Kit jaaye chhipe saanwariyaa
Posted by: Atul on: April 27, 2026
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Today’s song is from the Mythological film Mahatma Vidur-1943.
1943 was a year in which the II world war was in full swing. Both sides were almost equal. The effects of the war on India were… it faced the infamous Bengal Famine, caused by the war profiteering. Controls on film production were tightened by the Government. I.P.T.A. became operative with its first staged p0lay ‘ Nibanna’. Film Kismet became one of the biggests Hits ever. V.Shantaram’s Rajkamal Kalamandir debuted with Shakuntala, as did Mehboob with his film Najma. Government made showing of Newsreel before any film mandatory. Film Raj Nartaki’s english version The Court Dancer was exhibited in the USA, first time for an Indian film.
1943 produced 105 Hindi films, the highest number during the war years, 1939 to 1945. Many landmark and musical films appeared in this year giving a respite to the war torn audience of Indian Cinema. Let us take a look at some of these films.
Film Bhaichara had music by the only other ” Sursagar” musician – Himangshu Dutt ( the more well known being the singer Jagmohan ( Mitra) Sursagar).
C.Ramchandra had his first musical hit with the film Bhakta Raj, made by Jayant Desai productions.
The Film Gauri from Ranjit became Monica Desai’s first Hindi film in Bombay. It was a very successful film with songs by Khemchand Prakash, based on Bangla Folk tunes.
Kanan Devi gave some sweet songs in the film Hospital, under Kamal Dasgupta’s baton.
Bombay Talkies film Hamari Baat was the last film in which Devika Rani acted. Anil Biswas was the composer.
Music Director Khurshid Anwar brought Gauhar Sultana from Lucknow to sing some songs in the film Ishara. Naushad'[s musical film Kanoon had some good Suraiya and Shyam duets.
Film Kashinath was Nitin Bose’s last film in New Theatres, after he developed differences with B.N.Sircar.
Anil Biswas gave his career best musical Hit film ” Kismet”- the longest running film from Bombay Talkies.
Nurjehan’s musical film Nadan was popular with songs from composer K.Datta. Director Mehboob made his first film Najma, under his own banner Mehboob productions.
Yet one more musical from Naushad- film Namaste.
At last a musical hit for composer S.N.Tripathi- Panghat from prakash Pictures. Rajkumari Shukla sang her only Hindi song in this film;. (the film was remade as Chitchor-1976).
Film Paraya Dhan had music by Bengal’s famous musician Gyan Prakash Ghosh. Deena Pathak sang her only 2 songs in this film as Deena Sanghavi.
Ghulam Haider makes merry again with Shamshad hit songs in the film Poonji from Pancholi, Lahore.
One more superhit film – Ram Rajya from Prakash Pictures had very good songs from composer Shankar Rao Vyas. Saraswati Rane gave 2 melodious songs. Yashwant joshi and Yashwant Nikam sang the famous song ” Bharat ki ek Sannari ki katha”. Ram Rajya had also a distinction as the only Hindi film that was seen by Gandhi, on 2-6-1944.
( before this Gandhi had seen ” Mission to Moscow-43′ an English film, in Wardha, according to The Hindu (Kathmandu Ed.) dt.8-2-2010). The film had early songs by Manna Dey also.
Naushad in full swing with his 3rd Musical Sanjog, where Suraiya gave playback to Mehtab, the Heroine.
Vasant Desai gave excellent songs in the hit film Shakuntala by V.Shantaram.
Hospital- excellent songs by kanan Devi.
Kanoon- another hit from Naushad.
Mera Khwab- MD Ghulam Mohammed’s Debut film
Najma- Mehboob khan’s first film, on Muslim society.
Nurse- Gyan Dutt gave an excellent song of Rajkumari-‘ Vo gaye nahin’
Prithvi Vallabh- A big budget costume drama made by Minerva, based on the story of K.M.Munshi. It had songs by Minakshi Shirodkar.
Tansen- Saigal’s first film in Bombay. Khurshid matches him song by song.
Taqdeer- Nargis aka Baby Fatima debuted as an adult. However her name comes third in the credits, after Motilal and Chandramohan.
After the thumping success of Prakash Pictures’ Mythological films- Bharat Milap-1942 and Ram Rajya-1943, an ambitious filmmaker like Chimanlal Trivedi could not resist the temptation of making his own Mythological film. He chose an important character from the Mahabharata, on whom, till then, no one had made a film-not even during the Silent Era.
Mahatma Vidur-1943 was a Circo Production film, directed by P.Y.Alatekar. The music was by Harishchandra Bali and the cast was Vishnupant Pagnis, Durga Khote,Nayampalli, S. Prahlad, Yashodhara katju, Kalyani, Vimal Sardesai and many others. The lyricist was Narottam Vyas.
