Motor maze se chala re musaafir
Posted on: July 29, 2020
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Today’s song is from the film Jeewan yatra-46. This film was made by Rajkamal. The film was a social film, directed by Master Vinayak and its music was composed by Vasant Desai.
V Shantaram left Prabhat films or rather was compelled to leave it, because he broke a rule of Prabhat Films. Soon after When the company was founded, one of its directors S Fattelal had married one of its lead actresses Gulab Bai aka Kamla Devi (one who is seen bending in the Prabhat Logo). After this, the team of partners/directors made a rule that if, in future, any of them falls in love with an artiste of the company or gets married to her, he will have to leave the company. After a few years, Keshav Rao Dhaiber, one partner, married Prabhat’s Heroine Nalini Tarkhad. He had to leave the company,in 1938.
V Shantaram also loved and married Prabhat’s lead actress Jayashree (Kamulkar) and had to leave the company. As such, all was also not well between Shantaram and other directors,because they felt that somehow, Shantaram kept all the focus on him for publicity, though they too were capable. Due to all this he left Prabhat. For some time he worked in the Films Division and then started his own studio “RAJ KAMAL Kalamandir”, on the premises of Wadia studios. The name of his company was made up by taking the first syllable of his parents’ names – RAJ(aram) and KAMAL(abai) making RAJKAMAL.
The first film of Rajkamal was Shakuntala with Jayashree playing the role of Shakuntala and Chandra Mohan being King Dushyant. Next films were, Parbat pe apna Dera-44 and Jeevan Yatra-46. Then came the iconic film “Dr. Kotnis ki amar kahani”-46. Rajkamal produced many well known films, mostly in Prabhat tradition. I personally consider the film “Do aankhen barah haath”-58, as its best film in terms of the content, acting and the Music. It’s a matter of pride that one of the songs of this film-“Aye Maalik tere bande hum”, became the school prayer song in Pakistan, till 1965.(Ref:Ruperi Smaranyatra by Prof. Subhash Savarkar).
Film Jeevan Yatra-46 was directed by Master Vinayak. This was his last film as a director for Shantaram. Rajkamal films were directed by Shantaram, Vinayak, Keshavrao Datey, V Awadhoot or Kiran Shantaram only. Initially the studio system was very strong in the film industry, but during and after the II WW, Freelancing and crumbling of the studios, one after the other saw the virtual extinction of the studio system. Companies affected were Sagar, Ranjit, National, Wadia, Prabhat, Bombay Talkies, New Theatres, Madon Theatres, East India, Shalimar, Paramount, Imperial etc. It sadly heralded individualistic operations. Most studios became available for hiring for shootings. Only Rajkamal, Mehboob and RK studios etc continued some more years with almost the same force. Now, RK studio is demolished and Rajkamal and Mehboob studios are used for TV serial shooting and audio recording facilities.
Talking of Master Vinayak, it was Shantaram who helped shape his career. In Kolhapur, the 3 families- Bhal G. Pendharkar, V Shantaram and Master Vinayak were closely related. Bhal ji Pendharkar (Bhalchandra Gopal Pendharkar) was the son of Dr.Gopal Pendharkar, the Royal Physician of Shahu Maharaj of Kolhapur state and his partner Radhabai. Dr. Gopal was already married to another lady. This couple gave birth to Bhalji and Baburao Pendharkar. Their mother Radhabai left Dr. Gopal Pendharkar and married Damodar Karnataki. They had two sons- Master Vinayak (father of Baby Nanda), famous actor, director, producer and a studio owner and his brother Vasudev- who became a Cameraman. Kamalabai, the younger sister of Radhabai married Rajaram Vankudre and they had 2 sons- V.Shantaram, famous actor, director,producer and a studio owner and his brother V. Awadhoot- equally famous Cinematographer.
