Jaam liyaa to pee le bande
Posted on: January 4, 2025
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Today’s song is a Parody song from a C grade Stunt film Diamond Queen-1940.
From the time the Silent films started, it was the time to make Stunt and Costume films. The entire focus of these films was on attracting the workers, daily earners, the poor and the lower class of the society, who looked for entertainment which they could afford. C grade films were the cheapest to make. After the Talkie films started,the Silent films vanished forever slowly. It took about 3 years after the Talkie films started in 1931 to stop making Silent films. The last Silent film was ” Shareef Badmash” made by Shri Ganesh Films, Bombay (Censor Certificate -B-13975 dt 2-11-1934).
The first known and recorded HFGK stunt film was “Dagabaaz Aashiq”-1932, made by Imperial Film Company Bombay. Prithviraj Kapoor and Zohra were the lead pair. Almost every film studio made stunt films except perhaps Prabhat Film co.. They cleverly merged stunt action into Costume films.
These stunt films used to be shown in some dilapidated, old, worn out theatre in some corner of every city. The ticket rates were very low and a fixed audience used to go there to see and enjoy stunt films. As usual, while the film was shown, the audience used to pass loud comments, opinions or pass suggestions to the Hero like “Maar saale ko” ! etc. The public was wary of the story or the histrionic talents of the actors. All they wanted was daredevil acts of stunts, maarpeet, a few ‘Maar Dala’ dances and a happy ending. That’s all.
In 1935, Wadia Movietone changed this picture to some extent. They recruited an Australian circus girl as a stunt actress. Initially, everyone was doubtful about how a non-indian, white skin actress would be accepted by their audience. Furthermore, she could not speak Hindi either. They spent 6 months teaching her Hindi and making her familiar with Indian people. Finally, her first film ” Hunterwali”-1935 was released and despite everyone’s doubts, the film was a tremendous success. Her name was FEARLESS NADIA. With her experience in the circus, she could handle even the wild animals.
As a novelty, Wadias included some trained animals in her films. These were also named Punjab ka Beta (Horse), Gunboat (Dog), and Austin ki Beti (a Car). Later also came Rajpoot (horse), Moti (dog) , Austin ki Bachhi(car) and even a Motorcycle named Runnio.
The audience was fixed, so were the cast members. Director and Music composer did not matter but Stunt masters were vital The stories of Nadia Filmshad almost a fixed pattern in most films. Only names of characters and places were changed in different films. Even for Master Bhagwan’s or Chandra Rao’s stunt films the conditions were the same.
The generation of the 40’s and the 50’s, who saw these stunt films can never forget them ( I am one of them). Sadly, the present generation can never imagine the thrill and fun enjoyed while seeing stunt/action films. Even now there are daredevil stunts in newer films, but these are managed by SFX or special effects techniques. These are not done by actors seen on the screen.hen
When the stunt films were being made, the film industry in 1940 was going through many changes. The year 1940 was the end of the first decade of Talkie films. From 1931 to 1939 most of the film music was made and sung by people who were experts in Classical Music. Classical music has never been the area of common people. It was born in Temples and nurtured in the Darbars of Kings and Nawabs. When film music relied heavily on classical mode, it became an imposition on the masses. Luckily, from the last 2 years of the 30’s, film music started changing and the emphasis shifted to traditional and Folk tunes over the classical.
1940 saw the emergence of Naushad with his first film ” Prem Nagar“, as an independent MD. He is the one who advocated the combination of classical with Folk music and this was accepted by other MDs. More people now turned to film songs. MDs like Naushad, Anil Biswas, C Ramchandra, Saraswati Devi, Gyan Dutt, Pankaj Mullick and their followers in the later part of the 40’s changed film music upside down.
National Studios emerged from the merger of Sagar Movietone and Mehboob gave his blockbuster milestone film ” Aurat“. Himanshu Rai died untimely and the reigns of Bombay Talkies came into the hands of Devika Rani. Ranjit brought more popular films from its factory. Though there were signs of slow death, New Theaters still continued with musical films. Prabhat brought its third successive Saint film “Sant Gyaneshwar“. Wadias looked after their Stunt films with fearless Nadia and John Cavas.
