Soone sinhaasan pe Radha akelee
Posted by: Atul on: February 28, 2025
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Today’s song is from the film Suhag-1940.
This is my 100th post. Surprised ? or Confused ? Then see my last 5 months’ number of posts….
October-18 posts,
November- 20 posts,
December- 14 posts,
January – 26 posts and
February- 22 posts.
Total 100 posts !
In between I achieved the Milestone of 15th Century also on 28-1-2025.
All this is given here not to boast about my activity, but only to convey that I am trying to compensate for my proposed absence from this field in the Mid- March. During that period I will be away from Mumbai.
Coming to today’s film, Suhag – 1940 was produced by the enterprising Chimanlal Trivedi, owner of the banner- CIRCO Productions, Bombay. It was directed by Balwant Bhatt – elder brother of the more well known director Nanabhai Bhatt and the music was provided by Timir Baran Bhattacharya – brother of the less known Music Director Mihir Kiran Bhattacharya, known to us as the M.D. for the film ” Karwan-E-Hayat”-1935.
Timir’s assistant for this film was Pratap Mukherjee, who became a Hindi and Bengali film music director in later years. He acted in today’s film also. The cast included actor Kumar (Syed Hasan Ali Zaidi aka Mijjan Miyan), Bibbo (Isharat Sultana, India’s first woman music director), Ashalata (Mehrunnisa, wife of Anil Biswas, M.D. in later years, who worked in 22 Hindi and 6 Marathi films), Mazhar Khan, S. Nazir and others. The 10 songs of the film were written by Pt. Indra and A. Kareem, but we do not know individual songs, thanks to HFGK.
The producer of this film was an interesting person, who was a director himself, but preferred to employ other directors for his films. His name was Chiman lal Trivedi. Chimanlal Trivedi, was one of the major filmmakers of the 30s and the 40s decade. He was more a Producer businessman than a Director. While he directed hardly 7 films, he produced close to 50 films- all having A grade actors, directors and composers !
Born on 19-3-1909 at a village near Anand in Gujarat, he was from a Brahmin family. He did his schooling in Ahmedabad and technical graduation from Baroda. Being an expert in weaving, he took up a job as a weaving Master in Calcutta. Fond of writing, he started writing Dramas, which were staged in Bengal and Gujarat. He was attracted towards Cinema and tried some work in New Theatres. Knowing that the real playing field is Bombay he reached there. He wrote stories for the film Chevrolet-36 and Danger Signal-37 for Mohan pictures.
He established his own production company CIRCO (Cine Industries Recording COmpany) in 1937. By 1943, he had made 12 films. He preferred not to direct his films, but appointed directors like Mohan Sinha for Laxmi-40, Anuradha-40 and Vanmala-41, Balwant Bhatt for Suhag-40 and Madhusudan-41, A R Kardar for Swami-41 and Nai Duniya-42 and Debki Bose for Apna Ghar-42.
He had the art of getting the most popular stars for his films like, Prithviraj kapoor, Chandramohan, Durga Khote,Mazhar khan, Bibbo,Surendra, Jairaj, Sitara, Jeevan, Yaqub, Shobhana Samarth, Prem Adeeb, Vishnupant Pagnis,Leela Desai, Pahadi Sanyal, Shanta Apte and many others. Even big directors like Debki Bose,Nitin Bose, Kardar,Mohan Sinha, Sarvottam Badami, Nandlal Jaswantlal,Profull Roy, Sudhir Sen, R S Chaudhary, Phani mujumdar, Balwant Bhatt etc. worked for him. From Prabhat he brought Shanta Apte for Rs.1000 pm, and also Chandramohan, Pagnis and Mazhar khan. His friend Chandulal Shah followed his way and brought K L Saigal from New Theatres !
