Mujhe apnaa banaa mere dil mein samaa
Posted on: July 29, 2024
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Today’s song is from the film Ghungroo-1952. The film was made by Filmkaar Ltd., Bombay. It was directed by Hiren Bose and the music was by C.Ramchandra. The cast of the film consisted of Omprakash, Sumitra Devi, Kuldeep kaur, K.N.Singh, Badri prashad and others.
During the early phase to the Golden era of Hindi film music, the atmosphere in the industry was very cordial. Everyone had the opportunity to grow in his field and there were no ill feelings either on religious basis or success/failure basis. In such a healthy atmosphere, few friendships between actors, directors, MDs and even producers grew deep. Some of them were ideal and people in the industry used to quote their friendship in their gatherings. Here are some examples….
The friendship in the early era of films which was talked about was between director Mehboob Khan and Music director Anil Biswas, when they were prospering together in Sagar Movietone. When Sagar Movietone broke and merged with National Studios, this friendship developed misunderstandings and broke to such an extent that they even stopped talking to each other.
Another famous and ideal friendship was between Naushad and A.R.Kardar. When Naushad became too big a musician, this friendship watered down, but both were very courteous to each other till the end. One friendship which was invariably quoted and discussed in the industry was that of Producer Director Vasant Joglekar and Ashok Kumar. Whenever ashok kumar worked in Joglekar’s films, he used to get a Lunch-tiffin from Joglekar’s family kitchen as Joglekar’s wife- actress Sumati Gupte Joglekar- was an expert cook and made a very delicious Fish Curry, which Ashok kumar was mad about. This friendship ended only when Joglekar died.
There was yet another friendship which crossed the professional barriers. It was between C.Ramchandra and Omprakash. They were such thick friends that they founded a Production company together with Omprakash’s brother Ram Prakash ‘Pachhi’, and made 3 films. All these films had music by C.Ramchandra.
Today’s film Ghungroo was an earlier film in which Omprakash and C.Ramchandra worked together. We all know Om Prakash as a Comedian and as a character artiste, but not many know that in his early career, Omprakash did Hero’s roles also in a few films. Even today’s film Ghungroo-1952 was a film in which Omprakash was the Hero and had a double role with two Heroines ! Ofcourse, this was his last film as a hero. He was one of the most respected artistes of his generation, in the industry. For some time he floated a Film production company in collaboration with his close friend C. Ramchandra. When their films flopped, he simply dissolved the company and later produced films on his own and he directed them too. When his film Jahan Ara-64 flopped miserably, giving him a heavy monetary loss, he stopped producing films.
Omprakash was a lover of life, joy, jokes, playing cards and he was the happiest, when among his friends. Not many people know that the famous producer Pachhi ( Around the world etc) was his younger brother. Omprakash’s first film was ‘Guru Ghantal’-37 where he worked uncredited. He next did a small role in Bombay Talkies film ‘Anjaan’-41, but his career started when Pancholi got him a role in film ‘Daasi’-44. He earned Rs 80 for this film.
Omprakash worked in 293 films and directed 4 films namely, Duniya Gol hai-55, Gateway of India-57, Kanhaiya-59 and Chacha Zindabad-59, all produced by him alone. There were some films like Annadata-72, buddha mil gaya-71, Charandas-77 etc made keeping him as a central character. He sang 6 songs in 5 films- Meena Bazar-50, Ladki-53, Bindiya-60,Vardaan-74, and Ghar ki Izzat-94. HFGK mentions his name as a Lyricist for a song in film Dost-54.
OMPRAKASH BAKSHI was born on 19-12-1919 at Lahore. At the age of 12 ,he started learning classical music. In 1937,he joined A.I. Radio on a salary of Rs.25 pm.
He took the pen name of ‘FATEH DIN’. He presented entertaining programmes. He was very popular in Punjab and Lahore, during that period. In private parties he was a centre of attraction. In one such Party, where he was regaling his audience, he was noticed by Dalsukh Pancholi and he offered Omprakash a role in DAASI-1944.Then came Dhamki-45 and Aayee Bahaar-46. In Shehar se door-46, he was a co Hero with Al Nasir and later in Ghungroo-52 he was the Hero opposite Sumitra Devi.
Just when he was settling in films, partition took place and he landed in Bombay. His first film in Bombay was Lakhpati-48 and then there was no looking back. He acted as Villain in Naach, Nirdosh, Baghi Sipahi etc. He was a good actor and played a variety of roles. In many films he was shown as a Pehelwan. In Pehli Jhalak, his bout with Dara Singh became the film’s attraction. Even in Chameli ki Shaadi, he was a pehelwan.
There were many films made with him as a central character like, Annadaata, Dus lakh, Sadhu aur shaitan. Dil Duniya Daulat -72 was a remake of Pugree-48 in which he did the role which was done by comedian Ghori in Pugree.
