Archive for the ‘Moti Sagar – Sudha Malhotra Duet’ Category
- In: "How did I forget to post this song earlier" song | Devnagri script lyrics by Sudhir | Duet | Feelings of heart | Guest posts | How come this song was not posted earlier | Love song | Lover's tête-à-tête | Lyrics by Sudhir | Lyrics contributed by readers | Missing gems from the golden 50s | Moti Sagar - Sudha Malhotra Duet | Moti Sagar Songs | Post by Arunkumar Deshmukh | Songs of 1950s (1951 to 1960) | Songs of 1955 | Sudha Malhotra songs | Yearwise breakup of songs
- 2 Comments
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
|
Blog Day : |
5667 | Post No. : | 18172 |
Today’s song is from the film ‘Shikar’ (1955).
Films with the title ‘Shikar’ were made in 1955, 1965, 1999 and 2001. Then there were films called ‘Shikari’, made in 1932, 1946, 1963 and 1991. To top it all, there was a film with the title ‘Shikar Shikari Ka’ made in 2010. I am not giving these details for fun, but after you read this film’s story, you will yourself say that the title of this film should have been ‘Shikar Shikari Ki’ !
The film was made by Tara Films, Bombay. It was produced by the owner of the banner Rajveer Singh Tara and Dhanwant Shah. It was directed by Ravindra Dave – an expert in crime and mystery films. He was called Ravinbhai in the Bombay film industry and Bappa in the Gujarati film industry.
Director Ravindra Dave was born in Karachi on 16-4-1919. After graduation, he joined Dalsukh Pancholi’s distribution empire as a Manager. Pancholi was his Mama (maternal uncle). Here only he learnt the art of editing from Shaukat Hussein (husband of Noorjehan). He wrote screenplays for Pancholi’s films till 1941. In 1943, he got his first break as a joint director, with Vishnu Pancholi ( Dalsukh Pancholi’s brother) for film ‘Poonji’. After that there was no looking back.
After partition he came to Bombay with Pancholi. His first film here ‘Nageena’, with Nutan as heroine, was a hit film. Ravindra Dave directed 30 Hindi films. Some of his films are ‘Nageena’ (1952), ‘Agra Road’ (1957), ‘Post Box 999’ (1958), ‘Guest House’ (1959), ‘Satta Bazaar’ (1959), ‘Raaz’ (1967). His last Hindi film was ‘Road to Sikkim’ (1969). He also wrote the story and screenplay of ‘Saajan’ (1969), produced by Mohan Saigal.
For his 30 Hindi films, he used 19 different MDs. He was able to work with major stars like Nutan, Nalini Jaywant, Raagini, Veena, Suraiya, Meena Kumari, Meena Shorey, Nargis, Shakila, Mala Sinha, Sadhana, Babita etc. Among male actors, he worked with Raj Kapoor, Rajesh Khanna, Shyam, Sunil Dutt, Al Nasir, Vijay Anand, Balraj Sahni, Nasir Khan. It was during the shooting of his film ‘Post Box No.999’ Sunil Dutt married Nargis secretly and came back for shooting, without anyone knowing it (just like Dev Anand married Kalpana Kartik secretly, during shooting of ‘Taxi Driver’ (1954)). He helped and encouraged newcomers like Sunil Dutt, Rajesh Khanna,Vijay Anand, Subi Raj, Kalyanji-Anand ji, Anju Mahendru etc.
He handled mainly mystery/crime stories during the 1950s decade, because the trend was like that. After 1969, he was almost jobless. He was advised to make Gujarati movies. From 1971, he turned to Gujarati films with ‘Jasal Toral’ (1971) and he directed some 26 Gujarati films. His period in Gujarati cinema is considered as the Golden Era for Gujarati films. He liked to work with known artistes generally. In 16 films out of his 26 Gujarati films, the hero was Upendra Trivedi and in 17 films, his MD was Avinash Vyas. In Hindi films he worked with 19 MDs.
He had married Jasumati Ben. He had 2 sons and 4 daughters. He passed away in Bombay on 21-7-1992.
