Is lok mein is raah mein
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Today’s song is from a social film – Suhag-1958.
This was a film dubbed from its Tamil version titled “Tang Malai Ragsiyam”. There was a Kannada version too, titled ” Ratnagiri Rahasyam”. Both the South Indian films were made simultaneously in 1957. The Hindi version was made in 1958. I have not seen this film. All 3 versions were directed by B.R. aka Budagaru Ramakrishnaiah Panthulu. For him this was his DEBUT film as a Director. Not only him, but even his assistant Director – Puttanna Kanagal made his DEBUT in direction. Before direction, both were mere actors. Even in later years, they appeared in a few films as actors.
It could have been a successful film in Hindi, but its timing was wrong. It was released on 5-6-1958. Hindi film “Zimbo” was also released at almost the same time. Both films had more or less the same story. Naturally, the Hindi dubbed version of Suhag was a Non-Strter in Hindi areas. In addition, Hindi films were in full bloom in 1957 and 1958, giving very entertaining films in almost every Genre.
The prominent films of 1958 were Madhumati,Chalti ka naam gaadi, Yahudi,Phir subah hogi, Sadhna, Phagun, Parvarish, Kala Pani, Howrah Bridge, Dilli ka thug, Al Hilal, Aji bas shukriya, Jailor, Lala Rukh, Light House, Mausi, Mujrim, Panchayat, Post box 999, Ragini, Samrat Chandragupta, Sitaron se aagey, Sone ki Chidiya, Suvarna Sundari and Zimbo.
All Major actors Raj Kapoor, Dev Anand and Dilip Kumar, Ashok Kumar, Rajendra Kumar, Kishore Kumar etc had their jubilee films in this year. Some notable films were Sadhana-which had taken inspiration from Shantaram’s film Aadmi-1939, Al Hilal- a C grade film which became immortal due to one qawali ”Hamen to loot liya”, Jailor-Sohrab Modi’s remake of his own Jailor of 1938 and Yahudi- based on the Parsee costume drama of Agha Hashr Kashmiri, which was filmed in 1933 earlier. Like this one, Bimal Rai had also remade New Theatre’s ‘Devdas’-35, in 1955. Usually remakes are not successful, but these two remakes of Bimal Roy became popular, just like Mehboobs remake of ‘Aurat’-42 as ‘Mother India’-57 succeeded.
Bimal Roy’s film on Rebirth or Reincarnation,’Madhumati’ was yet another Blockbuster. The Neo- Socialists, some with IPTA background, came with a bang with “‘”Phir subah hogi”. It was based on the Russian novel Crime and Punishment By Dostoyevsky. The combination of Khayyam, Sahir, Mukesh and Raj Kapoor provided excellent meaningful lyrics and songs. Raj Khosla established himself with Dev Anand’s ‘Kala Pani’. The team of Dev, S D Burman, Rafi and Majrooh was a perfect match in music for ‘Phir subah hogi’.
Entertainers like Parvarish, Ghar sansar, Dilli ka Thug and Howrah Bridge along with the all time hilarious hit ‘Chalti ka naam gaadi’ made the year almost a carry forward to 1957 with equal vigour and variety. 1958 also marked the death of old timer Yakub. Shashi Kapoor and Jeniffer got married on 2nd July this year.
Till 1947, Hindi films were made mostly in Bombay, Lahore, Calcutta, Kolhapur and Poona. Most studios were located in these cities. South Indian language films were made mainly in Madras and Bangla films were made in Calcutta and Dhaka. The Partition in 1947 changed the picture completely. Wholesale polarisation took place. Producers of Hindi films had to flee from Lahore, leaving everything behind them and some artistes from Bombay left for Pakistan. Thus,after Partition,the exclusive centre for production of Hindi films was only Bombay. By 1950 things settled in India and Pakistan Film Industry.
Telugu film producers shifted to Hyderabad, Kannada films to Bangalore and Malayalam to Kerala. Madras, however, still made films other than Tamil, like Telugu Hindi etc. But now it was only Remakes of successful Tamil films or dubbed films. The 50s saw many Hindi films dubbed from southern languages(Read Tamil/Telugu). Initially they were Mythological, Fantasy or costume films. In the 60s, however, even social films were remade.
Film production in Madras is very methodical and professional.They make films as per plans and in planned time. For this reason,in the 60s to 80s many Hindi film actors volunteered to to make films in south. The producers in south too had their favourites. In the Music area,there were Ravi, C.Ramchandra or Madan Mohan, for lyrics and story,Rajinder Krishna and Pradeep, and preferred actors were Jeetendra, Rajendrakumar,Sunil Dutt and Mehmood.
