Tum poonam ke chaand ho
Posted on: June 13, 2023
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Today’s song is from an extremely obscure film Bombay-1949.
This film is so obscure that the names associated with this film, from the production House – National Artists, Bombay – to names from other heads like the Director. Music Directors (4 MDs), the Lyricists to its cast members (except Shashikala, Mirza Musharraf and Bhudo Advani) all are almost never heard of and are least known !
The film was directed by C.R.Bajaj, who directed only this one film. The 4 Music Directors were Mushtaq Hussain, Chetumal, N.Bhattacharya and Raja Miyan. Heard any name so far ? The Lyricists were Kamalnayan and C.R.Bajaj. Both wrote lyrics only for this film. Coming to the cast of the film, it shows names of Shashikala, Ram Singh, Uday kumar, Suraiya Chaudhary, Mirza musharraf, Gaurang,Uday kumar, Rekha, Pittoo, Bhudo Advani etc.etc.
The only familiar name was its Title – Bombay. A cursory look at the book of Film Title Index shows that there were 28 films which had ‘Bombay’ in their titles (and to be fair, 24 films had ‘Mumbai’ in their titles). As a curiosity, I checked the other 3 metro names, but they fared very badly in this race. There were only two films having ‘Calcutta’ in their titles and only one had Kolkata in its title. Only one film had ‘Madras’ in its title but Chennai has 2 films. India’s capital Delhi fared better with 15 titles and New Delhi in 3 film titles. It would be a Free time exercise to find out about other Towns and Cities. I have done the spade work, so somebody else has to volunteer ! Among the Playback singers, except one name – Sulochana Kadam, other names are unknown to me. They are Nakul malik, Ram Sehgal and hariram. Sulochana kada has 7 solos and 1 duet in this film.
The lead pair in this film was Shashikala and Ramsingh. At the time of this film, Shashikala was all of 16 years, while Ramsingh was almost double her age with 29 years ! This, ofcourse, is no wonder. Ashok kumar, Dharmendra, Shammi kapoor and others have done this several times. The actor Ram Singh’s name is not very famous or well known, but in his times, he did Hero’s and Villain’s roles in many films. His entry into films and life story is very interesting.
During the 1942 ‘Quit India’ movement, there was a riot in Allahabad. Police opened fire and along with several other people, the Secretary of All University Students Union also was killed. Fearing a backlash from college students, the Government closed down all colleges and vacated Hostels. Two persons became homeless. One was Ramchandra Dwivedi – who later on became well known as Kavi Pradeep- and the other was Ramsingh- who became an actor.
After the riots, instead of informing his family about his welfare, Ramsing left for Bombay and then to Poona, to become an actor. He was tall,fair and handsome. V.Shantaram hired him as an assistant in the studio. His family thought that he must have been killed in the riots and grieved, when he never returned.
One day one of the villagers came to their house and told excitedly that he had seen a Hindi film and in that film, an actor looked exactly like Ramsingh. The family went to the town and saw the film.Lo and behold ! There he was. Looking just like Ramsingh. Anxiously a group of elders reached Prabhat Studio in Poona and enquired. The officials brought out their own son- Ramsingh before them !! Everyone was happy. It seems he did not contact his household just to avoid the Police investigations, as he too was an active participant in the agitation.
Ramsingh was born into a rich Zamindar family of village Ishanpur in Pratapgarh (U.P.), in 1920. After graduating, while doing his M.A. he joined films. His first film was Ramshastri-44, then came Chand-44, Lakhrani-45 and Hum ek hain-46….all Prabhat films. While in Prabhat, he became friendly with Dev Anand and Guru Dutt. In his later years, they gave him roles in almost every film..
In his other films, Ramsingh worked with Heroine Ranjit Kumari ( real name Ranjit Kaur), to whom he got married later on. He was already married while in school and also had 3 children from his first wife. From the second marriage he had 4 children.
Ramsingh played Hero, Villain and character roles in 69 films. Some of his notable films were, besides 4 Prabhat films, Gaon-47, Shaheed-48, Khidki-49, Aparadhi-50 ( He was the Hero, opposite Madhubala), Sargam-50, Sangram-50, Shrimati ji-52, Jaal-52, Baaz-53 etc etc. In his later career, he only got insignificant roles in B and C grade films and Mythologicals. His last film was Sati Sulochana-69. ( 2 more films Veer Chhatrasal-71 and Mere Bhaiya-72 were released after he left films).
Ramsingh returned to his native place with Ranjit kumari and children in 1970 and started doing Agriculture. The U.P. Chief Minister H.N.Bahuguna was his classmate and a very good friend. Ramsingh approached him. Bahuguna, to help him, immediately established ” U.P. Film Corporation ” and made Ramsingh its Chairman. However, due to political turmoil in the country, Bahuguna left congress and joined Congress For Democracy, against Indira Gandhi. As a result the film corporation was wound up and Ramsingh returned to the fields again.Ramsing started drinking, against medical advice. He died in 1984, in his village.(adapted with Thanks, from Javed Hameed’s book ” Kuchh kalakar, kuchh yaden “).
