Bhagwaan meree naao hai ab tere sahaare
Posted on: December 29, 2023
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Today’s song is from the film Bhool-1948.
The film was made by V.Shantaram’s Rajkamal Kalamandir, Bombay. However Shantaram was not directly connected with it in any way officially. It was directed by one of his younger brothers V.Avadhoot, who was basically a Cinematographer. Even for this film he worked partly as a Cinematographer and during that time, it is said, V.Shantaram Ghost-Directed the film !
When I was collecting information about this film, I was perplexed to read in the review of this film that the zFilm India Editor Baburao patel was repeatedly mentioning that the ‘Film is directed by V.Avadhoot, brother of Shantaram, who was the brother of Kashinath”. I was wondering who this Kashinath was. When I went deeper in the search for Kashinath, I got information, which I never knew. I am sure, like me, most of the people did not know what I read on one of the foreign sites on the Internet. This information was hidden from the Indians so far.
When Shantaram’s mother Kamlabai married his father Rajaram Vankudre, he was a widower with 3 sons from his first wife – Keshav, Ramkrishna and kashinath. After this marriage, Rajaram got 2 more sons, Shantaram and Avadhoot. These two went into the film line, while their step brothers kept off from the films. That is why, perhaps, their names were never known to anyone and Shantaram also never mentioned them in his lifetime.
The film had a Debutante Music Director S. Purushottam (mentioned only as Purushottam in HFGK, film credits and film booklet also) or Purushottam Solankurkar. PURUSHOTTAM SOLANKURKAR or S. Purushottam ( 9-4-1919 to 30-1-1958 ) was from Kolhapur district. Born in a poor family, he was the youngest in three brothers. The eldest brother was a good singer under Abdul Kareem khan. The middle one had his ” Yashwant Sangeet Vidyalaya” in Kolhapur. Purushottam was a student of Vidyapeeth School. Bereft of higher education, Purushottam started learning to play various instruments, Violin, Sarangi, Harmonium and Tabla.
When he was 21 years of age, he started playing in the concerts of Kumar Gandharva or Shivaputra Siddaramaiah komkali- as an accompanist. Vasant Desai-who was a ‘de facto’ Talent Hunter for V.Shantaram ( he had already discovered Promodini and Vinodini Desai and Vatsala Kumthekar) spotted him in one Mehfil and called him to Bombay. Shantaram gave him his brother’s film ” Bhool”-48 and Maharashtra Chitravani’s film Mere Laal-48 as a Music Director.
He was an excellent singer himself and had a very good voice. Noted composer Sudhir Phadke, who was his classmate in school, used to praise his singing, but Purushottam never sang any film song in his career. He believed that his job was to compose music and not singing.
Impressed with his style, Shantaram gave him his revolutionary film ‘Apna Desh’-49. True to his salt, Purushottam presented 2 Ghazals of Ghalib,’ Koi umeed nahi hain” and Dil e naadan in a totally non-traditional tune and style. The Tamil and Telugu versions of this film were also done by Purushottam. Vasant kumari sang Tamil songs and Telugu songs were sung by Beauty Queen Surya Kumari. Later Shantaram gave ‘ Dahej’-50 to Vasant Desai and Purushottam.
Discarded, without reason, as was his habit, by Shantaram, Purushottam did Devyani-52 and Durga Khote’s Sandesh-52. In all he did 6 Hindi films and 2 Marathi films, as Music Director. Realising that he had no scope in films anymore, Purushottam returned to Kumar Gandharva once again ,as his accompanist. Thus he disappeared from the film line and there was no trace of him afterwards. One more name was added to less known and forgotten composers’ list ! (Some information used herein is from Marathi Sangeetkar kosh, with thanks.)
Purushottam was a victim of the ” Studio victims” syndrome, which was seen in the 30’s and 40’s period, when studios were the most important segment of the filmmaking chain. The owners, due to their whims or may be due to unknown/undisclosed reasons used to bind a budding artiste and then not give him any role or songs. With such a policy, careers of many good potential artistes were spoiled. Among such cases, V.Shantaram was notoriously prominent. Because of his whims, actors like D.K.Saproo, Kamla Kotnis, singer actress Manju (wife of Karan Dewan) as well as MDs like Purushottam and Vasant Desai suffered. Manju and kamala Kotnis could not shine, but others tried hard and made their careers outside. Sohrab Modi also tried to blackmail Meena Shorey by asking Rs. 60,000 in early 40’s to release her from his contract. Thanks to the intervention of Mehtab, she could pay only Rs.30,000 and got rid of Modi’s contract. Bombay Talkies also spoiled the career of actress Mrudula – first heroine of Dilip Kumar. W.Z.Ahmed Troubled actress Shama Dulari and singer Sitara kanpuri. Only when Ahmed migrated to Pakistan, these artistes were free. These are the known examples. How many are not known, only God knows !
