Hey Ambe Ambe Hey Jagdambe Chandee
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Today’s song is a chorus song from the Mythological film Hanuman Patal Vijay-1951.
I liked to see and enjoyed Mythological films. This was primarily due to the exposure to such films since early childhood. Thanks to the elders in our huge joint family, I got appointed as their caretaker who would take a group of elders to see such films. That is why from childhood I developed a religious mindset. However, my father ensured to impress on me that Religion is strictly a personal matter and one must decide how much importance one should give to Religion in one’s life. I have followed this principle till today and I treat all religions with the same reverence. Excess or exhibition of Religion must be avoided. This is my opinion.
What is the difference between Religious and Mythological films ? Are they the same ? No, there is a difference. Films based on stories from Puranas ( which is a mix of imagination and History in symbolic way) are Mythological Films. Examples are ‘Ganga Maiyya’ or ” Ram Hanuman Yuddha ” or ” Ram Rajya ” etc. Films based on Bhakti or Upasana , involving Historical stories, persons or happenings are Religious films. Examples are ” Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu”, ” Sant Tukaram” or ” Mahatma Kabeer” etc.
Film ”Hanuman Pataal Vijay-51″ is a Mythological film. It is taken from Vishnu Puran. Valmiki Ramayan also mentions it. The film tells the story how Hanuman saved the brothers Ram and Laxman from the Pataal kingdom of Ahi Ravan- brother of Lankesh Ravan.
We all know that Ram and Krishna were Vishnu’s avatars, who came to this world when sins increased and religion was about to be destroyed. But do you know whose avatar was Hanuman ? In the Shiv puran it is mentioned that Hanuman was the avatar of Lord Shiv. Because of his contribution in bringing back Maa Seeta from Ravan’s Lanka, a boon was given to Hanuman that he would live forever, i.e. be a Chiranjeev.
The Ramayan happened during the Treta Yuga- which was of the duration of 12,96,000 years Then came Dwapar Yug, with a duration of 8,64,000 years. Krishna avatar took place in Dwapar Yug. In Mahabharat we find a story about Hanuman – how he destroyed the false pride of Bheem about his strength and taught him a lesson of humbleness. This is proof of Hanuman being a Chiranjeev.
Incidentally in Satya Yuga(17,28,000 years) there were 4 avatars of Vishnu, namely Matsya, Koorma, Varah and Narsimha. In Treta yug, there were 3 avatars, namely Vaman, Parshuram and Shri Ram. In Dwapar Yug there were 2 avatars, namely Balram and Shri Krishna. Finally in Kali Yug (4,32,000 years) there will be only 1 avatar, that of Kalki.
The cast of the film was Mahipal, Meena Kumari, Niranjan Sharma( like Jeevan as Narada, he was a regular Ravan), Shanta Kunwar, S N Tripathi, Dalpat, Rajni ( she was the daughter of Bhudo Advani’s brother) etc etc. music Director was S.N.Tripathi.
Don’t be surprised by seeing the Music Director’s name in the cast. Yes he is the same person. Tripathi was not an occasional actor, but a regular one. As a Music Director, Tripathi gave music to 107 films, composing 863 songs therein. He was an All rounder. He was a story writer, composer, Producer, Director and an Actor. He even sang 13 songs in 7 films, in his early career. Tripathi directed 18 films and acted in as many as 83 films !
Though his music was good, he remained branded as a Mythological, Religious, costume and fantasy film composer. Rarely he got any social film as a MD. Even as a Director he directed only 5 Social films. His role as Hanuman in Mythological films was popular. In films where Mahipal was doing Ram’s role, Tripathi used to be Hanuman. These were mostly Wadia films. Prakash Pictures also produced Mythological films, their films never gave importance to Hanuman. Some unknown actor was used for that role. Basant Pictures gave importance to Hanuman and Tripathi was fixed for it.
Wadia’s action, costume and fantasy films were very popular in the Middle East and Pakistan. When they made ” Rambhakta Hanuman”- in 1948, they had a problem. Partition had taken place and Pakistan was a New Muslim country. Wadia’s were worried if this Mythological film would be received well there. The major role of Hanuman was done by S N Tripathi. How to export this Hindu religious film in Muslim countries like Pakistan and the Middle East, was a major problem. A simple trick solved this problem. Wadias changed the title of this film copy for Export and it was named ” Udta Bandar ” (उडता बंदर ). With this new title the film became a Hit in that Territory !
Meena Kumari acted as a Goddess in few mythological films, before she shifted to social films after the unprecedented success of the film Baiju Bawra-52. She went on to become an A-1 grade actress in Hindi films, but her earlier Hero Mahipal remained a B grade actor till the end. Maybe that is the difference between Talents and Luck !
