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5741 Post No. : 18263

Today’s song is a DayDream song video from the film Brandy ki Botal-1939.

The period of early Talkie cinema was interesting in many ways from the point of view of Cinema history. The experimental attitude of the filmmakers allowed the audience to enjoy a variety of subjects of life. Not only this, but due to studios like Prabhat, Huns, Maharashtra Film co. etc making bilingual films in Hindi and Marathi, gave a taste of Marathi style of acting and pronunciation of the dialogues. Exposure to Marathi actors, who acted only in Marathi films, had a typical accent, diction and style of delivering the dialogues which , at times, sounded funny and odd. The Hindi language that was used in these Bilingual films from Maharashtra was sprinkled with ” Hindi-ised” Marathi words, which, though not completely wrong, were rarely used in day-to-day use in the Hindi Belt. One example would be ” मैं तुम्हारी बाट ( वाट in Marathi) देखूंगी “…. which simply meant ” I will wait for you ” !

Similarly, Bilingual films from Bengal were different. These films used ultra-pure Hindi language which one found, possibly, only in decorative novels and Hindi stage dramas of yore. Bengal- made Hindi films insisted on using such language in film dialogues where, sometimes, the audience felt they were getting lessons from a Hindi class ! When a boy tells a girl “मैं तुम से प्रेम करता हूं, मेरा हृदय अर्पण करता हूँ ” in these films, the Hindi belt audience got busy in deciphering it as ” मैं तुमसे प्यार करता हूं. मैंने मेरा दिल तुमको दे दिया ” and by that time the film rolled further !

This apart, these films did the important job of National integration of the East and West culture for the rest of India. Later on, in the period from the release of the film ‘Chandralekha’-1948, from the Madras stable, it opened yet one more Bilingual gift of Tamil/Telugu-Hindi films. This brought in the southern style of acting, dialogues, diction and a special “Madrasi Hindi” (used only for describing and not with any ill intent please). Their period Costume films initially with family dramas and socials later on, added the much loved Southern Flavour to Hindi films, on an All India basis.

The year was 1939 and the British Government had declared war against Germany and Japan, as soon as the WW II began. All countries ruled by Britain were – willingly or unwillingly, drawn into the war efforts and its effects. The war began in the month of September and soon various restrictions came into operation – like rationing, blackouts, shortages etc. The film industry which was still under its development stage suffered. It also realised the importance of remaining united as one industry. However, all that came after 1 or 2 years. In 1939 there was not much effect seen on the film industry.

The industry had its own problems. In spite of the playback system in operation, their problem was that because there was no technique of recording from the film negative yet, the singers had to sing twice. Once for the actual film shooting of the song, and later, with the same set of orchestra, for commercial records. Sometimes, the original singer was not available due to any reason, some other singer had to sing for commercial records. Thus we have many such examples, where the singer in the film song and the record is different. However, this problem continued only till mid 50’s when the Tape and the required technique became available. With just one time recording, the film and commercial recording were taken care of.

Khemchand Prakash. K.Datta (Datta Koregaonkar), Rafiq Ghaznavi and Anupam Ghatak made their Debut as Music Directors. Kavi Pradeep wrote his first film song for film Kangan. In 1939, 2 most Unusual songs were presented, for the first time . One was a Multi-Lingual song from film Aadmi-39, a film by Prabhat….Kis liye kal ki baat. This song was in Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, Gujarati, Bangla, Tamil and Telugu. ( In its Marathi film version-” माणूस “, this song was only in one language-Marathi.) Different Lyricists and MDs were used for each language. The song became very popular.

Second unusual song was from film ‘ Ghareeb ka Laal’-1939. The song lyrics had the names of 32 artistes, operating in Hindi films that time. Top Heroes and Heroines were mentioned in this song. The beginning of the song was ” Tuze Bibbo kahoon ya Sulochana, Uma shashi kahoon ki Jamuna “. This song was sung by the comedian Mirza Musharraf. In later years many songs with film artistes’ names came but none had so many names. Thus this record is still unbroken, in case of this song.

Besides these songs, let us quickly take a look at some films of 1939….

Aadmi – Prabhat’s hit film, a remake of the Marathi film ” माणूस “. It had some good songs by Shanta Hublikar, Sundarabai Jadhav and Ram Marathe.

Adhuri Kahani – a trend of Tragedy films set by the effect of film ‘Devdas’. All the 3 main characters of this film commit suicide in the end.

Badi Didi – A New Theatres film.

Brandy ki Botal – Master Vinayak’s comedy remake of Marathi film ‘ ब्रॅंडीची बाटली ‘.

Dil hi to hai – Debut of Kidar Sharma as a Director and Ramola as a Heroine in a Hindi film.

Dushman – New Theatres’ film of Saigal, with only his 4 songs.

Ek hi Raasta – Sagar presents first film with 3 Heroes in one film.

Ghazi Salauddin – Debut of Khemchand Prakash as M.D.

Hukum ka Ikka – First film with a Triple role by Umakant Desai ( who later specialised as Lakshman in 7 films, including Ramrajya-43).

Imaandaar – Debut of actress Shamim Akhtar.

India in Africa – This was the First Hindi film to be shot abroad (in Africa). The Hero B. Nandrekar had also gone to Africa for its shooting. Naaz-54 was not the first such film, though HFGK mentions it so.( Ref – pp 69, Maharashtra-The Birthplace of Indian cinema by Isak Mujawar)

Kangan – First of the 4 Hit films of Ashok kumar and Leela Chitnis, made by Bombay Talkies. Kavi Pradeep’s Debut as a Lyricist in this film.

