Jaago hey Yadurai
Posted on: February 18, 2024
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Today’s song is from a semi Mythological film, Maya Bazar-1949.
I said ” Semi Mythological” film and there is a reason for it. Both Ramayan and Mahabharat are more than 5000 year old. Since generations,Indians have been infatuated with the various stories from these sacred books. Actually, Mahabharat is 4 times bigger than Ramayan. Ramayan contains stories of Loyalty, Obedience, righteous behaviour. Ideal Human Qualities, war against evil, Ideal democracy and good Just Governance. In short-everything that is ideal and good.
Whereas Mahabharat contains stories of deceit, injustice, adventures, magic, diplomacy, Tit for Tat principle and ways to win over the evil at any cost – even adopting cheating and using weakness of the enemies. In short, Ramayan is following the right systems and methods and Mahabharat is achieving Goals by overcoming opposition by hook or crook !
Naturally mahabharat stories are more interesting. Personally, I like Krishna more than Ram. Ram is ideal but Krishna is practical and result oriented ! Perhaps Indian film makers also agree with me because there are more films made on stories of Mahabharatthan Ramayan. Over thousands of years, many new stories are added to Mahabharat and Ramayan. As per the experts, more stories are added to Mahabharat than Ramayan. Obviously, because Ram had only one wife whereas Krishna had 8 regular wives in addition to 16008 wives whom he had freed from the prisons of King Kans ( to provide them a respectful living). Jokes aside, there was obviously more scope in Mahabharat as there were hundreds of characters involved, unlike the limited number of Ramayan characters. Ramayan was a story of one Ram, but Mahabharat was a conglomerate of stories of 5 brothers, their wives, Krishna and his several wives.
During the Silent film era, fictitious stories erupted about the love marriage of Balram’s daughter and son of Arjun. This is not in the original story at all. In some stories the name of the girl was Vatsala and in some it was Surekha. These stories were primarily written for stage dramas. They had enough love, adventure, magic and sweet end – almost similar to later day modern film love stories. The first silent film on this imaginary pair was made by Baburao painter through his Maharashtra Film Company of Kolhapur. It was titled Vatsala Haran in 1919 Another film was made as Surekha Haran in 1921 and a third one was made as Maya Bazar aka Vatsala Haran in 1925. During this period the added roles were of Krishna and Ghatotkach (son of Bheem and Hidimba). Including these characters the first Talkie was made by Sagar Movietone-Maya Bazar in 1932. Later films with this title were made in 1949, 1958, 1971 and 1984. That is why I called today’s film a ‘Semi Mythological ” film.
In all this, the Southern film industry was not to lag behind. The famous Drama and later film company, Surabhi Drama Troupe made their silent film, in which the name of Vatsala or Surekha was changed to Sasirekha in Maya Bazar-1925. A Talkie ” Maya Bazar aka Sasirekha Parinay” was made in 1936. The Vijay Vauhini studio made Maya Bazar in 1957 in Tamil and Telugu. Its dubbed version in Kannada came in 1958. This was , so far, the best film and became popular and also won many awards.
The market for mythological and religious films kept on increasing from the period 1931 to 1960. The best decade was 1950 to 1960. Then there was a steady decline in its number and by the end of the century and the Millenium, such films became rare. What was the reason ?The clear answer is The Audience. Who saw such films ? Males in the age group of 40 to 60++ and women of almost all ages. If you compare the age wise Demographyof population in 1961 and 2022, the following picture emerges…..
| Year | Age group | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 0-14 | 15 % |
| 15-60 | 50 % | |
| 60++ | 35 % | |
| 2022 | 0-14 | 25.31 % |
| 15-64 | 67.80 % | |
| 65++ | 6.90 % |
( figures taken from Wikipedia)
No doubt this was one reason. The other reason was Change of taste of the audience. The inkling was obvious in the 50’s decade, when Romantic/Musical films became very popular. Escapist and light comedy musicals like Naya Daur, Tumsa nahi dekha, Paying Guest, Hum sab chor hain etc were followed later in different garbs and at times same stories with little variation , by Nasir Hussain . Manmohan Desai and their ilk. Both these reasons were responsible equally for the shrinking of religious films being made. First they shifted to TV in the guise of serials like Ramayan and Mahabharat and then they became rare even there !