Today’s film Mahatma Vidur-43 ( it was made in Hindi and Marathi) was made on the life of Vidur after he renounced his Royal heritage and displeased the Kauravas by joining the Pandav camp. The film was full of miracle scenes. The art direction was by the legendary Baburao Painter. Story was by Mohanlal Dave and dialogues and lyrics by Narottam Vyas and Mahesh Kaul.
How many of us really know anything about Vidur ? Not many, I am sure. Vidur was an important character in Mahabharat. He was the brother of Dhritarashtra and Pandu, thus an uncle of Kauravas and Pandavas. The story of his birth is interesting.
In the clan of Kuru, Vichitraveerya became the king. Bhishma did his marriage with Ambika and Ambalika, However, the king died without any issues. The Queen mother Satyavati requested the Rajpurohit and family mentor Bhishma to produce children for the clan. But due to his vow of Celibacy, he refused. Then Maharshi Vyas was called in to help, which he agreed. When he went to queen Ambika, she could not tolerate his Teja and closed her eyes. Hence Dhritarashtra was born without vision. Ambalika fell pale and she gave birth to Pandu, who was always ill. Finally a Daasi was asked to go with Vyasa. The Daasi enjoyed the intimacy and a very intelligent and learned Vidur was born. The meaning of the word Vidur itself is skillful, intelligent and Philosophical.
In the great war, Vidur sided with the Pandavas because they were on the side of Truth. He saved them many times from the plans of Kauravas, especially from the Lakshagriha fire. His advice and principles are known as Vidur Neeti. ( This is supposed to be the precursor to Chanakya Neeti in King Nand’s period.). After the war Vidur was made the PM, but he declined and went to the forest to do Penance. Dhritarashtra, Gandhari, Kunti and Madri too went with him. Once when Dharmaraj-Yudhishthir- went to call on him, Vidur died in his arms, bestowing all his powers to him. The others with him also died later in a forest fire.
The Five Gems in Mahabharata are greatly prized because they are mini-compendiums of spiritual teachings. “Vidur Niti” is one of the 5 gems. It is the conversation between wise Vidura and King Dhritarashtra about best practices in managing worldly affairs and preparing for the afterlife.
Mahabharata offers valuable lessons in International Diplomacy as well as in management of Public Finance. In today’s modern management where ethical judgement and importance of recognizing the ethical dimensions is talked about, Mahabharata gives excellent analogies to identify the ethical boundaries.
Vidura explains Codes of Conduct and how one should act in different situations. His teachings were aimed at kings, ordinary citizens as well as at ascetics in a kingdom, however in today’s times, they are equally applicable to Managers & Leaders in organisations.
Thousands of actors worked in Hindi films. All were not heroes, because to become Hero in a film, you require Luck or a God father. There were many One Film Wonders in Hindi films. Some worked in only one film and some worked only in one film worth remembering. So much has been written about this tribe that I will not repeat it here. However, working in just one film or a film which records your name in the Hindi Film History forever is something extraordinary. I remember just two such names, offhand, in this category, though, I feel, there could be few more such names. Knowledgeable readers can point them out in the comment section.
The names which I remember are Rajkumar Gupta, who did the role of Ajay in the film Jagriti-1954 and Vishnupant Pagnis who did the main role in the film Sant Tukaram-1936 (Marathi version. Its Hindi version came up only in 1948). Rajkumar Gupta-who hailed from Ranchi-acted in only One film, Jagriti, arguably the most meaningful Children’s film ever, and his role of Ajay alongwith the movie has passed into folklore.
Vishnupant Pagnis did the immortal role of Tukaram in his first film and then lived the role throughout his life, though he did four more films in the same Genre of Saint films. His name became famous not only in India but also in other countries. This film was hailed as “one of the 3 Best films in the world” at the Venice Film Festival, where it won accolades. Records of his Bhajans from this film created records ( we too had these records in our house in the 1940s.)
Vishnupant Pagnis was born in a small place called Chicodi, near Kolhapur, on 1-11-1892, in a lower middle class family. After formal education, he was assisted by Shahu Maharaj of Kolhapur state to join a Drama company at the age of 10 years. He sang naturally, without any training from an expert. He was a popular artist doing female roles, till his entry in films. He shifted to work in various drama companies including “Lalit Kaladarsh” of Mama Varerkar- a name connected with many Marathi and Hindi films of that time. In 1913, he floated his own company ‘ Jagchitradarsh ‘, only to wind after two years in 1915. He continued working in dramas and doing female roles, for which he was famous in those times.
