Wo aa gaye
Posted on: September 25, 2023
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Today’s song is from dubbed Tamil film, titled ” Manohar” in Hindi, in 1954.
After the mind boggling and the most unexpected success of the film Chandralekha-1948 from Gemini Studios, owned by S.S.Vasan, the Southern film industry was shaken. They never imagined that the Hindi belt could be tapped for additional business. The southern film stars, who always harboured a hidden desire to gain name, fame and the consequent money from the Hindi belt which occupied almost 75 to 80 % of All India market, also saw their opportunities in this.
All this created a hectic activity in Madras to initially remake or dub the already Hit south films, before they made new Hindi films individually. This would give an opening to their films as well as stars. This would also circumvent the biggest hurdle of learning Hindi which was an enigma to most film artistes. Thus started a flow of southern films to the Hindi belt in the decades of the 50’s and the 60’s.
Not only this benefited the south film industry but even the Hindi audience was exposed to newer talents from the south. Hitherto only the Bangla film industry made, remade and dubbed their Bangla Hit films into Hindi and had been reasonably successful – mainly thanks to K.L.Saigal working and singing in New Theatres’ films made in Calcutta. In due course of time Bengal lost this race with Madras for being an additional centre for Hindi films. But then, that is a different story altogether.
Today’s film ” Manohar-1954″ was a dubbed Madrasi aka Tamil film called Manohara. This is a Costume film about an imaginary king of Chola Dynasty. Originally, a play on this story was written by P S Mudaliyar, in the 30s. He had a drama company of his own and he staged this drama all over India and Burma. In the year 1936,”Manohar” , a film in Tamil was being made in Bombay. The playwright himself did the hero’s role. Many directors had to be changed, because no one understood Tamil here. The film was made but it was an utter flop. Later on the famous stage and screen star K.R.Ramaswami also staged the play and successfully enacted the role of Manohara. The 1954 movie version came out subsequent to his stage version.
When it was decided to make Manohar again this time, the makers called the famous star screenplay writer of the day, Elangovan to do the job. However after some time he was removed unceremoniously and M. Karunanidhi was brought in to write the screenplay and the dialogues of the movie. ( yes, he is the same Karunanidhi-ex-C.M. of Tamilnadu ). He, being a powerful writer, wrote a wonderful story, combining the story of “Samson and Delilah” into it. In fact the total Manohara play was re- written differently, to make it a successful film. Sivaji Ganesan was selected to play the main role.
The film was dubbed in Telugu and Hindi and all three versions were simultaneously released on 3-6-1954. The Tamil version created several records and was a Blockbuster. The role of the Queen mother by P. Kannamba came for special appreciation. Her one dialogue in Tamil, “Poruthathu pothum,pongi ezhu,magney ” ( enough you have tolerated, rise now, Son ) became so famous that it has become a landmark dialogue in Tamil films.
Later, in an interview, Sivaji Ganesan had said, ” with that one dialogue, Kannamba snatched the entire film from my hands and how I wish I had done that role ! ”
Interestingly, when Sivaji Ganesan was young and did stage plays, once he had played that queen’s role himself ! However, these lines were not there anyway in that role as they were subsequently written by Karunanidhi !
The story of the film was…….
Costume fantasy allegedly set in the 11th Century at the time of the Chola dynasty.
The king (Sadasivarao), seduced by Vasantasena (T.R. Rajakumari), abandons his wife (Kannamba) and his son Manohar (Ganesan). Vasantasena wants Manohar arrested and her own son made heir. She has the king and queen imprisoned while she attempts to seize power. Manohara escapes from prison and leads a popular revolt against Vasantasena and her general Ugrasen (Natrajan). The hit film, scripted by Karunanidhi and featuring a major star cast, helped mould Ganesan’s early career.
The happy life of Chola king Purushottam, with his wife Padmavati and their son Monohar is disrupted by the wily vamp Vasantsena, who entered the royal household as a maid and ultimately became the king’s mistress. . True to the ideals of Indian womanhood Padmavati believed her husband’s happiness as her own and resigned to her fate. She even prevailed upon Manohar not to harm the king and Sena in any way.
Vasantsena on the other hand had poisoned her husband Kesarivarman and had a design to kill Manohar so that her own son could be crowned king. . But Kesarivarman escaped death with the help of a Sanyasi and had learnt to become invisible by the use of a special herb. To wreck his vengeance on her Kesharivarma staged a drama on Monohars birthday exposing Vasantsena’s villainy. But Vasantsena impressed on the king that the drama had been plotted against their happy life by queen Padmavati and Satyasheel. The drama on the other hand roused Manohar to avenge the wrong done to his mother by Vasantsena. But Padmavati again calmed him and advised him to go to war with the Pandya king Muthuvijay.
Vasantsena sent her benchman, Boudayan, to kill Manohar. Manohar won . Mathuvijay was killed. But Manohar had lost his heart to Pandya Rajkumari ( Girija). Boudayan, unsuccessful in his mission, stole away Manohar’s sword. Having come to know this, Manohar rushed to Chola Kingdom. Boudayan’s game was foiled and he in his turn exposed Vasantsenas plot.
Manohar’s blood boiled. Once again he was roused to action against Sena but Padma again stopped him. And thus the bitterness and animosity between Manohar and Vasantsena went deeper and deeper day by day and ultimately things came to a head. when Vasantsena called Manohar a bastard during the “Rathimanmatha” festival.
