Hey Laxminath aaj meree laaj bachaao
Posted by: Atul on: April 14, 2026
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Today’s song is from a Mythological film – Shri Ganesh Janma-1951. The film was made by K.Pictures, Bombay. It was directed by Jayant Desai. Bharat Vyas wrote 12 songs for which Khemchand Prakash gave the music. The cast included Nirupa Roy, Trilok Kapoor, Jeevan, Ulhas, A.Shah, Rewa Shankar, Niroo, Tiwari and many others.
Mythological films are based on stories from the Puranas, and the Epics- Ramayana and Maha Bharat. Very few people know anything about the Puranas. The Puranas are a vast genre of Indian literature, written primarily in Sanskrit, that contain stories, myths, history, genealogies, and religious teachings. Meaning “ancient” or “old,” they are part of sacred Hindu scripture (along with the Vedas and Epics) that focus on deities like Vishnu, Shiva, Devi, and Brahma.
The word “Purana” refers to ancient legends or old narratives. These texts are composed in poetic form, often as conversations, and deal with topics like cosmology (creation/destruction of the world), genealogy of gods and kings, philosophy, and rituals.There are 18 main Puranas (Mahapuranas), with over 400,000 verses. Key examples include the Vishnu Purana, Shiva Purana, Bhagavata Purana (which covers the life of Krishna), and Skanda Purana (the longest).
Puranas made religious and spiritual knowledge accessible to all, providing the foundation for many Hindu rituals, festivals, and devotional traditions (Bhakti). Traditionally, a Purana deals with five specific characteristics (Pancha Lakshana): creation, destruction and renovation, genealogy of gods/sages, dynasties of kings, and history.
There are 18 Maha Puranas, namely Bramha, Padma, Vishnu, Shiv, Bhagwat, Markandeya, Narad, Agni, Bhavishya, Bramhavaivarta, Ling, Varah, Skand, Koorm, Matsya, Garud and Bramhand Puran. Then there are 18 Upa Purans, namely Sanat kumar, Narsimha, Brihad Naradiya, Shi Rahasya, Durvasa, Kapila, Vaman, Bhargava, Varun, Kalika, Samba, Nandi, Surya, Parashar, Vashishtha, Ganesha and Hansa. There are Sthala Puranas for sacred places like Varanasi, Haridwar etc. (Information taken from the book “Hindu Sanskriti” by Pt. Ramnarayan Shastri ji)
These days, being or showing that you are a religious Hindu amounts to being Communal ! I feel that your religious behaviour should be restricted to your own personal life, without any display of it. If you take a survey today, you may find that hardly 0.1 to 1 % of the population is Atheist ( those who do not believe in the existence of God ). The rest are all believers in God. Belief in God and being religious are two entirely different things. Being religious is practicing the ‘karm kands’ or fulfilling the acts described, prescribed or suggested by the religion, like for example, going to the Temples regularly or doing Pooja Archana every day etc. Only those who practice these can be termed as being religious minded. As long as these things do not interfere with your duties towards family and society, no one should have any business commenting/ interfering in that.
A person who likes to listen to Jazz or Rock music and one who likes to listen to western musicals can at best be described as a person liking western music, but he can not be called a Musician. Similarly, when one likes to listen to Bhajans and see Mythological films, he can only be termed as a person who likes religious/devotional music, but can not be called a religious person. I like to listen to any Bhajan or other religious songs.
Hindu Religion is the most elastic, all encompassing and highly adaptive Religion. That is how it has remained for over 5000 years. There may be thousands of Castes, Languages,Ethnic groups and contrasting living patterns, but ALL will visit the SAME temple. There is no division among the variety of Gods that are available to the people. It is said that there are 33 types- of-Gods ( 33 Koti Devtas- misunderstood as 33 crores Gods ), so there is a wide choice for selecting your favourite God. Some may like Shiv ji, some Vishnu,some Shrikrishna while some like Laxmi Devi, but there is ONE God who is loved by one and all,not only in India but also worldwide..and that is GANESHA.
