Teri galiyon mein aayi gore rang ki lugaai
Posted on: February 2, 2023
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Today’s song is a very melodious duet from the film Actor-1951.
The film was directed by Ramjibhai Arya. I could not get any information about him except that he directed 6 Hindi films namely, Hind ke lal-40, Manthan-41, Jungle ki pukar-46, Bhedi Dushman-46, Sher E Bengal-47 and his last film as a director, Actor-1951. The musical score for this film was by 2 MDs – Aziz Hindi aka Aziz Khan and Ibrahim aka Master Ibrahim. There are many films having 2 MDs or even 3 MDs and also an unique case like the film Pathan-1962 which had a record 9 MDs ! (This film has nothing to do with Shahrukh khan’s controversial film Pathan released recently). In almost all cases songs are separately credited to each MD, as it is a Team work. In rare cases we find that a few songs are composed jointly by both MDs and credited accordingly.
In film Actor-51, as many as 4 songs were composed by both MDs together as per HFGK credits. I can understand composers working jointly on a song but I wonder how lyrics can be written by 2 Lyricists together. But in Hindi films this was not a rarity. Actually, a few years back, thinking that this phenomenon was worth discussing, I started finding such songs from the HFGK. After getting names of films where more than 1 lyricist have jointly written songs, like Chandrtalekha-48, Anyaya-49, Sheesh Mahal-50 Hum Log-51, Buzdil-51, Footpath-53, Chandni Chowk-54, Dhobi Doctor-54, Darbar-55, Miss Bombay-57, Changez Khan-57, Pardesi-57…I stopped my search. I realised that this happened in many films and was not a novelty. I cancelled my idea of discussing this matter in my posts.
Connected to these issues is another problem with stories of films like Actor -51. There are many cases in Hindi films, where remakes of earlier films on the same stories are made. As far as Folklore like Laila Majnu or Shirin Farhad or stories from Ramayan and Mahabharat, one can surely understand, but it is very strange why people want to make films on the same stories.
In some cases, in addition to the same stories, even the film titles are the same. The case of actress Sulochana-Ruby Meyers, is unique. She featured in 7 such films where the Titles and stories were the same. Sulochana acted in Anarkali-28, Anarkali-35 and Anarkali-53. She also acted in Madhuri-28 and Madhuri-32. She also acted in Indira B.A.-29 and Indira M.A.-34. Then there was Gunsundari-27 and Gunsundari-48, with different heroines. All these films had the same Titles and same stories.Actually Sulochana became the first ever actress to have worked in 3 films of the same title and story. The first male actor to do this was W.M.Khan who acted and sang in 3 films – Alam Ara-1931, Alam Ara-1956 and Alam Ara-1973. Ashok Kumar also acted in 3 films of the same title – Kangan-1939, Kangan-1959 and Kangan-1972, but here the stories were different.
Then there are other films which have same stories, but different Titles.Some of such films are Panghat-43 and Chitchor-76, Mala-41 and Amar-54 (MD was Naushad for both films and Jayant did the same role in both films), Grihasthi-48 and Ghar Basa ke dekho-63, Malkin-53 and Biradari-66, Aurat-40 and Mother India-57(Kanhaiyalal did the same role in both films) etc etc. There are 100s of such remakes, but I have yet to see a film which mentions it in their credits. One can not forget films like Do dooni chaar-68 and Angoor-82. Here the first hindi film Do dooni chaar was a remake of Bengali film of 1963, ” Bhrantibilas”, which was based on the novel of the same name by Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar who had taken inspiration from Shakespeare’s play ” Comedy of Errors“- which was an adaptation of a play by Plautus “ Menaechmi”. Hope this was atleast the original story !
It is a notable coincidence that in 1951, in just One year alone, there were 3 films with almost the same story and Bhagwan was the Hero in all 3 films – Actor-51, Damad-51 and Albela-51. The basic story was that a poor man, without any help, tries to become a Singer or an Actor and how Luck helps him to become a famous artiste. Film Daamaad was censored on 8-2-51, film Actor was censored on 1-5-51 and Albela was censored on 13-12-51 and released immediately on the next day i.e. 14-12-51.
The cast of the film Actor -51 was Ramola, Bhagwan,Sunder, Murad, Manchi Thoothi, Violet, Sulochana, Cuckoo and others. Actress Violet was the sister of her more famous actress sister Patience Cooper. Their one more sister Pearl was also in Hindi films. While Patience acted in 34 Talkie films, Violet acted in 16 films and Pearl acted only in 6 films. At the same time there was another set of 3 sisters in Hindi films namely Zubeida- 22 films, Shahzadi-26 films and Sultana-9 films. (actress Mehtab was their step sister who acted in 40 films. Mehtab was Sohrab Modi’s wife.) In later times there were the Travancore sisters – Lalitha, Padmini and Ragini who danced their way into Hindi films. Padmini and Ragini also acted in films.Padmini did 47 films while Ragini acted only in 23 films. Chandralekha-1948 was their first Hindi film.