Kapal kundala – New Theatres. Pankaj mullick’s hit song ‘ Piya milan ko jaana ‘.

Leather Face – Debut of Meena kumari as a child artiste.

Navjeevan – Debut of Hansa Wadkar as a Heroine- Bombay Talkies film.

Pukar – Hit film from Minerva Movietone. Naseem Bano sings ” Zindagi ka saaz bhi kya saaz hai….”

BRANDI KI BOTAL(1939), a Huns Picture Production was produced and Directed by Master Vinayak(Father of actress Nanda). The film was a remake of the successful Marathi film ‘ Brandichi Batali ‘ (1938) written and directed by famous Marathi writer/Dramatist P.K.Atre.

The cast included Master Vinayak, Meenakshi Shirodkar(Grandmother of Shilpa and Namrata Shirodkar),Visnupant Jog, Javdekar, Salvi, Ashalata and Lyricist Pt. Indra etc.

Brandi ki botal was a story about morality and self discipline. The naively innocent Bagaram(Master Vinayak), a Municipality clerk, has to find and secure a bottle of Brandy, to restore the health of his Boss’s ill son. Bagaram secretly loves Malati (Meenakshi),boss’s daughter. For this reason, not knowing anything he sets about to search for a Brandy Bottle. The film is full of hilarious incidents. Finally, Bagaram gets the Brandy bottle, but Malati calls him Bhaiyya !

The role of Bagaram was done by Damuanna Malwankar, the famous Marathi comedian in the Marathi version and it was a grand success.

The music was given by Dada Chandekar(Shankar Vishnu Chandekar),and most of the songs as well as story, screenplay and dialogues were written by P.K. Atre himself. One song was by Pt. Indra. The singers were Meenakshi, Rajkumari and Master Vasant Eric.

Today’s song is sung by Meenakshi Shirodkar and Master Vasant Eric. The male voice that we hear in this song belongs to a singer named VASANT ERIC ( actual name Vasant Jadhav) or MASTER ERIC. He sang all the songs of Master Vinayak in Marathi and Hindi films, after the film Premveer-1937. Master Vinayak could not sing due to tooth problems and Master Vasant Eric used to sing all his songs. However in all such films Vinayak was credited with the songs instead of Eric.

Now, who was this Master Eric ? His real name was Vasant Jadhav. He was born in 1907 into a Marathi Christian family of Kolhapur. Bhalji Pendharkar selected him for acting and singing in Shyam Cinetone’s film Parth kumar-1934 (Hindi/Marathi) His pet name was Eric, so he became Vasant Eric and later on due to his singing, he was called Master Vasnt Eric. He joined Kolhapur Shalini Cinetone and worked with master Vinayak. He also worked in films like Aakashwani-34 and Honhaar-36. He sang songs in films from 1937 onwards. In all the Marathi/Hindi films of Vinayak he sang for him.

Vasant Eric knew Rattanbai. She introduced him to Ardeshir Irani and he employed Eric in his Music Department, playing various instruments and singing whenever needed. He acted and sang in films made by Huns, Navyug and Prafull films. In 1948, he gave music to a Marathi film. He was called by many MDs to play Chord Piano for their songs. The male voice in Lata’s First Hindi Playback song ” Paa laagu kar jori re” is that of Master Vasant Eric only.

His son Ravindra was an actor and daughter Hemlata Shankar (Jadhav) was a film dancer. His grandson Nitin Shanker is an arranger in Bollywood today. Master Vasant Eric died in 1982. (This information is based on an article in the book ” Marathi Chitrapat sangeet ” by Madhukar Potdar, with thanks.)


Song-Aao jhoola jhoolen Kaanhaa (Brandy Ki Bottle)(1939) Singers- Meenakshi Shirodkar, Vasant Eric, Lyricist- Pt. Indra, MD- Dada Chandekar
Both

Lyrics

Aao
jhoola jhoolen Kaanhaa
Aao
jhoola jhoolen Kaanhaa
Jamuna ke teer Kaanhaa
Jamuna ke teer Kaanhaa
Jamuna ke teer eer

Kanhaiyya ?
Jamuna ke teer
man ka hindola mera
man ka hindola mera
jhoolo nawelee
kunj mein Raadhaa raanee
kalee kalee ras kee pyaasee

?? ke bhare morey nainaa
?? ke bhare morey nainaa
phir bhi piya ke
piya ke ??
o Kaanhaa
Jamuna ke teer aao
Jamuna ke teer

chadramukhi pe chandr dhalaa hai
chadramukhi pe chandr dhalaa hai

surya binaa ye kamal khilaa hai
surya binaa ye kamal khilaa hai
madhuban mein nandan-ban
hamne paayaa

bansi ki dhun mein ?? ko bisraayaa
??
?? banwaaree na bisraanaa
bansi ki dhun mein
tum ho bansi ke taan
tum ho raadhaa ke praan
praanon se praan milaa ke
jeevan sangeet sunaanaa

jeevan sangeet sunaanaa
aao jhoolaa jhoolen Kaanhaa
aao jhoolaa jhoolen Kaanhaa
jamunaa ke teer aao
jamunaa ke teer
Kanhaiyaa aa aa aa
jamunaa ke teer


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5421 Post No. : 17779

“Chakori”(1949) was produced by Ravindra Dave and directed by Ramnarayan Dave for Ramesh Pictures, Bombay. This movie had Nalini Jaywant, Manorama, Bharat Bhushan, Randhir, Om Prakash, Cuckoo etc in it.

“Chakori”(1949) had eleven songs in it. Eight songs have been covered in the past.

Here is the ninth song from the movie to appear in the blog. The song is sung by Geeta Dutt (then Geeta Roy). Mulkraj Bhakri is the lyricist. Music is composed by Hansraj Bahl.

