Jaadoo bhare tore nainaa kateeley
Posted on: March 25, 2025
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‘Jaadoo Nagri’ (1961) was produced by Ram Dayal under the banner of Mukul Pictures and was directed by Radhakant. Cast included Ranjan, Vijaya Chowdhary, Ramayan Tiwari, Helen, Majnu, Kammo, Shammi, Mridula, Tuntun etc. The VCD of the film is available online but quality of both the video and audio is not good. A feature of this ‘black and white’ film is that all the songs have been picturised in colour.
Ranjan (02/03/1918 – 12/09/1983), the lead actor of the film had a multi-faceted personality. He was trained in horse riding and fencing. He was a writer and the editor of a Tamil dance magazine, ‘Natyam’. He was a singer, musician and choreographer. He was a trained pilot. He was a magician. He was also pursuing his Ph.D thesis on Indian Classical Dances when he was in the early phase of his filmy career.
Ranjan was born as Ramanarayana Venkataramana Sarma in Srirangam in Tamilnadu in an educated family. His brother, R R Sarma who studied architecture in Sir J J School of Arts at Mumbai, was an architect by profession who was associated with the architecture of modern buildings in then new Madras such as M A Chidambaram Cricket Statdium in Chepauk, the LIC Tower on Anna Salai, RBI Building on Rajaji Salai and Madras University Centenary Auditorium. (Source: The Times of India, August 22, 2010).
Ranjan passed B.A from Madras Christian College and was planning for his higher studies in Cambridge. However, an employee of Gemini Studios seeing his tall personality with a smiling face brought him in Tamil films, initially in small roles. Ranjan’s first Tamil film in the lead role was ‘Rishyasringar’ (1941) with Vasundhara Devi (mother of Vyjayantimala). For this film, Jiten Bannerjee, a director of Newtone Studios gave him a new name, Ranjan. The film was a box office hit paving his way for a promising film career. Later on, he joined Gemini Studio and worked in ‘Mangamma Sabatham’ (1943) in a dual role with Vasundhara Devi. This film made Ranjan a star in Tamil films. In Gemini’s ‘Chandralekha’ (1948) Ranjan did the role of a villain which made him an action hero. Probably, it was first time that a villainous role created a huge fan following for him.
In 1949, Gemini Studios produced it first trilingual film – ‘Apoorva Sagodharargal’ in Tamil, ‘Apoorva Sahodarulu’ in Telugu and ‘Nishaan’ in Hindi, with Ranjan and Bhanumati in lead roles. This was Ranjan’s first exposure to Hindi film audience. His next Hindi film was ‘Mangala’ *(1950), a remake of Gemini’s ‘Mangamma Sabatham’ (1943).
Sometime in early 1950s, Ranjan shifted his base to Mumbai to work in Hindi films. In 1952, Ranjan started his stint in Mumbai with ‘Kaafila’ in a secondary role. In the same year, his four films in lead roles were released – ‘Baghdad’, ‘Nishaan Danka’, ‘Shin Shinaaki Babla Boo’ and ‘Sinbaad The Sailor’. In rest of the 1950s and 1960s, Ranjan worked in as many as 34 films – all in lead roles mostly in action. fantasy and costume genres. His lead heroines included Naseem Bano, Nigar Sultana, Kamini Kaushal, Madhubala, Shyama, Shakila, Vijaya Chowdhary, Chitra etc.
Chinnappa Devar (Thevar), a then upcoming producer of Tamil films was producing ‘Neelamalai Thirudan’ (1957). Due to MGR having some tiff with Devar, he refused this film by giving the date problems. Devar called Ranjan from Mumbai for the lead role with Anjali Devi. The film became a runway hit making Chinnappa Dever’s Devar Pictures a big banner in line with Gemini and AVM. The success of this film with Ranjan made MGR to reconcile with Devar after which Devar made almost all his Tamil films with MGR in lead role. However, Ranjan returned to Mumbai to resume his Hindi film career.
After an hiatus about six years from 1966, Ranjan resumed working in Hindi films in character roles with ‘Munimji’ (1972). His last Hindi film was ‘Kahaani Ek Chor Ki’ (1981). In all, he worked in 60 Hindi films. He was a favourite of Dev Anand with whom he worked in six films while doing supporting roles. Incidentally, the story idea of the film, ‘Munimji’ (1955) was that of Ranjan as per the credit title of the film.
