Sajanwa bhool hamen na jaana
Posted on: September 23, 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.
Prahlad Keshav Atre, popularly known in Maharashtra as Acharya Atre (1898-1969) was a multi-talented personality of Maharashta. He was a writer, a playwright, a poet, an educationist, a journalist, a politician and producer-director-screen play & dialogue writer. During his association with Hindi films, Acharya Atre produced films like ‘Charnon Ki Daasi’ (1941), ‘Raja Rani’ (1942), ‘Vasantsena’ (1942), ‘Tasveer’ (1943), ‘Dil Ki Baat’ (1944), ‘Parinde’ (1945) and ‘Dulha’ (1946) under the banner of Atre Pictures.
PARINDE (1945) was one of the two Hindi films directed by Acharya Atre, the other being ‘Dil Ki Baat’ (1944). The star cast included Surendra, Vanmala, Sitara Devi, Baburao Pendharkar, Dixit, Sunalini Devi, Chandabai etc. The film is available to watch on YT. Unfortunately, sound track of some parts of the film has been damaged to such an extent that the sound is not audible. In some portion, especially towards the end of the film, the picture is lost though sound track is intact. The film on VCD has been shortened to 1hour and 45 minutes of duration as against the normal duration of about 2 hours and 30 minutes. So, there are abrupt disconnects in the story line. With these limitations, I have attempted below a synopsis of the film’s story.
Ashok (Surendra), a school teacher, is a son of an army man who lost his life during the war. He has been brought up by his mother (Sunalini Devi). Due to some misunderstanding with the Principal, Ashok resigns from his job. Now he wants to join the armed forces like his father. But the mother persuades him to look for job in another school where Shyama (Vanmala) is also a teacher. He meets Shyama to get a job. It is not known as to why he leaves the second job also as the film jumps to the next stage, that is both Ashok and Shyama has been shown as becoming closer to each other and on way to culminating into the marriage. In the background of World War-II, there are demands for recruitment in armed forces. Ashok decides to join the armed forces and is sent for training as a pilot. He successfully completes the training and is posted at Burma front where Japanese are trying to make an inroad into country.
On the other hand, Shyama’s father (Dixit) is a trader. In the background of war, he makes a lot of money due to hoarding and selling the items in black market. In this business, a Doctor (Baburao Pendharkar) is his partner who gets his shares of profiteering. The doctor has a soft corner for Shyama but does not get an opportunity to reveal his mind to Shyama until her brother who is down with cholera. The Doctor treats him to recover from his illness. With this, Shyama becomes obliged to Doctor.
At the Burma front, on a routine reconnaissance flight, Ashok observes Japanese capturing a family. By the time he reaches at that place, they have killed the mother and father. Somehow, he rescues their daughter by name Neela (Sitara Devi) who has been brought to hospital at the air force base in an unconscious condition. Neela recovers and over a period of time during her recovery period, she gets attracted towards Ashok who was already in love with Shyama. Despite his revelation, Neela is adamant and she even threatened to commit suicide.
Again, there is a break in the continuity as the next scene has been shown wherein Neela is in the house of Shyama and confronts with Shyama telling her that she is going to marry Ashok. The Doctor arrives at that particular point and he sees an opportunity to woo Shyama for marriage with him. So both Neela and the Doctor come to an understanding in which they will work out in such a way that Neela gets Ashok and Doctor gets Shyama. Neela tells Shyama that Ashok is going to marry her in the next month. Shyama, believing the news to be true decide to dedicate the rest of her life for the service of armed forces. She becomes a Nurse. Coincidentally, she is posted at the same hospital of the air force base where Ashok is attached. Doctor, after learning that Shyama has joined as Nurse in the armed forces, also decides to take short service commission as doctor in the hospital. Again the Doctor is also posted in the same hospital. [I never expected Acharya Atre to write the story/screen-play with such type of coincidences].
Doctor meets Ashok accidentally in the Officers’ mess and tells him that Shyama, after hearing that Neela was going to marry Ashok, has already got married. Ashok is now very much depressed. In one of the ground operations, Ashok gets injured and he is brought to the hospital for treatment. The nurse is none other than Shyama and it is the Doctor who is to treat him. In this triangular meet, the secret of the Doctor and Neela is out. There is no more misunderstanding between Shyama and Ashok and they unite.
With the benefit of doubt of the film being ruthlessly cut, I still feel that neither the story, nor the screen play had much strength to make the film interesting. I expected dialogues to be very witty at some scenes where the situations were humorous. The film must have failed at the box office.
PARINDE (1945) had 8 songs, all written by Rammurti Chuturvedi and set to music by Pt. Govindram. I am presenting the first song from the film ‘sajanwaa bhool hamen na jaana’ sung by Parul Ghosh and Surendra. The song is picturised on Vanmala and Surendra. From the song, it is apparent that Surendra has to leave for his posting at the Burma border.
I was surprised that Vanmala who was a good singer, had to take playback from Parul Ghosh for the songs sung by her in the film. In any case, it is a sweet song. Those who liked more baalpan ke saathi chhaila bhool jaiyo na would surely like this song as well. There is so much similarities of feelings in both the songs.
With this song, ‘Parinde’ (1945) makes its debut in the Blog.
Song-Sajanwa bhool hamen na jaana (Parinde)(1945) Singers-Parul Ghosh, Surendra, Lyrics-Pammurty Chaturvedi, MD-Pt Govindram
Both
Lyrics
sajanwaa bhool hamen na jaana
sajanwaa bhool hamen na jaana
sajaniyaa dheer dharo na ghabraana
sajaniyaa dheer dharo na ghabraana
o o o o o
o o o o o
baalamwaa
door desh mein jaa kar baalam
laagi preet nibhaana
o sajni
dheer dharo na ghabraana
sajanwaa bhool hamen na jaana
sajanwaa bhool hamen na jaana
jaldi aaoonga pyaari
dekhoongi raah tihaari
jaldi aaoonga pyaari
dekhoongi raah tihaari
patiyaan likh likh door desh se
laagi preet nibhaana
o saajan
laagi preet nibhaana
sajniyaa dheer dharo na ghabraana
sajniyaa dheer dharo na ghabraana
sajanwaa bhool hamen na jaana
sajanwaa bhool hamen na jaana
din rain tohe takti rahoongi main pyaare
din rain tohe takti rahoongi main pyaare
ratiyaan mein guzaaroongi sajan gin gin taare
ratiyaan mein guzaaroongi sajan gin gin tare
jaldi se main aaoonga priye na ghabraana
yaad aaye jo meri to yahi geet tu gaana
yaad aaye jo meri to yahi geet tu gaana
kya
sajanwaa bhool hamen na jaana
sajanwaa bhool hamen na jaana
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September 24, 2016 at 12:55 am
Thanks for this illuminating article. Never knew Acharya Atre was a filmmaker at one time. My first job in Mumbai about 50 years ago was located in Acharya Atre’s newspaper building at Worli Naka in Mumbai……now defunct “Gateway Gazette” that never made it to the stands. The news paper owners leased space from the Acharya in his prolifically busy large two storied building.
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