Lag gayee chot raama lag gayee chot
Posted on: December 2, 2023
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Today’s song is from the film Ghayal-1951.
There were 2 films with the title Ghayal. One in 1951 and the other was in 1990. In addition, there were 8 films with titles having the word Ghayal as its beginning. These 8 films were made in 8 years, from 2006 to 2014. Ghayal -1951 was produced and directed by Ramchandra Thakur ( 17-12-1908 to 31-12-1992), who started his career as a director , with Sagar Movietone’s film ” Gramophone Singer”-1938. He was an educated person, an author and a thorough gentleman. His last film as a director was ” Nawab Sirazuddaula-1967″.
The cast of this social film was Shaikh Mukhtar, Sulochana Chatterjee, Jawahar kaul, Geeta Bali, Ram singh, P.Kailash and many others, which included big names of the Silent and early Talkie films-like Pesi Patel, Rewa shankar Marwadi, Yeshwant Dave etc. It was the kindness of the producer-director Ramchandra Thakur that he used to give roles to such ” carried forward’ artists from the silent and early talkie era in his films. He was himself from that era.
One of the names in the cast was that of yeshwant Dave, who was a popular hero in silent films of Wadias and others of his ilk. To get information on such old artistes is extremely difficult, as in their heyday social media, TV, YouTube and film magazines were not existent and later on, when they fell on bad times, no one was interested in them. However, some historians wrote about them in titbits and collectively some information was available on a few old artistes. One such actor was Yeshwant Dave.
It was not uncommon during the days of early cinema for people to hang around studios and filming locations in the hopes of being discovered. One such intrepid soul was Yeshwant Dave (or Yashwant Dave), who was at Kohinoor Studios observing a picture being made by producer J.B.H. Wadia. The handsome and athletic Yeshwant cornered Wadia, insisting that he would make a fine hero for an action film.
Wadia agreed to test Yeshwant by having him jump from the roof of one set piece to another. He did so successfully, and J.B.H. decided to cast him in a film that he was to direct for Young United Players, the 1931 silent THUNDERBOLT (aka DILER DAKU) featuring Mumtaz as the heroine.
Yashwant was again directed by Wadia in TOOFAN MAIL (1932) and there after became a sought after action star appearing in the stunt films of other directors like Aspi, Dhirubhai Desai, Nari Ghadiali, Chunilal Parekh, and Harshadrai Mehta. Some of his films include BHARAT VEER (1932), JADUI JUNG (1934), BOMBSHELL (1935), VASANTBENGALI (1937), FLYING RANEE (1939), MAGIC CITY (1940), TORPEDO (1941), BAHADUR (1944), ROYAL MAIL (1946), and KAUN PARDESI (1947).
Growing out of the stunt hero persona, he turned to character parts and made infrequent onscreen appearances throughout the 1950s, including in SHEIKH CHILLI and MAKKHEE CHOOS both released in 1956 and starring comedian Bhagwan. What became of Yeshwant Dave afterwards is anybody’s guess, as the once popular action star faded into obscurity and, sadly, is barely remembered today.
The film had 11 songs written by 7 lyricists and sung by 6 singers. G.M.Durrani had 2 solos and 2 Trios with chorus. His 2 solos are simply marvellous. all his songs are on this Blog. 3 out of his 4 songs are discussed by me. The Music Director was Gyan Dutt. One of the 6 singers was BHOLA. Many people think that it is Bhola Shreshtha, but it is not so. Bhola was the pseudonym of Music Director Bulo C Rani.
Bulo C Rani was such a composer whose best is buried under the debris . When the slow paced melodious music was replaced by the fast paced
rhythmic melodies, Bulo suddenly lost his relevance as a composer. He lived in a state of hibernation for so long that his death – a suicide – on 24th
May 1993 at 73 was reported as if it was a matter of no big consequence. The eventful career of Bulo C Rani in the 40’s and the early 50’s was forgotten.
