Ghar kee Seeta chhod aaj ke Raam bhatakte galee galee
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Today’s song is from the film Sanskar-1958.
There were 3 films made with the same title, in 1940, 1952 and 1958. This film was made by Filmistan. It was directed by Chaturbhuj Doshi. This was ,incidentally, his last film as a Hindi film director.
During the early era of talkie films, till the 1960s, there was a horde of Gujarati directors and producers. Bhatts, Trivedi, Thakur, Shahs, Desais, Pancholi, Doshi, Daves were some names frequently found directing various genres. Usually they specialised in certain classes and types of films. The Bhatts (Shankar and Vijay) liked to do Mythological films, Ramnik Shah handled stunt, action, fantasy films, Jayant Desai was social film oriented etc.
Chaturbhuj Doshi (1894–1969) was a Hindi and Gujarati writer-director of Indian cinema. He was one of the top Gujarati screenplay writers, who helped script stories for the Punatar productions. He is stated to be one of the leading figures who launched the Gujarati film industry with work on notable films like ‘Gunsundari’ (1948) and ‘Nanand Bhojai’ (1948). He was ‘well known’ for his family socials and had become ‘a celebrity in his own right’. He made a name for himself as a journalist initially and was referred to as the ‘famous journalist’ & publicist by Baburao Patel, editor of Filmindia.
His debut film as a director was ‘Gorakh Aya’ (1938), produced by Ranjit Movietone, though he joined Ranjit in 1929, as a scriptwriter. In 1938, he directed another film for Ranjit, a social comedy, ‘The Secretary’, and both films were box-office successes for Doshi. His forte was socials, regularly adapting stories and novels for films. He worked initially on comedies like ‘Secretary’ and ‘Musafir’ (1940), but then ‘shifted to more significant films’.
Chaturbhuj Anandji Doshi was born in 1894 in Kathiawad, Gujarat, British India. He was educated at the University of Bombay, after graduation he started work as a journalist for a daily, Hindustan (1926), working for editor Indulal Yagnik. His entry into films was working as a scenarist in the silent era for directors like Jayant Desai, Nandlal Jaswantlal & Nanubhai Vakil. He joined Ranjit Movietone in 1929, and wrote stories and screenplay for several of Ranjit films.
Film ‘Gorakh Aya’ (Gorakh has come) in 1938, was the first film directed by Doshi. It was produced by Ranjit Movietone with screenplay by Gunvantrai Acharya & dialogues by PL Santoshi. The music, termed ‘good’ was composed by Gyan Dutt. ‘The Secretary’ (1938), was a “riotous comedy”, starring Madhuri, Trilok Kapoor. Charlie. The music was composed by Gyan Dutt, became a regular in most of the films directed by Doshi. Musafir in 1940 was a comedy costume drama, which had Charlie playing a prince.
‘Bhakta Surdas’, a devotional film directed by Doshi in 1942, is stated to be the “most famous” of the several versions made. It starred KL Saigal and Khursheed “the singing idol(s) of millions”, winning “unprecedented popularity” everywhere.
‘Mehemaan’ (1942) starred Madhuri, Ishwarlal, Shamim and Mubarak. Music director Bulo C. Rani had come to Bombay in 1942, and joined Ranjit Studios assisting Khemchand Prakash in music direction.
Doshi helped enormously in the development of the Gujarati cinema. During 1948-49 he directed three successful Gujarati films which “brought immense success to the industry”. The success of the Gujarati film ‘Kariyavar’ in 1948, directed by Chaturbhuj Doshi from a story by Shaida, called Vanzari Vaav, helped establish the Gujarati film industry along with other films like ‘Vadilo Ne Vanke’ (1948) by Ram Chandra Thakur and ‘Gadono Bel’ (1950) by Ratibhai Punatar. His next Gujarati film was ‘Jesal Toral’ (1948) based on folk-lore, which proved a big box-office success. In 1949, Doshi directed another Gujarati film, ‘Vevishal’, an adaptation of Meghani’s novel of the same name.
He also wrote stories, and one of his stories ‘Pati Bhakti’ was used in the Tamil film ‘En Kanawar’ (1948) produced by Ajit Pictures, which starred the Veena maestro, Sundaram Balachander, who was also the debut director and music composer for the film. In all he directed 24 Hindi films. His last Hindi film was ‘Sanskar’ (1958). He had also written few songs in the film ‘Maya Bazaar’ (1932).
Chaturbhuj Doshi died on 21 January 1969 in Bombay, Maharashtra, India.
Filmography….
