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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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5754 Post No. : 18278

Today’s song is from a stunt film Toofan-1969. The film was an unusual stunt film story. It was directed by Radhakant and the Music Director was Daan Singh.

The Lyricist was Akhtar Romani. He is the same lyricist who entered the film world with a big bang. His first song was the only song he wrote for S.N.tripathi in that film. However, this only song became a big Hit song which is popular even today. The film was Hatimtai-1956 and the song was ” Parwar digar e aalam, tera hi hai sahara “, sung by Mohd. rafi and lip synched by Jairaj on the screen Romani’s career as a Lyricist was a short one. He wrote only 70 songs in 29 films. However he remained busy writing on film songs. film stories, s/plays and dialogues for more than 20 hit films. He also featured and conducted about 4 radio programmes. There was just one more lyricist who also wrote popular songs in his first film. Majrooh Sultanpuri (Asrar hasan khan ) wrote 7 songs in his first film ” Shahjehan”-1946 and all songs became hit songs. These were sung by Saigal, composed by Naushad.

The cast of the film was Dara Singh, Anita, N.A.Ansari, Azaad, Shabana, Johnny Whisky, Ratnamala, Arvind pandya, Dilip Dutt, helen, Bipin gupta and many others. I have not seen this film. After 1965 I had almost given up seeing films en masse and saw only selected films, due to my concentration on career and married life. I was a great fan of Dara Singh. Not because of his wrestling skills or physique but because he gave a respectable form to stunt and action films. Before him , action films were meant for only lower strata of the society like daily earners or labourers etc. who would encourage the hero on screen to beat the villains, bu shouting motivating suggestions and encouragement like ” Maar saale ko” or ” kar de batti gul” etc. After Dara singh entered the action films, his films were shown in better theatres and the type of audience also changed to better. After I started writing articles on old films, I was a bit shy to admit my love for his films. Then I came to know about ‘Memsaab’ (Greta Kaemmer), who proudly declared her status of being a fan of Dara Singh and I was happy to get a companion. Dara Singh was a perfect gentleman and never tried to be in the limelight. In fact, he used to feel very shy to be photographed or interviewed.

The 60s opened up a new Genre of Films. Films in which muscular He-men ‘acted’. Really speaking, their dialogues were delivered silently by their solid bodies and the fighting they did on the screens. Here were the Heroes who would kill dangerous Jungle animals barehanded, break Iron chains, fight with 10 people at a time, ride horses, swim expertly and overall display their physical might !

The beginning was done in 1958 with ‘Zimbo’, featuring Azad-a Parsee Bodybuilder. That way, Dara Singh had entered the films in 1952 with ‘Sangdil’ and he had a wrestling match with Om Prakash in ‘Pehli Jhalak’-1954. His first film as a hero -King Kong came in 1962, when he was already 34 years old !

That was a period when the Indian culture of defeats in all possible sports was on the peak and the Indians were looking for a Saviour. In Dara Singh, India found a SuperHero who won not only in India but also in Commonwealth and the World championships. Dara Singh was much more than an Actor. He was a piece of Folklore and he became a social phenomenon soon. He was a hybrid of Myth and Folklore, larger than life evocation of the Desi Hero. He represented the Indian idea of Masculinity-The Mard, a He Man. He had the muscle prowess but no aggression. He evoked security, gentleness and the right kind of patriarchy. He was proud to be a Jat and an Indian.

He was a Pehalwan trained in the Indian style of wrestling. Dara’s victories against King Kong and Zybisco in the late 50s made him a legend. Lakhs of people would gather at the venues of his bouts. He brought wrestling from the Akhadas to the Drawing rooms of Affluent homes. He remained Undefeated in 500+ bouts in his lifetime, winning Indian Championship in 1953, the Commonwealth championship in 1959 and the World Championship in 1968, when he was into acting in Hindi films full fledgedly !

He did roles of Kings, Princes, Rebels, Mutineer, Jungle Boy, Samson, Hercules, Sikander and the greatest role of his life as Hanuman. There may be 300 odd types of Ramayans, but only one Hanuman-Dara Singh. He was, for most people, the embodiment of the Monkey God. Without him the Ramayan was never the same ! Dara Singh, I am sure, would have been the original choice of even Valmiki !!!

Dara Singh was the Indian Superman. Even when he started doing character roles, the Heroes were happy to work with him. In one interview ( he gave interviews very rarely-he used blush too much), he had said,” Out of all my roles, I liked my role in Anand-70, where I was very comfortable doing my real life role-that of a Pahilwan in an Akhada !” He was probably one of the few who worked in A, B and C grade films in his life with equal ease and aplomb. Whether it was Mumtaz or Amitabh, he remained Dara Singh-Rustic, Strong, Indian, Gentle, Protective and Chivalrous.

Dara Singh was born at village Dharmuchak in Amritsar district on 19-11-1928 to Surat Singh and Balwant Kaur. He was married to Surjit Kaur Randhwa on 11-5-1961 and they had a son. From his second marriage he had 3 daughters and 2 sons. At the age of 22, he went to Singapore and won several championships. At 24 he did his first film role in Sangdil-52 and he became a Hero at 34 years of age. He did 122 Hindi films, 22 Punjabi films, besides producing 3 and directing 9 films.

He continued wrestling up to 1970. In 1978, he established his Dara Studios in Mohali, Punjab. His last film came in 2012-“Ata pata lapata”. With Mumtaz he did 16 films out of which 12 were Hit films. In those days, he was paid 4 lakh rupees per film. Dara Singh died on 12-7-2012. His brother Randhwa died on 21-10-2013 ( this news was hardly noticed).

Many Bodybuilders tried to copy Dara Singh. Their films never succeeded because people knew who the original Superman was. Indrajit, Viju Penkar, Hercules, Azad and even Randhwa did few Dara-like films, but they were never accepted by the audience. Dara Singh was Unique. One may think that his films were seen and liked only by the lower strata of society or exclusive C grade film audiences, but it was wrong. Dara Singh films were ‘Super Deluxe’ versions of B and C class films and were liked by people from Top class to bottom class. I was a great fan of Dara films and rarely missed any of them.

I was surprised to find the name of Arvind Pandya in the cast of this film. I knew he was a great Theatre personality and a Gujarati film star. He did very few Hindi films. Arvind Pandya (21 March 1923 – 22 July 1980) was an actor. In his career spanning 35 years, he acted in more than one hundred films including 75 Gujarati and 25 Hindi films. He also worked in Hindi and Gujarati theatres.

Pandya was born on 21 March 1923 in Bhadran. He spent his childhood in Khambhat and Baroda (now Vadodara). His father Ganpatrao was an executive manager in the Mandvi branch of Bank of Baroda. His mother’s name was Anandiben. He participated in the Indian independence movement and in 1942 Quit India movement.

Pandya went to Bombay (now Mumbai) in 1937 and joined St. Xavier’s College where he studied BA in Sanskrit. He studied music at Devdhar Classes and later under Pandharinath Kolhapure. After listening to him at an event at St. Xavier’s College, he was selected as a playback singer in Mansarovar (1946) by S. N. Tripathi in which he sang a solo as well as a duet with Shamshad Begum.

To enter the Hindi film industry, he visited Fatelal Damle’s studio several times in a period of six months but was denied. He continued to work in the theatre. He came to the attention of Prakash Picture’s director Shantikumar Dave who saw him in his role of Kach in the play Kach-Devyani.