Only audio of the song is available. My guess is that the song was picturised on Nalini Jaiwant. I request our knowledgeable readers to throw light on the picturisation of this song.

Lyrics of the song were sent to me by Prakashchandra.

audio link:

Song-Nainon mein jhoolaa daalaa kaajal ki dor ka (Chakori)(1949) Singer-Geeta Dutt, Lyrics-Mulkraj Bhakri, MD-Hansraj Bahl

Lyrics(Provided by Prakashchandra)

nainon mein jhoolaa daalaa
kaajal kee dor kaa
kaajal ki dor kaa
nainon mein jhoolaa daalaa
kaajal kee dor kaa
kaajal ki dor kaa

palkon ki oat mein tu
chhip chhip jhoolnaa
hho chori chori jhoolnaa aaa
aan aaa aaa
hamein nahin bhoolnaa
nainon mein
nainon mein jhoolaa daalaa
kaajal kee dor kaa
kaajal ki dor kaa

tera meraa saath rahey ae
haathon mein haath rahey
tera meraa saath rahey ae
haathon mein haath rahey
hotee mulaaqaat rahey ae
hotee mulaaqaat rahey ae
yaad ye baat rahey
hamein nahin bhoolnaa aa
aan aaa aaa
hamein nahin bhoolnaa
nainon mein
nainon mein jhoolaa daalaa
kaajal kee dor kaa
kaajal ki dor kaa

tu to hai saajan meraa
lab pe hai naam teraa
tu to hai saajan meraa
lab pe hai naam teraa
dil mein hai ae teraa deraa
dil mein hai ae teraa deraa
palkon mein karoon baseraa
hamein nahin bhoolnaa aa
aan aaa aaa
hamein nahin bhoolnaa
nainon mein
nainon mein jhoolaa daalaa
kaajal kee dor kaa
kaajal ki dor kaa
nainon mein jhoolaa daalaa
kaajal kee dor kaa
kaajal ki dor kaa


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Blog Day :

5388 Post No. : 17673

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Blog 10-Year Challenge (2013-2023) – Song No.81
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On this date ten years ago (19 April 2013), eight songs from eight different movies were covered in the blog. Here are the details:-

Post No Song Title Name of the movie Remarks
7927 Uthho uthho hey Bharat Bharat Milaap(1942) 3 songs covered out of 11 by now
7928 Ab Raam raaj ki aage suno kahaani Jai Hanuman (1948) 2 songs covered out of 12 by now
7929 Bogi bogi bogi Ham Log(1951) Movie YIPPEED by now
7930 Jis din se miley tum ham Lalkaar(1956) 3 songs covered out of 8 by now
7931 Aag raag se aag lagaa do Sultan e Aalam (1956) 2 songs covered out of 8 by now
7932 Pyaasi hai mamta meri aa jaa re Maa Beta (1962) 4 songs covered out of 7 by now
7933 Tosey naina lagaa ke main haari Ishaaraa (1964) Movie YIPPEED by now
7934 Baar baar haan bolo yaar haan Lagaan (2001) 4 songs covered out of 7 by now

We observe that two movies (out of eight) whose songs were covered on this date ten years ago (on 19 april 2013) have since been YIPPEED in the blog. So we have six unYIPPEED movies that are eligible for Blog Ten Year Challenge today (19 April 2023).

That date ten years ago happened to be Ramnavami. On that occasion, a couple of Lord Ram related songs were covered from Lord Ram related movies. First movie was “Bharat Milaap” (1942) and second movie was “Jai Hanuman”(1948).

“Bharat Milaap” (1942) has already been taken up under BTYC earlier today. That leaves us with “Jai Hanuman”(1948) as the next Lord Ram related movie.

“Jai Hanuman”(1948) was directed by Ramchandra Thakur for Ranjit Movietone, Bombay. This movie had Nirupa Roy, P.Kailash, Keshav Purohit, Babu Raje, S.N.Tripathi, Rajrani,Ramkumar, Chunnilal Nayak, Shyam, Kamlakant, Popat Lal, Sachin Ghosh, Pesi Patel, Vasant Rao, Tara Bai, B.Kumar, Daksha, Chatterjee, Kamlesh Thakkar, Inamdar, Shobha Thakkar etc in it.

This movie had 12 songs in it. Two songs, both Lord Ram related, have been covered in the past.

Here is the third song from the movie. It is sung by Amirbai Karnataki. Pt Indra Chandra is the lyricist. Music is composed by Bulo C Rani.

Only audio of the song is available. From the sounds of it, this song appears to be picturised on Sita and her sahelis. I request our knowledgeable readers to throw light on the movie as well as on the picturisation of this song.

Lyrics of this song and other details were sent to me by Prakashchandra.

Audio link:

Song-Sakhi dheere dheere jhoola jhulaao (Jai Hanuman)(1948) Singer-Amirbai Karnataki, Lyrics-Pt Indra Chandra, MD-Bulo C Rani

