Pal chhin chain na aaye
Posted on: July 13, 2023
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In this article, I am taking up a rare song from ‘Sharaarat’ (1944) which I had uploaded on one of the video sharing platforms about 6 years back for covering on the Blog. However, it got delayed because I was not sure of the playback singer of the song. In the milieu, I completely forgot to follow it up. A few days back, I heard this song on the website which reminded me of a long pending post which I am taking up.
‘Sharaarat’ (1944) was produced and directed by Kishore Sahu under his own banner, Hindustan Chitra. He was also the lead actor in the movie along with Protima Dasgupta. The other actors included Maya Banerji, Moni Chatterjee, Gulab. Ranibala, Sushil Sahu, Ramesh Gupta, Anant Prabhu, Anwari etc. The film got censor certificate on February 8, 1944, and was released on February 18, 1944. This film can be called as a part of Kishore Sahu’s trilogy of films on social comedy, the other two beings ‘Kunwaara Baap’ (1942) and ‘Raja’ (1943). Incidentally, Kishore Sahu and Protima Dasgupta were in lead roles in all these three films.
I came to know about Producer-director-actor-writer, Kishore Sahu (22/11/1915 – 22/08/1980) for the first time when I had watched ‘Dil Apna Aur Preet Paraayi’ (1960) directed by him, in the theatre after its release. The first time I saw him as an actor was in ‘Poonam Ki Raat’ (1965) which he was the producer-director. In the same year, I watched him in ‘Guide’ (1965) in which he acted in the role of Waheeda Rahman’s husband and in ‘Gumnaam’ (1965). While his direction in ‘Dil Apna Aur Preet Paraayee’ (1960) was good, Kishore Sahu did not impressed me as an actor in his both the films of 1965. After ‘Hare Rama Hare Krishna’ (1971), I do not remember to have seen any of his subsequent films. Being in almost the fag end of his career in Hindi films, Kishore Sahu was not a much-discussed personality in film magazines during my younger days.
It was much later when I started going through the pages of ‘Filmindia’ magazines of 1937-49 period that I became aware of Kishore Sahu as a prominent name to be reckoned in the 1940s and early 1950s in the Hindi film industry. I think Kishore Sahu may be one of very few Hindi film personalities of his time whose film career progression was fastest and that too at a young age. He joined Bombay Talkies in 1937 and was the lead actor in his very first film, ‘Jeewan Prabhat’ (1937). At the age of 23, he set up a film production company, India Artists Ltd of which he was the managing director. Under this banner, he produced ‘Bahurani’ (1940) in which he was also the lead actor with Rose. However, after the release of the film, he resigned from the India Artists Ltd and went back to Bombay Talkies to act in a lead role with Snehaprabha Pradhan in ‘Punar Milan’ (1940). The film was super hit at the box office.
Despite the grand box office success of ‘Punar Milan’ (1940), Kishore Sahu left film industry and went back to his native place and later to Nagpur. He remained there for nearly one year. The background to this sudden departure from the film industry was that during the making of ‘Punar Milan’ (1940), Kishore Sahu fell in love with Snehprabha Pradhan. They got married on September 13, 1940. However, in less than six months of their marriage, they separated eventually leading to the divorce sometime in 1942. The separation in less than six months of the marriage with court proceedings affected Kishore Sahu to such an extent that probably he felt to take a temporary break from the film industry.
After recovering from the shock of separation, Kishore Sahu returned to Bombay with a story of ‘Kunwaara Baap’ (1942) which N R Acharya, his erstwhile colleague in Bombay talkies agreed to produce under his newly set up banner, Acharya Arts Production. This was Kishore Sahu’s debut film as a director. He was also the lead actor opposite Protima Dasgupta. The box office success of this film encouraged him to direct another social comedy films – ‘Raja’ (1943) which was also was a commercial success.
With two box successive box office hit films, Kishore Sahu set up his own film production banner, Hindustan Chitra under which he produced and directed ‘Sharaarat’ (1944) and many more successful films thereafter like ‘Sindoor’ (1947), ‘Saawan Aaya Re’ (1947), ‘Rimjhim’ (1949), ‘Kali Ghata’ (1951) and “Mayur Pankh’ (1954). As a director, he saw success in ‘Saajan’ (1947), ‘Nadiya Ke Paar’ (1948). ‘Dil Apna Aur Preet Paraayi’ (1960) and ‘Grihasti’ (1963).