Shantikumar cast him in the lead role in Gujarati film Bhakta Surdas (1947) in which he also sang several songs. After some Gujarati films, he worked with Meena Kumari in Hindi film Naulakha Haar (1953). He continued to play supporting roles as well as lead roles in Hindi and Gujarati films. He portrayed mostly historical, social and rural characters in these films. In the 1960s, he portrayed negative characters. He had played saints as well as bandits in his films. In his career spanning 35 years, he acted in more than one hundred films including 73 Gujarati films. He was known as “Ashok Kumar of Gujarati cinema”. Due to his efforts, Laxmi Studio was established in Baroda in 1975.

He continued acting in the Gujarati theatre. His successful plays included Sapnana Sathi, Jesal Toral, Unda Andhare Thi, Gadh Juno Girnar, Mari Venima Char Char Phool, Swayamsiddha, Major Chandrakant, Pachhale Barane and Sambharna. He received a prize from the Government of Maharashtra for his play Sapnana Sathi.

He was awarded several times for acting by the Government of Gujarat including in 1961 for Kadu Makrani, in 1962 for Nandanvan, in 1963-64 for Jivno Jugari, in 1970 for Majiyara Haiya and in 1975 for Tanariri.

He died on 22 July 1980 following brain hemorrhage. (based on an interview by Rajnikumar Pandyaji, wiki, muVyz and my notes. Thanks to all).

Today’s song is sung by Manna Dey. This was another surprise, as Manna Dey was never known to sing in such films. Maybe Daan Singh roped him in to sing this comedy song. With this song, the film Toofan-1969 becomes a YIPPEE film, with all its songs are covered here. Enjoy….


Song- Suna thha maine bachpan mein (Toofaan)(1969) Singer- Manna Dey, Lyricist-Akhtar Romani, MD- Daan Singh

Lyrics

suna thha maine bachpan mein
san unneessaupachpan mein
suna tha maine bachpan mein
san unneessaupachpan mein
allah meharbaan to gadha pahalwaan
allah meharbaan to gadha pahalwaan
arre aaj samajh aai jakar baat kahi ye jeevan mein
suna thha maine bachpan mein
san unneessau pachpan mein

motor mein yoon saath saathi chale
cyunti ke sang jaise hathi chale
leke mujhe meri sasural mein
kis shaan ye bhi chale
aage chala thaanedar
peechhe saare jamaadaar
beech mein dulha banke baithha, main albela daaku
roti soorat bhi hansti hai
pyaare ek din darpan mein
suna thha maine bachpan mein
san unneessau pachpan mein

lo lo lo lo lo lo lo
lo lo lo lo lo lo lo
lo lo lo lo lo lo lo

daata kadak thha naram ho gaya
banda thha thhanda garam ho gaya
zaalim se badla, har ek julm ka
ab to ye mera dharam ho gaya
maaroonga main gin ke yaar
dushman poore ekhazar
chor luteron ke adde ki, todoonga main har deewaar
maalik chaahe to bin mausam, phool khila de gulshan mein
suna thha maine bachpan mein
san unneessau pachpan mein

pahle tha kismat ka khaana kharaab
ab hoon muqaddar ka lekin nawab
pahle koi poochhta bhi na thha
ab sab khilayenge haluaa kabab
pahle to padti thhi maar, ab phoolon ke padenge haar
pahle duniya thhukraati thhi
ab bolegi jaijaikaar
ghar hoga gharwaali hogi
bachche honge aangan mein
suna thha maine bachpan mein
san unneessau pachpan mein
suna thha maine bachpan mein
san unneessau pachpan mein
suna thha maine bachpan mein
san unneessau pachpan mein


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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5713 Post No. : 18232

Today’s song is from the film Zamana-1957.

It was made by the famous Filmistan Ltd. Directed by Arbind Sen, the film had music from 2 stalwarts – Anil Biswas and Salil Chaudhari. The cast of the film wasKamaljeet, Ameeta, Nazir Hussain, Firoz khan (making his film Debut), Shakuntala, Kanu Roy, Ram Avtar, Yaqub etc.

This was the first and possibly the last time when these 2 stalwart Bengali composers worked together for one film. In Hindi films, right from 1931 onwards, many composers from Bengal came to Bombay to try their luck, but only a few could make their name here. The common major problem of these composers was Language, cultural difference and poor adaptability to Non -Bengali atmosphere. Here are names of few such composers- most names would be unfamiliar to our readers…..

Radhacharan Bhattacharya, Shoolpani Mukherjee, S.P.Mukherjee, V.V.Ganguly, Niren lahiri, Shivrani Ghosh, A.C.Biswas, Bhishmadev Chaterjee, Ramani Mukherjee, Sushant Banerjee, Rubin Chaterjee, Anil Bagchi, Himangshu Dutt, K.P.Sen, Gyanprakash Ghosh, Naresh Bhattecharya, D.C.Dutt, Pratap Mukherjee, Kshirodchandra Bhattacharya, Ravi Roychaudhari, T.K.Das etc.etc.

All the above composers gave music to 1 to 4 Hindi films and then went back to Bengal. There were only 4 major composers from Bengal ( 2 from East and 2 from West Bengal) who succeeded here and etched their names in the HFM history. I call them A Grade. They all operated at the same time during the Golden Era. The following table will give a clearer picture….

Name Born in year Place number of films number of songs Active period Active years
Anil Biswas 1914 East Bengal 86 777 1935-1965 30
S.D.Burman 1906 East Bengal 90 717 1946-1996 30
Hemant Kumar 1920 West Bengal 54 429 1952-1979 27
Salil Chaudhari 1923 West Bengal 70 325 1953-1995 40

Anil Biswas was the first major composer from Bengal to start his career in Bombay in 1935, at the age of just 21 years, whereas S D Burman was the oldest having started his career in Bombay in 1946, at the age of 40 years ! The longest tenure was that of Salil Chaudhari,but his song total is the lowest, with an average of about 5 songs per film.This is much lower than the average of 8+ and 9 of the others. This may be because in later part of his career,Salil da gave music to many parallel films which had minimum songs.

As can be seen from the table, the two senior composers were from East Bengal and the 2 junior composers were from West Bengal. The styles of these two groups were different because of the different pattern of Eastern and Western Bangla music. All four depended and used heavily from the folk tunes and Bangla songs,from their respective regions. Anil Biswas and Burman da drew heavily from the Eastern Bangla folk tunes and that is why sometimes their music had similarities.

Besides these 4 stalwarts, there were some less successful composers from Bengal, like Ashok Ghosh, pannalal Ghosh, Robin banerjee, Hiren Bose, Shyamal Mitra, Arunkumar Mukherjee, Manas Mukherjee etc. If I was asked to rank the 4 stalwarts, my ranking would be S.D.Burman, Hemant kumar, Anil Biswas and Salil Chaudhari.

Today’s film Zamana was a 1957 film.

1957 – what a year it was! The best year in the Golden Era! The best year in the 50s! The best year for melody and music! Such wonderful films came this year!!! 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, Chhote Babu, Coffee House, Dushman, Johnny Walker, Miss Bombay, Miss India, Mr. X, Narsi Bhagat, Paak Daman, Pawanputra Hanuman, Ustad, Zamana, Garma Garam had equally melodious songs like other films mentioned, albeit may not be so famous 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.

