Ham kaam sabhee karne saktaa
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Today’s funny song is from the stunt film Miss Good Night-1960.
MISS was yet another favourite title of Hindi filmmakers. There were as many as 27 films with titles starting with the word MISS. Compared to this, the males had an upper hand. There were 34 film titles starting with the word Mr. And then, as expected, there were only 3 film titles starting with Mr. and Mrs. Alas ! There was not a single film title starting with the word Mrs. What an injustice !
1960 was the end of the 3rd decade of the Talkie films. From early films which were engulfed in Folk Love stories and mythological films together with stage drama type songs came out of it and tried new genres and stories from the West as well as other parts of India. Many experiments were done, the studio system became strong initially, but as the Star system developed strongly by the middle of the 1940s, studios crumbled.
After partition Lahore closed for Hindi films. Kolhapur and Poona had their own big markets now and by the end of the 50s decade even Calcutta thinned out of Hindi films. So, now it was only Bombay as the centre of Hindi films.In the 50s decade, there was a wave of South Indian dubbed and remakes of Southern hit films into Hindi, but by 1960, even this dimmed out.
After the Golden Era of HFM, the playback singers became strong entities- almost equal to major stars. Music was now very audience oriented and filmmakers tried hard to provide what the public wanted. Music and comedy were now the rulers. This was also the time of the rise of parallel Cinema, though not yet so noticeable.
One of the Milestone movies of 1960 was Mughal E Azam, which had taken 15+ years to make and 1 crore was spent in its making. At today’s index it would be about 85 to 100 crores. Though a love story of Saleem- Anarkali, the film gave importance to Akbar from the First to the last scene. Naushad’s music added much value to the film. Mughal E Azam was also made in Tamil and English versions. The Tamil version was named AKBAR. It flopped miserably and K.Asif decided not to release the English version . God knows where the English copy is !
Raj Kapoor’s Jis desh mein Ganga behti hai tried to give a message to dacoits to surrender and join the social mainstream of India.
Hrishikesh Mukherjee, after his Musafir-57 and Anadi-59 made his identity very visible with the film Anuradha. Pt. Ravishankar’s music added to its popularity.
After the commercial failure of Kagaz ke Phool, Guru Dutt went for a light topic with Chaudhavi ka Chaand. This time he kept away from its direction and M.Sadiq did it. Another love story was Dil apna aur preet parai. Sothe gave Ghunghat-a funny and entertaining drama of Brides. Kanoon was the 3rd songless film afterNaujawan-37 and munna-54. This excellent film was a Hit.
Dev Anand’s kala bazar and Bambai ka Babu did very well. Manmohan Desai’s debut as a director- Chhalia was on the Partition blues. Barsat ki raat was a feast of songs and qawwalis. Dilip’s Kohinoor was a fantasy film which was successful. Parakh by Bimal Roy was a comment on social ills. This was the only film for which Shailendra wrote dialogues. A children’s film phool aur kaliyan and a film- Angulimal made by a Thai company were novelties. Love in Shimla was a wonderful love story. Joy Mukherjee and Sadhana made Debuts as Lead pair.
The 1960 was full of variety entertainment films. It had 30 C grade stunt/costume films,6 mythologicals, 6 historicals, 6 Crime thrillers and 5 comedy films. The rest of the 66 films were social and other genres, totalling to 119 films in 1960.
Some noteworthy films, other than mentioned above were – Aanchal, Amar Shaheed, Apna haath jagannath, Basant, Bewaqoof, Bhakta Raaj, Chhabili (launching Tanuja), College Girl,Dil bhi tera hum bhi tere, Ek phool chaar kaante, Hum Hindustani, Jaali note, Lal Qila, Maya Machhindra, Police detective, Shreeman Satyawadi, Singapore and usne kaha tha.
The Government established the Film Finance Corporation. It also started Film institue of india in poona, which became Film and television institute of india later in 1974.
