Byaah rachaayen chhup-chhup chup-chup
Posted on: October 3, 2024
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Today’s song is a rare song from the film Shakuntala-1943. I had been searching for this song for many years. I really do not know why it was not available on social media. Finally, I got its audio version from Deepak Chaudhari ji and as usual it was uploaded for me by our friend Sadanand Kamath ji. I thank both of them. This is the last and final song of this film.
Film Shakuntala-1943 is the love story of King Dushyant and Shakuntala. This story details are mentioned in the Adi-Parva of the epic Mahabharat. It was also the subject matter of ” Abhidnyan Shakuntalam ” written by the great poet Kavi Kalidas. The son of Dushyant- Shakuntala was Bharat. He became a very brave king and earned the title of ” Sarva Daman ” i.e. winner of all, with his valour. India came to be known as BHARAT, in his name only.
Film Shakuntala-1943 was the first film produced by V.Shantaram in his own studio “Raj Kamal Kala Mandir” Bombay. The studio name came from the first letters of his father RAJ(aram) and mother KAMAL(abai). The studio was established in 1942. Earlier Shantaram was with Prabhat Film Company, Poona. There is a story behind his leaving the company-Prabhat.
When Prabhat became famous and made many successful films, the founder directors of the company had made a rule that ” should any of the directors fall in love with or get married to any employee of the company, then he has to leave the company “. This was to protect the company’s prestige and for providing a safe and clean atmosphere in the company. This was also because one of the directors- Babasaheb Fattelal had married company’s heroine Kamlabai ( who is the girl in Prabhat’s logo of the girl playing the ‘Tutari’) some time earlier.
Due to this rule, the first victim was Keshav rao Dhaibar who married a heroine Nalini Tarkhad. He left the company and started his own studio ‘Jayashree Films’, in 1937. The second was V.Shantaram as he wanted to marry another Heroine Jayashree. He too left in 1942 and established Raj Kamal. His first film was Shakuntala with Jayashree as the Heroine. The film was a great success and it ran for 104 weeks at Swastik Cinema in Bombay.
The film was directed by Shantaram and music was by Vasant Desai. This was Desai’s first film with Shantaram. he went on to work for more films like Parbat pe apna dera-1944, Dr. Kotnis ki amar kahani-1946, Matwala Shair Ramjoshi-1947 (Bangla version in 1952 and Marathi version as Amar Bhoopali in 1955), Dahej-1950, Surang-1953, Jhanak jhanak Payal Baaje-1955, Do aankhen baara haath-1957 and Ladki Sahyadri ki-1966.
It was the first film for Dewan Sharar also, who wrote the story, screenplay and lyrics for this film. He did films like Parbat pe apna dera-1944, Dr. Kotnis ki amar Kahani-1946, Apna desh-1949, Teen batti char Raasta-1953 and Jhanak jhanak Payal Baaje-1955.
However, this was the last film of Zohra Jaan, before the partition and she migrated to Pakistan.
The cast of the film consisted of Jayashree, Chandra Mohan, Nimbalkar, Nana Palshikar, Zohra Jaan, Raja Pandit, Ameena (sister of actor B. Nandrekar, Madan Mohan, Ratan Piya etc. The story of the film was…..
Abhigyan Shakuntala means ‘the recognition of Shakuntala’. This story originally is part of the Mahabharata epic, which Kavi Kalidas developed into a complete theatrical play. Shakuntala is the daughter of Rishi Vishvamitra and the apsara Menka. She is brought up by Rishi Kanav.
Once, when she is alone in the ashram, King Dushyanta of Hastinapur, reaches the ashram having lost his way in the forest. They fall in love at first sight. (Love at first sight is not a creation of modern day romances, it is the stuff of history. Duyshanta courts her, and they marry. He gives her his royal ring and takes leave to return to his kingdom, with a promise to return soon to take her with him.
In the interim there is an episode of Durvasa muni, who is angered by Shakuntala’s behavior when he visits the ashram (she is lost in amorous thoughts, and does not pay attention to his arrival), and he curses her that the person in whose thoughts she is lost, will forget her.
Shakuntala travels to Hastinapur, but loses the ring on the way. As the curse would have it, he does not recognize her. She is heartbroken and returns. There are more episodes in between, and the ring is found and returned to the king. On seeing the ring, his memory returns, and he comes back to the ashram to take her back with him.
There are two names in the cast about whom not much is known. Nimbalkar and Ratan Piya. I.T.Nimbalkar aka Indurao T. Nimbalkar ( he was always credited as only ‘Nimbalkar’ in all films) was born on 6-12-1893, in Kolhapur state. This was the time Kolhapur was slowly developing as Kalapur (hub of arts) and the seeds of film making were being planted there. Baburao Painter, one of the original film makers had started his “Maharashtra Film Company” on 1-12-1917.
Baburao, Damle, Fattelal etc were taught painting By Anandrao painter, who was an extraordinary painter of those times. All these people, along with V Shantaram, Keshavrao Dhaiber and few more also joined Baburao painter’s Maharashtra Film company. True that, film making had started even earlier in Maharashtra, but Baburao painter is credited with making films a form of art and spreading it on a larger canvas of India.
Indurao Nimbalkar grew up in this atmosphere in Kolhapur. He passed his Matriculation exam and also did a diploma in Printing. Nimbalkar was six feet tall and had a good physique. He was expert in riding, swimming and wrestling. He did 1000 sit-ups every day. Shahu maharaj, the king of Kolhapur encouraged all arts as well as development of lower castes. Arya Samaj had a ‘Gurukul’ in Kolhapur. Impressed with Nimbalkar’s education and body, Shahu ji appointed him as Editor of the weekly ‘Arya’ and secretary of Gurukul.