C L Trivedi was an expert in gathering funds for his films. After CIRCO at Parel, he started Laxmi Productions at Andheri, in 1942. He made mera Gaon,Sharafat,Bhagya Laxmi,Kadambari,Tamanna,Inkaar,Mohabbat,Miss Devi etc. In 1951, it was Supreme Pictures, Trivedi Productions was in 1952, Kala Kendra in 1953 and with Chitra Bharati in 1954, he made 13 films upto 1961. Top Composers like Timir Baran,Ashok Ghosh,Rafiq Gaznavi,K C Dey,Saraswati Devi,Husnlal-Bhagatram and Naushad gave music to his films.
In the end, he turned to Stage and started Abhinay Bharati. He staged many dramas in Bombay and Gujarat. Chimanlal always went for big names. He had close relations with Nehru, Menon, Morarji Desai, and other National leaders. His wife Kantaben was a Leader herself. Chimanlal Trivedi died on 25-11-1973. His wife, 3 sons and a daughter settled in the USA.
It may be a coincidence, but Gujarati businessmen like Chimanlal Trivedi, Chimanlal Desai,Chimanlal Luhar, Chaturbhuj Doshi, Chimankant Desai, Chunibhai Desai and Chandulal Shah made sizable contribution to Hindi cinema in the first 20 years of the Talkie era. All names started with CH ! (Thanks to Harish Raghuwanshi ji for his book ” बॉलिवूडमा गुजरातीयो” in Gujarati for some information and my notes.)
The Music Director Timir Baran was perhaps the only Indian composer who was invited to West Pakistan and East Pakistan to give music to their films. Timir Baran Bhatacharya belonged to a family of Sanskrit Scholars. He was born on 10-7- 1904. He learned Sarod playing initially from Radhika Prasad Goswami and then remained a student of Ustad Allauddin Khan ( who also taught internationally famous Ravi Shankar). He toured Europe and the USA after joining Uday Shankar’s Dance Troupe in 1930. He had an unrivalled reputation as a composer of dance music of that period. He was a symbol of passionate rendering. Worked in Madhu Bose’s Calcutta Art Players 1934 and visited Java and Bali.
On joining the New Theatres, he composed music for “Devdas” in 1935-“Balam Aao Baso Morey Mann Mein”. Other important films include “Pujaran” 1936 (“Jo Beet Chuki so Beet Chuki Ab Us Ki Yad Sataye Keun”) produced by International Film Craft and “Adhikar” 1938 of New Theatres. His other Hindi films are Sagar’s “Kumkum, The Dancer”1940, Circo’s “Laxmi” 1940 and “Raj Nartaki” 1941. Subsequently he joined All India Radio and conducted music for Tagore’s non-violence poetry in 1947. Later he composed music for Uma Production’s “Samapti” in 1949.
He then shifted to Bombay and worked at Sagar and Wadia studios. He directed music for films “Badbaan”(with S.K.Pal in 1954) at Bombay, Anokhi *(with Hasan Latif Lalik) at Karachi-Pakistan (1955- with songs of Zubeida Khanum filmed on Sheela Ramani), Fankar (W.Pakistan – 1956) and “Jog Biyog” (Bengali – East Pakistan – 1970). His earlier Bengali films include Bijoya 1935, Uttarayan 1941, Bondita 1945, Bicharak 1959,Thana Theke Aschi 1965, Diba Ratrik Kabya 1970 and Dak Diyajai 1978.
Afterwards he devoted himself to the music faculty of Tagor’s Shanti Naketan at Calcutta. He became eternal on 29-3- 1987.
The story of the film Suhag-1940 was….
Dhanji Bhagat is a professional thief who works on the behest of Keshav Sheth (Mazhar Khan), a rich moneylender of the village. During the day, he camouflages his notorious activity in the guise of a street musician in which his daughter Raju (Bibbo) is a street dancer.
At the end of one of the street dance shows, Raju reminds her father of his promise to present her with silver bells. Keshav Sheth gives a hint to Dhanji to break open a jewellery shop to get not only the silver bells but also some other jewelleries. Dhanji commits a theft but soon discovers a policeman watching him stealing from the shop. He kills the policeman. Dhanji and some more suspects are arrested as nobody has seen him killing the policeman. Keshav, through his influence, rescues Dhanji from subjecting him to the third degree methods used by the police. His freedom is short lived as soon, Dhanji dies a natural death.