Lyrics(Provided by Prakashchandra)

sakhi dheere dheere jhoolaa jhulaao
mohey dar laagey
sakhi dheerey dheere jhoolaa jhulaao
mohey dar laagey
sakhi dheere dheere jhoolaa jhulaao o
ho o chunariya ud ud jaaye
veni meri khul khul jaaye
na sataao
dheere dheere jhoolaa jhulaao
mohey dar laagey

kaun chunari tumhaaree udaaye
kaun chunari tumhaaree udaaye
kaun hai jo tumhein yoon sataaye
kaun hai jo tumhein yoon sataaye
woh hathheelaa pawan hokar magan
woh hathheelaa pawan hokar magan
jaaney kyon mujhko bulaaye samjhaao
dheere dheere jhoolaa jhulaao
mohey dar laagey
sakhi dheere dheere jhulaao o o o o o o
oo ooo ooo ooo ooo

geet gaataa hai koyee raseelaa
geet gaataa hai koyee raseelaa
an-dekhaa anokhaa hathheelaa aaa
an-dekhaa anokhaa hathheelaa aaa
bil boley sandeshaa sunaaye
bil boley sandeshaa sunaaye
jaaney kyon mujhko sataaye batlaao
dheere dheere jhoolaa jhulaao
mohey dar laagey
sakhi dheere dheere jhoola jhulaao o o o


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4931 Post No. : 16773

“Kurbaani”(1943) was directed by Ram Daryani for Murli Movietone, Bombay. This obscure “social” movie had Durga Khote, Ishwarlal, Vasanti, Kaushalya, Gulab, Kamla, Gope, Majid, Sheikh, Dharpure etc in it.

The movie had nine songs in it.

One song from “Kurbaani”(1943) has been covered in the past.

Here is the second song from “Kurbaani”(1943) to appear in the blog. This song is sung by Kaushalya and Ishwarlal. Wali Sahab is the lyricist. Music is composed by Khemchand Prakash.

Only the audio of this song is available. Seeing that the singers of this song acted in the movie as well, one can assume that the song was picturised on Kaushalya and Ishwarlal themselves.

Like the first song from the movie, this song too is a delightful song to listen to. This song has retained its freshness even today nearly 80 years after the song was created. Clearly a song that deserves to be better known among music lovers.


Song-Aao aao sajan tohe jhoola jhulaaun (Kurbaani)(1943) Singers-Kaushalya, Ishwarlal, Lyrics-Wali Sahab, MD-Khemchand Prakash
Both

Lyrics

aao
aao
aao
aao aao
aao aao sajan tohe jhoola jhulaaun
aao sajan tohe jhoola jhulaaun
saawan saawan manaao
saawan saawan manaao
tohe jhoola jhulaaun
tohe jhoola jhulaaun
aao sajan tohe jhoola jhulaaun

kaajal ki dori ka jhoola banaa ke
kaajal ki dori ka jhoola banaa ke
nainon ki putli mein tohe bithha ke
nainon ki putli mein tohe bithha ke
aasha ki duniya basaaun
aasha ki duniya basaaun
tohe jhoola jhulaaun
tohe jhoola jhulaaun
tohe jhoola jhulaaun
tohe jhoola jhulaaun
tohe jhoola jhulaaun
tohe jhoola jhulaaun
aao sajan tohe jhoola jhulaaun
aao sajan tohe jhoola jhulaaun
jhoolo to main baanh ka jhoola banaaun
jhoolo to main baanh ka jhoola banaaun

tumhen is naye jhoolne mein bithhaaun
tumhen is naye jhuoolne mein bithhaaun

udhar gaao tum
main idhar gungunaaun
udhar gaao tum
main idhar gungunaaun
tohe jhoola jhulaaun
tohe jhoola jhulaaun
tohe jhoola jhulaaun
tohe jhoola jhulaaun
aao
aao
aao
aao aao
aao aao sajan tohe jhoola jhulaaun
aao sajan tohe jhoola jhulaaun

saawan saawan manaaun
saawan saawan manaaun
tohe jhoola jhulaaun
tohe jhoola jhulaaun
tohe jhoola jhulaaun
tohe jhoola jhulaaun
tohe jhoola jhulaaun
tohe jhoola jhulaaun
aao sajan tohe jhoola jhulaaun
aao sajan tohe jhoola jhulaaun


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.

Blog Day :

4504 Post No. : 16044

Today, November 16th 2020 is the 53rd Remembrance Day of the music director, Roshan Lal Nagrath (14/07/1917 – 16/11/1967). In 1951, he had composed teri duniya mein dil lagta nahi waapas bula le for ‘Baawre Nain’ (1951).The Almighty seemed to have taken his composition seriously and snatched him away from us early at the age of 50.

Most of Roshan’s song compositions were like poems woven in Hindustani classical music. This was but natural because firstly, he was trained in Hindustani classical music in Marris College of Music (now Bhatkhande Music Institute) in Lucknow in the 1930s. During the same period, he had also learnt Sarod from Ustad Allauddin Khan and later learnt Dilruba/Esraj on his own. Secondly, he worked with illustrious lyricists who were also poets, like Kidar Sharma, Shailendra, Sahir Ludhianvi, Majrooh Sultanpuri, Shakeel Badayuni, Neeraj, Bharat Vyas, Kavi Pradeep etc.

In 1940, Roshan joined All India Radio (AIR), Delhi as a musician where he came into contact with Khurshid Anwar who had joined AIR as Music Programme Producer in 1939. Roshan worked in AIR for about 8 years during which he got the rich experience as a musician for all types of semi-classical music like thumris, dadras, ghazals, qawwalis and also the folk songs. During his stint in AIR, Roshan got married to Ira Moitra who was a regular singer at AIR, Delhi.

In 1948, Roshan decided to shift to Mumbai to try a career in Hindi film industry as a music director. Due to his wife Ira Roshan’s acquaintance with Anil Biswas, Roshan got the first-hand exposure of composing songs for films from Anil Biswas by attending his song recordings. During this period, he also worked with his erstwhile AIR colleague, music director Khurshid Anwar as his music assistant for ‘Singaar’ (1949). After this assignment, it was struggling days for him as he did not have any assignment.