One day Baburao Painter, along with assistant V Shantaram visited his press and offered Nimbalkar a role in his proposed film Sairandhri. Shahu maharaj also permitted and encouraged him ,so Nimbalkar joined the film line. He was already famous due to his fiery editorials and now people came to see his shootings too. However, due to money shortage, the film did not complete. ( It was later made in 1919, but with different cast. V Shantaram made coloured Sairandhri in 1933 with Nimbalkar again).
Nimbalkar acted in many silent films like Baji Deshpande, Khazanchi (directed by Moti gidwani- England returned), Lanka, Kismet (directed by Baburao Patel) etc etc. After the closure of Maharashtra F. Co., Nimbalkar was invited by V Shantaram to do Vishvamitra’s role in its first Talkie film ” Ayodhya ka Raja” -1932, in Hindi and Marathi. After this, he did Jalti Nishani-32, Sairandhri-33, Maya Machhindra, Sinhagadh etc.
After this, Nimbalkar went to Calcutta on invitation and worked in films made by Radha Films, Laxmi Studios, Devdatta films and New Theatres. From 1934 to 1938, he acted in 12 Hindi films. He was provided a Bungalow, car with driver, servants etc. His son studied in local school there. Returning to Bombay he worked as an assistant director to Keshavrao Dhaiber for film ‘Nandkumar’, made by his Jayashree Films. Next 2 years he shuttled between Calcutta and Bombay. He did King Dashrath’s role in Prakash films’ Bharat Milap-42 and Ramrajya-43 in this period.
He was invited by V Shantaram for acting in his first film under banner of Rajkamal- Shakuntala-43. Nimbalkar did the role of Kanva Muni in it. He later also acted in Jeevan yatra, Subah ka tara, Parchhain, Teen batti char rasta, Toofan aur Diya, Z Z Payal baje. Earlier he did Aapki sewa mein, prarthana,Nal Damayanti, Seedha Rasta, Gokul, Apna Ghar, Maharathi karna, Seeta Swayamvar. He worked in pyasa, Mera Naam Joker, Amar prem etc etc. From 1928 to 1970 he acted in over 250 films.
His wife Sushila was also educated and looked after his home and children. She never visited any sets in her life time. Nimbalkar died on 17-1-1973 at Kolhapur. (Thanks to an article in book Chandraat-चांदरात by Babu moshoi).
There were two lyricists for this film. One was Dewan Sharar and the other Lyricist of the film Shakuntala-43 was a poet with a very romantic name-Ratan Piya. He was born on 5-3-1904 at Lucknow. His father Pt. Madan Mohan was secretary to Motilal Nehru. His father was a theatre lover and so started his own Theatre company at Allahabad. Ratan, after his matriculation, started working in it. He was trained to write songs for its dramas. Their company was patronised by the Viceroy, who paid Rs. 20 p.m. as his Patronage !
Ratan debuted as a Lyricist in the film Pakke Badmash-1939. For this film, he even wrote an English song. His films were Zaban-43, Mali-44, Umang-44 Nai Baat-47 and Batohi-48. For sustenance, he even acted in few films like, Shakuntala-43, Umang-44, Meena-44, Mahakavi Kalidas-44, Panna Dai-45, Khush Raho-49, Janam Patrika-49 and Begunah-49. After this Ratan Piya returned to Allahabad to look after their Theatre when his father died.
With today’s song, sung by Zohrabai Ambalawali, the film gets YIPPEED with all the songs covered.
Song-Byaah rachaayen chhup-chhup chup-chup (Shakuntala)(1943) Singer-Zohrabai Ambalawali, Lyricist-Dewan Sharar, MD-Vasant Desai
Female voice
Male voice
Lyrics
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Dialogues
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Lata mandap
lo main chalee
tumhaaraa aasraa lene kal phir aaungee
Lata mandap
main bhi tumhaaraa aasraa lene kal aaungaa
zaroor aaungaa
kal mera naam lata mandap naheen
vivaah mandap hoga
rishi putree Shakuntala kee yahee aagyaa hai
??poochha chhup chhup chup chup
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chhup-chhup
chup-chup
chhup-chhup
chup-chup
Byaah rachaayen chhup-chhup chup-chup
Byaah rachaayen chhup-chhup chup-chup
khushiyaan manaayen
haan haan
khushiyaan manaayen
haan
chhup-chhup chup-chup
Byaah rachaayen chhup-chhup chup-chup
ho ho ho
sab aakar karen ??
sab aakar karen ??
haan re haan
aa aa aa aa
haan
ho haan
??
??
haan aa aaaan aan
Byaah rachaayen chhup-chhup chup-chup
premee premee ik dooje ke
premee premee ik dooje ke
man mein samaayen haaan
man mein samaayen haan
samaayen chhup-chhup chup-chup
Byaah rachaayen chhup-chhup chup-chup
nainon mein nainaa daal piyaa ke
nainon mein nainaa daal piyaa ke
unki baaten kisko sunaayen
haan
sunaayen
chhup-chhup chup-chup
Byaah rachaayen chhup-chhup chup-chup
khushiyaan manaayen haan
chhup-chhup chup-chup
Byaah rachaayen chhup-chhup chup-chup
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