Tere ang ka rang hai sindooree
Posted by: Atul on: October 15, 2023
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A couple of years back, I had written for the Blog, articles on a few of Hindi film dancers/character actress which included Mohana Cabral, Naaz, Minoo Mumtaz, Heera Sawant, Sheila Vaz, Rani and Jeevankala. In this article, I take up for writing on one of the prominent dancers of Hindi films during 1970s and 1980s who also did supporting roles of varying types. The dancer/actor is Jayshree Talpade, popularly known as Jayshree T. I had watched her the first time in the film, ‘Chanda Aur Bijli’ (1969). This was the period and another couple of years more when I was active in watching Hindi films in the theatres, preferably during the first week of the release of the films and almost every weekends. After watching her dance performances in about a dozen films in 1970-72 with bits of supporting roles, I can say that just as Helen was a successor to Cuckoo, so is Jayshree T a successor to Helen. Interestingly, Jayshree T and her elder sister, Meena T had no intention of working in the films as none of their family members were connected with the film industry. How Jayshree T got the entry into Hindi films without much of a struggle is the story that will get unfolded as I discuss her profile.
Jayshree Talpade was born in c.1953 in Mumbai in a Marathi middle-class family belonging to Pathare Prabhu community. She was one of three sisters, the other two being Meena and Chhaya and one brother, Sandeep. Her father, Chitrasen Talpade was a Marathi stage actor and mother, Sugandha was a housewife who learnt singing and dancing during her spare time. Jayshree was a bright student, always getting the first rank in her school. Knowing her aptitude for dancing, her mother put her for learning Kathak dance under Kesari Panchal and later she became the disciple of Gopikrishna. She also represented Khalsa College as a dancer in inter-collegiate dance competitions and won trophy for her college.
Being a bright student, Jayshree had decided to become a doctor. However, the fate decided otherwise. In the interview, she gave an interesting trivia as to how she got associated with Hindi films. One day, a person came to their house, introducing himself as Ramdas and told her mother that Vijay Bhatt who was making ‘Gunj Uthi Shehnai’ (1959) was looking for a child artist to do the childhood role of Anita Guha. If interested, she can take her to the studio. At first, her mother flatly refused the offer telling that none of their family members were connected with films. However when he said that he had seen Jayshree doing the dance on the stage and she can do the role in the film, the mother agreed and took her to the Prakash Studio giving reference of Ramdas to the production team. The film production man denied having known any Ramdas from their team. Anyway, since the girl had come, he took her to Vijay Bhatt who after initial tests, selected her for the role. Even Talpade family did not have any acquaintance with Ramdas. It remains a mystery even today for Talpade family as to who was Ramdas.
As a child artists, Jayshree worked in some more films such as ‘Sangeet Samrat Tansen’ (1959), ‘Zameen Ke Taare’ (1960), ‘Pyaar Ki Pyaas’ (1961) etc in addition to Marathi films during her school holidays. During her 10th standard in the school, she was picked up for a role of a fresh college going girl for the film, ‘Abhilaasha’ (1968) on the suggestion of Choreographer, Herman Benjamin who had choreographed her dance in a Marathi film. This was her first solo dance in ‘Abhilaasha’ (1968) in which during a college picnic, she is seen dancing with Oscar when Sanjay Khan is singing, ek jaanib shamm-e-mehfil to woo Nanda. She still had no intention of pursuing the filmy career. She joined Khalsa college for her further studies.
It was her cabaret dance in ‘Chanda Aur Bijli’ (1969) which become a turning point in the career of Jayshree T. Thereafter, she got a series of films, (24 films in 1970, 23 films in 1971, and 21 films 1972) mainly for her dances which included the films which I had watched in theatres such as ‘Suhaana Safar’ (1970), ‘Khilona’ (1970), ‘Raaton Ka Raja’ (1970), ‘Samaaj Ko Badal Daalo’ (1970), ‘Pavitra Paapi’ (1970), ‘Tere Mere Sapne’ (1971), ‘Sharmeelee’ (1971), ‘Daastaan’ (1972). ‘Aankhon Aankhon Mein’ (1972), Joru Ka Ghulam’ (1972) and many more. Her role in ‘Khilona’ (1970) was one more turning point in her career to get recognised in the supporting role of a sister of Sanjeev Kumar. Hereafter, she started getting supporting roles, mostly as comedian and vamp, in addition to dancing.