Enraged Manohar was about to stab her but his mothers word held him back. The constant clash between Padmavati’s righteousness, patience ,suffering & Vasantsena’s treachery and villainy resulted in dark and deadening clouds descending over the Chola Kingdom. Queen Padmavati had already been imprisoned. Even the King was taken captive and Manohar was sentenced to be executed. But was “Death” the only reward to the dash, daring, sacrifice, heroism and above all the flame of Love that burnt in Manohar’s heart.
Certainly not. When all these things go beyond tolerance,the queen mother invokes the bravery in Manohar’s heart by telling him, “Rise, Son. We have suffered enough. Now no more.” Listening to those inspiring words, Manohar breaks the chains. With that,the pillars are broken. Taking a sword from a soldier he starts fighting. Kesarivarman also helps him remain invisible. Soon many loyal soldiers join Manohar and in a fight unto death, the villains are killed or captured. In the melee,Vasantsena’s weapon kills her own son. She becomes mad. In the end all is well. The king asks for the queen’s pardon and Manohar is crowned the King.
This was a Tamil dubbed movie in Hindi, hence all the artistes were Tamil. Produced by M.Somasundaram under his own banner-Manohar Pictures, Madras, the film was directed by L.V.Prasad, who is well known to Hindi audience. he has made and directed few Hindi films-as many as 11, to be precise- like, Sharada-57,Miss Mary-57, Chhoti Bahen-59, Dadi Maa-65 etc.etc. One less known fact about Prasad is that he had done a small role in India’s First Indian Talkie film-Aalam Ara-1931 also !
One of the cast, T.R. Rajkumari, in the role of Vasantsena in this film was an addition to the already present Rajkumaris in Hindi films. Thank God she did not sing, only acted, that too only in films made in South or by south producers. The other Rajkumaris were Rajkumari Dubey Banaraswali, Rajkumari Calcuttewali and Rajkumari Shukla.
Thanjavur Radhakrishnan Rajayee (May 05, 1922 – September 20, 1999), popularly known by her screen name T. R. Rajakumari, was a film actress, Carnatic singer and dancer. She has been called the first “dream girl” of Tamil cinema. Later she turned as a producer along with her brother under the banner “R. R. Pictures”. She had an active career in the period between 1936 and 1963.
Rajkumari was born on 05 May 1922 in Thanjavur, Madras Presidency, now in Tamilnadu, in a family of carnatic musicians. Both her mother and her grandmother wanted her to become a singer and trained her in Carnatic music.
Rajkumari made her film debut in Kumara Kulothungan which was produced in 1938 – 39 but was released in 1941 after Kacha Devayani. In the initial ads her name appeared as T. R. Rajayee but later in the film she was credited as T. R. Rajkumari. In 1944, Rajakumari starred in the record-breaking film Haridas alongside M. K. Thyagaraja Bhagavathar and gained recognition for her glamorous portrayal.
She acted in few Hindi movies during 1948 to 1958. Her first Hindi film was Chandralekha with Ranjan.She worked in Chandralekha-48, Jeevan Tara-51, Manohar-54, Rajkumari-55, Gul e bakavali-56 ( produced by her company) and finally in Suhag-58. Rajakumari died on September 20, 1999 after a prolonged illness.
The film had music by the popular pair of the south-S.V.Venkataraman and T.R.Ramanathan. However, today’s song by Shamshad Begum is composed by Salil Chaudhary, although HFGK and other sources credit this song to Venkatraman. Shri Girdharilal Vishwakarma ji, who has this 78 RPM record, has confirmed this again today morning also.
Enjoy today’s song….
Song- Wo aa gaye (Manohar)(1954) Singer- Shamshad Begum, Lyricist- Vishwamitra Aadil, MD- Salil Chaudhari
Chorus
Lyrics
wo aa gaye
ae ae
wo aa gaye
wo aa gaye
wo aa gaye
do matwaale do dil waale
anhkiyaan milaane aa gaye
wo aa gaye
nindiya churaane aa gaye
wo aa gaye
wo aa gaye
wo aa gaye
wo aa gaye
aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa aa aa aa
nain raseele
amrit pyaale
nain raseele amrit pyaale
peele peele o matwaale ae
peele peele o matwaale ae
nain raseele amrit pyaale
peele peele o matwaale ae ae ae
peele peele o matwaale ae ae ae ae
hum chhalkaane aa gaye
wo aa gaye
wo aa gaye
wo aa gaye
aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa aa aa
nain miley to
nain milaana
nain miley to nain milaana
soch samajh ke dhokha khaana aa aa
baat hamaari bhool naa jaana aa
nain miley to nain milaana
soch samajh ke dhokha khaana
aa aa aa aa aa
baat hamaari bhool naa jaana aa
aa aa aa aa
hum tadpaane aa gaye
wo aa gaye
wo aa gaye
wo aa gaye
do matwaale do dil waale
anhkiyaan milaane aa gaye
wo aa gaye
nindiya churaane aa gaye
wo aa gaye
wo aa gaye
wo aa gaye
wo aa gaye
4 Responses to "Wo aa gaye"
October 1, 2023 at 11:51 am
Arun ji,
Salil C and Shamshad Begum is a rare combination, right? Any other songs from this pair?
On Mon, 25 Sept 2023, 05:01 Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi
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October 1, 2023 at 6:52 pm
Off hand I remember Shamshad sang for S.Chaudhari in Biraj bahu-54, Laal Batti-57 and Musafir-57 also.
May be some more, but in general such sings are much less.
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September 25, 2023 at 5:07 pm
Thanks Arun ji for the informative post and also thanks about the information about Rajkumari
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September 25, 2023 at 7:32 pm
Thanks, Prakash ji.
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