Man naa maaney
Posted on: April 5, 2025
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Today’s song is from the Cult film Har Har Mahadev-1950.
The film was produced and directed by Jayant Desai for his own Banner Jayant Desai Productions, Bombay. The cast of the film included Nirupa Roy, Trilok Kapoor, Durga Khote, Jeevan, Meenakshi, Kusum Deshpande, Hira Sawant and many more. The lyrics were written by Ramesh Shastri (8) and Saraswati Kumar Deepak (2).
Film Har har Mahadev was one of my favourite films and I can’t remember how many times I must have seen this film. Not only in my childhood, along with the elders in our big joint family, but also later in life, whenever it was possible to see it. In the era of Video Tapes, on every mahashivratri, we used to rent the cassette and see this film.
Some 12 years ago, on this Blog, I had written in a comment like this……
” I had seen this film,not once but many times. It was full of trick scenes and It had become a cult film. Trilok Kapoor, who acted the part of lord Shiva was rumoured to have a real snake around his neck during the film shooting. Nirupa Roy who played the role of Uma, was quite scared of snakes and it became a problem. Finally, an artificial snake was used, when their joint shots were shot. HAR HAR MAHADEV-1950 was produced and directed by Jayant Desai under the banner of Jayant Desai Production. With this one film alone Jayant Desai became a millionaire in those days.
It was also the FIRST film where the pair of Trilok Kapoor and Nirupa Roy became a hit as Shankar-Parvati and they played these roles in 6 subsequent films. The film had songs written by Ramesh Shastri-who had written the famous song of BARSAT-Mera lal dupatta malmal ka. His song in this film ‘Kankar kankar se main puchhun shankar mera kahan hai’ became a hit. It was sung by Geeta Dutt.This is a story, when Tarakasur, the king of demons invades the land of gods, to avenge the insult meted out to his mother by Indra. Tarakasur wins the war and all Gods are kept in captivity-including the offender Indra.
Lord Vishnu and Bramhadev know, only Lord Shiva can defeat Tarakasur but he is in Tapascharya(Meditation). Kamdev is sent to lure Shiva from his meditation, but Shiva is so angry that, opening his Third Eye, he burns Kamdev. Now only Uma, the daughter of king Himalaya can save the world, Uma(Nirupa Roy) starts penance to propitiate Shiva(Trilok Kapoor).
Due to her earnest bhakti and devotion, Shiva relents and breaks his Meditation. Shiva and Uma get Married and later lord Shiva destroys Tarakasur, releasing all the Gods.
On the auspicious day of Maha Shivaratri, the marriage of Shiv-Parvati is solemnised at midnight.
The film Munimji-1955 has a very nice song depicting the marriage details. ”
Har Har Mahadev-50 was a special movie. It achieved the status of a “Flag Bearer”, for Mythological films to be made in the coming decade of the 50s. It is not that Religious films were not made earlier. In fact, right from 1931 onwards such Dharmik films were being made. However, subsequently, when a variety of Genres came to the films, these movies lagged behind. The first attempt of reviving the religious films came when the film Ram Rajya-43 became a Hit film, but in the 40s Stunt films dominated, so this chance subsided. Next when Har Har Mahadev became an extremely successful film, the religious films got a real boost.
If you look at the type of films made in the 40s and 50s, you will notice a clear shift of the tastes of the Indian film audience. The decade of the 30s was of the novelty of Talking films, so people saw whatever was offered to them. But by the 40s, the Industry had become a bubbly young one and films were made as per the budgets available, tastes of the audience and lastly on the choice of the producers.
The first half of the 40s was affected by the second world war. This decade brought a new class of investors/financers, who had made easy money ( read Black money) in the war period. They were ready to invest/finance in film making, but their motto was “less investment and more profits”. To achieve this, the only way was to make a C grade stunt/action film. Thus, in this decade, there were a whole lot of C grade films, consisting of Stunt/Action films, Costume dramas, Magic based imaginary films and the likes of their ilk. These films could be made in less money ( according to Bhagwan Dada, a stunt film was made in about 30 to 50 thousand rupees only) and almost at a guaranteed profit of sizable percentage. Thus, so many such films were made that we can label the 40s as ‘the decade of stunt films’. During 1941 to 1950, approximately 210 stunt/action and similar films were made, giving a rough average of 21 films per year, for 10 continuous years !
