Hum gaayen tum naacho
Posted on: May 19, 2025
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Today’s song is from a family drama social film- Ghar ki Laaj-1941.
The film was produced and directed by V.M.Vyas, for his own banner- Sunshine Pictures, Bombay.The music was by an old-timer, Annasaheb Mainkar, but I find that in this film, he tried to adapt to the changing styles of the film music of the times !. The cast of the film was Shanta Hublikar, Nazir Ahmed, Jagdish Sethi ( in the credits, his B.A. is written prominently), Kalyani, Kaushalya, Majid, Daya devi (mother of actress Kaushalya, in real life), Hadi etc.
Kaushalya was born at Lucknow on 12-12-1929. She was the daughter of the famous dancer Lachhoo Maharaj and actress Daya Devi. Being brought up in the house of dancer and actor, Kaushalya picked up Dance, Music and acting very early. She appeared as a child artiste in films from 1936, when she was just 7 year old. She worked in 11 films as a child artiste. After the film Devbala-38, she did roles in Bhole bhale and Uski Tamanna-both in 1939, made by Sagar Movietone. She even sang in both films.
Then came films like Darshan and Ghar ki laaj, both 1941, and Baraat, Bharat milap, Rai Saheb, Station master and Swapna, all in 1942. The work poured on her till 1946, when she got married to a boy from Calcutta, when she had gone there to do films. After marriage she found it difficult to work in films, but continued for some more films, till her last film Ek Do Teen-1953. In all Kaushalya acted in 27 films and sang more than 100 songs in about 35 films, in her short career. As a Heroine she had worked with Prithviraj Kapoor, Ulhas, Kumar, Ishwarlal, Trilok Kapoor etc.
1941 was the first year in the second decade of the Talkie Era and it was the beginning of the emergence of a New film industry. When Talkie started in 1931, for many years after that, the films were made by the people who had done work in the Silent films. These films had a spill over for the silent era artistes. Once the films started talking,most silent artists who could not speak Hindi or Urdu automatically disappeared. Thus started the influx of new actors who could speak Hindi and sing songs, in whatever way they could. Intelligent directors like V Shantaram,Bhavnani, Sohrab Modi, Chandulal Shah, Himanshu Rai, B N Sircar, L V Prasad and a host of Gujarati directors understood that the Talkie needs a different treatment than silent films. Music directors from stage dramas tried their hand in composing film music.
In the next 8-9 years, there was a perceptible change in the film making, acting, singing, and composing music in the films that were made. Quality artistes from the silent era continued for some more years – finally giving way to the new artistes. The 30s and the 40s mostly differed in film music and story contents. The new blood composers like Anil Biswas, C Ramchandra, Naushad, Ghulam Haider, K Datta, Hansraj Behl, Bulo C Rani, Gyan Dutt and many more replaced the Parsi, Marathi and Gujarati drama music to more acceptable lilting songs. Many musical films were made and some everlasting songs were composed by these people. At the end of the 1940s, one more major change in the film industry took place due to Partition. Let us see some important films.
JBH Wadia became Chairman of the Film Advisory Board. He produced the First Sindhi film of the United India- ‘ Ekta ‘-1940. His film Court Dancer was also in English.
Asra– Debut of actor director N A Ansari.
Behan– Mehboob directed this film having an incest suggestive story.
Beti– 8 songs of Khursheed in this film. She was on top in the early 1940.
Chandan– Debut of S N Tripathi as an MD.
Chitralekha– First big success of Kidar Sharma. Mehtab’s bath scene caused a ripple.
Dhandhora– Actor comedian Charlie directed the only film.
Doctor– Pankaj Mullick gave excellent songs. First popular song with woof beats-‘ Chale pawan ki chaal ‘.
Jhoola– One of the most successful films like kangan and bandhan, starring Ashok kunmar and Leela Chitnis.
Kanchan– First composed song of Naushad-” Bata do koi”.
Khazanchi– A milestone in musical revolution with Punjabi Theka, by Ghulam haider. Debut of Shamshad Begum in Hindi films.
Lagan– Saigal, as usual, gives good songs.
Mala– was remade as ‘ Amar-55’ with music again by Naushad only.
Naya Sansar– Story of Newspaper world. A novelty. Ashok Kumar’s famous cigarette smoking in films started from this film, solving his problem of ‘ what to do with the hands during acting’ !
Nirdosh– Mukesh sings his first song.
Padosi– Last film of V Shantaram before leaving Prabhat. A Landmark film. ” Kaisa chhaya hai ujala” is a popular chorus song.
Pardesi– Debut of actress Anjali Devi (not the southwali) with real name ‘Durgesh’.
Radhika– Debut of Nalini Jaywant.
Raj Nartaki– Ambitious Wadia film in English , Bangla and Hindi. Released in the USA by Columbia Pictures of Hollywood.