The death of Dhanji brings his daughter Raju to Keshav for borrowing some money for the funeral of her father which Keshav refuses. Ramesh (M Kumar), Keshav’s son, does not like his father’s attitude towards Raju. Ramesh reaches at the funeral of Dhanji. A love blossoms between Raju and Ramesh.
Obviously, Keshav does not like his son to get married to a beggar girl like Raju. However, Ramesh prevails upon changing his mind and agrees to marry Kamla (Ashalata). On the wedding night, Ramesh is not to be seen as he runs out of the house to reach Raju. What Ramesh finds in Raju’s house is his father, Keshav trying to force on Raju. A shuffle ensues between Ramesh and Keshav, in which Keshav is accidentally killed.
Just to save Ramesh from the charge of murder, Raju takes the crime on her and goes to jail for 3 years. During these three years, Ramesh suffers from some illness continuously. His wife, Kamla suddenly realises that Raju is the cure for the life of Ramesh. After the release of Raju, the triangle gets resolved by Kamla proposing to Ramesh to bring Raju to the house as his second wife.
Today, the end of this film seems very odd, but the ban on Bigamy came only in 1955 and before that 2 wives were allowed legally for even Hindus. The Anti Bigamy law is only for Hindus in this Secular country !
Let us now enjoy this 85 year old song by Bibbo, Aziz and chorus….
Song- Soone sinhaasan pe Radha akelee (Suhaag)(1940) Singer- Bibbo, Aziz, Lyricist- Not known, MD- Timir Baran
Chorus
Lyrics
Soone sinhaasan pe Radha akelee
kahaan jaiho shyaam Bihaari
kaahe soonaa mandir pujaaree
Soone sinhaasan pe Radha akelee
kahaan jaiho shyaam Bihaari
kaahe soona mandir pujaaree
shyaamal suhaawan
dola hi dola
apna piyaa se piyaaree
kaahe soona mandir pujaaree
shyaamal suhaawan
dola hi dola
apna piyaa se piyaaree
kaahe soona mandir pujaaree
shyaamal hamaare nainon mein sajnee
seenche hriday phulwaaree
kaahe soona mandir pujaaree
shyaamal hamaare nainon mein sajnee
seenche hriday phulwaaree
kaahe soona mandir pujaaree
chunree ke palle mein jamuna bharoon
tere gaalon pe ganga padhhaaree
kaahe soona mandir pujaaree
chunree ke palle mein jamuna bharoon
tere gaalon pe ganga padhhaaree
kaahe soona mandir pujaaree
nainon ke saagar se gaagar bharoon
kaahe panghat chalee panihaaree
kaahe soona mandir pujaaree
nainon ke saagar se gaagar bharoon
kaahe panghat chalee panihaaree
kaahe soona mandir pujaaree
tore naihar ???
pardesee baalam main bisaaree
kaahe soona mandir pujaaree
tore naihar ???
pardesee baalam main bisaaree
kaahe soona mandir pujaaree
??
chhootaa saajan ka saathh
mere mehndee bhare haathh
tu to biyaahee re ?? kunwaaree
kaahe soona mandir pujaaree
??
chhootaa saajan ka saathh
mere mehndee bhare haathh
tu to biyaahee re ?? kunwaaree
kaahe soona mandir pujaaree
baabul ke dwaare sugna boley paapee
maare kaleje kataaree
kaahe soona mandir pujaaree
baabul ke dwaare sugna boley paapee
maare kaleje kataaree
kaahe soona mandir pujaaree
sabkee atariyaa mein diya jaley
mere hiya jaley ??
kaahe soona mandir pujaaree
sabkee atariyaa mein diya jaley
mere hiya jaley ??
kaahe soona mandir pujaaree
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February 28, 2025 at 5:13 am
Congratulations on 100th posts. Wish you a very pleasant and happy sojourn on your proposed trip and expect you to return with renewed vigour and energy to start posts. Will remain in expectation mode. Bon Voyage.
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February 28, 2025 at 7:18 am
Thanks.
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