Aate hain aansoo baar baar
Posted on: October 19, 2026
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Today’s song is from a social film- Adab Arz-1943. I really wonder why this title was given to this film. At the first glance, one feels that it must be a muslim Social film, but it was not so. In fact there is nothing in this film’s story to justify this title. Clearly, it is a misleading title. And for this, the makers of the film suffered too, as the film was a clear flop.
It was made by Amar pictures, Bombay – which was started by Chimanlal Desai after Sagar Movietone closed and he also left National Studios. The film was one of the 8 films that his son-Virendra Desai – directed in his failed career. Music was provided to the 12 songs written by Rammurthy Chaturvedi, Kailash G Matwala and Pt. Indra, by Gyan Dutt who had recently left his long association with Ranjit Movietone. The cast of the film was Nalini Jayawant, Karan Dewan, Kamala Chaterjee, Ansari, Pratima Devi, Dulari, Mukesh, Nagendra M, M Kumar, and many others.
not much information is available on this film. Even the songs of this film are not available on YouTube. Finally I contacted the very helpful and kind hearted Record Collector, Mr. Syed Zafar Shah ji, who was kind enough to give me one song from this film. Then our friend Sadanand Kamath ji, as usual, uploaded this song, helping me. Then the question of the film’s story came up. For this I got in touch with another kind soul Shri Harmandir Singh ‘Hamraz’ ji, who was so prompt that within one hour of my request he sent me a photo of the film’s story from the film booklet.
But before we see the film’s story, we must take a look at the film scene of 1943. Then we will know why this film failed, when compared to what was available to the audience of that year. 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 play ‘ Nibbana’. Film Kismet became one of the biggest 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 Sursagar).
C.Ramchandra had his first musical hit with the film Bhakta Raj, made by Jayant Desai productions.
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/strong>.
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.
Now, here is the film’s story….
It is a story of Social Injustice. Ratanlal, a rich man of Shivpuri is the city’s Hon. Magistrate. He gets a case of injustice in his own family and he fails to give justice to all concerned.
His son, Shri Narayan gets married secretly to their gardener’s daughter-Bindiya. He keeps it a secret due to father’s fear. When Ratanlal fixes his marriage with the daughter of his rich partner. Shrinarayan tells the truth about his marriage to him. Ratanlal is very angry and refuses to accept this marriage. In a rage, he drives out the gardener and his daughter- Bindiya. Shrinarayan is helpless and can not do anything. However his sister Chandani could not tolerate this injustice and tries to tell her father. He is not in a mood to listen to her sane advice.
Ratanlal’s daughter Chandni can not tolerate all this. Meanwhile Badal, the gardener commits a suicide. Bindiya’s brother wants revenge by killing his sister and Shrinarayan. Chandani takes Bindiya and leaves her house. She disguises as a Man to protect Bindiya. After many subplots, confusions and misunderstandings, Chandani is able to change the mindset of her father and give justice to Bindiya and Shrinarayan. That’s the story.
One of the actors of this film was Nagendra Mujumdar. He was the father of Music Director Ninu (Niranjan) Majumdar. Nagendra was born in a happy family in the year 1894 in Bombay. After his father died, “Pearl Dairy’ established by his father ran very well doing good business. Suddenly, Nagendra’s wife fell seriously ill and despite taking her full care, she expired. Due to neglect of the Dairy in this period, Dairy also closed down.
He shifted to Baroda and worked as a State Police Inspector.Later he worked as Watch and Ward Inspector in Baroda Railways. He left the job and started working as a hero in dramas of famous dramatist R.V.Desai. Heeralal, the owner of Laxmi Film Company, Bombay was impressed with his personality and took him to Bombay in 1926 to act in his silent films. Thus started his film career. In those days Silent films used to be completed within a month. He worked as a Hero in films of Laxmi, Jagdish and Imperial film companies.
In the same year, he directed a film ‘Paani mein aag’-1926, made by Royal Arts. Then came two more films made by Kaiser E Hind films. He also directed films for other companies. In all, he directed 15 Silent films by 1932. By then the Talkie had arrived. In the next 14 years he directed 12 Talkie films like – Ras Vilas-32, Sassi Punnu-32, Patit Pawan-33, mirza Sahibaan-33, Mera Imaan-34, Kala Wagh-34, Rangila nawab-35, Kimiyagar-36, Aaj ka Aladdin aka Aladdin II-36, Lehri lutera-37, Talwarwala-46 and Swadesh Sewa-46.
