Banaane waale ghadaa mujhko banaayaa hotaa
Posted on: October 22, 2023
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Today’s song is from the film Pyas-1941.
The year 1941 was an year which would start the realignment, improvement, trials, changes and introduction of new waves in acting, singing, direction and the story contents. Many ‘Carried Forward’ baggage from the silent film era were to be discarded- like Music based on stage and dramas in Parsi, Gujarathi and Marathi languages. New Genres were to be opened up to make this entertainment more acceptable. Additionally the second world war, started in 1939 end period, had an unpredictable duration and the film industry would have to cope up with the British Government’s expectations from the film industry.
1941 was the first year in the second decade of the Talkie Era and it was the beginning of the emergence of a New film industry. When Talkie started in 1931, for many years after that, the films were made by the people who had done work in the Silent films. These films had a spill over for the silent era artistes. Once the films started talking,most silent artistes who could not speak Hindi or Urdu automatically disappeared. Thus started the influx of new actors who could speak Hindi and sing songs, in whatever way they could. Intelligent directors like V Shantaram,Bhavnani, Sohrab Modi, Chandulal Shah, Himanshu Rai, B N Sircar, L V Prasad and a host of Gujarati directors understood that the Talkie needs a different treatment than silent films. Music directors from stage dramas tried their hand in composing film music.
In the next 8-9 years, there was a perceptible change in the film making, acting, singing, and composing music in the films that were made. Quality artistes from the silent era continued for some more years – finally giving way to the new artistes. The 30s and the 40s mostly differed in film music and story contents. The new blood composers like Anil Biswas, C Ramchandra, Naushad, Ghulam Haider, K Datta, Hansraj Behl, Bulo C Rani, Gyan Dutt and many more replaced the Parsi, Marathi and Gujarati drama music to more acceptable lilting songs. Many musical films were made and some everlasting songs were composed by these people. At the end of the 1940s, one more major change in the film industry would take place due to Partition. Let us see some important films of 1941, presently….
JBH Wadia became Chairman of the Film Advisory Board. He produced the First Sindhi film ‘Ekta’-1941. His film Court Dancer was also in English.
Asra– Debut of actor director N A Ansari.
Behan– Mehboob directed this film having an incest suggestive story.
Chandan– Debut of S N Tripathi as an MD.
Chitralekha– First big success of Kidar Sharma. Mehtab’s bath scene caused a ripple.
Dhandhora– Actor comedian Charlie directed the only film.
Doctor– Pankaj Mullick gave excellent songs. First popular song with woof beats-‘Chale pawan ki chaal’.
Jhoola– One of the most successful films like Kangan and Bandhan, starring Ashok Kumar and Leela Chitnis.
Kanchan– First composed song of naushad-” Bata do koi”.
Khazanchi– A milestone in musical revolution with Punjabi Theka, by Ghulam haider. Debut of Shamshad Begum in Hindi films.
Lagan– Saigal, as usual, gives good songs.
Mala– was remade as ‘Amar-55’ with music again by Naushad only.
Naya Sansar– Story of Newspaper world. A novelty. Ashok Kumar’s famous cigarette smoking in films started from this film, solving his problem of ‘ what to do with the hands during acting’ !
Nirdosh– Mukesh sings his first song.
Padosi– Last film of V Shantaram before leaving Prabhat. A Landmark film. “Kaisa chhaya hai ujala” is a popular chorus song.
Pardesi– Debut of actress Anjali Devi (not the southwali) with real name ‘Durgesh’.
Radhika– Debut of Nalini Jaywant.
Raj Nartaki– Ambitious Wadia film in English , Bangla and Hindi. Released in the USA by Columbia Pictures of Hollywood.
Sangam– Amritlal nagar’s first film as a writer. He did 18 films as writer and Lyricist.
Sikandar– A Magnum-Opus from Minerva. Chorus song- ” Zindagi hai pyar se” is very popular.
Taj mahal– Debut of Baby Suraiya as an actress.
Sasural and Ummeed were 2 films in which Noorjehan senior acted and sang. However these films are usually wrongly included in the filmography of Malika E Tarannum Noor jehan. She entered the Hindi films only with film Khandan-1942 at Lahore.
Film Pyas-1941 was made by Murli Movietone. It was directed by Ram Daryani. All the 9 songs were written by D.N.Madhok and composed by Khemchand Prakash. The cast consisted of Snehprabha Pradhan, Ishwar Lal, S.Nazir, Shamim, Gope, E.Bilimoria, Shareefa, Gulab, Majid and others. Film Pyas-41 was a very successful film. It was written by K S Daryani- brother of director Ram Daryani. The film was shot in Ranjit studio. This was the first film of Murli Movietone. The March 1942 issue of Film India magazine reviewed the film and Baburao Patel, for once , was all praise for the film, direction and the acting. The film was released in Imperial Cinema, Bombay on 14-2-1942. While praising the acting of Snehprabha Pradhan, Baburao Patel could not resist the temptation of subtly commenting on her looks, saying, ” she was photographed so nicely that she sometimes looked ‘almost’ beautiful” ! That’s Baburao for you !!.
Here is the film’s story from this review, nicely adapted by our Sadanand Kamath ji, way back in 2016.
Rai Saheb Bhagwandas (Nazir) is a rich man with a modern outlook. His wife has been ailing for some time and is under the treatment of Dr. Sunderlal (E Billimoria) who plots to get rid of Rai Saheb’s wife and her child to install his niece Menaka (Sharifa) as his wife. The ailing wife suspects the plot and one day she runs away from home with her child. She walks to a nearby village and hands over the child to the Village Chief.
