Kaaka abba bade khilaadee
Posted on: January 11, 2025
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Today’s song is a Fun song from the serious social film Padosi-1941.
The film was the last directorial offering by V.Shantaram, before he left Prabhat Film Company due to internal differences and the pressure put on him to quit the company because he wanted to marry the Company’s heroine Jayashree (Kamulkar). This was the rule in Prabhat film company that no director will ever get involved with any lady artist from the company or marry her. He should quit the company.
Funnily, just before this rule was formed, one of the directors – Shaikh Fattelal had married company’s Heroine Kamalabai aka Gulab Bai. However, since this rule was not there at that time, he was saved from quitting the company.
The film Padosi-1941 was made at a time when Gandhi and Nehru had mesmerised the common people of India with their philosophies. One of the pet theories of both leaders was ” Ganga – Jamna Tehzib”, i.e. Hindus and Muslims have the same Indian culture and hence should live together peacefully. While the simple Hindus accepted it, the clever Muslims had never accepted it from their hearts. Shantaram, Mehboob Khan, B.R.Chopra etc. were from those in the film industry who were sold to Nehru’s theory. They all made films based on Nehruvian Socialism theory. Film Padosi was also one such film. The film portrayed the friendship and sacrifice of two friends – one Hindu and the other Muslim, who died for this principle !
The story of the film Padosi-1941 was ….
The story revolves around a village where Mirza (Gajanan Jagirdar) and Thakur (Mazhar Khan) are neighbours and close friends. The friendship and communal harmony are put to test when a city builder comes to the village to acquire land for the purpose of building a dam. In the beginning, the villagers stood united in opposing the land acquisition. But their resolution is broken by the builder’s ‘divide and rule’ policy. He becomes successful in creating a rift in the village on a communal line resulting in two close friends becoming foes. The builder is successful in acquiring land and builds the dam. One day, the dam bursts and in trying to save Thakur from the force of the dam water, Mirza is also caught in the force of the water and both die holding each other’s hand.
Film Padosi-1941 had Music by an expert musician -Master Krishna Rao Phuilambrikar. His songs from this film became very popular, especially the ” Torchlight Village Chorus” song ‘ Kaisa chhaya hai ujala rasiya’ was more famous and popular. In the Marathi version of this film (Shejari.. शेजारी-1941) also this song was popular.
Master Krishna Rao Phulambrikar used his name only as Master Krishna Rao, causing ‘Same name confusion’, since there was another musician Master Krishna Rao (Chonkar) at the same time in Hindi films.
Krishnaji Ganesh Phulambrikar (1898–1974), popularly known as Master Krishnarao, was a musical genius – an Indian vocalist, classical musician and composer of Hindustani music. He was credited with the creation of three Hindustani ragas and several bandishes. Phulambrikar was a recipient of the Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship.
Krishnarao Phulambrikar was born on 20-1- 1898 at Devachi Alandi, a town in the periphery of Pune, in Maharashtra to the Deshastha Brahmin couple Ganesh Phulambrikar (who was Vedmurti) and Mathura bai. He also ventured into Marathi theatre as a child artist by performing as an actor-singer in Sant Sakhu, a musical drama produced by Natyakalapravartak Mandali. He acted in other musical dramas produced by this drama company. And at this drama company, he first got a chance to learn Indian classical music from Sawai Gandharva who used to act in the musical dramas of this company. Later, he approached the renowned singer, Bhaskarbuwa Bakhale in 1911 who trained the young boy in Gwalior, Agra and Jaipur gharanas of Hindustani music and their guru-shishya relationship lasted till Bakhale’s death in 1922. The tutelage under Bakhale also gave him the opportunity to meet and get associated with Bal Gandharva, who would later go on to become a noted Marathi singer. His first solo concert was when he was 13 years of age (he was awarded the title of Sangeet Kalanidhi in 1930 by Jagadguru Shankaracharya Dr.Kurtkoti), which preceded several concerts in India and abroad, including a trip to China as a Government of India delegate in 1953.