Roshan met Kidar Sharma, producer-director, who had already announced his film, ‘Neki Aur Badi’ (1949) with Snehal Bhatkar as the music director. He found Roshan to be musically talented person. Knowing that Roshan was going through hard days, Kidar Sharma decided to entrust the work of music direction to him with the consent of Snehal Bhatkar. [Incidentally, for ‘Gunaah’ (1953), after one song, Kidar Sharma had replaced Roshan with his consent and entrusted the music direction to Snehal Bhatkar]. Unfortunately, ‘Neki Aur Badi’ (1949) badly flopped at the box office. Roshan was devasted and went into depression. Again, Kidar Sharma came to his rescue and entrusted him the music direction of his next film ‘Baawre Nain’ (1950).

The box office success of ‘Baawre Nain’ (1950) with almost all the 9 songs in the film becoming popular, established Roshan as a successful music director. This success was followed by ‘Ham Log’ (1951), ‘Malhar’ (1951), ‘Anhonee’ (1952), ‘Naubahaar’ (1952), Chaandni Chowk’ (1954) etc. Roshan did not have a good success in the second half of 1950s as a result of which he had taken some ‘B’ grade films’ assignments. In the 1960s, like ‘Baawre Nain’ (1950), Roshan started with ‘Barsaat Ki Raat’ (1960) which become one of the biggest block busters of 1960 with all its songs becoming popular.

Career-wise, 1960s were the best period for Roshan. He had a spate of musical successes in ‘Aarati’ (1962), ‘Taj Mahal’ (1963), ‘Dil Hi To Hai’ (1963), ‘Chitralekha’ (1964), ‘Dooj Ka Chaand’ (1964), ‘Bheegi Raat’ (1965), ‘Mamta’ (1966), ‘Bahu Begum’ (1967), ‘Anokhi Raat’ (1967) etc.

Mukesh was a friend of Roshan during their Delhi days in the early 40s. With Raj Kapoor in ‘Baawre Nain’ (1950), Mukesh was the obvious choice to sing for Raj Kapoor under his music direction. One can say that it was with Mukesh Roshan started his musical success in ‘Baawre Nain’, ‘Malhaar’ (1951) and ‘Hum Log’ (1951). Incidentally, when Mukesh produced his first film ‘Malhaar’ (1951), he entrusted the music direction to his friend Roshan.

Following the contractual obligation for Mukesh under which he could not sing songs for any other films during the making of ‘Maashooka’ (1953) in which he was the lead actor, Roshan’s collaboration with Mohammed Rafi among other male playback singers began to a greater extent than the earlier period. During 1953-56, Mukesh was concentrating mainly in his acting career and so was Talat Mehmood. This gave Rafi an opportunity to consolidate his collaboration with other music directors. In due course of time, Rafi’s collaboration with Roshan rose to such an extent that post 1954, Rafi became the main male playback singer for Roshan and sang most of the songs for Roshan among the male playback singers. . Among the female playback singers, obviousely, Lata Mangeshkar was Roshan’s main singer followed by Asha Bhosle.

Interestingly, Roshan’s musical career really took off with his association with Mukesh in Baawre Nain’ (1950) and ended with Mukesh in Roshan’s last film, ‘Anokhi Raat’ (1968).

The discussion on Roshan would remain incomplete without discussing his role in making the filmy qawwalis popular. If Madan Mohan was regarded as the king in the musical compositions of ghazals, Roshan was the king of the musical compositions of qawwalis. In ‘Chaandni Chowk’ (1954), Roshan composed his first qawaali – an all ladies qawwali ‘har baat puchhiye ye haqeeqat na puchhiye’. But his most popular qawwalis came from the pen of Sahir Ludhainvi in ‘Baabar’ (1960), Barsaat Ki Raat’ (1960), ‘Dil Hi To Hai’ (1963), ‘Taj Mahal’ (1963) and ‘Bahu Begum’ (1967).

The piece de resistance among the filmy qawwalis both for Roshan and Sahir Ludhianvi is the immortal na to kaarwaan ki talash hai ……ye ishq ishq hai from ‘Barsaat Ki Raat’ (1960). This is an unique qawwali. To the best of my knowledge, it is Hindi’s films’ longest qawwali (12minutes). It is the only filmy qawwali in which apart from Urdu/Persian/Hindi words, 4 lines in Punjabi and few words in Brijbhasha have been used. It is the only filmy qawwali in which an extensive definition of ‘ishq’ has been outlined to include not only the Sufiyana tradition of love towards God but also the spiritual love of Radha-Krishna, Meerabai, Seeta and Ram, Lord Buddha, Masiha among others. This type of qawwalis can only happen in India beacuse of its composite culture. Both Roshan and Sahir Ludhianvi had spent their formative stages of life in the neighbourhood of muslims and Hindu/Sikhs, respectively.

For Roshan, it was a challenging work to sustain the audience and listeners’ interest in 12-minute qawwali especially at a time when people had no patience to listen to even 3-minute songs in the theatres. It was the ingenuity of Roshan that he composed the qawwali, dividing in three broad segments with varying melodies and rhythms and ending with fast tempo and crescendo. It is also a qawwali in which five playback singers lent their voices – Manna Dey, S D Batish, Asha Bhosle, Sudha Malhotra and Mohammed Rafi.

During his filmy career (1949-1967), Roshan composed around 435 songs in 58 films of which the Blog has covered 347 songs as of date.

On the occasion of the 53rd Remembrance Day of Roshan, I am presenting a melodious song, ‘chheen liya beimaan mera dil’ from ‘Zindagi Aur Hum’ (1962). The song is sung by Lata Mangeshkar and is picturised on Nalini Jaywant. The words are of Pandit Shivkumar which have been set to music by Roshan. Apparently, the tune of the song is inspired from Roshan’s own song, saari saari raat teri yaad sataaye.

