Bajaao Raam naam ki thhaali
Posted by: Atul on: March 24, 2023
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Today’s song /Bhajan is from the film Dashavatar-1951.
I have mentioned many times on this platform that I grew up in a joint family of about 20 persons during my childhood. I was a fixed Chaperone of the oldies in the family, when a group of them went to see a film – invariably a Mythological one. I thus developed a liking for such religious films, as I liked the Costumes and the trick scenes in these films. Unknowingly, it was also firmly planted with a diehard feeling for Hindu Religion and a desire to know more about our religion.
This, in later years, led me to read all Vedas, Ramayan and Mahabharat, Navnath stories and such Dharmik stuff in Marathi and Hindi, expanding my understanding of Hindu Sanskruti. By the year 1951, I was entering my early teenage years. The decade of the 50’s was also a decade of ‘ Religious films’. It produced more than 124 Mythological and religious films in about 10 years, averaging at least one new film every month for 10 years straight !
I had seen this film ” Dashavatar-1951″ and had also written about it in my notebooks. But that diary was infested with white ants and most papers had to be destroyed. The story of the film got lost, but one paper was saved on which some information about this film was visible in faded ink. No doubt this film was a Mythological one (story not available and the film also not available now), but one song was used in the background as the credits rolled by and that song was ” kya khoobi kee Bhagwan ne….” by Rafi and chorus. Through this song, the producers tried to suggest that Gandhi ji was also like God’s Dashavatar, sent to India for its salvation. Most of the audience did not like this idea and it affected the success of the film. It flopped miserably !
Barring this one objectionable propaganda type song, the other songs were quite good. The singers were Rafi, Badrinath Vyas, A.R.Oza, Sulochana kadam, Geeta Roy and Asha Bhosle. 5 songs were written by B.P.Bhargav(1 song was removed from the film), 5 were by Saraswati kumar Deepak and 2 were by munshi Saghar Hussain.
The film was produced by Kikubhai Desai – father of entertainer Manmohan Desai, who became famous for his ” one idea- Lost and Found films ” and later for his suicide when the time came for marrying the actress Baby Nanda to whom he was engaged. The director was Jayant Desai – who was responsible for giving the name ” C.RAMCHANDRA” to an young composer Ramchandra Narhari Chitalkar, who used the name Ram Chitalkar till then.
The cast details were given by Avinash ji recently. The Music director was Avinash Vyas, famous as a Mythological film composer. Avinash Vyas always remained B and C grade film composer in Hindi, but in the Gujarati Music scene he was a very big name on stage and films, winning several awards there.
He had a multifaceted personality. He was a composer, lyricist, playback singer and writer too. In fact he has written 75 Dance Ballets,in few of which Asha Parekh has also danced. He published 6 books in Gujarati,the last being ” Vartul ”-1983. Starting with the film “Mahasati Anusuya”-43, Avinash Anandrai Vyas ( 21-7-1912 to 20-8-1984 ) gave music to 59 Hindi films, composing 438 songs, 175 Gujarati films and 1 Rajasthani film. His last film in Hindi was Bhagwan Shrikrishna-85. He is on record for writing Lyrics in 2 films, one song each, namely for Aangan-59 and Bhakta Dhruv kumar-64. He sang 3 songs in the film Charnon ki daasi-41 (a remake of Marathi film ” पायाची दासी “). He had acted in a Gujarati film also-Gorakhdhanda-49.
He was a very talented composer. Unfortunately, he never got any support from any big banner production house. Even Gujarati producers did not patronise him for big banners and he remained in the crowd of Religious, stunt, costume and Mythological films. Only one notable social film can be quoted in his favour- Adhikar-54, in which Avinash Vyas really gave some popular songs by Kishore kumar and Asha Bhosale.
He got Gujarat Govt awards 10 times. The Sangeet Natak Academy of Gujrat gave him an award. He was given Padmashree in 1970. He made 8 Foreign stage shows. His most famous film Har Har Mahadev-1950 is also my favourite one. Though neglected in Hindi, he was honoured suitably in Gujrat, in his lifetime.
Avinash Vyas collaborated with great songwriters like Qamar Jalalabadi, Madan, Prem Dhawan, Pradeep Patel, Gopal Singh Nepali, Badrinath Vyas, Sadiq Lakhnavi, Devendra, Pt. Sagar, Indeevar, Nilkanth Tiwari, Sagar Husain, Qamar Jalalabadi, Kavi Pradeep, Saraswati Kumar Deepak, Bharat Vyas, B. P. Bhargav, Raja Nene, Ramesh Gupta, Shamim Jaipuri, Indra Chandra, Raja Mehdi Ali Khan, Pt. Mukhram Sharma, Pt. Madhur and Ramesh Shastri.
