Raj sahib at his Mahalaxmi office and asked him if he could lend him 500 rupees. He promised him to return it in instalments. Raj sahib instantly gave him the money. But after some days when Baba went to return the money, Raj Sahib refused. Instead he asked him to write a couple of songs for ‘Barsaat’ (1949). It was then that Baba wrote ‘barsaat mein tumse mile hum’.

(Source: Interview of Dinesh Shailendra published in THE HINDU, August 2, 2O12). That was the beginning of Shailendra’s tryst with Hindi film industry.

Let me add a trivia here. Shailendra wrote the title song of Barsaat (1949 sitting in a discarded goods train bogie stabled at Matunga Workshop of Central Railways where he worked as a Welder. (This was told to me by my brother in law who had worked in Matunga Workshop in the same department as a Trainee albeit 3 years later).

This quartet of Raj Kapoor, Shankar-Jaikishan, Shailendra and Hasrat Jaipuri went on for 17 years until Shailendra’s death in December 1966. Everything was working out smoothly for him until he ventured into producing ‘Teesri Kasam’ (1966) in 1961. During this period, Shailendra experienced the fickle nature of relationship in the Hindi film industry. The film was considerably delayed and one of the reasons being often sighted was due to Raj Kapoor not giving him dates for shooting. This resulted in overshooting of the budget, the financial losses and a court case from distributor etc. Probably, during this phase of his career, he must have remembered his own song sab kuchh seekha hamne na seekhi hoshiyaari. While his IPTA friend Sahir Ludhianvi had read the pulse of Hindi film industry quite early and worked on his own terms, Shailendra, as his photos will often display, was too simple a man even to think of doing that. His philosophy was bahut diya dene waale ne tujhko.

The stressful years Shailendra spent during the making of the film and the box office failure after the release of the film in 1966 affected his health and he died on December 14, 1966. In 1967, the film received the National Award for the best film. In due course of time, it became one of the classic films in the history of Indian cinema, similar to the status that ‘Kaagaz Ke Phool’ (1959) got after the death of Guru Dutt.

Although Shailendra had only 16 active years in Hindi film industry, his output of song writing was impressive at 765 as detailed below:

Year	No of films released	No. of songs
1949	1	2
195O	O	O
1951	5	21
1952	1O	4O
1953	13	52
1954	6	29
1955	7	34
1956	12	61
1957	7	3O
1958	9	41
1959	18	73
196O	11	6O
1961	12	61
1962	13	65
1963	7	36
1964	9	32
1965	6	34
1966	9	33
1967	11	35
1968 onward	9	19
Total	175	758

I have worked out these numbers based on the songs listed in http://www.myswar.com. I have also counter checked with the songs already covered in the Blog in respect of those songs where I had some doubt. The total of 758 songs also excludes 38 version songs, 34 songs Shailendra wrote for Bhojpuri films and a few songs from unreleased films which I guess is less than 1O. A few of his Hindi film songs which were later reused in the some Hindi films are also excluded from the total of 765 songs. Of course, I am aware that there is some limitations for relying on http://www.myswar.com as subsequent corrections are not incorporated. I, however, feel that this limitation will not materially change the conclusions arrived at on the basis of these statistics.

It can be noted from the table that Shailendra’s most productive years in terms of his output of songs were during 1959-1962. During these 4 years, he wrote 259 songs, i.e. nearly 34% of the total of 758 songs he wrote for Hindi films. For the next 4 years (1963 to 1966), his song output was drastically reduced to slightly more than half of the previous 4 year output (135 against 259). The reason for such a drastic reduction could be due to his preoccupation with his film ‘Teesri Kasam’ (1966) which was considerably delayed.

Data on Shailendra’s music director wise songs give results on expected lines:

Music Directors	No. of films	No. of songs
Shankar-Jaikishan	92	364
Salil Chaudhary	19	1O7
S D Burman	12	69
Roshan	13	44
S N Tripathi	5	26
Hemant Kumar	4	15
Kishore Kumar	4	15
Ravi	5	11
Anil Biswas	2	14
C Ramchandra	2	1O
Other MDs (16)	17	83
Total	175	758

As expected, Shailendra wrote maximum songs for Shankar-Jaikshan (nearly 5O% of the total songs he wrote) followed by Salil Chaudhary, S D Burman and Roshan. He worked with 27 music directors. He had no opportunity to team up with some of the top music directors of his time such as Naushad, O P Nayyar and Madan Mohan.