After some days, a dead body of a woman is fished out from a river which turns out to be that of Rai Saheb’s ailing wife. He is heart-broken. He searches for the child but fails to find the baby. In the meanwhile, Dr Sunderlal has managed to get his niece Menaka married to Rai Saheb. Now, Dr Sunderlal starts blackmailing his own niece and manages to extract money from her.
The adopted child of Village Chief has now grown up as Chiman and finds a playmate Radha (Snehprabha Pradhan), the daughter of a village doctor. One day, Rai Saheb and his party come to the village for a picnic. Coincidentally, Chiman and Radha meet Rai Saheb who introduces Roop (Shamim), the daughter of Rai Saheb’s close friend, to both of them.
Chiman goes to the city and meets Roop and her elite circle of people. Chiman is fascinated by the glamour of the city. However, Radha compels Chiman to return to the village. At this stage, Relu, a village eccentric who secretly loves Radha, picks up a quarrel with Chiman and spills the beans regarding the mystery of his parentage. Chiman is devastated by the revelation and goes to the city to find out his real parents, unmindful of the fact that Rai Saheb whom he has met is his real father.
During his search for his real father, Chiman meets Dr Sunderlal who tries to kill him by injecting some poison but is saved by Roop. Having completely exposed of his wrong doing, Dr Sunderlal commits suicide. Chiman is restored to his real father, Rai Saheb. Chiman, now a rich man, moves with Roop. Rai Bahadur is happy that Chiman is liking the company of Roop and holds a reception to announce the engagement of Chiman with Roop. During the reception, Chiman remembers Radha but under pressure, he has to reluctantly agree for the announcement of his engagement with Roop. Radha steps into the reception hall and Chiman runs towards Radha.
Now, there is a competition as to who would sacrifice the love for Chiman – Radha or Roop. Ultimately, it is Roop who sees Chiman’s emotional attachment to Radha and decides to give up her claim over Chiman. Radha gets married to Chiman.
The villain’s role of Dr. Sundar lal was done by Eddie Bilimoria. In the early era of the Talkie films the Bilimoria brothers were very famous. First it was D (Dinshaw) and then came E (Eddie) Bilimoria. Eddie was born at Bilimora,in Gujarat, in 1900. At the age of just 13 years he ran away from house to Kirkee (near Poona), to his uncle, to become a Fireman in Railways. Here, he became a Door keeper in a Cinema house and also learnt operating the film projector. Due to ill health, he was brought to Bombay.
One day he went to Imperial Studio to meet his brother Dinshaw. Mistaking him to be Dinshaw, make-up was done to him and he played a role in the film ‘Punjab Mail’. Then onwards he started working regularly in films. As a Hero his first silent film was ‘Raj Ramani’. He worked as Hero in 7 Imperial films and 10 films of Ranjit Studio. His Heroines were Putli, Shanta, Sultana. Madhuri, Padma, Panna and others. When Talkie films started he was Hero in 32 films made by Ranjit, opposite Gauhar, Shanta, Kamla, Mehtab, Madhuri and Sitara etc. He worked in 15 films opposite Madhuri only. Fencing, shooting and horse riding were his specialties as a stunt Hero. He was the First in India to wear Cowboy dress in stunt films.
Char chakram-32, Miss 1933-33, and Nadira-34 were his Hit films. In the film ‘ Sipahi ki sajni’-36, he jumped into Sea from a flying plane, without duplicate. Daredevil stunts were his hallmark. There were hundreds of stitches on his body. After 1939 he stopped getting Hero roles, so did other character roles. After 1953, he was reduced to only an Extra. He did acting till 1973 and then took up a job in a Fridge and AC shop. He stayed in a flat in Kemps corner in Bombay. His last days were not very happy. E.Bilimoria died on 18-2-1981 at Bombay.
He acted in 73 Talkie films, directed 1 film ( sone ki chidiya-48) and also sang 4 songs in 4 films. His first film was Radha Rani-32 and last was Honeymoon-73.
( adapted from ‘Inhe na Bhulana’ by Harish Raghuwanshi, with thanks.)
Here is the comedy song from this film, sung by Ishwar Lal and Gope. Enjoy….
Song-Banaanewaale ghada mujhko banaaya hota (Pyaas)(1941) Singers- Ishwarlal, Gope, Lyricist- D.N.Madhok, MD- Khemchand Prakash
Lyrics
banaane waale
banaane waale
ghada mujhko banaaya hota
mujhe bhi shauk se phir
usne uthhaaya hota
Raadha
o Raadha
tu nahin samjhee Raadhe
ghada mujhko banaayaa hota
banaane waale
ho o
banaane waale
ghada mujhko banaayaa hota
banaane waale
ghada mujhko banaayaa hota
mujhe bhi shauk se phir
usne uthhaaya hota
mujhe bhi shauk se phir
usne uthhaaya hota
ghada mujhko banaaya hota
banaane waale
ho banaane waale
ghada mujhko banaaya hota
banane waale
ghada mujhko banaaya hota
galey mein bainya daal ke humre
galey mein bainya daal ke humre
panghat par le jaati
panghat par le jaati
sharmaati
ithhlaati
sharmaati
ithhlaati
jhaanjhar ki been bajaati ee
jhaanjhar ki been bajaati
ghada mujhko banaaya hota
banaane waale
ho banaane waale
ghada mujhko banaaya hota banaane waale
ghada mujhko banaaya hota
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