Thhai thhai thhai thhai naache anganwaa
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Today’s song is from the film Badi maa-1945.Don’t go by the film’s name.It is not a family drama, involving 2 mothers – Badi Maa and Chhoti Maa. Here the word Badi Maa is used for ‘Our Motherland’. It is a love story filmed on the background of the II World War in a Nondescript town.
The film was made by Prafull Pictures, Bombay, owned by Master Vinayak -father of actress (Baby) Nanda.
It is said that “Laxmi and Saraswati can not live together”. In the case of Master Vinayak it was very true. He was an artist and an expert in his art -acting and direction, but when it came to handling money and business, he was not successful.
Initially, Vinayak was with Prabhat Film Co.. He left it and started his own outfit ” Huns Pictures” in partnership with Baburao Pendharkar and Cameraman Pandurang Naik. This was in 1936. Unfortunately his film “Jwaala”-1938 was a resounding Flop. Despite making 3 Comedy films- Bramhachari-38, Brandi ki Botal-1939 and Ghar ki rani-1940, the company could not salvage the damage done by the heavy loss due to the film ‘Jwala’-1938 and Huns Pictures was closed down.
He started a new company – ‘Navyug Chitrapat’, along with the famous Marathi writer, P.K.Atre, which became a Public Limited company with shares for the common man. After the first film itself, Atre left the company with Vanmala and started his own ‘Atre Pictures’. After 4 films, Vinayak also left the company and started his own ” Prafull Pictures”, Bombay in 1942.
Here too he incurred losses and to come out of it, he made the film “Badi Maa’-1945, which was a Propaganda Film or ‘War effort film’, in order to gain from the government concessions. Unfortunately, just after this film was released, the II World War ended in August 1945. After making 2 more films, Master Vinayak died on 19-8-1947, just 4 days after India’s freedom on 15 th August 1947.
1945 was the year when the devastating II World War ended and the film industry heaved a sigh of relief. Many irksome regulations were relaxed. There was no force now to make Propaganda films for war, no shortage of Raw Film and plenty of Finance available through black money , generated during the war times. However, the year saw only 73 Hindi films made.
One of the most successful and famous film directors of Hindi films – Bimal Roy had a beginning in 1945. He was the director of the Bangla film “Udayer Pathe”, based on the story by Jyotirmoy Roy. It was remade in Hindi as ” Humrahi”. Both versions became Hit films. Thus a cameraman and editor Bimal Roy emerged as a big name in Hindi films. He got this opportunity as New theatres, Calcutta had dried up with its ace and famous directors, who left the company and had marched towards Bombay, even when NT was downhill. This film was also noteworthy because Tagore’s ” Jan Gana Mana” was used in the film Humrahi-1945, which later on became India’s National Anthem (though it was written by Tagore to please and welcome King George V, on his visit to India in 1911).
Zeenat was another film whose music became popular, especially the All Women qawwali ” Aahen na bhari”. Shashikala and Shyama faced the camera for the first time in this song.
Noorjehan’s “Village Girl” was a Hit, due to Shyamsunder’s melodious songs. Mohd. Rafi started his playback from this film with G.M.Durrani. Earlier he had sung a song in a chorus in film pehle Aap and few Punjabi films.
Lata Mangeshkar’s first Hindi song in a Hindi film was in the film ” Badi Maa’.
Mukesh also sang his first playback in Pahli Nazar.
Saigal’s first film in Bombay-Tadbir was made by Jayant Desai.
2 Films on King Humayun were made. one by Mehboob was Humayun and the other was Ek Din Ka Sultan by Sohrab Modi.
Other successful films were Laila majnu, Lakha Rani (Guru Dutt was the Choreographer in this film), Moorti, Panna Dai, Phool (K.Asif), Chaand Chakori etc.
Devika Rani got married to Russian Painter- Roerich, left Bombay Talkies and settled in Himachal Pradesh, shifting to Bangalore after a few years.
Film Badi Maa -1945 was directed by Master Vinayak. The music director was Datta Korgaonkar, a diehard fan of Nurjahan. The cast of the film included Nurjahan, Ishwarlal, Yakub, Jog, Salvi, Meenakshi, Sitara, Leela Mishra, Damuanna malvankar etc. Lata mangeshkar and Asha Bhosle also had small roles in this film. Lata sang her First Hindi song in a Hindi film here.