Satyen Bose’s ‘Bandi’ brought together all the three Ganguly brothers in one film for the first time. Later he would repeat this feat in ‘Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi’ in 1958. ‘Musaafir’, Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s first Hindi film as a director, was an experimental film depicting the phases of life – birth, life, death and rejuvenation, symbolically through a succession of tenants in a house on rent. Director Amiya Chakravarty’s competition with Gyan Mukherjee came to an end with his unexpected demise while the making of ‘Kathputali’ was in progress. The film was completed by Nitin Bose. (Later, Gyan Mukherjee also passed away while making ‘Sitaron Se Aagey’ (1958) which was later completed by Satyen Bose. Both films had the same story and same heroine).

With the musical blockbuster ‘Tumsa Nahin Dekha’ from Filmistan, Nasir Hussain introduced his own success formula of entertaining films and minted crores by repeating it several times, in a new garb. This film changed Shammi Kapoor’s luck, and made him an A grade actor. However, it did not much benefit the heroine Ameeta. She remained where she was – a second grade actress. Filmistan also released ‘Paying Guest’, with chocolate hero Dev Anand, with superb music and songs composed by SD Burman. Dev also featured in ‘Nau Do Gyarah’, another musical entertainer from Navketan, his home production company.

A surprise hit that year was the socio-religious film ‘Janam Janam Ke Phere’. The song “Zara Saamne To AaO Chhaliye” became the unexpected top song of the year and an iconic one at that! ‘Apradhi Kaun’ was genuinely an excellent detective story. Amiya Chakravarty’s ‘Dekh Kabira Roya’ was a hit due to its superb music, though its cast was quite ordinary. ‘Do Aankhen Barah Haath’ got the national award. Amiya Chakravarty and Gope passed away this year. Nimmi got married. Vividh Bharati started its broadcast on 3rd October 1957.

I do not remember the story of today’s film Zamana, though I remember having seen this film in those days. It was about changes in the social set up from an old generation to the modern generation. The song lyrics also indicate this. The Hero of the film was Kamaljeet- which was not his real name. Those who do remember his name, it is as the husband of Waheeda Rahman.

Kamaljeet born as Shashi Rekhi (DoB NA – 21 November 2000) was an actor in Hindi language films. He is known for his films Son of India (1962) & Shagoon (1964).

Born & brought up in Bangalore, Karnataka, Kamaljeet was very fond of films in his childhood and wanted to be an actor. Kamaljeet fell in love with Indian actress Waheeda Rehman on the sets of the film, ‘Shagoon’ in 1964. At that time, he proposed to her. However, he got married to her 10 years after the proposal. They married on 27 April 1974. The couple have a daughter Kashvi and son Sohail.

Kamaljeet made his acting debut with the film ‘Mr. Lambu’, which was released in 1956. Thereafter, he worked in several other films including Kismet Ka Khel (1956), Zamana (1957), Kitna Badal Gaya Insaan (1957), Mr. India (1961), Son of India (1962), Sher Khan (1962), Vidyapati (1964), Shagoon (1964), Qawwali Ki Raat (1964), Veer Ghatotkach (1970), Tamacha (1988) & Heer Ranjha (1992). His major works include ‘Son of India’ and ‘Shagoon’ in which he acted with Waheeda Rehman.

Kamaljeet died of Brain Haemorrhage on 21 November 2000 in Mumbai, Maharashtra.

Today’s song is sung by Manna Dey and chorus. Let us enjoy this song….


Song- Nahin Duniya aise waise ki bhai sab maaya hai paise ki (Zamaana)(1957) Singer- Manna Dey, Lyricist-Prem Dhawan, MD- Salil Chaudhari
Chorus

Lyrics

Nahin duniya
nahin duniya aise waise ki
bhai sab maaya hai paise ki
bhai sab maaya hai paise ki
ajee nahin duniya
nahin duniya aise waise ki
bhai sab maaya hai paise ki
bhai sab maaya hai paise ki

haan aan aan aan
duniya ke ae mandir mein aen
haan aan aan
sab karte paise ka jaap
paisa ram paisa ram paisa ram
paisa ram paisa ram paisa ram
paisa ram paisa ram

haan aan aan
duniya ke mandir mein
sab karte paise ka jaap
kya jogee
kya bhogee
bhaiyya aa aa
paisa sabka baap
poochho bhai kyun
kyon

aah
bhai sab maaya hai paise ki
bhai sab maaya hai paise ki
nahin duniya
nahin duniya aise waise ki
bhai sab maaya hai paise ki
bhai sab maaya hai paise ki
bhai sab maaya hai paise ki
bhai sab maaya hai paise ki
nahin duniya
nahin duniya aise waise ki
bhai sab maaya hai paise ki

bhai sab maaya hai paise ki

haan aan aan aan
paise waale ke kutte ko bhi
milti hai motor
aur bin paise bik jaao o o
milti hai
he he kya
thokar
poochho bhai
kyun
thhanthhangopal ki
kyun
kyun

arre jai paiselal ki
thhanthhangopal ki
jai paiselal ki
thhanthhangopal ki

bolo jai paiselal ki
thhanthhangopal ki
jai paiselal ki
thhanthhangopal ki

bolo jai paiselal ki
thhanthhangopal ki
jai paiselal ki
thhanthhangopal ki

thhanthhan
thhanthhan
thhanthhan
thhanthhan

thhanthhan
thhanthhan
jai paiselal ki
thhanthhangopal ki
jai paiselal ki
thhanthhangopal ki
jai paiselal ki
thhanthhangopal ki
o jai paiselal ki
thhanthhangopal ki


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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5709 Post No. : 18227 Movie Count :

4893

Every year, hundreds of Hindi feature films are certified by Censor Board of Film Certification (CBFC). Just for a sample check, I found that for the years 1951-1980, on an average, 100-120 Hindi features films had been certified/released. I am sure the number of Hindi films certified/released in the subsequent decades must have increased significantly. There were many Hindi feature films which had been shot but got shelved or remained incomplete or if completed, remained unreleased. I checked on the websites of Indian Motion Pictures Producers Association (IMPPA) and Producers Guild of India (GUILD) for the list of such films. Unfortunately, no such information is available on the website. It is one more example of the poor upkeep of film related statistics.

There are many reasons as to why films get shelved or remain incomplete and if completed, remain unreleased. But the generic reason is the way the films were made until few years back. Normally, till the end of the last century, a film was shot in driblets as the main actors would give dates for shooting for days normally ranging between 5-10 days at a time and the actors would get paid according to the progress of the film. Those days, the popular star-actors would sign the films in good numbers because of the lure of signing amount. This would result the clash of dates of the main actors thus delaying the shooting and increasing the film’s production cost. The net result of these systems was that a film could take an average 18-36 months. The longer the time to complete a film, the bigger will be the risk associated with the completion of the film apart from other risk associated with filmmaking.

I have gone through the articles on our Blog which has so far covered around 80 unreleased (UR) films including shelved and incomplete films. I have also gone through some on-line articles covering a few specific films of such categories. Based on the information from these articles wherever the reasons for such films were spelt out, I have listed below 5 broad categories of reasons which led to films remaining incomplete or shelved and completed but remained unreleased.