When offers for direction became few, he started acting in films. He acted in 12 films. When K L Saigal came to Bombay, Nagendra wanted to work with him. In the film Tansen-43, he did the role of Tansen’s (Saigal’s) father and he was very happy. The films that he acted in were Kanchan-41,Beti-41, Khilauna-42, Bhakt Surdas-42, Armaan-42, Tansen-43, Gauri-43, Adab Arz-43, Bharthari-44, Prabhu ka Ghar-45, Ghazal-45 and Dhanna Bhagat-45.
His last 2 films came in 1946, but his health was not cooperating for quite a few years. He gave up work and took a rest. However, he suffered from paralysis and died on 22-8-1951. His son Ninu Majumdar worked in Bombay A.I.R. as head of Gujarati programmes, since 1937. By the time Nagendra died, Ninu had already started working as a Music Director.
As a Director, Nagendra had worked with the best of his times like, Master Vithal, Zubeida, Jillo, Billimorea brothers, Madhuri, Navinchandra, Durga Khote, Jairaj, Sultana, Noorjehan sr and such luminaries of those days. He worked for Ranjit, Imperial, Sharda, Lakshmi, Jayant Desai films, Yagnik films etc etc.
( Information for this article is collated from various sources like Listener’s Bulletins No. 40 of Feb-80 and No.145 of July 2010, HFGK, muVyz, Sapnon ke Saudagar by Vithal Pandya, Silent films by Dr.Verma, Lost Treasures by kamlakar P. and my notes.)
The Hero of today’s film was Karan Dewan. In Hindi films, there have been three actors who were very handsome and very lucky but zero in acting – Karan Dewan, Pradeep Kumar and Bharat Bhushan. They all appeared in leading roles opposite all leading actresses of their times. They had the best films, best songs and best roles. Karan Dewan had about 25 Silver Jubilees to his credit and was considered a lucky star. Bharat Bhushan had the most musical films to his credit like ‘Baiju Bawra’ (1952), ‘Shabaab’ (1954) and ‘Mirza Ghalib’ (1954) etc. Pradeep Kumar had ‘Anarkali’ (1953) and ‘Taj Mahal’ (1963).
All three had their brothers producing films for them. Gemini Dewan made films for Karan Dewan, R Chandra made films for Bharat Bhushan and Kalidas for Pradeep Kumar. Unfortunately, in later years, all three lost everything and died in poverty and neglectful anonymity. Karan Dewan was a manager with BR Chopra’s production company. When he died no one came for his funeral except for Chandrashekhar and Manmohan Krishan from the Cine Artists Association. Bharat Bhushan worked as a watchman in a film studio, in his last days. Even he died unsung and only the men from the Association were present at the cremation.
Pradeep Kumar’s case is the saddest. He lay seriously ill in the ICU of a Calcutta nursing home, abandoned by his relatives. The hospital was not discharging unless the bills were paid. Luckily one Mr. Pradeep Kondaliya, an estate agent, recognised him, despite his grown beard. He paid the huge outstanding bill of the hospital and took Pradeep Kumar to his home, where he passed away after a few days. He was cremated by his fan. Such is the film industry – cruel and ruthless, where the recognition lasts only till one is successful.
Here is a song from today’s film, sung by Amirbai Karnataki. Enjoy….
Song- Aate hain aansoo baar baar (Aadab Arz)(1943) Singer- Ameerbai Karnataki, Lyricist- Pt. Indra, MD- Gyan Datt
Lyrics :
Aate hain aansoo baar baarkoi unhen bulaaye kyun
dil hee dard ban gaya
dard ab sataaye kyun
hans hans ke chooma thha jise
ro ro ke dekha thha jise
hans hans ke chooma thha jise
ro ro ke dekha thha jise
?? aansuon mein jo
aise hansee hansaaye kyun
gaata thha pyaar loriyaan
jis god kee pukaar hoon
thhokar hoon zindagee kee main
thhokar hoon zindagee kee main
koi maa mujhe bulaaye kyun
aate hain aansoo baar baar
koi unhen bulaaye kyun
hansee gayee
khushee gayee
hansee gayee
khushee gayee
ik aag jal ke bujh gayee
ik aag jal ke bujh gayee
bujhee huyee see aag hoon oon
bujhee huyee see aag hoon
koi mujhe jalaaye kyun
aate hain aansoo baar baar
koi unhen bulaaye kyun
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