Mere dil ka bangla khaali hai
Posted on: November 30, 2023
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Today’s song is from the film Nazaare-1949.
It was a film made in the Cine Factory of Ranjit Movietone. It was called a ‘Cine Factory’ because, on all the 8 shooting floors of its studio, continuous shootings went on. Not only their own films, but outside producers also took the floors on rent and made their films. All materials like cameras, helpers, editing and sound facilities, mini theatre and all that was required to make a film was available in Ranjit, including actors, actresses, Lyricists, Music Directors, Directors and what not !
Sardar Chandulal Shah used to say proudly, “come with only a story and a budget and take away your completed film from here.” In its heyday, Ranjit had more than 300 people on its monthly payroll. It was said that the Government had opened a Ration shop (during the war and later period) in its premises to facilitate its workers. The famous quote of Chandulal Shah was “Ranjit has more stars than they are in the sky” !. According to Cine Advance dt. 5-12-1980, New Theatres, Calcutta made 177 films in its existence and Ranjit was close behind it with 175 films in its lifetime. Ranjit had made 31 Silent films, one each in Tamil and Marathi Talkie and the rest were Hindi films, from 1929 to 1963.
Ranjit Studio’s decline started in 1944, when Chandulal Shah lost more than 1 Crore rupees in Cotton Betting (1 crore in 1944 is almost 80 crores in 2023, after adjusting for inflation). Things were still manageable till almost 1950 but after that it was on downslide and after 1963 the chapter closed.
Today’s film was made in 1949.
There are various opinions about the beginning of “The Golden Era” of Hindi films. Some say from 1950 and few knowledgeables claim 1949 was the beginning. Here are my own views on 1949……What an year 1949 was ! It not only gave superlative quality musical films but also was an eventful year for the industry setting Benchmarks for various activities. Aptly,1949 can be called a “True First year of the ‘GOLDEN ERA’ ” of Hindi film music.
Andaz and Barsat were the 2 films which set standards for such films in the future. Andaz was Mehboob’s 3 rd film after Anmol Ghadi-46 and Anokhi Ada-48 where films were based on Love triangles. The only film of Raj and Dilip together, Andaz had songs which create the same magic even today..
Barsat established RK Banner, gave it a Monogram (DP in today’s Lingo) in the pose by Raj and Nargis from the film, and launched several artistes for a successful career like, Shankar-Jaikishen, Shailendra, Hasrat Jaipuri, Ramanand Sagar and Nimmi for whom all this was a debut film. Andaz gave introduction to Platonic love and Barsat gave prestige to Love stories in films.
Mahal-First film of Kamaal Amrohi as a Director,established Madhubala as a Star, started a trend for Mystery based films and made Lata an All India Phenomenon !
In 1949, South and East productions also contributed substantially. After the stunning success of Chandralekha, S S Vasan of Gemini Films, Madras brought his second Blockbuster in Hindi,Telugu and Tamil ( Chandralekha was made in Hindi,Tamil,Telugu and Simhali, all 4 were superhits). NISHAN-49 had Ranjan and P. Bhanumathy in the lead,even in Hindi edition. Ranjan (Ramanarayana Venkataramana Sarma) a multi-talented, internationally known artiste was a popular Hero. Vasan used him in his 3 rd Hindi/Tamil/Telugu film ‘Mangala-50’.
From Calcutta came Shanta Apte’s ‘Swayamsidha’-49- a story of a strong woman. Many films were made on this story almost every decade later on. Chhota Bhai-also from Calcutta in the same year represented India in a Canada Film Festival.
Ek thi Ladki-49 made “Lara Lappa” a National song. Meena Shorey was known as the “Lara Lappa Girl ” till she died in poverty unsung and unknown in Pakistan. Badi Behen (Husnlal-Bhagatram), Dillagi and Dulari (Naushad Ali), Baazaar( Shyamsunder) and Patanga (C Ramchandra) were the other hit musicals in 1949.