In this film Ramsing-Shashikala was one pair and another pair was Uday Kumar-Suraiya Chowdhary. I don’t know who this Uday Kumar was. Never heard about him. Suraiya Chaudhari was one of the 4 Suraiyas who operated same time and caused Same Name Confusion.The four were – Suraiya jamal Shaikh, the famous actress and singer who was involved with Dev Anand, Suraiya Zulfi (real name Jamila Begum) and Suraiya Chaudhari, both actresses and lastly Suraiya multanikar- a classical singer.
Suraiya Choudhary was a supporting actress active in Hindi films from late 40s to early 50s and was active at the same time when singing-star Suraiya was playing the lead in films. Both Suraiyas were cast together in Jeet (1949). Other films to her credit include Sangeeta (1950), Sabz Baaz (1951), Azad Hindustani (1948) etc.
Suraiya choudhary also appeared with Suraiya-(Jamal Sheikh) in Wadia films Balam 1949,directed by Homi Wadia.Suraiya Choudhary worked with Geeta Bali in Dil Ki Duniya in 1949,directed by Mazhar khan.Suraiya Choudhary played as heroine in film Bombay-1949,opposite Udday kumar. Shakila also worked in this film.Suraiya Choudhary worked with Nargis in Chhoti Bhabhi,1950,directed by Shanti kumar.
As far as the 4 MDs are concerned, I could get some information on Mushtaq Hussain only. Mushtaq Hussain was from Bareilly, U.P. and was an acclaimed Ustad in classical music before entering films.Many times his name gets mixed up with another same name singer – Mushtaq Hussain khan of Rampur- Sahaswan Gharana, who was an exclusive Vocalist.
His first film was Aurat ka Pyar-1933 and till Bombay-1949,he gave music to only 18 films.This was because he was very keen on rehearsals of songs before filming them.NAUSHAD who joined him first as a Pianist and became his desciple and then his assistant. Naushad was his assistant in Baghban and Industrial India-both 1938,picked up this habit of rehearsals of songs from M.Hussain.When Naushad became independent, ALL singers had to do the rehearsals at Naushad’s ground floor music room in his Bandra Bungalow.This habit had cost him some films like Azaad also,but he was not bothered.
M.Hussain was specialised in Gazals and thumaries.He used singers like Mukhtar Begum,Ashraf Khan(who later became a Sufi saint and in whose ‘URS’,prominent film personalities like Dilip kumar and Mahesh Bhatt also participate every year even today),fakr e alam Kawwal, Afzal Lahori, Ameerbai,Zahoor Raja,Shahu Modak (Film Aadmi fame),Shantareen and Ram Sahgal.Most these names are unknown today. He died in 1982 in Bombay.
I do not know about this film’s story, so all that I could do was to give information about the unknown artistes of this film. Today’s song is sung by Sulochana Kadam and chorus.
Song- Tum poonam ke chaand ho (Bombay)(1949) Singer- Sulochana Kadam, Lyrics-C R Bajaj, MD- Mushtaq Hussain and Chetumal
chorus
Lyrics
Tum poonam ke chaand ho
hai cham chamaacham chaandni
ham pe bhi barsaa de raaja
ham pe bhi barsaa de raaja
cham chamaachham chaandni
ham pe bhi barsaa de raaja
cham chamaachham chaandni
ho chaandni
ho chaandni
Tum poonam ke chaand ho
hai cham chamaacham chaandni
ham pe bhi barsaa de raaja
cham chamaachham chaandni
ho chaandni
ho chaandni
?? daulat mein(???) aaj bhar ke
hain din khushi ke aaye
daulat mein(???) aaj bhar ke
hain din khushi ke aaye
raunak bahaar byaah ki
na baar baar aaye
kismat se tujh ko mili hai
chaand jaisi chaandni
kismat se tujh ko mili hai
chaand jaisi chaandni
ho chaandni
ho chaandni
Tum poonam ke chaand ho
hai cham chamaacham chaandni
ham pe bhi barsaa de raaja
cham chamaacham chaandni
ho chaandni
ho chaandni
naachtee gaate jawaani
muskuraatee budhiya(?)
o o
o o
o o
o o o
o o o
naachtee gaate jawaani
muskuraatee budhiya(?)
chaandni chamke pahan kar
aasmaani choodiyaan
taaron mein ek chaand
?? khili hai chaandni
taaron mein ek chaand
?? khili hai chaandni
ho chaandni
ho chaandni
jhoomti nargis chameli
matwaali si daaliyaan
o o
o o o
o o o
o o o
o o o
jhoomti nargis chameli
matwaali si daaliyaan
phool sa tu mast hai
patte bajaayen taaliyaan
hans kar sab lahra rahin hain
chaandni hi chaandni
hans kar sab lahra rahin hain
chaandni hi chaandni
ho chaandni
ho chaandni
Tum poonam ke chaand ho
hai cham chamaacham chaandni
ham pe bhi barsaa de raaja
chham chamaachham chaandni
ho chaandni
ho chaandni
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June 13, 2023 at 9:32 am
Arun ji,
let me add films with ‘Bangalore ‘ in its title.( just for fun!), but not in Hindi.
1.Bangalore days ( Malayalam)
2.Bangalore Mail ( Kannada)
3.Made in Bangalore ( Kannada)
:))
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June 13, 2023 at 12:14 pm
Thanks.
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