Video link:

Audio link:

Song-Chheen liya re beimaan mera dil (Zindagi Aur Hum)(1962) Singer-Lata, Lyrics-Pt Shivkumar, MD-Roshan

Lyrics

chheen liya re beimaan mera dil
chheen liya re beimaan mera dil
toot na jaaye kahin
toot na jaaye ae
toot na jaaye beimaan mera dil
chheen liya re beimaan

sona na maanga roopa na manga
nahin maanga dhan dhaan ho o
jaadu ki joro baandhi najariya
kar diye bekal praan ho o
kar diye bekal praan
chheen liya aa
chheen liya re beimaan mera dil
chheen liya re beimaan mera dil

champa na maanga
chameli na maangi
na rang ras ki khaan ho o
tere ishaare pe bagiya ki bagiya
kar deti kurbaan ho o
kar deti kurbaan
chheen liya aa
chheen liya re beimaan mera dil
chheen liya re beimaan mera dil

naam na jaanoon
gaam na jaanoon
na pehli pehchaan ho o
kaise tikaa loon kaise nikaaloon
shaam ka tu mehmaan ho o
shaam ka tu mehmaan
chheen liya aa
chheen liya re beimaan mera dil
chheen liya re beimaan mera dil
toot na jaaye kahin
toot na jaaye ae
toot na jaaye beimaan mera dil


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Blog Day :

4497 Post No. : 16030

‘Zindagi Aur Hum’ (1962) was produced by Rashid Parwez and was directed by Pandit Anandkumar. The star cast included Nalini Jaywant, Chand Usmani, Naina, Dinesh, David, Leela Mishra, S Nazir, Mukri, Amar, Jagdish Kanwal, Chandabai, Anwaribai etc. The story was written by Pandit Shivkumar who was the elder brother of Pandit Anandkumar. Pandit Shivkumar also wrote lyrics for 5 of the 6 songs. It was a last film for Pandit Anandkumar as a director though he continued to write screen-play and dialogues for few more subsequent films. It was also the last film for Pandit Shivkumar if I go by the tribute given to him in the credit title of the film.

The highlight of the film is that a major part of the story revolves around the three main actresses – Nalini Jaywant, Chand Usmani and Naina. Hence, the six songs in the film were rendered by Lata Mangeshkar who has lip synced for all the three main actresses in the film. All the 6 songs (of which one song has two versions – solo version by Lata and duet version by Suman Kalyanpur and Sudha Malhotra) are very melodious. I am surprised as to why these songs set to music by Roshan are not as well-known as his equivalent songs in other films. As usual, the reason was that the film failed at the box office.

The DVD of the film is available on one of the video sharing platforms. Unfortunately, the film is heavily edited as a result of which there is some problems with the continuity of the story. With this limitation, I am attempting to present a gist of the story of the film below:

Chaudhari Niranjan Singh (S. Nazir) is a wealthy and a powerful landlord having two daughters – Tulsi (Chand Usmani) and Surajmukhi (Naina). In the neighbouhood, Kaudi (Nalini Jaywant) stays with her widowed mother (Leela Mishra). Tulsi, Surajmukhi and Kaudi are friends and they spend most of their time together. They always have some teasing sessions. In one of such sessions about their life partners, Surajmukhi’s says that she would marry a man of her choice while Tulsi says that she would marry a boy as per her father’s wishes. Kaudi on the other hand says that she would never marry in her life. But their fate is written something else.

There is a secret in Chaudhari Niranjan’s life. In the younger days, he had an affair with a widowed girl with whom he had a child out of wedlock. For the sake of family prestige, both the widowed girl and Chaudhari Niranjan decide to keep this as a secret. That child was none other than Tulsi and the widowed mother was also Kaudi’s mother.

After some years, Choudhari Niranjan plans for marrying Tulsi with a boy from his own community. He had selected Sujaan Singh, the son of his close friend as a bridegroom for Tulsi. Chaudhary Niranjan’s community leaders are against this marriage due to Tulsi being a child out of wedlock. But Choudhari goes ahead with the marriage. On the wedding day, when the couple were returning after the marriage, Sujaan is shot dead (probably akin to a honour killing). Tulsi returns to her home as a widow.

After some time, Manvir Singh (Dinesh, who has a double role in the film) along with his father (David) comes to Kaudi’s house for a temporary stay. Manvir Singh has returned from abroad after completing his education. The family had known each other. What surprises everyone is that Manvir Singh resembles Sujaan Singh. Being a guest in Kaudi’s house, both Manvir Singh and Kaudi have some ‘nonk-jhonk’ (light teasing arguments). In this process, Kaudi develops liking for him. Both Tulsi and Surajmukhi had been the childhood friends of Manvir Singh as his father was a friend of Chaudhari Niranjan.

In the meanwhile, Chaudhuri Niranjan is looking for a bridegroom for his second daughter, Surajmukhi and he has already selected Manvir Singh. Surajmukhi is happy about her father’s selection as she also secretly loves him. During the discussion with Manvir Singh’s father, Chaudhary offers 50 acres of land as a dowry which he raises to 100 acres. But Manvir Singh declines to marry a girl on the strength of her father’s money power.

Ever since Manvir Singh has come to stay in Kaudi’s house as a guest, Tulsi gets to see him often. But whenever she sees him or hears when he plays his flute, she gets convulsion and falls on the ground injuring herself. She thinks that her husband Sujaan has resurfaced. Both Kaudi and Surajmukhi tries to convince Tulsi that it is her illusion as he is not Sujaan. But she is not convinced. In this milieu, a situation develops in which all the three girls, Tulsi, Surajmukhi and Kaudi secretly love Manvir Singh but there is no reciprocation from his side to any one of them.

