Aao hum donon khelen nit naye niraale khel
Posted by: Atul on: March 7, 2021
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It is an unintended coincidence that my next post after film Suhagi-48 is on a song from film Suhag-1940. The titles have some resemblance but they are far different in content and presentation.
The year 1940 was the end of the first decade of Talkie films. From 1931 to 1939 most of the film music was made and sung by people who were experts in Classical Music. Classical music has never been the area of common people. It was born in Temples and nurtured in the Darbars of Kings and Nawabs. When film music relied heavily on classical mode, it became an imposition on the masses. Luckily, from the last 2 years of the 30’s, film music started changing and the emphasis shifted to traditional and Folk tunes over the classical.
1940 saw the emergence of Naushad with his first film “Prem Nagar”, as an independent Music Director. He is the one who advocated the combination of classical with Folk music and this was accepted by other Music Directors. More people now turned to film songs.Music Directors like Naushad, Anil Biswas, C Ramchandra, Saraswati Devi, Gyan Dutt, Pankaj Mullick and their followers in the later part of the 40’s changed film music upside down.
National Studios emerged from the merger of Sagar Movietone and Mehboob gave his blockbuster milestone film ” Aurat”. Himanshu Rai died untimely and the reigns of Bombay Talkies came into the hands of Devika Rani. Ranjit brought more popular films from its factory. Though there were signs of slow death, New Theaters still continued with musical films. Prabhat brought its third successive Saint film ‘ Sant Gyaneshwar”. Wadias looked after their Stunt films with fearless Nadia and John Cavas.
In the south, S S Vasan started his Gemini Studios. Master Vinayak and P K Atre started Navyug Films. In August 1940, there was a big fire in New Theatres leading to heavy losses. The use of Harmonium was banned on A.I.R. Due to War Times, Raw Film controls were given to Film Advisory Board. It also gave rise to Black Marketing of Raw film, in addition to already existing Rationing, and a new class of rich investors emerged in film industry shaking its established Studio Systems and Culture.
The year 1940 made only 86 Hindi films, less than 100 for the third consecutive year in a row. Let us take a look at some important films of 1940.
New Theatres film Aandhi had good music and songs.
Bombay Talkies continued with Ashok kumar and Leela Chitnis with film Azaad, but it was not as popular as Jhoola, Kangan and Bandhan.
A dubbed forein film -“Azadi E Watan” was the only Hindi film for which Malika Pukhraj had sung 2 songs.
Ranjit’s Achhut tackled a social evil, with good songs composed by Gyan Dutt.
A Stunt film of Shankar Vazare ” Aflatoon Aurat” had an English song in it.
Sagar’s last film ” Alibaba” by mehboob was released. “Aurat” a Landmark film by Mehboob for national Studios was the origin of its remake ” Mother India’57’.
Film ‘ Bharosa’ by minerva was based on an Incest story.
Sirco’s offering ‘ Geeta’ had a crime story, with double roles of Chandramohan and Durga Khote.
Prakash Pictures film ‘Narsi Mehta’ had Sant Tukaram fame Vishnupant Pagnis and some good bhajans.
Film Usha Haran saw the Debut of Sitara Devi.
Film Zindagi from New Theatres had very good songs by Saigal.
Today’s film Suhag-40 was made by CIRCO productions. Let us know something about this film company and its owner…
Chimanlal Trivedi, was one of the major film makers of the 30s and the 40s decade. He was more a Producer businessman than a Director. While he directed hardly 7 films, he produced close to 50 films- all having A grade actors, directors and composers !
Born on 19-3-1909 at a village near Anand in Gujarat he was from a Brahmin family. He did his schooling in Ahmedabad and technical graduation from Baroda. Being an expert in weaving, he took up a job as a weaving Master in Calcutta. Fond of writing, he started writing Dramas, which were staged in Bengal and Gujarat. He was attracted towards Cinema and tried some work in New Theatres. Knowing that the real playing field is Bombay he reached there. He wrote the story of film Chevrolet-36 and Danger Signal-37 for Mohan pictures.
He established his own production company CIRCO (Cine Industries Recording COmpany) in 1937. By 1943, he had made 12 films. He preferred not to direct his films, but appointed directors like Mohan Sinha for Laxmi-40, Anuradha-40 and Vanmala-41, Balwant Bhatt for Suhag-40 and Madhusudan-41, A R Kardar for Swami-41 and Nai Duniya-42 and Debki Bose for Apna Ghar-42.