Kishore Sahu set up his new film production company, Kishore Sahu Productions under which he produced and directed ‘Poonam Ki Raat’ (1965), ‘Hare Kaanch Ki Choodiyaan’ (1967) and ‘Pushpaanjali’ (1970), the last two films for launching his daughter, Naina Sahu. However, none of these films could create ripples at the box office. His last film as a director was ‘Dhuen Ki Lakeer’ (1974) which also did not fare well at the box office.
Kishore Sahu died of heart-attack on August 22, 1980, at Bangkok while he was on a family trip.
The detailed story and review of ‘Sharaarat’ (1944) is not available anywhere on the website to the best of my efforts. However, ‘Wikipedia’ has given some indication of the story line which I reproduce below:
Rai Bahadur Hiralal Mathur (Moni Chatterjee) is a wealthy man who lives with his wife and a stubborn, spoilt daughter Sudha (Protima Dasgupta). Her reckless driving of a new car nearly gets her into trouble when she bangs the car into Dr. Sharma (Kishore Sahu). The Doctor suffers no serious injuries, instead he and Sudha fall in love. However, Sudha’s mother has already arranged her marriage into a family of her interest. Sudha pretends to be insane, and the family call for the services of Dr. Sharma to help treat her. [Words in italics, my guess].
‘Sharaarat’ (1944) had 9 songs written by Rammurti Chaturvedi (5), Ambikesh Kuntal (2), Girish (1) and Karim (1). The songs were set to music by S N Tripathi and Khan Mastana. However, allocation of individual songs between the two music directors are not available. HFGK does not mention the name of the playback singers for any song. It appears that the labels on the gramophone records of the songs mention the names of the actors on whom the songs were picturised.
I am presenting the first song from the film ‘pal chin chain naa aaye’ to appear on the Blog. The song is written by Rammurti Chaturvedi. I remember, about six years back when this song was a part of Radio Ceylon’s ‘Kamsune Unsune Gaane’ programme, the name of the singer was indicated as Maya Banerji. Now, I am pretty sure that the voice of the singer in the song under discussion is that of Kalyani Bai. This was already confirmed by Shalin Bhatt in his comments on the video of the song uploaded by me.
With this song, ‘Sharaarat’ (1944) makes its debut on the Blog.
Audio Clip:
Song-Pal chhin chain na aaye (Sharaarat)(1944) Singer-Kalyani Bai, Lyrics-Rammurty Chaturvedi, MD-S N Tripathi/Khan Mastana
Lyrics
pal chhin chain naa aaaye
un bin bhayi baawri ankhiyaan
un bin bhayi baawri ankhiyaan
pal chhin chain naa aaye
aayi yaad milan ki raaten
pyaar bhari wo manhar baaten
aayi yaad milan ki raaten
pyaar bhari wo manhar baaten
mann mann hi mann aaj ro raha
mann mann hi mann aaj ro raha
naahak neh lagaa
aa aa aa
naahak neh lagaa
haaye
un bin bhayi baawri ankhiyaan
pal chhin chain naa aaye
dekh mujhe chanda muskaaye
dekh mujhe chanda muskaaye
papeeha pihoo kahe ae
jiya jaraaye
jiya jaraaye
aisi jali birha ki agni
aisi jali birha ki agni
bujhe naa haaye bujhaaye ae ae ae
bujhe naa haaye bujhaaye
jale pe jalaaye
jale pe jalaaye
pal chhin chain naa aaye
un bin bhayi baawri ankhiyaan
pal chhin chain naa aaye
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July 13, 2023 at 10:59 am
It is always heartening to see movies from 1930s,1940s and 1950s making debut on the blog.
Kishore Sahu’s first memory that always came to my mind is from ‘Hare Ram Hare Krishna’ and later from ‘Guide’. Whenever I watched him I always feel to know more about him. Thanks for this informative post. I was not aware that he has directed so many movies.
Regards,
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July 13, 2023 at 7:00 pm
Thanks for the comments, Avinash ji.
For me also, it was only during the last few years I came to know about Kishore Sahu’s contributions to Hindi cinema as a producer-director-actor-writer in the 1940s and early 1950s.
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