The story of the film Badi Maa-45 was written by V.S.Khandekar. In those days there were Bangla, Gujarati, Hindi and Marathi writers with almost all film companies to assist in stories and dialogues. V. S. Khandekar was a very popular and famous writer in Marathi.
Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar (11 January 1898 – 2 September 1976) was a Marathi writer from Maharashtra. He was the first Marathi author to win the prestigious Jnanpith Award.
Khandekar was born on 11 January 1898 in Sangli, Maharashtra. His father was a munsif (a subordinate official) in Sangli principality where he spent his childhood and completed his early education. In his early life, he was interested in acting in movies and staged various dramas during school days.
After passing his matriculation exam in 1913, Khandekar joined Fergusson College, Pune. In 1920, he started working as a school teacher at a school in Shiroda.
Khandekar’s writing career began in 1919 when Shrimat Kalipuranam, his first work, was published, and continued to 1974 when his novel Yayati was published.
In 1920, Khandekar started working as a school teacher in a small town, Shiroda, in the present-day Sindhudurg district of the Konkan region in Maharashtra. He worked in that school until 1938. While working as a teacher, Khandekar produced in his spare time abundant Marathi literature in various forms. In his lifetime, he wrote sixteen novels, six plays, around 250 short stories, 50 allegorical stories, 100 essays, and over 200 critiques. He worked and founded Khandekari alankar in Marathi grammar.
In 1941, Khandekar was elected as the president of the annual Marathi Sahitya Sammelan (Marathi Literary Conference) in Solapur. In 1968, the Government of India honoured him with a Padma Bhushan award in recognition of his literary accomplishments. Two years later, he was also honoured with the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship of the Indian Sahitya Akademi. in 1974, he was awarded the Jnanpith Award, country’s highest literary recognition, for his novel Yayati. Shivaji University at Kolhapur, Maharashtra conferred on him an honorary degree of D.Litt. In 1998, the Government of India issued a commemorative postage stamp in his honour.
Khandekar’s novel Yayāti (ययाति) received three prestigious awards: A Maharashtra State Award (1960), a Sahitya Akademi Award (1960), and a Jnanpith Award (1974).
Films on his novels were made in Marathi (5), Hindi (3 – Chhaya-36, Jwala-38 and Amrut-41) and in Telugu and Tamil (1 – Dharm Patni-41). He wrote stories, lyrics and dialogues for Marathi and Hindi films too.
Here is his Filmography as per the Indian Cinema Encyclopedia-
1936: Chhaya (Writer, Lyricist), 1938: Dhruva (Lyricist), Jwala (Writer, Lyricist), Jwala (Writer, Lyricist), 1939: Devata (Writer, Lyricist, Screenplay, Dialogue), Mera Haq (Writer, Lyricist), Sukhacha Shodh (Writer, Lyricist), 1940: Lagna Pahave Karun (Writer, Lyricist, Screenplay), 1941: Amrit, Amrit (Writer, Lyricist), Dharma Patni (Writer, Story), Dharmapatni (Writer, Story), Sangam (Writer, Lyricist), 1942: Sarkari Pahune, Tuzhach (Writer, Lyricist), 1943: Mazhe Bal (Writer, Lyricist), 1945: Badi Maa, 1946: Subhadra, 1948: Mandir, 1953: Soneri Savli, 1960: Antaricha Diva (Writer, Lyricist), 1961: Mansala Pankh Astaat (Writer, Lyricist, Story, Screenplay, Dialogue), 1962: Sunbai (Lyricist)
The cast of the film Badi Maa was Noorjahan, Ishwarlal, Yaqub, Jog,Meenakshi, Sitara, Leela Mishra, Damuanna, Lata Mangeshkar and others. The story of the film Badi Maa-45 was…..
