Pachhtaaoge balam jee mera dil na le jaana
Posted on: July 28, 2019
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Today’s song is from a film Jeete Raho-49- a C grade action and stunt film.
” In every real man, a child is hidden that wants to play “- said German Philosopher Fredrick Nietzsche. As a child, one enjoys stories of valour, magic, superpowers and adventures. As an adult, the taste changes but what is etched in the core of mind, remains. That is why, when you see children playing Cricket or Football, you feel like trying your hand. When you see a Policeman catching a thief valiantly, you clap with glee. When you are alone you get lost in day dreaming. So on and so forth….
A normal man wishes to do superhuman feats. For some daring act, the public cheers him. Film makers took advantage of this human nature and made films about Men and Women having Super natural powers-without Magic – audience loved it and action/stunt films got established here. To attract audience, the Silent film makers made most films incorporating dare devil acts, fights, fencing, horse riding,high jumping and such other feats which kept the audience glued to their seats spell bound.
In the beginning,Talkie films were made on traditional stories like Folk lore, Mythology, History etc. But as the films matured, the action and stunt films prospered again. Except Prabhat and New Theatres, almost every other film studio made C grade action films. Producers like Wadia, Mohan pictures, Paramount, Imperial and others specialised in stunt films. In those days,a stunt film was made in less than a Lakh rupees, hence many independent producers and smaller companies preferred such action films.
From the Title of the film itself, one knew that it was an action or stunt film of C grade. Titles were also very comic, different and pseudo-fearful like….Aage maut peechhe maut, Bhagta Bhoot, Bhatkati Maina, Juwe ka Nateeja, Khooni Khanzar, Dagabaj Doctor, Shaitaan ka paash, Char chakram, Daku Rani Talwarwali, Jaadu ka dandaa, Zinda Laash, Revolver Rani, Sindbad-Alladin-Alibaba, Flying man, Fighter Sheela, Khooni Darinda, Tarzan aur Jadugar, Tarzan aur Jadui Chiraag, Golden Gang, Murde ki jaan khatare mein, or Jadui putli etc etc.
The director and actors were fixed for almost every production house. Major stars like Fearless Nadia, Yeshwant Dave, Kamran, Nazi, Prakash, Khaleel,Shankar rao Vazre, Navin Yagnik etc were with well known banners. The occasional and small time filmmakers employed one of the main stars and the rest actors were taken from regular stunt film actors like…Bajar battu, Phoolkumari, maruti pehelwan, Batata, Mithoo Miyan, Fatty prasad, Boken chattu, Minu the Mystic, Manchi Tuthi, Gareeb raja, Kurbaan jaoon, Pandit dukhi, Vilayatu, Loveji Lavangiya, Adam sandow, Sandow safar, Dunlop,Chic chak and a very strange name CHEMIST ! This name is found in 5-6 films.
Master Bhagwan, who is known today to most people as a Comedian, was,believe it, a bodybuilder and an action film actor and director.He became a director with film Bahadur Kisan-38, followed by The criminal-39 and Sukhi Jeevan-42 (in between,he went to Madras and directed 2 Tamil films.) The Hindi films were made by Chandra films owned by Kadam brothers-Harischandra Rao and Chandra Rao.
Sukhi Jeevan-42 was made by Harischandra Rao kadam.(This was C.Ramchandra’s first Hindi film as an M.D.). The contract with Bhagwan was that besides the pay for directing the film(Rs.3000), Bhagwan was promissed 20% of profits from the film’s earnings. However, though the film made good profits, Kadam declined to give Bhagwan anything, saying that there was no enough profit. Bhagwan was furious but could not do anything.He decided to take revenge of this cheating. By now,Bhagwan had realised that the time had come to start his own production house.
Bhagwan started his Jagriti pictures and started his first production with the film title “Badla” (revenge)- as if taking revenge of kadam. Like all production houses, Bhagwan also made his own team consisting of himself, Baburao Pehelwan, Vasantrao pehelwan, Azimbhai, writer Ahsan Rizvi and MD Anna saheb (C.Ramchandra). For Heroines, he had Shanta Patel, Chanchal, Leela Gupte, Usha Shukla, Vitha Lokre and Leela Sawant. In every film of Bhagwan, this set of actors were there.Not only same actors,but Bhagwan’s films also had almost the same story in every film, with little changes here and there.
Whether the film was Badla-43, Bahadur-44, Naghma E Sahara-45, Dosti-46, Shake Hands-47, Matwale-47, Bahadur Pratap-47, Matlabi-48, Lalach-48, Jalan-48, Jigar-49, Bhedi Bungala-49, Bachke Rehna-49, Bhole Bhale-50 or Babuji-50, the pattern of story used to be the same. And what was the story ? Very simple….
Two young people from village come to Bombay to achieve something in life. They meet a Seth ji, who is troubled by a Gangster. Seth ji employs these two youngsters for his protection. They fight with the goons. The Hero falls in love with Seth ji’s daughter and his assistant falls for her maid.