[My Thanks to Harish Raghuwanshi ji for a Gujarati article on Ravindra Dave.]
Filmography-
Hindi Films
1943: ‘Poonji’; 1945: ‘Dhamki’; 1948: ‘Chunaria’; ‘Patjhad’; 1949: ‘Naach’; ‘Sawan Bhadon’; 1950: ‘Meena Bazaar’;
1951: ‘Nagina’; 1952: ‘Lal Kunwar’; ‘Moti Mahal’; 1953: ‘Naina’; 1954: ‘Bhai Saheb’; 1955: ‘Shikar’; ‘Lutera’;
1956: ‘Char Minar’; 1957: ‘Agra Road’; 1958: ‘Farishta’; ‘Post Box 999’; 1959: ‘CID Girl’; ‘Ghar Ghar Ki Baat’; ‘Guest House’; ‘Satta Bazaar’;
1962: ‘Aankh Micholi’; ‘Girls’ Hostel’; 1963: ‘Band Master’; 1964: ‘Tere Dwar Khada Bhagwan’; ‘Dulha Dulhan’; ‘Punar Milan’;
1967: ‘Raaz’; 1969: ‘Road to Sikkim’;
Gujarati Films
1971: ‘Jesal Toral’; 1973: ‘Raja Bhartrahari’; 1974: ‘Hothal Padmini’; ‘Kunwarbai Nu Mameru’; 1975: ‘Sant Surdas’; ‘Shetal Ne Kanthe’; ‘Bhadar Tara Vehta Pani’;
1976: ‘Bhaibandhi’; ‘Malavpati Munj’; 1977: ‘Jai Randalma’; ‘Maa Avret Jivrat’; ‘Paiso Bole Chhe’; ‘Son Kansari’; 1978: ‘Chundadi Odhi Tara Namni’; ‘Patali Parmar’; ‘Bhagya Lakshmi’; 1979: ‘Suraj Chandra Ni Sakhe’; ‘Preet Khandani Dhar’;
1980: ‘Koino Ladakvayo’; ‘Virangana Nathibai’; 1981: ‘Jagya Tyanthi Savar’; ‘Seth Jagadusha’; ‘Dukhda Khame Ee Dikri’; 1983: ‘Palavde Bandhi Preet’; 1984: ‘Nagmati Nagvalo’; 1985: ‘Malo Naagde0’
[Taken from Encyclopedia of Indian Films,with Thanks.]
‘Shikar’ had the cast of Nimmi, Shekhar, Smriti Biswas, Moti Sagar, Ameena Bai (sister of actor B Nandrekar), Ratan Gaurang and others. Those days the lead pair of Johnny Walker and Shyama was very popular (4 films during 1954 to 1958). They made guest appearances in this film. The cast shows a name Moti Sagar. Today’s song is also a duet of Moti Sagar, but he never became famous.
In the Hindi film industry,there are 4 types of people. The first type is those people, who join this industry, struggle very hard and succeed in fulfilling their dreams, for example Guru Dutt, Mehboob, Johnny Walker, Lata Mangeshkar, Mohd.Rafi etc. who are well known to all by now. The second type of people are those who join the industry, struggle very hard, do not succeed and leave dejected. The third type is those people who have a filmi connection or a strong luck, who join, struggle a bit and succeed like for example, Raj Kapoor, Dev Anand, Dilip Kumar, Rakesh and Rajesh Roshan, Anand Milind, Nanda, Nargis, Meena Kumari etc.
And….. the fourth type is those people who join the industry, struggle very hard and succeed partly, but end up doing something else, to keep them sustaining here. The industry is full of people of the 4th type. People who come with dreams in their eyes, but end up doing something else. People who start as a hero in 2-3 films, settle for side roles and finally character roles,like Rehman, Dev Kumar, Sujit Kumar, Jeevan etc.
Not only this but we have examples where they started with one thing and ended with a totally different thing and succeeded. For example, Guru Dutt started as a choreographer/dance director – ‘Lakharani’ (1945) and ended up as an actor/director, Ashok Kumar started as a lab technician in photography but became a great actor and Amiya Chakravarty who started as a Bangla teacher and a canteen manager at Bombay Talkies, the production house for which later he directed finest movies.
