O janmbhoomi o maatribhoomi tujhe namaami ho
Posted on: January 23, 2025
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Today 23rd January 2025, is the 128th birth anniversary of one of Subhash Chandra Bose. He was born on 23rd Janunary 1897 and was last seen on 18rd August 1945. On this occasion we are paying our tributes to him by presenting songs from movies made on his life and movies that were inspired by his life story.
Here is the list of movies made on Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.
| SNo | Movie | Year of the movie |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | Netaji Subhash | 1947 (documentary ?) |
| 02 | Pehlaa Aadmi | 1950 |
| 03 | Samaadhee | 1950 |
| 04 | Netaji Subhashchandra Bose | 1966 |
| 05 | Subhash Chandra | 1978 |
| 06 | Subhash Chandra (Bangla) | 1978 |
| 07 | Bose- The forgotten hero | 2004 |
| 08 | Raag Desh | 2017 |
| 09 | Gumnaami (Bangla) | 2019 |
Following are the other two movies which I have not included in the above list as one is TV-Series and other one is a movie about a social movement in Bengal (though inspired by the vision of Subhash Bose).
1. ‘Bose – Dead/Alive’ (2017). This was based on the novel ‘India’s Biggest Cover Up or Netaji Rahasya Gatha’ by Anuj Dhar. The main actor was A Raj Kumar Rao. This was a Web Series.
2. ‘Ami Subhash Bolchhi’ (2011). Directed by Mahesh Manjrekar. Hero Mithun Chakraborti. this film is about the spirit of Netaji which motivates Deb Brata Bose to boost up his self-confidence. (Some sources mention this movie akin to ‘Lage Raho Munna Bhai’ (2006). Since it is directed by Mahesh Manjrekar, I guess this is the Bangla Version of ‘Mi Shivajiraje Bhosle Boltoy’ made in Marathi and also directed by Mahesh Manjrekar.)
Today I am presenting a song from the movie ‘Raag Desh-2017’. It was directed by Tigmanshu Dhulia for ‘Rajya Sabha TV’ (RSTV). Gurdeep Singh Sappal and RSTV produced it. The cast of this movie has Kunal Kapoor, Amit Sadh, Hikaru Ito, Mohit Marwah, Vijay Varma, Keneth Desai, Kenny Basumatary, Mrudula Murali, Alexx O’Nell, Zakir Hussain, Kanwaljit Singh, Rajesh Khera, Deepraj Rana, Amrita Rai, Kuldeep Sareen, Vishwas Kini, Anil Rastogi and others. Pramod Singh and Tigmanshu Dhulia wrote this movie, and its editing was done by Geeta Singh.
The soundtrack of this movie has four songs written by Sandeep Nath, Pt Vanshidhar Shukla, Rana Mazumder and Revant Shergill. Music for this movie was composed by Rana Mazumder, Ram Singh Thakuri and Siddharth Pandit.
The tagline of this movie’s promotions mention that this movie “Raag Desh-2017” is about ‘The Famous Red Fort Trial 1945, INA’. In the famous Red Fort trials, leading soldiers of INA, Colonel Prem Sahgal, Colonel Gurbaksh Singh Dhillon, and Major General Shah Nawaz Khan, were tried by the British Govt. for sedition and waging war against the British Empire. They were sentenced to deportation for life, but the public outcry in favour of these soldiers was so great that the British were forced to release all the defendants. The protest slogan of ‘Sehgal-Dhillon-Shah Nawaz’ became very popular amongst the masses.
Here is a brief about the Indian National Army mentioned by our inhouse encyclopaedia Shree Arunkumar jee in his post.
Following the outbreak of World War II, Japan invaded Southeast Asia. At the time 70,000 troops were stationed in the region, most of them along the Malayan coast. Japan conducted a lightning campaign which culminated in the fall of the Malayan peninsula and Singapore in 1942. In the Singapore campaign alone, 45,000 Indian prisoners of war were captured. It was from these prisoners of war that the Japanese decided to create an auxiliary army which would fight against the British.
The first INA was formed under Mohan Singh, a former officer of the British Indian Army captured during the Malay campaign. Conditions in the prisoner-of-war camps, as well as resentment against the British in general, saw many prisoners of war volunteer to join the Indian National Army. The initiative received considerable support from the Imperial Japanese Army and from the ethnic Indian population of Southeast Asia. However, disagreements between Mohan Singh and the Japanese Army Command regarding the autonomy of the Indian National Army led to the disbandment of the first INA in December 1942.
