Mere dil kee chowkee par rangeele do do chowkeedaar
Posted on: November 12, 2024
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Today’s song is from an obscure film called Lachak-1951.
The film was produced by ShriRam Vohra, under the banner of Shree films, Bombay. It was directed by M.I.Dharamsi and the music was by Pt. Motiram. The3 title of this film is slightly misleading, causing a little confusion about the Music Director’s name.
There was another film Dil Bahar aka Lachak, made in the mid 50’s. 8 songs were recorded and released in the name of Dil Bahar, but due to some reasons this film could not be censored. Finally the film name was changed to Aakash Pari and it was censored and released in the month of April 1958 with the same 8 songs reissued as Aakashpari songs. This film is on our Blog, duly Yippeed already. The Music Director for this film was Inayat Ali. This caused confusion since Dil Bahar was also called the film Lachak. Some sites, Blogs and writers along with Youtube uploaders started showing a M.D. pair of Pt. Motiram and Inayat Ali for today’s film Lachak-1951. It is wrong. It is a case of ” Same name confusion for Film Titles” !
Mayanagari Mumbai attracts people. Earlier, when it was BOMBAY (Bambai), it acted like a magnet for all those who wanted Name, Fame and Wealth. Bombay gave this all to the Lucky and the Deserving with both hands stretched fully. Particularly for the Film Industry it sure acted as “The Ultimate Destination.” Whether one was an aspirant or an achiever, whether poor or rich, whether from the lower strata or from a Royal clan, everyone wanted to try his luck here.
Film Industry has seen many ‘Rags to Riches’ and also ‘Riches to Rags’ stories. Not all people coming here succeeded in getting their goal, but atleast they could survive. Bombay gave chances to everyone, you were on your own after that. In the Music field too there were stories of climbing from the lowest to Highest and vice versa.
A simple, ordinary looking, frail girl with torn chappals and cotton saree and tightly tied hair, stood on the Platform of Malad station waiting for the Local train. Years later Lata Mangeshkar got the Highest Civilian Award ‘ Bharat Ratna’, riches, fame and respect from the world !
In MD Rafiq Gaznavi and Pt. Govind Ram’s ” Laila Majnu “-1945, the main singer was Khan Mastana and in the Chorus was a young man called Mohd.Rafi. Many years later ,in K.Asif’s film “Laila Majnu”-1976 the main singer was Mohd. Rafi and in the chorus was a Paralytic Khan Mastana ! These are the ways of Fate !!.
In the Music field, there are two clear cut classes-1) Filmi Music and 2) The classical Music-a) Vocal and b) Instrumental.
Traditionally, Filmi music is considered lower than classical music. Leading classical singers were appointed as Darbari gayaks in many kings’ courts, but for the common man he understood and enjoyed filmi music best. Many classical music singers of repute were attracted towards films as it ensured a reach to the millions all over the subcontinent. It also gave them name, fame and money. Whatever may be the reasons, many classical singers joined films as singers and some tried their hand becoming composers.
The singers were Begum Akhtar, Jaddanbai, Malika Pukhraj, Amir Khan, Bade Ghulam Ali Khan, D.V.Paluskar, Niyaz Ahmed Khan, Bhimsen Joshi, Vasantrao Deshpande, Kishori Amonkar, Shobha Gurtu, M S Shubhalaxmi, Laxmi Shanker, Phiroz Dastur etc etc.
Among those who tried to become Composers were- Phiroz Dastoor, Govindrao Tembe, Master Krishna Rao, Shankar rao Vyas, Ali Akbar Khan, Pt.Amarnath, Pt.Ganapat Rao, Pannalal Ghosh, Pt.Ravishanker, Bhupen Hazarika,Shiv kumar Sharma, Hariprasad Chaurasiya etc etc.
In the Hindi film Industry, most of the successful and popular M.D.s were assistants to senior composers, during their early careers. Naushad, C.Ramchandra, S-J, L-P, K-A, R.D.Burman etc all have been assistants to start with. Looking at their success, many of the assistants had ambition to become independent M.D. Nothing wrong with it. However, 90 % of such attempts proved to be failures and only 10 % became well known M.D.s
Pt. Motiram was one such case. He was an assistant to Naushad. Film Lachak-1951 was the only film he did as independent M.D. After this film, he went back as Naushad’s assistant again. Not much is known about him. He died on 10-9-1976 in Bombay.
Lachk-1951 was a Social love story having a crime event involved in the story. It’s cast included Geeta Bali, Amarnath, Ram singh, B.M.Vyas, Agha, Paro, Nayantara, Mukri, Shaikh etc. The story of the film was……
Durjan( B M Vyas) is a villainous type of Zamindar who indulges in many illegal activities. He wants a land plot in the coastal area of the town, to facilitate his smuggling activities. Bur Seth Laxmi Das(Ram Singh) and Rita(Kuldip Kaur) are not prepared to part with it.
Rita arranges dance programmes, as her profession. One day the main heroine of her dance group is kidnapped. Her friend Ramesh(Agha) calls Amar(Amarnath), a Private detective to investigate the case. While looking for evidence, Amar meets Kammo(Geeta Bali) and promptly falls in love.
