Mera aankhon se aankh milaanaa
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Today’s song is from the film 25th July-(1951).
This is the second film in succession having a title, beginning with only a number, from which I have discussed songs. Surprisingly, as per the Film Title Index book by Hamraz ji, there are as many as 53 films , whose titles start with numericals, during the period 1931 to 2012. I am not considering film titles starting with “Ek”, because though a number, it is written in words – for example Ek thi Ladki etc. Such films are actually 206 in numbers for the same period. Let us take a look at a few film titles from the lot of 53 films….
10 ml Love (2011), 10 o’clock (1958), 11 o’clock (1948), 23 March (2002), 13 May(2010), 26 July (2007), 15 August (1993), 2 October (2013), 6 December (2009), 16 December (2002), 100 Lashes (1935), 108 Teerth Yatra (1986), 1857 (1946), 27 Down (19073), 3 Idiots (2009), 404 (2011), 500 ka Note (2002) and 99.9 FM (2005) etc. Strange are the ways of our Film industry !
Today’s film 25th July (1951) was made in Calcutta, by Beni Madhav productions. The producer was Gourinath Mehare and the director’s name was Chitra Mitra. I do not know if this was a male or a female, because Bangla names are very deceptive, compared to other states in India. Looks like this was the only Hindi film directed by Chitra Mitra. However a film called Jyoti (1969) indicates this name as its Producer.
The Music director was Nachiketa Ghosh for whom this was the First and the Last Hindi film as a M.D.. For this film , he had 2 assistants namely Jayant Seth and Suchet Ghosh.
As per The Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema, Nachiketa Ghosh was actually a medical Doctor who left his profession and joined film industry. His First Debut film 25 th July was a multilingual film in Bangla and Hindi languages. The film was released on 9-3-1951. He was also an accomplished Tabla player. He was trained in Music by Anathnath Basu and latafat Hussain. For a short period he worked for A.I.R., Calcutta. He gave music to more than 20 films in Bangla language. He wrote lyrics and screenplays too. He became famous for setting Nursery Rhymes to music, which remain popular till today. He was born in Calcutta on 28-1-1925 and died at Calcutta on 12-10-1976.
Film 25th July was an Action- Adventure-Thriller-Romantic-Musical-Family Drama-Social film. The story revolved around a young man’s life who was kind and brave, living with his family.He dedicated his life to the Nation and tried to make it crime free. (from indianfilmhistory.com).
The cast of the film was Chandrabati, Pahadi Sanyal, Nilima, Geeta Bose, Ushabati, Malay Chatterjee etc.etc. There were 6 songs in the Hindi Version. One song is already discussed here. Today’s song is the Debut song of Dwijen Mukherjee in Hindi. It is a duet with Binota Chakraborti. Dwijen Mukherjee, like Subir Sen, was known as a clone of the voice of Hemant Kumar. However he was a big name in Bangla films and Music field.
Dwijen Mukhopadhyay (12 November 1927 – 24 December 2018) was a composer and singer whose musical career spanned six decades. He was a performer of Rabindrasangeet, Bengali basic songs, Bengali and Hindi film songs. He recorded more than 1500 songs, of which about 800 are songs of Rabindranath Tagore. He also directed music in Bengali feature films and composed music for popular Bengali basic songs.
In 1944 Mukhopadhyay made his debut as a professional singer. In 1945 he made his first recording of basic Bengali songs from Megaphone Record Company. In 1946 he started to act as an artist for All India Radio (AIR) and also started recording with HMV-Colombia Recording Company. In 1956 he entertained the soldiers of the Indian Army with his songs at Ladakh.
Mukhopadhyay received his training in music from singers of Bengal including Shri Sushanto Lahiri, Pankaj Mullick, Santidev Ghosh, Santosh Sengupta, Anadi Ghosh Dastidar and Niharbindu Sen.
