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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.
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6412 | Post No. : | 19897 |
Today’s song is a complete turn around for my style of writing on old films and music. It is like something “out of syllabus” for me ! Today’s song is from the film Chameli ki shaadi-1986. Usually, I restrict my choices between 30s to the 60s films. But there are some films made after 1970 ( and even some after 2000) which I liked very much. Chameli ki shaadi-1986 is one such film.
Actually I saw my last Hindi film in a theatre somewhere in the year 1975-76. After that I have not visited any Theatre. I have not seen any Multiplex from inside anytime. It does not mean that I stopped seeing films. In the 80s and 90s I saw films on my VCR and later on, on Television. As my age advanced, my patience receded and it was impossible for me to sit before a TV set for 4 hours to watch a movie of 2 1/2 hours and advertisements of 1 1/2 hours. In any case after the year 2000 the kind of films made were certainly not to my taste and I stopped seeing films completely, with some exceptions.
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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.
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6411 | Post No. : | 19892 |
Today’s song is from stunt film- Circus ki Sundari aka Circus Queen-1941.
The Film was made by producer Kikubhai Desai for his own banner Paramount Movietone, Bombay. It was directed by a veteran of such films, Balwant bhatt. The Music Director was Hafiz khan Mastana. The cast of the film included Miss Moti, Jal merchant, Gulab, puri, agha, A Kareem and others. The songs were written by P.L.Santoshi and A.Kareem.
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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.
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6411 | Post No. : | 19890 |
Today’s song is from an obscure film, but it is a special song because it is a duet sung by Meena Kumari – The Tragedy Queen – and A.R.Oza.
This Ranjit Movietone film was directed by Manibhai Vyas (27-4-1920 to 14-11-1993), who directed 20 Hindi films from film Dukhiyari-1937 to film Shri Krishna Bhakti-1973. The music was by Bulo C. Rani for songs written by Pt. Indra. The cast of the film was Khurshid Jr., Meena Kumari, Anjum, Nihal, Qamar, Shaikh Hasan, Nafeej Khalili etc. Except the 2 sisters i.e. Khurshid Jr. and Meena Kumari, I am not aware of any other cast members mentioned here. None of them are found in any other films. There were 11 songs and some of the singers like Savitri Gidwani, Chunilal Pardeshi are not known to me. Others like Mohd. Faruqi and A.R.Oza are atleast known to me.
Despite being known to be a writer on old films for the last 14 years, such unknown names give me an Inferiority Complex and a feeling that no one can know everything in any field, which makes the person humble too !
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6409 | Post No. : | 19881 |
Today’s song is the last song from the Social film Sangam-1954.
There were 3 films titled Sangam, made in 1941, 1954 and 1964. The Raj Kapoor film of 1964 was a Hit film. Today’s film was produced by J.P.Agrawal and was directed by Kiran Kumar (not the son of actor Jeevan). The cast of the film included Kamini Kaushal (real name Uma Kashyap), Shekhar (real name Indriya Daman), Shashikala, Jeevan (real name Omprakash Dar), K.N.Singh, Murad, Chaman Puri, Ratan Kumar (real name Syed Nazar Ali), Neera and others. The Music Director was Ram Ganguly. His assistant fort his film was Suresh Kumar (Shah).
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6408 | Post No. : | 19877 |
Today’s song is from the Mythological film Bhagwat Mahima-1955.
The film was made by Filmistan. It was directed by veteran all-rounder Vithaldas Panchotiya. The Music Director was Hemant Kumar, who was famous for creating excellent Bhajans in films. Cast of the film was Prem Adib, Navin Yagnik, Sunder, Chaman Puri, Madan Puri, Parshuram, Vithaldas Panchotiya, Indira Bansal and a host of other actors.
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6407 | Post No. : | 19874 |
Today’s song is from an unknown religious film Shyam ki Jogan-1957.
The film was made by K.B.Films, a banner owned by the film’s producer K. Bakshi. It was directed by S.P.Kalla, who also wrote the film’s 8 songs. The Music Director was Narayan Datt. The cast of the film was Sulochana, Shahu Modak, B.M.Vyas, Kamal Mehra, Kammo, Ratnamala, Jagdev, Maruti, Jeevankala, Funny Walker and many others.
This film raises ‘a never-satisfactorily answered’ question as to what makes a film successful ? No one has so far been able to give an answer, which can be applied to any or many successful films. If the answer was known, then ALL films would have been successful !
Various factors like the Banner, the Director, the Composer, the story, the songs and the promotion of the film contribute to the success of the film. However, this is no guarantee at all. There are cases when a low budget film, with no known or famous artistes or Director or the Composer has also succeeded. A case in point is that of “Jai Santoshi Maa “-75. Produced by a heavily debt-ridden failed producer Sitaram Rohara, the film was directed by an unknown person Vijay Sharma and the music was given by a less known composer C.Arjun. The main singer was Usha Mangeshkar and the film’s cast was of a C grade Mythological film. The story was totally imaginary, without any support of Puranas. Not just that, the film showed that Lord Ganesh had a sister and a daughter, something which was totally unheard of, by most people.
