Jeewan gaadee chaltee jaaye
Posted on: December 22, 2023
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Today’s song is from the maiden film Hotel-1956. The film was made by Bright Light Productions, Bombay.
After the II World War, a lot of Black Money came into the film industry. People having this type of unaccounted money were on the look out for investing it clandestinely so that they could earn legitimate profit on it and a part of their money could become White. Many times it was also a way to show huge losses and escape from the Income tax levies. In addition, Film industry glamour was an added attraction. Moving and mixing with well known stars and the late night parties where wine and women were freely available were very alluring too. some of such financiers had an ambition to become Director or an actor and their ill gotten money was helpful to fulfil such desires. So, during the period of 1946 to the mid-50’s, one can find few ‘onetime’ directors and actors in the credits of films. In the Geet kosh, one will find the column of ‘producer’ blank in many such films, as remaining anonymous was an early escape from drawing attention.
For today’s film the banner name was a new name and I have not found this name ever again in any film. The producer also remained unnamed. The film was directed by Manmohan Sabir – a half Hindu and half Muslim sounding name. But then this type of names were not uncommon, especially the Surnames. I know many Hindu people having surnames like Bakshi, Munshi, Khankhoje, Dabir, Syed etc. Most such names were titles awarded by the Muslim rulers and the subsequent generations carried them, first proudly and then by habit. In Hyderabad state, where I grew up in the Nizam’s rule, the Kayasth community was in the uppermost level in Government services and such Muslim names were pretty common among them. In my college, one Administrative officer’s name was ” Mehboob Narayan” ! In later years, such names disappeared, were hidden or discarded by changing them.
Coming back to Manmohan Sabir, he directed 10 films namely, Akash-53, Sheeshe ki deewar-54, Hotel-56, Pehli mulaqat-57, Bhagwan aur Shaitan-59, Superman ki wapsi-60, Lucky number-61, Zinda Laash-86, Waqt ka Badshah-92 and Share Bazaar-97. He also wrote 36 songs as a Lyricist in 8 films barring Pehli Mulaqat and Waqt ka Badshah from above list. He died on 26-8-2002.
Most of the Atulites and our regular readers know that I used to write details of every film I saw from the late 40’s to end 60’s in my diary. I had filled up a total of 136 diaries/exercise books with such information. After I joined in the job with Glaxo Laboratories, I was posted all over India locations and I carried 2 cartons full of diaries with me. Finally, when I settled in Bombay, these cartons got a place in one of the lofts of my flat. When they were taken down and opened finally, somewhere in 2010, many of them were unreadable due to faded ink, torn, damaged by termites and by folded pages etc. However a major trove of this treasure was useable and used by me from time to time. After ensuring that all the information is either used or recorded elsewhere, these diaries finally got their ‘Mukti’.
Film Hotel-1956 ( originally titled as Grand Hotel) was seen by me and I had noted down its story and other details in my diary. However, being damaged too much I destroyed it, but only the last part of the film story remained with me. The available part did not give me any idea as to the complete story, as it was seen 67 years ago. When I chose today’s song for posting here, I wished I had the complete story. Then I did the only sensible thing. I wrote to shri Har Mandir Sing Hamraz ji, requesting him to send me the xerox copy of the film booklet of film Hotel-1956, if he had it. As expected and as he is a very helping person, within few hours I got film’s full story from the booklet. Thank you, Sir ji, for your prompt response. This will enable our readers to know about the film in totality. I have added the last portion of the story to the film booklet story, because booklets do not give the story end of any film.
The cast of the film was Geetabali, Jairaj, Jaswant, Shammi, Ram Mohan, Jankidas, Pran and others. Here is the story……..
Jaswant got a job and a place to stay, thanks to the help of Lala Lalchand. Lala’s daughter Geeta had just completed her matriculation. Love blossomed and they got married. Next day, Jaswant got a telegram informing him that he had won Rs. 5 lakhs in the crossword contest. The news came in the newspapers also. There was a big celebration.
Pran, a crook, plans to rob Jaswant of this money. He sent his moll Kitty to lure Jaswant and steal his money. Kitty had her own plans. Within few days, Kitty is murdered and Jaswant is arrested on suspicion of her murder. Inspector Simon was appointed and he started his investigation.