C.Ramchandra was his best friend. They together produced Duniya gol hai, Jhanjhar and Lakeeren. The trailer of Duniya Gol hai was more interesting than the film. In this trailer, Raj Kapoor, Dilip Kumar and Ashok kumar come on the screen one after another and say-I have directed this film, so you must see it. Lastly Omprakash comes on screen and says,” Ye sab pagal hai. Picture to maine direct kee hai”. Anyway all the 3 films flopped despite good music. Later Omprakash alone produced films like Gateway of India, Chacha Zindabad, Sanjog and Jahan Ara. After Jahan Ara’s colossal losses he stopped producing films and converted his office into a Card Game centre for friends.
He lived in Union Park, Chembur, a suburb of Mumbai. He died at age 78 in Mumbai, India of a heart attack. The actor who was always so full of life was still full of life till just two days before his death. He knew he was not well. He knew he was suffering from various complications but he never gave up his zest for life till his heart betrayed him. He kept calling friends to play a game of Rummy or just chat. He had an office at the Roop Tara Studios which was only used for “Rummy sessions” and “chat sessions”. Then, some years ago, he shifted his office to the suburbs to make it more convenient for his friends. He attended this office regularly till his health started failing him. He was confined to his bungalow (next to Ashok Kumar’s bungalow). He suffered his first heart attack in his own bedroom. He was rushed to the Lilavati Hospital where he suffered a second heart attack and went into a coma from which he never came out. He was declared dead at 1.30 pm on February 21, 1998. The news spread fast and the industry was shocked and stunned because he was the kind of man who could not be easily associated with something so sombre and solemn like death.
Film Duniya Gol Hai-55 had a star cast of Karan Dewan, Anita Guha, Kuldeep Kaur, Sunder, Omprakash etc. Since this was his First film as a Director, as many as 13 actors worked in the film as “Guest Artistes” ! He was so popular that he had to say No to some more actors ready and eager to work as Guest Atrtistes in this film. Till this film, it was a sort of record.
The story of film Ghungroo-1952 was discovered and provided by our Sadanand ji, few years ago as follows…
Vinod (Om Prakash) is a shy person who lives in Pune. He is in love with Hema (Sumitra Devi) but does not have enough courage to disclose to her. When he comes to know that Hema also loves him he is the happiest person.
Vinod has a twin brother, Baalam (Om Prakash) who works for a theatre in Mumbai as a lead actor. He often pairs with Kamini (Kuldip Kaur) and their pair is very popular thus making them a box office attraction. Baalam gets attracted towards Kamini and she exploits this by her false love to him to keep her popularity intact at the box office. In this way, she earns fortunes by way of gifts from royal and aristocratic visitors to the theatre.Kamini’s exploitation game is exposed to Baalam. After a quarrel, she gets Baalam killed with the help of her accomplice, Hiralal (K N Singh). The ghost of Ballam cames out and starts taking revenge on his enemies. Baalam’s ghost also appears in Vinod’s house and enters Vinod’s body. Vinod suddenly becomes Baalam. Baalam’s ghost takes Vinod to Mumbai as Baalam. Hema follows him to Mumbai. Now starts the vicious circle of chase. Heart-broken Hema ran after Vinod who, in turn, runs for his life from Baalam. Baalam runs after Kamini for his revenge. Vinod turned Baalam is dragged by Hiralal and his goons. Thus, all of them find inyolved in a chain resulting in ‘comedy of errors’.
The film’s Heroine was more famous in Bengal than known in Bombay. SUMITRA DEVI (Born: 1923 – Died: 28 August 1990). She is recognized for her work in Hindi as well as Bengali cinema during the nineteen forties and nineteen fifties. She was one of the exquisite beauties of her time. She is remembered for her delineation of sensitive women characters in Hindi films like Mashal (1950), Deewana (1952), Mamta (1952) and Mayurpankh (1954) to name a few.
Sumitra Devi was a reigning actress of Bengali Cinema during forties and fifties. Films like Sandhi (1944), Samar (1950), Dasyu Mohan (1955), Saheb Bibi Golam (1956), Kinu Gowalar Gali (1964) carry her genius. But all through her reign she was celebrated more for her infinite charm than her astuteness of an actor. Her large beautiful eyes were evocative of fantasy and she was fascinating when her full, shapely lips part and meet and contract in tune with the vowels and consonants of her speech. In almost every contemporary journal about Sumitra Devi it was literally lauded that her summon was as inevitable and unforeseen as that of death.
