Kaise katengin ratiyaan tum wahaan hum yahaan
Posted on: October 16, 2023
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Today’s song is from the film Sasural-1941.
Films with the same title were made in 1941, 1961 and 1984. This was a romantic comedy film involving a mistaken identity. Now, can you recall how many films have you seen about mistaken identity (with or without knowledge) ?. Mostly, such stories are based on ‘Look alikes’, like films Don, Chandralekha, Angoor, Chacha Chaudhary, Do dooni chaar, Milan(46) etc. Some films were, where the identity of the Hero was mistaken intentionally. Today’s film Sasural-1941 falls under this category. This same theme was repeated in films Panghat-1943 and Chitchor-1976.
Why do we have films with almost the same plot so frequently ? Some directors like Manmohan Desai and Nasir Hussain made several films on the same basic plot with little changes made here and there. Earlier Master Bhagwan used to make C grade action films on a fixed storyline only changing the names in every film. And surprisingly, all these people were highly successful !
Do we have a shortage of stories for films ? Not only just for films, but overall, the world revolves around only 7 basic plots. In 2004, a book called “Why we tell stories’, written by Christopher Booker was published. It is a book having more than 700 pages-728 pages to be exact. The book says “There are only 7 (Seven) basic plots in the whole world. They are recycled again and again in Novels, movies, Plays and Operas. These are….
1.Overcoming the Monster
2.Rags to riches
3.The quest
4.Voyage and return
5.Rebirth
6.Comedy/Tragedy and
7.Mistaken identity.
After this book was published, there was chaos and criticism started. ‘New York Times’ also jumped in. The author coolly replied to all points and stuck to his statements. If we look at Hindi films, I personally feel that what the author has said is true in our case. Only thing is that our film stories are always a clever mixture of all or some of the above points.
Sasural 1941 was made by Ranjit Movietone. The Lyricist was D.N.Madhok and the Music Director was Gyan Dutt. The cast of the film was Motilal, Kantilal, madhuri, Nurjahan (sr.), Tarabai, Urmila and many others. The film was directed by Chaturbhuj Doshi. During the early era of talkie films, till the 1960s, there was a horde of Gujarati directors and producers. Bhatts, Trivedi, Thakur, Shahs, Desais, Pancholi, Doshi, Daves were some names frequently found directing various genres. Usually they specialised in certain classes and types of films. The Bhatts (Shankar and Vijay) liked to do Mythological films, Ramnik Shah handled stunt, action, fantasy films, Jayant Desai was social film oriented etc.
Chaturbhuj Doshi (1894–1969) was a Hindi and Gujarati writer-director of Indian cinema. He was one of the top Gujarati screenplay writers, who helped script stories for the Punatar productions. He is stated to be one of the leading figures who launched the Gujarati film industry with work on notable films like ‘Gunsundari’ (1948) and ‘Nanand Bhojai’ (1948). He was ‘well known’ for his family socials and had become ‘a celebrity in his own right’. He made a name for himself as a journalist initially and was referred to as the ‘famous journalist’ & publicist by Baburao Patel, editor of Filmindia.
His debut film as a director was ‘Gorakh Aya’ (1938), produced by Ranjit Movietone, though he joined Ranjit in 1929, as a scriptwriter. In 1938, he directed another film for Ranjit, a social comedy, ‘The Secretary’, and both films were box-office successes for Doshi. His forte was socials, regularly adapting stories and novels for films. He worked initially on comedies like ‘Secretary’ and ‘Musafir’ (1940), but then ‘shifted to more significant films’.
Chaturbhuj Anandji Doshi was born in 1894 in Kathiawad, Gujarat, British India. He was educated at the University of Bombay, after graduation he started work as a journalist for a daily, Hindustan (1926), working for editor Indulal Yagnik. His entry into films was working as a scenarist in the silent era for directors like Jayant Desai, Nandlal Jaswantlal & Nanubhai Vakil. He joined Ranjit Movietone in 1929, and wrote stories and screenplay for several of Ranjit films.
Film ‘Gorakh Aya’ (Gorakh has come) in 1938, was the first film directed by Doshi. It was produced by Ranjit Movietone with screenplay by Gunvantrai Acharya & dialogues by PL Santoshi. The music, termed ‘good’ , was composed by Gyan Dutt. ‘The Secretary’ (1938), was a “riotous comedy”, starring Madhuri, Trilok Kapoor. Charlie. The music was composed by Gyan Dutt, who became a regular in most of the films directed by Doshi. Musafir in 1940 was a comedy costume drama, which had Charlie playing a prince.
‘Bhakta Surdas’, a devotional film directed by Doshi in 1942, is stated to be the “most famous” of the several versions made. It starred KL Saigal and Khursheed “the singing idol(s) of millions”, winning “unprecedented popularity” everywhere.
‘Mehemaan’ (1942) starred Madhuri, Ishwarlal, Shamim and Mubarak. Music director Bulo C. Rani had come to Bombay in 1942, and joined Ranjit Studios assisting Khemchand Prakash in music direction.
