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O chandrmukhee o mrignainee
Posted on: January 29, 2026
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, 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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6404 | Post No. : | 19865 | Movie Count : |
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‘Taqdeer Ki Tope’ (1939) was produced and directed by Vithaldas Panchotia under the banner of Shri Bharat Lakshmi Pictures. The cast included Master Nissar, Husn Bano, Vithaldas Panchotia, Jyotsana Gupta, Sultana Banu, Fakir Mohammed, Abdul Kabuli, Narbada Shankar, Master Gama, Shanti Devi, Aruna Devi etc. I have no idea about the genre of the film. I came across the name of the film while listening, for the first time, the audio clip of a song rendered by Master Nisaar. I found the song interesting because it is rendered by Master Nissar in the Hindustani semi-classical style. Before I listened to the song, I was under the impression that Master Nissar was an actor first and had to sing for himself as during his time, the playback singing system was yet to be evolved. But his voice sounded like a trained singer.
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6403 | Post No. : | 19863 |
Today, January 28, 2026, is the 89th birthday of playback singer, Suman Kalyanpur whose career growth got stunted because she remained under the shadow of a ‘banyan tree’ called Lata Mangeshkar. Sometime, having a voice quality too close to that of the top most playback singer of the film industry becomes a bane.
Suman Kalyanpur was born in Dhaka (now in Bangla Desh) as Suman Hemmadi when her father was working in Central Bank of India, Dhaka. The family belonged to Hemmadi village in Kundapura taluka, now in Udupi district of Karnataka. The family shifted from Dhaka to Mumbai in 1943 on her father’s transfer. Suman Kalyanpur was interested in singing and painting. After passing her Matriculation exam from St Columbia High School, she joined Sir J J School of Arts with Painting as the main subject. Simultaneously, she started her musical training under Keshavrao Bhole and later Ustad Khan Abdul Rehman Khan. She started singing on All India Radio in 1952. She got her first playback singing opportunity for a Marathi film, ‘Shukrachi Chaandni’ (1953).
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O Mrignainee Madhubainee Menaka
Posted on: January 26, 2026
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6401 | Post No. : | 19856 |
Mr. Sampat (1952) was produced and directed by S S Vasan under the banner of Gemini Pictures. The film starred Motilal, Padmini, Vanaja, Sundari Bai, Swaraj, Agha, Kanhaiyalal, Badriprasad, Kailash Nath, Ramamurthy, J S Casshyap, B S Kalla etc. The film was adapted from R K Narayan’s novel, ‘Mr. Sampat – Printer of Malgudi’ (1949). It is a satirical film. This was Padmini’s first Hindi film in a lead role while Motilal was in the title role of Mr. Sampat. The film was first made in Tamil in 1948 but R K Narayan made some revision in the story based on which the Hindi version was made.
I have already given the story of the film in some detail while covering one of the film’s songs, laila laila pukaaroon main ban mein. So, I will cover here only the gist of the story which is as under:
Mr. Sampat, (Motilal) sustains himself by coning the people through presenting himself in immaculate western attires with his smooth and humourous talks. He has the power to convince his potential targets with his believable schemes. One of his potential targets is Malini (Padmini), a stage artist who has a good fan base. Simultaneously, he has one more target, Seth Makhanlal Gheewala (Kanhaiyalal) who is standing for a municipal election. Sampat uses Malini in the guise of an interview for a newspaper and brings her at Gheewala’s tea party for her. Because of Malini’s fan base, Gheewala wins the municipal election thus creating a confidence in the ability of Sampat.
With this success, Sampat spells out a scheme, both for Malini and Gheewala to start a bank by offering the customers a high interest rates on deposits. The new bank thrives in its business and attract huge deposits. Raj Mohan (Kailash Nath) from a former royal family member has put a large chunk of deposits in the banks because he has developed infatuation with Malini. For Sampat, things are working nicely as per his plans and he has now improved his status. One day, Malini rejects Raj Mohan’s advances which angers him. He immediately withdraws his entire deposits from the bank. Soon the bank collapses and the entire investments made by Malini and Gheewala are lost. Creditors are queuing up and to meet their demand, Malini’s house is under auction. Knowing that he has nothing to gain now, Sampat leaves them after pocketing Malini’s theatre collections and moves on to select his next potential target for coning. And this time, he has been seen as a godman giving an impressive lecture to his followers.