Today’s film Miss Good Night-1960 was made by R.L. Productions, Bombay, by the producer R. L. Sharma. It was directed by Jugal Kishore and the music was composed by Hansraj Behl – one of the Melody making composers of Hindi films. The cast consisted of Jairaj, Nishi, Tiwari, Nina, Gopal Saigal (brother of K.L.Saigal). The rest of the cast was full of the usual C grade Stunt film regular artists. 7 singers were used for 6 songs. They were Suman Kalyanpur, Asha, Lata, Geeta, Mukesh, Rafi and Mahendra Kapoor.
C grade stunt and action films were popular in a section of society, all over India, right from the Silent film era. This type of ” Maar-Dhaad ” films reached the Popularity peak during the 40s and the 50s, but by the beginning of 1961 onwards such films were less popular and within a few years the C grade stunt/action films were a thing of the past.
I was a great fan of such films and tried not missing any such films. The speciality of these films was that not only their audience was fixed, even the banners, directors and actors were fixed. Hindi films must have music, so there were songs and dances in such films. However, such films had unheard of and less known Music Directors. Totally unknown, unheard of composers like, Momin, Ibrahim, Talwar, Peter-Nawab, Nisar,Tan Mohan, Prem Tandon, Vijay Honavar, Harbans, Motibabu, Shri Ram, Bipin Datta, S Madan, Saadat, S.Kishen, N.Chaudhari,J P Kaushik etc would give music to C grade films. Once in a while,Hansraj Behl, C.Ramchandra, Ravi, Chitragupta, Roshan etc were also found in C grade films. Some established MDs, while giving music to stunt films, used a different name…like C.Ramchandra who gave music to Bhagwan’s stunt films under the name Annasaheb or P.Ramakant.
Anyway, the audience was from a section of the society, who was least bothered about the histrionics, quality of music or the frame of stories of the films. For them, what was important was fighting, death defying action scenes and ” Kutai-Pitai” of the villains by the heroes who finally embraced the heroines – no matter how she looked or how fat she was !
From the early era, the action films included animals in the films. Having a Dog, a Horse or a Monkey was common, but as times changed uncommon animals like Snakes, Turtles, Owls,Lizards, Elephants, Lions, Camels, Cats, Parrots, even Donkeys, Hyenas and Pythons played roles in action films. Snakes were common in Mythologicals, Monkeys were common in Jungle films and Horses were common in Cowboy or King and queen type of films.
From 1935 onwards stunt films ,including Nadia’s,had a Horse named “Punjab ka Beta”, a Dog named ‘Tiger’, a motor car named ‘ Rolls Royce ki beti’.
After Wadia brothers split and Homi started his Basant pictures, Nadia joined him and another set of animals like, Rajpoot(Horse), Moti(Dog) and Austin ki bachhi(a motor car) were included. In addition there was a Motorcycle called ‘Runnio’ as well.
I was very keen to know more about animals in films. Who trained them, how are they handled and whether the animals are not scared of the strangers and the Arc lights etc were my questions. I did not know how to get this information.
Then suddenly I remembered having read an article-PDF- by Mala Doshi, on Memsaab’s Blog , sometime ago. I tried but could not locate it. As usual the kind hearted memsaab came to my rescue and she provided me with the link to it. I read it completely. However this did not have answers to my questions, though it is also quite informative(we will discuss this too, some other time).
I contacted one of my friends in Pune and he told me that an article giving all this information was published in RASRANG-a Marathi film magazine, years ago. This was a poor clue, but I started searching for it without any result for a long time. My luck smiled on me one day, when I bought a book RUPERI SMARANYATRA – रुपेरी स्मरणयात्रा (Memories of the silver screen) by Prof.Subhash Savarkar. That article , which I was searching so desperately for, was reprinted in this book !
MISS GOOD NIGHT(1960), was a typical C grade movie,made especially for that class of viewers who whistle and shout loud comments, appropriate to the situations on the screen. They do not require sensible stories or philosophical overtones in the film.
This was one such movie, where a Dog-Hero and a Horse-Goldie have more entertaining scenes than the human Hero. The story of the film was….
