Saasu ke ghar se aayee hai
Posted on: May 30, 2026
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Today’s song is from an 82 year old film Shukriya-1944. It was a Comedy Social film, made by Talwar productions. Bombay- owned by Producer and Director R.C.Talwar. R.C.Talwar aka Raghubir Chand Talwar was born on 21-4-1910,at Tollygunge,in Western Punjab-now in Pakistan. His film life, as many others of his ilk, started in Calcutta and ended in Bombay. While at Calcutta, he worked as an assistant to Kidar Sharma. After the success of the film, Aulad / Dil Hi Toh Hai (1939) , the film’s heroine Ramola got romantically involved with R.C. Talwar, Kidar Sharma’s assistant who later became a director in his own right. According to Kidar Sharma, “R.C. Talwar was a classmate and friend so I ignored his relationship with Ramola.”
He was a screenplay writer, producer and Director.Starting from Manchali-43,produced by Talwar productions,Calcutta,which he had established there,Talwar directed films like Albeli, Khiladi, Sangdil, Ilzam, Rukhsana, Memsahib, Ek dil sau afsane and Naya Kanoon-1965.He produced 2 films,Sangdil and Memsahib-for which he had written the screenplay also.
Talwar directed Kishore Kumar in 3 films,Ilzam, Rukhsana and Memsahib. In all films,the Heroine was Meena Kumari. While Ilzam was a social film, Rukhsana was a Costume film and Memsahib was supposed to be a comedy film. This was also produced by him.
After the film Memsahib was completed, Talwar had to pay a balance amount of Rs.8000 to Kishore Kumar. Even after Kishore’s several reminders, Talwar failed to pay Kishore his dues. Kishore Kumar employed a novel idea. Everyday, in the morning, before proceeding for any shooting, Kishore would go to Talwar’s house. Standing outside at his gate, Kishore used to shout loudly,” Hey Talwar,de de mera Aath Hazaar “. This continued for a few days and Talwar was so much disturbed that he paid off Kishore’s dues.
The year 1944 was a time when the world knew that the end of World War II was near, however, till that time the Raw Film shortage was troubling the film makers in India. Black money generated through Black marketing was disturbing the industry. The cost of the filmmaking, which was about a Lakh or so in 1940, had escalated to 5 to 6 lakhs per film. Studio system was weakened due to individual production practices started by black money investors. Star salaries had inflated. Many stars worked on FreeLance basis. The law of war promotion movies was now forcefully implemented. Many producers made War propaganda movies to get the Raw Film at controlled rates. The Government had increased the Entertainment Taxes in Bombay, Madras, UP and CP areas, so the cost of Cinema tickets had increased. Prithvi Theatre was launched by Prithviraj Kapoor. Film artistes gathered under the leadership of EVR Naicker in Madras to form DMK party. M. Karunanidhi was a prominent leader.
In Spite of all this, some good Musical films were made in 1944. Saigal, who arrived in Bombay from Calcutta for good, made his second film in Bombay. New composers, New Heros and New heroines brought a variety of Genres of films made in 1944. Some of the major films of 1944 were….
Bhanwara – Second film by Saigal and Khemchand Prakash in Ranjit in Bombay. Made in just 9 days’ shooting for Saigal, by director Kidar Sharma. It was the second film for Monica Desai too (sister of Leela Desai and wife of Phani Mujumdar).
Bharthari – Last film in India by singer actress Jahan Ara Kajjan who sang her last 2 songs in it. She migrated to Pakistan in the wake of Partition. Very good songs in the film, especially ” Bhiksha de de maiya” by Amirbai and Surendra.
Chal Chal re Naujawan – First film from newly established Filmistan, by the deserters’ group from Bombay Talkies, led by S.Mukherjee and Ashok Kumar. Ashok Kumar sang 6 songs in it for the first and the last time for Ghulam Haider. His song ” Bolo Har Har Mahadev” was very melodious and popular.
Chand – Debut film of Husnlal-Bhagatram team. They were recommended by elder brother Pt. Amarnath, who was the first choice of D.D.Kashyap. After V.Shantaram and his team left Prabhat, this was an attempt by Prabhat to join the mainstream by opting for the first time Non Marathi star cast and Punjabi style musicians. 5 singers were used by H-B for 11 songs. A mild success film.
Daasi – it was a musical from Lahore by Pt. Amarnath- with his favourite Zeenat Begum.
Film Dost produced the evergreen Noorjehan song ” Badnam – muhabbat kaun karen” composed by Sajjad Hussain. This one song alone made them both immortal.
Draupadi – a feeble attempt by Baburao Patel to make a Heroine out of his secretary Sushila Rani.
Gaali – Another film by Sajjad, but with only 3 songs to him and 9 to Hanuman prasad.
Iraada – Pt.Amarnath brought Hemant Kumar as a Debutant singer.
Ismat – The first and the only film of the brothers Pt. H.P.Sharma and Pt. Govardhan pershad, as a composer team.
Jwar Bhata – Devika Rani’s discovery, Dilip Kumar’s first film. He was the side Hero and the Hero was Agha. Actress Mrudula also debuted as Dilip’s Heroine.