1. Financial constraint : When the films take longer time than expected to complete or the allocated budget for the film is exceeded during the making of the films, the producers/financiers have to provide additional funds to complete the films. If they failed to arrange the additional finance, the films remain incomplete and finally shelved. One of the shelved films mentioned under this reason is Ramesh Sippy’s mid-1980s multi-starer, ‘Zameen’ with Vinod Khanna, Rajnikanth, Sanjay Dutt, Madhuri Dixit and Sridevi. The film exceeded the budget during the making of the film and it was reported that financiers/distributors refused to provide further finance for the film. Another film was J P Dutta’s ‘Sarhad’ which was shelved in 1976 due to budget constraint when nearly 50% of the film’s shooting was completed.

2. Creative differences and Compatibility Issues: Creative differences and compatibility issues can arise between the producer and director, between director and main actors and among the main actors. If they are not sorted out, one of them would leave the film which can result in the suspension of the film’s shooting. If the alternative arrangements are not made in time, the film remains incomplete or shelved. An interesting case under this reason was K Asif’s film, ‘Jaanwar’ with Dilip Kumar pairing with Suraiya for the first time. This film started its shooting sometime in early 1950s. It was reported that Suraiya did not like the handling of a bold scene by Dilip Kumar with her and she felt that film’s director was hand in gloves with him because of many retakes of the bold scenes between Dilip Kumar and Suraiya. She felt humiliated and left the shooting in a huff never to return. The film was shelved. ‘Shiqwaa’ (1950s) with Dilip Kumar and Nutan in the lead role was on near completion when the film was stalled due to reported differences between film’s director, Ramesh Saigal and the producer, Makhan Lal Jain of Filmkar Productions. Dilip Kumar was also upset with the producer as he was planning to start a film with more or less the similar story of K Asif’s ‘Mughal-e-Azam’ (1960) which was under production.

3. Lack of film’s qualitative progress: After the filming of few scenes, if the director, especially when he is also the producer, feels unhappy about the way the film is shaping up due to weak script or underperformances of the lead actors, two things can happen during this stage. Either the film is shelved or it is reshot with changes in script or the lead actor/s as the case may be. In the second option, there is a danger of film’s budget getting exceeded. In the absence of alternative funding arrangements, the film may remain incomplete for indefinite period. Guru Dutt’s ‘Gauri’ with Geeta Dutt in the title role in 1957 and ‘Raaz’ with Guru Dutt and Waheeda Rehman in 1959 were shelved after shooting few scenes when he realised that the films were not shaping well as per his liking.

4. Unforeseen Reasons: Apart from financial and creative risks, the filmmaker also faces some unforeseen problems in completing the film. During the partition in 1947, many Hindi films under productions, both at Mumbai and Lahore were affected due to sudden migration of the main actors and core technicians. Some films remained incomplete while a few of the affected films were remade with new actors. The death of the main actors, producer and director may result in inordinate delay in completng the film. The most talked about film under this reason was K Asif’s ‘Love and God’. After the success of ‘Mughal-E-Azam’ (1960), K Asif started filming ‘Love And God’ with Guru Dutt in the lead role some time in 1962. The film was near its completion when Guru Dutt passed away in October 1964. K Asif started shooting afresh with Sanjeev Kumar. K Asif passed away in 1971 leaving the film abandoned. Finally, K Asif’s wife with the financial help from producer, K C Bokadia decided to revive the film. But before the shooting started, Sanjeev Kumar passed away in 1985. The film was released in incomplete form in 1986. ‘Chaalaak’ was started around 1961 with Raj Kapoor and Madhubala in the lead roles. The film was nearly 50% complete when Madhubala could not report for shooting due to her health issues. The film was delayed. The film got shelved after Madhubala passed away in 1969.

There are some other unforeseen reasons for films to get stalled. Muzaffar Ali’s ‘Zooni’, shooting of which had started in 1988, remained incomplete due to insurgency in Kashmir valley. Tinu Anand’s ‘Shinaakht’ which started shooting in 1988 with Amitabh Bachchan and Madhuri Dixit in the lead roles, was shelved when the director found that the story of the film was almost similar to Manmohan Desai’s ‘Ganga Jamuna Saraswati’ (1988).

5. Films completed but remain unreleased: The reasons for completed films remaining unreleased range from CBFC objections, creative differences between the producer and director, financial/legal disputes, and distributors not showing intererst in releasing the films on commercial consideration. Gulzar’s ‘Libaas’ was completed in 1988. The film’s producer, Vikas Mohan wanted the director, Gulzar to change the film’s climax which he refused. Producer, therefore, decided not to release the film. It was, however, shown in the International Film Festivals. Anurag Kashyap’s ‘Paanch’ (2001) failed to get CBFC certification because of the depiction of excessive violence and use of fowl language. After some cuts, CBFC cleared the film, but it remained unreleased. Muzaffar Ali’s ‘Anjuman’ (1986) remained unreleased as he did not get any film distributor to release the film.

There was a crucial case of the film, ‘Aag Kaa Daryia’ (1991 UR) which was completed after a long delay. The film’s shooting started in 1984 with Dilip Kumar, Rekha, Padmini Kolhapure, Rajiv Kapoor and Amrish Puri. The film was progressing very well under the direction of S V Rajendra Singh Babu when the producer, Venkataraman passed away. It took time to arrange fresh finance for the film during which Rajendra Krishan, the film’s screenplay-dialogue-song writer passed away. The film was completed and got censor certificate in 1991. The film’s trailer was also released. However, at the last moment, one of the financiers/distributors raised the financial disputes which led to the film remaining unreleased. (Source: ‘The Scroll’, 11/12/2022).

In the recent years, due to corporatisation of the film production and distribution, some professionalism has come among the makers and distributors in Hindi film industry. Artists and crew members have become committed to a film with ‘start to finish’ schedules of shooting. With high budget being the order of the day, films are generally produced by a consortium of film production companies to minimise the financial risk. A film is normally completed in less than a year with a planned release date in advance in most of the films under production. With the corporate approach to making films, the number of shelved or incomplete films seems to have been reduced.

‘Behroopiya’ (UR) was one of the shelved films of the early 1960s. Some details of the film were mentioned in the credit titles of ‘Film Hi Film’ (1983) in which one song from ‘Behroopiya’ was used as a part of the story. As per the details, ‘Behroopiya’ was produced by Navinchandra Shah under the banner of Chandra Movie and was directed by Nandlal Jaswantlal. The film had Raj Kapoor and Vyjayantimala in the lead roles. Lyrics for the song was written by Shailendra and and the music director was Shankar-Jaikishan. The film was Chandulal Shah presentation and the year of production was stated to be 1964.

I have a doubt about the 1964 as the year of production of ‘Behroopiya’. Nandalal Jaswantlal passed away sometime in 1961 and Chandulal Shah took over as a director to complete the film, ‘Akeli Mat Jaiyo’ (1963). This suggests that ‘Behroopiya’ was shot sometime in 1960-61. Most probably, the film was left incomplete after the death of its director, Nandlal Jaswantlal and later shelved in the background of the box office failure of ‘Akeli Mat Jaiyo’ (1963). Well, ‘Behroopiya’ may have inspired Raj Kapoor to produce and direct ‘Mera Naam Joker’ (1971).