Ranjan had arrived in Tamil films when M G Ramchandran, Sivaji Ganesan and Gemini Ganesan were yet to establish themselves in lead roles. His tall and robust personality was the plus point against the future stars of Tamil films. However, Ranjan gradually faded away from Tamil film industry after shifting his base in Mumbai and MGR and Sivaji Ganesan became the icons of Tamil films. Although he worked in a large number of Hindi films, almost all his films were of ‘B’ Grade. He could not bring himself out of these type of films to get the roles in big banners. His long absence from Tamil films contributed his alienation from Tamil films.
Ranjan passed away on September 18, 1983, in a hotel in New Jersey (USA) due to heart attack. [Note: Some of the information on Ranjan is based on the article by V Mariappan which appeared on http://www.inmathi.com and an article, ‘Remembering the Mylaporean in Bollywood’ on http://www.dtnext.in ]
The story of ‘Jaado Nagri’ (1961) is as under:
The film starts with Queen Mother (Mridula) meeting Prince Madan Singh (Ranjan), who has return to the kingdom of Devpur after 20 years during which he was under a guru completing his training in weapons. Queen Mother shows him his father’s stone statue and reveals that 20 years back, Rudra Bhairav (Ramayan Tiwari), the evil magician-king of Jadoo Nagri, in his plan to destroy their kingdom, has turned his father into a stone statue through his magic. Even now, on each new moon night, he kidnaps a child from the kingdom and kills them for his rituals. Madan Singh takes an oath to kill Bhairav and reverse the spell on his father.
With his sidekick Chandan (Majnu) who meets him on the way, Madan travels to Jadoo Nagri. On the way to Jaadoo Nagri, they come across a large bottle. Madan opens the cock of the bottle, and a giant person emerges from it. Happy with his salvation, the giant person gives him a mystical shehnai which he can use it whenever he is in trouble. He also says that he would get the location of Jaadoo Nagri from a Myna which is with the princess of Chandranagar, Chandravati (Vijaya Chowdhary).
Madan and Chandan proceeds to Chandranagar and meets Princess’s orderly who invites him to give a shehnai performance for the Princess Chandra when he can meet her. After the performances, during which through his shehnai, he brings a dancer (Helen) from the moon for her dance performance. Princess Chandra is impressed with the power of his shehnai.
Princess Chandra requests Prince Madan to bring Prince of Devpur through his shehnai so that she can fulfill her vow to her father that whoever brings the head of Prince Madan, she would marry him. The reason is that when her father had visited Devpur to propose the marriage of Princess Chandra with Prince Madan, he was insulted on account of a lower level of his caste. Since then, there has been enmity between the two kingdoms. Prince Madan is in a quandary as he cannot reveal his identity to Princess Chandra. Nevertheless, he promises to bring Prince Madan to her but on one condition. He has also given a vow to his mother that he would kill Bhairav of Jaadoo Nagri to bring back his father from the stone statue to human life, for which he requires the location of Jadoo Nagri. Princess Chandra agrees and provides him the location through her magical Myna.
Prince Madan with Chandan proceeds to Jaadoo Nagri. After facing many obstacles created by the magical fire, storms, rains, floods. wild animals etc, they reach Jaadoo Nagri. A fight ensues between Madan and Rudra Bhairav who turns Madan into a parrot and Chandan into a talking dog. He kidnaps Princess Chandra and brings her in his palace to get married to her. He threatens her that if she did not agree to marry him in the next 24 hours, he would turn her into a stone statue. Princess Chandra now changes her strategy. She seduces Rudra Bhairav and serves him drugged drinks due to which he goes into a deep slumber. She takes out the key from his neck, open the safe and bring a bottle of nectar. Chandan now as a talking dog sprinkles nectar on the parrot and Prince Madan comes into his human form. With the help of the mystical Shehnai, the barking dog turns into Chandan.