In the south, S S Vasan started his Gemini Studios. Master Vinayak and P K Atre started Navyug Films. In August 1940, there was a big fire in New Theatres leading to heavy losses. The use of Harmonium was banned on A.I.R. Due to War Times, Raw Film controls were given to the Film Advisory Board. It also gave rise to Black Marketing of Raw film, in addition to already existing Rationing, and a new class of rich investors emerged in the film industry shaking its established Studio Systems and Culture.
The year 1940 made only 86 Hindi films, less than 100 for the consecutive third year in a row. Let us take a look at some important films of 1940.
New Theatres film Aandhi had good music and songs.
Bombay Talkies continued with Ashok Kumar and Leela Chitnis with the film Azaad, but it was not as popular as Jhoola, Kangan and Bandhan.
A dubbed foreign film -“Azadi E Watan” was the only Hindi film for which Malika Pukhraj had sung 2 songs.
Ranjit’s Achhut tackled a social evil, with good songs composed by Gyan Dutt.
A Stunt film of Shankar Vazare ” Aflatoon Aurat” had an English song in it.
Sagar’s last film ” Alibaba” by Mehboob was released. “Aurat” , a Landmark film by Mehboob for National Studios was the origin of its remake ” Mother India-57.
Film ‘ Bharosa‘ by Minerva was based on an Incest story.
Sirco’s offering ‘ Geeta‘ had a crime story, with double roles of Chandramohan and Durga Khote.
Prakash Pictures film ‘Narsi Mehta‘ had Sant Tukaram fame Vishnupant Pagnis and some good bhajans.
Film Usha Haran saw the Debut of Sitara Devi.
Film Zindagi from New Theatres had very good songs by Saigal.
Diamond Queen is a 1940 Hindi action adventure comedy film. It was directed by Homi Wadia and produced by Wadia Movietone. It starred Fearless Nadia, John Cawas, Radha Rani, Sayani Atish, Sardar Mansur, Dalpat, Kunjru, and Boman Shroff. This film was the seventh in the Diamond thriller series with the first being Veer Bharat in 1934, directed by Homi Wadia under the production of J. B. H. Wadia. It is cited as one of the best films produced by the Wadia brothers. The film’s success saw Homi Wadia becoming a producer by which he was able to obtain raw stock for his films due to the rationing of two films per producer during the Second World War.
The film is set in Diamond Town where Madhurika returns following five years of studies in Bombay. She is the Bambaiwali the townspeople have been waiting to see. She returns to her town wearing western clothes and looking fit and to her father’s query she replies that she’s been working out in the Bombay gymnasiums. The town is reeling under the brutal atrocities of the mustachioed bushy eye-browed villain, Kedarnath (Sayani Atish) who has usurped the Prince’s place while he is away. Kedarnath had been given charge by authorities to weed out corruption but is instead heavily into corruption, taxing people and outrages against women. He also has an enemy in the dacoit Diler as he cheated Diler’s father many years ago. Diler was the sole survivor in his family when Kedarnath burnt his family home. He had been given a dying oath by his father to take revenge against Kedarnath. Madhurika joins up with the dacoit Diler and manages to deliver the town from the evil Kedarnath. She advocates for women’s literacy and independence and uses dialogues like: ‘If the nation is to be freed, the women have to be free first.’
Today’s song, sung by an unknown singer, is a Parody of a popular song from the film Nirmala-1938- Janam liya to jee le Bande”, sung by Balwant Singh. Enjoy this 85 year old song….
Song- Jaam liya to pee le Bande (Diamond Queen)(1940) Singer- Unknown and chorus, Lyricist-Munshi Shyam, MD- Madhulal Damodar Master
Lyrics
Jaam liya to pee le Bande
?? ka kyaa kaam bande
jeevan hai ek jaam bande
jeevan hai ek jaam bande
jeevan hai ek jaam
madira peekar kar mar(?) le tu
jeevan ka maidaan bande
jeevan ka maidaan
aa aa aa
aa aa aa
hahahaha
aa aa aa
aa aa aa
aa aa aa
aa aa aa
?? rahe phoolon kee duniyaa
daaroo kee hai shaan bande
daaroo kee hai shaan
daaroo kee hai shaan
le botal se kaam bande
jeevan hai ik jaam bande
jeevan hai ik jaam bande
jeevan hai ik jaam
ek sharaabi
?? paasaa
jab tak paasaa
tab tak pyaasaa
Jo ?? naadaan
bhalaa tu
le botal se jaam bande
jeevan hai ek jaam bande
jeevan hai ek jaam
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