I am presenting the only song, ‘hans kar hasaa masti mein gaa’ from the shelved film, ‘Behroopiya’ (1961)UR) which was shot for the film. The song was rendered by Manna Dey on the words of Shailendra which was set to music by Shankar-Jaikishan. At 2:33 of the video clip, dancer, Edwina is seen with Raj Kapoor. The song was included as a part of ‘Film Hi Film’ (1983) and Universal Music released the audio clip of the song in 2013.

Video Clip:

Audio Clip:

Song-Hans kar hansaa masti mein gaa (Behroopiya)(UR)(1961) Singer-Manna Dey, Lyrics-Shailendra, MD-Shankar Jaikishan
Chorus

Lyrics:

O ho o
o ho o
haa aa aa aa
o ho ho o
hee hee hee hee hee hee
hee heeheehee hee hee hee hee
hahahahaha
hahahahahaha

aa ha ha hahahahaa

hans kar hansaa
masti mein gaa
hans kar hansa
masti mein gaa
kal hogaa kyaa
hogaa kyaa
bhool jaa
hans kar hansaa
masti mein gaa
kal hoga kyaa
hogaa kyaa
bhool jaa
hans kar hansaa

hahahahaha
hahahaha

jaadoo bhari
ik shaam hai
phir uske aage kuchh bhi nahin
iss dil mein bhi
laakhon hain gham
par tumse badh ke kuchh bhi nahin
duniyaa kaa dil
behlaaye jaa
kal hogaa kyaa
hogaa kyaa
bhool jaa
hans kar hansaa
masti mein gaa
kal hogaa kyaa
hogaa kyaa
bhool jaa
hans kar hansaa

apni hansi
apni khushi
tum pe nichchaawar karke chaley
chhoti si jaan
itni si lau
deep se phir bhi deep jaley
duniyaa ko tu
kuchh deke jaa
kal hogaa kyaa
hogaa kyaa
bhool jaa
hans kar hansaa
masti mein gaa
kal hogaa kyaa
hogaa kyaa
bhool jaa
hans kar hansaa

hahahaha
hahahaha


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#the Decade of Seventies – 1971 – 1980 #
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(Martyr’s day 2024)

Today 30th January is the ‘martyr’s day’ where we pay our tributes to all the known and unknown martyrs of this great country. It is well known fact that during freedom struggle of India i.e. Bharat, many people fought against the British Empire and laid down their lives to see their fellow countrymen free. For years together we have grown-up reading stories of our freedom struggle and the great revolutionaries who sacrificed their lives on the way of their fight for freedom of this country.

Today 30th January’2024 is also the seventy-sixth death anniversary of the Father of Nation Mahatma Gandhi. He was assassinated on this day in 1948. Gandhiji’s death anniversary is declared as ‘Sarvoday Diwas’ and ‘Shaheed Diwas’ which is observed at national level in India. The other prominent ‘martyr’s day’ is observed on 23rd March remembering the great revolutionaries Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru. Five more ‘martyr’s day’ are observed at regional and national level as detailed below:-

(Till this post I was not aware of the other days observed as ‘martyr’s day’ except 30th January and 23rd March. It is while reading about 30th January that I came across this information which I am sharing below. It is taken from Wikipedia and other sources on internet).

1) 19 May – In Assam to remember the fifteen people killed by state police on this day in 1961 at Silchar Railway Station, Assam.
2) 13 July – In Jammu & Kashmir remembering twenty-two people killed by royal soldiers on 13th July’1931 when they were demonstrating against Maharaja Hari Singh of Kashmir.
3) 21 October – as Police Martyr’s day observed nation-wide by Police departments in respect of members of Central Reserve Police Force patrol posted at Indo-Tibet border in Ladakh. The Chinese forces ambushed the police personnel in 1958 during the Border Dispute.
4) 17 November – Also the death anniversary of freedom fighter Lala Lajpat Rai is celebrated as Martyr’s day in Odisha in the honor of this great leader.
5) 19 Novemeber – The birthday of Rani Lakshami Bai the queen of Jhansi is celebrated as martyr’s day in the region remembering ‘Jhansi Ki Rani’ and other known unknown freedom fighters who rebelled against the British Rule in ‘1857’.
6) 24 November – the death anniversary of Sikh Guru Tegh Bahadur Singh who was executed by Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb on 24th Novermber’1674.
7) 15 February – is celebrated in Bihar as ‘Shaheed Diwas’ remembering the thirty-four freedom fighters killed by British Police in Tarapur in 1932 when the martyrs were trying hoist flag of India.
8) 26 December is the latest addition to the above list which is celebrated as ‘Veer Bal Diwas’ which is observed to pay respects to the four sons of Guru Govind Singh who sacrificed their lives and were buried alive by Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb in 1704.

On today’s day we pay our respects and tributes to the all great revolutionaries and the many known and unknown peoples of this country who sacrificed their lives for this great country.

On this occasion I am presenting a song from an ‘Unreleased’ movie from the 1970s.

The title of this movie is ‘Watan Ki Khaatir’.

“Watan Ki Khaatir” was produced under the banner of ‘Mamta Cine International’. There is not information about the director and cast of this movie in HFGK. It only mentions the ‘banner’ and the names of the lyricist and music director for this movie.

The song-list for this movie includes only one song which is being presented here today. Manna Dey is the singer. HFGK also mentions the record label for this song i.e. GCIL-Odeon Label.

Let us listen to this in the voice of Manna Dey. Lyrics are by Shakeel Ahmed. This song is in two parts and only the audio of this song is available.

Audio (Part I)

Audio (Part II)

Song-Watan ki khaatir mit jaayenge (Watan Ki Khaatir)(UR)(1970) Singer-Manna Dey, Lyrics-Shakeel Ahmad, MD-Kartik Kumar-Basant Kumar
Chorus

Lyrics

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(Part-1)
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Shaheedon ke mazaaron par
Ham mil ke phool chadhhaayen
watan pe mitnewaalon ko o
ham mil ke sheesh jhukaayen

watan ki khaatir
mit jaayenge ae
watan ki khaatir
mit jaayenge ae

par dushman ke aage
ham naa sar ko jhukaayenge ae ae
watan ki khaatir
mit jaayenge ae
watan ki khaatir
mit jaayenge ae

yaaron se yaari ee
dushman ke dushman
taaqat to bahot hai ae
par aman pujaari ee
gar waqt pade to o
ham khoon bhi denge
dushman pe rahenge
har tarah se bhaari ee
apne hiteshi ee
o o o o
apne hiteshi
desh ki khaatir
jaan lutaa denge ae
watan ki khaatir
mit jaayenge ae
watan ki khaatir
mit jaayenge ae

hindu muslim hon o
ya sikh isaayee ee
madrasi bangali
ya rajasthani ee
nahin bhed bhaav hai
koyi dil mein hamaare
ham sabse pehle
hain hindustaani ee
ham sab mein hai
o o o o
ham sab mein hain
paar ka naataa aa
isey nibhaayenge
watan ki khaatir
mit jaayenge ae