Phulambrikar served as the director of Pune Bharat Gayan Samaj, a music academy founded by his mentor Bhaskarbuwa Bakhale in Pune. Besides his career as a classical vocalist and as a film music composer, he scored music for several plays which included Menaka, Savitri, Asha-Nirasha, Amritasidhhi, Kanhopatra, Nand Kumar and Vidhi Likhit for Gandharva Sangeet Natak Mandali, a drama company founded by Bal Gandharva, during the period 1915–1933 and acted in a few of them. Later, he also composed music for a few plays such as Kulavadhu, Ek Hota Mhatara, Kone Eke Kali and Bhagyoday for Natyaniketan where the lead singer and actress was Jyotsna Bhole. On the academic front, he compiled the compositions taught to him by Bakhale as well as his own compositions and published them as a 7-volume book, Raag Samgraha. Besides his notations are available in print under the titles, Rashtra Sangeet, Shishu Sangeet, Amar Sangeet, Mohan Maal, Natya Geet Notations and Chitra Geet Notations. He also tutored several musicians, film and drama artists. Ram Marathe, Yogini Joglekar, Saraswati Rane, Haribhau Deshpande, Anjanibai Kalgutkar, Madhusudan Kanetkar, Jaymala Shiledar, Dr.Pabalkar, Bapurao Ashtekar, Dattopant Bhope, Pitre buwa, Suhas Datar, Sudhakar Joshi, Ravindra Joshi, Mohan Karve, Rangnath Karkare, Shivram Gadgil, Balwant Dixit and his daughter, Veena Chitko are some of his notable disciples.
Soon after he received the Sangeet Kalanidhi title from Dr. Kurtkoti, the Shankaracharya of Karvir Peeth, he was contracted by Prabhat Film Company owned by V. Shantaram and other partners, to compose music for its forthcoming film, Dharmatma, where he was reunited with his old associate, Bal Gandharva, who played the role of Sant Eknath, the protagonist of the movie. The film which was released in 1935 had sixteen songs, many of them sung by Bal Gandharva. A year later, his next hindi film was released under the name, Amar Jyoti, again a Prabhat Film Company production. The film was reported to have been critically acclaimed and was the first Indian film to be screened at the Venice Film Festival. Wahan, another Prabhat production released in 1937, this time with a new director, K. Narayan Kale, was his next film, followed by the musical Gopal Krishna in 1938 directed by Damle and S Fattelal. He composed music for 15 films which included Padosi, another Shantaram film and the film featured a ten-minute song, Lakh lakh chanderi, reportedly with complex choreography. He played the lead role of Sant Savata Mali in the movie Bhakticha Mala released by Rajkamal Kalamandir. He composed the music for this movie and also sang his own songs in this movie. Many aspiring composers of that period – Vasant Desai, C.Ramchandra, Sudhir Phadke, Purushottam Laxman Deshpande, Snehal Bhatkar, Dinkarrao Amembal (alias D Amel) and Gajananrao Watve got inspired by his school of musical thought.
In the Hindi film arena, he gave music to 10 Hindi films (Dharmatma-35, Amar jyoti-36, Wahan-37, Gopal krishna-38, Aadmi-39, Padosi-41, Vasantsena-42, Mali-44, Lakharani-45 and keechak Vadh-59). In these 10 films he composed 104 Hindi songs. He sang 11 songs in 2 Hindi films – Mali-44, Meri Amanat-47 and Pooja-54. He acted as the main lead in Hindi film Mali-1944.
Master Krishnarao Phulambrikar received the Vishnudas Bhave Gold Medal of the Government of Maharashtra in 1969 and the Government of India awarded him the civilian honor of the Padma Bhushan in 1971. He was the first recipient of the Balgandharva Gold Medal. The Sangeet Natak Akademi honored him with the Sangeet Natak Akademi Ratna Puraskar in 1972. In 1961, he suffered a facial paralysis which forced him to abandon his career as a singer in 1969. On his 60th birth anniversary, a 9-day long music conference was staged in Pune in which many notable musicians from all over India took part. He did not survive much longer and the death came on 20 October 1974, when he was 76 years of age. The story of his life has been documented in his biography, Bola Amrit Bola (बोला अमृत बोला ) which was published posthumously in 1985. Every two years an award in his memory is presented to a music critic or author of a music book by Maharashtra Sahitya Parishad, Pune. Since his family originated from Phulambri in Marathwada, a drama theatre has been named “Master Krishnarao Phulambrikar Natyagruha” in Jalna, Marathwada in his honour. Every year Pune Bharat Gayan Samaj celebrates his birth anniversary and death anniversary. His daughter, Veena Chitko, who died in September 2015, was a notable light classical musician.
