Mohe chaand nazar na aaye badariya kaalee re
Posted on: June 22, 2023
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Today’s song is from a religious film Ishwar Bhakti-1951. The other name for this film was ” Shani Mahatmya”.
There are certain words/phrases in our religion which terrorise the common innocent people, who have total faith but not much knowledge about their religion. But then, there are such people in almost every religion. On an average only about 10-15 % people in any religion will be found who have read their religious books completely. Most people tend to depend on the Pujaris, Mullas, Priests and other religious heads to spoon-feed them about their religion. Now don’t ask me how many of these religious heads have read their religious books !
This tendency creates fear about words like Narak (Hell), Daivee Prakop (Divine displeasure), Ashubh Grah (inauspicious Planets) etc. Particularly the ill effects of planets like Mangal (Mars), Rahu (Dragon’s head), Ketu (Dragon’s body) and Shani (Saturn) are most dreaded. Almost in every traditionally fixed marriage (or even self arranged or Love marriage) the Horoscopes are matched to check Mangal (Mars) position and to see how many GUN s (गुण ) match, even in these days.
I should know, because I have studied and practised Astrology for the last 60 years. (I have been awarded the title of ” Jyotish Praveen” (ज्योतिष प्रवीण ) by the most prestigious Astrological institute of Poona, in 1975.) This astrological germ runs into our family. I am flooded with Kundalis (Horoscopes) during the marriage seasons every year, for match making. Two of my own grandsons’ marriages are Love marriages into Gujarati families. Even then, both sides wanted me to match their Horoscopes, which I flatly refused and advised them to abstain from this, as either one bows to Love or one bows to tradition. Mixing these two can prove disastrous or totally absurd !
Out of all these Navagrahas (9 Planets), Shani is one planet which is dreaded the most. Have you ever seen the image or the photo of Shani Dev ? It is black in colour and quite fearsome looking. The “Sade Saati” (the period of seven and half years) in the Horoscope is attributed to cause a lot of misery, discomfort, mishaps and obstacles in one’s life. It is actually not so in all cases. It all depends on the individual Horoscope set up. But let’s not go into it or I may degress into a show of my astrological (so called) knowledge !
I have written all this not to scare anyone but to inform you that today’s film Ishwar Bhakti aka Shani Mahatmya-1951 is all about the displeasure of Shani Dev and how the victim suffers due to this. At the end of it, Shani Dev also sets all the matters right and blesses the victim, more than he asks for.
Shani mahatmya or the importance of Shani Dev, is a religious narration about King Vikram of Ujjayani, who suffers from the displeasures of Shani Dev and how it ends happily. This “Pothi” (Holy story) is read by many people on every Saturday, together with one time fasting to appease the deity. I am not giving the whole story of the film, lest it will be a repeat of “Shani Mahatmya” narration. I have given the gist of the story above.
Produced by R.B.Haldia under the banner of Shri Shyam Chitra, the film was directed by Gunjal aka Dada Gunjal aka V.M.Gunjal – a real dada for religious films indeed. Out of the 37 films that he directed, almost 20 were religious films. Director Vishnupant Mathaji Gunjal or simply Dada Gunjal, was born in Kolhapur in 1904. He was not interested in education, so after passing his Matriculation, he joined the film industry. Initially he worked in various capacities, but concentrated on Directing the films. He established his own Gunjal Production company at Bombay and directed his first silent film Collegian in 1929. Soon, realising that producing films was not his cake, he shifted to Directing films for Vishwesh film company, Bombay. Making silent films like Bharati, The Bandit, Vijeta, Bewafa qatil, khabardar, Bhedi khanjar etc.
When Talkie films started, he directed Bhakta ke Bhagwan and Ambarish in 1934. Dada Gunjal directed in all 37 films. Some of his films were, Bhakta dhruv, Panihari,Aparadhi, Ekadashi, Mata, Mamta, Tulsi, Bhakta ke Bhagwan, Noorjehan, Baraat, Kirti, Pati patni, Alakh Niranjan, Mother India -1938 etc.
Dada Gunjal died in 1968.