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(Part-2)
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watan ki khaatir
mit jaayenge ae
watan ki khaatir
mit jaayenge ae

jhaansi ki raani ee
aur veer shivaji ee
hain aaj bhi zindaa aa
un sab ki kahaani ee
naa bhool sake hain
aazaad bhagat ko o
hai yaad sabhi ko o
un ki qurbaani ee
netaaji ki ee ee
o o o o
netaaji ki
amar kahaani
bhool naa paayenge ae ae
watan ki khaatir
mit jaayenge ae
watan ki khaatir
mit jaayenge ae

jai bharat maata aa
rahe amar ye naaraa
ye desh hai Nehru u u
baapu ka pyaaraa
aazaad rahe hain
aazaad rahenge ae
rahe sar ye oonchaa aa
jaise ye himaalaa aa
jai jawaan
jai jawaan
jai kisaan
jai kisaan
jai jawaan
jai jai kisaan
sab mil kar gaayenge ae
watan ki khaatir
mit jaayenge ae
watan ki khaatir
mit jaayenge ae

par dushman ke aage
ham naa
sar ko jhukaayenge ae ae
watan ki khaatir
mit jaayenge ae

ho o o o o
watan ki khaatir
mit jaayenge ae

ho o o o o
watan ki khaatir
mit jaayenge ae

o o o o


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“Ghar Grihasthhi”(1958) was directed by Gunjal for Filmistan Limited, Bombay. This movie had Balraj Sahni, Manju, Randheer, Shanta Hublikar, Baby Naaz, Leela Mishra, Ramavtar, Prabhu Arora, Indira Bansal, Vijaybala, Heera Sawant, Savita Chatterji, Sohanlal, amrit, Raj Kishore, Vitthaldas Panchotiya, Shakuntala, Jayshree Gadkar, Jugal Kishore, sundar, Jugnu etc in it.

This by now forgotten “social” movie had five obscure songs it it. One song has been covered in the blog. Here is the second song from the movie to appear in the blog. This song is sung by Manna Dey. Pt Madhur is the lyricist. Music is composed by Sushant Bannerji.

Only the audio of this song is available. I request our knowledgeable readers to throw light on the movie as well as on the picturisation of this song.


Song-Aankh khol kar chal deewaane milenge meethhe phal (Ghar Grihasthhi) (1958) Singer-Manna Dey, Lyrics-Pt Madhur, MD-Shashank Bannerjee

Lyrics

aankh khol kar chal deewaane
milenge meethhe phal
deewaane
milenge meethhe phal
aankh khol kar chal deewaane
milenge meethhe phal
deewaane
milenge meethhe phal
rone waale hansega tu bhi
aaj nahin to kal
aankh khol kar chal deewaane
milenge meethhe phal
deewaane
milenge meethhe phal

teree bhool se toot gaye hain
tere man ke taar
teree bhool se zahar bana hain
ye tera sansaar
sukh se gar tu jeena chaahe
apnee raah badal
deewaane
milenge meethhe phal
deewaane
milenge meethhe phal
aankh khol kar chal deewaane
milenge meethhe phal
deewaane
milenge meethhe phal

gair pe toone kiya bharosa
apne ghar ko chhod
jis daalee mein phal lagne thhe
usey diya hai tod
toone aaj bharee aankhon mein
toohi bhar le jal
deewaane
milenge meethhe phal
deewaane
milenge meethhe phal
aankh khol kar chal deewaane
milenge meethhe phal
deewaane
milenge meethhe phal
rone waale hansega tu bhi
aaj nahin to kal
deewaane
milenge meethhe phal
deewaane
milenge meethhe phal
deewaane
milenge meethhe phal


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Today’s song is from an inspirational religious film Jagadguru Shankaracharya-1955.

In Mahabharat, there is a dialogue between Lord Shri Krishna and Arjun. The legend says that when Kauravas and Pandavas stood opposite each others for a war on Kurukshetra, Dhritrashtra,the blind father of Kauravas asked Sanjay- who had the divine power of seeing the war at Kurukshetra- to describe him the war happennings. Sanjay starts and in the course of his reporting, the entire Geeta too is narrated.

Without going into the details further, enough to stress that Lord Shrikrishna explains to Arjuna that, whenever there is a decline of Dharma and righteousness, He takes birth from age to age (sambhavami yuge yuge), to protect the virtuous, destroy evil-doers and to reestablish Dharma and righteousness.

This is described in the IV chapter, stanzas 7 and 8 in Bhagvadgeeta thus-

“Yada Yada Hi Dharmasya
Glanirva Bhavathi Bharatha,
Abhyuthanam Adharmaysya
Tadatmanam Srijami Aham”.

Bhagavad Gita (Chapter IV-7)

“Whenever there is decay
of righteousness O! Bharatha
And a rise of unrighteousness
then I manifest Myself!”

“Praritranaya Sadhunam
Vinashaya Cha Dushkritam
Dharamasansthapnaya
Sambhavami Yuge-Yuge.”

Bhagavat Gita (Chapter IV-8)

“For the protection of the good,
for the destruc­tion of the wicked and
for the establishment of righteousness,
I am born in every age.”

In the film Prabhu Ki Maaya-1955, Hemant Kumar has sung a song which is almost a transalation of above shlokas – ” Jab jab hota nash dharam ka aur paap badh jaata hai, tab lete avtar prabhu, yeh Vishva shanti paata hai “.

From time to time, India has faced such situations, when, inspite of being in majority, Hindus suffered from attacks on their country and distruction of their Mandirs etc. Luckily at all those times Saints and Holy men emerged and saved the Hindus.

Similarly the birth of Jagadguru Shankaracharya took place when this need arose to save and reestablish Hindu dharma. It was almost like a case of Renaissance of our religion.

The period of 1300 to 1600 AD, a time frame of 300 years or thereabouts, was when most saints were active in India. This was the period when several outside rulers invaded India and established their rules. This was the time when the culture and religion of India had to be saved from annihilation. The saints of India played an important role in this and maintained Unity and Oneness of Indian culture from getting destroyed. But for them, there was a danger of the whole nation getting converted to Islam or Christianity. India will forever be grateful to the saints for this .

Tha Bhakti Movement was India’s own way to combat foreign attackers, cruel rulers and the sleeping people of India. It started from the South first. The movement from 1300 to 1600 AD produced many religious Saints and social reformers from Kanyakumari to Kashmir and from Assam to Gujarat. The Indian culture is such that that the advise given by a religious saint is more acceptable than that given by a social reformer. Thus, in this hour of need, India’s Saints tried to teach message of reforms such as removal of Untouchability, freedom from Varnashram life styles, importance of education, Women’s emancipation and other such matters, through their poems, dohas, Abhangs and writings as well as keertans. They tried to make the masses wake up against the ill effects of social practices that were being observed those days.

Saints appeared in ALL areas of India, during this period. However, due to language problems, knowledge and information about Saints in other regions trickled down very slowly. States which shared the use of Devanagari script were aware about them in a better way. Thus, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Rajasthan and the Northern Hindi belt states exchanged their knowledge about their saints more frequently than other regions such as Bengal, the Eastern states or the southern states where the scripts were different. Andhra and Karnataka were closer as their scripts are similar, except perhaps the alphabet ‘K’. Tamil and Malayalam scripts have Dravidian origins and were not easily accessible for the rest of India

The period of 1300 to 1600 AD, a time frame of 300 years or thereabouts, was when most saints were active in India. This was the period when several outside rulers invaded India and established their rules. This was the time when the culture and religion of India had to be saved from annihilation. The saints of India played an important role in this and maintained Unity and Oneness of Indian culture from getting destroyed. But for them, there was a danger of the whole nation getting converted to Islam or Christianity. India will forever be grateful to the saints for this .