Kammo helps Rita by participating in the dance show. Gulabo(Nayantara) Rita’s secretary informs Durjan about all these matters. Soon Kammo is also kidnapped. Ramesh, Rita and Amar start the search, but now Rita’s father is also kidnapped. With the help of Police HQs, Rita and Amar locate the den of Durjan, who is holding all these people there as prisoners,to pressurise Laxmidas to sell the coastal land to him. Durjan is caught red handed and all are rescued. Durjan goes to jail and Amar is reunited with Kammo.
The hero of this film was Amarnath – not a very well known name. Hindi films had many lead actors like this, who led the cast in many films, but could never be popular or famous. Amarnath was a name one came across frequently in Hindi films. There were 2 M.D.s – Pt. Amarnath (Batish) and Pt. Amarnath (Chawla), an actor Amar, a character actor Amar singh and a Director K.Amarnath.
Our hero Amarnath (Bharadwaj) was born in Hafizabad, in Gujranwala district of Punjab (Now in Pakistan) on13-10-1923. After Matriculation, he joined a Bank. However after some time he left the bank job and joined the film industry. He started acting in 1939 with Kidar Sharma’s “Dil hi to hai”. From Calcutta, he came down to bombay and did a small role in the film Naghma E sehra-1945. Then he shifted to Lahore. Graduating from doing small roles he was made the Leading Man in Dalsukh Pancholi’s film “Patjhad”, started in 1947 opposite Meena (Shorey). Pancholi had to flee Lahore due to Partition riots, but he carried the negatives of Patjhad. Though the film was censored in India in 1948, it seems it was never released.
Amarnath starred as Hero/ side Hero in many other films,like Papiha re-48, Barsat ki ek raat-48, Swayam sidha-49, Nai Bhabhi-50, Kamal ke phool-50, Sheesh Mahal-50, Jalte Deep-50, Johri-51, Nai zindagi-51 , Lachak-51, Nirmohi-52, Nirmal-52, Izzat-52, Bahu Beti-53, Nav Durga-53, Toofan-54, Danka-54, Gun Fight-60 etc. Then he switched over to side roles. In all, he worked in 81 Hindi films. In addition he also acted in many Punjabi films, initially as a hero and later in other roles. His first Punjabi film was Kamli-1946. Some other Punjabi films were Murtiyan-50, Posti-51, Vanjara-54, Lara Lappa-53,Astalli-54,Jagga-64 etc. His last Hindi film was Kaun ho tum-70.
Another name in the cast – Shaikh is found in so many films but nothing is known about him. Sheikh was a Comedy actor in the 40s, 50s and the 60s. He has acted in 170 films, as per Muvyz stats. He sang 10 songs in 8 films as per HFGK (Daulat ki duniya-47, Fifty Fifty-UR, Nakli Baap-49, Jiya Raja-49, Dushman-50, Simba-51, Hatimtai-56 and Naagmani-57).
He was essentially a B and C grade film comedian, so his name is not known to most people. Sanjeev Narvekar’s book, “Eena meena deeka” gives very little information about him. In his hey-days, he was popular in a class of people who were regulars of stunt,fantasy and action films. He was a fixture in almost all Wadia films. He was the main, on screen singer in the iconic qawali, “Humen to loot liya milke husn walon ne” from the film Al Hilal-58. (It was the 5000th song on this Blog)
He directed 2 films, Shahnaaz-48 and Mr.Toofan-63. He started his career in Hindi films with Pakke Badmash-39. Before that he had acted in a Marathi film “Netaji Palkar-39” by Bhalji Pendharkar (information from CITWF). His last film was Aadamkhor-85. No information is available on his life anywhere.
Today’s song is sung by Shamshad Begum. When you hear this film’s songs, you hear the type of music arrangement reminiscent of Naushad, minus the melodious tunes. That’s the effect of association without originality !
Song- Mere dil ki chowkee par rangeele do do chowkeedaar (Lachak)(1951) Singer- Shamshad Begum, Lyricist-Tareek Lucknowi, MD-Moti Ram
Lyrics
Mere dil kee chowkee par
rangeele do do chowkidaar
chhabeele do do chowkidaar
haaye mere dil kee chowkee par rrr
huff
mere dil kee chowkee par
rangeele do do chowkidaar
chhabeele do do chowkidaar
ho mere dil kee chowkee par rangeele
do do chowkidaar
chhabeele do do chowkidaar
ye mera saaathee hai
sakhee ka ye hai jodeedaar
sakhee ka ye hai jodeedaar
mere dil kee chowkee par rrr
huff
jab tera mera mel
ajee phir kyun main kaatoon jail
ajee phir kyun main kaatoon jail
hoy
jab tera mera mel
ajee phir kyun main kaatoon jail
ajee phir kyun main kaatoon jail
hoy
chhuk chhuk boley man kee rail
mere sang aankh machaulee khel
mere sang aankh machaulee khel
hoy
ye mera saaathee hai
sakhee ka ye hai jodeedaar
sakhee ka ye hai jodeedaar
mere dil kee chowkee par rrr
huff
mohabbat ke hain ye dhandhe
ke premee hote hain andhe
ho premee hote hain andhe
mohabbat ke hain ye dhandhe
ke premee hote hain andhe
ho premee hote hain andhe
left right left right
mila kar kandhe se kandhe
dhoondhh le pyaar ke phande
dhoondhh le pyaar ke phande
hoy
ye mera saaathee hai
sakhee ka ye hai jodeedaar
sakhee ka ye hai jodeedaar
mere dil kee chowkee par rrr
huff
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