Takraaye jaa mastaane dil se dil ke paimaane
Posted by: Atul on: October 28, 2023
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Today’s song is from the film Taksaal-1956.
The film was made by the Director Hemen Gupta’s own banner Hemen Gupta Productions, Bombay. He was the producer also. The Music Director was Roshan.
The mid 50’s was a period when there was a lot of impact of the western music on Indian films and almost every composer was trying his hand at having at least one or more songs based on western style. In this film, even Roshan had tried to ride on this wagon by using western style songs and music. Roshan was known for his melodious tunes based on Indian music style or the Ragas, but he did try, somewhat successfully, his hand at the western style in this film.
The cast of this film was Nirupa Roy, Balraj Sahni, Smriti Biswas, Radha Kishen, S.N.Banerjee Uma Devi, Baby Bula ( she was Hemen Gupta’s daughter. Earlier too she had done a child role in his film Ferry-singing a song along with another child artiste. Later on she became a Film Heroine with the name Archana and worked in 3 films, before marrying and settling in USA), Master Jayant (he was son of Hemant Kumar and later on became a Hero with the name Ritesh. He had married Maushami Chatterjee), Heeralal and many others.
After Independence Jawaharlal Nehru strongly propagated his pet theory of Socialism. Whatever was his idea, the common people interpreted that Socialism was Equality. Everything that was rich was bad and everything poor was Moralistic and Legitimate. A man earning wealth-even honestly- was looked down upon by these people. The 50’s to the 60’s was a period of intense influence of Nehruvian Socialism. Most Indians were besotted with Nehru and his doctrine of Socialistic Society. Film industry was not far behind in following Nehru. In fact staunch supporters of Socialism and Nehru, like K A Abbas, Mehboob Khan, Raj Kapoor, B R Chopra and V.Shantaram etc handled themes in their films, espousing social reforms and socialist doctrine of Equality, abolition of old harmful traditions and communalism as well as lauding the villages and farmers.
Taksaal-56 was one such movie wherein a message that “Money does not bring happiness and money is only a means and not the End” was emphasised. The film was made under the banner of Hemen Gupta productions and it was directed by Hemen Gupta himself.
Director Hemen Gupta’s name will be remembered for a long time in Hindi film history for two films that he directed. One was the early era patriotic film “Anandmath”-52, based on the novel of Bankim babu, in which Hemen Gupta himself, Pradeep Kumar and Hemant Kumar (as M.D.) made their debuts in Hindi films. The second film was Kabuliwala – 61, which won acclaim and a National Award too. This was a film based on Rabindranath Tagore’s story of the same name.
I was looking for information on Hemen Gupta, but found it very difficult. As I have already said, getting information about Southern and Bengali artistes in English is a difficult task. Lady luck smiled upon me just when I was drawing a blank from all sources. Unexpectedly, one of my friends from the US, sent me a PDF of Hemen Gupta’s Biography and the Filmography, prepared by his own son Jayant Gupta. My sincere thanks to Shri Jayant Guptaji and Shri Salim Shah ji for this.
Hemen Gupta was born on 21-3-1912, in a middle class family in Rajasthan. His Grandfather shri Nabakumar Gupta was a big Zamindar in Dacca. Hemen’s early school and college education was done in Dacca. He joined an active political career in 1926 as a Congress worker and a freedom fighter. He was arrested in 1931 and was in jail till 1938. In the jail, he studied and completed his Master’s degree in History with Honours. He also read many books on film making and was interested in it. When he was released he joined New Theatres. He wanted to make Patriotic films but till 1946 he could not do so. He made the film Bhuli Nai in Bangla-a fiercely patriotic film which was rejected by the censors. After many obstacles it got released. He also made another patriotic film in Bangle ’42’. Both films gave him name and fame.
Shashadhar Mukherjee of Filmistan in Bombay called him with an attractive offer and Hemen came to Bombay. He wrote the screenplay and directed the film “Anandmath”-52. He took Pradeep Kumar as a Hero and Hemanta Kumar as MD- his old colleagues in Calcutta. For all the three it was a debut in Hindi films. In 1953 he started his own banner “Film trust of India” and made “Ferry”-54, a love story with Dev Anand and Geeta Bali. Again Hemanta Kumar was the MD. Hemant Kumar’s young son Ritesh played a small role in this film (Later Ritesh married the famous actress Maushami Chatterjee). Ratna Gupta, Hemen’s wife sang songs in this film. His last film under Hemen Gupta Productions was Taaksaal-56. Meanwhile he directed Meenar in 1954.
He was a staunch nationalist and idealist who wanted to make artistic films,but the producers, distributors and financiers did not allow him that freedom. He felt suffocated. He was fed up with the commercialism in film making and he had a difficulty in coping up with the market demands. In 1961 he directed “Kabuliwala” and won accolades and a National Award too. His last film was “Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose””-1966 for producer B K Adarsha.
He wanted to resume making Bangla films. His film ‘Ánamika’ was almost completed, when suddenly he died of brain Hemorrhage,on 1-7-1967.
According to IMDB, he was the father of actress Archana( Buddha mil gaya). He directed the following films in Hindi-
Anandmath-52, Ferry-54, Meenar-54, Taaksaal-56, Raaj kamal-57, Insaaf kahan hai-59, Baabar-60, Kabuliwala-61 and Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose-66(adapted from the PDF).
