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Today’s song is a rare song( difficult to get) from film Bhanwara-44, starring K L Saigal.
I have been writing on old films and its music since more than 6 years now, but I have never written on any song of a film featuring Saigal and his songs. I had never planned it that way. Actually, I am also a fan of Saigal. Probably it so happened that I found that there were “better’ people to write on Saigal and I coolly left it at that. Our Sudhir ji has done great justice to Saigal songs- film and Non film- with his detailed and emotional articles. These were lapped up by our readers and praise was heaped on every article of his on this topic. Comments on those songs are a testimony to this.
Now there are no Saigal songs left in any film uncovered nor are there any of his popular films without full coverage of all songs. However, few films have few other non K L Saigal songs still to be covered. Today’s song is one such song. This song is a rare song, opines Sadanand ji – the uploader of this song.
K L Saigal (11-4-1904 to 18-1-1947) started his film career with Muhabbat ke aansoo-32 and ended it with Parwana-1947. Most of his career was pursued in Calcutta, primarily with New Theatres and at the end of his life, he did 7 films in Bombay. 2 films each had music by Khemchand Prakash and Lal Mohammed, and 1 film each by Gyan Dutt, Naushad and Khursheed Anwar.
Film Bhanwara-44 was a quickie made by Ranjit within a span of just 9 days, using up the balance period days of Saigal’s contract with Ranjit. The film was directed by his old friend Kidar Sharma. The film had music by Khemchand Prakash. The songs were written by Kidar Sharma, Swami Ramanand and Pt. Indra. The cast of the film was Saigal, Arun Ahuja, Kamla Chatterjee, Monica Desai, lala Yaqub, Brijmala, Kesari etc etc.
Arun Ahuja was a favourite of Sagar, Mehboob and Ranjit. His real name was Gulshan Singh Ahuja-born on 26-1-1918. He was a science graduate from Lahore in 1937. Director Mehboob was interviewing candidates for his new film. From among the shortlisted 100 candidates, Mehboob was impressed with the personality of Arun Ahuja and he was selected to be one of the Heros in film Ek hi Rasta-1939, made by Mehboob for Sagar Movietone. In this film Arun even sang a duet with Maya Banerjee. The film was so successful that Arun became a Hit Hero overnight. Next came Civil marriage-40, Bhole Bhale-40 and his life’s best film Aurat-40
In 1942, while doing film Savera with a new comer Nirmala, he fell in her love and they got married. Arun went on doing roles in about 30 films in his career till his last film Aulad-54. He had produced a film, which was a total flop. He had heavy loss and had to sell off his Bungalow in Bombay and go to a chawl in far off suburb-Virar to live in a rented flat. Arun had 3 daughters and 2 sons- actor/producer Kirti kumar and superstar Govinda. To maintain family, his wife acted and sang in stage shows till her last. Arun Ahuja died on 4-7-1998.
Film Bhanwara had a one film old Heroine Monica Desai- who was called from Calcutta by Kidar Sharma. He knew her well earlier,from Calcutta.
Monica Desai was a famous Indian actress during 1930’s and 40’s. She was the daughter of Dr. Umedram Lalbhai Desai and Satyabhama Devi, a well-known musician of the early 20th Century. Her father was a Gujarati, and her mother hailed from Bihar. Her father who was a reputed Doctor of that period died in the year 1930.
Monica Desai first worked for Bangla movie ‘Nimai Sanyasi’ which released in the year 1940. She was an actress who represented the era of upcoming character actresses like Leela Mishra, Ram Dulari, who made debut along with her and later ruled the Indian screen.
Monica Desai acted under the direction of Phani Majumdar and Kidar Nath Sharma. She did not concentrate much on acting as she got married to Phani Majumdar, a pioneering Indian film director, who worked in Hindi cinema. Phani Majumdar is known for Meena Kumari’s classic film ‘Aarti’ (1962), and ‘Oonche Log’ (1965). Monica Desai had a sister named Leela Desai, who was a renowned actress in Hindi and Bengali cinema. Leela Desai has even acted in the film ‘Kapal Kundala’ (1939) directed by Phani Majumdar. After completion of the venture, Phani Majumdar married Monica Desai.
Monica acted with Prithviraj Kapoor in her career, in film Gauri. ‘Gauri’ was an Indian Bollywood film that was the seventh highest grossing Indian film of 1943 and this established Monica Desai as an actress. Later, she featured in a film ‘Devdasi’ as a heroine that was also top seven grossing film at the Indian box office in 1945. She appeared in the film ‘ Chitralekha’ which was the second-highest grossing Indian film of 1941, in this movie, she portrayed the character of Yasodhara.
