Mil gaye mil gaye
Posted on: November 17, 2025
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Today’s song is from the film Tulsi Vivah – 1971.
By coincidence, the film was also made by Tulsi Films, Bombay. It was directed by Candrakant (Gaur). The film’s music was by a “once upon a time” famous, but now at the end of his career, Music Director C. Ramchandra. Lyrics were by Pradeep. The cast included Dara Singh, Jayashree Gadkar, Randhawa, Azad, Abhi Bhattacharya, Anita guha, Rajan Haksar and many others. If only the cast names are shown to anyone, he will surely think that the film was a stunt/action film, what with names of pehelwans like Dara Singh, Randhawa and Azad ! I have seen this film. Dara Singh has done the role of Shiv ji in it. Whenever he talked, you would feel that he would lift and throw the person in front of him!!
TULSI VIVAH is an important religious event in many parts of India. Tulsi (Laxmi) weds Vishnu, in the period of 4 days, from Prabodhini Ekadashi-that is the 11th day of Kartika maas upto Tripurary Pournima, i.e. Full moon day(or night ?),according to Vikram Samvat, followed in western and southern India. As per the calendar in the north, it is on the 11th day of the other half-a difference of 15 Tithis, usually.
Tulsi is a common plant, but it has great religious and medicinal value. It is said that Tulsi or Vrinda( Brinda) is an Avatar of Laxmi ji. Tulsi leaves are regularly used in poojas.
When space was not a problem and houses were big enough, every house used to have a Tulsi Vrindavan in the foreground of every house. Tulsi plant always reminds me of this Sanskrit quotation- ” Ati parichayat awadnya”( अती परिचयात अवज्ञा ), which has almost the same meaning as the English phrase ”Familiarity breeds contempt”. The plant is so common that it is taken for granted and all people forget about its medicinal and Religious importance.
There are many stories about Tulsi and her marriage to Lord Vishnu. Visnu pooja is not complete without Tulsi leaves (like Satyanarayan pooja), and Krishna pooja is not complete without the Krishna Tulsi (a dark brown variety) offered to Him.
Now a question may arise in the minds of some readers as to why 4 days for marriage ?
In older times marriages were a social event more than being a personal one. Usually the Girl and the Boy were from different villages/towns. To get acquainted with each other well enough, many socio-religious programmes were arranged between the two families. Additionally, the ladies used to need 1 day for ‘ Choodies’ for all ladies(except the widows).
I remember ,in my childhood (about 70-75 years ago), every marriage used to be a 5 day affair. Those days, Time was not scarce at all. The Boy side relatives used to go to the Girl’s village, atleast 3-4 days in advance. They would be accommodated on the border of the town, maybe at some Temple or a big empty house. On one evening there used to be a function called ” Seemant Poojan”,in which all the relatives from both sides were introduced to each other . Like,Girl’s chachas and Boys chachas,then mamas.mausies,brothers etc etc. It took quite some time embracing each jodi and applying Kumkum on the forehead,so that he is not repeated. ‘Seemant ” actually meant the end of seema(Border) of villages and beginning of new relations between the 2 families. The actual marriage rituals used to be spread over 2 days and thus the Total function was about 4-5 day’s programme.
If you consider Today’s marriages, they too spread over a few days like 1 day sangeet, 1 day Mehendi, 1 day marriage and 1 day reception. Forget about the Bachelor’s last night parties. So quantitatively there are no changes ,only qualitatively they have got renamed, Yes.
Tulsi Vivah is the ceremonial marriage of the Tulsi plant (holy basil) to the Hindu god Vishnu or his Avatar Krishna. This ceremony can be performed any time between Prabodhini Ekadashi – the eleventh lunar day of the bright fortnight of the Hindu month Kartik to the full moon of the month (Kartik Poornima) but usually it is performed on the eleventh or the twelfth lunar day. The day varies from region to region. The Tulsi wedding signifies the end of the monsoon and the beginning of the Hindu wedding season.
Tulsi is venerated as a goddess in Hinduism and sometimes considered a wife of god Vishnu. She is often called as Vishnupriya, the beloved of Vishnu. The legend behind Tulsi Vivah and its rites are told in the scripture Padma Purana.
According to Hindu scripture, the Tulsi plant was a woman named Vrinda (Brinda), a synonym of Tulsi. She was married to the demon-king Jalandhar. Due to her piety and devotion to Vishnu, her husband became invincible. Even god Shiva, the destroyer in the Hindu Trinity could not defeat Jalandhar. So Shiva requested Vishnu – the preserver in the Trinity – to find a solution. Vishnu disguised himself as Jalandhar and violated Vrinda. Her chastity destroyed, Jalandhar was killed by Shiva. Vrinda cursed Vishnu to become black in colour and he would be separated from his wife. Thus, he was transformed into the black Shaligram stone and in hisRama avatar, his wife Sita was kidnapped by a demon-king and thus separated from him. Vrinda then drowned herself in the ocean. Eventually Jalandhar was killed by Shiva.
