Ae ree daiyya lachak lachak chalat Mohan aave man bhaave
Posted by: Atul on: July 14, 2024
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Today’s song is from a film which was a milestone in the lives of its Hero, Heroine, an actor, singer and the company that made this film. The film was Jeevan Naiya-1936, made by Bombay Talkies.
Founded in 1934 as a Public limited company, Bombay Talkies had a modern, well equipped film studio. Its owners were Himanshu Rai and Devika Rani, both coming from rich and educated families. Having spent years in England and Germany, they had very ambitious plans for film making. Their technical staff was from Germany and for other departments, they had a very good select team. The studio was run like a company, having its own canteen and other amenities for its staff.
When they embarked on their First film- Jawani ki Hawa-1935, they had a very young and handsome Hero, Najam- ul- Hussain, opposite the Heroine Devika Rani, wife of Himanshu Rai. After this successful film, the second film with the same pair-Jeevan Naiya, was on the floor. Najmul and Devika who had fallen in love eloped to Calcutta, leaving Bombay talkies in doldrums. There was a terrible commotion in the company. Himanshu Rai sent his assistant and close confidante S. Mukherjee to Calcutta. With his diplomatic handling he was able to bring back Devika Rani, leaving Najmul alone in Calcutta.
Having lost the Hero of the film, Himanshu was in a fix. On the suggestion of Mukherjee, Kumud Lal Ganguly, working as a Lab technician in Bombay talkies and who was Mukherjee’s Brother in law (wife’s brother), was convinced to play the hero in this film, with a new name – ASHOK KUMAR. The film was shot with this new pair and later they did 8 films together, all being Hit films.
Thus, for the Hero Ashok Kumar, Heroine Devika Rani and the company Bombay Talkies, the film Jeevan Jyoti-1936 was a Milestone in their lives. In this film there was an actor singer, who was also an assistant to the Music Director Saraswati Devi. For him too, this film was a Milestone because he not only made his debut as an actor but also debuted as a singer. His name was Shreenath Tripathi. Later on he rose to great heights and became a good actor, director, writer and a well known Music Director in Hindi films. His life story is very interesting.
In the 50’s decade, S N Tripathi, music director was a multi-faceted artiste. He was an actor, composer, director and a singer too. He had acted in 83 films,sang 13 songs in 7 films, directed 18 films and gave music to 111 films- composing 863 songs in all. He was the MD in all the 18 films, which he had directed- from Ram Hanuman Yuddha-57 to Sant Gyaneshwar-81.
Actor, singer, composer, story and screenplay writer and filmmaker. The Late Shri Nath Tripathi was a man of many parts and talents. Many creative artistes have achieved greatness and immortality in the Indian film industry but only a few have displayed the range of versatility that S. N. Tripathi did with such consummate ease. S. N. Tripathi’s main field of endeavour were the much-neglected, much scorned mythologicals to which he brought an aura of credibility thanks to his scholarship and painstaking research. Of course, much more would be required before S. N. Tripathi’s immense contribution to the Indian film industry can be assessed properly.
Shri Nath Tripathi was born in a Brahmin family of Kashi (Benaras, U.P.) on 14th March 1913. His grandfather Pandit Ganesh Dutt Tripathi was principal of Sanskrit Vidyapeeth, Kashi and his father Pandit Damodar Dutt Thakur was principal of Government high school, Kashi. He completed his education from Banaras. He did his B.Sc. from Allahabad. He took classical music training from V N Bhatkhande’s Marris College of Music, Lucknow. He took light classical and folk music training from Maina Devi, Lucknow. He earned himself the degree of ‘Sangeet Praveen’ from Prayag Sangeet Samiti and ‘Sangeet Visharad’ from Marris Music College.
He went to Bombay and joined Bombay Talkies in 1935 as a violinist. He then joined music director Saraswati Devi as an assistant at a salary of Rs. 100 per month. SN Tripathi assisted Sarswati Devi in ten films (1935-1938). He made his debut as a singer actor in Ashor Kumar Devika Rani starrer, Jeewan Naiya (1936). When WWII broke out in 1939, Franz Osten was detained by the British Government and was sent to Deolali. The reins of direction came in the hands of NR Acharya, Amiya Chakarverti and Gyan Mukharjee. It was NR Acharya who recommended SN Tripathi to Dhiru Bhai Desai to take him as independent composer in his film Chandan (1939). The first song Tripathi recorded as a composer was “Nanha sa dil deti hun pardesi preet nibhana” a duet sung by himself and Raj Kumari.
Sarvottam Badami had known Tripathi since Bombay Talkies days. He signed him for his mythological film Uttara Abhimanyu. Starring Shanta Apte and Sahu Modak, SN Tripathi created some splendid songs in Rabindra sangeet’s style, “Laaj bhare in naino mein sakhi” , “Mere man jag utha anurag, Door desh ka sandesh preet ka, and Mere man mandir me mere devta aao” (Shanta Apte).
SN Tripathi had a strong bond with the Wadia brothers (JBH and Homi). He gave music for them in a dozen films. Homi Wadia directed Shri Ram Bhakt Hanuman. In the film SN Tripathi played the title role of Hanuman (Tripathi played the same role of Hanuman in several films later). Mukesh sang for the first time in this film. “Hey khag mrig hey madhukar shreni” and “Beet chali barkha ritu sote sudh na mili timhari”. After Ram Bhakt Hanuman Tripathi started getting more mythological films such as Ganesh Mahima (Shri Krishna also titled Shri Krishna Viwah) Naag Durga, Nag Panchmi, Ram Hanuman Yudha, Vishnu Puran, Naag Mere Saathi and Khuda Ka Banda.
