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“Kashinath”(1943) was directed by Nitin Bose for New Theatres, Calcutta. The movie had Asit Baran Mukherji, Sunanda Devi, Bharati Devi, Nawab, Nemo, Puttan, Dilip Bose, Manorama, Buddhadev, Latika Mullick, Bijoli, Jawed Hussain, Radharani, Biren Das etc in it.
Four songs from this movie has been discussed in the past. Here is the fifth song from the movie.
From the picturisation, it is seen that the song is lip synced by Bharati Devi (playing Bindu), with Asit Baran also visible in the picturisation.
HFGK mentions Radharani as the singer of this song. Radha Rani had also acted in this movie. I wonder if this singer Radha Rani is the same as the actress of this movie or was there some other playback singer of the same name. It could well be the case that Radha Rani, while acting in movies also gave playback for other actresses like the actor-singer Shyam Kumar. To make matters more complicated, there is another song in the movie mentioned as sung by Radha Rani which is picturised on actress Radha Rani and that voice sounds different from the voice of this song. I request our knowledgeable readers to throw light on this intriguing matter.
It has also been seen that Sunanda Devi has lip synced another song in the movie in Bela Mukherji’s voice. It is difficult to tell the various female voices of this movie apart. For the time being, I have assumed that the song is indeed sung by Radharani as mentioned in HFGK.
Pt Bhushan is the lyricist. Music is composed by Pankaj Mullick.
Song-Mere dukh ki rain kati (Kashinath)(1943) Singer-Radharani, Lyrics-Pt Bhushan, MD-Pankaj Mullick
Lyrics
Mere dukh ki rain kati ee ee
mere dukh ki rain kati
sukh chain bhari phir bhor suhaaanee
aayi aayi aayi re
mere dukh ki rain kati
bahut dinon per meri pooja
haan
?? paayee paayee paayee re
Mere dukh ki rain kati ee ee
mere
aaj khushi ee
aaj khushi mere tan man mein
phooli nahin samaati ee
aaj hansi honthon pe basi hai
beena
beena madhur bajaati
hari huyi jeewan kaliyaan
har daal phool phal laayee
laayee laayee re
mere dukh ki rain kati ee ee
mere
?? aakaash kahe
?? aakaash kahe
suhaagan
sukh ke
diye jalaao o
jalaao jalaao
paaon kate(?) ki laali kahe
lo bindi laal lagaao
lo bindi laal lagaao
lo bindi laal lagaao
josh naya hai ae
josh naya hai
ang ang mein
man dooba hai prem rang mein
beete dinon ne laut ke ghar ki
beete dinon ne laut ke ghar ki
shobha aaj
badhaayi badhaayee badhaayee re
mere dukh ki rain kati ee
mere dukh ki rain kati
As you have guessed rightly,there were indeed 2 Radha Ranis.
The First Radha Rani was a born actress. She was the daughter of an Indian retired Captain and an european mother. She was active from her school days doing dramas and dances.She was a swimmer and a horse rider too.She sang very well. She joined British Dominion film company in 1930 and acted in many silent films with Debki Bose,Sabita Debi,Dhiren Ganguly etc.Her Hindi and Bengali was good.She acted in ” Yahudi ki ladki”-1933 and Kurukshetra-1945 with K L Saigal,her other films were Romantic India-36,Sawal-43 and Bhai-44. She acted till 46,then got married and left films for ever.
The second Radharani is one who acted and sang in Kashinath-43.
Radharani was one of the finest non bengali singers of new theaters
.She hailed from a marwari family settled in bengal .Apart from film
songs she rendered many private songs and were very popular ,
unfortunately her songs have been ignored on many vintage collections
.She has a rich voice and a style of her own .
‘Rothi vrishbhan kumari’ is from film Kashinath -1943 with a fine
score by Punkaj Mullik .
The song is beautifully followed by equally beautiful chorus in male
voices .This song reminds me of some of the chorus songs composed by
Anupam Ghatak another composer from bengal for Debaki Bose movie –
Shri Ramanuj – 1943. I think all of them have their roots in Rabindra
sangeet .
(all information from shri kamlakar Pasupuleti ji,Film and Music Historian).
@ Atul ji – many thanks for this post !!
the missing words – i think – ‘bahut dinon per meri pooja haan ‘var’ paayee paayee …
and ?? aakaash kahe – ‘aaj aakaash kahe’
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October 1, 2014 at 10:20 am
Atul ji,
As you have guessed rightly,there were indeed 2 Radha Ranis.
The First Radha Rani was a born actress. She was the daughter of an Indian retired Captain and an european mother. She was active from her school days doing dramas and dances.She was a swimmer and a horse rider too.She sang very well. She joined British Dominion film company in 1930 and acted in many silent films with Debki Bose,Sabita Debi,Dhiren Ganguly etc.Her Hindi and Bengali was good.She acted in ” Yahudi ki ladki”-1933 and Kurukshetra-1945 with K L Saigal,her other films were Romantic India-36,Sawal-43 and Bhai-44. She acted till 46,then got married and left films for ever.
The second Radharani is one who acted and sang in Kashinath-43.
Radharani was one of the finest non bengali singers of new theaters
.She hailed from a marwari family settled in bengal .Apart from film
songs she rendered many private songs and were very popular ,
unfortunately her songs have been ignored on many vintage collections
.She has a rich voice and a style of her own .
‘Rothi vrishbhan kumari’ is from film Kashinath -1943 with a fine
score by Punkaj Mullik .
The song is beautifully followed by equally beautiful chorus in male
voices .This song reminds me of some of the chorus songs composed by
Anupam Ghatak another composer from bengal for Debaki Bose movie –
Shri Ramanuj – 1943. I think all of them have their roots in Rabindra
sangeet .
(all information from shri kamlakar Pasupuleti ji,Film and Music Historian).
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