Dagmag doley paap ki naiyya
Posted on: July 6, 2024
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Today’s song is from the film Jwala-1938.
It was a regular Costume film made by Master Vinayak’s Huns Pictures. The film had a cast of Ratnaprabha, Chandra Mohan, Ashalata, Mandhare, Vinayak, Rajni and others. Music Director was Debutante Dhamman Khan, assisted by the veteran Dada Chandekar. Dhamman Khan was one of those giants of classical music who had developed an urge (call it itch) to try their hand at composing film music,do a film or two and return to their own comfort zone again.
Some such other examples are Bhurji khan(Kurukshetra-33), Ameer saab(Nirdosh abla-35), Nawab Khan(Mirza sahiban-35) Wamanrao Sadolikar(Naganand-35…this is C.Ramchandra’s First film as a Hero. The film ran for just ONE day !),Abdul Kareem Khan (Maut ka Toofan-35 and Voh kaun-35), Master Giyasuddin (Typist girl-35) etc etc.
Dhumman Khan was a renowned name in classical music. Master Vinayak made him MD of film Chhaya-36. Dhamman khan was impressed with Ratnaprabha and gave her 6 songs of the total 14 songs of Chhaya. Even in the film Jwala-38,he gave her 8 of the 10 total songs. In film Chhaya he had to make non singers like Leela Chitnis and Indira Wadkar sing songs,so in jwala he did not opt for any other singer except Ratnaprabha,who was a trained singer herself.
After two films,Chhaya and Jwala,Dhumman Khan returned to his classical music,never ever to come back to films in his life.
There are 3 noteworthy points about this film. The First is, attracted by the popularity and glamour of the film industry, like few others, Dhamman khan made his Debut with this film. The film was made in Marathi and Hindi, like almost all films made in Kolhapur and Poona in those days in the West and Calcutta in the East (Bengali and Hindi).
Secondly, it was the first time that a noted film star from the Hindi films – Chandra Mohan – was its Hero. he also acted in its Marathi version, though he was not very fluent .(However in his subsequent Marathi films like Geeta, he spoke Marathi fluently).
Thirdly, contrary to the Indian audience’s habit of branding film stars with specific style of working and types of films he works in, Master Vinayak made this film as a Costume film, instead of his usual light comedies exposing traditional social deficiencies. This was not welcomed by the audience and the film flopped miserably, putting a burden of financial difficulties on Vinayak.
In the early era of Talkie films, there were 3 major film centres till about 1940 – Bombay, Calcutta and Poona/Kolhapur. The beginning of Marathi films was from Kolhapur. This was due to the encouragement of Shahu Maharaj, the king of Kolhapur, who promoted and encouraged arts of all varieties, so much so that he even started his own film company “Shalini Cinetone”.
Kolhapur produced pioneers of films like Baburao Painter, V.Shantaram, Master Vinayak, Bhal ji and Baburao Pendharkar etc. In those days, Kolhapur, Sangli, Miraj, Hubli, Dharwad, Belgaum, Konkan area and Goa areas provided many artistes to Hindi films. Shanta Hublikar, Amirbai and Gauhar akarnataki, Vinayak, Vasant desai, Singer desai sisters (Vinodini and Promodini), Shantaram etc are few such examples.
Master Vinayak Karnataki ( 19-1-1906 to 19-8-1947) was born in Kohapur. He was related to V.Shantaram and Bhal G. Pendharkar also. In fact, these three families had strange relationships. Bhal ji Pendharkar (Bhalchandra Gopal Pendharkar) was the son of Dr.Gopal Pendharkar, the Royal Physician of Shahu Maharaj of Kolhapur state and his partner Radhabai. Dr. Gopal was already married to another lady. This couple gave birth to Bhalji and Baburao Pendharkar. Their mother Radhabai left Dr. Gopal Pendharkar and married Damodar Karnataki. They had two sons- Master Vinayak (father of Baby Nanda), famous actor, director, producer and a studio owner and his brother Vasudev- who became a Cameraman. Kamalabai, the younger sister of Radhabai married Rajaram Vankudre and they had 2 sons- V.Shantaram, famous actor, director,producer and a studio owner and his brother V. Awadhoot- equally famous Cinematographer.
Many of his cousins and family members were already in the Film line.His half brothers Bhal ji and Baburao Pendharkar, maternal cousin V. Shantaram and his brother V.Avadhoot ( cinematographer) were in films. His own brother Vasudev also became a cameraman. Master Vinayak was working as a Teacher in a school, but Bhalji brought him in films. Initially Vinayak was with Prabhat, working under Shantaram and learning many things. He started his own company ” Hans Pictures” in partnership with Baburao Pendharkar and cameraman Pandurang Naik. Their first film was Chhaya-36. (almost all films made by Vinayak till 47 were bilingual in Marathi and Hindi-sometimes with different Titles ( like Ardhangi in Marathi became Ghar ki rani-40 in Hindi etc.)