Krishna Bhakt Bodana – The only film of the Revolutionary Poet singer Master Vasant from Surat. Avinash Vyas, Shankar rao Vyas composed music, while S.N.Tripathi gave background music.
Musical film Lal Haveli – Only time when Noor Jehan and Surendra sang together under Mir Saheb.
Mann ki Jeet – W.Z.Ahmed brings new Heroine Neena, who sings in the voice of Debutante Sitara of Kanpur in all her films. Neena was a Non-Singer.
My Sister – Saigal goes back to Calcutta to complete a Musical film ” My Sister”. Pankaj Mullick gives excellent songs by saigal and others.
There were two films ‘ Panchhi’ and ‘ O Panchhi’ with average songs.
Panna – A war propaganda film based on the ” Mata Hari” story, with a new Heroine Geeta Nizami. MD Amir Ali died before the film was released. The credits in the film dedicated the film to Late Amir Ali.
Perhaps the best music was by Vasant Desai to film ” Parbat pe apna dera”. Vanmala and Ulhas excel in acting in a story of sexual repression. All songs are excellent, especially Amirbai’s song ” Pareshan hoon main” is simply divine.
Lastly, the Best one. Record breaking musical ” Rattan” gave superlative songs by Naushad. Barring 2 songs by Manju, the other 8 songs were all Hits. Rattan gave 200% returns on the film and song records, to the Producer.
The film Shukriya was directed by H.S.Rawail and the music was by G.A.Chishti, who migrated to Pakistan after the Partition. The cast of the film was Sunder Singh, Ramola, Rooplekha, Manorama, Raksha, Amar, Zahur Shah and others.
Those who are well conversant with the Hindi film history, know that from the beginning of Talkie films, there were many singing Heroes. Till the playback system was invented and became a common thing in Indian Cinema, the singing heroes were very important in films. Actors like K.L.Saigal, Pankaj Mullick, Pahadi Sanyal, Prem Adib, Ashok Kumar and many others were quite well known. However, how many readers know that Comedian Sunder, who was a popular comedian in the period 1950 to 1970, was a Singing hero in his initial career ?
Yes, Sunder Singh was a popular hero and few of his songs had become popular too in those days. He acted with many leading heroines of his times as a hero. He did Hero’s role in 15 films. He sang40 songs in 25 films. Sunder Singh was the hero in today’s film, Shukriya-1944 and he had 4 heroines in this film. I have not seen this film and it is not available anywhere, so its storyline is not known. The 4 Heroines in this film were Ramola, Rooplekha, manorama and Raksha.
Rooplekha was the elder sister of Ramola. Her first Hindi film was Nishani-1942. Her other films were Shukriya-1944, Albeli-1944, Jhooti Kasmen-1948 and Jawani ki Aag-1951. Thennshe got married and left films.
For a long time,I was searching for information on comedian Sunder. I got hold of a 2 page detailed article on Sunder, but it was in Punjabi- which I could not read or use. I found a small paragraph on Sunder in Sanjit Narvekar ji’s book ” Eena Meena Deeka”. Lastly, I requested (Late) Harish Raghuwanshi ji for help. Despite his failing health, he promptly sent me articles in Hindi, English and Gujarati, on Sunder. He was such a helpful person.
Sunder Singh aka Sunder was born in Sialkot, Punjab on 10th August 1916. His father was working in Madon Theatres, Calcutta. Sunder also started working there. Initially, for a long period,he did Girl’s roles. Once his work was seen by H.S.Rawail (Director in later life). He was quite impressed. Later Rawail started working with R.N.Vaidya as his assistant in direction.Meanwhile Sunder started working in Talkie films. His first film,where he was credited, was ” Na hone wali baat”-38. Before that, Rawail and Vaidya were preparing to make the film Banke Sipahi-37.Rawail recommended Sunder and Vaidya gave him an uncredited small role in that film.
Sunder and Rawail became good friends and started staying in one flat in Calcutta. After a few films here, they both went to Lahore and Sunder got the Hero’s role in the film ” Shukriya”-44. There were 4 Heroines in the film- Ramola, Rooplekha, Manorama and Raksha. Sunder’s role in this film was that of a young man from a village and Ramola was from a City. Sunder’s one song from this film-‘ Nayanon ke teer chala gayee ek shehar ki laundiya’ became very popular all over India, However the song was banned in Punjab due to its lyrics. After this they both came back to Calcutta.
His next film was Albeli-45, in which too there were 4 Heroines- Ramola, Rooplekha, Manorama and Usha. In the 40’s , Sunder acted in many films like Arabian Nights, Baap, Shabri, Chandrashekhar, Ek aurat, Grihalaxmi, Lottery, Samapti, Jhoothi kasme, Savyasachi, Do baaten, Shadi ke baad, Bawra, Khiladi, Nai Bhabhi etc. In Calcutta, Sunder got married to a girl from his community. Rawail left for Bombay. After a few months, Sunder also returned to Bombay.