I am presenting a rarely heard song ‘rum jhoom ke bajaao bansari muraari’ from POOJA (1954) sung by Mohammed Rafi and Pandit Krishnarao Chonkar. The highlight of this song is that it is based on a bandish in raag Madhuvanti, probably the only song Shankar-Jaikishan composed in this raag during their entire career. Another feature of this song is that Shailendra wrote it afresh in Sanskritised Hindi instead of relying on traditional bandish language.

The synopsis of the film was given in jo ik baar keh do ke tum ho hamaare which should be read with comments given thereon by Shri Arunkunar Deshmukh for the completeness of the synopsis. I guess that Mohammed Rafi sang for Bharat Bhushan in the role of an upcoming temple singer while Pandit Krishnarao Chonkar sang for Badriprasad in his role of a senior temple singer who has given up singing in the temple. This rendition looks like a riyaaz (practice) for Bharat Bhushan under the guidance of Badriprasad.

Enjoy the Rafi-Krishnarao Chonkar short bandish in Raag Madhuvanti on the words of Shailendra.

By the way, Mohammed Rafi once again teamed up with Krishnarao Chonkar in baat chalat nayi chunari rang daar .

Audio

Song-Rum jhoom ke bajaao bansari muraari (Pooja)(1954) Singers-Rafi, Pandit Krishnarao Chonkar, Lyrics-Shailendra, MD-Shankar Jaikishan
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Lyrics

rum jhoom ke bajaao bansari muraari
ang ang mein tarang laao banwaari
rum jhoom ke bajaao bansari muraari
madhuban mein madhuwanti gaaye brij naari
madhuban mein madhuwanti gaaye brij naari
rum jhoom ke bajaao bansari muraari ee ee
rum jhoom

Radha ke man mein pyaar
run jhun paayal pukaar
sakhiyaan sajke singaar
aayin Jamuna ke paar
sakhiyaan sajke singaar
aayin Jamuna ke paar
rum jhoom ke bajaao bansari muraari
pa ma dha pa
dha ma pa
ga ma ga re sa
rum jhoom ke bajaao
ni dha pa ga ma ga re sa
ga ma ga re sa
ga ma ga re sa
rum jhoom ke bajaao

ruk thham ke chaand chaley
taaron ka man machley
ruk thham ke chaand chaley
aa aa aaaaaaaa
aaa aaa aaaa
aa aa aa aa aaaa
aa aa aaaa
aa aa aa aa aaa
aa aa aa aaa
ruk thham ke chaand chaley
taaron ka man machley
runak jhunak dhoom dhaam
nilam ke gagan tale
runak jhunak dhoom dhaam neelam ke gagan taley
runak jhunak dhoom dhaam neelam ke gagan taley
rum jhoom ke bajaao bansari muraari
rum jhoom
aa aa aa aaaaaaaaaaa
aa aa aaaa
aa aa aaa
muraari eeeeeeee
muraari eeeeeeeeeeee
muraari eeeeeeee
re muraari
aaaa
aa muraari re ae
muraaaari re
muraaaaaari
rum jhoom ke bajaao bansari muraari
rum jhoom ke bajaao bansari muraaaaaaari

Tags: 1954, Pooja, Pt Krishnarao Chonkar, Rafi, Shailendra, Shankar Jaikishan

29 Responses to "Rum jhoom ke bajaao bansari muraari"

1 | Avinash Scrapwala
September 28, 2014 at 10:29 am

@ Kamath Sir – heartiest Congratulations on your 300th post…!
and all our best wishes for the many more posts- from you – that we wish to see here.
thanks for the information, details,thoughts you share with us enriching our knowledge of hindi films music and non film songs too!
Thanks again, and with best regards always…

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