Doshi helped enormously in the development of Gujarati cinema. During 1948-49 he directed three successful Gujarati films which “brought immense success to the industry”. The success of the Gujarati film ‘Kariyavar’ in 1948, directed by Chaturbhuj Doshi from a story by Shaida, called Vanzari Vav, helped establish the Gujarati film industry along with other films like ‘Vadilo Ne Vanke’ (1948) by Ram Chandra Thakur and ‘Gadono Bel’ (1950) by Ratibhai Punatar. His next Gujarati film was ‘Jesal Toral’ (1948) based on folk-lore, which proved a big box-office success. In 1949, Doshi directed another Gujarati film, ‘Vevishal’, an adaptation of Meghani’s novel of the same name.
He also wrote stories, and one of his stories ‘Pati Bhakti’ was used in the Tamil film ‘En Kanawar’ (1948) produced by Ajit Pictures, which starred the Veena maestro, Sundaram Balachander, who was also the debut director and music composer for the film. In all he directed 24 Hindi films. His last Hindi film was ‘Sanskar’ (1958). He had also written a few songs in the film ‘Maya Bazaar’ (1932).
Chaturbhuj Doshi died on 21 January 1969 in Bombay.
Filmography……
1932: Narasinh Mehta (Writer), 1934: Sitamgarh (Writer), 1938: Gorakh Aya, Secretary, 1939: Adhuri Kahani, 1940: Musafir, 1941:Pardesi, Sasural, 1942: Bhakta Surdas, Dhiraj, Mehmaan, 1943: Chhoti Maa, Shankar Parvati (Director, Writer), 1944: Bhartrahari, 1945:Murti, 1946: Phulwari, 1947: Bela, Kaun Hamara, 1948: Jesal Toral, Kariyavar (Director, Writer), Sati Sone, 1949: Bhakta Puran, Vevishal, 1950: Akhand Saubhagya, Kisi Ki Yaad, Ramtaram, 1954: Aurat Teri Yahi Kahani, 1956: Aabroo, Dassehra, 1957: Khuda Ka Banda, Shesh Naag, 1958: Sanskar, 1960: Mehndi Rang Lagyo (Writer, Lyricist).
Film Sasural-1941 story appeared in the December-1941 issue of Film India magazine review, in short. Our Sadanand Kamath ji had given it in 2016, in his comments. Here it is…
“The marriage of Vinod (Motilal) and Usha (Madhuri) is fixed, But Usha has not seen her would-be-husband. A mix-up of suitors happens when a fat servant (Kantilal) impersonates Usha’s would-be-husband. The detailed story is not revealed in the review probably to avoid the ‘suspense in the comedy of errors’. It is only towards the end of the film when the impersonation of suitors gets revealed while on a forest trail when Usha falls in the arms of Vinod and the fat servant-Ramu (Kantilal) gets the maid – Seeta (Nur Jahan Sr,) as the original suitors.”
Today’s song is sung by Motilal, Kantilal and Nurjahan (sr.)
Song- Kaise katengi ratiyaan tum wahaan hum yahaan (Sasuraal)(1941) Singers- Motilal, Kantilal, Noorjehan Sr., Lyricist- D.N.Madhok, MD- Gyan Dutt
Lyrics
aaa
aa aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa aa
aa aa
aa aa aa aa aa
kaise katengi ratiyaan
kaise katengi ratiyaan
tum wahaan hum yahaan
tum wahaan hum yahaan
kaise katengi ratiyaan
tum wahaan hum yahaan
kya lutf e zindagi hai
jab deewaar darmiyaan
kya lutf e zindagi hai
jab deewaar darmiyaan
dushmanon ko o bhi na
arre bhai dushman ka kya bataaun
jaane do
dushmanon ko bhi na
in jaison se ulfat ho jaaye
cheer ke rakh do jigar ko
jo muhobbat ho jaaye
hosh aa jaayenge
ek raat yahaan rahne do
lutf aa jaaye jo
donon ki marammat ho jaaye
aanye
marammat ho jaaye
dhadkat hai moree chhatiyaa
tum wahaan hum yahaan
dhadkat hai moree chhatiyaa
tum wahaan hum yahaan
kya lutf e zindagee hai
jab deewaar darmiyaan
kya lutf e zindagee hai
jab deewaar darmiyaan
aaj hum jaan gaye
??
arre bhai ab kya bataayen
aaj hum jaan gaye bilkul
bilkul jaan gaye
magar bolo na baba
aaj hum jaan gaye
ye gore gore jo hain na
haan
ye gore hain dil ke kaale
kyun dil ke kaale hain
bilkul
ye daghabaaz hain
aur hum bande mohabbat waale
he he
mohabbat waale
haan
badduaayen bhi lagegee
inhen bas yaad rahe
??
kaane
haan bilkul ek aankh waale hote hain na kaane
kaane ho jaayenge
ye nargisi aankhon waale
aa haa haa
dhadkat hai moree chhatiyaa
tum wahaan hum yahaan
dhadkat hai moree chhatiyaa
tum wahaan hum yahaan
kya luft e zindagi hai
jab deewaar darmiyaan
kya luft e zindagi hai
jab deewaar darmiyaan
jab deewaar ke beech mein darmiyaan ho to kya ho
aa aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa aa
o o
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October 17, 2023 at 5:22 pm
Chitchor was again remade by the same Rajshree`s as Main prem ki deewaani hoon 2003,
Thanks Arun ji for the information about Doshi Saab and Sasural 1941
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October 17, 2023 at 6:23 pm
Thank you Prakash ji.
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