Bulo c rani was born on may 6, 1920 in Hyderabad, Sindh and his original name was Bulo Chandiramani Ramchandani. His father Chandiram was also a composer and composed for the film Insaan ya shaitan[1933]. Incidentally, this was the first film in which our National Anthem “Jan gan Man…” was composed. Bulo obviously grew up in a musical atmosphere and hence in a way, it was not surprising that after graduating, he went to Lahore with the express intention of composing for films and joined Ghulam Haider for a while he came to mumbai in 1942 with D N Madhok and joined Ranjit films to assist Khemchand Prakash and later on to Gyan Dutt. Independently he gave music to Ranjit films from 1945 onwards only.
Khemchand gave him a break as a singer in 1942 in Mehman. in 1942 Gyan Dutt also gave him an opportunity to sing. In 1943 he got six films to sing in. In all he sang 34 songs in 19 films. O JOGAN O BAIRAGI in the film Shankar Parvati [music by Gyan Dutt] was very popular. In 1944 he composed for Pagli Duniya. He composed for the film murti-45. In it Badariya Baras Gayi – which mukesh’s first song as the composer often claimed with pride – won popularity. Before that in film Paigham-43. 2 songs are credited to him. An important thing is, Bulo sang in Pagli Duniya-44 as BHOLA and subsequently he sang as Bhola. Most people credit these songs to composer Bhola Shreshtha, which is wrong. BHOLA is Bulo C Rani.
Bulo composed for 71 films, and composed 574 songs.
His music was not highly original, but it successfully exploited the intrinsic acceptability of conventional forms such as bhajans, or the newly circulating patriotic musical idioms, which appealed to certain stock responses.
One wonders whether he was more adequate as a singer than a composer – at least when he began his career as an actor – singers had singing voices!
Mukesh, after his initial failure as a singer, drew attention only when he sang for Bulo in ‘Moorty’ ( ‘Badariya baras gai us paar’/with Hamida and Khursheed/1945 )
The film ‘Jogan’ (1950) was a landmark in Bulo’s career. His composing skill enabled him to enhance the inherent charm of Meerabai’s traditional bhajans such as ‘ghoonghat Ke Pat Khol re’, ‘Main to giridhar Ke ghar jaaoon’, ‘Damag damag dole naiya’ and ‘ Jogi mat ja, mat ja’. Even the Holi song (‘Rang daaro ri’) and the sentimental one in the voice of Talat (‘Sundarta Ke Sabhi Shikari’) were no less appealing. More than Dilip Kumar and Nargis in the film it was Bulo’s music which turned out to be the real star.
Before ‘Jogan’ came his way Bulo had already earned recognition through the films such as ‘Rajputani’ (‘Ja parwane ja kahin shama jal rahi hai/Mukesh, hamida and ‘Anjuman (‘Kaise bataoon tum se is dil ko pyar kyun hai’/Shamshad, Mukesh) and the immense popularity of the song ‘Armaan bhara dil toot gaya’ (‘Wafa/Lata, Mukesh)
Bulo C Rani had a special fascination for heavy voices which were capable of more expressive power. For the same reason he was able to create a great impact on listeners with the voices of Amirbai (‘Sooni padi hai payar k duniya tere baghair’/ ‘Caravan’).Zohra (‘Aankhon mein intezaar Ki duniya liye hua’/’Carvan’) and geeta Roy(Dutt) in the songs of ‘Jogan’. Bulo did not hesitate to create an enchanting melody in the song ‘Badi bhool hui tujhe pyar kiya’ in ‘Maghroor’. Geeta Dutt was his favourite singer. He gave over 60 songs to Geeta alone.
‘Bilwamangal’ (1954) was the last significant film of Bulo c Rani. Suraiya sang one of her most memorable songs ‘Parwanon se preet seekhli, shama se seekha jal jaana’ and so did C.H. Atma in ‘Panghat pe more shyam bajaaye muraliya’.
Despite the popularity of a stray song such as ‘Hamen to loot liya milke husn Walon ne’ (Ismail Azad/’Al Hilal’/1958), Bulo C Rani just continued to drift because his music had not remained a viable commercial proposition.After ‘Sunhare Qadam’ (1966). Bulo’s career came to an end. Having once enjoyed the position of prominence the lack of assignment made him restless. No films came to him. In addition, his family sold his posh flat in Shivaji Park and shifted to Versova, which hurt him a lot. He lost the will to live.