He had the art of getting the most popular stars for his films like, Prithviraj kapoor, Chandramohan, Durga Khote,Mazhar khan, Bibbo,Surendra, Jairaj, Sitara, Jeevan, Yaqub, Shobhana Samarth, Prem Adeeb, Vishnupant Pagnis,Leela Desai, Pahadi Sanyal, Shanta Apte and many others. Even big directors like Debki Bose,Nitin Bose, Kardar,Mohan Sinha, Sarvottam Badami, Nandlal Jaswantlal,Profull Roy, Sudhir Sen, R S Caudhari, Phani mujumdar, Balwant Bhatt etc. worked for him. From Prabhat he brought Shanta Apte for Rs.1000 pm, and also Chandramohan, Pagnis and Mazhar khan. His friend Chandulal Shah followed his way and brought K L Saigal from New Theatres !
C L Trivedi was an expert in gathering funds for his films. After CIRCO at Parel, he started Laxmi Productions at Andheri, in 1942. He made mera Gaon,Sharafat,Bhagya Laxmi,Kadambari,Tamanna,Inkaar,Mohabbat,Miss Devi etc. In 1951, it was Supreme Pictures, Trivedi Productions was in 1952, Kala Kendra in 1953 and with Chitra Bharati in 1954, he made 13 films upto 1961. Top Composers like Timir Baran,Ashok Ghosh,Rafiq Gaznavi,K C Dey,Saraswati Devi,Husnlal-Bhagatram and Naushad gave music to his films.
Film Suhag was directed by Balwant Bhatt- elder brother of Nanabhai Bhatt. Its cast was Kumar, Bibbo, Mazhar, Ashalata, S Nazir etc. The music was by Timir Baran.
Timir Baran Bhatacharya belonged to a family of Sanskrit Scholars. He was born on 10-7- 1904. He learned Sarod playing initially from Radhika Prasad Goswami and then remained a student of Ustad Allauddin Khan ( who also taught internationally famous Ravi Shankar). He toured Europe and the USA after joining Uday Shankar’s Dance Troupe in 1930. He had an unrivalled reputation as a composer of dance music of that period. He was a symbol of passionate rendering. Worked in Madhu Bose’s Calcutta Art Players 1934 and visited Java and Bali.
On joining the New Theatres, he composed music for “Devdas” in 1935-“Balam Aao Baso Morey Mann Mein”. Other important films include “Pujaran” 1936 (“Jo Beet Chuki so Beet Chuki Ab Us Ki Yad Sataye Keun”) produced by International Film Craft and “Adhikar” 1938 of New Theatres. His other Hindi films are Sagar’s “Kumkum, The Dancer”(1940), Circo’s “Laxmi” (1940) and “Raj Nartaki” (1941). Subsequently he joined All India Radio and conducted music for Tagore’s non-violence poetry in 1947. Later he composed music for Uma Production’s “Samapti” in 1949.
He then shifted to Bombay and worked at Sagar and Wadia studios. He directed music for films “Badbaan”(with S.K.Pal in 1954) at Bombay, Anokhi *(with Hasan Latif Lalik) at Karachi-Pakistan (1955- with songs of Zubeida Khanum filmed on Sheela Ramani), Fankar (W.Pakistan – 1956) and “Jog Biyog” (Bengali – East Pakistan – 1970). His earlier Bengali films included Bijoya 1935, Uttarayan 1941, Bondita 1945, Bicahrak 1959,Thana Theke Aschi 1965, Diba Ratrik Kabya 1970 and Dak Diyajai 1978.
Afterwards he devoted himself to the music faculty of Tagore’s Shanti Niketan at Calcutta. He left for the heavenly abode on 29-3-1987.
Today’s song is sung by Bibbo. Listen to the voice which was very famous and popular in the 1930’s .
Song-Aao hum donon khelen nit naye niraale khel (Suhaag)(1940) Singer – Bibbo, Lyricist – Not specified, MD- Timir Baran
Lyrics
Aao
hum donon khelen
Aao
hum donon khelen
nit naye niraale khel
nit naye niraale khel
Aao
hum donon khelen
Aao
hum donon khelen
prem ke jitne khel jagat mein
prem ke jitne khel jagat mein
unmein sukh ka mel
unmein sukh ka mel
Aao
hum donon khelen
Aao
hum donon khelen
Chhota sa ek mahal banaayen
aur phir usko khoob sajaayen
Chhota sa ek mahal banaayen
aur phir usko khoob sajaayen
main phoolon ki sej bichhaa kar
main phoolon ki sej bichhaa kar
uspar tumhen baithhaaun
uspar tumhen baithhaaun
phoole yoon hriday mein apne
phoole yoon hriday mein apne
aashaaon ki bel
aashaaon ki bel
Aao
hum donon khelen
Aao
hum donon khelen
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