While Shantaram stressed on technical aspects of film making successfully, Vinayak was keen on a strong story. Therefore he used the works of Top class writers in Marathi like V.S.Khandekar, P.K.Atre, Mama Varerkar etc. ( V.S.Khandekar, later won Sahitya Akademi award, Jnanpith award, Padma Bhushan award and many honours like D.Litt etc. The Government issued a Postage stamp after his death also). Film Chhaya won many awards and was commercially successful. Then came Dhrmaveer-37 and Premveer-37 ( The Heroine in this film was Ashalata-wife of Anil Biswas). Then came the film Jwala-38, with Chandramohan in both versions-Marathi and Hindi. He learnt to speak excellent Marathi for this film. Later he did 3 more Marathi films also. Unfortunately, the film Jwala was a resounding flop-not because of anything else. According to V.S.Khandekar, Vinayak had meddled with the story too much. ( this looks to be a chronic ailment of the film line !)
Vinayak fell back on comedy and made Brahmachari-38 and Brandi ki botal-39. Both were successful, but the loss due to Jwala was too big. Even one more comedy- Ghar ki rani-40 could not salvage the damage and Hans pictures was dissolved to form another company Navyug Chitrapat, with added P.K.Atre as a partner. Navyug was the first film company to offer 100 rs. shares directly to the public. ( Bombay Talkies had shares with only the directors, initially). The first film was Lapandav-40. Though successful, P.K.Atre left the company- (along with its Heroine Vanmala- his consort) and established his own company Atre Pictures.
After another comedy, Navyug made Amrit-41. In the year 1942, Navyug made the film ‘ Pahili Mangalagaur”-42, in which Lata Mangeshkar made her debut as an actress and singer. She sang her first ever film song with Snehprabha Pradhan- under the baton of Dada Chandekar. There was a kissing scene of Snehprabha and Shahu Modak in this film. During the making of this film, Vinayak left Navyug and started his own ” Prafull Pictures”. Vinayak made several Hindi and Marathi films including Badi Maa-45.
While Vinayak was at Kolhapur, one day a slim, slender 13 year old girl came to his office. She touched his feet and sat on the mat. She was young Lata.
Lata said- My father has just died. I need a job.
Vinayak- But you are only 12-13 year old. What job can you do ?
Lata- I can act and sing.
Vinayak asked her to sing. Impressed with her singing he said- You sing well. You will have a bright future.
Lata- Sir, I am thinking of my Present,today.
Vinayak smiled and said- You are employed by me on a 60 Rs. pm salary. You will act and sing in our films.
After this, till he died, master Vinayak helped Lata to get established in Hindi films. She had never forgotten this help.
Master Vinayak had married Sushilabai (sister of actress Indira Wadkar and aunt of actress Hansa Wadkar) and not Minakshi Shirodkar-as popularly believed. They only had professional relationships. Minakshi was already married before joining films. Baby Nanda, the famous actress of Hindi films, was Master Vinayak’s daughter, from wife Sushilabai.
Vinayak died on 19-8-1947, just 4 days after Independence.
The story of the film Jwala-1938 was….
Angaar (Chandramohan) is the Chief of Army, a loyal and powerful general of the king (Bulbule). he was a doting father, a loving husband and a good friend to Mangala (Ratnaprabha) and Tarang (Chandrakant). Once, when he goes hunting in the jungle, he meets an evil witch Kuntala (Ashalata) who tells him that the king will die and he will become the King. This sparks an obsession with Angaar and he starts dreaming of becoming the King. Mangala and friend Tarang try to change his mind, but to no avail. His ambition overtakes and he kills the King and declares himself as the King. The people of the kingdom revolt and back the young Prince who should be the King. Angaar becomes cruel and tries to crush the revolt. His wife Mangala and Friend Tarang leave him and join the rightful descendent the Prince in the revolt.
In the end there is a fierce battle between the oppressed and the Oppressors, in which Mangala dies and Angaar becomes fatally wounded.In that condition also he tries to reach his throne, but dies just a few yards from it. The Prince becomes the King and the people rejoice.
The film was released on 31-12-1938. In this film, all the 10 songs were sung by Ratnaprabha. 8 were solos and 2 were with chorus.
Song- Dagmag dole paap ki naiyya (Jwaala)(1938) Singer- Ratnaprabha, Lyricist- Pt. Indra, MD- Dhamman Khan
Lyrics
Dagmag doley paap ki naiyya aa aa aa
haa aa
aa aa aa aa
saagar ke manjhdhaaaar
aa
ho o ?? mailee ?? daalee ee
kaal kee sun le pukaar o
jal thhal ??
jal thhal ??
vipda ka din ??
vipda ka din ??
saanjh padee ghar aawo swaami
haan aan
saanjh padee ghar aawo swaami
bigdee baat banaao swaami
bigdee baat banaao swaami
jal thhal ??
mere laal hai
ab tu is dukhyaaree ke sahaara
beta
zakhmon se chhalni bane huye kaleje mein
tumhen kahaan chhipaaun
jaldi
jaldi bade ho jaao
?? baaton se to mujhe ?? milega
bolo
bolo
bolo mere laal
dukhiyaa ke ae ae ae
aa aa
dukh a a aa
aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa
dukhiya ke ae ae ae ae
??
nainon ke taaze ae ae ae ae
raaj dulaare
jag ujiyaare
chaand(?) piyaare
tum hi dheer dharaao
tum hi dheer dharaao
aawo
aa aa aa aa
tum hi dheer dharaao
aawo
tum hi dheer dharaao
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