The film was under production before India became a republic in 1952 and before the first general election took place. So, there was no major corruption and fraudsters cases at the time of making the film. The Haridas Mundra case and much later, Natwarlal’s coning instances came to light only sometime in mid-1950s though he was involved in theft and cheatings during the British Rule. Hence, it is to the credit of story writer, R K Narayan that he could foresee such scenarios which became realities in India in the later years. The film is still relevant and it is for the reason that film is enjoyable to watch even after seven decades from its release. Despite the role of Sampat having some negative shades, Motilal in the title role, has given an excellent performance and has been successful in creating an impression on the audience of his likeable character mainly because of his natural acting.
The film had 13 songs written by Pandit Indra (10) and others (3) which were set to music by Balkrishna Kalla and E Shankar Shastri. All are the stage songs. Surprisingly, not a single song was picturised on Motilal.
Five songs have been represented on the Blog. I present the 6th song, ‘o mrignaini madhubani……o bairaagi banwaasi’ which is tandem song rendered by Talat Mehmood, Shamshad Begum and Geeta Dutt. The soundtrack of the song in the film appears as a continuous song. Due to technical reasons, this song on gramophone records have been released in two parts. Geeta Dutt parts of the song is composed in Baul style, a type of kirtan song, which has been prevalent in Bengal.
This tandem song is a part of the mythological story of Menaka and sage Vishwamitra being staged in a theatre. In the first part of the song, Menaka (Padmini) is directed by Lord Indra () to entice sage Vishwamitra (Ramamurthy) who is on a deep meditation to attain the highest status of a Brahmarishi which can dethrone Lord Indra in heaven. In the second part of the song, Menaka goes from heaven to earth and starts singing and dancing. Towards the end of the song, Menaka is successful in breaking sage Vishwamitra’s meditation and he gets attracted to Menaka.
Incidentally, HFGK shows the song under discussion as two different songs because it has been issued on 78 RPM gramophone records with two different matrix numbers. In the film, it is a continuous but tandem song. Since the theme of both the songs is a part of the same story with continuity in stage performance, I felt that both the songs should form a part of the single post for the better understanding of the context of the song.
Video Clip (Part-1):
Video Clip (Part-2):
Audio Clip (Part-1):
Audio Clip (Part-2):
Song-O mrignainee madhubainee Menaka (Mr Sampat)(1952) Singers-Talat Mehmood, Shamshad Begum/ Geeta Dutt, Lyricist-Pt Indra Chandra, MD-B S Kalla
Chorus
Lyrics:
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Part-1 (Based on Video Clip)
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Devendra dev ki jai jai jai
?? kee jai jai jai
Gajpati Narendra kee jai jai jai
Gajpati Mahendra kee jai
Mahendra kee jai
Mahendra Kee jai
[Dialogues]
o o
mrignaini madhubaini Menaka
tum ho kahaan
tum ho kahaan
swaami ee
o o o o
haazir hoon main naath yahaan
haazir hoon main naath yahaan
haazir hoon main naath yahaan
o o o
mrignaini madhubaini Menaka
tum jaao
tum jaao
o o o
o o
meree laaj aabroo
ab to tumheen bachaao
salonee jaao
tum jaao
ab tajo shok tum swaami naath hamaare
ab tajo shok tum swaami naath hamaare
naath hamaare
sab bade bade brahmchaaree mujhse haare
mujhse haare
main jaaun
main jaaun aur suljhaaoon sabhee samasya
taphaaree kee kar aaoon
bhang tapasyaa
bhang tapasyaa…..aa
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Part-2 (Based on Audio Clip)
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o o o
bairaagee banwaasee..ee
o o o
bairaagee banwaasee ee
charnon kee daasee
darash ko pyaasee
bairaagee banwaasee
o o o
bairaagee banwaasee ee
ab nain khol kar dekh re
ab nain khol kar
ab nain khol kar dekh
dwaar tere chhaayee pooranmaasee
o bairaagee banwaasee
main daaroongee galbaiyaan
tod de maala
main daaroongee galbaiyaan
tod de maala
main apnaa hriday bichhaaoon
phenk mrigchhaala
dho daal bhaal ke bhabhoot
bhagwa taj de
?? ang ang ras bhar le
dho daal bhaal ke bhabhoot
bhagwa taj de
?? ang ang ras bhar le
preet mohse kar le
preet mohse kar le
preet mohse kar le
chhod udaasee
preet mohse kar le
chhod udaasee
o banwaasee
o banwaasee
o banwaasee
Aa main tujhko pyaar karoon
Posted on: January 24, 2026
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, 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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6399 | Post No. : | 19852 |
‘Shaarda’ (1981) was produced by K K Talwar and was directed by Lekh Tandon. The cast included Jeetendra, Rameshwari, Usha Kiran, Om Prakash, Deena Pathak, Kalpana Iyer, Madan Puri, Jagdeep, Iftekhar, Pinchoo Kapoor etc. Sarika and Raj Babbar made guest appearances. The story of the film seems to be partly inspired from a Hollywood film, ‘How To Murder Your Wife’ (1965). While the Hollywood film was a black comedy, Lekh Tandon converted his Hindi film into a family drama. The shooting of the film started in 1978. The film got released on April 10, 1981.