The cast of the film included Nirupa Roy, Trilok Kapoor, Rajani, Chaman Puri and many others. The 11 songs of the film were written by Pt. Narendra Sharma and the music was by a pair of MDs – Sonik – Giridhar. I do not know who Girdhar was, but about Sonik some information is available. Yes, he was the same person in the well known pair of Sonik-Omi, who operated during the period of 1966 to 1999.
Master Sonik aka Manohar lal Sonik was born on 26-11-1926 in Sialkot, Punjab. By his third year, he lost his vision completely. Undaunted, he learnt music-first from the Music school of Lahore and then from Lucknow. For sometime, he was assistant to pt. Amarnath Batish.
After Partition he joined Delhi A.I.R. Later, he sang 8 songs in 7 Hindi films,namely Chaar Din-49, Stage-51,Kashmir-51, Khaibar-54, Mast Qalandar-55, Inquilab-56 and then after 20 years he sang in film Umar qaid-75 also. He gave music to film Ishwar Bhakti-51 along with Giridhar and then film Mamta-52, with Hansraj Behl.
Meanwhile, his nephew Omprakash Sonik, who was a singer in Delhi A.I.R., came to Bombay and they both worked as assistants to Madan Mohan for a few years. Then Omi proposed working as a team of composers, calling themselves ” SONIK-OMI “. They got their first film ” Dil ne phir yaad kiya”-66. The songs became popular. They continued to give music till Anadi Dada-93, when Master Sonik died on 9-7-1993. As a team, music was given to another 5 films by Omi alone till the film- Yeh hai basti Badmashon ki-1999. As a team, they gave music to 104 films composing 536 songs. During their tenure as Composers, Omi gave a comment that most of Madan Mohan’s popular songs were composed by him, to which they were challenged by the son of Madan Mohan asking for proof and then Omi withdrew his statement.
Today’s song is the 4th song from the movie to feature here. It is sung by Shamshad Begum. Though the film was religious, the song is not religious.
Shamshad Begum’s voice was not a preferred voice for Bhajans. In her early phase of singing career in Lahore, she had recorded 100 songs in 1932 for Genophone. It had included a Bhajan “Jai Jagdish hare” also, but the singer’s name was given as Uma Devi instead of her Muslim name Shamshad Begum – for obvious reasons. She had also sung some Sikh songs in the name of “Kaur” (ref; ‘Door koi gaaye’ by S.S.Pore).
Song- Mohe chaand nazar na aaye badariya kaalee re (Ishwar Bhakti)(1951) Singer- Shamshad begum, Lyricist- Pt Narendra Sharma, MD- Sonik – Giridhar
Lyrics
mohe chaand nazar na aaye
ho mohe chaand nazar na aaye
badariya kaali re
haaye badariya kaali re
saawan ki rain sataaye
umariya baali re
haaye umariya baali re
mohe chaand nazar naa aaye
ho mohe chaand nazar na aaye
badariya kaali re
haaye badariya kaali re
saawan ki rain sataaye
umariya baali re
haaye umariya baali re
ho o o
dil dhadak dhadak ke
haaye rukta jaaye
ho o o
kya karta hai ye
kuchh samajh na aaye
dar lage na koi rog
ise lag jaaye
dar lage na koi rog
ise lag jaaye
saawan ki rain sataaye
umariya baali re
haaye umariya baali re
mohe chaand nazar naa aaye
ho mohe chaand nazar na aaye
badariya kaali re
haaye badariya kaali re
saawan ki rain sataaye
umariya baali re
haaye umariya baali re
ho o o
hai in nainan mein
jo sapne adhoore
ho o o
aa kar le saajan
wo aaj hi poore
mere baanke balam albele
yahi man chaahe
mere baanke balam albele
yahi man chaahe
saawan ki rain sataaye
umariya baali re
haaye umariya baali re
mohe chaand nazar naa aaye
ho mohe chaand nazar na aaye
badariya kaali re
haaye badariya kaali re
saawan ki rain sataaye
umariya baali re
haaye umariya baali re
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June 23, 2023 at 7:45 pm
Thanks for this informative post Sir ji. I am not much aware about ‘shani mahatmya’, may be read some stories in childhood or heard from grandparents which I do not remember now. Thanks for the information about Dada Gunjal and Manohar Lal Sonik.
I have always enjoyed songs sung by Shamshad Begam and liked the song in this post too.
Regards,
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June 24, 2023 at 12:06 pm
Thanks.
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