In the meanwhile, in the greed of getting 100 acres of land from Chaudhari Niranjan as dowry for marrying Surajmukhu, Manvir Singh’s father pressurizes the son to agree to marry her. In disgust, Manver Singh leaves the house to meet Chaudhary Niranjan in his mansion. After seeing him, Chaudhari Niranajan is perplexed as he is also surprise to find him resembling Sujaan. Manvir Singh makes it very clear to Chaudhari Niranjan that he has come with intention of his marriage with Tulsi after coming to know of unfortunate events in her life. Chaudhari Niranjan gets angry on Manvir Singh and ask him to leave. Surajmukhi secretly hears this conversation. This news also goes to Tulsi also who show happiness. Later Manvir Singh meets Tulsi to get her nod for the marriage. But after seeing him, she once again gets convulsion from which she does not recover and dies.

With this incidence, Surajmukhi decides to leave her father’s house as she does not need any worldly pleasure. However, Manvir’s father persuades her to return for his own vested interest to getting a fat dowry. Both Chaudhary Niranjan and Manvir Singh’s greedy father think that deck is now cleared for marriage of Surajmukhi with Manvir Singh. But there is a twist in the tale. When all of them arrive at Kaudi’s house, they find that Manvir Singh has already married to Kaudi. After some arguments, wiser counsel prevails on Chaudhari Niranjan Singh and with the consent of Surajmukhi, he agrees to formally get Kaudi married to Manvir Singh at his expenses in his haveli as a penance for his daughter Tulsi.

The film has an unusual story line in the genre of family drama. Pandit Shivkumar’s dialogues are crisp without using long monologues. The language used in the dialogues is a mix of high-sounding Hindi and Urdu words and sounds quite different from the usual ‘Hindustani’ used in the family drama. All the main actors in the film including the new comers Naina and Dinesh have given good performances. For Director Pandit Anandkumar and music director, Roshan, the film is their repeat performances in ‘Naubahaar’ (1952) in regards to the music composition of the songs and the picturization thereof.

Despite good story, good performances by the main actors and melodious songs, why did the film failed to score on the box offices? In my view, the film did not have ‘star value’ in the sense that barring Nalini Jaywant who was already on a declining trajectory on her acting career, none of the other actors had the capacity to attract the cinegoers. There were also no box-office ‘ingredients’ like villain, mujra dances, fights etc. Even the role of Chaudhari Niranjan as the landlord had no villainous character and hence no mujra dances and fights.

‘Zindagi Aur Hum’ (1962) had 6 songs, including a double version song of which 3 songs have been covered in the Blog. I am presenting the 4th song, jaa re jaa re meri chhod chunariya, sung by Lata Mangeshkar to appear on the Blog. The song is written by Pandit Shivkumar which is set to music by Roshan. The song is picturised on Nalini Jaywant.

I have come across on the internet at many places that Shiv Kumar Saroj has been accredited to the songs of this film except one song which is written by Veer Mohammed Puri. However, I have gone by the name given in the credit title which is ‘Pandit Shivkumar’.

I feel that Shiv Kumar Saroj who was a well-known announcer with Radio Ceylon during 1959-68 is a different person than Pandit Shivkumar. It is evident from the credit title of the film where it is mentioned that the film is dedicated to Pandit Shivkumar who could not see his visions realised. This indicates that at the time of release of the film, he was not alive to see his film which he wrote. Pandit Shivkumar started his filmy career in mid 1930s with Prabhat Film Company as writer. Later, his younger brother Pandit Anandkumar joined him. Shiv Kumar Saroj occasionally wrote lyrics for films from 1966 (Naag Mandir) till about mid-1980s.

With this song, only two songs from the film are left to be covered which I propose to cover in my next set of articles slated for this month.

Video Clip:

Audio Clip:

Song-Jaa re jaa re meri chhod chunariya (Zindagi aur Hum)(1962) Singer-Lata, Lyrics-Pt Shiv Kumar, MD-Roshan

Lyrics(Based on Video Clip)

jaa re jaa re meri chhod chunariya
ab main nyaari jhooloongi
jhooloongi
jaa re jaa re meri chhod chunariya

tere kaaran jhoola daala
naihar ki amraai
teri preet ke geet alaape
koyal sun sharmaayi
ae ri ae ri mujhe
ae ri ae ri mujhe laagi najariya
ab main nyaari jhooloongi ee
jhooloongi
jaa re jaa re meri chhod chunariya

bhaav ki daali chaav ki aali
prem dor latkaayi
bhaav na jaana chaav na jaana
jhonka de jhatkaayi
ae ri ae ri mujhe
ae ri ae ri mujhe aayi sooratiya
ab main nyaari jhooloongi
jhooloongi
jaa re jaa re meri chhod chunariya

toone aisa jaadu daala
sab sudh budh bisraayi
tere rang mein rang liya baana
ban thhan kar itraayi
ae ri ae ri main to
ae ri ae ri main to bhooli dagariya
ab main nyaari jhooloongi ee
jhooloongi
jaa re jaa re meri chhod chunariya
ab main nyaari jhooloongi ee
jhooloongi


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Blog Day : 4244 Post No. : 15463

“Umrao Jaan” (1981) was produced and directed by Muzaffar Ali. The movie had Rekha, Farooq Sheikh, Naseruddin Shah, Raj Babbar, Shaukat Kaifi, Bharat Bhushan, Satish Shah, Prema Narayan, Dina Pathak, Leela Mishra, Akbar Rashid, Gajanan Jagirdar, Khan Ghizlai, Rita Rani Kaul etc in it.