Rawail was very happy to get him back and gave him roles in almost all of his films. Not only Rawail, but also J.Om Prakash, Mohan Kumar, Lekhraj Bhakri, Manoj kumar etc gave him roles in all their films and he became a busy actor. He was at one time, in great demand. He was quite popular due to his nature.In the decade of 50’s he did 88 films, which increased in the 60s and 70s. In the 80s however films came haltingly.
From singing Hero, he became a Junior artiste( extra), in presence of the new crop of actors. The role of comedians was on decline, as Heroes like Amitabh and others did comedy scenes themselves. His health started troubling him. His last film was probably Bahurani-89. He became ill for a long time and finally died on 5-3-1992. Sunder acted in 436 films. He was a good singer and sang his own songs in early cinemas. In all, Sunder sang 40 songs in 25 films. ( Thanks to Late Harish Raghuwanshi ji for material for adaptation.)
Today’s song from this film is sung by Naseem Akhtar, Munawwar Sultana, and Chorus. Munawar Sultana was a film playback singer of Pakistan active in the 1950s. She was born on 8-11-1924 at Lahore. She started her career in the mid-1940s as a radio and film playback singer. She used to take music lessons from the renowned music director Ghulam Haider. She started singing in Hindi films. She sang 25 songs in 14 Hindi films. The films were Shukriya-44,Dhamki-45, Behram Khan-46, Aai Bahar, Pagdandi-47, Mehendi, Intezar ke baad, Ek roz, But Tarash, Rooprekha, Reet, Patjhad, Chup chup ke and Barsat ki ek raat-48.
After independence of Pakistan in 1947, Lahore film industry had to rebuild itself because most of the Hindu film studio owners decided to migrate to India and they left Lahore, Pakistan. Music Director Ghulam Ahmad Chishti, Munawar Sultana and Inayat Hussain Bhatti are mostly credited with bringing the dead music industry of Lahore back to life again.She also worked with music directors Rashid Attre, Safdar Hussain besides Ghulam Haider and Baba Chishti to produce many super-hit film songs in the 1950s.
She continued to work at the Radio Station, Lahore and recorded many popular Punjabi folk songs there as well. Munawar Sultana was known for her melodious voice among the Pakistani public. In the late 1950s,she married the then Station Director of Radio Pakistan, Lahore-Ayub Roomani.
Her marriage coupled with arrival of new playback singers-especially Zubaida Khanum and Naseem Begum ended her singing career. She started focusing more on her family life and kids. She died on 20 May 1995 in Lahore,Pakistan. (Information adapted from pak.mag and IMDB, with thanks.)
There was another Munawar Sultana who was an Indian actress. She never sang a song and Pakistani Munawar Sultana never acted in any film. Since they were active in some common years, there was a ‘Same Name Confusion’ Among them.
Enjoy today’s song….
Song- Saasu ke ghar se aayee hai(Shukriya)(1944) Singers- Naseem Akhtar, Munawwar Sultana,Lyricist- Not known, MD- G.A.Chishti
Lyrics
aa aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa
Saasu ke ghar se aayee hai
haan aayee hai
aejee Saasu ke ghar se aayee hai
mere sone kee choodiyaan aayee hain
mere sone kee choodiyaan aayee hain
aayee hain
aayee hain
aur pee ka sandesa laayee hain
haan laayee hain
aur pee ka sandesa laayee hain
mere sone kee choodiyaan
gol gol choodiyaan
gol gol bainyyaan
gol gol choodiyaan
gol gol bainyyaan
piya ke man ko bhaayee hain
haan bhaayee hain
ae jee
piya ke man ko bhaayee hain
mere sone kee choodiyaan aayee hain
aayee hain
aayee hain
aur pee ka sandesa laayee hain
haan laayee hain
aur pee ka sandesa laayee hain
mere sone kee choodiyaan
choodiyaan sunehree hain chehra gulaabee
choodiyaan sunehree hain chehra gulaabee
patlee kamariya hai angiyaa gulaabee
patlee kamariya hai angiyaa gulaabee
joban pe kyaa
haan joban pe kya
joban pe kyaa
haan haan joban pe kya
rang laayee hain
haan laayee hain
ae jee
joban pe kya rang laayee hain
mere sone kee choodiyaan
aayee hain
aayee hain
aayee hain
aur pee ka sandesa laayee hain
haan laayee hain
aur pee ka sandesa laayee hain
mere sone kee choodiyaan
piyaa aa
piyaa jo pakdenge naazuk kalaai
naazuk kalaai
piyaa aa
piyaa jo pakdenge naazuk kalaai
boloongee mujhse karo na dhhithhaai
boloongee mujhse karo na dhhithhaai
dekho dekho
haan haan dekho dekho
dekho dekho
haan haan dekho dekho
sharmaai hai
sharmaai hai
ae jee dekho dekho sharmaai hai
mere sone kee choodiyaan
aayee hain
aayee hain
aayee hain
aur pee ka sandesa laayee hain
haan laayee hain
aur pee ka sandesa laayee hain
mere sone kee choodiyaan
aan aan aan aan aan aan aan aan
aan aan aan aan aan aan aan aan
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