In 1949, the Censor Board started the “A ” category, Films division was established, India’s First luxury Theatre “Liberty” was opened in Bombay, Navketan Productions of Dev Anand was established and ‘Movie Times’ magazine started publishing film news.
By 1949, Naushad Ali and C Ramchandra were competing with each other for the No. 1 slot. Both respected each other. Next few years, their competition gave superlative music to Indian music lovers. This was everybody’s gain. The Playback singers’ group was coming to a final shape with Lata, Asha, Geeta, Shamshad and all others in that order, for female singers. For males, it was Mohd. Rafi, Mukesh, Kishore, Talat and Manna Dey and all others in that order. Very shortly, the first 3 in each group were the survivors for a longer run, the rest remaining on the scene without any consequence !
Out of the Music Directors, those who debuted or excelled in the late 40s only survived and prospered. Naushad, Shankar-Jaikishen, S D Burman, Roshan, C.Ramchandra, Husnlal- Bhagatram and all others in that order. In due course, the first few proved to be long distance runners. By late 70s this generation of composers was slowly getting replaced by the next generation composers.
When we grow up beyond 55-60 years, we revisit our activities of younger days in our leisure times ( which is plenty if one has retired). There are generally few items which we carry through our life’s course till old age, like our school friends, the beginning of married life etc. At times, we like to hum old songs which we had heard in our younger days and we keep wondering, how we still remember the film scene and the song tune. I always liked the singing style and songs of one of my favourite singers – G.M.Durrani. Not only his nasal tone but even his evergreen songs give me nostalgic pleasure even today. One of his songs from the film Nai Kahani-1943-MD Shyamsunder- “Neend hamari, Khwaab tumhare” is my all time favourite of G.M.Durrani. I can listen and enjoy it any number of times.
There was a time when G M Durrani was the favourite and most preferred singer for most composers in the industry. From 1941 to 1951, he sang over 300 songs. He is a case of “Riches to Rags”. Once a rich and famous singer, he spent his last few years fighting with Throat Cancer, poverty and loneliness. His end was quite pathetic.
Born in Peshawar in 1919, G M Durrani was a leading singer, like Surendra. The difference was Surendra sang only in his own films and thus had limitations, but Durrani was a playback singer, without much competition. In the 40s, there were hardly any male Playback singers, because most singers were actors themselves and sang their own songs, like Asit Baran, Karan Dewan, Ashok Kumar, Prem Adeeb, Arun Ahuja, Balwat Singh, C H Atma, Ishwarlal, Kantilal, K L Saigal, Pahadi Sanyal etc etc. There were of course few Playback singers like Khan Mastana, S D Batish, A R Oza, Balbir etc, but they were no competition to Durrani at all.
Because of this, some singers were jealous of him and there was an attempt to poison him with Mercury Chloride ( sindur) given in a Paan by another well known singer. All relevant stories point out fingers to Hafeez Khan Mastana in this incident as the culprit. Before he could confess, which he wanted to,it seems, Mastana died in absolute poverty and in total neglect near Mahim Dargah. Later on his only son used to be seen begging there for quite some time. One of the RMIM members had met him there.
Durrani came to Bombay in 1935, sang a song in Sohrab modi’s film ‘Said E Hawas’ and left the film world to sing on Radio. He returned to films in 1941 with Naushad’s ‘Darshan’ and then there was no looking back. His reign continued upto 1947 unabated,till singers like Mukesh,Kishore kumar, Mohd. Rafi and Talat started rising. By 1951,Durani was almost gone, but survived till his last song in 1971.
The singer of today’s song G M Durrani ( Ghulam Mustafa Durrani), opened a provision store in Mahim, Bombay and ran it for 3 years after his singing assignments dried up. Finally, when losses mounted, he sold off the business at a loss.
In his last days, Durrani had throat cancer. He was looked after well by his sons and daughters. In his last days, he was interviewed by the famous writer Shri Rajnikumar Pandya ji. After I came to know Shri Pandya ji, he kindly gifted me a CD containing the last interview of G M Durrani( recorded just one day prior to Durrani’s death). So I have not only Durrani’s real voice, but also a song he sang from his deathbed for this interview ! Thanks to shri Pandya ji. G M Durrani, in that last interview claimed that he had helped both financially and professionally two rising singers-Mohd. Rafi and Lata Mangeshkar, in their initial struggling period. He describes his first meetings with them in the interview.