Zorro is a murderer and smuggler of jewels in the Silver Town. The police have announced a fabulous award of 20000/- for his capture.
Inspector George(Jairaj) takes up the challenge.The town’s hotel Good Night is owned by Marshal Braganza,where his daughter Rosy(Nishi) is working.One day,she brings in wounded George in the hotel and nurses him-while teaching him love lessons-to the utter disapproval of Marshal.Many attempts on George’s life take place,but his Dog Hero takes him to Zorro.George is caught and is about to be killed when Dog Hero and Horse Goldie attack the goons and save him,while undertaking some thrilling rescue acts like biting the rope,pulling the trigger,throwing the goons etc for which the public in the theatre applauds them.
Finally,it is revealed that Marshal Braganza is Zorro. The Hero,Heroine, the Dog and the Horse are honoured by the police in the film and public in the theatre.
Music Director of this film, Hansraj Behl, in my opinion,is one of those composers in the film world, who composed lots of melodious songs. Unfortunately, he was also one of those composers who never got Big banners to work for. He and his brother, Gulshan Behl founded N.C.Films, on their father’s name-Nihal Chand- and produced B and C grade movies to which Hansraj gave his music. Hansraj was known as Master ji, in the industry. Only two people were known as Master ji…one was Ghulam Haider and the other was Hansraj Behl. Hansraj usually worked alone and rarely used any assistant while giving music.
Hansraj is remembered for giving initial playback singing breaks to Asha Bhonsle and Madhubala Jhaveri. He also gave a chance to his own friend Verma Malik-Lyricist. Malik used to live with him initially, in Bombay. He composed music for 62 films from Pujari-46 to Badmashon ka Badmash-79. One film “Insaaf ka Khoon” was released after his death,in 1988.
Hansraj Behl is one of the music directors who became successful in the post independence era. He composed music for not only Hindi films but also for Punjabi films. Hansraj was born on 26th November 1916 in Punjab. He got his basic education in music from Pt. Chunnilal. Then he opened his music school in Lahore and he had some non-film records released under the label of HMV. In 1944 Hansraj came to Bombay to try his luck in the Hindi film industry as a music director.
After one year of struggle he got his first film Pujari, made by Ardeshir Irani, in 1946. He got films like Gwaalan and Phulwari in the same year, but all these films could not do well at the box office. Behl tasted success in 1947 with the release of Lakhon Mein Ek and Chheen Le Azadi. ‘Moti Chugne Gayi Re Hansi..’ sung by Shamshad Begum and Mukesh from the film Cheen Le Aazadi became very popular. In 1948 he came up with four films – Chunariya, Mitti Ke Khilone, Pardesi Mehmaan and Satya Narayan, of which Chunariya’s music was a hit especially the song ‘Dil-e-Nashaad Ko Jeene Ki Hasrat Ho Gayi..’ sung by Lata Mangeshkar. The song which placed him among high class music directors was ‘Sab Kuchh Lutaya Hamne Aakar Teri Gali Me..’ sung by Mohammed Rafi and written by Mulk Raj Bhaakri.
In the year 1949, he came out with Chakori, Raat Ki Raani, Zevraat and few more films. Lata sang one of her favourite songs, ‘Haye Chanda Gaye Pardes Chakori Yahan Ro Ro Mare..’ in Chakori, which became very popular and it helped Hansraj to gain popularity among music lovers. ‘Jin Raaton Mein Neend Ud Jaati Hai..’ sung by Mohammed Rafi in Raat Ki Raani was a nationwide hit.
In 1950-51 he gave many hit songs with Lata Mangeshkar, Geeta Dutt and Suraiyya. Songs of Kisi Ki Yaad became very popular soon after the release of the film. ‘Koi Mujhko Na Bulaye..’ and ‘Tadapta Chhod Kar Mujhko Kahaan Tum Reh Gaye..’ both sung by Geeta Dutt and ‘O Jaane Wale Ye Kya Kiya..’ by Mohammed Rafi gained immense popularity. In 1952 he introduced Madhubala Jhaveri as a playback singer in Apni Izzat and Jaggu. Madhubala sang ‘Dil Mere Tera Diwana..’ with Talat Mehmood and ‘Meethi Meethi Loriyaan Main Dheere Dheere Gaoon..’ (both Apni Izzat) featured her solo voice. In 1954, he again came out with musical films like Dost and Khaiber. ‘Aaye Bhi Akela Jaye Bhi Akela..’ from Dost (1954) sung by Talat Mehmood was among one of his memorable compositions.