In olden days, when the studio system was prevalent, artistes used to be employed on a monthly basis and they had to do whatever work was given as per their capability. For example, in Ranjit Studios over 700 people were on the rolls at one time. The Government had to open a ration shop inside the studio premises for them. A Ranjit, actors were made out of script writers and the director wrote songs ! So people joined the industry with a mind prepared to do whatever job, just to succeed in their ambition.
Moti Sagar was one such person who came to the industry to become a hero, but ended up doing sundry roles, singing songs, writing stories and scripts and producing films. He could not get great success in any of these and ended up being ‘jack of all trades, mster of none’.
He was born in New Delhi on 16-4-1925, but graduated from Lahore. In Lahore he got interested in acting in films. There he met composers Inayat Hussain and GA Chishti, and he loved singing. He came to Bombay in 1946. His cousins Motilal, Mukesh and Tara Harish were already there in films. Harish and Motilal were established, and Mukesh was trying very hard.
Moti Sagar did a second hero’s role in ‘Malhar’ (1951). He sang his first song under Bulo C.Rani in ‘Gul Sanobar’ (1953) with Kalyani. Then came ‘Pamposh’, ‘Shikar’, ‘Deewali Ki Raat’, ‘Makhichoos’, ‘Jai Mahadev’, ‘Salgirah’, ‘Filmi Duniya Filmi Log’, and ‘Prerana’. When he stopped getting songs and roles, he switched over to writing. He wrote stories for ‘Badal’, ‘Lalkaar’, ‘Charas’, ‘Ram Bharose’. He acted in 13 films. He directed 2 films, namely ‘Prerana’ (1984) and ‘Tanya’ (1994). He wrote songs also for the film ‘Prerana’. He sang 13 songs in 9 films. When this stopped he produced 2 films ‘Hum Tere Ashiq Hain’ and ‘Badal’. So, Moti Sagar was an Actor, Director, Producer, Lyricist, and a Singer. After 1994, he retired. He died on 14-3-1999. Preeti Sagar is his daughter. She too was a struggling singer.
Some people feel that Moti Sagar, son of Ramanand Sagar and the actor-singer Moti Sagar are the same. However there is no connection and these are two different people. Ramanand Sagar was born on 29-12-1917 and the actor-singer Moti Sagar was born on 16-4-1925. Obviously, he can’t be his son as Ramanand was just 8 year old when this Moti Sagar was born ! Moreover, Ramanand took the surname Sagar only in 1950. Originally he was a Chopra.
Here is the story of this film,
Raisahab Kailash Chandra is a Jagirdar only for name sake, not being a well to do person. However, he adopts Kamini, daughter of a recently deceased rich couple. His home is managed by his niece Rita. He has an idiotic son Deesh. His secretary is cunning Chunilal.
Some distance away, lives a loving couple Kammo and Shekhar. Kammo and Kamini are look alikes. Shekhar as well as Raisaheb have erred many times because of their similarity. Raisahab gets an idea to end his poor financial condition by marrying Kamini with his son Deesh. As Kamini feels obliged to him, she also agrees.
Just one day prior to the marriage, Kamini dies suddenly by heart attack. To continue his plan, Raisaheb and Chunilal decide to abduct Kammo and get her married to Deesh. They kidnap her, drug her and hide her in the house. Shekhar is told that his wife Kammo is dead and her body is kept in the morgue. When Sheklhar sees the body, he realises it is Kamini and soon sees through Raisaheb’s plan. Meanwhile Kammo comes to senses and pretends to be drugged. She manages to write a small note to Shekhar. Next day, Shekhar comes to the marriage venue with police and stops the marriage. Raisahab and Chunilal are arrested. Kammo unites with Shekhar and the film ends.