Despite all this, this film did business running into crores and gave a tough fight to more famous Blockbusters like Sholey, Aandhi, Chupke chupke, Deewar, Do Jasoos, Sanyasi etc. It was nothing short of a stroke of sheer LUCK or fluke. That’s all !
In this Film Industry, one needs LUCK. An Ounce of Luck is heavier than a Ton of Talent here. Otherwise, who can explain how the dumb, Non-actors like Karan Dewan, Pradeep Kumar and Bharat Bhushan became successful actors ? Or how the ‘not so good looking’ actors Ranjan, Shaikh Mukhtar and even Balraj Sahni did so many films ?
Anyway, today’s film was having less lucky people like the director and the Music Director. With an awful story, the film’s B grade cast could not help it. What’s more, this film came in 1957, when the year was one of the best years of the ‘ Golden Era’. The lineup of 1957 films looks like the selection of the creamy layer in everlasting music – ‘Mother India’, ‘Pyasa’, ‘Tumsa Nahin Dekha’, ‘Bhabhi’, ‘Asha’, ‘Miss Mary’, ‘Naya Daur’, ‘Do Aankhen Barah Haath’, ‘Paying Guest’, ‘Nau Do Gyarah’, ‘Dekh Kabira Roya’. ‘Nausherwaan e Adil ‘, ‘Gateway Of India’, ‘Hum Panchhi Ek Daal Ke ‘, ‘Kathputali’, ‘Sharada’ . . . Films like Baarish, Ab Dilli door nahin, Abhiman, Bada Bhai, Begunah, Beti, Chhoti Babu, Coffee House, Dushman, Johnny Walker, Miss Bombay, Miss India, Mr. X, Narsi Bhagat, Paak Daman, Pawanputra Hanuman, Ustad, Zamana. Films produced in Madras were quite popular. AVM’s ‘Bhabhi’, ‘Miss Mary’ and ‘Hum Panchhi Ek Daal Ke’, Prasad Production’s first Hindi film ‘Sharda’, and MV Raman’s film ‘Asha’ played havoc with their captive audiences. Films from south somehow have always concocted a success formula, mixing comedy, tragedy, social message, excellent production values and above all superb music, which made their films very popular everywhere. There was no chance for a mediocre film to succeed !
The story of the film was…..
This is the story of Shradha and Manu- of man and his faith. Even as a child Shradha, the daughter of Haridas, a God fearing man was known for her love, affectionate disposition and devotion to Krishna. She was the light of her fathers eye. In her childhood she was betrothed to Manu, the son of an unscrupulous Bania Dhaniram. Manu & Shri ( Shradha’s pet name) would have made an admirable couple, but for Danirams greed, whose stupidity led him to kill Gopal, the son of the blind poojari Soordas, for a little wealth.
The sins of the father were vested upon the son’s head and Manu took to the roads of vice and destruction. . Dhaniram’s blood stained wealth made a satire out of him and while Shri pined for her brother Gopal, the tortured soul of the blind Soordas cried out for justice. . Thus seven years rolled away & now Dhaniram had become a man of means. But nothing is even hidden from the eyes of God. His mills grind slowly but they grind exceedingly fine.
Responding to the calls of his distressed devotees, God came down to the village in the guise of Behroopiya Gopal. He was instrumental in getting Shri and Manu married. Dhaniram demanded a fantastic sum as dowry from Haridas, on the eve of Manu’s marriage to Shri & God made the demands good. Shri and Manu were married. One day doubts crept into the mind of Manu. He suspected an illicit relationship, between his wife Shri and Gopal and after that Shris life was a veritable series of night-mares.
When the old and ailing Haridas came to console his daughter, he was beaten to death.
In the meantime Manu fell so low that he spared nothing in an effort to divert his mind; and one day he lost his life by drowning. But Shris satitva brought him back to life.
Dhaniram, thinking his son dead, turned the widowed Shri out of the house. She became a Jogan. The long search for her Shyam began. In the meantime Manu had awoken to his misdeeds and follies. He rushed to find his Shri, but she had already left. After a long and heart breaking search, they met at the temple of Krishna, but Shri was already preparing for her final Journey. But God also knew that if Shri left Manu, faith would be lost to man forever. There would be chaos in the world.
So Shri is convinced by Gopal not to take extreme steps and stay happy with the reformed Manu. So,all is well in the end.
The director/lyricist of this film Sooraj Prakash Kalla or S P Kalla was a resident of Jodhpur, Rajasthan. In the early 50s he was having a nice job in the state Secretariat in Jaipur. He was a good writer of songs. During his service tenure, once he visited Bombay casually and then stayed back here only, leaving the lucrative steady job, to enter the film industry as a lyricist.
His first film was ‘Lanka Dahan’-52, in which he wrote all 8 songs. Due to his easy and meaningful Lyrics he started getting film after film. After about 7 more films – Hanuman janma-54, Harihar Bhakti-56, Astik-56, Shyam ki Jogan-57, Naya kadam-58, Gauri Shankar-58 and Ye kadam nahi rukenge-68, he turned to Film direction and succeeded in this too.