Though Polarisation took place in film production, the attraction to come to Bombay and work here continued. Artistes from various centres still came to Bombay.
The biggest contribution came from Bengal, in music, direction and acting areas. Artistes from South tried their hand with Hindi films,either by Remade or dubbed films. Thus the greatest south actors like Sivaji Ganeshan, Gemini Ganeshan, M G Ramchandran,N T Rama Rao, A.Nageshwar Rao, Jailalita, Janaki, Susheela, Bhanumathi, Prem Nazir of the older generation and Rajanikanth, Kamal Hasan and Chiranjeevi from the next Generation were seen in Hindi films. Only Dr.Rajkumar, the Kannada Superstar never worked in Hindi films. In fact,except for just 1 Telugu film, Sri Kalahasti Mahatmyam-1954, Dr.Rajkumar never worked in any other language film.
In the music department also, many composers like K.Narayan Rao, S.Rajeshwar Rao,C R Subramanyam, E Shankar, R Sudershanam, Ramesh Naidu, Adi Narayanrao, Vishwanath-Rammurthy, Lingappa etc worked in Hindi films.
There was one name from South, which was so famous, but it is surprising that he too gave music to Hindi Films. His name was Ghantasala.
The major difficulty for southern artists was speaking in Hindi. Due to this, they hesitated to work in Hindi films and instead, preferred dubbing their hit films in Hindi, released them on All India basis and hoped for becoming famous. Initially, in the period of the 50’s and 60’s decades, there was a spate of dubbed films, as well as some remade films in Hindi. Later on and now of course only hit films are remade in Hindi. The count of dubbed films has gone down considerably. These days, I find that even hit films of Hindi are also remade in southern languages.
Since the times when the adventurous S.S.Vasan-Producer, Director and Owner of Gemini Studios, made his film “Chandralekha”- in Hindi in 1948 on a mammoth scale (with over 600 prints of the Hindi version for simultaneous release on All India basis on 24th December 1948), the Southern film industry woke up. After the film Chandralekha was successful, Vasan started making remakes of his Tamil hit films in Hindi one after another. When other filmmakers of the South saw Vasan busy doing this and visiting his bank very often with several bags full of money to deposit, they too joined the bandwagon !
Thus, the entire decades of the 50’s and the 60’s saw many films from South, in the form of Remakes of Southern Hit films, Dubbed or shot at Madras for the All India audience of Hindi films. After Vasan’s Gemini, A.V.Meiyyappan’s AVM, Nagi Reddy’s Vauhini Studios and L.V.Prasad’s Prasad productions gave many films, made with all Southern, all Bombay or a mixed cast of actors. Many major Heroes of South secretly nurtured a desire to shine in the Hindi belt. They joined this race. Actors like M.G.Ramchandran (MGR), N.T.Tama Rao (NTR), A.Nageshwar Rao (ANR), Sivaji Ganesan, Gemini Ganesan etc., actresses like Bhanumathy, Jayalalitha, Jamuna etc and character artistes like Relang, S.V.Ranga Rao etc appeared in Hindi films. ( A very loooong list of such remakes and dubbed films is available on IMDB ). Even today many Southern Hit films are remade or dubbed in Hindi and the addition is, many Hindi Hits are also remade in Southern languages. The West Bengal Film Industry which actually led this trend in the 30’s and the 40’s has fallen way behind now.
The 50’s decade was full of a deluge of films from the south. After S.S.Vasan proved that it was possible to capture the All India Hindi Audience market for South-made films, there was a mad rush and almost all major and minor film companies from south tried to get at least a small piece of the “Hindi Audience Cake” for their films. Films came in the shapes of Bilinguals, remakes and dubbed ones. Bilinguals – when a film is made in 2 languages at a time, one language being Hindi, remakes were new Hindi films made on old Hit films of South Indian languages. Dubbed films were films made in the southern language, with a sound track of Hindi language.
Since the 1950’s decade, every south artist’s dream was to shine in the Hindi film industry, because Hindi films meant All India fame and an honour. In this dream many actresses achieved success, but comparatively actors were almost nowhere. The only name perhaps could be taken was that of actor Ranjan and few more. However, Jamuna, Vaijayantimala, Hema malini, Ragini, Padmini, Rekha and many more actresses from South became famous in Hindi films. Likewise when the Tamil and Telugu industry became a big one, many actresses like Khushbu etc from the Hindi land became famous in South films. Somehow males could not achieve this.