1932: Narasinh Mehta (Writer), 1934: Sitamgarh (Writer), 1938: Gorakh Aya, Secretary, 1939: Adhuri Kahani, 1940: Musafir, 1941:Pardesi, Sasural, 1942: Bhakta Surdas, Dhiraj, Mehmaan, 1943: Chhoti Maa, Shankar Parvati (Director, Writer), 1944: Bhartrahari, 1945:Murti, 1946: Phulwari, 1947: Bela, Kaun Hamara, 1948: Jesal Toral, Kariyavar (Director, Writer), Sati Sone, 1949: Bhakta Puran, Vevishal, 1950: Akhand Saubhagya, Kisi Ki Yaad, Ramtaram, 1954: Aurat Teri Yahi Kahani, 1956: Aabroo, Dashera, Dassehra, 1957: Khuda Ka Banda, Shesh Naag, 1958: Sanskar, 1960: Mehndi Rang Lagyo (Writer, Lyricist). (Courtesy- Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema)
The music was by Anil Biswas, who was already on the downhill road of his waning career. A misunderstanding with Mehboob Khan – once a thick friend, Separation from first wife, Ashalata aka Mehrunnisa and inability to cope up with the changing audience musical tastes were primarily the reasons. In his career, Anil Biswas had used Rafi very sparingly (only 4 films- Heer-1956, 2 solos and 1 duet, Paisa hi paisa-1956-1 solo and 3 duets, Abhiman-1957-1 duet and Sanskar-1958-1 solo) among his 777 songs from 79 films. His proximity to Meena Kapoor and a dislike for Rafi were added reasons for his downfall.
There were films by name Sanskar in 1940, 53 and 58,but the name Sanskar,in my mind, is associated with the Award winning debut film of GIRISH KARNAD,in KANNADA language.
This Kannada film SANSKARA-1970, was based on the revolutionary novel of U.R.Ananthamurthy and directed by Pattabhirama Reddy, with his own wife Snehlatha Reddy and Girish Karnad in the lead. With this film Karnad not only started acting, but also wrote his first screenplay. This film had won the FIRST President’s Golden Lotus Award for Kannada Films.I had seen this film and was quite impressed with Girish Karnad,that time.
Sanskar-58, had its story, Dialogues and screenplay written by Sarashar Sailani(real name-Bheemsen), in addition to few songs, along with Indeevar and Diwakar.
The cast of the film included Ameeta, Anant Kumar, Ranjana, Yakub, Leela Mishra, Badri Prashad, Kanu Roy, Parshuram, Jayashree Gadkar, Sohan Kapila etc.
The story of this film was….
SANSKAR-1958 was a film which indicated its genre by its name itself.It was one of those films,in which Indian culture and the right sanskar are highlighted at the cost of the suffering of the heroine.
Jagmohandas(Badriprasad) is a honest businessman,who has fallen on bad days. He has given high education and good sanskar to his daughter Nirupa(Ameeta). She is engaged to Kishen(Anant Kumar), son of Ramprasad(Kanu Roy), a rich businessman. Kishen being a simple person, he is kept in the care of Ram Bharose(Randhir), the evil and crooked Munimji of Ramprasad. Ram Bharose introduces Kishen to Bansuri(Ranjana) and they both slowly drain money from him.
After marriage, Nirupa learns about the deeds of Ram Bharose and tries to keep Kishen away from bad habits, but Kishen is introduced to Gambling and drinking also and the money from business is slowly spent towards all this. Once Ramprasad gives Rs.10000 to Nirupa for safekeeping. Kishen steals this money and Ramprasad fires Nirupa. Her mother in law calls her thief and her father scolds her.The rest of the film takes an interesting turn from here. Nirupa, not only rescues her husband Kishen from the clutches of Ram Bharose and Bansari, but also exposes them and wins back everybody’s confidence in herself. This becomes her success story, because she had good SANSKAR on her.
One of the names in the cast is that of Jayashree Gadkar. She was a leading actress of Marathi Cinema for more than 30 years. Can you imagine that she worked in 73 Hindi films from 1957 to 1997, and she was the heroine in 8 Hindi films ! I was surprised.
Jayshree Gadkar (21 February 1942 – 29 August 2008) was a noted Marathi and Hindi movie actress and a star of Marathi cinema from the 1950s up to the 1980s. Jayshree was born into a Konkani-speaking family at Kanasgiri (Sadashivgad) near Karwar in the Uttara Kannada district of Karnataka, India. She married Bal Dhuri, a theatre actor best known for his portrayal of Dashratha in Ramanand Sagar’s TV serial, Ramayana (where Jayashree herself played his wife, Kaushalya). She also published an autobiography, Ashi Mi Jayshri.
She began her career as a child dance artist. She entered films as a tamasha dancer in movies. Her first role was that of a group dancer in V. Shantaram’s Jhanak Jhanak Payal Baaje in 1955, which featured Sandhya as the leading lady. Later, well known Marathi film Director Dinkar D Patil cast her in a small role with dance in his Marathi film Disat Tasa Nasat, opposite Raja Gosavi. This was followed by Sangtye Aika, a tamasha-based movie which was the first in which she played a leading role. This helped her gain fame and recognition and she started doing heroine roles. She eventually became one of the most successful and prolific heriones in the history of the Marathi film industry.
