Do nainon ka banaa jhoolnaa
Posted on: May 27, 2025
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Today’s song is the last song from the film Devta-1956 to be covered here, making the film YIPPEED !
Devta (Snake God) is a 1956 Hindi partly coloured swashbuckler film written by Sadasiva Bramham and directed by Pattana. The film stars Vyjayanthimala in the title role, along with Gemini Ganeshan and Anjali Devi in the lead, while Agha, Bipin Gupta, Krishna Kumari and M. N. Nambiar form an ensemble cast. The film was produced by Narayanan Iyengar with his production company-Narayanan Company. The music was composed by C. Ramchandra, with lyrics provided by Rajendra Krishan. The film was a remake of the 1955 Tamil film Kanavane Kankanda Deivam.
The original Tamil film Kanavane Kankanda Deivam had some interesting Tit Bits. Not many people will know and you will be surprised to know that the Tamil film had two Music Directors – A.Rama Rao and Hemant Kumar ! When the cast for the film was being worked out, Gemini Ganeshan’s name was there, but the director Iyengar rejected his name saying he was too handsome to enact a part of the role as an ugly person. When Ganeshan came to know this, he quietly disguised as a hunchback ugly beggar and approached Iyengar for alms. He sympathised and gave him some money. When he came to know that it was Ganeshan himself, he was shocked and immediately selected him as the film’s Hero !
Secondly P. Bhanumathi was in the film, but after few reels shooting, she left and Lalitha was taken in. Meanwhile, there was a song by Bhanumathi already recorded for this film. That song was removed, except the ”Hiccups” in it were used in the same song sung by P. Susheela. This Tamil film was shot in Vauhini Studios, Madras and also in Mehboob Studios, Bombay.
This film narrated the story of a king (Bipin Gupta) who loses his sight and needs a “Nagi Jyothi” (serpent light) found in “Sarpaloka” (serpent world). A young man Vijay (Gemini Ganeshan) working in the palace and in love with the princess (Anjali Devi) undertakes the hazardous journey of going to the netherworld and getting the magic light from the hood of a snake in the custody of the serpent queen (Vyjayantimala). The queen is attracted to the young man, who pretends to be in love with her mainly to get the light. He succeeds in getting it and the queen curses him to become an ugly man. The princess marries the prince, but they are banished and live in a hut. Soon a boy is born. The devoted wife faces many trials and tribulations before she and her son help her husband regain his original form. And they live happily thereafter.
Recently I read an interview of Vyjayantimala, given to Abhijit Desai, a writer of books on Cinema. In this interview she told interesting anecdotes about Madhumati and things related to it and otherwise also.
Vyjayantimala was launched in Hindi with Bahar-1951, but her first blockbuster was Nagin-1954. Vyjayanti’s grandmother and her controller in those days, Yadugiri Devi, brought her to Bombay, looking for an entry into a mainstream group.
Raj and Dev were out, because Raj had his Nargis and Dev too was tied up with Geeta Bali, Madhubala and Kalpana Kartik. Anyway, Raj and Dev were not in much demand in the South, so they kept away from them.
When Nargis and Bina Rai rejected Chandramukhi’s role in Devdas, Yadugiri Devi jumped at it and grabbed it with both hands. Devdas took Vyjayantimala to the A League of heroines and got her Bimal Roy’s MADHUMATI. With this newfound closeness to Dilip Kumar, she also got NAYA DAUR when Madhubala was removed from Naya Daur because of the bad blood between her family and Dilip Kumar. After this, Vyjayantimala never looked back nor did she need efforts from Yadugiri devi, because now she was counted amongst the more successful top class Heroines.
Vyjyantimala worked with Dev first in AMAR DEEP-58 and with Raj Kapoor in NAZRANA-61, both films directed by south directors. While doing Nazrana, she was selected for SANGAM and this Sangam also got Dr. Bali as her Husband !