After a few years, he left drama acting and worked as a Music Teacher in Municipal school at Girgaum in Bombay. After his wife died, he lived with his friend Petkar. They started a Gold Jewellery shop “Pagnis Petkar and Mandali” in Girgaon.
When Prabhat Film company planned to make Sant Tukaram, a search was undertaken for the main role and the main female role. This was in early 1936 and he was selected for the role of Tukaram, while a worker in the Prabhat company-Gauri – was selected as his wife. The Director duo of the film- Damle and Fattelal- were not happy about his selection, because his name was associated with female roles. But this became his strong point for the film in which he portrayed a soft, kind and loving Tukaram. He did the role so well that the film Sant Tukaram became an International Hit, in addition to running to full house in Non Marathi areas like Madras Presidency, covering Andhra, Tamilnadu, Kerala and Karnataka and also in Bengal and Punjab. he became an actor in great demand for Saint films. After the film Sant Tukaram, hundreds of people used to crowd in his shop at Girgaum to pay respects and touch his feet as Tukaram. He also always dressed like Tukaram thereafter !
Vishnupant Pagnis worked in for more films of the same genre, namely Sant Tulsidas-39, Narsi Bhagat-43, Bhakta Raj-43 and his last film Mahatma Vidur-43. He also gave music in two films, Sant Janabai- 38 and Sant Tulsidas-39. These two and Mahatma Vidur were also made in Marathi language. His most famous film Sant Tukaram was released in Hindi only in 1948, but without his songs, because he had died on 3-10-1943. The MD- Snehal Bhatkar sang his songs in the Hindi version.
Vishnupant Pagnis became immortal with just one film Sant Tukaram. Even today this film is shown and discussed in the film Institutes of many countries.Many books and essays and articles are published on this film. His performance as Tukaram has become a major reference-point in debates about Indian performance idioms: e.g. Kumar Shahani’s essay The Saint Poets of Prabhat, 1981; Geeta Kapur’s Mythic Material in Indian Cinema, 1987 etc etc.
The film was directed by Parshwanath Alatekar. This name too must be unknown to most people. Altekar (1897-1957) was from Kharepatan i n Ratnagiri, the coastal Konkan area of Maharashtra. He was educated in Kolhapur and graduated from Sangli. he abandoned Law studies to direct a drama in 1922. Basically a drama enthusiast, Altekar entered the film world in Marathi and directed many films in the silent era. He joined hands with Sarpotdar, Master Vithal and the pendharkar brothers. In 1928, he made 4 films for the Imperial film company, then for Saraswati Cinetone, Master Vinayak and Circo films. He made a few Tamil and Kannada films as well.
He floated his own company Natraj Cinetone and made Hindi/Marathi film Saathi/Savangadi in 1938 with Durga Khote and Mubarak. Meanwhile he worked for his pet drama group Natya Manwantar. Alatekar died on 22-11-1957 at Bombay. He directed 13 films including silent and Tamil/Kannada films. His Hindi films were Vasavadatta-34, Saathi-38, Mera Haque-39, Geeta 40 and Mahatma Vidur-43.
Here is today’s song, sung by Vishnupant Pagnis and chorus. Enjoy….
Song- Kit jaaye chhipe saanwariya ho saanwariya (Mahatma Vidur)(1943) Singer- Vishnupant Pagnis, Lyricist- Narottam Vyas, MD- Harischandra Bali
Chorus
Lyrics
Kit jaaye chhipe saanwariya
saanwariya ho o o
Kit jaaye chhipe
Kit jaaye chhipe
saanwariya ho saanwariya
Kit jaaye chhipe
Kit jaaye chhipe
saanwariya ho saanwariya
saanwariya ho saanwariya
sab jag tero maaya mrigjal(?)
sab jag tero maaya mrigjal(?)
man man chaayaa ??
man man chaayaa ??
sab laal ??
laal ??
harini chanchal
kaal kare mrigaya aa
saanwariya ho saanwariya
saanwariya ho saanwariya
Kit jaaye chhipe
Kit jaaye chhipe
saanwariya ho saanwariya
saanwariya ho saanwariya
chhin chhin ?? taare tan mera
chhin chhin ?? taare tan mera
dhruv jyoti ka hua sawera
dhruv jyoti ka hua sawera
aao Shyamal
aao Shyamal
aao Shyamal
moorti nayan mein
sheetal hoye ??
saanwariya ho saanwariya
saanwariya ho saanwariya
Kit jaaye chhipe
Kit jaaye chhipe
saanwariya ho saanwariya
saanwariya ho saanwariya
Kit jaaye chhipe
Kit jaaye chhipe
saanwariya ho saanwariya
saanwariya ho saanwariya
saanwariya ho saanwariya
saanwariya ho saanwariya
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