Master Vinayak Karnataki ( 19-1-1906 to 19-8-1947) was born in Kolhapur. Many of his cousins and family members were already in the Film line.His half brothers Bhal ji and Baburao Pendharkar, maternal cousin V. Shantaram and his brother V.Avadhoot ( cinematographer) were in films. His own brother Vasudev also became a cameraman. Master Vinayak was working as a Teacher in a school, but Bhalji brought him in films. Initially Vinayak was with Prabhat, working under Shantaram and learning many things. He started his own company ” Hans Pictures” in partnership with Baburao Pendharkar and cameraman Pandurang Naik. Their first film was Chhaya-36. (almost all films made by Vinayak till 47 were bilingual in Marathi and Hindi-sometimes with different Titles ( like Ardhangi in Marathi became Ghar ki rani-40 in Hindi etc.)
While Shantaram stressed on technical aspects of film making successfully, Vinayak was keen on a strong story. Therefore he used the works of Top class writers in Marathi like V.S.Khandekar, P.K.Atre, Mama Varerkar etc. ( V.S.Khandekar, later won Sahitya Akademi award, Jnanpith award, Padma Bhushan award and many honours like D.Litt etc. The Government issued a Postage stamp after his death also). Film Chhaya won many awards and was commercially successful. Next Dhrmaveer-37 and Premveer-37 ( The Heroine in this film was Ashalata-wife of Anil Biswas). Then came film Jwala-38, with Chandramohan in both versions-Marathi and Hindi. He learnt to speak excellent Marathi for this film. Later he did 3 more Marathi films also. unfortunately, film Jwala was a resounding flop-not because of anything else. According to V.S.Khandekar, Vinayak had meddled with the story too much. ( this looks to be a chronic ailment of the film line !)
Vinayak fell back on comedy and made Brahmachari-38 and Brandi ki botal-39. Both were successful, but the loss due to Jwala was too big. Even one more comedy- Ghar ki rani-40 could not salvage the damage and Hans pictures was dissolved to form another company Navyug Chitrapat, with added P.K.Atre as a partner. Navyug was the first film company to offer 100 rs. shares directly to the public. ( Bombay Talkies had shares with only the directors, initially). The first film was Lapandav-40. Though successful, P.K.Atre left the company- (along with its Heroine Vanmala- his consort) and established his own company Atre Pictures.
After another comedy, Navyug made Amrit-41. In the year 1942, Navyug made the film ‘ Pahili Mangalagaur”-42, in which Lata Mangeshkar made her debut as an actress and singer. She sang her first ever film song with Snehprabha Pradhan- under the baton of Dada Chandekar. There was a kissing scene of Snehprabha and Shahu Modak in this film. During the making of this film, Vinayak left Navyug and started his own ” Prafull Pictures”. Vinayak made several Hindi and Marathi films including Badi Maa-45. Vinayak died on 19-8-1947, just 4 days after Independence.
Vinayak acted in 18 Hindi films, from Jalti Nishani-32 to film Mandir-48. He also directed 13 Hindi films, from film Nigah E Nafrat-35 (debut film of Shobhana Samarth) to film Mandir-48. He sang 22 songs in 10 films. But from film premveer-37 onwards he could not sing properly due to his tooth problems, hence Master Vasant Eric used to sing his songs for the balance 6 films, though mostly Vinayak is credited for these songs.
Now, who was this Master Eric ? His real name was Vasant Jadhav. He was born in 1907 into a Marathi Christian family of Kolhapur. Bhalji Pendharkar selected him for acting and singing in Shyam Cinetone’s film Parth kumar-1934 (Hindi/Marathi) His pet name was Eric, so he became Vasant Eric and later on due to his singing, he was called Master Vasant Eric. He joined Kolhapur Shalini Cinetone and worked with master Vinayak. He also worked in films like Aakashwani-34 and Honhaar-36. He sang songs in films from 1937 onwards. In all the Marathi/Hindi films of Vinayak he sang for him.
Vasant Eric knew Ratanbai. She introduced him to Ardeshir Irani and he employed Eric in his Music Department, playing various instruments and singing whenever needed. He acted and sang in films made by Huns, Navyug and Prafull films. In 1948, he gave music to a Marathi film. He was called by many MDs to play Chord Piano for their songs.The male voice in Lata’s First Hindi Playback song ” Paa laagu kar jori re” is that of master Vasant Eric only.
