Hum aage hum aage hum aage badhte jaayenge
Posted on: September 28, 2024
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Today’s song is from the film Badi Baat-1944.
During the second world war period 1939-1945, a lot of Black marketing flourished and few anti-socials became rich having a lot of unaccounted money. As such, during the war period the British Government had imposed Rationing of various essential items including food items, sugar,oil, Kerosene, Petrol and even Raw Film supply. This provided a golden opportunity to these people to start Black of the rationed items. Needy people and those who could afford, enriched these people. Now, they did not know what to do with this unaccounted money.
Film making was considered as a good investment which could use this money effectively, giving better returns thus enhancing their money. That is why, many such people became finance providers for film production. Not knowing anything about production or its process, once money was provided they did not interfere till they got their profits However, some financiers fulfilled their desire to even direct a film. Thus, during this period one will find many strange names as film directors. Ofcourse, fake names were also used.
This, however, resulted in films without any quality to be produced. The best genre to give sure profits was Action/Stunt?Mythological films. Social films were also made. 1944 was a year, when it was almost well known that the war would end in a few months. Sure enough, it ended in August 1945, when Atom Bombs were used to defeat Japan. This affected film making and in 1944 only 86 Hindi films were made (the number went down to 74 in 1947), while in 1943 the number of films was 153 !
Raw Film shortage was troubling the film makers in India. Black money generated through Black marketing was disturbing the industry. The cost of the filmmaking, which was about a Lakh or so in 1940, had escalated to 5 to 6 lakhs per film. Studio system was weakened due to individual production practices started by black money investors. Star salaries had inflated. Many stars worked on FreeLance basis. The law of war promotion movies was now forcefully implemented. Many producers made War propaganda movies to get the Raw Film at controlled rates. The Government had increased the Entertainment Taxes in Bombay, Madras, UP and CP areas, so the cost of Cinema tickets had increased. Prithvi Theatre was launched by Prithviraj Kapoor. Film artistes gathered under the leadership of EVR Naicker in Madras to form DMK party. M. Karunanidhi was a prominent leader.
In Spite of all this, some good Musical films were made in 1944. Saigal, who arrived in Bombay from Calcutta for good, made his second film in Bombay. New composers, New Heros and New heroines brought a variety of Genres of films made in 1944. Some of the major films of 1944 were….
Bhanwara – Second film by Saigal and Khemchand Prakash in Ranjit in Bombay. Made in just 9 days’ shooting for Saigal, by director Kidar Sharma. It was the second film for Monica Desai too (sister of Leela Desai and wife of Phani Mujumdar).
Bharthari – Last film in India by singer actress Jahan Ara Kajjan who sang her last 2 songs in it. She migrated to Pakistan in the wake of Partition. Very good songs in the film, especially ” Bhiksha de de maiya” by Amirbai and Surendra.
Chal Chal re Naujawan – First film from newly established Filmistan, by the deserters’ group from Bombay Talkies, led by S.Mukherjee and Ashok Kumar. Ashok Kumar sang 6 songs in it for the first and the last time for Ghulam Haider. His song ” Bolo Har Har Mahadev” was very melodious and popular.
Chand – Debut film of Husnlal-Bhagatram team. They were recommended by elder brother Pt. Amarnath, who was the first choice of D.D.Kashyap. After V.Shantaram and his team left Prabhat, this was an attempt by Prabhat to join the mainstream by opting for the first time a Non Marathi star cast and Punjabi style musicians. 5 singers were used by H-B for 11 songs. A mild success film.
Daasi – it was a musical from Lahore by Pt. Amarnath- with his favourite Zeenat Begum.
Dost produced the evergreen Noorjehan song ” Badnam – muhabbat kaun karen” composed by Sajjad Hussain. This one song alone made them both immortal.
Draupadi – a feeble attempt by Baburao Patel to make a Heroine out of his secretary Sushila Rani.
Gaali – Another film by Sajjad, but with only 3 songs to him and 9 to Hanuman prasad.
Iraada – Pt.Amarnath brought Hemant Kumar as a Debutant singer.
Ismat – The first and the only film of the brothers Pt. H.P.Sharma and Pt. Govardhan Pershad, as a composer team.
Jwar Bhata – Devika Rani’s discovery, Dilip Kumar’s first film. He was the side Hero and the Hero was Agha. Actress Mrudula also debuted as Dilip’s Heroine.
Krishna Bhakt Bodana – The only film of the Revolutionary Poet singer Master Vasant from Surat. Avinash Vyas, Shankar rao Vyas composed music, while S.N.Tripathi gave background music.
Musical film Lal Haveli – Only time when Noor Jehan and Surendra sang together under Mir Saheb.
Mann ki Jeet – W.Z.Ahmed brings new Heroine Neena, who sings in the voice of Debutante Sitara of Kanpur in all her films. Neena was a Non-Singer.
My Sister – Saigal goes back to Calcutta to complete a Musical film ” My Sister”. Pankaj Mullick gives excellent songs by Saigal and others. There were two films ‘ Panchhi’ and ‘ O Panchhi’ with average songs.