Lord Ganesh is the second son of the celestial couple Shiv ji and Parvati ji. The elder one is Kartikeya (Kumarswamy in south). However, in South, Kartikeya or kumar swamy or Skand or Murugan is considered as the younger one. There are many stories found in Vedas and various Puranas,about the birth of Ganesha. The most popular,of course, is from Shiv Puran, which says that ,one day Parvati made a young boy from the Sandalwood Paste made for her bath.She put life into it and asked him to guard the gate till Parvati finished her bath. After some time,Shiva ji came back,but was stopped by the boy. The Ganas of Shiva ji had a fight with him,and he defeated them. When this news reached the heavens,Dods’ king Indra himself came with his army,but he too was defeated by this boy. Shiva got angry and chopped off his head with his Trishula. When Parvati learnt about this,she became very sad and angry. Shiv ji sent his Ganas to search for the chopped head,but not finding it,they brought an Elephant’s head. Shiv ji fitted this head and made him alive again. Shiv ji named him GANESH. Here are some other stories of Ganesh janma…
A lesser known story from the Brahma Vaivarta Puran narrates a different version of Ganesha’s birth. On the insistence of Shiva, Parvati fasted for a year (punyaka vrata) to propitiate Vishnu so that he would grant her a son. Vishnu, after the completion of the sacrifice, announced that he would incarnate himself as her son in every Kalpa (eon). Accordingly, Ganesha was born to Parvati as a charming infant. This event was celebrated with great enthusiasm and all the gods were invited to take a look at the baby. However Shani (Saturn), the son of Surya, hesitated to look at the baby since Shani was cursed with the gaze of destruction. However Parvati insisted that he look at the baby, which Shani did, and immediately the infant’s head fell off. Seeing Shiva and Parvati grief-stricken, Vishnu mounted on the Garud, his divine eagle, and rushed to the banks of the Pushpa-Bhadra river, from where he brought back the head of a young elephant. The head of the elephant was joined with the headless body of Parvati’s son, thus reviving him. The infant was named Ganesha and all the Gods blessed Ganesha and wished Him power and prosperity.
Another tale of Ganesha’s birth relates to an incident in which Shiv slew Aditya(Lord sun) , the son of a sage. Shiva restored life to the dead boy, but this could not pacify the outraged sage Kashyapa, who was one of the seven great Rishis. Kashyap cursed Shiva and declared that Shiva’s son would lose his head. When this happened, the head of Indra’s elephant was used to replace it.(Linga Puran).
Still another tale states that on one occasion, Parvati’s used bath-water was thrown into the Ganges, and this water was drunk by the elephant-headed Goddess Malini, who gave birth to a baby with four arms and five elephant heads. The river goddess Ganga claimed him as her son, but Shiva declared him to be Parvati’s son, reduced his five heads to one and enthroned him as the controller of obstacles -Vighnesh. (Varah Puran).
The cast of the film was the usual one. After becoming famous with the film Har Har Mahadev-1950, the trio of Trilok kapoor, Nirupa Roy and Jeevan became mandatory in almost all mythological films connected with Shiv and Parvati. Jeevan was a standardised Narad in all such religious films. Jeevan had all together acted as Narada in 49 films in his career. This was before his second innings featuring as a villain and a sophisticated criminal in the 70s and 80s. In this film also They enacted the same roles. I do not know how far it is true, but it was said that Trilok kapoor used a real snake around his neck in the role of Shankar ji.
The hero of this film TK (Trilok Kapoor) was born at Multan on 3-3-1912 and was educated at Peshawar. He went to Bombay to join his brother. He got his first film CHAR DARVESH-1933. He went to Calcutta and did some films there. He also worked as an assistant to Director Hem Chunder.
Trilok was associated with the activities of the freedom movement from a very young age. His elder sibling had already moved to Calcutta to make a career in films in the latter part of 1920s. The year was 1932. There was a large rally held in Multan, advocating prohibition against liquor. The rally turned violent, resulting in the death of some people. Trilok Kapoor was also at the rally. His father, fearing for his son’s life, wrote to Prithviraj in Calcutta, to desist young Trilok from participation in such violent movements. He also implored him to have his younger brother join him in Calcutta. Under family duress, Trilok left Multan and joined his elder brother in Calcutta in early 1933. It was natural for him to start working in films, under guidance from his elder brother. His first screen appearance is a small role he played alongside his elder brother, in the film ‘Seeta’. He also worked as an assistant to producer-director Hem Chander for some years. He played small roles in about ten films during his stay in Calcutta.
