Bharat ki vidhwa dukhiyaari
Posted by: Atul on: August 31, 2019
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Today’s song is from film Abla-41. This highly obscure film was directed by actor Director R.N.Vaidya (9 silent and 16 Talkie films as a director). The film was made under the banner of Bharat Photophones Ltd. Bombay. The music was composed by one Khurshid khan. This seems to be the only film for which he composed music. All the 6 songs were written by Pt. Gyan Chandra, who wrote mainly for Wadia films and other C grade action films. The cast of film Abla-41 was Heeralal,Shyam Narayan,Dar Kashmiri, Akbar khan, Ghulam Mohd., Sunder, Raja Babu, Chandrika, Suryakumari, Dev kumari, Sheela, Guljar etc.etc.
Funny cast this ! There is a Suryakumari and a Chandrika and there is a Dev Kumari also!There is a Raja, Akbar and Ghulam also ! And there is a Sunder and Guljar also !! What a collection !! Apart from the humour, names of Surya Kumari, Chandrika, Dev Kumari and Shyam Narayan are names which I have heard for the first time.
About Dar Kashmiri. Most sites and Blogs list Dar Kashmiri as another initial name for actor Jeevan. Even Surjit Singh ji, in his short articles on years from 1931 to 1947, on his site, claims that Jeevan was called Dar Kashmiri in his initial career (see article on 1934 on his site). The reality, however, is different. Dar Kashmiri was a Pseudo-name used for Om Prakash Dar- a Kashmiri actor, who was the elder brother of actor Jeevan and who came to work in Hindi films much earlier than Jeevan had.
Om Prakash Dar was born into a large family, he had 23 siblings. His grandfather was the Governor of Gilgit in Gilgit-Baltistan. He lost his father when the youngest- Jeevan- was 3 years old and his mother died at childbirth. Being the eldest,he came to Bombay in search of jobs and entered films. Instead of his original long name,he was called Dar Kashmiri.
Actually, When Jeevan came to Bombay in search of film roles, Om Prakash Dar aka Dar kashmiri, his elder brother, was already working in films. Jeevan appeared first time in Fashionable India-35. Since his name was Onkar Nath, he was billed as O.K.Dar (and not Dar kashmiri-please note).
His elder brother Dar Kashmiri worked in films like –
Noor Mahal-34, Watan parast-34, yaad rahe-40, Abla-41, Saugandh-42, Angoori-43, Naya Tarana-43, Room No.9-46, Hua savera-48, Kundan-55 and Ayodhyapati-56. and many other films. Every film, he was billed as Dar kashmiri only.
Jeevan was billed as O.K.Dar (Jeevan) from film Romantic India-36 onwards
and then on as Jeevan only-except still a few films where he was billed as O.K.Dar(Jeevan).
In film Patit pawan-1955, both brothers acted and they were individually billed as Jeewan and Dar Kashmiri. This settles their name issue decisively. Most of this information comes from Filmdom-The All India Film Directory and Who’s who in Indian Film Industry-1946.
The curse of ” Same Name Confusion” is cast on the film industry from its early era (The first heroine Zubeida – Alam Ara-31, had a same name actress later on in the 40s). The name Ghulam Mohammed was the only one in 1932, but later on two more Ghulam Mohammeds came on the scene for the same period. One of them was the well known Music Director and the third one was a small time singer in the 50s and the 60s. Initially, very little information was available on actor Ghulam Mohammed. Now,more information is available and hence his information is more uptodate- with dates of Birth and Death etc. Here is the latest note on Ghulam Mohammed-the actor…
Ghulam Mohammad was born on 19-3- 1905 in Lahore and died on March 10, 1961. He appeared in more than 500 stage dramas and was, during the WW1, in Baghdad, Iraq. He was best known as Chacha (Uncle) in film circles.
Ghulam Mohammad was a super star villain actor in the pre-partition films. He was a popular stage actor in the 1920s and appeared in movies mostly as villain actor in the 1930s/40s. His first big film was Madhuri in 1932 which was directed by R.S. Choudhary. He was in Villain’s role with actress Salochana who was a Jewish artist and the first ever super star film heroine in the sub-continent. It was one of many famous productions by the leading Bombay based film company Imperial Film Co. and Ghulam Mohammad was an automatic choice for them. He was called Prince of Imperial Film Company and he was the first ever Muslim actor to bye a luxury car in the 1930s.
Ghulam Mohammad was an all round actor and appeared as hero, villain and supporting actor in 65 movies in the 1930s-40s. In ‘Daku ki Ladki’-33 he was in the role of the Daku. With this film he became popular. By 1942,he was called by Dalsukh Pancholi,to Lahore. He did ‘Khandan’,’ Zamindar’, and Shirin Farhad’ during 1942 to 1945. Shirin Farhad was a big flop. He came back to Bombay. He did about 25 films here. Some of his films were Ek din ka Sultan,Sanyasi,Behram Khan,Humjoli, Raajputani, Chhin le Azaadi, Jugnu, Lakhon mein ek, Heer Ranjha, Pardesi Mehmaan, Vidya etc.
He played the main villain role in the first ever colored film Kissan Kanya in 1937. He was in main role with Noorjahan in Lahore based Punjabi film Chowdhary in 1941 and also in her first Hindi/Urdu film as heroine, Khandan in 1942, which was made in Lahore as well. He was also in the last big film before partition Jugnu (with Noorjahan and Dilip Kumar and Sulochana).