He continued to give his best in films like Rajdhani, Milan, Miss Bombay, Changez Khan and Saawan. Songs like ‘Bhool Ja Sapne Suhane..’ from Rajdhani (1956), ‘Mohabbat Zinda rehti Hai..’ from Changez Khan (1957), ‘ Jab Raat Nahi Katti..’ from Changez Khan (1957), ‘Zindagi Bhar Gham Judaai Ka..’ from Miss Bombay (1957), ‘Haseen Ho Khuda To Nahi..’ from Mud Mud Ke Na Dekh (1960), ‘Bheega Bheega Pyar Ka Sama..’ from Saawan (1959) and ‘Tujhko Dhundu To Dhoondu Kahan..’ from Milan (1959) crossed all the barriers of success and Hansraj Behl’s name was on the lips of every music lover.
After all these successful films he continued to give music till 1969 but failed to give any hit because his later films were either stunts or fantasy films with little scope for having good music. His last hit song was an all time great creation ‘Jahan Daal Daal Pe Sone Ki Chidiya Karti Hai Basera..’ which was sung by Mohammed Rafi for the film Sikandar-e-Aazam in 1965.
Hansraj Behl died of Cancer in Bombay on 20-5-1984.
Here is a funny song, sung by Rafi, in this film. Enjoy….
Song- Hum kaam sabhee karne sakta (Miss Goodnight)(1960) Singer- Mohammad Rafi, Lyricist- Prem Dhawan, MD- Hansraj Bahl
Lyrics
um kaam sabhee karne sakta
fata fat fata fat
tu kahe to hum marne sakta
jhata pat jhata pat
jhatpat jhatpat jhatpat jhatpat
jhatpat jhatpat jhatpat jhatpat
jhatpat jhatpat jhatpat jhatpat
jhatpat jhatpat jhatpat jhatpat
jhatpat jhat jhatpat jhat
jhat pat jhat
patpatpatpatpatpatpatpatpat
but
o baby ke pappa mujhe apna bana le
apna bana le mujhe galey se laga le
o baby ke pappa mujhe apna bana le
tere liye maine sab ghar baar chhoda
mummy aur daddy ka maine pyaar chhoda
tere liye maine sab ghar baar chhoda
mummy aur daddy ka maine pyaar chhoda
de de tu sahaara to rahoon na kanwaara
o de de tu sahara to rahoon na kanwaara
phiroon na maara maara maara maara maara maara
main uthh ke baithne sakta
fata fat fata fat
main baithh ke uthhne sakta
chhataapat chhataapat
jhatpat jhatpat jhatpat jhatpat
jhatpat jhatpat jhatpat jhatpat
jhatpat jhatpat jhatpat jhatpat
jhatpat jhatpat jhatpat jhatpat
jhatpat jhat jhatpat jhat
taptaptapbrrr ho
but
o baby ke pappa mujhe apna bana le
apna banaa le mujhe galey se laga le
o baby ke pappa mujhe apna bana le
naam hai glad par hum bada sad hai
teree ye na na very very bad hai
naam hai glad par hum bada sad hai
teree ye na na very very bad hai
ye na na chhodo kabhee to haan bolo
ye na na chhodo kabhee to haan bolo
meree kismat ka taala kholo kholo kholo
tu chaahe to main hansne sakta
hahahahahahaha
tu chaahe to main gaane sakta
aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa
aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa
aa aa aa
aa aa aa aaya
aa aa aa aa
but
o baby ke pappa mujhe apna bana le
apna bana le mujhe galey se laga le
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