Palkan ki paalki aansoo sanwaarta
Posted on: August 16, 2016
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, 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.
PATIT PAAWAN (1955) was produced by Hemavati Sapru under the banner of D K Films and was directed by Vasant Painter. The star cast included D K Sapru, Sulochana, Ulhas, Hamavati, Lalita Pawar, Bipin Gupta, Jeewan, Ranjan Haksar, Nand Kishore, Parshuram etc.
The synopsis of the film’s story as given by Shri Arunkumar Deshmukh is reproduced below:
The story of the film was built around Dama Shetty, who lived happily in a village with his wife Guniya, son Nama and daughter-in-law Raji. His son was married in his childhood only. Dama Shetty was a very pious and good person who helped the needy. He was respected in nearby villages too. However, Nama was opposite to him. He only played all day and never believed in God. Dama used to scold him so that he will improve. Instead, one day Nama ran away to the jungle to avoid father’s admonishments every day. He was found by a dacoit’s gang. Many years passed and now Nama was a famous and dreaded dacoit. His wife was hoping that Nama would return home some day.
One day, Raji came across Nama. She told him about his father, Dama’s death. She persuaded him to give up bad life and worship God. Nama’s mind changed and he decided to reform himself as he felt that he was the cause of his father’s death. Nama gave up everything and started worshipping God. However the village purohit, Parshuram Bhagwat did not believe him and banned his entry into the temple. Nama stayed outside and prayed. That year, there was a terrible famine in the area. Nama decided to ask God’s help by fasting till he almost became a dying person.
Seeing his devotion, God was pleased and it started raining heavily. Soon the villages prospered again and Nama the Patit (the fallen one) became Paawan (purified).
It would appear to me that there are some similarities in the story of Nama in the film with that of Angulimal though the circumstances which led them to become dacoit/killer differed. Again, both of them decide to give up their bad life to become devoted to God/Buddha. It is also interesting to note that the story of drought condition which led Nama to undertake fast to appease the God for rains has, more or less, the same similarity in R K Narayan’s novel ‘Guide’ which was first published in 1958.
The film had 8 songs in it. One song has been covered in the Blog so far. All the songs were penned by Bharat Vyas which were set to music by Jamal Sen. I am presenting the second song ‘palkan ki paalki, aansoo sanwaartaa’ sung by Lata Mangeshkar to appear in the Blog. The lyrics read with the story synopsis give me an impression that the song was picturised on Sulochana in the role of Raji as she misses her husband Nama (Sapru) who has left the house and had become a dacoit. She remembers her happy childhood when she had the constant company of Nama to whom she got married in her childhood.
Everything about this song – the voice, the lyrics and the composition- is excellent. I am surprised how this song eluded the Blog for so long.
Song-Palkan ki paalki aansoo sanwaarta (Patit Paawan)(1955) Singer-Lata, Lyrics-Bharat Vyas, MD-Jamal Sen
Lyrics
aa aa aa aa aaa
aa aaa aaa
aa aaa aa aaa aa
saawan beete aas mein aen
beete kai basant
o o o
o o o
pathraaye pyaase nayan
pal pal hai rat pant ??
palkan ki paalki
aansoo sanwaartaa
bachpan ke saathhi tujhko
bachpan pukaarataa
meraa bachpan pukaarataa
aa aa aa
tooti praanon ki dori ee ee
tooti praanon ki dori
chandaa se door chakori
saawan aur bhaadon ban ke
barsen do akhiyaan mori
toote taaron ko manwaa
pal pal jhankaartaa
bachpan ke saathhi tujhko
bachpan pukaartaa
meraa bachpan pukaartaa aa aa
jalti jeewan ki nishaani
o o o
o o o
o o o
jalti jeewan ki nishaani
dhalti hai saanjh suhaani
jal jal ke hi palti hai
birhan ki preet puraani
chhup chhup jab chaandni ko
chandaa dulaartaa
bachpan ke saathhi tujhko
bachpan pukaartaa
meraa bachpan pukaartaa aa aa
palkan ki paalki
aansoo sanwaartaa
bachpan ke saathhi tujhko
bachpan pukaartaa
meraa bachpan pukaartaa
meraa bachpan pukaartaa aa
meraa bachpan pukaartaa
4 Responses to "Palkan ki paalki aansoo sanwaarta"
June 7, 2018 at 7:19 am
it is not kant, it is panth, herat is seeking, okay. Bharat vyas again used this in Kavi Kalidas 1959 ,shaam bahi ghanshyam na aaye
“path herat pathra gayin ankhiyaan”
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June 7, 2018 at 8:17 am
path herat akhiyaan pathraai
by Prahlad Sharma in Vidyapati song Mo Se Rooth Gayo Banwaari (Vidyapati) (1964)
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August 16, 2016 at 11:56 am
Lovely song.
?? -The line should be ‘pal pal herat kant’ – herat (searching) and kant (husband).
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August 16, 2016 at 2:08 pm
Thanks for the corrections.
Now the verse makes sense.
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