Mukhopadhyay was introduced to the folk music of Bengal and Hindi film music by the film-music composer Salil Chowdhury. His friendship with Salil Chowdhury started in the late ’40s through their common association with IPTA. The duo gave the Bengali audience songs like “Shyamal Barani Ogo Konya”, “Klanti Name Go”, “Ekdin Phire Jabo Chole”, “Pallabini Go Sancharini” and many others. They worked on two poems of Michael Madhusudan Dutt, “Rekho Maa Dashere Mone” and Ashar Cholone Bhuli”. Later Mukhopadhyay went to Mumbai to work with Salil Chowdhury and recorded duet songs with Lata Mangeshkar for Hindi films like ‘Honeymoon’ (1960), ‘Maayaa’ (1961), ‘Sapan Suhaane’ (1961) and solo playback in ‘Madhumati’, {This song did not find place in the film, but was released on LP}.
He was an exponent of Rabindrasangeet which he has performed in Bengali films like ‘Kshudita Pashan’ (1960), based on a short story by Rabindranath Tagore, and ‘Sandhya Raag’ (1977) under Music Directors Ustad Ali Akbar Khan and Pandit Ravi Shankar, respectively, as well as Rabindrasangeet in ‘Kancher Swarga’ (1963), Bon Palashir Padabali (1973), and ‘Wheelchair’ (1994).
Mukhopadhyay had also performed the devotional song ‘Jaago Durga’ as a part of the musical play ‘Mahisasura Mardini’ (The Annihilation of the Demon), which is a radio programme broadcast by All India Radio (AIR), Kolkata, every year on the day of ‘Mahalaya’ marking the beginning of the autumn festival of ‘Durga Puja’.
He sang before dignitaries such as Josip Broz Tito (President of Yugoslavia), Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (President of India), Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru (Prime Minister of India), Indira Gandhi (Prime Minister of India). As a member of ‘Indian Cultural Delegation’, he toured the Soviet Union and East European countries like Poland, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, and Yugoslavia. He also was invited to perform in the US, the UK, France, Switzerland, Australia, Canada, Singapore and Bangladesh.
He created a cultural organisation named ‘Uttarayani’, Kolkata, India to impart training on Rabindrasangeet. Mukhopadhyay was also the President of ‘Bani Chakra College of Music’, Kolkata, India. He also celebrated the Birth Centenary of Rabindranath Tagore in 1961 and took active part in the celebration of the 150th Birth Anniversary held in 2011.
Dwijen Mukherjee first came into limelight due his very “Hemanta-Like” voice. Of course he was also an excellent singer and quickly established himself as an accomplished “rabindrasangeet” singer. His friendship with Salil started in the late ’40s through their common association with IPTA. Hemanta was also in the IPTA at that time. His next big break came when he recorded the path breaking songs “shyamal boroni ogo kanya” and “klaanti naame go” for Salil. As a composition “shyamal boroni” was a masterpiece and “klaanti naame go” was unique. This album helped Dwijen tremendously. Its phenomenal success followed with other very successful Salil compositions such as “ekdin phire jabo chole”, “pallabini go sancharini” etc. One of his rare and beautiful records must be Salil’s brilliant composition of Michael Madhusudan Datta’s two poems – “rekhomaa daasere mone” and “aadhaar chhalane bhooli”. He became a close friend of Salil and Salil later invited him to Bombay to sing in a few Hindi films notably Madhumati, Maya, Honeymoon, Jawahar,and Sapan Suhaane. His first Hindi song was a duet with Binota Chakraborti in the film 25th July-(1956). So, he sang 8 Hindi songs in 6 Hindi films in all.
For some strange reason Salil re-recorded some of Dwijen’s old songs like “shyamal boroni ogo kanya” in the early ’80s with disastrous results. Ignoring that quite a few of Dwijen Mukherjee’s songs will always remain popular.( based on information from last.fm , wiki, book swarsagar by S.S.Porey and my own notes, with thanks to the sources.)
Today’s song is sung as a duet with Binota Charaborti. From this name alone, no one can imagine that this was a marathi girl from Bombay, whose real name was Vinata Amladi. She is the much less known singer of the famous song ” Dilli se aaya bhai Tingu” from the film Ek thi Ladki (1949).
