Aankh mein laaliyaan mad ki pyaaliyaan
Posted on: February 12, 2023
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Today’s song is from a stunt film – Bahadur-1944. This was one of those ordinary films made by Jagriti Pictures, Bombay, owned by Master Bhagwan. The film was also directed by Bhagwan and the film’s music was provided by his friend C.Ramchandra with an alias Ram Chitalkar. The Lyricist was Ehsan Rizvi and the cast of the films was Baburao Pehelwan, Bhagwan, Shanta Patel, Samson, Bhagwandas, yeshwant, Bibi, Surekha and Nirasha (what a name ! Her parents must have expected a Boy baby and she was born, hence she must have been named as Nirasha. My intelligent guess !).
Music Director C.Ramchandra was one of a kind composer. Though he had learnt music, to start with, he began his film career with acting and that too as a Hero ! His first film Naganand-1935, was made and directed by Y.V.Rao at Kolhapur. I wonder what he saw in this lanky, thin boy and made him a Hero. His heroine was a professional Tawaif singer from Kolhapur, named Azam bai. When I first saw this name, I was confused, because generally Azam is a male name. Later when I found out about her, I came to know that her real name was ” Vidya Pisal’- a typical female Marathi name. She was trained in Jaipur-Atrauli gharana by Alladiya khan and due to her expertise in singing, the station director of A.I.R. Bukhari gave her the name Azam Bai (meaning the Great singer).
Tragically, CR’s first film Naganand-1935 was a Super Grand Flop, getting only 5 people in the audience in the first show, as per his own account in his auto-biography. Obviously, there was no second show of this film as it was urgently withdrawn from the theatre. With this history of acting behind him, he changed the track and concentrated on music. Initially he was employed by Sohrab Modi’s Minerva Movietone and worked as an assistant to MDs Bundu khan, Habeeb khan, B.S.Hoogan and lastly Meer Sahib. During this period he learned a lot from Hoogan and Meer Sahib. Later he became an independent composer -starting with 2 Tamil films and then with his first Hindi film- “Sukhi Jeevan”-1942.
His career started with the help of his good friend master Bhagwan. As a gesture of gratitude, he gave music to Bhagwan’s stunt films whenever he was called. CR concentrated on social and musical films and used his newly acquired filmy name “C.Ramchandra”, while working for Jayant Desai. However, when he gave music to Bhagwan’s stunt films, he never used his C.Ramchandra name but used aliases like Ram Chitalkar for films Jayakodi and Van Mohini (both in Tamil), Sukhi jeevan, Badla, Mr. Jhatpat,Bahadur and Dosti. He also used the name “Anna saheb” for films like Bahadur Pratap, Matwale and Madadgaar. For the first time he used his popular name for Bhagwan’s film was for his first social film ” Albela-1951″.
Using aliases or Pen names was prevalent in the film industry. Some examples are Snehal Bhatkar using different names like V.G.Bhatkar, B.Vasudev and Snehal. Even Snehal Bhatkar was not his own name which he used for all his films after the film ‘Hamari beti’-1950 onwards. Snehal (Snehalata) was his daughter’s name. Similarly Mohd. Shafi used the name Shafi M.Nagari for 8 films. Composer Nashaad used names like Shaukat Dehalavi, Shaukat Hussain Dehlavi, Shaukat Ali and Shaukat Haidari. Actually, Nashaad was also not his own name, which was Shaukat Haidari. ‘ Nashaad’ name was given to him by Lyricist/Producer/Director Nakshab Jarachavi.
G.M.Durrani gave music as Gunjan, S.D.Batish used the name Nirmal kumar. Aziz khan and Aziz Hindi were the same person. His brother Hafiz Khan was later known as Khan Mastana. There may be some more examples. I have described only the well known aliases. In this matter, here is an absolutely unknown case which hardly anyone knows and I too have never read about it in any book, magazine or on any site etc. The case is of Anil Biswas. He gave music to the film ” Begunah”-1949 in the name of ‘ Haribhai’. His co-MD for this film was Shyamoo, who was none other than C.Ramchandra. CR also gave music to the film ‘ Yeh hai zindagi’ as Shyamoo. This information is given in Ashish Rajadhyaksha’s book Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema, on pp 67 and 190.
One of the names in the cast of today’s film is Yeshwant. Normally hardly anything is ever known about artistes working in Stunt films. Today, however, let us know more about this yeshwant (Dave). There was yet another yeshwant (Bhatt), who was a singer. More about him sometime later.
