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Mohey laa de raajaa machhariyaa re
Posted by: Atul on: November 10, 2023
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Today’s song is from the film Gogola-1966.
This film was an ordinary stunt film of 1966, but it had some interesting stories about it. At least I will never forget this film. 4 songs from this film have already featured here. 1 from Sudhir ji, 1 from me and 2 from Atul ji. This is my second song which I am writing about here today.
Why is it an unforgettable film for me ? I had seen this film in Hyderabad, where it was released in 1966. It was a very ordinary film. I wrote about its story etc in my diary and soon forgot about it. When I started writing comments on old film songs in 2011, I came across a song from the film Gogola-1966 posted by Atulji. I wrote a detailed comment on it, giving its story and other details. Then for the next 6 years Gogola did not return to me.
In the month of August 2017. I received an email from someone called Kelly Robinson, who was a researcher in Hollywood on Horror films and allied subjects. The writer wanted to know the information from me on the film Gogola-1966. I am yet to know how this person knew my name. Perhaps someone told him about me or he must have visited this Blog. Anyway, I wrote back to him giving the film story and all other details which I had. After an year or so, I was informed that my information on Gogola-1966 was used and published with my name in the book “Gods, Monsters and Lucky Peach”. I tried hard but could never get a copy of that book. So much about the International trip of this film !
Another interesting thing about this film was that this was the First film of the film’s lyricist Balkavi Bairagi. Those who are well versed with Hindi literature and poetry, must be knowing that Balkavi Bairagi was a very famous poet in Hindi in India. He had won several awards and was even a Congress M.P. from M.P..
There is no wonder that such a famous and honoured Hindi poet was attracted to the film industry. Earlier to this the works of several famous Saints like Meerabai, Kabirdas, Soordas, Tulsidas, Raidas, Raheem etc were used in Hindi films. Famous Urdu Shayars’ works from Mirza Ghalib, Bahadur Shah Zafar, Daag, Amir khusro, Iqbal, Qazi nazrul islam, Rabindranath tagore, Jigar Moradabadi etc were also used in Hindi films. Not only this, but works of famous Indian poets like Amritlal nagar, Amrita preetam, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Bhagwati charaqn Sharma, Bhagwati prasad Bajpayi, Jaishankar prasad, Rahi Masoom Raza, Ramprasad Bismil, Shyamlal Gupta, Sumitranandan Pant, Wajid Ali Shah etc were used in Hindi films.. To top it all, even a poem by William Shakespeare was used in the film Junoon-1978.
This time, instead of any actor, I am providing a short Bio of Balkavi Bairagi…….
Balkavi Bairagi, born Nand Ramdas Bairagi; (10 February 1931 – 13 May 2018) popularly known Rastrakavi Balkavi Bairagi was a Hindi poet, film lyricist and politician from India. His songs in Malvi, such as the very popular ‘Panihari’ (A woman carrying water) gave a stage to Malvi,a Hindi dialect spoken in the region of Malva (Malwa) in the mainstream Hindi poetry scenario. He was one of the several who have been hailed as a Rashtrakavi (‘national poet’). He was a Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha from Madhya Pradesh from 1998 to 2004.
Bairagi was born in Manasa in a Vaishnav Brahmin (Bairagi) family. Originally named Nand Ramdas Bairagi, he came to be popularly called as “Balkavi” Bairagi as he wrote some classic poems during his childhood. He obtained his post-graduate degree in Hindi from Vikram University, Ujjain. Bairagi wrote several Hindi poems and wrote prolifically for children. His poem “Jhar gaye paat, bisar gayi tehni” is considered a masterpiece by Hindi poets. He wrote lyrics for at least a dozen Hindi films, the most noted among them being Reshma aur Shera and Ankahee.[
He was seen in the film ” Kavi Sammelan-1972″, in which he is seen singing two of his poems. He wrote 33 songs in 13 commercial Hindi films namely, Gogola-66, Veer Chhatrasaal-71, Reshma aur Sehra-71, Do boond paani-71, Achha Bura-72, Khshitij-74, Rani aur Laal Pari-75, Jaadu Tona-77, Pal do pal ka saath-78, Mausam badalta hai-78, Chautha Paalna-78 , Azadi 25 baras ki-78 and Ankahee-1984.
As a politician affiliated to the Indian National Congress, he was elected to the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly from Manasa in 1968 and again in 1980. At various points in time, he served as the Minister of State for Information, the Minister of Language and Tourism and the Minister of Food and Civil Supplies in the Madhya Pradesh Government. He was a Member of the Lok Sabha between 1984 and 1989, representing the Mandsaur constituency. He was a Rajya Sabha member from 1998 to 2004.