Around 1949,he migrated to Pakistan and did 69 films there (41 urdu and 28 Punjabi films) and finally died in poverty and anonymity.
( Adapted from http://www.pakmag and vo bhuli dastan by Subhash Jadhav)
For a long time,I was searching for information on comedian Sunder. I got hold of a 2 page detailed article on Sunder, but it was in Punjabi- which I could not read or use. I found a small paragraph on Sunder in Sanjit Narvekar ji’s book ” Eena Meena Deeka”. Lastly, I requested Harish Raghuwanshi ji for help. Despite his failing health, he promptly sent me articles in Hindi, English and Gujarati, on Sunder. He is such a helpful person. May God give him a healthy life.
Sunder Singh aka Sunder was born in Sialkot, Punjab in August 1916. His father was working in Madon Theatres, Calcutta. Sunder also started working there. Initially, for long period,he did Girl’s roles. Once his work was seen by H.S.Rawail (Director in later life). He was quite impressed. Later Rawail started working with R.N.Vaidya as his assistant in direction.Meanwhile Sunder started working in Talkie films. His first film,where he was credited was ” Na honewali baat”-38. Before that, Rawail and Vaidya were preparing to make film Banke Sipahi-37.Rawail recommended Sunder and Vaidya gave him an uncredited small role in that film.
Sunder and Rawail became good friends and started staying in one flat in Calcutta. After few films here, they both went to Lahore and Sunder got the Hero’s role in film ” Shukriya”-44. There were 4 Heroines in the film- Ramola, Rooplekha, Manorama and Raksha. Sunder’s role in this film was that of a young man from a village and Ramola was from a City. Sunder’s one song from this film-‘ Nayanon ke teer chala gayee ek shehar ki laundiya’ became very popular allover India, However the song was banned in Punjab due to its lyrics. After this they both came back to Calcutta.
His next film was Albeli-45, in which too there were 4 Heroines- Ramola, Rooplekha, Manoram and Usha. In the 40’s , Sunder acted in many films like Arabian Nights, Baap, Shabri, Chandrashekhar, Ek aurat, Grihalaxmi, Lottery, Samapti, Jhoothi kasme, Savyasachi, Do baaten, Shadi ke baad, Bawra, Khiladi, Nai Bhabhi etc. In Calcutta, Sunder got married to a girl from his community. Rawail left for Bombay. After few months, Sunder also returned to Bombay.
Rawail was very happy to get him back and gave him roles in almost all of his films. Not only Rawail, but also J.Om Prakash, Mohan Kumar, Lekhraj Bhakri, Manoj kumar etc gave him roles in their all films and he became a busy actor. He was at one time, in great demand. He was quite popular due to his nature.In the decade of 50’s he did 88 films, which increased in the 60s and 70s. In the 80s however films came haltingly.
From singing Hero, he became a Junior artiste( extra), in presence of the new crop of actors. The role of comedians was on decline, as Heroes like Amitabh and others did comedy scenes themselves. His health started troubling him. His last film was probably Bahurani-89. He became ill for a long time and finally died on 5-3-1992. Sunder acted in 436 films He was a good singer and sang his own songs in early cinemas. In all, Sunder sang 40 songs in 25 films. ( Thanks to Harish Raghuwanshi ji for material for adaptation.)
I do not know, what the film Abla-41 was about and what its story was. I could not find anything about this film in any issues of Film India of that period. Only 2 songs of the total 6 songs in the film are available on You Tube. From the HFGK, it is known that the film’s singers were Ram Dulari, Binapani, Bhawani and Akbar Khan Durrani Peshawari- who had worked in the film also. Today’s song is sung by Akbar Khan and Chorus. With this song, film Abla-41 makes its Debut on the Blog.
Song-Bharat ki vidhwa dukhiyaari (Abla)(1941) Singer- Akbar Khan Durrani Peshawari, Lyricist- Pt. Gyan Chandra, MD- Khurshid Khan
Chorus
Unknown female voice 1
Unknown female voice 2
Lyrics
Bharat ki vidhva dukhiyaari
Bharat ki vidhava
Bharat ki vidhava dukhiyaari
Bharat ki vidhva
bin maalik ke kheti jaaye
bin maalik ke kheti jaaye
chor uchakka najar lagaaye
chor uchakka najar lagaaye
laage aag bhasam ho jaaye
laage aag bhasam ho jaaye
sookhe jeewan ki phulwaari
Bharat ki vidhva dukhiyaari
Bharat ki vidhva
?? jewar
?? saare
?? jewar
?? saare
har deewaali gaye intzaari
har deewaali gaye intzaari
mata pita bhi thokar maaren
mata pita bhi thokar maaren
bipad padi dukhiya pe bhaari
Bharat ki vidhava dukhiyari
Bharat ki vidhava
jaago jaago hosh mein aao
ghar mein laagi aag bujhaao
jaago jaago hosh mein aao
ghar mein laagi aag bujhaao
vidhwaaon ke kasht mitaao
vidhwaaon ke kasht mitaao
?? dekh ki duniya bhaari
Bharat ki vidhva dukhiyaari
Bharat ki vidhva
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