G M Durrani sang many memorable songs like, ‘Haath seene pe jo rakh do to karar aa jaaye’, with Noorjehan in Mirza Sahiban-47, ‘Lara Lappa’ with Lata in Ek thi Ladki-49, ‘Nazar na phero humse’ with shamshad Begum in Deedar-51, ‘Gaaye chala jaa’, with Lata in Hum Log-51, ‘Humko hanste dekh zamana jalta hai’ with Rafi in Hum sab chor hain-56. Durrani sang about 300 songs. His last song came in ‘Lal Pathar’-71.
G.M.Durrani acted in 16 films, sang 305 Hindi film songs in 168 films. He became a Music Director of 8 films under the pseudonym of “Gunjan”.
All the 16 songs of the film Nazaare-1949 were good. 10 out 16 songs had Durrani singing them. That was his popularity. Today’s song is a duet of Durrani and Shamshad Begum. They first sang together in the film Laaj-1946, though Shamshad had come to Hindi films in 1941 itself. They sang their last duet in Taj aur Talwar-1956. Enjoy today’s duet….
Song-Mere dil ka bangla khaali hai (Nazaare)(1949) Singers- G.M.Durrani, Shamshad Begum, Lyricist- Rajinder Krishan, MD- Bulo C Rani
Lyrics
Koi hai jo kiraaye pe le le
Koi hai jo kiraaye pe le le
mere dil ka
o mere dil ka banglaa khaali hai
khoj mein aise hi bangle ki
khoj mein aise hi bangle ki
ye muhabbat waali hai
ye muhabbat waali hai
bade shauk se
bade shauk se uspar kabza kar lo
jaldi kya hai
jaldi kya hai
jaldi kya hai
kiraaye ka faislaa kar lo
ajee
ye to hai jaageer aap ki
aejee
ye to hai jaageer aap ki
khaaksaar to maali hai
khaaksaar to maali hai
mere dil ka
o mere dil ka bangla khaali hai
koi hai jo kiraaye per le le
baahar se hai achcha khaasa
andar jaane kya hoga
dhokhebaaz na samjho humko
sauda sachcha hoga
bilkul sauda sachcha hoga jee
armaanon ka furniture hai
armaanon ka furniture hai
ulfat ki chhat daali hai
ulfat ki chhat daali hai
mere dil ka
o mere dil ka bangla khaali hai
koi hai jo kiraaye par le le
batti ka kya intzaam hai
ae jee batti ka kya intzaam hai
yahaan lahu ke deepak jalte hain
yahaan lahu ke deepak jalte hain
paani ka kya intzaam hai
ae jee paani ka kya intzaam hai
aankhon se ashq nikalte hain
aankhon se ashq nikalte hain
jeewan bhar ka thheka de do
jeewan bhar ka thheka de do
o jee badi niraali hai
maine kaha
o jee badi niraali hai
mere dil ka
o mere dil ka bangla khaali hai
koi hai jo kiraaye pe le le
o mere dil ka bangla khaali hai
koi hai jo kiraaye pe le le
le le ae
4 Responses to "Mere dil ka bangla khaali hai"
November 30, 2023 at 1:32 pm
Sadanand ji,
Thanks for this information.
-,AD
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November 30, 2023 at 8:08 am
The LAL PATTHAR song UNKE KHYAL AAYE was picturised on GM DURRANI playbacked by Mohd.Rafi.
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November 30, 2023 at 11:01 am
As far as I know, Durrani sang in the film version, but the record was in the voice of Rafi.
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November 30, 2023 at 11:45 am
Both the sound track version and the record version of the song, ‘unke khayaal aaye to…..were rendered by Mohammed Rafi for G M Durrani in the film. G M Durrani sang ‘Quran Khani’ in the film.
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