The actors were fixed. The Hero was Baburao Pehelwan. His assistant was Bhagwan. Seth ji would be Azimbhai. The main Gangster would be Vasantrao Pehelwan. Seth ji’s daughter and her maid used to be one of the set of girls,mentioned above, by turns, in every film. Bhagwan knew that the audience does not come to his films for the story, music or to see the histrionic talents. They came for dare devil actions, stunts and fighting. And in reality, this was true. From film Albela, Bhagwan stopped stunt films and entered social films,but he always accommodated his actors in these films. However two members separated…Ahsan Rizvi and Azeem bhai.They became famous and important in their own fields.
Azim Bhai (real name: Saiyad Azim Jafri) was one of the leading action directors in Hindi films.
After a stint in the army he headed off to Bombay in 1934 and found work as stunt man at Eastern Art Film Company where he was put under contract and he worked on most of the company’s films like Sher Ka Panja (1934) Bal Hatiya (1935), Dharam Ki Devi (1935), and Prem Raatri (1936).
When Eastern Art Film went out of business, Azim moved over to Saroj Company then found work at Paramount Film Company, Imperial Film, and Wadia Movietone where he worked both as a stunt man and as an actor. Azim became well known for his swordsmanship and he often worked alongside fellow stunt coordinator Master Douglas and two were tasked with training Dilip Kumar and Prem Nath in that sport for the film Aan (1953). Azim has also trained many action directors and stunt persons including Ghani, Ravi Khan, Dawood (aka Hercules), Veeru Ustad, and Mansoor.
Azim Bhai coordinated the stunts on a number of fantasy films including King Kong (1963), Jadugar Daku (1962), Parasmani (1963), Sunehri Nagin (1964), Hercules (1964), and Aaya Toofan (1964), the spy films Spy in Rome (1968) and Kismat (1969), as well as the horror flicks Bees Saal Pehle (1972) and Ab Kya Hoga (1977).
Film Jeete Raho-49 was an outsider film. It was neither produced by nor directed by Bhagwan and Annasaheb was not the MD. However, Bhagwan had ensured that his whole team was in this film also. The director of Jeete Raho-C S Krishna Kumar and the MD- M V Devdas were not seen mentioned in any other Hindi film after this film. There were 8 songs in the film. These were sung by Rohini Roy and Dilip kumar ( may be Dilip Dholakia…not confirmed). With today’s song, film Jeete Raho-49 makes its Debut on this Blog.
( For this post, I have used some information from book ‘Ek Albela’ by Isak Mujawar, Blog cinemajaadu.com, with thanks, and also my own notes came handy, as usual)
Song- Pachhtaoge balam ji mera dil na le jaana (Jeete Raho)(1949) Singer- Rohini Roy, Lyricist- MA Sagar, MD- M V Devdas
Lyrics
Ooooi
Pachhtaaoge balam ji
Pachhtaaoge balam ji
mera dil na le jaana
mera dil na le jaana
haay mera dil na le jaana
haay mera dil na le jaana
Pachhtaaoge balam ji
tum dheere dheere aao naa aa aa aa aa
tum dheere dheere aao naa
dukh de de kar tadpaao na
hamen bhool kar muskaao na
pachhtaaoge balam ji
mera dil na le jaana
mera dil na le jaana
haay mera dil na le jaana
haay haay mera dil na le jaana
pachhtaaoge balam ji
meri mast nigaahon mein aana aa aa aa aa
meri mast nigaahon mein aana
dil mera chura kar jaana na
dekho jiya mora bharmaao na
pachhtaaoge balam ji
mera dil na le jaana
mera dil na le jaana
haay mera dil na le jaana
haay haay mera dil na le jaana
pachhtaaoge balam ji
jab nain se nain milaayen aen aen aen aen
jab nain se nain milaayen
manwa ko door se bhaayen
ab aankh mila ke sharmaao na
pachhtaaoge balam ji
mera dil na le jaana
mera dil na le jaana
haay mera dil na le jaana
haay haay mera dil na le jaana
pachhtaaoge balam ji
chham chham baaje hai paayaliya aa aa aa aa
chham chham baaje hai paayaliya
ku ku bole hai koyaliya
aise mein roothh ke jaao na
pachhtaaoge balam ji
mera dil na le jaana
mera dil na le jaana
haay mera dil na le jaana
haay haay mera dil na le jaana
pachhtaaoge balam ji
5 Responses to "Pachhtaaoge balam jee mera dil na le jaana"
August 8, 2019 at 2:27 pm
Arun ji another treasure trove! Seems gangsters took inspiration of names from stunt actors….
You have mentioned MD M V Devdas was not heard again, was it Anna again? Though orchestration is different, tune sounded like CR!
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July 30, 2019 at 8:24 am
The “Dilip” mentioned is Dilip Kumar Roy.
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July 31, 2019 at 9:59 am
Thank you, Shalin Bhatt ji, for this information.
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