It was not uncommon during the days of early cinema for people to hang around studios and filming locations in the hopes of being discovered. One such intrepid soul was Yeshwant Dave (or Yashwant Dave), who was at Kohinoor Studios observing a picture being made by producer J.B.H. Wadia. The handsome and athletic Yeshwant cornered Wadia, insisting that he would make a fine hero for an action film.
Wadia agreed to test Yeshwant by having him jump from the roof of one set piece to another. He did so successfully, and J.B.H. decided to cast him in a film that he was to direct for Young United Players, the 1931 silent THUNDERBOLT (aka DILER DAKU) featuring Mumtaz as the heroine.
Yashwant was again directed by Wadia in TOOFAN MAIL (1932) and there after became a sought after action star appearing in the stunt films of other directors like Aspi, Dhirubhai Desai, Nari Ghadiali, Chunilal Parekh, and Harshadrai Mehta. Some of his films include BHARAT VEER (1932), JADUI JUNG (1934), BOMBSHELL (1935), VASANTBENGALI (1937), FLYING RANEE (1939), MAGIC CITY (1940), TORPEDO (1941), BAHADUR (1944), ROYAL MAIL (1946), and KAUN PARDESI (1947).
Growing out of the stunt hero persona, he turned to character parts and made infrequent onscreen appearances throughout the 1950s, including in SHEIKH CHILLI and MAKKHEE CHOOS both released in 1956 and starring comedian Bhagwan. What became of Yeshwant Dave afterwards is anybody’s guess, as the once popular action star faded into obscurity and, sadly, is barely remembered today.
Today’s song is a duet, sung by Chitalkar and Hameeda Banu.
Song- Aankh mein Laaliyaan mad ki pyaaliyaan(Bahaadur)(1944) Singers- Chitalkar, Hamida Bano, Lyrics-Ehsan Rizvi, MD-C Ramchandra
Both
Lyrics
Aankh mein Laaliyaan
mad ki pyaaliyaan
Aankh mein Laaliyaan
mad ki pyaaliyaan
baal jo jhoome
baal jo jhoome
jhoome ree gaal choome gori
lat uljhee mori
jiya doley gori
o bainyya chhodo mori
o painyya padoon tori
Aankh mein Laaliyaan
mad ki pyaaliyaan
Aankh mein Laaliyaan
mad ki pyaaliyaan
ho o o
ho o o
baali hai umariya
sataaye koi haaye kyun
baali hai umariya
baali hai umariya
sataaye koi haaye kyun
nainwa sharaabi
ae ae ae ae
nainwa sharaabi
man bhaaye kyun
man bhaaye kyun
chhodo chhodo
lat mein ulajh gayin baaliyaan
chhodo chhodo
lat mein ulajh gayin baaliyaan
Aankh mein Laaliyaan
mad ki pyaaliyaan
Aankh mein Laaliyaan
mad ki pyaaliyaan
baal jo jhoome
baal jo jhoome
jhoome ree gaal choomen gori
lat uljhee mori
jiya doley gori
o bainyya chhodo mori
o painyya padoon tori
Aankh mein Laaliyaan
mad ki pyaaliyaan
Aankh mein Laaliyaan
mad ki pyaaliyaan
ho o o
ho o o
raat bhaye rasiya
jagaaye mujhe haaye kyun
raat bhaye rasiya
raat bhaye rasiya
jagaaye mujhe haaye kyun
mast hai jawaani
ae ae ae ae
mast hai jawaani
tarsaaye kyun
tarsaaye kyun
dekh lega koi
dekh lega koi
to doongi tumhen gaaliyaan
dekh lega koi
to doongi tumhen gaaliyaan
Aankh mein Laaliyaan
mad ki pyaaliyaan
Aankh mein Laaliyaan
mad ki pyaaliyaan
baal jo jhoome
baal jo jhoome
jhoome ree gaal choome gori
lat uljhee mori
jiya doley gori
o bainyya chhodo mori
o painyya padoon tori
Aankh mein Laaliyaan
mad ki pyaaliyaan
Aankh mein Laaliyaan
mad ki pyaaliyaan
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March 3, 2023 at 10:56 pm
Arunji,
You have given a lot of unknown facts. “Begubah’: Anil Biswas+C Ramchandra is interesting. ‘Ye Hai Zindagi’: HFGK mentions GA Chisti as the music director.
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