Today’s song is a very melodious duet, which had become quite popular in the mid 50’s and had also featured in Binaca geetmala for several weeks. Bulo C Rani had composed 2 beautiful songs. One is today’s song and the other was the famous qawali of the film Al Hilal (1958) – “Hamen To Loot Liya Mil Ke Husn Waalon Ne“). I am actually surprised how today’s song had not yet featured on this Blog. Hence it surely deserves the category of “How did I forget to post this song earlier”, in my opinion.
Enjoy this duet sung by Sudha Malhotra and Moti Sagar. . .
Song- Bahaar Dekh Ke Dil Aur Beqaraar Hua (Shikar)(1955) Singers – Sudha Malhotra, Moti Sagar, Lyricist – Indeewar, MD – Bulo C Rani
Sudha Malhotra + Moti Sagar
Lyrics
bahaar dekh ke dil aur beqaraar hua
ummeed utni badhi jitna intezaar hua
tum jo aaye zindagi mein zindagi se pyaar hua
bahaar dekh ke
dekh ke dil aur beqaraar hua
ummeed utni badhi jitna intezaar hua
tum jo aaye zindagi mein zindagi se pyaar hua
bahaar dekh ke
teri marzi jahaan
mujhe le chal wahaan
o o o
o o o
teri marzi jahaan
mujhe le chal wahaan
teri do aankhon par nisar do jahaan
teri do aankhon par nisar do jahaan
dil pe mere tera ikhtiyaar hua
aa aa aa
tum jo aaye zindagi mein zindagi se pyaar hua
bahaar dekh ke
dekh ke dil aur beqaraar hua
ummeed utni badhi jitna intezaar hua
tum jo aaye zindagi mein zindagi se pyaar hua
bahaar dekh ke
chhaanv aanchal ki ho
phir aasmaan kya
ho o o o
chhaanv aanchal ki ho
phir aasmaan kya
tu jiska saath de
usey toofaan kya
tu jiska saath de
usey toofaan kya
wo bina patwaar ke hi paar hua
aa aa aa
tum jo aaye zindagi mein zindagi se pyaar hua
bahaar dekh ke
dekh ke dil aur beqaraar hua
ummeed utni badhi jitna intezaar hua
tum jo aaye zindagi mein zindagi se pyaar hua
bahaar dekh ke
——————————————
Hindi script lyrics (Provided by Sudhir)
——————————————
बहार देख के दिल और बेक़रार हुआ
उम्मीद उतनी बढ़ी जितना इन्तज़ार हुआ
तुम जो आए ज़िंदगी में ज़िंदगी से प्यार हुआ
बहार देख के
देख के दिल और बेक़रार हुआ
उम्मीद उतनी बढ़ी जितना इन्तज़ार हुआ
तुम जो आए ज़िंदगी में ज़िंदगी से प्यार हुआ
बहार देख के
तेरी मर्ज़ी जहां
मुझे ले चल वहाँ
ओ ओ ओ
ओ ओ ओ
तेरी मर्ज़ी जहां
मुझे ले चल वहाँ
तेरी दो आँखों पर निसार दो जहां
तेरी दो आँखों पर निसार दो जहां
दिल पे मेरे तेरा इख्तियार हुआ
आ आ आ
तुम जो आए ज़िंदगी में ज़िंदगी से प्यार हुआ
बहार देख के
देख के दिल और बेक़रार हुआ
उम्मीद उतनी बढ़ी जितना इन्तज़ार हुआ
तुम जो आए ज़िंदगी में ज़िंदगी से प्यार हुआ
बहार देख के
छांव आँचल की हो
फिर आसमान क्या
हो ओ ओ ओ
छांव आँचल की हो
फिर आसमान क्या
तू जिसका साथ दे
उसे तूफान क्या
तू जिसका साथ दे
उसे तूफान क्या
वो बिना पतवार के ही पार हुआ
आ आ आ
तुम जो आए ज़िंदगी में ज़िंदगी से प्यार हुआ
बहार देख के
देख के दिल और बेक़रार हुआ
उम्मीद उतनी बढ़ी जितना इन्तज़ार हुआ
तुम जो आए ज़िंदगी में ज़िंदगी से प्यार हुआ
बहार देख के
Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
Recent comments