By the 50s, mythological films were replaced by historical and period films. SN Tripathi was in great demand. He gave soulful music in several films. One such film was Homi Wadia’s Hatimtai (1956). There is an interesting story related to Tripathi’s music in this film. Starring Jairaj and Shakeela. Nizam of Hyderabad went to see Hatimtai in a theatre along with his family members. When the song “Parwar digaar alam” (Rafi) appeared on the screen, the Nizam was overwhelmed. He requested the manager to play this song once again. The film was stopped and the same song was played twelve times. Another evergreen duet was “Jhoomti hai nazar, Jhumta hai pyaar” (Rafi/Asha).
His film Janam Janam Ke Phere (1957) needs special mention. The film had Nirupa Roy and Manhar Desai in the lead. Like Hatimtai it was a smashing musical hit of that year. The everlasting song of the film “Zara samne to aao chaliye” (Rafi/Lata) was number one in Binaca Geet Mala. Other hits were “Tan ke tambure mein” (Manna Dey) “Tu hai ya nahi bhagwan” (Rafi/Lata/Manna Dey) and “Ayi mohan Milan ki bela” (Shamshad/Rafi) in Garba style and title track “Janam janam ke phere saanjh savere” (Rafi).
SN Tripathi had complete knowledge of Indian classical music. During his university days, Tripathi simultaneously did Sangeet Praveen and Sangeet Visharad from Prayag Sangeet Samiti. Which he deftly utilised in compositions “Binti karat mori payal run jhun” (Lata) in Ram Hanuman Yudh. “Baat chalat mori chunri rang daari, hai aisa bedard Banwari” (Rafi/classical singer Krishna Rao Chonkar) in Rani Roopmati. “Megha aayo re ghir ghir ke chhao re” (Manna Dey/Rafi) “Main to janam janam ki pyaasi” (Lata) in Kavi Kalidas and “Mohammad shah rangeele sajna” (Lata/Rafi) in Nadir Shah.
SN Tripathi in his long career of 50 years (1938-1985) gave music in 111 films. One of his career’s best musicals was Rani Roopmati (1959). It had a number of super hit compositions. Another musical triumph of SN Tripathi was Jairaj, Nirupa Roy starrer Lal Qila (1960) with the backdrop of the First War of Independence in 1857. Rafi sang his two immortal ghazals – “Na kisi ki aankh ka noor hun na kisi ke dil ka qarar hun” and “Lagta nahin hai dil mera ujde dayar mein”. SN Tripathi didn’t use any Orchestra in these ghazals.
After the success of these movies SN Tripathi gave another musical hit Sangeet Samrat Tansen in (1963). It was based on the life of legendary singer Tansen in the court of Akbar. It had Raag based compositions “Jhoomti chali hawa” (Mukesh) in Raag Sohni. Rafi and Manna Dey sang Shiv Stuti number “Hey Natraj Gangadhar Shambo” in Raag Jogia.
Unfortunately the film got a lukewarm response at the box office.
Like his erstwhile assistant Chitragupt, he too gave music in Bhojpuri film Bidesiya (1963). In all, he gave music in ten Bhojpuri films. In the 60s and 70s, the music scenario had gone through a sea change. New composers had captured the music scene. SN Tripathi kept on giving music even towards the late 70s and early 80s. He recorded his last song in Mahasati Tulsi (1985).
SN Tripathi died on March 28, 1988 at the age of 66 . ( I thank downmelodylane.com,an article by Shri Sharad Dutt on millenniumpost.in , wikipedia, muVyz and my notes for making up this post.)
The first film of Ashok Kumar-Jeevan Naiya-1936 was a Hit film. The film was directed by a German- Franz Osten, who directed a total of 16 films for Bombay talkies. The music was by India’s First prolific woman Music Director- Saraswati Devi aka Khorsheed Minocher-Homji. The first ever woman M.D. was ishrat jahan (Bibbo) who composed only for 2 films, the second was jaddan Bai who composed only for 5 films, but Saraswati Devi, though third in ranking, was the most prolific than them with 31 films as MD, composed 262 songs and sang 10 songs in 6 films ! At whatever number she was technically, but in reality she ranked first in the output of Music.
Today’s song is the First song of S.N.Tripathi. No record was issued for this song. The video we will see is extracted from the film. Enjoy the Debut song….
Song- Aeri daiyya lachak lachak chalat Mohan aave man bhaave (Jeewan Naiyya)(1936) Singer- S.N.Tripathi (DEBUT FIRST SONG), Lyricist- J.S.Kashyap, MD- Saraswati Devi (astt. S.N.Tripathi)
Lyrics
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aeri daiyya
lachak lachak chalat
Mohan aave
man bhaave
aeri daiyya
lachak lachak chalat
Mohan aave
man bhaave
adhar adhar
madhur madhur
mukh se been bajaawe
adhar adhar
madhur madhur
mukh se been bajaawe
guinyya
mukh se been bajaawe
guinyya
lachak lachak chalat
Mohan aave
man bhaave
??awan(?) kundal chapal dol
??awan(?) kundal chapal dol
mor mukut chaand kiran
mand hansat
dinan(?) basat
soorat man rijhaawe guinyya
soorat man rijhaawe guinyya
soorat man rijhaawe guinyya
lachak lachak chalat
Mohan aave
man bhaave
aeri daiyya
lachak lachak chalat
Mohan aave
man bhaave
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July 14, 2024 at 10:34 am
Arun Ji
Thanks for the post.
It was a great read about S N Tripathi. I Did not know of his versatility ( being an actor… etc). I realised ,after reading, the amount of work he has accomplished as a MD.
Never noticed ( the song being evergreen) that the ghazals of Lal Quila were rendered without an orchestra
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July 14, 2024 at 11:15 am
I am glad you added few things to your information bank from this post.
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