Sangam– Amritlal Nagar’s first film as a writer. He did 18 films as writer and Lyricist.
Sikandar– A Magnum-Opus from Minerva. Chorus song- ” Zindagi hai pyar se” is very popular.
Taj Mahal– Debut of Baby Suraiya as an actress.
Sasural and Ummeed were 2 films in which Noorjehan senior acted and sang. However these films are usually wrongly included in the filmography of Malika E Tarannum Noor jehan. She entered Hindi films only with film Khandan-1942 at Lahore.
Director V.M.Vyas and script/story writer Mohanlal Dave were thick friends. In almost all of the films by Vyas, Dave wrote the stories. His pattern was also fixed. Vyas and Dave actually specialised in making films based on Family dramas which evoked pathos, sympathy and a firm belief in good values. The story of the film Ghar Ki Laaj-1941 was also like this.
The Hero Surendra (Nazir) is a highly educated rich boy, who gets married to a homely but efficient girl-Shanta Hublikar. The Hero gets into bad company and gambles, drinks and womanises. His wife suffers. Additionally, another person- Seth Ramlal (Jagdish Sethi) enters the story. He was to first marry Shanta but the plan had changed. To take his revenge, he encourages the Hero to follow bad habits.
When the hero reaches the Nadir of his life, his eyes open and he leaves all his bad habits to become an ideal husband. At the end of the film, everything is fine and all (including the audience) are happy !
Writer Mohanlal Dave was closely associated with the films of Vyas. In almost all of his films, Dave was the story, dialogue and s/p writer. Born in 1883 in Amreli district, Mohanlal Gopalji Dave studied upto 7th standard and became a Teacher on Rs. 5 p.m. salary. To try better prospects, he came to Bombay, worked in a Hotel as a waiter and then got another job. In 1905, he worked on a steamer going to Karachi.
He returned home, got married and went again to Bombay. In 1911 Manek ji Seth started Imperial and employed him to write advertisements and stories. After some time, he started earning Rs. 700 p.m. In 1917, he joined Dwarkadas Sampat for Rs. 1300 p.m. and wrote several stories for silent films.
When Kohinoor Film Company was started, he was contracted to write 2 stories per month. At the same time, he got from Ardeshir Irani’s Imperial 30,000 per year to write stories for silent films.This went on for 6 years. In those days his name used to be shown above the titles of Kohinoor films, as per ‘ Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema’.
His stories must have had Magic, because most films written by him became hits and his demand increased. Initially he teamed up with Director Nandlal Jaswantlal. From 1918 to 1933, he wrote more than 150 film stories for Silent films. When Talkie started, he worked for Jayant Desai, Imperial, Nagina, Pushpa and especially Sunrise Pictures of V.M.Vyas. he must have written more than 150 Talkie stories.
He was famous among the older stars and they honoured him too. He always used to wear Dhoti , a long shirt and a Pagdi. From his earnings of 50 years, he bought a huge plot in Santacruz, Bombay and built a very big Bungalow named ” Master Bhawan”. He also opened a Jewellery shop which ran for 20 years. He had 1 son and 2 daughters.
His social work and social service was well known in the field of education and promotion of Sanskrit. Anandilal Poddar school of Santacruz, Mumbai was established by him. He also established many schools, libraries, Temples etc. The speciality of his film stories was that they included Camera Movements, Fade outs etc. Secondly, his most Talkie films were repeats of his silent film stories. He also wrote Gujarati film stories. After retirement, he suffered from Cancer. Operation cured him but a fall gave him fractures. He was hospitalised but died on 20-12-1969.
Today’s song is sung by a 25 year old Kalyani and a 12 year old Kaushalya. Enjoy this 84 year old song now….
Song- Hum gaayen tum naacho (Ghar Ki Laaj)(1941) Singers- Kalyani, Kaushalya, Lyricist- Ehsaan Rizvi, MD- Annasaheb Mainkar
Lyrics
Hum gaayen tum naacho
hum gaayen tum naacho
hum naachen tum gaao
hum gaayen tum naacho
?? mukat murleewaale par
?? mukat murleewaale par
tan man dhan sab waaren
tan man dhan sab waaren
ban ke baawree ban ban bhatke
ban ke baawree ban ban bhatke
Krishn hee Krishn pukaare
Krishn hee Krishn pukaare
jogan ban manmohan kab tak
toree raah nihaaren
jogan ban manmohan kab tak
toree raah nihaaren
aao tihaare charnan par prabhu
aao tihaare charnan par prabhu
ansuvan maalaa daaren
ansuvan maalaa daaren
?? kahen murlee kee dhun par
?? kahen murlee kee dhun par
naach naach man haare
naach naach man haare
hum gaayen tum naacho
hum gaayen tum naacho
hum naachen tum gaao
hum naachen tum gaao
hum naachen
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