Some of the saints have done monumental literary works for the masses, bringing what was available only in Sanskrit, to the doorsteps of the common people. Out of the many saints and reformers of Maharashtra, few stand out for their additional contribution towards literary works. For example, Gyaneshwar wrote ‘Gyaneshwari'(translation of Geeta into Marathi), Tukaram wrote Abhangs, Namdeo contributed to Punjabi language, Sikh culture and Guru Granth Sahib, Ramdas wrote ‘Dasbodh’ to teach people how to balance between Bhakti and Bhog(family life), and Tulsidas translated Sanskrit Ramayana into Avadhi language which is called Ramcharitamanas. Then there were Kabir, Rahim and many others too.

Indian spiritual Gurus set themselves as Role models for the masses. Whether it was Ramkrishna Paramhansa or Shankaracharya all of them have guided their followers to achieve peace of mind through spirituality. Religion is a way of life in India and most Gurus taught their followers how to follow the right path even while looking after their families.

In such conditions was born the Greatest of the advocates of Vedic Dharma and Advaitism- Adi Shankaracharya. It was as if God had deputed one of his assistants to set things right in India. The existence of Vedic Dharma in India today is due to Shankara. The forces opposed to Vaidik religion were numerous and powerful in those days than today. Still, single handedly, and within a short life span of just 32 years, Shankara overpowered them all and restored the Vedic Dharma and Advait vedant to its pristine Glory and purity.

The weapons he used was only Knowledge and spirituality. The previous Avatars like Rama and Krishna used physical force as opposition to vedic Dharma in those days was by physical obstruction and molestations by Asuras.

In Kaliyug, the obstacles are more Internal than External, more Mental than Physical. The seeds of Adharma were in minds, so a weapon of Knowledge and self purification was necessary. For this purpose Sankara took birth in Brahmin varna and entered Sanyasashram early in life. Previous Avatars like Rama and Krishna were Kshatriyas, as they had to wield military weapons to restore Dharma.

Shankara was born in Kaladi in present day central Kerala, the ancient Tamil kingdom of the Cheras. According to lore, it was after his parents, who had been childless for many years, prayed at the Vadakkunnathan temple, Thrissur, that Shiva appeared to both husband and wife in their dreams, and offered them a choice: a mediocre son who would live a long life, or an extraordinary son who would not live long. Both the parents chose the latter; thus a son was born to them. He was named Shankara (Sanskrit, “bestower of happiness”), in honour of Shiva (one of whose epithets is Shankara). His father died while Shankara was very young. Shankara’s upanayanam., the initiation into student-life, had to be delayed due to the death of his father, and was then performed by his mother. As a child, Shankara showed remarkable scholarship, mastering the four Vedas by the age of eight.

At the age of 8, Shankara was inclined towards sannyasa, but it was only after much persuasion that his mother finally gave her consent.Shankara then left Kerala and travelled towards North India in search of a guru. On the banks of the Narmada River, he met Govinda Bhagavatpada the disciple of Gaudapada at Omkareshwar. When Govinda Bhagavatpada asked Shankara’s identity, he replied with an extempore verse that brought out the Advaita Vedanta philosophy. Govinda Bhagavatapada was impressed and took Shankara as his disciple.
The guru instructed Shankara to write a commentary on the Brahma Sutras and propagate the Advaita philosophy. Shankara travelled to Kashi, where a young man named Sanandana, hailing from Chola territory in South India, became his first disciple. According to legend, while on his way to the Vishwanath Temple, an untouchable accompanied by four dogs came in the way of Sankara. When asked to move aside by Shankara’s disciples, the untouchable replied: “Do you wish that I could move my everlasting Atman (“the Self”), or this body made of flesh?” Realizing that the untouchable was none other than god Shiva himself, and his dogs the four Vedas, Shankara prostrated himself before him, composing five shlokas known as Manisha Panchakam.

At Badri he wrote his famous Bhashyas (“commentaries”) and Prakarana granthas (“philosophical treatises”). Adi Shankara then travelled with his disciples to Maharashtra and Srisailam. In Srisailam, he composed Shivanandalahari, a devotional hymn in praise of Shiva. The Madhaviya Shankaravijayam says that when Shankara was about to be sacrificed by a Kapalika, the god Narasimha appeared to save Shankara in response to Padmapadacharya’s prayer to him. As a result, Adi Shankara composed the Lakshmi-Narasimha stotra..

He then travelled to Gokarna, the temple of Hari-Shankara and the Mookambika temple at Kollur. At Kollur, he accepted as his disciple a boy believed to be dumb by his parents. He gave him the name, Hastamalakacarya (“one with the amalaka fruit on his palm”, i.e., one who has clearly realised the Self). Next, he visited Sringeri to establish the Sarada Pitham and made Suresvara Karya his disciple.

After this, Adi Shankara began a Dig-vijaya “tour of conquest” for the propagation of the Advaita philosophy by controverting all philosophies opposed to it. He travelled throughout India, from South India to Kashmir and Nepal, preaching to the local populace and debating philosophy with Hindu, Buddhist and other scholars and monks along the way.

With the Malayali King Sudhanva as companion, Shankara passed through Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Vidarbha. He then started towardsKarnataka where he encountered a band of armed Kapalikas. King Sudhanva, with his Nairs, resisted and defeated the Kapalikas. They safely reachedGokarna where Shankara defeated in debate the Shaiva scholar, Neelakanta.
Proceeding to Saurashtra (the ancient Kambhoja) and having visited the shrines of Girnar, Somnath and Prabhasa and explaining the superiority of Vedanta in all these places, he arrived at Dwarka. Bhaskara of Ujjayini, the proponent of Bhed-abheda philosophy, was humbled. All the scholars of Ujjayini (also known as Avanti) accepted Adi Shankara’s philosophy.

He then defeated the Jainas in philosophical debates at a place called Bahlika. Thereafter, the Acharya established his victory over several philosophers and ascetics in Kamboja (region of North Kashmir), Darada and many regions situated in the desert and crossing mighty peaks, entered Kashmir. Later, he had an encounter with a tantrik, Navagupta at Kamarupa.

Adi Shankara visited Sarvajñapitha (Sharada Peeth) in Kashmir (now in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir). The Madhaviya Shankaravijayam states this temple had four doors for scholars from the four cardinal directions. The southern door (representing South India) had never been opened, indicating that no scholar from South India had entered the Sarvajna Pitha. Adi Shankara opened the southern door by defeating in debate all the scholars there in all the various scholastic disciplines such as Mimamsa, Vedanta and other branches of Hindu philosophy; he ascended the throne of Transcendent wisdom of that temple.

Towards the end of his life, Adi Shankara travelled to the Himalayan area of Kedarnath- Badrinath and attained videha mukti (“freedom from embodiment”). There is a samadhi mandir dedicated to Adi Shankara behind the Kedarnath temple. However, there are variant traditions on the location of his last days. One tradition, expounded by Keraliya Shankaravijaya, places his place of mahasamadhi (leaving the body) as Vadakkunnathan temple in Thrissur, Kerala. The followers of the Kanchi kamakoti pitha claim that he attained videha mukti in Kanchipuram (Tamil Nadu). (Bio adapted from wiki, goverdhanpeeth.org, sanatandharma.com and my notes with thanks).