The gods or Vishnu transferred her soul to a plant, henceforth which was called as Tulsi. As per a blessing by Vishnu to marry Vrinda in her next birth, Vishnu in the form of Shaligram – married Tulsi on Prabodhini Ekadashi. To commemorate this event, the ceremony of Tulsi Vivah is performed.
Another minor legend narrates that Lakshmi – the chief consort of Vishnu – slew a demon on this day and remained on earth as the Tulsi plant.
The marriage of Tulsi with Vishnu/Krishna resembles the traditional Hindu wedding.This ceremony is conducted at homes and also at temples. A fast is observed on the Tulsi Vivah day till evening when the ceremony begins. A mandap (marriage booth) is built around the courtyard of the house where the Tulsi plant is planted. The Tulsi plant is usually planted in the centre of the courtyard in a brick plaster called Tulsi vrindavan. It is believed that the soul of Vrinda resides in the plant at night and leaves in the morning. The bride Tulsi is clothed with a sari and ornaments including earrings and necklaces. A human paper face with a bindi and nose-ring – may be attached to Tulsi. The groom is a brass image or picture of Vishnu or Krishna or sometimesBalarama or more frequently the Shaligram stone – the symbol of Vishnu. The image is clothed in a dhoti. Both Vishnu and Tulsi are bathed and decorated with flowers and garlands before the wedding. The couple is linked with a cotton thread (mala) in the ceremony.
The film story was…
Rajkumari Vrunda ( Jayashree Gadkar) lives in a palatial home with her mom and dad. One day while hunting she is molested by thugs, and Samrat Jalandhar (Randhava) comes to her aid. He rescues her and accompanies her to her parents’ home and asks them for her hand in marriage, to which they agree. The marriage takes place with great pomp and ceremony. After the marriage their life is virtually perfect. Then one day, Jalandhar gets a visit from a Sage who tells him that there is war going between the Devas (Gods) and Danavs (Demons), and that Bhagwan Vishnu (Abhi Bhattacharya) has been siding with the Devas.
Curious to find out more, Jalandhar journeys to his father, Sagar (Ocean), who tells that he had attempted to make peace between the Devas and the Danavs by offering them sweet nectar of life, but Bhagwan Vishnu had taken the shape of a beautiful woman, Mohini, and made sure that only the Devas got the nectar. Jalandhar is angered at this, and declares war against Bhagwan Vishnu and the Devas. Vrunda begs him not to go, as Vishnu is all powerful. When he insists on going, she prays to the Gods and puts a flowered garland (full of blessings) around his neck to ensure his safety. Jalandhar defeats Indra Dev and comes home victorious, along with Indraloka apsaras (beautiful women) and Indrani herself.
The enraged Devas appeal to Bhagwan Vishnu, who agrees to do battle with Jalandhar, but again Jalandhar triumphs, and thus becomes Bhagwan Jalandhar. The worried Devas approach Bhagwan Shiv ( Dara Singh), who refuses to get involved in any war with anyone. In the meantime, Jalandhar gets angry with Vrunda for worshiping Vishnu and cuts her tongue off so as to prevent her from praying. She goes to pray to Vishnu, and he reinstates her tongue. This angers Jalandhar all the more, and in penance Vrunda blinds herself, and is placed in a dungeon surrounded by a wall of fire. Jalandhar now wants the most beautiful woman in the world, and he is told that there is no one more beautiful than Bhagwan Shiva’s wife, Parvati ( Geetanjali). He accordingly sends word for Parvati to come to him. This angers Shiv and he goes to battle Jalandhar. Once again Jalandhar triumphs, and is all set to have Parvati for his own.
Parvati and the other Devas now approach Bhagwan Shri Brahma for a solution. In the meantime, Vrunda regains her eyesight, and to her delight finds that Jalandhar has changed, and they spend a lot of time together. Days later, the severed head of Jalandhar comes into their palace, and accuses Vrunda of infidelity. Vrunda is astounded as she has always been true to her husband, but then there was the severed head floating in the air, and there was her husband standing next to her. She soon finds out that the person standing next to her is Bhagwan Vishnu who had assumed the form of Jalandhar, the real Jalandhar had been defeated by Bhagwan Shiv in battle, and his head severed from his body. Now Bhagwan Vishnu and the Devas have to content with Vrunda’s wrath – and she curses Vishnu to become stone for pulling wool over her eyes. Vishnu becomes Black Shaligram. Vrinda immolates her. She is blessed by Lord Vishnu that he will marry her in her next Birth. Thus Brinda or Tulsi is married to Shaligram on every Prabodhini Ekadashi in Kartik Maas.( ‘Prabodhini Ekadasi’ is also called by the name ‘Dev Uthni Ekadasi’ – the day when the Gods awaken from sleep. And of course, that starts off the wedding season for the mortals. )
Today’s song is sung by Krishna Kalle.
Krishna Kalle is well known for her playback songs in Hindi and Marathi movies, bhajans, ghazals and light songs on AIR and concerts. She has also sung lyrics in Gujarati, Punjabi, Bhojpuri and Sanskrit. Moreover, she has also given classical concerts. Vasudha Kulkarni has written a short biography of Krishna in Marathi and this article is based on the same.