Jayshree T claims that she has worked in around 500 Hindi films and in about 200 films in 17 regional languages for which she dubbed the dialogues in her own voice. In addition, she has been part of many musical tours, apart from her own, in India and abroad – from Talat Mehmood, Rafi, Mukesh, Kalyanji-Anandji to Bappi Lahiri and Anu Malik. She used to participated in the musical tours as a dancer, singer, and mimicry artist.
In 1989, Jayshree got married to Jayprakash Karnataki, son of Master Vinayak and the brother of Nanda. It was an arranged marriage at the instance of their spiritual Guru who said that they were made for each other. Jayprakash Karnataki is producer-director-actor in Marathi films. She has a son, Swastik Karnataki who is aspiring to be a film director. According to Jayshree T, her husband is a rakhi brother to Saira Bano. After the death of Dilip Kumar, her husband talks to Saira Bano almost every morning to ascertain her well-being. He was also doing the same thing for his sister, Nanda until her death in March 2014. Shreyas Talpade is a nephew of Jayshree T from her first cousin. [Note:The profile of Jayshree T is based mainly from her interview along with Meena T, supplemented with the supporting information available online including a couple of her other interviews.]
An interesting feature of the filmy career of Jayshree T is that she has worked with her elder sister, Meena T, herself a dancer, in many films. From their filmography, I have counted more than two dozens of Hindi films in which both the sisters have worked together. And something about her name as to how hwer Jayshree Talpade got changed to Jayshree T. According to her, when she joined the films, Jayshree Gadkar was already working in both Marathi and Hindi films. Also, people found it difficult to pronounce her surname ‘Talpade’. So, in her own volition, she changed her name to Jayshree T and Meena T followed her.
As discussed above, the film which became a catalyst for the filmy career of Jayshree T was ‘Chanda Aur Bijli’ (1969) after which she never looked back in her 5 decades of filmy career which is still continuing with acting in Hindi TV serials.
The film was produced and directed by Atmaram under the banner of Guru Dutt combines. It was Atmaram’s second film as producer-director after the death of Guru Dutt, the first being ‘Shikaar’ (1968). To continue the Guru Dutt’s film banner, Atmaram had approached writer, Nabendu Ghosh for adaptation of Charles Dickens’s novel, ‘Oliver Twist’ for a film which was later made as ‘Chanda Aur Bijli’ (1969). Nabendu Ghosh wrote the screenplay for the film. The main cast of the film consisted of Padmini, Sanjeev Kumar, Master Sachin, Bipin Gupta, Pratima Devi, Jeevan, Keshto Mukherjee, Bela Bose, Jr. Mehmood etc.
The film had six songs, three of which have already been covered on the Blog. I am presenting the 4th song, ‘tere ang ka rang hai angoori tauba’ from the film, rendered by Sharda. The song is written by Indeevar and is set to music by Shankar-Jaikishan. It is a cabaret dance song picturised on Jayshree T and Aakashdeep. One can see Randheer sitting in an isolated place with a bottle of drink. The Video Clip of the song has an additional stanza.
In her interview, Jayshree has revealed that the film was almost complete when Atmaram decided to add a cabaret dance as an item number (probably under pressure from the film distributors). Jayshree’s name was suggested to him as a cabaret dancer. Atmaram watched her dance in one of her Marathi films and selected her with a condition that her name would not appear in the credit titles of the film nor in the poster and publicity material as the film is almost complete. She agreed since she was getting an opportunity to work in a big banner film. Accordingly, the set for the dance was created at Natraj Studio with a revolving dance floor covered on one side with a giant water tank in 3-4 compartments to look like fish ponds. Only, in these ponds, instead of fish, girls will be swimming as background for the cabaret dance.