Geeta was sure that Jaswant cant do such work as murder. She meets the inspector and helps him in the investigations. Finally, it is found that Pran has murdered Kitty, as he came to know that she had planned to run away with Jaswant’s money and thus cheat Pran. He is arrested.
All is well when Jaswant returns home.
For this film there were 2 MDs. One was a pair of Suresh-Talwar and the other was S.D.Batish. Out of the 7 songs only 4 songs are credited- 2 to each MD. Rest are uncredited. Many people think that Suresh-Talwar is one person. They were 2 different persons. They were supposed to be the most successful C grade MDs around. They limited their operations to Action films only, though they did do few social and religious films also. Starting with Hotel and Sair e Paristan (both 1958), they did Teerthayatra, Fashionable Wife and Sahil-1959,with D C Datt, their most famous film. Geeta Dutt’s song ‘Khatm kar de dastaan’ was included in her ‘Rare Gems’ cassette by HMV. Another landmark film was Lady of the lake-1960. The song ‘Zun zun baaje’ was included in the best of Sudha Malhotra’s list by HMV. They also gave music to Elephant Queen, Jungle Boy, Rashtraveer Shivaji, Tilismi Duniya, Tarzan and Jadugar and finally Char Chkram in 1965.
Suresh, the Gujarati partner of this pair, also gave music independently to many films. Suresh Kumar- a name not many readers can recollect. readers from Gujarat, perhaps, may remember his name as Suresh kumar Shah had given music to some Gujarati films. Sursh kumar Shah had a 4-fold career in films.
FIRST he started his Musical career with a Gujarati film-” Choodi Chandiyo”-1950 and continued to give music to 22 Gujarati films, the last being-Maaru Saasario sona ni khaan-1998.
SECONDly, he paired with other Music Directors-with Shailesh Mukherjee in Suhag Sindoor, with Talwar and Shankar Dasgupta in ‘Hotel’-1956 and only with Talwar in another 11 films, the last film being-“Char Chakram’-1965.
THIRDly, he gave music independently to 11 films, starting with-Jadui Angoothi-1964 and ending with- Waqt se Pehle-1985.
Thus he featured in 22 Gujarati films and 24 Hindi films as a Music Director.
FOURTHly, he gave music to some Marathi films also, like Gharcha Bhedi, gadbad Ghotala and kuldeepak etc.
I have learnt that these days he lives in Parle, mumbai and is connected with Marathi dramas.
(Thanks to Harish Raghuvanshi ji for the above information on Suresh kumar Shah)
Today’s song is the first song of this film, which makes its Debut on our Blog. It is sung by S.D.Batish, but is composed by the other MD, Suresh-Talwar. Enjoy….
Song- Jeewan Gaadi chalti jaaye (Hotel)(1956) Singer- S.D.Batish, Lyricist- Manmohan Sabir, MD- Suresh – Talwar
Lyrics
Jeewan gaadi chalti jaaye
jeewan gaadi chalti jaaye
bin engine bin paani
koi na jaane kahaan se aayee
aur kahaan hai jaanee
jeewan gaadi chalti jaaye
phool wahee daalee se judaa ho o o
phool wahee daalee se judaa ho
dum bhar jo muskaaye ae
aankh se tapke moti ban kar
aur aansoo kahlaaye
shaam saweraa chamak(??) andhera
aaye aur phir jaaye
beete samay ki yaad suhaanee
reh jaaye ek nishaanee
reh jaaye ek nishaanee
jeewan gaadi chalti jaaye
subah suhaanee jab beete to
aaye saanjh ki belaa aa
jeewan pag par chaltaa raahee
jaaye aaj akelaa
chaar dinon kee duniyaadaaree
chaar dinon ka melaa
soch samajh pag dharna
gar na thhokar pade na khaanee
thhokar pade na khaanee
jeewan gaadi chalti jaaye
ek se din na rahe jagat mein ae ae ae
ek se din na rahe jagat mein
rut aaye rut jaaye ae
hanstee rotee is duniya mein
phool khile murjhaaye
do-dhaaree talwaar hai duniya
raas kise na aaye
jeewan apna behta paanee
samay ki ek kahaanee
samay ki ek kahaanee
jeewan gaadi chalti jaaye
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