Although Mohan Singh had angered the Japanese Army Command through his actions, they relented to form a second Indian National Army. Mohan Singh himself recommended Subash Chandra Bose for the leadership role. His reputation as a committed nationalist was known to both the Indian diaspora of Southeast Asia and the Imperial Japanese Army. As such, they were more open to the idea of a nationalist army led by Subash Chandra Bose. The activities of Subash Chandra Bose in India had forced the British authorities to imprison him, but he escaped and reached Berlin in 1941.
Although the German leadership were sympathetic to his cause, logistic problems prevented them from granting any support to his quest for raising an army to fight the British. However, the Japanese were ready to support him and upon their personal invitation, Subash Chandra Bose arrived in Singapore in July 1943 to take command of what would be known as the Second Indian National Army, now known by its alternative name, the Azad Hind Fauj.
Rash Behari Bose had founded the Indian Independence League in March 1942. During the Second World War, Bose convinced the Japanese authorities to support the Indian independence movement. He was instrumental in raising support for the Indian freedom movement abroad. In the League’s second conference in June 1942, it was decided to invite and appoint Subhash Chandra Bose as the President of the League. The Indian National Army (INA), built by Subhash Chandra Bose on the broad framework given by Rash Behari Bose, was the military arm of the League.
After Subhash Chandra Bose took command of the Azad Hind Fauj, there was a swell of volunteers looking to join the INA. Although Subash Chandra Bose agreed for the INA to remain subordinate to the Japanese Army, he saw it as a necessary sacrifice towards the fulfilment of the ultimate goal of freeing India from the British Empire. The Azad Hind Fauj participated in Operation U-Go, the 1944 Japanese campaign towards British India. Although the INA saw initial success during the early phases of the operation, they were forced to withdraw during the Battle of Imphal and the Battle of Kohima (Fought on April 4th, 1944) which saw a disastrous defeat for the Japanese Army at the hands of the British.The INA lost a substantial number of men and materiel in this retreat. A number of units were disbanded or used to feed into new divisions of the now-declining Japanese Army. Following the Japanese defeat in World War 2, most of the members of the INA were captured by the British. Subhash Chandra Bose himself eluded capture and was reported to have died in a plane crash near Taiwan in September 1945. (adapted from notes by Karthik of Byju’s study PDF, with thanks).
As a tribute to Subhash Bose and his ‘Azad Hind Fauz’ I am presenting a song which is about hailing our motherland. Lyrics are penned by Sandeep Nath and music is composed by Rana Mazumder. The singing voices are of Shreya Ghoshal, Sunidhi Chauhan, K.K. and Rana Mazumder.
Let us now listen to this patriotic song. Only audio of this song is available.
Our obeisance to our birthplace, our motherland …Tujhe namaami ho
Audio
Song-O janmbhoomi o maatribhoomi tujhe namaami ho (Raag Desh)(2017) Singers – Shreya Ghoshal, Sunidhi Chauhan, K.K, Rana Mazumder, Lyrics – Sandeep Nath, Music – Rana Mazumder
Lyrics
jaago ke ab
teen rang se ae
sajaa hai
ye aasmaan
jaago ke ab
teen rang se ae
sajaa hai
ye aasmaan
raag desh dhun
gaa rahee hai pawan
raag desh dhun
gaa rahee hai pawan
thhehar ke
boley samay
amar hai
desh meraa
o janmabhoomi
o maatribhoomi
tujhe namaami ho
o janmabhoomi
o maatribhoomi
tujhe namaami ho
bikhar gayee
nayee Sugandh hai
vasundharaa mein
ke shaheedee kaa khumaar hai
parmaparaa mein
sarwada jai ae
Hind ki raahon mein ae
amar hai
desh meraa
o janmabhoomi
o maatribhoomi
tujhe namaami ho
o janmabhoomi
o maatribhoomi
tujhe namaami ho
ektaa ke dhaage
bandhe huye
vibhinnataa mein
hai koti jeewan guthhe huye
swaadheentaa mein
ho ke tanmay ay ay
aaj mann gaaye hai ae
amar hai desh meraa
o janmabhoomi
o matribhoomi
tujhe namaami ho
o janmabhoomi
o maatribhoomi
tujhe namaami ho
o janmabhoomi
o maatribhoomi
tujhe namaami ho
o janmabhoomi
o maatribhoomi
tujhe namaami ho
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