Naacho ree guinyaan baaje shehnaiyaan
Posted on: August 23, 2025
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Today’s song is from the ” Kam sune – Unsune ” film Pensioner-1954.
When you say that ‘Colgate is No. 1 Toothpaste’, it does not mean that everyone in India uses Colgate. It only means that the majority of people use Colgate and hence it is called No. 1 toothpaste. The decade of the 1950s was known as’ The Golden Era of Film Music’. It did not mean that there were no films with mediocre or poor music. It only means maximum films had wonderful music. In this decade there were few – only few – films whose music was not famous, for whatever reasons. Today’s film was one such film.
In the war period from 1939 to 1945, the British Government in India had coaxed the filmmakers to make films which would help the war efforts. These were called ‘ Propaganda Films’ and the Government gave special subsidies and other concessions ( like extra quota of Raw Film at control rates) to the producer. During the 1950s the Indian Government wanted to boost the ‘Small Savings’ habit among the citizens. Some films were made upholding this scheme. Today’s film Pensioner-1954 was one such film.
However it did not click and flopped miserably. Reason one was, poor direction by a non-expert director- Jagdish Sethi and reason two was, poor music by Hansraj behl, contrary to his earlier good music. Lilting music and a vast audience encouraged the industry. In such a situation most films had something to offer, hence almost every film was successful. But as is said, success does not come to all just because you are in the group. Films which had nothing to please the audience naturally became flops.
Today’s film is also one such flop film. First of all the story was over worked out and therefore was unbelievable. Too many coincidences do not happen in real life. The film ‘Pensioner’ tried to promote the Government’s efforts on the ” Small Savings” theme which was heavily promoted to make the banks self-reliant and people oriented. Many films used such promotional themes, but as a tool of entertainment, whereas ‘Pensioner’ story looked like a highly improbable and far stretched one to stress the importance of ” Small Savings”.
The film was produced and directed by actor Jagdish Sethi under his own banner, J.S.Pictures, Bombay. It was shot at Shrikant Studio, Chembur. The screenplay and dialogues were by Balraj Mehta and the music was by Hansraj Behl. The cast included Shyama, Ram Mohan, Jagdish Sethi, Ratnamala, Nimbalkar, Cuckoo, kathana, Jagdish Raj, Gulab, Amina bai (sister of actor B.Nandrekar) and others.
Like any other language, there are writers and authors in Marathi too, who write on old films and old actors etc from the vintage Hindi films. One such author calls himself ” Babu Moshoi “. His articles are published regularly in newspapers, magazines etc. He has written several books. His real name is Hemant Desai. Another such writer in Hindi and Gujarati is Vithal Pandya. I have many such books in my library. Through these books I get to know old actors and their information, sometimes. I get surprised at many names as I read about some names about whom I had never known. For example, do you know who did King Dashrath’s role in films Bharat Milap-42 and Ramrajya-43, or the role of Kanva Muni in film Shakuntala-43 ? Who was the actress in Kaushalya’s role in Ramrajya-43 or Ram Vivah-49 ?
This actor was I. T. Nimbalkar and this actress was Shanta Kothari (nee Shanta Kumari). These were artists from the Silent film era, spilled over the Talkie films. They started as Hero and Heroine, but shifted to character roles, as the time went by. In our film industry, such cases are not new. In fact such types of actors who remained practically unknown to later generations of audiences, were highly respected by film people during shootings. Their seniority and work was respected.
This is a very good practice in the industry, by directors and other actors to give respect to old timers. Raj Kapoor used to send his car to fetch Bhudo Advani for shootings of film Boot Polish scenes. Hrishikesh Mukherjee kept a special chair for Master Shiraz, during the shooting of the film Guddi. He also ensured to feature Shiraz in the film credits. These are only samples to stress what I have said. Not every such matter is published but it is a special feature of the industry.
I try to gather information on such unknown and forgotten artists and write about them. Not every time I am successful, but I have written about many such actors, directors, MDs etc. Some of them are Omkar Devaskar, Zunzar rao pawar, Ganapat rao Bakare, Shankar rao Vazare, Naseem Junior, Shamim Jr, Altaf, Urmila, Ranjana, kusum Deshpande, Vasant rao Thengadi, Jamshed ji etc etc.
Today we take up an artist from the film’s cast to know more about him. Ram Mohan Sharma ,a young, handsome lad from Ambala. Born in Ambala on 2-11-1929, Ram Mohan Sharma was a graduate (B.A.) and had come to Bombay in 1945 in search of a career in Cinema.
The youngster, who was in his early twenties ,with fair colour ,curly hairs & sharp features had approached him to get work in movies as an actor. Jagdish Sethi found him sincere and gave him a supporting role in Jaggu (52), which he was to make. The movie had very good music , scored by Hansraj Behl & it had moderate success ,when released. Later, Ram Mohan got small roles in few movies & in 1954, Sethi Sahab took him in the romantic role opposite Shyama in Pensioner . The movie did not do well & it was the end of Ram Mohan’s career as Hero.
Life goes on and he decided to accept any role offered to him & soon he was a known name in the film circle . In Do Behne (1959) ,which had Shyama in a double role, Ram Mohan enacted the role of villain, which gave his career a big boost as a bad man . Later he came in contact with Sunil Dutt & Nargis & forged a permanent friendship with them. Although Ram Mohan mostly got roles of tough characters ,inside he was soft hearted .He was a member of film artists association. He requested Sunil Dutt Ji who was feeling depressed after Nargis Ji passed away, to help the ‘Have Nots’ of the film industry.