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6395 | Post No. : | 19839 |
‘Ek Baar Kaho’ (1980) was produced under the banner of Rajshree Productions and was directed by Lekh Tandon. The cast included Navin Nischol and Shabana Azmi in lead roles with Dilip Dhawan and Kiran Vairale in the second lead roles. The supporting cast included Madan Puri, Anil Kapoor, Rajendranath, Jagdeep, Hari Shivdasani, Arvind Deshpande, Shivraj, Rajan Kapoor, Colonel Kapoor, Avtar Gill, Ratan Gurung etc.
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6392 | Post No. : | 19830 |
‘Agar Tum Na Hote’ (1983) was produced by Rajeev Kumar and Vimal Kumar and was directed by Lekh Tandon. The cast included Rajesh Khanna, Rekha, Raj Babbar, Madan Puri, Asrani, Baby Shabana, Sudhir Dalvi, Yunus Parvez, Sundar, Dulari, Ranvir Raj, Gulshan Bawra etc. In this film, Rekha had a double role, first as Rajesh Khanna’s wife who dies after the delivery of a baby girl and second as a governess for Rajesh Khanna’s daughter. For Rajesh Khanna, it was one of his ‘comeback’ films released in 1983, the other two films being ‘Avtaar’ (1983) and ‘Sautan’ (1983).
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Aa ham chalen
Posted on: January 16, 2026
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6391 | Post No. : | 19823 |
‘Trip To Moon/Chaand Par Chadhaaee’ (1967) was produced and directed by T P Sundaram under the banner of Cauvery Productions (Madras). The cast included Dara Singh, G Ratna, Master Bhagwan, Anwar Hussain, Padma Khanna, Kanchanmala, Helen, S Nazir, Rajrani, Saudagar Singh, Trilok Singh, Suryavir Singh, Hardeet Singh etc. The film belongs to the genre of the science fiction coupled with stunts and actions. This was the only Hindi film of the lead actress, G Ratna (also written as G Rathna) who has acted in Telugu, Tamil and Kannada films during 1960-80. Master Bhagwan had a double role in the film – both as sidekicks of the lead actor, Dara Singh and the villain, Anwar Hussain.
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Zara thhahar jaao
Posted on: January 15, 2026
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6390 | Post No. : | 19820 |
‘Khuda Kasam’ (1981) was produced by Baldev Pushkarna and was directed by Lekh Tandon who also wrote the story. The cast included Vinod Khanna, Tina Munim, Ajit, Pran, Nazneen, Zahira, Kamini Kaushal, Madan Puri, Jalal Agha, Surendra Pal, Shakti Kapoor, Chandrashekhar, C S Dubey, Pinchoo Kapoor, Ram Mohan, Brahm Bhardwaj, Leena Das, Ranbir Raj, Ratna, Colonel Kapoor etc. Dharmendra made a special appearance. The film was delayed as Vinod Khanna had temporarily shifted to the USA to work in the ashram of his spiritual guru, Osho. He did return to India to complete his films before moving back to the ashram in the USA in 1982.
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Mil ke bichhad mat jaana
Posted on: January 12, 2026
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6387 | Post No. : | 19807 |
‘Daasi’ (1944) was produced under the banner of Pradhan Pictures and was directed by Hiren Bose. The cast included Najam-ul-Hasan and Ragini in the lead roles supported by Kalavati, Khairati, G N Butt, Charlie, Om Prakash, Gyani, Fazal Shah, Manzoor etc. The story of the film was written by Dalsukh Pancholi. I have strong reason to believe that Pradhan Pictures was Dalsukh Pancholi’s ‘ghost’ banner as I find his name on the Censor Certificate as applicant.
The film’s lead actor, Najam-ul-Hasan (in the credit title of the film, his name is spelled as Najam Hussain) became well known for an incidence while working in the Bombay Talkies film, ‘Jeevan Naiyya’ (1936) as a lead actor opposite Devika Rani, wife of Himanshu Rai, the founder of the Bombay Talkies. During the making of the film, Najam-ul-Hasan eloped with Devika Rani to Calcutta (Kolkata). While Devika Rani was convinced by Sashadhar Mukerjee to return to Bombay Talkies, Ashok Kumar who was working in the Bombay Talkies as a laboratory assistant got a chance to work as a lead actor opposite Devika Rani, replacing Najam-ul-Hasan.
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