Film Maya Bazar aka Vatsala Haran-1949 was written by Pt. Mukhram Sharma. The film was made in Hindi and Marathi. The songs and screenplay was also by Sharma. The director was Datta Dharmadhikari and the music was by Sudhir Phadke. The cast was Durga Khote, Shahu Modak, baby Shakuntala, Balak Ram, Kusum deshpande and Vasant Thengdi(wife-husband), Ganpatrao Bakre (a handsome, well built wrestler, acted as Ghatotkach), Usha Marathe (who later became Usha Kiran from film gauna-1950) and many others. The story of the film was….. Subhadra (the sister of Balarama and Krishna) marries a Pandava- Arjuna. Their son Abhimanyu falls in love with Balarama’s daughter, Vatsala. The families consent to their marriage when they reach adulthood. When Abhimanyu and Vatsala have grown up, Krishna introduces them to each other. One day, the Pandavas are invited by Duryodhana, the eldest of the Kauravas to join in a game of dice. Duryodhana’s uncle, Shakuni, manipulates the results of the game, thereby costing the Pandavas their wealth, their liberty and their wife Draupadi. Duryodhana’s brother, Dushasana, attempts to disrobe Draupadi. He is seen by Krishna, who, furious, comes to her rescue.
On hearing what happened to the Pandavas, Balarama decides to teach the Kauravas a lesson and travels to their capital Hastinapuram. Shakuni and Duryodhana approach Balarama with an insincere respectful manner, then seek his approval of a marriage between Vatsala and Duryodhana’s son Lakshmana Kumara. Their true goal is to force Balarama and Krishna to support them if the Pandavas wage war. Unaware of their real intentions, Balarama agrees to the marriage.
Because of the ruined financial state of Pandavas, Balarama’s wife, Revati, refuses to honour her commitment to marry Vatsala and Abhimanyu and expresses her support for the alliance with the Kauravas. Krishna, who is aware of Duryodhana and Shakuni’s real intentions, orders his charioteer Daaruka to take Subhadra and Abhimanyu through the forests to Ghatotkacha’s hermitage.
Ghatotkacha, who happens to be Abhimanyu’s brother, at first thinks they are intruders in his forest and attacks them but later apologises for the misunderstanding. When Subhadra explains the change in the marriage arrangements, Ghatotkacha decides to wage war against both the Kauravas and Balarama. At the urging of his mother, Hidimbi, and Subhadra, Ghatotkacha abandons his plans and is advised instead to try some trickery in Dwaraka.
With the knowledge of Krishna and Vatsala’s servant, he carries the sleeping Vatsala in her bed from Dwaraka, and flies to his hermitage. Assuming Vatsala’s form, he returns to Dwaraka and, with the help of his assistants, wreaks havoc on her wedding to Lakshmana Kumara, preventing the marriage from being carried out.
With the help of assistants, Ghatotkacha creates a magical town consisting of an illusory marketplace and palace. He names the town Mayabazar and invites the Kauravas to stay there. Assistants introduce themselves to the Kauravas as servants appointed by Balarama to look after them. They manage to trick Shakuni’s lackeys. Ghatotkacha (in Vatsala’s form) makes Duryodhana’s wife rethink the marriage arrangement and teases Lakshmana Kumara. He plans the wedding of the real Vatsala and Abhimanyu in his hermitage which is attended by Krishna. Using his divine powers, Krishna also attends as a guest for the marriage taking place in the Mayabazar.
On the wedding day, Ghatotkacha appears before Lakshmana Kumara in various tantalising forms while, at the hermitage, Vatsala marries Abhimanyu. When Shakuni discovers what has really happened, he blames Krishna. Satyaki, Arjuna’s disciple, asks Shakuni to speak standing on a magical box. He proceeds to stand on the box, which makes him involuntarily explain the Kauravas’ real intentions behind the marriage proposal. Ghatotkacha then reveals his identity. After humiliating the Kauravas, Ghatotkacha sends them back to Hastinapur. Vatsala’s parents accept her marriage. They thank Ghatotkacha, who credits Krishna as the mastermind behind everything, including Abhimanyu and Vatsala’s marriage. ( just for information…. Laxman Kumar is killed by Abhimanyu on the 13th day of the Mahabharat war).