Mythological/Religious films were being made from 1931 itself. They tried to give them a competition. Though only 80 such films were made in the 40s – 1941 to 1950 – two BlockBusters from this religious film genre gave a lot of hope to makers of such films. One was Ram Rajya-1943 and the other was Har Har Mahadev-1950. In fact, the extraordinary success of Har Har Mahadev was so encouraging, that producers turned again to making Religious films in the next decade. The cost of making a religious film was much more than producing a C grade stunt film, but the turnover and profit was also many times more than the stunt films. The audience of religious films was mainly from Middle class society, who were now earning enough money to see films.
Due to higher cost of production religious films did not have the same number of films produced in the 50s decade. However 125 films were made from 1951 to 1960, giving an average of 12 films per year or 1 film per month for 10 continuous years. In this period the stunt/action film production diminished considerably – slowly walking towards a natural death of this Genre in due course ! The decade was crowded with Musical, Social and Comedy films. Even religious films provided good songs and music, as against stunt films-where it was non-existent. The audience taste spurned the Stunt/action films and those producers too turned to producing religious social, musical and comedy films. In this process, Har Har Mahadev-50 played a major role. Not only the story, acting, direction and production values were good but its music also played a stellar role.
Ramesh Shastri who wrote the famous and most popular song ” Kankar kankar se main poonchhun….”(Geeta Dutt), had his Life story published in Listener’s Bulletin No. 145 of July2010. It was based on an interview of his daughter, taken by Late Shri Rajni kumar Pandya ji. Here is the adapted version….
The success of Film Har Har Mahadev-50 was also due to excellent song lyrics by Ramesh Shastri ( 2-8-1935 to 30-4-2010). He was from village Diyor, Bhavnagar dist .in Gujarat. He went to Benares to study and completed Visharad (equivalent to B.A.). He came back to Ahmedabad and studied in St. Xavier’s college. He did his Ph.D in Sanskrit. He served in Ayurvedic colleges of Bhavnagar, Baroda and Ahmedabad.
When Raj Kapoor advertised for songs for his new film, Barsat, Ramesh Shastri responded with his songs and RK selected his song-“Hawa mein udta jaayen mera laal dupatta malmal ka”, which became an instant hit and very popular too. Same year he also wrote songs for films Ram Vivah, Shaadi ke baad and Usha Haran. In 1950, he wrote 5 songs for the film Har Har Mahadev. One song by Geeta Dutt, “Kankar kankar se main poochhoon, Shankar mera kahan hai” became famous and popular. After this he wrote for his last film Jai Mahakali-51 and stopped film activity. In all, he wrote just 21 songs for 6 Hindi films.
He retired in 1990. Though Raj Kapoor called him several times, he was not interested in films or settling in Bombay and hence he declined every time. He wrote several Bhajans in Hindi and Gujarati, under the pen name of ” Ram Sharan”. These were broadcast over A.I.R. and Radio Ceylon regularly. He suffered from Cerebral palsy and was handicapped for the last 10 years. He died on 30-4-2010.
Now something about the Hero of this film – Trilok Kapoor….
TK (Trilok Kapoor) was born at Multan on 3-3-1912 and was educated at Peshawar. He went to Bombay to join his brother. He got his first film CHAR DARVESH-1933. He went to Calcutta and did some films there. He also worked as an assistant to Director Hem Chandra.
Trilok was associated with the activities of the freedom movement from a very young age. His elder sibling had already moved to Calcutta to make a career in films in the latter part of 1920s. The year was 1932. There was a large rally held in Multan, advocating prohibition against liquor. The rally turned violent, resulting in the death of some people. Trilok Kapoor was also at the rally. His father, fearing for his son’s life, wrote to Prithviraj in Calcutta, to desist young Trilok from participation in such violent movements. He also implored him to have his younger brother join him in Calcutta. Under family duress, Trilok left Multan and joined his elder brother in Calcutta in early 1933. It was natural for him to start working in films, under guidance from his elder brother. His first screen appearance is a small role he played alongside his elder brother, in the film ‘Seeta’. He also worked as an assistant to producer-director Hem Chander for some years. He played small roles in about ten films during his stay in Calcutta.
