Chhed de sajni wohi taraana
Posted on: October 6, 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.
It is a privilege for those who were associated with India’s first talkie ‘Alam Ara’ (1931). Whenever the definitive history of Indian film industry is discussed, the names of Ardeshir Irani, Master Vitthal, Zubeida, Prithviraj Kapoor, W M Khan would surely find place in it. However, there were some lesser known persons associated with the first talkie. Sarvottam Badami was one of the lesser known persons who was associated with the first talkie as assistant to Ardeshir Irani in sound recording. I found his filmy career interesting.
Sarvottam Badami (1910-2005) was born in Channapatna, near Bangalore (Bengaluru). His father was a revenue officer working in Mysore (Mysuru). After completion of his matriculation, he joined, first as a mechanic in a garage and then as a Projectionist in Select Picture House, Bangalore, both owned by Dr Ambalal Patel who was a financier for Ardeshir Irani in his venture of the first talkie film ‘Alam Ara’ (1931).
At the age of 19, Sarvottam Badami moved to Bombay (Mumbai) to pursue his interest in automobile engineering. In a chance meeting, Ardeshir Irani asked his help in setting his recording equipment which he had bought from abroad. Badami helped him in the Sound Recording Department of his production company, Imperial Films and thus got associated with the sound recording of ‘Alam Ara’ (1931).
But the fate transformed Badami from a sound recordist to a director when a German director making the film ‘Harishchandra’ (1932) left half way and the responsibility of completing the film fell on him along with another director. The film was a success at the box office. Since Badami could not speak and understand Hindi, his speaking language being Kannada and English, he was contracted by Sagar Movietone (then a subsidiary of Imperial Films) to direct three non-Hindi films – two in Telgu and one in Tamil. The success of these three films firmly established him as a director.
Badami directed his first Hindi film ‘Chandrahas’ (1933) as a full-fledged director. His core team mostly consisted of Sabita Devi and Motilal as main actors with Faredoon Irani as the cinematographer and Anil Biswas as the music director. His forte was in making satirical comedies and socially relevant films. During his stint with Sagar Movietones (1932-39), he directed 10 films. In 1939, he joined Sudama Productions, a film production company floated by his mentor, Dr Ambalal Patel where he directed 4 films (1939-41). From 1942 onward, he became a free-lance film director. However, during his free-lancing period, he directed only six films, the last film being ‘Manmaani’ (1947).
In 1948, on a request from Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, the then Deputy Prime Minister and also the Information and Broadcasting Minister, Badami joined the newly established Film Division as a Chief Producer in the Newsreel Department and produced many documentaries. In 1952, he left Film Division and decided to retired from film making as in his own words, ‘I was a forgotten man in the feature film world’. He spent a retired life in Bangalore and died in 2005 at the age of 95.
[Note: The source for the profile of Sarvottam Badami is mainly Wikipedia].
HOLIDAY IN BOMBAY (1941) was one of the four films Sarvottam Badami directed for his mentor, Dr Ambalal Patel under the banner of Sudama Productions. The star cast included Sabita Devi, Aroon Ahuja, Shobhana Samarth, E Billimoria, Kantilal, Jal Merchant, Ghory, Vatsala Kumthekar, Dixit etc. The film was stated to be a social comedy, the genre for which the director Sarvottam Badami was known to handle it successfully.
Heroine of the film, Sabita Devi and the director, Sarvottam Badami were both attached to Sagar Movietone. The advertisement of the film shows that the film was produced at Ranjit Studios. It transpired that after the merger of Sagar Movietone with General Pictures to form a new production company, National Studios in 1939, one of the partners of Sagar Movietone, Dr Ambalal Patel formed a separate film production company, Sudama Productions in which Sarvottam Badami and Sabita Devi among others joined the new company. Probably, Ranjit Movietone had also a stake in it for I find some artists in its pay roll were part of the film.
The film had 9 songs written by 4 lyricists – D N Madhok, Munshi Dil, Butaram Sharma and Pandit Indra. However, the distributions of songs among them are not known. All the songs were set to music by Khemchand Prakash.
I am presenting the first of the 9 songs, a rare song ‘chhed de sajni….jinki jawaani unkaa zamaanaa’ to appear in the Blog. The song is rendered by Kantilal and Shobhana Samarth. Kantilal was a side actor mostly associated with Ranjit Movietone who, I feel, occasionally gave playback for other actors also. Since, he has acted in the film under discussion, it can be concluded that he has sung his part of the song on himself. But I have some doubt on it. In this film, he has rendered as many as 5 songs and he was not the main actor. Most probably, he may have given playback to one of the main actors.