One of the major problems for south Indian artists is the Hindi language. The actresses like Vaijayantimala, Hema Malini and Rekha became experts, but Southern actors could not cross this hurdle. N.T.Ramarao ( 28-5-1923 to 18-1-1996) tried hard. He featured in 23 Hindi films which were mostly dubbed films barring few. One film Brahmarshi Vishwamitra-1991 was even directed by him. Sivaji Ganeshan (1-10-1927 to 21-7-2001) a winner of the prestigious ” Dadasaheb Phalke Award” in 1996, also featured in 19 Hindi films. Gemini Ganesan-real name R.Ganesan ( 17-11-1920 to 22-3-2005) was actress Rekha’s father. He acted in 24 Hindi films.
Similarly many music directors also had the same desire to shine in Hindi films, but had the same problem of language.
The story of the film Suhag-1958, in short was….
Aditya, who is separated from his parents at a young age by his father’s enemy. Raised in isolation, he grows up as a ferocious and untamed caveman. His life changes when he meets Jamuna whose love and affection gradually transforms him. Together, they embark on a journey to uncover the secret of Rathnagiri and to find and rescue the prince’s parents.
The cast of the film was Shivaji Gaesan, T.R.Rajkumari, Jamuna, Rajamma, Veerappa, Ramchandran, Sarangpani and others. T.R.Rajkumari qualified to be a member of Same Name Confusion, with 3 other Rajkumaris – Rajkumari Dubey, Rajkumari Calcuttewali aka Pullobai and Rajkumari Shukla. Thank God she did not sing, only acted, that too only in films made in South or by south producers.
Thanjavur Radhakrishnan Rajayee (May 05, 1922 – September 20, 1999), popularly known by her screen name T. R. Rajakumari, was a film actress, Carnatic singer and dancer. She has been called the first “dream girl” of Tamil cinema. Later she turned as a producer along with her brother under the banner “R. R. Pictures”. She had an active career in the period between 1936 and 1963.
Rajkumari was born on 05 May 1922 in Thanjavur, Madras Presidency, now in Tamilnadu, in a family of carnatic musicians. Both her mother and her grandmother wanted her to become a singer and trained her in Carnatic music.
Rajkumari made her film debut in Kumara Kulothungan which was produced in 1938 – 39 but was released in 1941 after Kacha Devayani. In the initial ads her name appeared as T. R. Rajayee but later in the film she was credited as T. R. Rajkumari. In 1944, Rajakumari starred in the record-breaking film Haridas alongside M. K. Thyagaraja Bhagavathar and gained recognition for her glamorous portrayal.
She has acted in few Hindi movies during 1948 to 1958. Her first Hindi film was Chandralekha with Ranjan.She worked in Chandralekha-48, Jeevan Tara-51, Manohar-54, Rajkumari-55, Gul e bakavali-56 ( produced by her company) and finally in Suhag-58.
Rajakumari died on September 20, 1999 after a prolonged illness.
Here is a song from this film, sung by Asha Bhosle and Manna Dey. Enjoy….
Song- Is lok mein is raah mein (Suhaag)(1958) Singers- Asha Bhonsle, Manna Dey, Lyricist- Ehsan Rizvi, MD- T.G.Lingappa
Both
Lyrics
is lok mein
is raah mein aen
is lok mein
is raah mein aen
haathon mein haath ham daalen
chalen ham panchhee do matwaale
aisa hai pritam suhaana samaan
utra hai aaj dhartee per aa chandrma
mastee bhara mast aasmaan
hai prem amrit mein dooba jahaan aan
is lok mein
is raah mein
is gog mein
ik gaag mein
hmm hmm
yoon naheen
yoon
is lok mein
is raah mein
haathon mein haath ham daalen
chalen ham panchhee do matwaale
aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa
aa aa aa
aa aaa aa aa
phoolon pe ab chhaayee bahaar hai
preet muskaayee
muskaayaa sansaar hai
kartee lata phool se singaar hai
miley aaj piya mohey
mila pyaar hai aen
is lok mein
is raah mein aen
haathon mein haath ham daalen
chalen ham panchhee do matwaale
van ye kahe aaj van raanee hai
devee sabhy banaaya tu kala raanee hai ae
van ye kahe
aaj man raanee hai
nainon mein tere hai amrit bhara
aa aa aa
aa aa aa
nainon mein tere hai amrit bhara
toone mujhko hai naya jeevan diya aa
aao ham chalen
aao ham chalen
ghar ho sukh bhogen
aao chalen hum
is lok mein
is raah mein aen
haathon mein haath ham daale
chalen ham panchhee do matwaale
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