She had a very high opinion of Bimal Roy. “He never interfered with actors’ acting. He would nicely explain the shot and then leave the acting to the actors. Raj Kapoor was exactly opposite. He would show every scene himself doing it and then expect the actor to do exactly the same. I had many tiffs with him on this,as there was no freedom to the actor. In the end all actors acted like Raj Kapoor only !”
“Major parts of MADHUMATI were shot in Nainital (about 70%). For this Dilip Kumar, myself, Bimal Roy, Jayant, Pran, Johnny Walker and many others had camped in Nainital for 15 days continuously.
When we all returned, it was found that most shots had come foggy. Those days there was no facility to see the shooting on the same day, unlike today. So no one knew about this. It was a great blow. Dilip Kumar was furious. He was working on 4 films at that time and I had 3 films on hand, so the question of fresh dates did not arise at all. Bimal Roy was cool. He checked all the shooting once again, day and night, separated good shots, threw away the bad shots in the dust bin and poor chap, went through all the process of getting our dates once again.
” This time we shot the film at BHANDARDARA ( a Hill station and rocky forest area, 185 kms from Bombay, near Ahmednagar District). Bimal Roy then mixed these shots with Nainital shooting so skillfully that not even the greatest Editor in the world could tell them apart !! ”
Vyjayantimala was very lucky. She always got big banners and big directors in her life. Black and white era was essentially a Heroine oriented period. In the film Andaz, the Name of Nargis came First ,before Raj or Dilip in the credits ! By the time the 60s came, many leading Heroines like Nargis, Madhubala, Nalini Jaywant etc started disappearing slowly. Meena Kumari, however,somehow reached the Colour Era. Nutan was doing selective films. Only 2 of the 50s heroines viz Waheeda Rehman and Vyjayantimala entered the Colour Era with Elan.
The 60s actually saw many changes. The film subjects changed and the commercial cinema went Outdoor in the real sense. Everyone wanted the colour impact due to colour films.
Vyjayantimala was,in fact, the only southern actress whose Hindi dialogues never had the famous ” Madrasi touch”. Almost all other heroines like Hema Malini, Rekha, initially, Padmini, ShriDevi (she never dubbed for herself in her first 40 Hindi films) all spoke ‘southern’ Hindi. This was due to Vyjayantimala’s own efforts and due to the fact that she worked with Top actors and directors.
Vyjayantimala discussed an incident to demonstrate how nowadays the media wants to create controversies at any cost. She once attended some programme arranged by Bimal Roy’s daughter. All the press and TV reporters crowded around her. They asked her opinion about Shahrukh khan’s acting in Devdas. She repeatedly told them that she had not seen the film and it is not fair to comment by seeing the promos. but they insisted on just one line comment. Finally, she said that Shahrukh Khan must have acted the way he acts! She thought it was a very clever answer. To her dismay, the next day the Headlines were ” Dilip played Devdas and Shahrukh played Shahrukh-says Vyjayantimala.” Naturally Shahrukh Khan was upset.
Another actress in the film was Indira, an actress not much known. This is a ‘Same Name Confusion’ artiste. During the silent Era and early Talkie period, there was one Indira Devi. Her real name was Effie Hippolet- an Anglo-Indian She acted in 24 silent films since 1927, but did only two Talike films-Al-Hilal-35 and Wamaq Azra-1935. Then there is the comedian fatty Indira Bansal who was operative from 1951 to 1981, and worked in 116 films. This Indira was different.
Indira, one of Punjabi cinema’s most popular leading ladies of the 1960s, was born on August 6, 1938 in northern India. Growing up in an aristocratic family in the Punjab village of Kharian, her family lost everything when they had to flee their home during partition to settle in Kanpur. In 1952 her family shifted to Bombay where an Elder brother ran a successful business.
Indira was noticed by the popular comedian Bhagwan while he was shooting a movie at Jagriti Studios, and she was put in the cast of his film Rangeela (1953). Raj Kapoor, who happened to be visiting the set of Rangeela, noticed Indira and later cast her as the daughter of a rich industrialist in his film Shree 420 (1955).