Some of the films he directed were, Aastik-56, Naya kadam-58, and Shyam ki Jogan-57. He also did a small role in the film Kailashpati-62.
Having won laurels here he became a Producer and that proved to be his nemesis. He lost everything he had earned. Family life became miserable and all friends deserted him. Finally he separated from his family and went back to Jaipur. There he got two Rajasthani films for direction. Then he got some serials and video films. Some of his serials on TV were ‘ Samay ki Dhara’ and ‘Teesmar khan’,which were popular.
He became an alcohol addict and closeted himself in a small room, where he ended his own life on 10-5-2007.
Many people may not be even aware that any MD by the name of NARAYAN DUTTA existed, but in reality he did and has contributed to Hindi film Music to the best of opportunities that he got to do so. NARAYAN DUTTA, I feel , was one of those unlucky composers like, C.Arjun, Sailesh Mukherjee, Daan singh, Sardar Malik, Jamal Sen, Pardesi etc, who had enough talent but luck was not in their favour.
Most internet sites and few writers also get confused between these two MDs, thinking that N.Datta means Narayan Dutta . Consequently, films in which Narayan Dutta gave music are coolly added to the filmography of N.Datta !
NARAYAN DUTTA was born in Bilawas village in Jodhpur state. His father Durgaprasad was the Court Singer (Raj Gayak) with Bikaner king Ganga Singh. Narayan learnt music from his father since childhood. With a desire to sing in Hindi films, like many other such dreamers, he reached the Mayanagari-Bombay in 1946.
He sang his first song for Raj Kapoor in ” Neelkamal”-1947.However the commercial record of this song was made with the composer’s voice- Snehal Bhatkar. Then he sang two songs, one with Geeta and one with Mukesh in Rasili-47. With the help of Kidar Sharma he sang songs in Sehra-48, Gauna-49 and Uddhar-49, in addition to some stunt films of Mohan Pictures, but no records were made.
Somehow, he felt that there was not much scope for singing so he turned to composing and his first film was Mordhwaj-52, followed by Astik-56,Shyam ki Jogan-57,Naya Kadam-58 and Pujarin -72 (in the period 58-72,his few films remained incomplete like Aji bas rahne do, Meerabai, Bhakta Pralhad etc.) Narad Leela-72,Jai Hanuman-73,Seetaram Radheshyam-73, Saraswati-Laxmi-Parvati-75, Sindoor ka Daan-84 and Humse mile tum-86. In addition to these 11 Hindi films, he also gave music to 3 Rajasthani films- Baba Ramdev Peer-63,Mhari Pyari Chanana-83 and Nani Bai ko Bhayro-84.
After films stopped coming, he engaged himself in making NFS based on local folk tunes. He also composed songs for Jain Samaj and Rajneesh Foundation. He established “Sur Tarang” , a school to teach Music.
This talented but unlucky composer died on 16-6-1988. ( Based on an article by Shri Murlidhar Soni ji, in Listener’s Bulletin No. 76 Feb 1989, with thanks and my own notes.)
Here is a song from this film, sung by Shamshad Begum. Enjoy….
Song- Aadhee aadhee raat sainyaan uthh uthh jaagoon re (Shyam Ki Jogan)(1957) Singer-Shamshad Begam, Lyricist-S P Kalla, MD-Narayan Dutt
Lyrics
Aadhee aadhee raat sainyaan
aa aa aa oye
uthh uthh jaagoo re
jaane kya baat piya
man naheen kaaboo re
aadhee aadhee raat sainyaan
uthh uthh jaagoo re
jaane kya baat piya
man naheen kaaboo re
aadhee aadhee raat sainyaan
nainon se poochhaa to
wo sharma gaye
nainon se poochhaa to
wo sharma gaye
dil ne jawaab diya
dil pe koi chhaa gaye
dil ne jawaab diya
dil pe koi chhaa gaye
main kya bataaoon
main to kuchh naheen jaanoon re
jaane kya baat piya
man naheen kaaboo re
aadhee aadhee raat sainyaan
uthh uthh jaagoo re
jaane kya baat piya
man naheen kaaboo re
aadhee aadhee raat sainyaan
kis ko sunaaoon baaten
duniya hai bahree
kis ko sunaaoon baaten
duniya hai bahree
chhaliya jee teree meree
preet hai gahree
chhaliya jee teree meree
preet hai gahree
tere bina main haaye
birhan laagoon re
jaane kya baat piya
man naheen kaaboo re
aadhee aadhee raat sainyaan
uthh uthh jaagoo re
jaane kya baat piya
man naheen kaaboo re
aadhee aadhee raat sainyaan
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.
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6406 | Post No. : | 19871 |
Today’s song is from an obscure social film – Teen Bhai-1955.
The film was made by D.P.Productions, Bombay. It was directed by one of the veterans from New Theatres, Calcutta, Hemchander Chunder (1907 – 1960). He was a producer and director. He made his film debut in 1931 as an actor with BN Sircar’s short-lived film company International Filmcraft in Prafulla Roy’s Chasher Meye , and made his directorial debut in 1935, co-directing with Premankur Atorthy .
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