Today’s song is sung by Malti Pande and chorus. Malti Pande was a popular Marathi Natya sangeet and film singer. Malati Pande is one of my most favourite Marathi singers. Her Bhavgeets in the 1950s were extremely popular in Maharashtra and with all the Marathi people wherever they were in the world. Malati Pande was also a Classical singer and has sung very few songs in Hindi films, but excelled in Classical and Marathi songs. Her songs like ” tya tithe, palikade, tikde, maziya priyeche zopde” or ” kunihi paay naka vajvu” are evergreen. She is one of those Marathi singers like Manik Verma, Jyotsna Bhole, Hirabai Badodekar, Saraswati Rane, Shobha Gurtu, Nalini Mulgaonkar, Ram Marathe, Bhimsen Joshi, D.V.Paluskar etc, who just visited Hindi films out of curiosity, but returned to their comfort zones immediately.
Malati was born on 19-4-1930 at Poona, She was attracted to music from her childhood. She was trained by several teachers like Bhaskarrao Ghodke, Trivedi Master, Vilayat Hussain Khan, Vinayak buwa Patwardhan, Bholanath Ghatt and also her husband Pt. Padmakar Barve. At the age of 15 years, she was invited to sing on A.I.R. Poona. She did her Ph.D in Music.
When Sudhir Phadke brought her to Prabhat for an audition, for songs of Marathi version of ‘ Aage Badho ‘-47, Fattelal was very happy with her style of singing and thanked Phadke. Malati Pande’s first lori song “kunihi Paay Naka vajvu…” was with Singer & Music Director Gajanan Watve and poet Shrinivas Kharkar. It is said that afterwards, many singers and music directors recorded lori songs, but Malati Pande’s this lori song is the best and is still remembered by the Marathi listeners.
Malati Pande sang many Marathi songs under the music direction of Gajanan Watve, Sudhir Phadke, Ram Phatak, Shrinivas Khale, Datta Dawjekar, Madhukar Pathak etc.
Malati Pande sung some 15 Hindi songs under the music direction of K. Bhole, Avinash Vyas, Sudhir Phadke in the following Hindi films – Seeta Swayamvar-48, Maya Bazar-49, Shrikrishna Satyabhama-51, Shri Vishnu Bhagwan-51 and Malati Madhav-55.
Malati married classical singer Pt. Padmakar Barve. They have a son Rajiv Barve who is a singer. His daughter Priyanka Barve is also a famous singer in Marathi and Hindi films. Malati Pande died on 27-12-1997.
Let us now enjoy today’s song….
Song- Jaago hey Yadurai (Maaya Baazaar)(1949) Singer- Malti Pande, Lyricist- Pt. Mukhram Sharma, MD- Sudhir Phadke
Chorus
Lyrics
Jaao o o
jaago hey Yadurai
jaao o o
jaago hey Yadurai
deep bujhe
chakwi hai harshaai
jeena jeena taaron waala
jeena jeena taaron waala
door hataa ke ghoonghat kaala
poorv disha muskaayee jaago
poorv disha muskaayee jaago
jaago hey Yadurai
jaao o o
jaago hey Yadurai
deep bujhe
chakwi hai harshaai
band kalee ne nainaa kholey
band kalee ne nainaa kholey
gun gun gun gun bhanwra boley
koyal kook sunaayee jaago
koyal kook sunaayee jaago
jaago hey Yadurai
jaago jaago hey Yadurai
jaago jaago hey Yadurai
deep bujhe
chakwi hai harshaai
jaago jaago hey Yadurai
jaago jaago hey Yadurai
oas ke motee bikhre laakhon
oas ke motee bikhre laakhon
?? nabh pe dekho
nabh pe dekho
kiran sunahree aayee
jaago jaago
jaago jaago
jaago jaago
jaago jaago
jaago hey Yadurai
jaago jaago hey Yadurai
jaago jaago hey Yadurai
deep bujhe
chakwi hai harshaai
jaago jaago hey Yadurai
jaago jaago hey Yadurai
jaago hey Yadurai
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