There was another Master Krishnarao Chonkar, actor and singer, who worked almost the same time in Marathi and Hindi dramas and films. Sometimes there is a “Same Name Confusion” as both were mentioned as Master Krishnarao. Of course the contribution of Phulambrikar was much more successful. ( Based on wiki, Marathi book पूर्वसुरींचे सूर by Dr. Suresh Chandvankar and my notes).
The cast of the film was Mazhar Khan, Gajanan Jahagirdar, Balwant Singh, Anees Khatun, Balakram, Vasant Thengdi, Sumitra, Gopal and many others. V.Shantaram touch in the film was very much evident. He gave the role of a Hindu friend to Mazhar Khan and that of a Muslim friend to Gajanan Jahagirdar. I have seen this film and I was very much impressed with the acting of both actors doing their roles effectively.
Miss Anees Khatun who did the role of Balwant Singh’s lovebird in film Padosi-1941 was another artist who was involved in ‘Same name Confusion’. Actually there were two actresses/singers named Khatun, operating at almost the same time. One was Anis Khatun- who acted in 9 films, from Prithvi Putra-1938 to Dil-1946 and sang 14 songs in 5 films. The other one was Zarina Khatun who worked in 59 films, from Abul Hasan-1931 to Ibrat-1954 and sang 25 songs in 12 films from Premi Pagal-33 to Chingari-40. To complicate matters further and torture the Film Historians further, there were other small time actresses like Ameena Khatoon, Zohra Khatun, Khatun bai etc. It is a difficult task to separate the various Same name artists and credit them with their genuine films.
Let us now enjoy today’s 84 year old video song, sung by Gopal, Balakram and Balwant Singh, alongwith some more unknown singers and Chorus….
Video
Song- Kaaka Abba bade khilaadee (Padosi)(1941) Singers- Gopal, Balwant Singh, Balakram, unknown female voice, Lyricist- Pt. Sudarshan, MD- Master Krishnarao Phulambrikar
Lyrics
kaaka abba bade khilaadee ee ee ee
kaka abba bade khilaadee ee ee
ik dooje se rahen agaadee
ik dooje se rahen agaadee
kaaka laa satranj bichhaayen
kaaka laa satranj bichhaayen
abba hukka le kar aaye
abba hukka le kar aaye
kaaka bolen tujhe haraayen aen aen aen
kaaka bolen tujhe haraayen aen aen aen
abba tedhee aankh dikhaayen aen aen aen
abba tedhee aankh dikhaayen aen aen aen
hrrph
kaaka chaal jabhee len rok
kaaka chaal jabhee len rok
abba bol uthhe darpok
abba bol uthhe darpok
hahahaha
ik dooje ko kahen anaadee ee ee ee
kaaka abba bade khilaadee ee ee ee
kaaka chutiya pakad ghumaaven
kaaka chutiya pakad ghumaaven
abba daadhhee khoob hilaaven
abba daadhhee khoob hilaaven
abhee ladaai abhee safaai
abhee ladaai abhee safaai
khel mein pooree sadee bitaaee
khel mein pooree sadee bitaaee
phir bhee naaheen aankh ughhaadee
phir bhee naaheen aankh ughhaadee
kaaka abba bade khilaadee ee ee ee
ik dooje se rahen agaadee
kaaka abba bade khilaadee ee ee ee
khaana jab thhanda ho jaave
khaana jab thhanda ho jaave
maa ko khoob jamhaaee aave
maa ko khoob jamhaaee aave
hahahaha
bachche baalen shor machaayen
bachche baalen shor machaayen
lekin ye khele hee jaayen
lekin ye khele hee jaayen
jal jaaye chaahe ghar baadee
jal jaaye chaahe ghar baadee
kaaka abba bade khilaadee ee ee ee
kaaka abba bade khilaadee ee ee ee
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