The story of the film ‘ Hanuman Patal Vijay’-1951 was-
Chandrasena, the beautiful princess of Naag Lok was kidnapped by Ahi Ravan, the king of Patal Lok. Ahi Ravan- the brother of lankesh Ravan, his brother mahi Ravan and wife Mahadevi try very hard but Chandrasena, being a staunch Ram Bhakta, does not bow to them.
When Ram-Ravan yuddha started and Ravan’s son Indrajit was killed, he called his brother Ahi Ravan for help. He devised a plan to kidnap Ram-Laxman and sacrifice them to Goddess Chandi in Patal Lok. Coming to know of this, Hanuman is kept as a guard for Ram-Laxman. However Ahi Ravan comes in the guise of Bibhishan and cheats Hanuman. He kidnaps the brothers and goes to Patal Lok. Hanuman comes to know this and reaches Pataal Lok. There he is stopped by a guard named Makardhwaj, who claims to be the son of Hanuman and Makara in the sea. Hanuman defeats him easily, goes inside and tries to take away the unconscious brothers. The army of Ahi Ravan fights with him. In this battle Hanuman kills both Ahi Ravan and Mahi Ravan. But they become alive again and again.
Hanuman is perplexed. He contacts Chandrasena who knows the secret. On the condition that Hanuman will bring ShriRama to her for marriage, she is ready to tell the secret. He agrees. There are Bees who bring nectar for Ahi and Mahi Ravan for their immortality. Hanuman starts killing the Bees. One Bee tells him that Ahi Ravan will die only if 5 candles in different directions have to be blown off at the same time to kill him. Hanuman saves her life but asks her to know the Bed legs in Chandrasena’s room just before Ram comes there.
Accordingly Hanuman becomes Panchmukhi, blows the candles and Ahi and Mahi Ravan are dead.
Shri Ram visits Chandrasena with a condition that he should not be asked to sit on the floor. He is asked to sit on bed, which breaks easily and Ram is on the floor. Ram then tells her, he can not marry her , but he will marry her in Krishna Janma. Thus Hanuman achieves Vijay in Pataal.
This story is a mix of Valmiki Ramayan and Krittivasi Ramayan by Krittihas Ojha of the 15th century and published in 1834 AD. As per Aditya kavi’s telugu ‘Ahi Ravan Charitra” in the 16th century, both AhiRavan and mahi Ravan were the same person with 2 names. Ahi means Sthan (place) and Mahi means Earth bottom. Thus Ahi/Mahi Ravana was the king of Pataal ( below Earth). There was also a film in Telugu, “Mahi Ravan”in 1940 and V Jaggiah had done the main role.
Mahipal was a regular in most Mythological films. Mahipal or Mahipal Singh or Mahipal Bhandari (24 November 1919 – 15 May 2005) was a film actor who worked in Hindi cinema mostly in stunt films like Parasmani, Zabak, Cobra Girl, Jantar Mantar, Arabian nights themed movies such as Alibaba, Aladdin And The Wonderful Lamp, Roop Lekha, Sunehari Nagin, and Hindu mythological movies like Sampoorna Ramayan, Ganesh Mahima, Veer Bhimsen, Jai Santoshi Maa. He is known for playing the iconic role of Lord Vishnu, and his two avatars, Lord Rama and Lord Krishna in lot of various puranic, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Bhagavata Purana based movies, besides playing Tulsidas and Abhimanyu, and is also best known as the lead in V. Shantaram’s Navrang (1959), and the songs “Tu Chhupi Hai Kahan Me Tadapta Yahan” and “Aadha Hai Chandrama Raat Aadhi”. He acted in several well-known films of the 1950s and 1960s including V. Shantaram’s Navrang (1959) and Babubhai Mistry’s Parasmani (1963).
He was born on 24-11-1919 in Jodhpur, Rajasthan, where after his schooling, he graduated in literature from Jaswant Government College Jodhpur. Thereafter, he worked in the theatre before migrating to Mumbai in the early 1940s.
He made his film debut in the 1942 film Nazrana. However, the film didn’t work, thereafter he wrote lyrics for four films. He went on to work with directors such as Sohrab Modi and later with the Wadia Brothers, Homi Wadia and J. B. H. Wadia, however, it was his work with V. Shantaram that got him lasting acclaim. He worked in several mythological and historical films with actresses such as Nirupa Roy, Mala Sinha and even Meena Kumari.