The cast of the film was Dewan Sharar, Suman, Umesh Sharma, Parshuram,K.Datey, Sunderabai etc.etc. Today’s song is sung by Lalita Deulkar. LALITA DEULKAR (LALITA PHADKE, after marriage) was born in Bombay in 1924.She was not interested in acting or singing,but poor family conditions and father’s T.B.,forced her to earn a living by singing and acting. During 1940-45,she recorded many songs. One Mr. Dulerai Pandya,a Gujarati,owned” The National Recording Co.Ltd.” in Bombay’s fort area. There was a Tricolour shown on the labels of the records,hence this company was known as Jhandewali record co.. V.Shantaram was also on its Board of Directors. Initially Prabhat and later Rajkamal film songs were issued on Jhanda Chhap records only. The company had hired Datta Davjekar for Marathi and Avinash vyas and Lallubhai Bhojak for Hindi and Gujarati songs. She recorded many Darya songs and Bhavgeets in this company.Along with her,Gajanan Watwe,Jyotsna Bhole also recorded songs here. Some records named her as Lalita Devi. Once Saraswati Devi heard her and gave her a chance to do small roles and sing in the chorus of songs of Bombay Talkies films. Her Debut was made with the song “Raja hamen na niharo”. It was a duet with Balwant Singh, in the film Navjeevan-39.
After singing songs in films like Parbat pe apna dera-44,Valmiki-46 and Eight Days-46,she got a good break in the film Saajan-1947. Her duet with Rafi, ” Humko tumhara hi aasra” is remembered even today. ( She was a senior singer and Rafi was new. It is said that he had become nervous, but Lalita encouraged him and they sang an evergreen duet song.) Film Nadiya ke paar-48 also had a duet with Rafi,” More raja ho,le chal nadiya ke paar” which was very popular. C.Ramchandra was MD for both these films. She sang in several other films like Bhakta Dhruv, Khidki, Jalan, Shaheed,Shakti, Vidya, Bedard, Daulat, Girls school, Jai Bheem, Roshni, Sanwariya, Shabnam, Apni Chhaya, Malti Madhav, Pahli Tarikh, Sajni etc.
In all she acted in 5 films and sang 79 songs in 36 films.
She got married to Composer Sudhir Phadke (25-7-1919 to 29-7-2002),on 29-5-1949 at Poona. Their common friend Mohd. Rafi sang a specially prepared and meticulously rehearsed ” Mangalashtak ” ( an eight stanza marriage song in Marathi),in their marriage. After marriage she sang only in films of Sudhir Phadke. After Sajni-56,she stopped singing completely and became a devoted housewife. It is a coincidence that her first famous song was in the film Saajan-1947 and her last song was in the film Sajani-1956 ! She died on 25-5-2010. Their son Shridhar Phadke is a well known Marathi singer and composer.
Let us now listen to this song…..
Song-Bhagwaan meree naao hai ab tere sahaare (Bhool)(1948) Singer- Lalita Deulkar, Lyricist-Firoz Jallundhari, MD- S.Purushottam
Lyrics
Ab tu hi bata aa aa aa
Ab tu hi bata
tera hi dil kisko pukaare
Ab tu hi bata tera hi dil kisko pukaare
bhagwaan meree naao hai ab tere sahaare
bhagwaan meree naao hai ab tere sahaare
ab tere sahaare
main tere sahaare
ummeed badal de
ummeed badal de
mere armaan badal de
likha meree taqdeer ka bhagwaan badal de
ab mera to sukh chain hain toote huye taare
toote huye taare
bhagwaan
bhagwaan meree naao hai ab tere sahaare
ab tere sahaare
naiya hai meri ee
naiya hai meri ?? to no koi ise dar hai
toofan hai maujen hain
chattaanen hain bhanwar hain
saagar mein dubo de ke lagaa de tu kinaare
lagaa de tu kinaare
bhagwaan
bhagwaan meree naao hai ab tere sahaare
ab tere sahaare
main tere sahaare
bigdi huyi kismat tu banaaye toh banegi
banaaye toh banegi
bigdi huyi kismat tu banaaye toh banegi
banaaye toh banegi
ujdee huyi duniya tu basaaye to basegi
tu chaahe to ban sakte hain lahron ke kinaare
lahron ke kinaare
bhagwaan
bhagwaan meree naao hai ab tere sahaare
ab tere sahaare
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December 30, 2023 at 2:47 pm
Thank you Arun ji for the information regarding Lalitha Deulkar, PS.Purushittam….
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December 30, 2023 at 6:00 pm
Thanks, Prakash ji.
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