He died in his sleep on 13 May 2018 at the age of 87 years. His legacy is continued by two sons and numerous grandchildren. He is remembered as one of the most popular and reputed poets of Hindi language. ( information collated from book ‘ Hindi filmon ke geetkar’, muVyz, HFGK, Wiki and my notes).
While this film was the First film of Balkavi Bairagi, it was the Last film of its director Balwant Dave. he had directed only 4 films, namely Namak-1947, White face-1948, Shahi bazar-1957 and Gogola-1966. In the Hindi film industry, Gujarati people have always been deeply involved in various activities, from the beginning. They had money, so some became Producer/Directors like Ardeshir Irani, Kanjibhai Rathod, Chandulal Shah, Chimanlal Desai, Dwarkadas Sampat, Nadiadwala, Maniklal Patel, Mehboob khan etc. They were in Direction too, namely Wadias, Pancholi, Doshi, Desai, Thakur, Mehta, Bhatt, Mistri, Dave, Vyas, Panchotia, Shah, Modi etc.
Infact, Gujaratis were into acting, Music Direction, Singing, Story writing, Art Direction, Cinematography, Sound Recording and other related departments like finance controller, Production manager etc. In addition to Marathi community, the Gujaratis have been the early builders of Hindi film industry.
While for Balkavi this film was the First and for Balwant Dave it was the Last film, for the Music Director Duo of Roy- Frank, film Gogola-1966 was their First and the Last film together ! Frank had been working as an assistant to Kalyanji-Anandji before and after Gogola, Roy (real name Mukund Rai Trivedi) had no connection with the film industry. He was the producer of this film and due to his interest in music, he got hold of Frank and made up a pair. Mukund Rai was the son of a rich businessman in M.P. The family was into Mining business. After this film Mukund Rai also joined his family business and became very rich. Later on he also became a Congress M.P. from M.P. Thus film Gogola-66 was made by 2 Congress M.P.s from M.P. !
The story of film Gogola-1966 was….
Although Azad worked in this movie,it was not one of those Raja-Rani-Vazir movies,but a different type of B grade movie.Probably it was inspired by KING KONG and such similar Republic Serial movies coming from Hollywood in the late 50s and early 60s.
Asha(Tabassum),Kumar(Azad) and friends are terrified seeing a gigantic Sea Monster coming out of the sea,known as GOGOLA,while picnicking on a Bombay beach.They run away to police who do not believe them.
Asha’s father (Nayampally) is a scientist who is indebted to Lachhoo(Habib),due to loans taken to discover medicine for Heart attack.Asha is a club dancer and Lachhoo is after her,hence Kumar and Lachhoo become enemies.
Gogola comes to town,kills people and breaks buildings and other structures in Bombay,thereby flooding it.Asha’s father develops a poison for Gogola and Kumar goes to the bottom of sea to inject it to Gogola.Lachhoo tries to kill him in the sea,but Kumar injects Gogola.Before dying,Gogola obliges Kumar by killing Lachhoo.
Kumar gets reward from Police and Asha from her father.
Today’s song is sung by Usha Mangeshkar.
Song- Mohey laa de raaja Machhariya re (Gogola)(1966) Singer- Usha Mangeshkar, Lyricist- Balkavi Bairagi, MD- Roy- Frank
Chorus
Lyrics
mohey laa de raaja machhariya re
mohey laa de raaja machhariya re
machhariya machhariya machhariya re
mohey laa de raaja machhariya re
mohey laa de raaja machhariya re
laa de ek machhariya aisi
jo behad makkaar
rishwat khaana jiska pesha
chot kare khoonkhaar
rishwat khaana jiska pesha
chot kare khoonkhaar
saara saagar maila karke
nahin sharm aur laaj
is machhli ko ?? tab to
hukam mera sartaj nahin to
jhoothhi hai teri kachhahariya re
mohe la de raaja machhariya re
machhariya machhariya machhariya re
dekho bach nahin jaaye machhariya re
mohey laa de raaja machhariya re
aa aa aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa aa aa
la de ek machhariya aisi jo behad shaitaan
kare milaawat khaan-paan mein
leti sabki jaan
kare milaawat khaan paan mein
leti sabki jaan
saara saagar maila karke
nahin sharam aur laaj
is machhli ko ?? tab to
hukam mera sartaj nahin to
jhoothhi hai teri kachhahariya re
mohey la de raaja machhariya re
machhariya machhariya machhariya re
dekho bach nahin jaaye machhariya re
mohey la de raaja machhariya re
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