This film also was a debut film for actor Bharat Bhushan, who later achieved fame with ‘Baiju Bawra’ (1952). Monica Desai had also acted with a legendary actor and singer K. L Saigal.
Monica worked in only 9 Hindi films- Qaidi-40, Chitralekha-41, Bhakta Surdas-42, Gauri-43, Bhanwara-44, Lakharani-45, Devdasi-45, Rangeen Zamana-48 and Vikram Shashikala-49.
The screenplay and direction of Bhanwara-44 was by Kidar Sharma. This was a social comedy film. Saigal was never known for comedy acts. In fact, it was a new experience for him, since this was only a comedy dominated love story without any sad songs-hallmark of Saigal’s popular songs,done by him so far.
Saigal shifted to Bombay in December-1941 for two reasons. One- Ranjit had offered him a very lucrative offer ( One lakh per movie, according to one source) and secondly most of his friends like Prithviraj kapoor, K N Singh, Kidar Sharma etc had shifted to Bombay. Further, the atmosphere in New Theatres was nowadays polluted and vitiated with Ego clashes, financial difficulties and new entrants to replace the vacancies. Saigal was uncomfortable with all this.
In Bombay, Saigal met all his old friends and he had a gala time with them. In 1944 itself he went back to Calcutta to complete film ‘My Sister’. Then again he went in 1945 to do film ‘Kurukshetra’. This was perhaps his last visit, as he became very busy in 45 and 46 in Bombay. In early 1947, in his visit to his hometown, Saigal breathed his last, luckily amidst his family members.
Bhanwara-44 was a story of two friends- Pancham (Saigal) and Rikhab (Arunkumar Ahuja), who come to Bombay in search of employment. The chawl where they stay,in single room tenements, has a pair of sisters, Indu(Monica) and Bindu(Kamla Chaterji). Indu happens to work as a teacher in the same place where Pancham is working as a Music and singing teacher. They fall in love. His friend Rikhab loves Bindu but is too shy to express his love. In this, he is assisted by his neighbour friend Pehelwan (Lala Yaqub). With his help, Rikhab develops a great body and finally wooes his ladylove. At the end, both the couples unite happily. The film was full of comic sequences, particularly with Arun Ahuja and Bindu. All in all, it was a hilarious movie.
The film had 11 songs. 7 songs are already discussed here. The remaining songs are difficult to get as they are not uploaded on the Net yet, Record collectors, of course, have them. Today’s song is also one such rare song. It is a duet of Amirbai and Arunkumar Mukherjee.
This song can be considered an example of an unusual coincidence. It is like Shyamkumar singing for Shyam in Dillagi. This song is an example of an even rare coincidence. This song finds one Arunkumar (Mukherjee) singing for another Arunkumar (Ahuja)…..and a third Arunkumar
(Deshmukh) writing about it !
Song- Mann ki baazi haar chuke to preet ki baazi jeet (Bhanwra)(1944) Singers- Amirbai Karnataki, Arun Kumar Mukherji, Lyrics- Kidar Sharma, MD- Khemchand Prakash
Both
Lyrics
Mann ki baazi haar chuke to
preet ki baazi jeet
Mann ki baazi haar chuke to
preet ki baazi jeet
jeet mein haar
haar mein jeet
jeet mein haar
haar mein jeet
ye preet ki ulti reet
preet ki ulti reet
saajan ki har baat niraali
ee ee
ee ee
saajan ki har baat niraali
ee ee
ee ee
chitwan ki
ee ee
chitwan ki har aas niraali
ee ee
ee ee
ee ee
chitwan ki
ee ee
chitwan ki har aas niraali
ee ee
ee ee
ee ee
khel raha hai aankh michauli
aankh michauli
michauli
michauli
aankh michauli
michauli
michauli
khel raha hai aankh michauli
man se man ka meet
jeet mein haar
haar mein jeet
jeet mein haar
haar mein jeet
ye preet ki ulti reet
preet ki ulti reet
phir aayin ghanghor ghataayen
aen aen
phir aayin ghanghor ghataayen
aen aen
mor papeehe shor machaayen
ae ae ae ae
mor papeehe
mor papeehe
mor papeehe
shor machaayen
phooli nahin samaati kaliyaan
sun bhanwron ke geet
phooli nahin samaati kaliyaan
sun bhanwron ke geet
jeet mein haar
haar mein jeet
jeet mein haar
haar mein jeet
ye preet ki ulti reet
preet ki ulti reet
man ki baaazi ee
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