Lete jaao re Prabhu ka naam thhodaa
Posted on: September 20, 2024
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In this blog we have contributors who started watching movies in 1940s, some in 1950s, some in 1960s, some in 1970s and so on. When one reads their reminisceces about those days, we find that all these decades were vastly different from other decades. The movies made during any particular era catered to the then prevailing choices and preferences of the public. The genres of movies underwent change as time passed.
Movie may have been the major source of entertainment, but not the only source, if one thinks about it. Sports were also source of entertainment/ enjoyment, as they have always been, whether we are good at them or not. India were good in Hockey, bad in cricket and horrible in global sports like football, atheletics etc but that did not stop us from playing these outdoor games.
One did not need education to watch movies or play sports, but they mankind has created higher things that can only be enjoyed when educated. For example, all civilisations have created epics that have survives for thousands of years and are still popular.
For example, India created epics Ramayan and Mahabharat. People who are educated can savour the interesting stories contained in these epics. As a kid growing up in late 1960s and entire 1970s, I was a voracious reader of every book I could lay my hands on. I read (and bought) all children’s magazines that were available in local book stall (in the state bus depot). One of these magazines were “Chandamama”, that then carried the episodes of Mahabharata in serialised form. Instead of waiting for one month to find out what happened next, I would rather have the entire tome of Mahabharata at my disposal. I tried my elders to get that, but my request failed on deaf ears. Then during one dashara (1974 perhaps), when we were visiting various pandals, the pandal of Marwadi college (as always) had Geetapress Gorakhpur religious books for sale. I pestered my elders and got then to by me Krishleela. This thick book, hundred of pages thick, full of colour sketches, was to me like all episodes of various chandamama issues under one cover itself. That book became a prized possession for me.
One may say that one can watch movies of these religious tales. But movies are only three hours long and they cater to least common denominator. Moreover, they can only contain excerpts of the book, not the entire content. Watching movie on Mahabharata is like watching a place from the window seat of your train coach. You can not get to see anything. If you really want to savour the book, you must read it. In case of vising a place, you must get down from train and visit important locations of a place over several hours if not days.
Reading books is for connoiseurs, watching movies on the same topic is for hoi polloi.
Another interesting side effect is that if you read book of say Mahabharata, you get familiar with several cultural references that you remain unaware of if you do not read such books.
We all have noticed that the hapit of reading books is dying down with time. Now people “read” on mobiles and tablets. Even if they read Mahabharat on these devices, they will read a few pages and then their attention will get diverted. I now realise that I was so much immersed in reading of books that I would finish off 300 pages book in one sitting ! I have not watched “Kati Patang”(1970) till now. But I got hold of its story book (about 400 pages). I finished it off in a few hours. And I could visualise the movie getting played in my minds eye !
Another interesting offshoot of such activities is that your vocabulary improves considerably. One should leant words from books not from movies, just as one should learn cricket technique by playing read ball cricket and not white ball cricket.
The song that I am discussing here is from a movie called “Basant Panchami”(1956). The movie was produced and directed by Jayant Desai for Hemlata Pictures, Bombay. The movie had Nirupa Roy, Anant Kumar, Jeevan, S.N. Tripathi, Radhakishan, Yashodhara Katju, Niranjan Sharma, Kumkum, Babu Raje, Charubala, Anand Joshi, Sukumar, Dubey, Uma Dutt, Naazi, Shri Bhagwan etc in it.
Seeing that this movie was a भक्ति प्रधान movie, its songs, penned by Kavi Pradeep, naturally have terms that one can only identify and note down if your vocabulary has these words. The lyrics have lots and lots of very interesting words. Curiously, I found that the lyrics of this song (in a “famous” Hindi songs lyrics site) would want us to believe that the song has only two lines that get repeated several times as
lete jaao re prabhu ka naam thoda thoda
lete jana lete jana lete jana re
The lyrics noter was not able to get words like “dauda jaaye re samay ka ghoda”, “zara hosh mein aao hey abhimaani”, “kab talak karoge manmaani”, and many more such lines. It shows how important it is for people to devote time to read books. I pity people who cannot get words like “Bhavsagar”, “ghat”, “rodaa” etc. These are proper Hindi words handed down to us from our rich cultural legacy which an Hindi educated person should know like the back of his mind.
Here is this song sung by Asha Bhonsle and chorus. Music is composed by Chitragupta. Listening to this song is so calming to the nerves.
Song-Lete jaao re prabhu ka naam thhoda (Basant Panchami)(1956) Singer-Asha Bhonsle, Lyrics-Kavi Pradeep, MD-Chitragupta
Female chorus
Lyrics
lete jaao re prabhu ka naam thhoda thhoda
dauda jaaye re samay ka ghoda
lete jaao re prabhu ka naam thhoda thhoda
dauda jaaye re samay ka ghoda
o o o
lete jaao re prabhu ka naam thhoda thhoda thhoda
dauda jaaye re samay ka ghoda
lete jaao re prabhu ka naam thhoda thhoda
dauda jaaye re samay ka ghoda
zara hosh mein aao hey abhimaani
kab talak karoge manmaani
zara hosh mein aao hey abhimaani
kab talak karoge manmaani
jitne dee hai tumko ye zindgaanee
us prabhu se karo mat beimaanee
jo hai sabka vidhaataa
saaree duniya ka daataa
o o w
o o o
jo hai sabka vidhaataa
saaree duniya ka daataa
kaahe tumne usi se naata todaa
o kaahe tumne usi se naata todaa toda toda
dauda jaaye re samay ka ghoda
lete jaao re prabhu ka naam thhoda thhoda
dauda jaaye re samay ka ghoda
aao prabhu jee ka tum ??ran kar lo re
adhron pe hari kee dhun bhar lo re
aao prabhu jee ka tum ??ran kar lo re
adhron pe hari kee dhun bhar lo re
bhakti se man ka ghat bhar lo re
bhavsagar paar kar lo re
sabse bada hai dhan yahaan hari ka bhajan
ho ho ho
ho ho ho
sabse bada hai dhan yahaan hari ka bhajan
jod lo re jitna bhi jaaye jodaa
o jod lo re jitna bhi jaaye jodaa jodaa jodaa
dauda jaaye re samay ka ghoda
lete jaao re prabhu ka naam thhoda thhoda
dauda jaaye re samay ka ghoda
ye jag hai musaafirkhaanaa re
yahaan se ek din tumhen jaanaa re
ye jag hai musaafirkhaanaa re
yahaan se ek din tumhen jaanaa re
bekaar na waqt ganwaanaa re
badi door hai tumhaaraa thhikaana re
zaraa dhyaan se khilaadi
haanko jeewan kee gaadee
ho ho ho
ho ho ho
zaraa dhyaan se khilaadi
haanko jeewan kee gaadee
dekho jaaye na atak koi rodaa
o dekho jaaye na atak koi rodaa rodaa rodaa
dauda jaaye re samay ka ghoda
lete jaao re prabhu ka naam thhoda thhoda
dauda jaaye re samay ka ghoda
lete jaao re prabhu ka naam thhoda thhoda
dauda jaaye re samay ka ghoda
Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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