Sumitra Devi was born in 1923 at Shiuri, in Birbhum district of undivided Bengal in a Brahmin orthodox family but was brought up in Muzaffarpur, district of Bihar. She was originally named Nilima. Her father Murali Chatterjee was an advocate by profession. While in her teens Nilima was fascinated with the then silver screen beauties like Kanan Devi or Leela Desai and this fascination once turned into a strong desire to be an actress. Films of New Theatres were household names by then. Nilima sent an application along with a photograph to New Theatres. No one but her younger brother Ranajit was in on the secret of doing this. Her letter was answered and she was called for an interview at N.T. and had to undergo a rigorous session of interrogation before finally being selected. Nilima adopted the screen name Sumitra. On the family front she faced a lot of opposition from her father. However she could overcome all odds only through her determination to enter the world of acting and it was the prestigious New Theatres where she signed her first film contract for My Sister. However, she was immediately offered another role by Debaki Kumar Bose in Sandhi which actually happened as Sumitra Devi’s debut film. Apurba Mitra was credited as the director of Sandhi but it was Debaki Bose, uncle to Apurba Mitra, who originally did the job of direction for this film that was remade several years later.
Sandhi was released on 26th October, 1944 and became a huge hit. Sumitra Devi became a star with her first film and she was credited as an actress having an outstanding luminous screen presence. Even her first film won her the BFJA Award in the Best Actress in A Leading Role category. My Sister was released after Sandhi. Even after becoming a star she had to confront strong opposition from her non co-operative family and her first marriage at Bhagalpur ended in a divorce. During this time she became personally close to her Pather Dabi co-actor Debi Mukherjee and she got married to him in 1946. In the same year she again appeared alongside Asit Baran and Bharati Devi under the banner of New Theatres, in a Hindi film Wasiyatnama based on Bishabriksha, the celebrated novel by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay. In the following years Sumitra Devi continued her silver screen career with the films like Abhijog (1947), Pather Dabi (1947), Pratibad (1948), Joyjatra (1948), Swami (1949), Debi Chowdhurani (1949).
In the year 1950 Sumitra Devi appeared alongside Ashok Kumar in Mashal under the banner of Bombay Talkies. The film was originally based on Rajani, a celebrated Bengali novel by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay and was released with a Bengali version under the title Samar. She continued her Bollywood career with films like Ghunghru (1952), Mayurpankh (1954), Chor Bazar (1954), Arabian Nights (1955). In 1956 she appeared alongside Uttam Kumar and Chhabi Biswas in the remarkable Saheb Bibi Golam based on Bimal Roy’s brilliant novel of the same name. Pateswari, the role played by Sumitra Devi became quite an obsession to the Indian filmmakers. In the same year she was featured in The Raj Kapoor starer Jagte Raho which was also released with a Bengali version under the title Ekdin Ratre.
Through the late fifties Sumitra Devi’s reign began to slow down. Her films like Khela Bhangar Khela (1957), Andhare Alo (1957), Joutuk (1958) failed to impress her audience unlike her earlier ones. It was also opined that during the late fifties the audience of Bengali Cinema got preoccupied with the obsessive beauty of the then reigning Suchitra Sen and that drove Sumitra Devi into a corner. Still she had Kinu Gowalar Gali, a 1964 film in which Sumitra Devi, for the last time, excelled as an astute actress. Sumitra Devi died in Bombay on 28th August, 1990.
Today’s song is a duet by Lata and Geeta. There are not many such duets of these two popular singers. Let us enjoy the song….
Song- Mujhe apna bana mere dil mein samaa (Ghunghroo)(1952) Singers- Lata, Geeta Dutt, Lyricist- Rajinder Krishna, MD- C Ramchandra
Lyrics
idhar sachchi mohabbat hai
udhar jhoothhi jawani hai ae ae ae
mohabbat ki taraf aaye to
teri meharbaani hai
mujhe apna bana
mere dil mein sama
teri meharbaani
teri meharbaani
teri meharbaani
teri meharbaani
haazir hai ye dil
aa teer chala
teri jiye jawaani
teri jiye jawaani
teri jiye jawaani
teri jiye jawaani
udhar hai kaanta
idhar kali hai
kali se preet laga aa aa
kali se preet laga
mast jawaani chhod ke pagle
aur kahin na jaa
kahin na jan
aur kahin na ja
baton mein ye din baalam na ganwa
teri jiye jawaani
teri jiye jawaani
teri jiye jawaani
teri jiye jawaani
duniya ke gham ghol ke pi ja
duniya ke gham ghol ke pi ja
ye duniya hai phaani
mauj mana
o aish uda
aur kal ki kisne jaani
kal ki kisne jaani
ab der na kar
bas aa bhi jaa
teri jiye jawaani
teri jiye jawaani
teri jiye jawaani
teri jiye jawaani
aish ki baaten
mauj ki raaten
paani ka hai rela aa aa
paani ka hai rela
ye rang raliyaan
ghadi do ghadi
preet sada ka mela aa aa
preet sada ka mela
mere pyaar bhare
manwa mein aa
teri meharbaani
teri meharbaani
teri meharbaani
teri meharbaani
mujhe apna bana
mere dil mein sama
teri meharbaani
teri meharbaani
teri meharbaani
teri meharbaani
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