During the late 1930s, Prithviraj migrated to Bombay, and Trilok also moved with him. Immediately on arrival in Bombay, he got associated with Ranjeet Movietone. His career got a fillip when he got associated with Vijay Bhatt. In the 1940s, Vijay Bhatt had become a household name with the release of films based on Ramayan, viz. ‘Bharat Milap’ (1942) and ‘Ram Rajya’ (1943). The interesting thing to happen was that through these films, Trilok Kapoor got so much typecast in the role of Bhagwan Shiv, that well through the 1940s and 1950s, every producer wanted him to play that role only. His pairing with Nirupa Roy in the role of Mata Parvati became a staple feature of religious films in those years. His film ‘Har Har Mahadev’ celebrated a diamond jubilee in Bombay, and golden jubilee in many other centers.
In the 40s and 50s, His patent role was that of Mahadev. Trilok Kapoor was very famous for his portrayal of Shiv ji in Mythological films, in which he paired with Nirupa Roy as his consort-Parvati. He did 7 films in a row for this role and in all those films Nirupa Roy was Parvati. (However, no one could ever beat the divine pair of Ram and Seeta enacted by Shobhana Samarth and Prem Adib in Ram Rajya-1943).
It was rumoured that Trilok Kapoor wore a real snake around his neck during shootings. In the shooting of Har Har Mahadev, Nirupa Roy was scared of the real snake and she could not do any scene with Trilok ji. Finally, he had to remove the real snake and wear an artificial snake for this shooting.
He and Nirupa Roy worked in 18 films together. Nirupa Roy paired with some actors more than others. She acted with Balraj Sahni in 12 films, with P.Jairaj in 16 films and with Ashok Kumar in 21 films. She was Amitabh’s mother in 12 films, overall Mythological films were 50, Mother’s role in 50 films, suffering wife in 30 films and believe it or not, she acted in 8 Stunt films also.
Trilok Kapoor did about 120 films. In a career that lasted a little over five decades, Trilok Kapoor performed in more than 120 films, mostly small roles. Besides the religious films, the high point of his career was his lead appearance opposite Noorjehan in the film ‘Mirza Sahiban’ (1947). His last film was a TV film Akanksha, which was released after his death which took place on 23-9-1988.
As per HFGK, Trilok Kapoor the actor sang 1 solo in Aaj ki Duniya-1940 and 5 duets in Raja Rani-42. After this there are no songs on his name. There was another singer with the same name Trilok Kapoor. This caused confusion, but they were two different persons.
Today’s song is sung by Geeta Roy. Enjoy….
Song- Hey Laxminath aaj meree laaj bachaao (Shree Ganesh Janm)(1951) Singer-Geeta Roy, Lyricist- Bharat Vyas, MD- Khemchand Prakash
Lyrics
Hey Laxminaa aa aa aath
Hey Laxminath
aaj meree laaj bachaao
Hey Laxminath
aaj meree laaj bachaao
sankat mein pade pranpati aake chhudaao
aake chhudaao
Laxminaa aa aa aath
ye toot raha bhaag mera
aa ke jod do
ye toot raha bhaag mera
aa ke jod do
pal bhar ke liye Bhagwan
Vaikunthh chhod do
Vaikunthh chhod do
ho ke sawaar Garud pe ae ae ae ae
ho ke sawaar Garud pe
Kailash padhaao
laaj bachaao
na der lagaao
Laxminath
Laxminath
Laxminath
hai aan phansee aaj bhanwar mein meree naiyya
hai aan phansee aaj bhanwar mein meree naiyya
ab chhod do apnee prabhu ye Shesh kee shaiyya
Shesh kee shaiyya
ro ro ke pukaaroon oon oon oon
ro ro ke pukaaroon
ab mat der lagaao
laaj bachaao
na der lagaao
Laxminath
Laxminath
Laxminath
laaj bachaao
Laxminath
na der lagaao
Laxminath
laaj bachaao
Laxminath
na der lagaao
Laxminath
Laxminath
Laxminath
Laxminath
Laxminath
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April 14, 2026 at 3:09 pm
Good Afternoon,
Very melodious song.
Thanks a ton for sharing.
Blessings
Uma🙏
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