It was an irony of fate that the song he composed in the voice of Lata in his last film ‘Sunhare Qadam’ was ‘Maangne se jo maut mil jaati, Kaun jeeta zamane men’.
In a career spanning over 22 years, Bulo C Rani gave music in 71 films. He also gave music in few Sindhi hit films. Practically with no work towards the later half, he started taking coaching classes in light music. He was isolated which led to depression. To overcome this he developed the habit of drinking. This led his health to deteriorate and he had to be admitted to hospitals multiple times. When acute depression became unbearable & after his family sold their house at Shivaji Park and moved to Versova, he took the extreme step and committed suicide by burning himself on May 24, 1993. He died at 73 leaving behind some unforgettable creations. Bulo C Rani’s death remained largely unreported in the press.
Irony was that in life he asked for death and he got it. And how horribly too ! It is said that on 24-5-1993, he committed suicide by immolating himself. When his body was burning, he ran on the streets shouting in pain and finally fell on the road dead.
Many of the old time artistes met with tragic deaths. Actor singer Parshuram, Singer actress Vatsala Kumthekar, Actress singer Rajkumari, Khan Mastana, G.M.Durrani, Pradeep Kumar, Leela Chitnis, Shanta Hublikar, Master Nissar, Shankar Dasgupta, Madholal Master, Vasant Desai, Rattanbai and many other artistes of yore met their death in unfortunate circumstances. Deaths of Nalini Jaywant and Lalita Pawar were found after 3-4 days. They certainly did not deserve such ends. But then, Fate is like that !
Today’s song is sung by Bhola. The song is attributed to Lyricist M.G.Adeeb.
Song- Lag gayee chot raama lag gayee chot(Ghaayal)(1951) Singer- Bhola Shreshtha, Lyricist- M.G.Adeeb, MD- Gyan Dutt
Lyrics
lag gayi chot raama
lag gayi chot
haan aan
lag gayi chot
lag gayi chot
karejwa mein haaye raama
lag gayi chot raama
lag gayi chot
laagi naahin chhoote raama
laagi naahin chhoote
laagi naahin chhoote raama
laagi naahin chhoote
karejwa ki chot
karejwa ki chot raama
lag gayi chot raama
lag gayi chot
mad barsaate nainon ne ae ae ae
ye kaise teer chalaaye ae
tadpe man ka ghaayal man ??
munh se nikle haaye
dil mein kisi ki preet basat hai
aag lagat hai hook uthat hai
dil mein kisi ki preet basat hai
aag lagat hai hook uthat hai
kis kal chain na aaye
haaye
kis kal chain na aaye raama
kis kal chain na aaye raama
lag gayi chot raama
lag gayi chot
bas hi gayi jab nas nas mein aen
tasveer kisi ki kya kahne
preet ki meethhi peer bani
taqdeer kisi ki kya kahne ae ae ae
jamuna kinare gin gin taare
kaatenge ab rain bechaare
jamuna kinaare gin gin taare
kaatenge ab rain bechaare
kaun inhen samjhaaye
haaye kaun inhen samjhaaye raama
kaun inhen samjhaaye raama
lag gayi chot raama
lag gayi chot
laagi naahin chhoote raama
laagi naahin chhoote
karejwa ki chot
karejwa ki chot
haaye karejwa ki chot
haaye karejwa ki chot raama
lag gayi chot raama
lag gayi chot
5 Responses to "Lag gayee chot raama lag gayee chot"
December 2, 2023 at 11:01 pm
Thanks for the informative post Sir ji, very interesting and painful…..to read
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December 2, 2023 at 11:02 am
Arun Ji,
Felt sad to read about last days of Bulo C Rani.
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December 2, 2023 at 11:19 am
Satish ji,
He was one of those who suffered a miserable eve of life. So sad, indeed.
This happened mostly with early cine artistes. Today’s generation of cine workers are more practical and first ensure their future life by saving. Of course, now there are more facilities available and people have learnt lessons from the past examples.
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