Piya mora buddhu piya mora
Posted on: April 25, 2026
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Today’s song is from a dubbed film Aayi phir se Bahaar-1960.
Originally made by Asha Productions, Madras, the film’s rights were bought by National productions, Madras. It was directed by A.Bhim Singh and the Music Director was Vedpal Verma. The film was originally a Tamil Hit film ” Raja Rani”-1956. The cast of the film was Padmini, Shivaji Ganeshan, Raja Sulochana, Rajendran, Mathuran, Krishnan and many other Tamil artists. The Hindi version was produced by D.K.Tehrani, Ambalal Patel and Kanti Joshi. The 8 songs of the film were written by Indivar (4), Sajan Bihari (2) and Vedpal verma (2). All the songs were composed on the original Tamil film song tunes, so the MD Vedpal verma had only to arrange music players etc.
The story, dialogues and the Screenplay with song lyrics were by M. Karunanidhi in the original Tamil film. You may remember that Karunanidhi was one time CM of Tamilnadu. Connections between films, actors, artists and the Politics in Tamilnadu are well known. M G Ramchandran and Jayalalita were also from Tamil films and were CMs of Tamilnadu for many years. In Bombay, cine artists join politics for some time, mostly they do nothing in the parliament and return to films again. No one has become CM so far.
The director of this film, A. Bhimsingh or Bhim Singh (15 October 1924–16 January 1978) was a filmmaker who worked predominantly in Tamil cinema. Apart from Tamil, he made films in other languages that include 18 films in Hindi, 8 in Telugu, 5 in Malayalam and 1 film in Kannada. Hailing from Andhra Pradesh, he started his film career as an assistant editor with the film-making duo Krishnan–Panju in the late 1940s. Later, he became an assistant director before evolving as an independent director. His films mainly dealt with family and relationships. He made a series of films all of which started with the Tamil syllable pa, mainly with Sivaji Ganesan. Today’s film was his Debut film for Hindi language. Some of his known Hindi films were Rakhi, Main chup rahungi, Pooja ke phool,Khandan, Gopi, Joru ka Gulam etc.
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. In 1958 alone there were 7 films from the South, dubbed in Hindi, for All India markets.
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. Very few succeeded in Hindi.
The synopsis of the film which was available in THE HINDU, April 11, 2015 without disclosing the ending part, together with the addition of the ending part of the story is ….
Rani (Padmini) is the only daughter of an impoverished, visually challenged man (Duraiswami). Her hunt for a job ends when she is engaged as a box office window ticket vendor at a drama company by its owner Babu (Rajendran). Unfortunately, during a play, some gangsters rob Rani of the day’s collection, drug her and escape with the booty. The evil-minded Babu who turns up later tries to take advantage of Rani’s condition. However, she escapes from him and jumps into Raja’s (Sivaji Ganesan) car, falling unconscious in the rear seat.
Raja is the owner of an electrical goods company with a passion for theatre and is the lead player in Babu’s drama troupe. Unaware of the turn of events, Raja reaches home. He is surprised to find a girl in his car. Then he comes across the news that a rich man’s daughter named Leela has run away from home. He thinks the girl in the car is Leela! Rani starts pretending to be Leela and joins the drama troupe as an actress. The two fall in love. Raja then launches his own drama company and stages the play ‘Socrates’, playing himself in the lead role. Babu tries to wreck the love of Raja and Rani and adds real poison to the drink to be given to Raja in the famous scene that has Socrates drinking poison.
In the greenroom, a lady, who has seen Babu mixing real poison in the mug which Socrates is supposed to drink as poison informs one of the influential patrons in the audience who rushes to the stage and snatches the mug with poison from Raja donning the role of Socrates and tells Babu to drink it to prove that it is not poison. The play ends with a bizarre scene of Babu pushed out of the stage and all actors leave the stage. After some dramatic turn of events in Padmini’s house, Padmini’s father agrees for the marriage of his daughter Rani with Raja. The film ends with a duet song which is picturised on Padmini and Sivaji Ganesan.(The story part is, thanks to Sadanand Kamath ji).
One of the cast members is Raja Sulochana. Chittajallu Rajeevalochana (15 August 1935 – 5 March 2013), better known as Rajsulochana, was a classical dancer and actress. She has acted in more than 300 Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam and Hindi language films.
She was born on 15 August 1935 in Bezawada (now Vijayawada), in Andhra Pradesh. Her father, Pilliarchetty Bhakthavatsalam Naidu worked in Indian Railways and was transferred to Madras as PA to the General Manager of M&SM Railway. At school, her name was recorded in error as Rajasulochana. She learned Indian classical dance from Lalithamma, K. N. Dhandayuthapani Pillai, Acharyulu and Vempati Chinna Satyam, Krishnakumar, Vishnu Vysarkar, and Kalamandalam Madhavan.
The Kannada stage and screen maestro H. L. N. Simha gave her an acting opportunity in Gunasagari (Kannada, 1953), produced by Gubbi Veeranna. Subsequently, she acted in about 274 films in all South Indian languages. She acted with all the leading stars of South Indian cinema such as M. G. Ramachandran, Sivaji Ganesan, N. T. Rama Rao, Akkineni Nageswara Rao, Rajkumar, S. S. Rajendran, Prem Nazir, A. P. Nagarajan and M. N. Nambiar.