In Dinapur,Durgadas(Salvi) was worried about his son Dinesh(Ishwarlal) studying in London,due to attacks by Germans.Moneylender Ghanashyam(Girish)agrees to write off his loan,if his daughter Usha(Meenakshi) marries his son Rajendra(Yakoob).But Rajendra and Mona(Sitara Devi) are Japanese spies in India.When Durgadas refuses ,his house is confiscated,sold and he is on road. Ghanashyam’s daughter Hema(Noorjehan) does not like this as she loves Dinesh.Dinesh comes back to find father poor and destitute.SuddenlyJapanese attack the village and Rajendra helps them .Usha urges Rajendra to fight for Badi Maa (i.e. Motherland) and dies due to bullets.Rajendra repents and saves his village,along with Dinesh.In this,Rajendra dies for the motherland or Badi Maa. Dinesh and Hema marry.
Today’s song is sung by Alka and the chorus. The lyricist was Raja Badhe, who was a big name in Marathi films and stage, but totally unknown in Hindi films. He wrote only 4 songs in Hindi films. Raja Neelkanth Badhe was born on 1-2-1912 at Nagpur. He was an Editor, Actor, Writer, Playwright, Novelist, Storyteller, Singer and a Lyricist/Poetr. He was educated in Chhindwara and Nagpur. he passed his Matriculation in 1935.
He worked as an Editor of a newspaper and a Weekly and as a Producer for All India Radio. For AIR he made a documentary also.
He entered the film line in 1940 and worked for CIRCO and Prakash Pictures for 4 years. he also produced a film on Sambhaji Maharaj- ” Raigadcha Rajbandi” (Marathi film-रायगडचा राजबंदी ). He received many awards in his career.
He remained unmarried after his parents died, to look after his siblings. He died on 7-4-1977, at Delhi.
Now enjoy this 80 year old song from this film…..
Song- Thhai thhai thhai thhai naache anganwa (Badi Maa) (1945) Singers- Baby Alka, unknown male voice, Lyricist- Raja Badhe, MD- Datta Korgaonkar
Lyrics
hrut krit
mridang baajat
chhanan chhanan chhan ??
sab baal ??
chham chananan
chham chananan
chhananananan
??
trikit trikit trikit ??
??
jamuna tat par natwar ??
?? naach tinta
?? naach tinta
?? naach tinta
?? naach tinta
chhum chhum
chhum chhum
chhum chhum
chhum chhum
chhumn
Chhanan chumm
Chhanan chumm
Chhanan chumm
thhai thhai thhai thhai naache anganwa
thhai thhai thhai thhai naache anganwa
rum jhum rum jhum jhum baaje ghungharwaa
rum jhum rum jhum jhum baaje ghungharwaa
?? chandrmaa
??
anganwaa
thhai thhai thhai thhai naache anganwa
thhai thhai thhai thhai thhai
thhai thhai thhai thhai thhai
thhai thhai thhai thhai naache anganwa
lagare tanik ??
nisdin tarsat ??
barasat nainan ??
?? jamuna ??
gaal laal pichkaaree chalaawat
rangraaj ??
chhumn Chhanan chhanan
chhumn Chhanan chhanan
chhum chhum chananan
chhum chananan
chhum chhum
chhanwaa
chhanwaa
thhai thhai thhai thhai naache anganwa
ur umang ??
?? pallav ??
lahar karat kallol
??
ull ??
thai tat ??
?? jamuna
nritya karat ??
??
naach naach nandlal
??
thhai thhai thhai thhai naache anganwa
meree aashaa anokhee raseelee
meree aashaa anokhee raseelee
jaise phoolon mein champa chamelee
jaise phoolon mein champa chamelee
mera manwaa niraalaa
meree duniya nawelee
mera manwaa niraalaa
meree duniya nawelee
main hoon bilkul
bilkul akelee akelee
naache brijraj
mere paayal ke bolwaa
naache brijraj
more paayal ke bolwaa
naache natraj
more manwa ke molwa
molwa
molwa
molwaa
thhai thhai thhai thhai naache anganwa
dhoom dhundhugii tarkat ??
saaj baaj hee
gagan ?? madhurta
rang ?? tarang
mrudang ??
indradhanush ??
gandharv ??
damak damak ??
?? taal paataal ??
taandwa taandwa taandwaa
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