Many remember her for the famous song Bugdi mazi saandli ga jata sataryala. But Jayshree Gadkar was much more than that. She was not only a versatile and accomplished actress but the face of Marathi cinema in its golden era. This paved her way into mainstream Marathi cinema. Later, both Raja Gosavi and Jayshree gave many hits as a pair, like Aaliya Bhogasi [her first film], Utavla Navara, Yala Jeevan Aise Nav, Awaghachi Sansar and Paishacha Paus. Gath Padli Thakathaka was her first major role. Jayashree got a lot of success as a heroine in movies based on tamasha and lavni, the trend at the time.
Her film Saangtye Aika (1959) ran for 132 weeks in a theater. Her terrific dance performance in Bugdi mazi saandli ga became a craze among Marathi viewers. She was paired with the most popular heroes of the time like Suryakant (Pancharati, Rangpanchmi, Vaijayanta) and Arun Sarnike (Sawal Maza Aika, Ek Gav baara Bhangadi, Gangaulan). Manini was a turning point in her career. She was paired with Chandrakant Gokhle. She went on to act with his son Vikram Gokhle too, in films like Utavla Navra and Subhdra Haran.
Gadkar also acted in historical movies like Mohityaanchi Manjula and Shahir Parshuram. She won many accolades and awards at the national and state level. She was also felicitated with the state government’s V Shantaram Purskar, Gadima Purskar, P Savlaram Purskar and many more. She married co-star Bal Dhuri in 1975, and directed two films, Sasar Maher and Ashi Asavi Saasu.
Jayshree acted in about 250 films over a period of four decades. Her filmography was varied and included a rich repertoire of tamasha stories as also mythologicals in addition to socials and love stories.
In later years, Jayshree turned film director. Her directorial efforts include Saasar Maher and Ashi Asavi Saasu. She also acted in Ramanand Sagar’s TV Series Ramayana, as Kaushalya (mother of Rama) along with her husband Bal Dhuri, who was Dasharath (father of Rama). Her home is adorned with the photo of both in Ramayana costume. Her Autobiography Ashi Me Jayshree was published in 1986. Gadkar had received awards for her part in the films Manini, Vaijantha, Sawaal Majha Aika! and Saadhi Mansa.
Surprisingly, Jayashree Gadkar had acted in as many as 73 Hindi films. Her first film was Jhanak Jhanak Payal Baje-55 and the last film was Lav kush-97. However another film which was delayed came in 2009 was Jai jai Santoshi Maa. (Thanks to http://www.marathifilmdata.com, wiki, rediff.com, muVyz, HFGK and my notes).
Now enjoy today’s 67 year old song by Asha Bhosle from this film….
Song-Ghar kee Seeta chhod aaj ke Raam bhatakte galee galee(Sanskaar)(1958) Singer- Asha Bhosle, Lyricist- Indivar, MD- Anil Biswas
Lyrics
kaanp kaanp
jaata hai jeewan
ajab tarah kee hawa chalee
ghar kee Seeta chhod aaj ke
Raam bhatakte galee galee
ghar kee Seeta chhod aaj ke
Raam bhatakte galee galee
kaanp kaanp jaata hai jeewan
ajab tarah kee hawa chalee
ghar kee Seeta chhod aaj ke
Raam bhatakte galee galee
kaanp kaanp jaata hai jeewan
purushon ne kaanoon banaaye
unkee jag mein jeet rahee
kisne kab jaana hai
naaree ke man par kya beet rahee
pati ka ghar ho ya ki pita ka
naaree chita bankar hee jalee
ghar kee Seeta chhod aaj ke
Raam bhatakte galee galee
kaanp kaanp jaata hai jeewan
ghar kee aartee chhod ke ye
mehfil mein shama jalaate hain
thhuakra ke amrit ka pyaala
zehar se pyaas bujhaate hain
purush sada kaliyon se khela
naaree sada kaanton mein palee
ghar kee Seeta chhod aaj ke
Raam bhatakte galee galee
kaanp kaanp jaata hai jeewan
paanv taley rehne waalee
dhartee ka bhee ab dil dhadka
o anyaayee sambhal sambhal
shabnam mein bhi shola bhadka
jala na de teree duniya aa aa
jala na de teree duniya
naaree jeewan mein bahut jalee
naaree jeewan mein bahut jalee
ghar kee Seeta chhod aaj ke
Raam bhatakte galee galee
kaanp kaanp jaata hai jeewan
ajab tarah kee hawa chalee
ghar kee Seeta chhod aaj ke
Raam bhatakte galee galee
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