You will find one name in the cast -Murad. Hardly anyone writes about him. I remember his role of a Land jahagirdar, who gives loan to Balraj Sahni in the film Do Bigha Zameen-1953. Actually finding information on Murad was difficult. Hamid Ali Murad or simply Murad was born at Rampur in Uttar Pradesh in 1911. He was very fair and good looking. He came to Bombay in 1942 to seek roles in films. Mehboob Khan had just established his own studio and Production house and was making his first film Najma. He gave a role to the fair and handsome Murad in the film Najma and thus started his film career with a character role. His career lasted till film Tamacha-1988, All these years he did only character roles. Murad was so fair and tall that ,in those days, many Policemen saluted him as if he was a British person !
Due to his personality, he would be selected for the roles of Judge, Police Commissioner, Badshah or a Maharaja. He was a favourite of producers / directors like Mehboob, K.Asif, Sohrab Modi, Kardar, Nitin Bose, Bimal Roy, K.A.Abbas, M.Sadiq etc, who would cast him in their films. Murad did more than 300 films and in almost 250 films, he did the role of a Judge. That must be a sort of a record,like Iftekhar as Police Commissioner !
Some of his famous films were Andaz, Anandmath, Do Bigha Zameen, Mirza Ghalib, Durgesh Nandini, Heer, Yahudi, Mugha e Azam, Palki etc etc. He fitted perfectly in Costume, Mughal and Historical films. In 1976-77, he became President of Cine Artistes Association. In 1981, he suffered from Paralysis, but continued to work in films till 1988.
Murad died on 24-4-1997, leaving behind a wife, 3 daughters and one son. His son Raza Murad-famous for his voice- is also an actor. ( Thanks to Shri Harish Raghuwanshi ji for information on Murad. )
Today’s duet is sung by Sulochana Kadam ( my favourite singer) and G.M.Durrani. It is very melodious and as usual, Sulochana is very good in this song. Enjoy….
Song- Teri galiyon mein aayee gore rang ki lugaai (Actor)(1951) Singers- Sulochana Kadam, G M Durrani, Lyricist-Nazim Panipati, MD- Aziz Hindi and Ibrahim (joint composition)
Lyrics
Teri galiyon mein aayi
gore rang ki lugaai
zara nainon se naina milaaye ja
o milaaye ja milaaye ja milaaye ja
mori saasu ji ke chhore
mori nanad ke bhai
zara nainon se
o zara nainon se naina milaaye ja
o milaaye ja milaaye ja milaaye ja
mujhe tujhse hai pyaar
mujhe aaye na karaar
haaye saari saari raat karoon tera intzaar
mujhe tujhse hai pyaar
mujhe aaye na karaar
haaye saari sari raat karoon tera intzaar
dil deta hai duhaai
mujhe neend na aayi
zara nainon se
o zara nainon se naina milaaye ja
o milaaye ja milaaye ja milaaye ja
teri galiyo me aayi gore rang ki lugaai
zara nainon se naina milaaye ja
o milaaye ja milaaye ja milaaye ja
mori saasu ji ke chhore
mori nanad ke bhai
zara nainon se
o zara nainon se naina milaaye ja
o milaaye ja milaaye ja milaaye ja
jeene dete hi nahin chaahne waale mujhko
chaahne waale mujhko
jeene dete hi nahin chaahne waale mujhko
chaahne waale mujhko
koi naazim(?) se ye kahde ke bacha le mujhko
haaye re bacha le mujhko
mori bainyya ko thhaam
koi kare hai salaam
haaye gali gali ghar ghar huyi badnaam
mori bainyya ko thhaam
koi kare hai salaam
haaye gali gali ghar ghar huyi badnaam
sab kare hain buraai huyi mori ruswaai
zara nainon se
o zara nainon se naina milaaye ja
o milaaye ja milaaye ja milaaye ja
teri galiyon mein aayi gore rang ki lugaai
zara nainon se
o zara nainon se naina milaaye ja
o milaaye ja milaaye ja milaaye ja
mori saasu ji ke chhore
mori nanad ke bhai
zara nainon se
o zara nainon se naina milaaye ja
o milaaye ja milaaye ja milaaye ja
Teri galiyon mein aayi
gore rang ki lugaai
zara nainon se naina milaaye ja
o milaaye ja milaaye ja milaaye ja
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February 3, 2023 at 11:22 am
Arun Ji,
Thanks for the post with interesting, and amusing content, like same story/same actor/same title etc.
Most amusing was one song with two lyricists.
It reminded me of the song ‘Ek sawal main karoon, ek sawal tum karo…” ( film -Sasural).
In this case it must have been “Ek line main kahoon, ek line tum kaho…:
🙂
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February 4, 2023 at 7:30 pm
Dear Satish ji,
I am glad you liked the post.
Thanks.
-AD
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