Indira continued to appear in supporting roles in major Hindi productions like Funtoosh (1956),Devta-(1956), Mirza Sahibaan-1957, Yahudi (1958), and Dil Deke Dekho(1959). She had just appeared as the lead in the low budget yarn Jungle Ki Duniya (1959) when she was cast as the heroine in a Punjabi film titled Yamla Jatt in 1960. This was followed that same year by two more Punjabi pictures, Do Lacchian and Kiklee. All three films were very successful.
Returning to Hindi language movies, she found herself much in demand for B-films with colorful titles like Maya Mahal (1963), Jungle Boy (1963), Tarzan Aur Jadugar (1963), Pahadi Nagin (1964), Arab Ka Lal (1964), Son of Zimbo (1966), Sheba and Hercules (1967), Tarzan in Fairyland (1968) and CID Agent 302 (1968), sometimes playing the heroine, but more often than not as a vamp or villain. Occasionally she would snag a nice supporting role in a major production like Do Dil (1965) or Mere Huzoor (1968), and she still continued to star in Punjabi fare.
Sometimes billed as Indira Billi (her real name was Indira Kaur) she was interviewed in 1963 for Picture Post magazine where she talked about her beginnings: “I had not the good fortune of stepping into films and finding myself a heroine right from the start as had been the case with many glamor girls these days. It was a life of toil and tears, fighting every inch, every day, and month after month. Sometimes I was fed up, and felt tired of the ceaseless struggle to make my presence felt. With the struggle for existence keen and with not enough money, those early days were none too happy for a girl aspiring for a respectable place in the film world, let alone stardom. Sometimes I had my misgivings whether I was right in coming into films. Some kind of inferiority complex took hold of me and I thought several times that I would never become a star.”
Indira married cinema owner Shiv Kumar in the early to mid-1960s and left the film scene in the early 1970s.(Thanks to shri Mike Barnum ji and his blog-cinemajadoo.com, wiki and my notes).
Today’s song is the last song from this film, making it a YIPPEED film. Enjoy this 70 year old song sung by a 27 year old Lata Mangeshkar for a 29 year old heroine of the film- Anjali devi, on the screen….
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Song- Do nainon ka bana jhoolna hain palkon kee doriyaan (Devtaa)(1956) Singer-Lata, Lyrics-Rajinder Krishan, MD-C Ramchandra
Lyrics
do nainon ka bana jhoolna
do nainon ka bana jhoolna
hain palkon ke doriyaan
hain palkon ki doriyaan
saaj bajaaye chaandnee aur
chaand sunaaye loriyaan
chaand sunaaye loriyaan
ho o chaand sunaaye loriyaan
laal mera jab muskaaye
laal mera jab muskaaye
mast chandaniya bhee sharmaaye
aa aa aa aa
dekh dekh ke mere dil mein
dekh dekh ke mere dil mein
lahar khushee kee daudee jaaye
tere mere pyaar kee ye
kabhee na tooten doriyaan
kabhee na tooten doriyaan
ho o chaand sunaaye loriyaan
mere sang sang dheere dheere
chaal chale jab tu matwaalee
main jhoomoon mera manwa jhoome
jhoome daalee daalee
phoolon kee hai paalkee aur
shaakhon kee hain doriyaan
shaakhon kee hain doriyaan
saaj bajaaye chaandnee aur
chaand sunaaye loriyaan
chaand sunaaye loriyaan
ho o chaand sunaaye loriyaan
Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
May 27, 2025 at 2:52 pm
DEVTA (1956) was one of the movies with a very good music by C Ramachandra with songs like Ai chand kal jo aana and Kaise aaoon jamuna ke teer both by Lata Mangeshkar with a star cast of south indian famous stars like Anjali Devi the movie would have been a success when it was released. Good to come up with other songs in this forum !
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May 27, 2025 at 6:44 pm
All songs of this film are covered on this Blog. Enjoy !
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