Taksaal-56, had Balraj Sahni and Nirupa Roy as the lead pair. Nirupa Roy had already made a name in Mythological films as “Devi Parvati” and other holy Goddesses, opposite Trilok Kapoor, Manhar Desai and Mahipal. From the 1953 film “Do Bigha Zameen”, she was paired with Balraj Sahni as his wife, as an avatar of a poor, tortured,helpless farmer or a lower middle class C grade couple. They had worked together in 12 such films. ( Incidentally Nirupa Roy had worked with Jairaj in 16 films, with Trilok Kapoor in 18 films and with Ashok Kumar in 21 films. She worked as Amitabh’s mother in 12 films. She had also worked in 8 stunt films). I have never seen Nirupa Roy in a role of a rich happy wife or a carefree modern lady. I think some people are made by God for only suffering roles only. Can you ever imagine Nana Palsikar in the role of a very rich person or a sophisticated smuggler ? Or Ajit as a poor starving farmer ? Even in the film Taksaal-56 the couple of Balraj Sahni and Nirupa Roy is shown as a poor but highly principled couple … .Simple living and high thinking !
Story of “Taksaal”(1956) was :-
Jatin Mukherji (Balraj Sahni), an honest and brilliant lawyer, his wife Maya(Nirupa Roy), 3 children and his unmarried sister(Smriti Biswas) are happily living together. Maya is very religious. She does not allow Jatin to take any case of cheating, murder or crime. Slowly his practice goes down and he becomes so poor that his son Ram dies for lack of money for the treatment. At the Same time, his sister commits suicide when she is raped by her employer.
Jatin thinks that all his problems are because he is poor, so he decides to make money by hook or crook. He does so, by indulging in many illegal affairs, against the advice of Maya. He becomes very rich.
The “Lambe haath of kanoon” catch up with him one day and no amount of money saves him. He realises then that Money can not solve all problems. But it is too late.
One of the members of the film’s star cast is S.N.Banerjee. S.N.Banerjee was from a very rich family of Allahabad. A sizable number of Bengali families had settled in Allahabad. Due to the B.N.R. Railway (Bengal Nagpur Railway), many Bengali families had settled down along the tracks of the railways from Bengal to Nagpur.(Ashok, Kishore and Anup’s family also was from Khandwa junction of this Railway). Banerjee studied upto M.A. in English Literature. He was a good actor. He started his film career with “Dhuandhar”-1935,which was also the Debut film for Leela Chitnis.
He joined A R Kardar in his story department. He was friendly with M.Sadiq, another protege of Kardar, like him. Banerjee tried his hand at Direction. Besides writing the story, screenplay and dialogues of Dastan-50. He wrote stories for Baap re Baap, Naya Daur, Sahib bibi aur Ghulam, Khoobsoorat etc . He acted in 73 films. He directed Dillagi-1966. I remember his roles in Baap re Baap and Chalti ka naam Gaadi. Banerjee acted in all films of Kardar, Sadiq,P N Arora, Satyen Bose and Hrishikesh Mukherjee.
Today’s song is sung by Ratna Gupta and Chorus. Ratna was the wife of Hemen Gupta. She sang 6 songs in 2 Hindi films-The Ferry and Taksaal, both made by Hemen Gupta.
Song- Takraaye jaa mastaane dil se dil ke paimaane (Taksaal)(1956) Singer- Ratna Gupta, Lyricist- Prem Dhavan, MD- Roshan
Female chorus
Lyrics(Provided by Prakashchandra)
hhaa hhaaaa hhaaa haa hhaa
hhaa hhaaaa hhaaa haa hhaa
hhaa hhaaaa haaa haahhaa
hhaa hhaaaa aaa aaaa aaaa
hhaa hhaaaa hhaaa haahhaa
hhaa hhaaaa hhaaa haahhaa
hhaa haaaa hhaaa haahhaa
hhaa hhaaaa aaa aaaa
takraaye jaa mastaaney ae ae
dil se dil ke paimaaney
ye raat kaun jaaney
phir aaye ki na aaye
takraaye jaa mastaaney ae
dil se dil ke paimaaney
ye raat kaun jaaney
phir aaye ki na aaye
is hansti gaati mehfil mein hai ae ae ae
rang rang ka jaadoo oo
is hansti gaati mehfil mein hai ae ae ae
rang rang ka jaadoo
hai kaun bhalaa dilwaalaa
aayegaa
paa sakey jo dil pe qaaboo
piye jaa jiye jaa
?? baar baar phir jhoom jhoom ke
ke aaye na aaye
takraaye jaa mastaaney ae ae
dil se dil ke paimaaney
ye raat kaun jaaney
phir aaye ki na aaye
hhaa hhaaaa hhaaa haahhaa
hhaa hhaaaa haaa haahhaa
hhaa hhaaaa haaa haahhaa
hhaa hhaaaa aaa aaa haa
in aankhon se paimaaney chhalkey ae aey ae
nazar banee hai saaqi ee
in aankhon se paimaaney chhalkey ae ae ae
nazar banee hai saaqi ee
bin piye hi mast banaa dey ae aisaa
ke rahey hosh na baaqi ee
piye jaa jiye jaa
?? baar baar phir
jhoom jhoomke aaye na aaye
takraaye jaa mastaaney ae
dil se dil ke paimaaney
ye raat kaun jaaney
phir aaye ki na aaye
hhaa hhaaaa hhaaa haahhaa
hhaa hhaaaa hhaaa haahhaa
hhaa haaaa hhaaa haahhaa
hhaa hhaaaa aaa aaa
2 Responses to "Takraaye jaa mastaane dil se dil ke paimaane"
November 9, 2023 at 9:05 am
Arun Sir,
“Takraaye Jaa Mastaane Dil..” is well sung in Geeta Dutt style by Ratna Gupta. Please give some more info about her carrier in hindi films, if possible. Thanks.
Gandhi Vadlapatla
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
November 2, 2023 at 4:10 pm
Lata’s solo from this film
is one of my all-time favorites.
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