When Rudra Bhairav comes to know of that he was fooled by Princess Chandra, because of which Prince Madan and Chandan become human beings, a long fight break out between him and Prince Madan. When Rudra Bhairav is in the verge of his defeat, thanks to the mystical shehnai, he takes Princess Chandra as a hostage and flies on his magic carpet through the sky route. Prince Madan takes the flying horse and rescues Princess Chandra. To turn his father from the stone statue to human beings, Prince Madan reaches a hill top cave to extinguish the lamp so that Rudra Bhairav dies. He does that against all odds. A snake comes and bites Rudra Bhairav because of which he dies.
Prince Madan and Princess Chandra return to Chandranagar. Prince Madan hands over a sword to Princess Chandra and asks her to fulfill her vow of killing Prince Madan as he himself is Prince Madan. But he also asks her to fulfill her second vow that she would marry the person who brings Prince Madan to her. So, it is a checkmate for both of them. Princess Chandra’s friend suggests that for a Rajput, the person who has saved her life gets precedence over fulfilling her vow. Princess Chandra agrees and is united with Prince Madan thus ending the feud between the kingdoms of Devpur and Chandranagar.
The story of the film seems to have been broadly followed in ’Jantar Mantar’ (1964) which I have recently watched. In both the film, Vijaya Chowdhary has the magical power to help the Prince to triumph over the evil kings who indulge in kidnapping children for rituals and turning the king of he neighbouring kingdoms to stone statues. Incidentally, both the films were directed by Radhakant.
The film had six songs written by Hasrat Jaipuri and set to music by S N Tripathi. Two songs have been covered on the Blog. I am presenting the 3rd song, ‘jaadoo bhare torey nainaa kateele’ rendered by Asha Bhosle and Mahendra Kapoor. The song is picturised on Kammo and Ranjan. Rekha (Kammo) has been promised by Rudra Bhairav that he would marry her. However, after he had taken Princess Chandra in his captivity to marry her, Rekha is annoyed. She develops liking for Prince Madan (Ranjan) who takes advantage of her to get the secret of Rudra Bhairav. This dance is one of the Madan’s strategies.
Video Clip:
Audio Clip:
Song-Jaadoo bhare tore nainaa kateeley (Jaadoo Nagri)(1961) Singers-Asha Bhosle, Mahendra Kapoor, Lyrics-Hasrat Jaipuri, MD-S N Tripathi
Both
Lyrics (Based on Video Clip):
jaadoo bhare ae
jaadoo bhare torey nainaa kateele
ham par zulam karen
ho jee ho o
ham par zulam karen
ho jee ho ho ho
jab jab aayen yaaden tumhaaree
ham to naaz karen
ho jee o o
tum pe naaz karen
ho jee o o o
jaadoo bhare
tore nainaa kateele
ham par zulam karen
raat khushee kee aayee
saathh tumhen bhee laayee
morey saajnaa
dhartee bhee naach uthhee
dil kee bajee shehnaayee
morey angnaa
haaye morey angnaa
ho jee ho ho ho
chaand ko jaise dekhe chakoraa
ham tumhen dekhaa karen
ho jee ho o o
tum pe naaz karen
ho jee ho ho ho
jab jab aaye yaaden tumhaaree
ham to naaz karen
bijlee kaa roop ho tum
saawan kee dhoop ho tum
meree chaandnee
sharmaaye darpan tumse
aisee anoop ho tum
meree zindagee
haay meree zindagee
ho jee o o o
jalwe tumhaare sab se niraale
phoolon mein rang bharen
ho jee o o
tum pe naaz karen
ho jee o o o
jaadoo bhare torey nainaa kateele
ham par zulam karen
tum ho hamaaree manzil
chamkee hai tumse mehfil
ajee meharbaan
dil se bhulaa na denaa
humko o bhole qaatil
mere raazdaan
haay mere raazdaan
ho jee ho ho ho
dil to diyaa hai hamne tumhee ko
ham kyun kisee se daren
ho jee ho o
tum pe naaz karen
ho jee ho ho ho
jaadoo bhare torey nainaa kateele
ham par zulam karen
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March 25, 2025 at 6:25 pm
Nice to know more about actor Ranjan who did several hit Bollywood and tamil movies. He was a stylish actor with multiple talents and was well qualified also. Indeed he was also a writer and written for some hindi movies also.
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