She founded the dance school “Pushpanjali Nritya Kala Kendram” in 1961 in Chennai. It has trained many students in Indian classical dance forms and celebrated its Silver Jubilee in 1986. She gave many dance performances in India and abroad and got critical acclaim for the dance dramas.
She had a son out of her first marriage and after it ended in a divorce, she married actor-director C. S. Rao and had twin daughters. One daughter lives in Chennai. The other twin daughter and son live in Chicago, Illinois.
Rajasulochana died in Chennai on 5 March 2013 at the age of 77. Condoling her death, the then Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa had said the actress had left an imprint for herself in the film industry. She was engaged in creating artistes in her dance school “Pushpanjali Nritya Kala Kendram ” here, Jayalalithaa said.
Here is some more information provided in one of my comments on this Blog about 11 years ago….RAJASULOCHANA,the Telugu actress was married to Telugu’s famous Director C.Sreenivasa Rao(Mr.Rao died on 8-12-2004).
Rajasulochana was a special friend of the boss A.V.Meiyappan and he was trying to push her in Hindi films.It was rumoured that due to this only,this song and dance item with master Bhagwan, was thrust in the film Chori Chori-1956,even if it did look like a patch,having no connection to the picture story in any manner !
Rajasulochana was a good dancer/actress and acted in some 80 odd Telugu,Kannada and Tamil movies. She acted/danced in few Hindi movies like, Aayi phirse Bahar,Alladin ka chirag,Naya aadmi, Sitaron Se aage etc. Her most famous movie was “Idduru Mitrulu” (Two Friends),a Telugu hit of 1961,with the great NTRama Rao. In 1963,she founded a Dancing school in Madras.She stayed in Madipakkam,Chennai-4.
Do you remember the popular jingle ” Nirma,Nirma, washing powder Nirma” on TV and Radio ? Those who were old enough to see TV and listen to Radio in the late 80s and 90s can not forget this catchy jingle, played repeatedly and which was sung by every child in the homes, along with jingles on the TV !
This and 300 other similarly popular jingles ( Vicco, Paan parag, Frooti, Rasna etc) were made by Vedpal Varma, the Music Director of today’s film.. But that was when he had stopped getting films or rather when the industry had forgotten this talented composer, who could never cross the B grade movie barrier. He made jingles, gave music to documentaries and stage dramas and even wrote lyrics in B grade films, like Maa Behan aur Biwi, Aayi phir se bahaar, Sunehri nagin, Bachche mere saathi, Hum junglee hain and Wafadar only to survive somehow.
Vedpal Varma was born in an Arya Samaj family in Sirsa (Haryana). After getting regular training in music, he joined AIR (before that he worked as a mechanic also). Lyricist Madhukar Rajasthani brought him to Bombay to become a singer. After an unsuccessful struggle to become a singer, Lyricist Ramesh Shastry recommended him to producer Radheshyam Jhunjhunwala and he became a joint Music Director (with Sailesh Mukherjee) for the film Parichay-54. He gave music in a dubbed(from Tamil) film, ‘Aayi phir se bahar’ in 1960, but the film got stranded and got released in the 70s. His other film “Saarang” was not released at all. He gave music in a Bangla film ‘Sorry Madam’ and a Punjabi film ‘Chhoriyan di toli’.
His other films were, Bholanath-63, Sant Tukaram-65, Gunehgaar-67, Maya Sundari-67, Bhima mera Haathi-73, Hum Junglee hain-73, Kore Badan-74, Wafadar-76, O Bewafaa-80, Zakhmi Dil-84, Sautan ki Beti-88, Mera pati meri zindagi-93 and Piya ka ghar-97. His film Maalik-1954 remained unreleased.
During his career, even Ravindra Jain acted as his assistant in his early stages. Most of the existing and new singers were used by Vedpal. He also made some NFS records with HMV. But all in all, Vedpal Varma remained an unsuccessful composer. He used to live alone in a one room tenement on the third floor of Prasad Shopping Centre, Goregaon west, Bombay, where he breathed his last on 19-12-1996 and one more name quietly disappeared from the music field !
Here is today’s song, sung by Suman Kalyanpur. Enjoy….
Song- Piya mora Buddhu piya mora (Aayi Phir Se Bahaar)(1960) Singer- Suman Kalyanpur, Lyricist- Indivar, MD-Vedpal Verma
Lyrics
Piya mora Buddhu
Piya mora
Piya mora Buddhu
Piya mora
poora buddhu piya mora
haaye re haaye re
piya mora
buddhu piya mora
poora buddhu piya mora
haaye re haaye re
piya mora
buddhu piya mora
o o o o
o o o
mere bhee armaan
tere bhee armaan hain sanam
mere bhee armaan
tere bhee armaan hain sanam
chhoo ke to dekho zar baalam
main meethee pyaar kee sargam
chhoo ke to dekho zar baalam
main meethee pyaar kee sargam
piya mora
buddhu piya mora
poora buddhu piya mora
haaye re haaye re
piya mora
buddhu piya mora
joda toone mujhpe jo ab
rishta balma re
joda toone mujhpe jo ab
rishta balma re
aaja humko chain na aaye
aaja humko chain na aaye
karo na tum bahaane
piya mora
buddhu piya mora
poora buddhu piya mora
haaye re haaye re
piya mora
buddhu piya mora
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