Virtually an encyclopaedia of the film industry, Ram Mohan knew every technician, junior artists as well as old & forgotten artists, who needed help. Whenever they both were free, they used to visit the ailing artists in Hospital or their residences ,to give them moral / financial support. Rajan Haksar ,who was in a charity hospital ,after failure of his kidneys ,both benevolent persons visited the hapless artist to boost his spirit . Ram Mohan was confidant of Asha Parekh ,the kind hearted lady who was president of the Artists Association & they together helped many artists ,who were in dire need of assistance.
Ram Mohan was Vice president of CINTAA ( Cine and TV artists Assn.) for 4 years and Secretary for 6 years. Ram Mohan Ji had a high reputation everywhere and when he came to know about the miserable condition of A. K.Hangal, he met a political leader & arranged the financial help through Maharashtra Govt ,on a regular basis. At the time of bereavement, he made it a point to help the family till all religious formalities were over. Everyone in the film industry used to address him as Ram Mohan Ji ,to show their genuine respect to him.
In his career of more than five decades ,Ram Mohan Ji appeared in more than 250 movies ( the number varies from 240 to 277),mostly in negative roles .He did not believe in self publicity & did his philanthropic work quietly. Ram Mohan Ji , was keeping indifferent health for the last six months, when his pillar of strength ,his life partner passed away. Ram Mohan Ji also followed suit & breathed his last on 6th December 2015 .
Ram Mohan had 3 sons and 1 daughter, all very well settled in life. Ram Mohan Ji, always will be gratefully remembered by thousands of anonymous film artists who were helped by him . His memories will be cherished by his admirers ,who loved his work on and off the screen . Truly, to find people like him, in this era is a rarity. Let us hope his selfless work will inspire other persons connected with the film industry to help their less fortunate colleagues and the tradition of Vasudhaiva Kutumbkam set by him will continue. He found an admirer in Gulzar Sahab ,who always referred to him as Ram Mohan Ji. Please see the credit titles of Ijazat, where his name is mentioned as Ram Mohan ji. ( Thanks to Blog – Beete hue din, and Shri M.N.Sardana ji , for some of this information).
The story of the film pensioner-1954 was….
Karamchand wanted an extension in service but his company refused and he had to retire from service of 30 years.
He had never saved any money during his service. He was helping the needy to study, work and feed his family. For every needy person he had extended help. He earned a name and respect, but this alone can not be used to feed his family or get his motherless daughter married. He was now worried since his pension was not enough to run the house or face any difficult situation.Unfortunately one day he met with an accident. A kind hearted young man-Mohan- took him to a hospital and informed the daughter-Neha. he also learnt about their poor financial position. Mohan was an officer in a big multinational company. He was all alone as his parents had died in his childhood. It was Karamchand who helped him to complete his education till the end.
Mohan contacted people who were helped by Karamchand and they pooled a huge amount as a fund to help Karamchand. By coincidence, the Hospital was owned by Dr. Purohit who was also helped by Karam chand. Thus his treatment became free and after he came out of the Hospital, Mohan arranged a big function to give him his new Bank passbook having a very big amount. Meanwhile love bloomed between Neha and Mohan and they got married. Karamchand also stayed with them.
Here is a 71 year old song from the film Pensioner-1954, sung by a 35 year old Shamshad begum and Chorus….
Song-Naacho ree guinyaan baaje shehnaiyaan (Pensioner)(1954) Singer-Shamshad Begam, Lyrics-Indeewar, MD-Hansraj Bahl
Chorus
Lyrics
o o o
naaacho ree guinyyaan
baaje shehnaiyaan
naaacho re guinyyaa ree naacho
o o
naaacho ree guinyyaa ree naacho
ho o naacho ree guinyyaa ree naacho
nainon mein nindiya
nindiya mein sapne
sapnon mein doley sainyya
ho o sapnon mein doley sainyya
sainyyaan ne aakar ik din pakad lee
goree kee naazuk bainyyaan ree guinyyaan
goree kee naazuk bainyyaan
ho goree kee naazuk baainyyaan
pehle chaunkee aur ghabraayee
phir sharmaayee aur katraaayee
ho o o sainyya kee ?? par
sainyya ne guinyaaan
sainyya kee ??
ho sainyyaan kee ?? par sainyyaan
ho o sainyya kee ?? par sainyya
ho sainyya kee ?? par sainyya
goree ke man mein uthhee umangen
barkha ke jaise baadal
ho o barkha ke jaise baadal
shaaadee kee ghar ghar baat phair gayee
jaise nain ka kaajal ree guinyyaan
jaise nain ka kaajal
o jaise nain ka kaajal
?? ghodee sajegee
dolee uthhegee
dhoom machegee
ho o
saasu jee lengee balaiyaaan ree guinyaan
saasu jee lengee balaiyaaan
ho o saasu jee lengee balaiyaaan
ho o saasu jee lengee balaiyaaan
ho o saasu jee lengee balaiyaaan
maathhe ka teeka deepak sa chamka
nainon mein jaagee deewaalee
ho ho nainon mein jaagee deewaalee
haathhon kee haldee mein sona bikhera
mukhde pe daudee laalee ree guiyyaan
mukhde pe daudee
ho mukhde pe daudee laalee
pahlee pahlee ang churaaye
nain milaaye nain jhukaaaye
ho o o
saajan ke
ho o saajan ke pad gaayee painyyaan ree guinyyaan
saajan ke pad gayee
ho saajan ke pad gayee painyyaan
ho o
saajan ke pad gayee painyyaan
ho o
saajan ke pad gayee painyyaan
ho o o
naacho ree guinyaan ree
baaje shehnaiyyaan
naacho ree guinyaan ree naacho
ho o
naacho ree guinyaan ree naacho
ho o
naacho ree guinyaan ree naacho
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