His son Ravindra was an actor and daughter Hemlata Shankar (Jadhav) was a film dancer. His grandson Nitin Shanker is an arranger in Bollywood today. Master Vasant Eric died in 1982.(Ack: Marathi Chitrapat Sangeetkar Kosh by Madhukar Potdar).
As per The Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema, film Jeewan Yatra-46 features a large number of characters travelling on a bus to Benares. A storm forces the passengers to take shelter in an abandoned temple where a prostitute tries to seduce Raja (Yakub) and he is left behind. The bus later breaks down and when Raja rejoins the group a local bandit, Vishwas (Pendharkar), attacks it. Eventually the bandit turns out to be Raja’s father and the husband of an old woman, Kalindi (Protima Devi), another passenger on the bus. Vinayak’s only film in the mainstream Hindi cinema, it included the collective number Ao azadi ke geet gate chalein and Lata Mangeshkar’s Chidiya bole choo choo. Lata Mangeshkar plays a village girl.
There were 10 songs in this film. Twqo songs are already on the Blog. This is the third one. It is a song sung by Khan Mastana, Zeenat Begum and other uncredited voices.
Song-Motor maze se chala re musaafir (Jeewan Yaatra)(1946) Singers- Khan Mastana, Zeenat Begum, Lyricist- Dewan Sharar, MD- Vasant Desai
Unknown male voice 1
Unknown male voice 2
Unknown male voice 3
chorus
Lyrics
Motor maze se chala re musaafir
Motor maze se chala re musaafir
Motor maze se chala dheere dheere
Motor maze se chala dheere dheere
ho o o
o o o
motor waale
re motor waale
Motor maze se chala re musaafir
Motor maze se chala
dheere dheere
hai naazuk zamaaana
dheere dheere
hai naazuk zamaana
haule haule hata chalaana
haule haule hata chalaana
kahin lachke na patli kamariya
kahin lachke na
kahin jhapke na teekhi majariya
ho kahin jhapke na teekhi majariya
kahin sarke na sar ki chunariya
kahin sarke na sar ki chunariya
dheeme dheeme chala
haule haule chala
dheeme dheeme chala
haule haule chala
motor maze se chala dheere dheere
haan maze se chala halke halke
o motorwaale
haan maze se chala halke halke
jaise ?? ke dhhalke
jaise mad ka bhara pyaala chhalke
jaise dulhan
jaise dulhan koi aaye chal ke
jiska joban ho jaadoo bhara aa
Motor maze se chala dheere dheere
?? ki motor ke purze hain ??
naaarayan
inko bachaayega paapon ki aanch se
haan shashtri
jeewan ki yaatra pe jaana hai door door
jeewan ki yaatra pe jaana hai door door
laagi jo thhes kahin to motor hai choor choor
bach bach ke bach bach ke jaa aa gaadi
bach bach ke bach bach ke jaa
haan
Motor maze se chala dheere dheere
ho o o
o o o
motor waale
re motor waale
haaye
motor maze se chala re musaafir
Motor maze se chala dheere dheere
Motor maze se chala aa aa aa
3 Responses to "Motor maze se chala re musaafir"
July 31, 2020 at 12:12 pm
Probable corrections :
kahin lachke na patli kamariya
kahin jhapke na
kahin jhapke na teekhi najariya
ho kahin jhapke na teekhi najariya
sar se sarke na halki chunariya
sar se sarke na halki chunariya
haan maze se chala halke halke
jaise shabnam ghule tarse dhhalke
jaise mad ka bhara pyaala chhalke
jaise dulhan
jaise dulhan koi aaye chal ke
jiska joban ho jaadoo bhara aa
Motor maze se chala dheere dheere
?? ki motor ke purze hain kaanch se
naaarayan
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July 29, 2020 at 7:32 pm
Thanks Arun ji
for the rare song and also enjoyed reading the post very much,…
prakash
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July 29, 2020 at 8:53 pm
Prakash ji,
Thanks for your comments.
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