During the late 1930s, Prithviraj migrated to Bombay, and Trilok also moved with him. Immediately on arrival in Bombay, he got associated with Ranjeet Movietone. His career got a fillip when he got associated with Vijay Bhatt. In the 1940s, Vijay Bhatt had become a household name with the release of films based on Ramaayan, viz. ‘Bharat Milap’ (1942) and ‘Ram Rajya’ (1943). The interesting thing to happen was that through these films, Trilok Kapoor got so type cast in the role of Bhagwan Shiv, that well through the 1940s and 1950s, every producer wanted him to play that role only. His pairing with Nirupa Roy in the role of Mata Parvati became a staple feature of religious films in those years. His film ‘Har Har Mahadev’ celebrated a diamond jubilee in Bombay, and golden jubilee in many other centers.
In the 40s and 50s, His patent role was that of Mahadev. Trilok Kapoor was very famous for his portrayal of Shiv ji in Mythological films, in which he paired with Nirupa Roy as his consort-Parvati. He did 7 films in a row for this role and in all those films Nirupa Roy was Parvati. (However, no one could ever beat the divine pair of Ram and Seeta enacted by Shobhana Samarth and Prem Adib in Ram Rajya-1943).
It was rumoured that Trilok Kapoor wore a real snake around his neck during shootings. In the shooting of Har Har Mahadev, Nirupa Roy was scared of the real snake and she could not do any scene with Trilok ji. Finally, he had to remove the real snake and wear an artificial snake for this shooting.
He and Nirupa Roy worked in 18 films together. Nirupa Roy paired with some actors more than others. She acted with Balraj Sahni in 12 films, with P.Jairaj in 16 films and with Ashok Kumar in 21 films. She was Amitabh’s mother in 12 films, overall Mythological films were 50, Mother’s role in 50 films, suffering wife in 30 films and believe it or not, she acted in 8 Stunt films also.
Trilok Kapoor did about 120 films. In a career that lasted a little over five decades, Trilok Kapoor performed in more than 120 films, mostly small roles. Besides the religious films, the high point of his career was his lead appearance opposite Noorjehan in the film ‘Mirza Sahiban’ (1947). His last film was a TV film Akanksha, which was released after his death which took place on 23-9-1988.
As per HFGK, Trilok Kapoor the actor sang 1 solo in Aaj ki Duniya and 5 duets in Raja Rani-42. After this there are no songs on his name. There was another singer with the same name Trilok Kapoor. This caused confusion, but they were two different persons.
Now let us enjoy the 75 year old song from this film, sung by Geeta Dutt….
Video
Audio (longer)
Song-Man naa maane (Har Har Mahadev)(1950) Singer- Geeta Dutt, Lyricist- Ramesh Shastri, MD- Avinash Vyas
Female chorus
Unknown female voice 1
Unknown female voice 2
Lyrics
man na maane ae ae ae ae
man na maane
man na maane
man kee batiyaan man hee jaane
jag kya jaane ae ae ae
man na maane ae ae ae ae
man na maane
man na maane
door kahaan door
kahaan naina lagaaye
kaun man mein basaaye
tere sapnon mein aaye bolo
bolo bolo
bolo sakhee bolo bolo
bolo sakhee bolo naa
bolo sakhee bolo bolo
bolo sakhee bolo naa
bolo sakhee bolo
door
door gagan mein ugaa chaand hai
de jag ko ujiyaaraa aa
antar mein andhiyaaraa mere
antar mein andhiyaaraa mere
kaise
haan kaise tu pehchaane ae
man na maane ae ae ae ae
man na maane
man na maane
haathon mein kangan pehno
pairon mein paayal daalo
haathon mein kangan pehno
pairon mein paayal daalo
galey mein haar
karo singaar
galey mein haar
karo singaar
tere aayenge preetam dwaar
tere aayenge preetam dwaar
bolo kaisee kahee
haan haan achchee kahee
bolo sakhee bolo bolo
bolo sakhee bolo na
bolo sakhi bolo
kar mein kangan sohe na maala pe man mera mohey na
kar mein kangan sohe na
jogee vargee(?) main bhee jogin
jaanoon
main to jaanoon bhabhoot lagaane
man na maane ae ae ae
man na maane
man na maane
man ki batiyaan man hee jaane
jag kya jaane ae ae
man na maane
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