Aaraam kahaan hai dil jo padaa gairon ke paale
Posted on: March 15, 2024
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Today’s song is from the film Nadi Kinare-1939.
The Internet has played an important role in our lives. It is due to the internet that we are able to virtually get any information under the Sun, at just one click ! Thanks to all those souls who have created storehouses (archives) of information of the bygone eras in different fields. We can know today about any incident, event, person or place of the past, at will, and get the information, which had seemed not accessible just about 30-40 years ago.
This is especially of great benefit to the students of history of anything – be it a language, a writer, a historical personality, a science, culture or even films. The Internet has proved to be ” Alibaba’s Cave” which opens with a password ‘ Khul ja Sim Sim’. One who has learned this password has all the doors open to desired information.
In history, whenever an event occurred, historians used to write it down for posterity and accuracy. When printing was invented in or around 1436 AD, it opened yet another avenue to record the history in a book form. Thousands of books were printed, but not all those books were available all the years to all the people at all the places. The Internet promptly stored all this information from the books and later the entire books were also stored. Thus, the desired information on almost every topic became available to the students of history. Communication between the people across the continents became a child’s play.
As far as history of films and related subjects is concerned, this facility was God-sent. When I first learnt operating computers, from my grandchildren, as late as in 2010, at the age of 70 years, I never imagined the computer’s capacity of opening the Alibaba’s Cave, for information on old films, songs and related matters. My joy knew no bounds when while surfing, I came across the archives of Film India magazine issues from the late 30’s to later years. These magazines, in their entirety, gave information on films, their details, stories and even interviews of stars. The advertisements appearing in these magazines carried information on films, events and equipment and all film related things. And all this was totally FREE !
Films of the 30’s and the 40’s were mostly not available, but from these old magazines – not only Film India, but even other language magazines, Newspapers and books etc. we got all the details. Lakhs of Blogs and Sites became available and now there is a huge number causing a mess and confusion too. Additionally Social medias like FaceBook and WA became sources of information through their groups and individuals.
Film Nadi Kinaare-1939 details are available in the December 1939 issue of Film India. It is claimed that the story of this film was a mixture of stories from 3 English films, namely
‘King and the Chorus Girl’-1937, ‘The rage of Paris-1938’ and ‘ Bluebeard’s 8th wife’. The writer of the Hindi film must have taken great efforts to mix these stories.
The cast of the film was M.Kumar, Sitara Devi, Suneeta, Indubala, Charlie, Ghory, Ram Marathe, Kantilal and others. There were 2 Lyricists- P.L.Santoshi and D.N.Madhok, but HFGK does not credit individual songs with lyricist’s names. Directed by Manibhai Vyas (27-4-1920 to 14-11-1993) who directed 20 films from Dukhiyari-37 to Shrikrishna Bhakti-1973, the film had music by Gyan Dutt. There were 13 songs in the film. Ram Marathe had done a child’s role in this film. He left the films after doing a few more films and pursued his hobby of classical singing. In due course he became an All India famous Classical Singer of repute.
The story of the film, as adapted by our Sadanand Kamath ji from the Film India issue, a few years back is….
A drunkard Prince Anand (M Kumar) is to be married to Princess Sarita (Sunita Devi) of a neighbouring state according to the decision taken by the Council. However, Prince Anand falls in love with Nama, a gypsy girl. She is brought to the Palace disguised as a Princess to exert influence over the Prince to cure him of his drinking habit. Having lost her memory, Nama really believes herself to be a Princess.
The Prince gives up his drinking habit under the influence of Nama. But a series of misunderstandings adds to the comical situations. Nama was already engaged to a gypsy boy in her village. But due to her memory loss, she does not remember her impending marriage with the gypsy boy. After sometime, Nama gets her memory back and now she finds herself in a piquant situation – both the Prince and the gypsy boy suspect her of treachery. The comical situations turn into a tragedy as Nama drowns herself into a river and for once the hero fails to save her.
Today’s song is sung by Kantilal.
KANTILAL CHHAGANLAL PACHCHIGAR ( Soni) was born on 18-4-1907 in Surat,Gujrat. He was from a Goldsmith family. Due to inherent interest in music, after college education he came to Bombay to try film singing.
His first film was ‘Bulbul e Paristan’-1934 from Vishnu Cinetone. Kikubhai Yagnik was the MD. Kantilal sang 2 songs in it.In 1935, he acted, sang and gave Music to Preet ki reet. He sang 6 songs. From 1937 to 1941, he was with Ranjit Movietone and acted and sang in 16 films. He sang 40 songs under Khamchand Prakash and Gyan Dutt. Then came Gazi Salahuddin, Kangan, Holiday in Bombay and Kanchan. Kantilal sang 60 songs in 24 films under 5 MDs, in all.
In 1943, he married Ushaben and acted in Gujarati films and Dramas. Some of his films were, Tufani Toli, Ban ki chidiya, Billi, Gorakh Aya, Prithvi Putra, Adhuri Kahani, Nadi kinare, Aaj ka Hindustan, Achhut, Diwali, Holi, Musafir, Pardesi, Sasural, Shaadi etc. He died on 17-6-1971.
Let us enjoy this lovely song….
Song-Aaraam kahaan hai dil jo pada gairon ke paale(Nadi Kinaare)(1939) Singer- Kantilal, Lyricist- Not known, MD- Gyan Dutt
Lyrics
aaraam kahaan hai
aaraam kahaan
dil jo pada gairon ke paale
muflis ko khuda
ishq ke phande mein naa daale
muflis ko khuda
ishq ke phande mein naa daale
aaraam kahaan hai
aaraam kahaan
dil jo pada gairon ke paale
muflis ko khuda
ishq ke phande mein na daale
gaa le to janaaze pe khada ishq pukaare
ab tum to chale
mujhko kiya kiske hawaale
gaa le to janaaze pe khada ishq pukaare
ab tum to chale
mujhko kiya kiske hawaale
aaraam kahaan hai
aaraam kahaan
dil jo pada gairon ke paale
muflis ko khuda
ishq ke phande mein naa daale
jitna sataana hai sata le
tu sata le
kya tu na padega
kisi bedard ke paale
jitna sataana hai sata le
tu sata le
kya tu na padega
kisi bedard ke paale
muflis ko khuda
ishq ke phande mein naa daale
aaraam kahaan hai aaram kahaan
dil jo pada gairon ke paale
muflis ko khuda
ishq ke phnde mein naa daale
aaraam kahaan hai
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March 15, 2024 at 2:37 pm
Arun Sir,
The Internet has indeed transformed our world into Alibaba’s Cave, where uncovering its secrets is as effortless as saying ‘Khul Ja Sim Sim’.
I find myself hesitant to delve into my cupboard filled with old magazines and newspaper clippings. I hope to find some time to digitize this treasure trove.
Additionally, Kantilal’s voice is melodious and similar to Surendra.
Gandhi Vadlapatla
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March 15, 2024 at 5:32 pm
Although Internet has become ‘ a magic lamp’, it can never replace old books, newspaper clippings or old issues of magazines. The reason is, contributions in all these were by individuals, who had first hand experiences or information and were much more reliable, whereas Internet has many fathers and the progeny it delivers is of doubtful nature, in case of film related matters and has to be corroborated again with other sources for authenticity.
Thanks for your comments.
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