Panna – A war propaganda film based on the ” Mata Hari” story, with a new Heroine Geeta Nizami. MD Amir Ali dies before the film is released. The credits in the film dedicate the film to Late Amir Ali. Perhaps the best music was by Vasant Desai to film ” Parbat pe apna dera”. Vanmala and ulhas excel in acting in a story of sexual repression. All songs are excellent, especially Amirbai’s song ” Pareshan hoon main” is simply divine.
Lastly, the Best one. Record breaking musical Rattan gave us superlative songs by Naushad. Barring two songs by Manju, the other 8 songs were all Hits. Rattan gave 200% returns on the film and song records, to the Producer.
Film Badi Baat-1944 was one film which just came and went, without making a hissing sound as much. It was directed by Mazhar Khan. The music was by Firoz Nizami and the cast was Swarnalata, Mazhar khan, Ulhas, Yakub, Gulab, Madhusudan, Ram Marathe etc. 9 songs of the film were written by Ramanand Saraswati, Saraswati Kumar Deepak and Munshi Rupbani.
In the cast you will find the name Madhusudan. This is not a famous name, but he was one actor who was involved in a Song-Singer controversy. In the history of Hindi films, there were few artistes who acted and sang in a few films and then disappeared forever. Madhusudan was one such actor. Perhaps he would have remained forgotten but for the Song-Singer controversy.
Madhusudan Bhatt was born in Sangli in Maharashtra on 26-5-1926. His father was a temple priest. Through a recommendation, Madhusudan joined Prakash Pictures, Bombay. His first film was Darshan -1941 in which he sang one duet. Next was a Marathi-Hindi bilingual film Bharat Milap-1942. Here also he sang a duet. Then came Station Master. he sang 3 trios with Amirbai, Suraiya and Prem Adeeb.
The biggest film in his career was Ram Rajya-1943, a bilingual in Hindi-Marathi. He did the role of Kush. (Luv was done by Yashwant Nikam). They sang a famous and popular song on screen ” Bharat ki ek sannari ki….”. For many years, it was presumed that he and Ram marathe sang this song together. This was fortified by a wrong statement by the lyricist Ramesh Gupta. Many writers believed this.( including myself. I even made a similar comment on our Blog).
However, ultimately the truth came out. RMIM activist Dhananjay Naniwadekar of USA was informed by a Marathi film Historian-Bapu Watwe that this song was not sung by Madhusudan but by Yashwant Joshi- a professional classical singer and Yashwant Nikam (acting as Luv). It was true that Madhusudan had rehearsed the song but as he was not able to sing in high notes, Yashwant Joshi sang for him. Mr. Naniwadekar spoke to Yashwant Joshi personally and got this confirmed . Listener’s Bulletin No. 154 of November 2012 has given all these details.
Madhusudan Bhatt later acted in Badi Baat-1944, Hamara Sansar-1945, Darbaan -1946, Rang Mahal-1948 and finally Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu-1953, but his role was deleted before film release. His film career ended thus. He went back to Sangli and opened a shop. Later he too became a temple priest. He was then known as Madhusudan Jani. he was interviewed by Prof Khadilkar, on the request of Har Mandir ji, on 4-10 1988.
Today’s song is sung by Firoz Nizami and the chorus. This is Nizami’s debut on the Blog as a singer. Enjoy….
Song- Hum aagey hum aage hum aage badhte jaayenge (Badi Baat)(1944) Singer- Firoz Nizami, Lyricist-Swami Ramanand Saraswati, MD- Firoz Nizami
Chorus
Lyrics
?? Vidya ??
Hey maata
Saraswati
?? ??
wo nar inse heen hai
wo narpat samaan
Hum aage
hum aage
hum aage badhte jaayenge
hum aage
hum aage
hum aage badhte jaayenge
duniya waalon sun lo
duniya waalon sun lo
ek din sab duniya pe chhaayenge
hum aage
hum aage
hum aage badhte jaayenge
hum aage
hum aage
hum aage badhte jaayenge
Hindu Muslim Sikh Isaai
Hindu Muslim Sikh Isaai
apne saare bhai bhai
hum hain saare bhai bhai
prem se rahkar prem se rahna
prem se rahkar prem se rahna
sabko hum sikhlaayenge
hum aage
hum aage
hum aage badhte jaayenge
hum aage
hum aage
hum aage badhte jaayenge
hum sab dikhlaayenge
sachche Bharat ke hum laal
sachche Bharat ke hum laal
aa aa aa
hum sab dikhlaayenge
sachche Bharat ke hum laal
sachche Bharat ke hum laal
Hind ki daulat se kar denge sabko maalaamaal
Hind ki daulat se kar denge sabko maalaamaal
Hindustani duniya mein hum
Hindustani duniya mein hum
?? bahaayenge
hum aage
hum aage
hum aage badhte jaayenge
hum aage
hum aage
hum aage badhte jaayenge
Duniya waalon sun lo
Duniya waalon sun lo
ik din sab duniya pe chhaayenge
hum aage
hum aage
hum aage badhte jaayenge
hum aage
hum aage
hum aage badhte jaayenge
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