Mahipal was never counted as an A category actor and so, leading actresses who started their careers with Mahipal in the lead were ashamed of revealing or accepting this fact. For example, In all her interviews, Mala Sinha always quoted “Rangeen Raten”-56 with Shammi Kapoor as her first film in Bombay. She was ashamed of revealing that in the film Riyasat-55, her Hero was Mahipal. She always hid this fact. Similarly, A grade Heroine Meena Kumari also had done several Mythological and costume films before Baiju Bawra took her high up and above other Heroines. Films like Shri Ganesh Mahima-50, Laxmi Narayan-51, Hanuman Paataal vijay-51 and Alladin aur Jadui Chirag-52 had Mahipal as her Hero. In her later years, she always hid her earlier film Heroes.
He also did a series of fantasy films based on Arabian Nights, including Alibaba and 40 Thieves (1954), Jennie (1953) ,Aladdin Aur Jadui Chirag (1952) and Alibaba ka Beta (1955), which gave him popularity even in the Gulf countries. Later in his career, he switched to character roles, and appeared in films such as Jai Santoshi Maa (1975), a 1970s hit.
He wrote 13 songs in 4 films,namely Mali-44, Aap ki Sewa mein-47 (Lata Mangeshkar’s first playback song was written by Mahipal in this film), Mere Laal-48 and Adalat-48. Mahipal acted in 131 Hindi films. He had also worked in Marathi, Rajasthani and Assamese films. His first film was Nazrana-42 and the last film was Amar Jyoti-84….a career spanning 42 years. He worked with Shakila in 18 films, with Anita Guha in 11 films,With Shyama in 6 films, and in 4 films with Nirupa Roy. He worked with Meena Kumari in 4 films. He is the only actor in Mythological films who sang a song on screen in the role of Shri Ram, in the film Hanuman Pataal Vijay-1951.
He died in Mumbai of cardiac arrest, at the age of 86. He was survived by his wife Akkal Kunwar and daughters Sushila Jain and Nirmala Oswal.
(Thanks to book Inhe na Bhulana by Harish Raghuwanshi ji, wiki and my notes).
Today’s song is a prayer of Maa Jagadamba. It is sung by a chorus and the singers’ names are not known.
Song- Hey Ambe Ambe Hey Jagdambe Chandee (Hanuman Patal Vijay)(1951) Singers-S N Tripathi, Lyricist- B.D. Mishra, MD- S.N.Tripathi
Male Chorus
Female Chorus
All Chorus
Lyrics
Hey Ambe Ambe
Hey Jagdambe Chandee
Hey Ambe Ambe
Hey Jagdambe
teree ho jaijaikaar
jaijaikaar
jaijaikaar
jaijaikaar
umadghumadkar ghan ghamand see aao
narmundon kee maal badhaane aao
umadghumadkar ghan ghamand see aao
narmundon kee maal badhaane aao
rakt piyo maa rakt piyo
rakt piyo maa rakt piyo
balidaaan ka aaya hai tyohaar
jaijaikaar
jaijaikaar
jaijaikaar
Hey Ambe Ambe
Hey Jagdambe Chandee
Hey Ambe Ambe
Hey Jagdambe
teree ho jaijaikaar
jaijaikaar
jaijaikaar
jaijaikaar
tumkit dhumkit
takit takakik mridang baajat
tumhen rijhaawat
tumkit dhumkit
takit takakik mridang baajat
tumhen rijhaawat
trigatit gatighan dha
trigatit gatighan dha
trigatit gatighan dha
jaijaikaar
jaijaikaar
jaijaikaar
tataitatthai
tataitatthai
thumthananan
thumthananan
thum thum
tataitatthai
tataitatthai
thumthananan
thumthananan
thum thum
naach rahe daanav sab hilmil
naach rahe daanav sab hilmil
takit thukit
takit thukit
thumthumtham
tatchit
tata
tatchit ta
ta
tatchit ta
ta
tatchit ta
tattatha
jaijaikaar
jaijaikaar
jaijaikaar
Hey Ambe Ambe
Hey Jagdambe Chandee
Hey Ambe Ambe
Hey Jagdambe
teree ho jaijaikaar
jaijaikaar
jaijaikaar
jaijaikaar
Hey Ambe Ambe
Hey Jagdambe Chandee
Hey Ambe Ambe
Hey Jagdambe
teree ho jaijaikaar
jaijaikaar
jaijaikaar
jaijaikaar
Hey Ambe Ambe
Hey Jagdambe Chandee
Hey Ambe Ambe
Hey Jagdambe Chandee
Hey Ambe Ambe
Hey Jagdambe Chandee
Hey Ambe Ambe
Hey Jagdambe Chandee
Hey Ambe Ambe
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