The very first day of the shooting, one of the glass of ponds broke, spilling a large quantum of water which severely damaged the revolving dance floor. The shooting was cancelled. A couple of other directors who were already shooting their films in Natraj Studio came to see the damage during which they suggested to Atmaram to take Helen for the cabret dance. Jayshree thought that she would not be called back for shooting. It took about one month to erect a new set and it was a pleasant surprise for Jayshree to be called back to complete the cabaret dance sequence. When the cabaret dance part of the film was shown to the distributors, they were so elated with the Jayshree’s dance that they demanded that her name should appear in the credit titles as well as the posters and publicity material. Her name did appear in the credit title of the film, but I have not seen any poster of the film in which her name appeared.
The song seems to have a jazz flavour if one goes by the orchestration of the song, giving a swinging feeling while listening to the song. Incidentally, in the later part of 1960s, Shankar-Jaikishan were influenced by Jazz music. In 1968, they released a private jazz album in collaboration with Ustad Rais Khan, called ‘Raaga – Jazz Style’ – an amalgam of Indian classical and Jazz music. During this period, many of their Hindi film songs had the jazz music flavour.
Video Clip:
Audio Clip:
Song-Tere ang ka rang hai sindoori (Chanda Aur Bijli)(1969) Singer-Shaarda, Lyrics-Indeewar, MD-Shankar Jaikishan
Lyrics(based on video clip):
tere ang ka rang hai angoori
tauba
tere honthon ki rangat sindoori
tauba
tauba
tauba
tere ang ka rang hai angoori
tauba
tere hothon ki rangat sindoori
tauba
tauba
tauba
ye bedhadak jawaani
dariya ka jaise paani
baahon mein thaam le tu
main ho chali deewaani
ye bedhadak jawaani
dariya ka jaise paani
baahon mein thaam le tu
main ho chali deewaani
tere ang ka rang hai angoori
tauba
tere hothon ki rangat sindoori
tauba
tauba
tauba
saanson mein phool mahke
shola sa jism dahke
jalne lagi hoon main bhi
tere paas paas rahke
saanson mein phool mahke
shola sa jism dahke
jalne lagi hoon main bhi
tere paas paas rahke
tere ang ka rang hai angoori
tauba
tere honthon ki rangat sindoori
tauba
tauba
tauba
baaton mein ik maza hai…
hansne mein ik ada hai…
utre na zindagi bhar
nainon mein wo nasha hai
baaton mein ik maza hai
hansne mein bhi ik ada hai
utre na zindagi bhar
nainon mein wo nasha hai
tere ang ka rang hai angoori
tauba
tere honthon ki rangat sindoori
tauba
tauba
tauba
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5 Responses to "Tere ang ka rang hai sindooree"
October 15, 2023 at 5:26 pm
In the above video link, I think the child artiste at 2:46 (the little girl with big eyes, between Dev anand and the one girl who is about to kiss Dev Anand is Jayshree.T., I remember Jayshree.T.in many such roles of B&Wfilms(where her name does not appear in credit sequences of the film),but at the given point of time I can remember this Asli Naqli song only, Thanks Sadanand ji for the post on Jayashree.T., )
October 15, 2023 at 7:50 pm
Prakashchandra ji,
I also feel that @2:46 of the video clip, she could be Jayshree T.
In her interview which appeared in Doordarshan’s Marathi Channel, ‘Sahyadri’, Jaishree T has said that as a child artist, she had worked in many films both in HIndi and Marathi where she was not credited. She said that she and her sister Meena T was present among the children when the song ‘insaaf ki dagar se’ from ‘Ganga-Jamuna’ (1961) was being picturised near Nashik. Even in Goonj Uthi Shehnai’ (1959), her first film, she was not credited.
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October 15, 2023 at 3:44 pm
The post appears coincidentally on the occasion of 101st birth aniversary of SHANKAR ji .
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October 15, 2023 at 4:37 pm
Well pointed out Manohar Lal Dave ji.
I had planned the article on Jayshree T some time back with the song under discussion in my mind, being her first solo dance. I am sure Atul ji posted this article today keeping in mind Shankar’s birth anniversary today.
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October 15, 2023 at 8:36 pm
I was also going to point out that today is Shankarji’s birth anniversary
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