VINATA RAGHAVENDRA AMLADI was born on 9-8-1928 in Bombay. She had 3 sisters and 3 brothers. Her father Raghavendra used to play Tabla and her elder sister Hemlata sang classical music. She taught her singing. Once, when Vinata was about 15-16 year old, she sang in a private Birthday party, in which composer Sardar Malik was present. He was impressed with her singing and she was given an offer to sing songs in the film RAIN BASERA (Unreleased), at a princely sum of Rs.250/-. When she went to record songs with Sardar Malik, she met her future husband Krishna Chakraborty, who worked as a pianist in the orchestra. After this film she also sang in the film Renuka-1947.
She then met composer VINOD. She says-
“I was introduced to the sound recordist of Shourie films, at a song and dance group meeting. He in turn took me to VINOD. He heard my singing and included me in the chorus of a song of Lata in Ek thi Ladki-1949. Then he said, You have met me very late.Now I have only one song left. You sing it. The song was “Dilli se aaya Bhai Tingu” from Ek Thi Ladki. The song became a super hit in those days.”
After this she did some Marathi films. In 1950 she got married to Krishna Chakraborty, against opposition from family and they moved to Calcutta and settled there. In 1952 Pankaj Mullick called her to sing a Meera Bhajan in the Hindi film YATRIK-52. When she went to New Theatres to record this song, she was thrilled. Her father was so happy with this song that they forgot the past and reunited. Pankaj Mullick sent her to Kamal Dasgupta and under his baton she sang some songs in Bengali films. By now her name had automatically become from Vinata to Binota in the Bengali style. As Binota Chakravarti she sang songs in yet another Hindi film from Calcutta 25th JULY-(1951.)
In 1953 she came back to Bombay after her husband’s untimely death, to look after her ailing father. In Bombay she sang songs in Kasturi and Chaitanya Mahaprabhu-both 1954. Now she stopped getting songs and she retired. She used to live in Goregaon, Mumbai. ( Based on information from The Listener’s Bulletin -134 of July 2007, with thanks.)
Here is the Debut Hindi song of Dwijen Mukherjee from the film 25th July (1951). Enjoy….
Song- Mera aankhon se aankh milaana (25th July)(1951) Singers- Binota Chakraborti, Dwijen Mukherjee, Lyricist- B.M.Sharma, MD- Nachiketa Ghosh
Both
Lyrics
Mera aankhon se aankh milaana
mujhka na sharmaana
aankh jhukaana
tera aankhon se aankh milaana
mujhka na sharmaana
aankh jhhukaanaa
tera dhheere dhheere aage badhna mera
chupke se peechhe hat jaana
tera dhheere dhheere aage badhna mera
chupke se peechhe hat jaana
jaate jaate ishaare se kehna dekho
humko bhool na jaana
meree jaan
tu sachchee maan
meree jaan
tu sachchee maan
aaye ghadee hi ghadee yaad zamaana
mera aankhon se aankh milaana
mujhka na sharmaana
aankh jhhukaana
tera ankhon ka na milaana mujhka
na sharmaanaa
aankh jhukaana
kabhee chhup chhup nadiyaa kinaare
kabhee choree choree ghar mein hamaare
kabhee chhup chhup nadiyaa kinaare
kabhee choree choree ghar mein hamaare
wo milna milaana
wo hansna hansaana
dilon ka
do dilon ka ek ho jaana
meree jaan
sachchee maan
meree jaan
tu sachchee maan
aaye ghadee ghadee yaad zamaanaa
mera aankhon se aankh milaana
mujhka na sharmaana
aankh jhukaana
tera aankhon se aankh milaana
mujhka na sharmaana
aankh milaana
jab kaale kaale baadal chhaa jaate
hum bhaage bhaage tere paas aa jaate
jab kaale kaale baadal chhaa jaate
hum bhaage bhaage tere paas aa jaate
phir bagiyaa mein jaana
wahaan jhoolna jhulaanaa
pyaar bharee
wahaan pyaar bhare naghme gaana
meree jaan
sachchee maan
meree jaan
tu sachchee maan
aaye ghadee ghhadee yaad zamaanaa
teri aankhon se aankh milaana
mujhka na sharmaana
aankh jhukaana
tera aankhon se aankh milaana
mujhka na sharmaana
aankh milaana
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