The movie had ten songs in it. Six of these songs have been covered in the past.

Here is the seventh song from “Umrao Jaan” (1982) to appear in the blog. this song is a classical song which is sung on traditional lyrics. It is sung by Shahida Khan according to HFGK. But it turns out that the song, as seen in the picturization is sung by Ustaad Ghulam Mustafa Khan. Shahid Khan version was the record version of the song.Khayyam is the music director.

Video – (Ustaad Ghulam Mustafa Khan version)

Audio – (Shahida Khan version)

Song-Jhoola kinne daala re(Umraao Jaan)(1981) Singer-Ustaad Ghulam Mustafa Khan/Shahida Khan, MD-Khayyam

Lyrics
Ustaad Ghulam Mustafa Khan version

jhoola kinne daala re amraiyya
jhoole mora sainya loon main balainya
re amraiyya
jhoola kinne daala re amraiyya

ambuva ke pedva pe jhoola jhoolat hai
ambuva ke pedva pe jhoola jhoolat hai
garba lagaaye pakad leenhi bainya
re amraiyya
Jhoola kinne daala re amraiyya
jhoola kinne daala re amraiyya

dar mohe laage jiya mora larje ae
dar mohe laage jiya mora larje
haule haule jhoolna jhulaao more sainya
haule haule bhoolna khiladi more sainya
re amraiyya
jhoola kinne daala re amraiyya
re amraiyya
re amraiyya


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Blog Day : 3511 Post No. : 14106

“Kahin Pyaar Na Ho Jaaye”(1963) was directed by K Parwez for Young Technicians Unit-Baria Films, Bombay. The movie had Shakila, Mehmood, Om Prakash, Johny Walker, Sheila Kashmiri, Poornima, Shammi, Anwar Hussain, Amar, Altaf, Dilip Dutt, Brahm, Jeewan Kala, Madhumati, Kallan, Babu Raje etc in it.

The movie had six songs in it. Five songs from the movie have been covered in the past. Here are the details of the songs covered earlier in the blog.

Song Title

Post No.

Post Date

Tunak tun tun bole jiyaa 3612 6-Mar-11
Hamko tumse pyaar hai 5161 20-Dec-11
Thhumak thhumak mat chalo kisi ka dil tadpega 11035 8-Apr-15
Aji soorat ho to aisi ho (Kahin Pyaar Na Ho Jaaye) 13673 24-Oct-17
Meri jaan meri jaan main jaantaa hoon 14088 22-Feb-18

Here is the sixth and final song from “Kahin Pyaar Na Ho Jaaye”(1963) to appear in the blog. This song is sung by Mahendra Kapoor and Lata. Gulshan Bawra is the lyricist. Music is composed by Kalyanji Anandji. The song is picturised as a “jhoola ” song cum expression of love song on Mehmood and Shakila.

With this song, “Kahin Pyaar Na Ho Jaaye”(1963) joins the list of movies that have all their songs covered in the blog.


Song-Tera teer pe teer chalaana (Kahin Pyaar Na Ho Jaaye)(1963) Singers-Mahendra Kapoor, Lata, Lyrics-Gulshan Bawra, MD-Kalyanji Anandji

Lyrics

tera teer pe teer chalaana
mera ghaayal sa ho jaana
tera teer pe teer chalaana
mera ghaayal sa ho jaana
kaise bhoolega dil wo tera sharmaana
kaise bhoolega dil wo tera sharmaana
dil se dil ka takra jaana
aankhon aankhon ka lad jaana
kaise bhoolega dil wo tera tadpaana
kaise bhoolega dil wo tera tadpaana

ik din toone mere seene pe sharmaa ke rakha sar apna
ik din toone mere seene pe sharmaa ke rakha sar apna
banke mehmaan mere ghar aaye
mere dil mein bana liya ghar apna

dil ka dil mein rahe thhikaana
jalta hai to jale zamaana
kaise bhoolega dil wo tera sharmaana
kaise bhoolega dil wo tera tadpaana

wo pahle pahal tera aa jaana
chhup chhup ke haseen raaton mein
wo pahle pahal tera aa jaana
chhup chhup ke haseen raaton mein

milte thhe kabhi hum chhup chhup ke
saawan ki jawaan barsaaton mein
aise mein dil ka ghabraana
koi dekh na le begaana
kaise bhoolega dil wo tera tadpaana

hoy kaise bhoolega dil wo tera sharmaana
tera teer pe teer chalaana
mera ghaayal sa ho jaana
kaisa bhoolega dil wo tera sharmaana
kaise bhoolega dil wo tera tadpaana


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“Dushman”(1957) was directed by Raj Rishi for Kwatra Art Productios, Bombay. The movie had Dev Anand, Usha Kiran, Radhakishan, Kumkum, Prabhu Dayal, Master Romi, Manju, Minu Mumtaz, Chaad Burque, Panditjee, Manjeet, Raja Kapoor, Nagpal, Jerry, Ravikant, Jagdeesh Kamal, Nadir, S Gautam, Prakash Dutt, Sharma, Chadrakant etc in it.
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“Reshmi Roomaal”(1961) was directed by Harsukh Bhatt for Zar Productions, Bombay. The movie had Shakila, Manoj Kumar, K N Singh, Maruti, Shammi, Helen, Nasreen, Shivraj, Kamal Kapoor, Sulochana Chatterji, Keshav, Bharm Bhardwaj, Jankidas, Jagdish Kanwal, Prem Kumar, Narbada Shankar, Prem Sagar, Ratan Gaurang etc in it.
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