Krishna was born to Sharada and Vasant Kalle on December 18, 1940 in Mumbai. She has two younger brothers Ajit and Ashok. Krishna grew up in Kanpur. She excelled in school with two double promotions as also in college. She was trained in classical music beginning with dhrupad-dhamar and lighter forms like thumri, ghazal,chaiti, kajari etc. by Pandit Rama sevak Tiwari and his brother Siyaram. She then received training in Rampur gharana from UstadAfzal Hussain Nizami. Along with her parents, who were interested in classical music, Krishna attended many music concerts. Top musicians such as Ustad Bismillah Khan, Pandit Shanta Prasad,Vidushi Girija Devi performed in their home. She won prizes in school and college contests and was graded as a top artist in AIR.Her brothers are also well versed in music. Her aunt, Sharada’s sister Tara Kalle studied from the Khalifa of Agra Gharana, Ustad Vilayat Hussain Khan and performed on AIR. Her cousin Usha Balasavar (daughter of Sharada’s sister Shashikala) is also a well known singer.
In 1959 Krishna graduated with honours. She married Marutirao Idgunji, a family friend and a lover of music. The couple lived next to Krishna’s parents and Krishna continued her studies and performed light music concerts. In 1965 they moved to Mumbai and Krishna entered into the mainstream of light music. Her playback singing in Hindi films began in 1965 in “Danaveer Karna”. The book (by Vasudha Kulkarni) gives a complete list of her 203 songs with composers of lyrics and music, from 130 films.
Among the duets she sang are those with Mohammad Rafi, Manna Dey, Kishore Kumar, Mukesh,Hemanth Kumar, Mahendra Kapur, Vani Jairam, Suman Kalyanpur,Lakshmi Shankar and Usha Balsavar. She worked with music composers such as Datta Davjekar, O. P. Nayyar, Salil Choudhari,Shankar Jaikishan, Sudhir Phadke, C. Ramachandra and Ram Kadam.
Growing up in Kanpur, Krishna was fluent in Hindi and Urdu. In Mumbai, Ram Kadam, who was normally a music director for Marathi movies, had an assignment for a Hindi movie. Under duress, he chose Krishna and was so impressed that he chose her for his other assignments as well. Krishna mastered Marathi pronunciations on the job so well that she got many assignments in Marathi movies, bhavageet etc. under famous music directors such as Shrinivas Khale, Yashavant Dev and others who have given glowing testimonials in the book mentioned above. There is a list of 109 songs in Marathi in films and as bhavageets. Krishna’s Gujarathi songs also became hits.
As Krishna became well known as a playback singer, problems began. Other leading playback singers succeeded in depriving Krishna from rising further. In addition to this Krishna had to face a tragedy. Marutirao suddenly passed away in 1979. When playback singing dried up, Krishna restarted what she was doing in Kanpur, namely singing on AIR where she had a top grade and in private concerts.
In 1973 Krishna met Manohar Rai, an accomplished musician in Dhrupad-Dhamar as well as a music composer-cum director in a recording studio. Krishna and Manohar both composed lyrics and music and gave over a thousand concerts in both light and classical music. In 1985 the two got married. They continued their concerts until they had to stop due to health reasons. Even now music continues in their home. Krishna Kalle died on 15-3-2015.( Thanks to the book “गायिका कृष्णा कल्ले, एक कृतार्थ गानप्रवास” – वसुधा कुलकर्णी.)
Here is the video song. Enjoy….
Song-Mil gaye mil gaye (Tulsi Vivaah)(1971) Singer-Krishna Kalle, Lyricist-Kavi Pradeep, MD-C Ramchandra
Lyrics
mil gaye
mil gaye mere meet salone
virah ki bela beet gayee
mil gaye
mil gaye mere meet salone
virah kee bela beet gayee
jeet gayee re jeet gayee main
haaree baazee jeet gayee
jeet gayee re jeet gayee main
haaree baazee jeet gayee
mil gaye
mil gaye
is meree khushee ko mol koi kya jaane
kyun uthha mera man dol koi kya jaane
main kyun na naachoon
kyun na jhaanjhar jhankaaoon oon oon
main kyun na naachoon
kyun na jhaanjhar jhankaaoon oon
kitnee ye ghadee anmol
kitnee ye ghadee anmol koi kya jaane
do hee pal kee baat cheet mein
ho gayee meree preet nayee
mil gaye
mil gaye
ab jaagoon main saaree raat mera jee karta
ab jaagoon main saaree raat mera jee karta
raaja se karoon kuchh bat mera jee karta
raaja se karoon kuchh bat mera jee karta
pritam ke pakad loon paanv
aur phir chupke se ae ae
pritam ke pakad loon paanv
aur phir chupke se phoonlon kee karoon barsaat
phoolon kee karoon barsaat
mera jee karta
aaj to hoga pyaar ka mera dhang naya
aur reet nayee
mil gaye mil gaye
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