Avinash’s compositions were sung by the melodious voices of great singers like Mohammed Rafi, Suman Hemadi Kalyanpur, Anand Kumar Chitragupta, Badrinath Vyas, Dilraj Kaur, Sulochana Kadam, Asha Bhosle, Shamshad Begum, Manna Dey, Mukesh, Geeta Dutt, Hemant Kumar, Talat Mehmood, Kishore Kumar, Meena Kapoor, Ameerbai Karnataki, Krishna Kalle, Mahendra Kapoor, Madhubala Zaveri, , Mohan Tara, Lata Mangeshkar, Sudha Malhotra, S. Balbir, , Husn Ara, Kavi Pradeep and Usha Mangeshkar.
There are hundreds of religions in the world, but one thing is common with them. Followers of any religion are usually blind followers and do not know much about their religion. Why go far ? Ask 10 Hindu persons known to you the names of the 10 Avatars of Vishnu and I can confidently say that the majority will not be able to give the correct answer. You can try this on yourself and find out if YOU can tell all the 10 Avatars in the proper serial !
The 10 Avatars in proper serials were Matsya, Koorm, Varah, Narsimha, Waman, Parshuram, Shri Ram, Shri Krishna, Buddha and Kalki. The firtst 9 avatars have taken place and only Kalki is remaining. It is said that Kalki will come on Earth, dissolve all the world and start again from the beginning. Lord Shri Krishna has explained why Vishnu had to take Avatars. He had said ” यदा यदा हि धर्मस्य ग्लानिर्भवति भारत। अभ्युत्थानमधर्मस्य तदात्मानं सृजाम्यहम् ” (Whenever There Is A Decline In Righteousness And An Increase In Sinfulness, O Arjun, At That Time I Manifest Myself On Earth.) This is a long Shlok and singer Jagjit Singh has cut a record of the full shlok.
Todays song is sung by Geeta Roy and Badrinath Vyas. This male singer has sung only 5 songs in 3 Hindi films. Today’s song is his last Hindi song. Enjoy….
Song-Bajaao Raam naam ki thhaali (Dashavatar)(1951) Singer-Geeta Dutt, Badrinath Vyas, Lyrics-B P Bhargav, MD-Avinash Vyas
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Lyrics
Bajaao Raam Naam ki Thaali
Bajaao Raam Naam ki Thaali
Bajaao Raam Naam ki Thaali
Bajaao Raam Naam ki Thaali
preet bhari ik thhaali bajaao Raam
preet bhari ik thhaali bajaao Raam naam ki thhaali
bajaao Raam naam ki thhaali
bajaao Raam naam ki thhaali
pal pal yaad mein jeewan beete
kahaan hai Raam
kahaan hai Seete
pal pal yaad mein jeewan beete
kahaan hai Raam
kahan hai Seete
kaun kare rakhwaali
bajaao Raam
bajaao Raam naam ki thhaali
bajaao Raam naam ki thhaali
bajaao Raam naam ki thhaali
preet jeewan ki phulwaari
preet jeewan ki phulwaari
khojat khojat ankhiyaan haareen
khojat khojat ankhiyaan haareen
aao mere banmaali
bajaao Raam
bajaao Raam naam ki thhaali
bajaao Raam naam ki thhaali
bajaao Raam naam ki thhaali
tum bin naina taras rahe hain
nis din aansoo baras rahe hain
tum bin naina taras rahe hain
nis din aansoo baras rahe hain
?? bajaao Raam
bajaao Raam naam ki thhaali
bajaao Raam naam ki thhaali
bajaao Raam naam ki thhaali
preet bhari ik thhaali
bajaao Raam
preet bhari ik thhaali
bajaao Raam naam ki thhaali
bajaao Raam naam ki thhaali
bajaao Raam naam ki thhaali
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
March 24, 2023 at 3:12 pm
Thank you for this detailed post Sir ji. First of all I have to admit that, yes, even I do not know much about our religion and those many mythological stories in details or the scriptures. But I always like to read about them specially through your posts here on the blog.
I also listen to the song in the earlier post which was presented by Atul ji and not by me i.e. ‘kya khoobee ki bhagwan insaan banaa ke’.
Thanks for throwing on light on the logic of this song in the movie.
Also thanks for writing in details about Avinash Vyas ji.
And thanks for presenting a post with a song from this movie.
Actually I wish that all the movies from the golden era or from 1930s to 1950s (or more) should have at least one of your write up with them.
That provides us much valuable information about the movie and the artistes.
Thanks and regards,
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March 24, 2023 at 9:31 pm
Avinash ji,
I am happy that you liked the post.
Thanks a lot for your kind words too.
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