Only one song out of 9 songs of the film is available on YT. But the song I have selected is not available on YT. I have made the video of the same and have uploaded it on YT.
With this song, ‘Holiday In Bombay’ (1941) as well as Shobhana Samarth as singer make debuts in the Blog.
Song-Chhed de sajni wohi taraana (Holiday in Bombay)(1941) Singers-Kantilal, Shobhana Samarth, MD-Khemchand Prakash
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Lyrics
chhed de sajni
wohi taraanaa
kaun saa saajan
jinki jawaani unkaa zamaanaa
jinki jawaani unkaa zamaanaa
chhed de sajni
chhed de sajni
chhed de sajni
wohi taraanaa
jinki jawaani unkaa zamaanaa
jinki jawaani unkaa zamaanaa
saajan prem ke meethhe sapne
saajan prem ke meethhe sapne
dil leke ban jaao apne ae ae
dil leke ban jaao apne ae ae
main kahoon pagli ee ee ee
main kahoon pagli
tum kaho deewaanaa
jinki jawaani unkaa zamaanaa
jinki jawaani unkaa zamaanaa
phool khile hain daali daali ee ee
phool khile hain daali daali ee ee
kitnaa khush hai mann kaa maali
kitnaa khush hai mann kaa maali
naachat titli
naachat titli
naachat titli bhanwraa mastaanaa
jinki jawaani unkaa zamaanaa
jinki jawaani unkaa zamaanaa
dono jawaan dono kamsin hain
khul gaye ab unke din hain
khul gaye ab unke din hain
dekh ke unko jee naa jalaanaa
jinki jawaani unkaa zamaanaa
jinki jawaani unkaa
2 Responses to "Chhed de sajni wohi taraana"
October 8, 2016 at 10:29 am
Kanti Lal
Bandhu Re Mere Bandhu Re
with Miss Gulab, Ishwar Lal
Khemchand Prakash
D N Madhok
Ummeed (1941)
Jeevan Ka Balidan Kar De
Khemchand Prakash
D N Madhok
Ummeed (1941)
Aaja Aaja O Jaane Wale
with Brujmala
Khemchand Prakash
D N Madhok
Ummeed (1941)
Koi Kisi Se Dil Na Lagaaye
Khemchand Prakash
Shaadi (1941)
Mai Teri Main Teri
with Iqbal
Gyan Dutt
D N Madhok
Kanchan (1941)
Do Nain Tumhare
with Khursheed
Khemchand Prakash
Pardesi (1941)
Dahi Wali O Dahi Wali
Khemchand Prakash
Pardesi (1941)
Bhula Bhula Man Phirta Hai
Khemchand Prakash
Pardesi (1941)
Jaata Hai Kaha Tu Khud Hi Na Jaane
Khemchand Prakash
Pardesi (1941)
Kaise Kategi Ratiya Tum Waha Hum Yaha
with Motilal Noor Jehan
Gyan Dutt
D N Madhok
Sasural (1941)
Tohe Motor Me Baitha Du
with Motilal
Gyan Dutt
D N Madhok
Sasural (1941)
Do Rangi Duniya Se Hum Dur
with Noor Jehan
Gyan Dutt
D N Madhok
Sasural (1941)
Bhanwara Kara Kaliyo Ko Kare Ishare
Noor Jehan
Gyan Dutt
D N Madhok
Sasural (1941)
Khinchi Chitvan Chadhe Tedar
with Shobhna Samarth
Khemchand Prakash
D N Madhok,Munshi Dil, B R Sharma, Pandit Indra
Holiday In Bombay(1941)
Raat Pade Nat Ruth Diwani
Khemchand Prakash
Pandit Indra
Holiday In Bombay(1941)
Taare Kyu Muskaaye
with Rajkumari, Vatsala Kumthekar
Khemchand Prakash
D N Madhok,Munshi Dil, B R Sharma, Pandit Indra
Holiday In Bombay(1941)
Woh Baat Ki Hai Tune Bas Maza Aa Gaya
with Vatsala Kumthekar
Khemchand Prakash
D N Madhok,Munshi Dil, B R Sharma, Pandit Indra
Holiday In Bombay(1941)
Prabhu Aaye Tere Dwaar
with Kaushalya Vishnupant Pagnis
Chitalkar Ramchandra
D N Madhok
Bhakta Raj (1943)
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October 6, 2016 at 5:13 pm
A very nice song with verse very penetrative..thank YOu ..
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