Film JAGADGURU SHANKARACHARYA-1955 was a Celestial pictures, Bombay presentation, directed by S.Fatelal (of Prabhat film fame). The music was by Avinash Vyas with assistant Sanmukh babu Upadhyaya. There were 9 melodious songs by Rafi, Manna Dey, Hemant kumar, Geeta Dutt, Asha and Lata. The cast was Abhi Bhattacharya, Sulochana Chatterjee, Ramesh Sinha, Baby Nanda etc. The story was-

Shankara was born in a Brahmin family in the village of Kalti in Malabar. Before he was eight, Shankara completed the study of the Vedas and the Shastras! After leaving the Gurukul, Shankara found that all around him was spread the heresy and hypocrisy in the grab of religion! Shankara vowed to destroy the heresy and hypocrisy and to receive the ancient vedic religion. These revolutionary ideas of Shankara frighten his mother Sati, and to bring him to his senses, she decided to get him married. For the wedding he started to go across the Purna river with her son. What Divine intervention, what miracles forced the mother to give her unwilling permission to her son to become a Sanyasin, you will see on the screen! She wept and she sobbed, but Shankara was firm and the delicate child of eight left his mother for the good of Humanity.

Facing innumerable dangers of the way he reached Narmada followed by an immense flood treating to wash away even the Ashram of the Guru Govindpada. Shankara prays to mother Narmada, and the flood goes down, Guru Govindpada then ordains him a sanyasin, teaches the 8 sidhis and sends him out! Watch the miracle shankara performs in the religious Conference in Benares, and proved Gods existence.

For years he stayed in the Vyas-Gupha at Badri Narayan and wrote those wonderful books which have made him one of the foremost philosophers of the world! An additional 16 years lease of life is given to him for revival and propagation of religion. Follows the historical debate with Mandan misra who is vanquished by Shankara. But his wife Bharti heckles Shankara about Kamashastra, and Shankara has to ask for time in which he enters a king’s dead body, and makes Mandan his Shishya. Going home he meets his dying mother, whose funeral rites are denied to him by the village folk. Again his prayers force the Sun-God to set fire to the funeral pyre, and people realising the divinity of Shankara fall at his feet. The task and triumphal March (Digvijaya) is over, and Shankara desiring to leave the world is lead to the Sinhdwara of the Sharda Mandir in Kashmir! The film ends with Shankara’s samadhi scene.

Adi Shankaracharya has done colossal work for the Hindu Dharma. he established 4 Mathas (Monasteries) at 4 directions of India as following

1.North- Jyortimatha or Joshimatha or Badrikashram in Uttarakhand
2.East- Jagannath Puri,Orissa
3.South- Shringeri Sharada Peeth in Karnataka and
4.West- Dwaraka,in Gujarat.

The heads of these Mathas are called Shankaracharya and are highly revered by Hindus. They are all highly educated persons in modern and Ancient literatures. The South and the West have a continuous lineage from Adi Shankaracharya.

Today’s song is sung by Manna Dey and chorus. Enjoy….


Song-Jay Bhaarati Vande Bhaarati (Jagadguru Shankaracharya)(1955) Singer- Manna Dey, Lyricist- Bharat Vyas, MD- Avinash Vyas
chorus

Lyrics

jai bhaarti ee ee
vande ae bhaaarti ee

sar pe himalay ka chhatr hai
charnon mein nadiyaan ekatr hain
haathon mein vedon ke patr hain aen
desh nahin aisa anyatr hai
jai bhaarti ee ee
vande ae bhaarti ee

dhuyen se paawan ye vyom hai ae
ghar ghar mein hota jahaan hom hai
pulkit humaare rom rom hain
pulkit humaare rom rom hain
ae ae ae
aadi anaadi shabd om hai
(jai bhaarti vande bhaarti )
jai bharati vande bharati
(jai bhaarti vande bhaarti )
vandemaatram
(jai bhaarti vande bhaarti )
vandemaatram

is bhoomi pe janm liya raam ne
geeta sunayi jahaan shyaam ne
ho geeta sunaayi jahaan shyaam ne
paawan banaaya chaaron dhaam ne ae ae ae ae ae ae
paawan banaaya chaaron dhaam ne
swarg bhi lajaaye jiske saamne
vandemaatram
vandemaatram
sar pe himaalay ka chhatr hai
charnon mein nadiyaan ekatr hain
haathon mein vedon ke patr hai ae ae ae
desh nahin aisa anyatr hai
jai bharati vande bharati
jai bharati vande bharati
jai bharati vande bharati
jai bharati vande bharati

(vandematram vandematram vandematram vandematram
vandematram vandematram vandematram vandematram)


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Today’s song is from the film Mahapooja aka Shri Satyanarayan Katha-1954.

Marriage fixed, New House Entry, New Job, Promotion, Shravan Maas, any Happy event in life and we always celebrate by doing a ‘Satyanarayan Pooja’. It is one of the most popular and common pooja that is performed in all over India, except 2-3 states. Satyanarayan is NOT an Avatar of Lord Shri Vishnu. It is just another form of Vishnu.

Lord Shrikrishna has clarified what is an Avatar in the IV chapter, in the Bhagwatgeeta, stanzas 7 and 8 like this….

“Yada Yada Hi Dharmasya
Glanirva Bhavathi Bharatha,
Abhyuthanam Adharmaysya
Tadatmanam Srijami Aham’
.

Bhagavad Gita (Chapter IV-7)

Praritranaya Sadhunam

Vinashaya Cha Dushkritam
Dharamasansthapnaya
Sambhavami Yuge-Yuge.

Bhagavat Gita (Chapter IV-8). Its translation would be thus….

“Whenever there is decay
of righteousness O! Bharatha
And a rise of unrighteousness
then I manifest Myself!”

“For the protection of the good,
For the destruc­tion of the wicked and
for the establishment of righteousness,
I am born in every age.”

In the film Prabhu ki Maya-1955, Hemant kumar has sung a Bhajan in which this is expressed poetically in Hindi thus…

Jab jab hota nash Dharm ka,
aur paap badh jaata hai,
tab lete Avatar Prabhu
yeh Vishva shanti paata hai
.

In case of Satyanarayan, its Pooja procedure is explained in Skand Puran, Reva kand, by Sut Puranik to Shaunak Muni and other Rishis in Nimishkaranya, when they set out to do a 1000 year Yadnya for the benefit of Humanity.

Film Pahapooja-1954 was directed by Shanti Kumar. The film had 3 MDs – Avinash Vyas (4 songs), Shankar rao Vyas (3 songs) and Manna Dey (2 songs). For these 9 songs as many as 7 singers were used – Rafi, Amirbai, Talat mahmood, Geeta Dutt, Manna Dey, Pinakin Shah and Tara. The cast of the film consisted of Ratnamala, Amirbai,Shashi kapoor (sr.), Anant Marathe, Sabita Chatterjee, Ahavale and many others, includin 2 Guest artistes- Prem Adib and Murad.

The entire film was based on the most popular Satyanarayan Katha. The story is…

This story consists of a childless merchant and his adventures. There was a wise king named Ulkamuk. He had a pious and beautiful wife. He would go to the temple daily and would give charity to the Brahmins. One day near the banks of river Madhushala, where they were performing Lord Sri Satyanarayana’s vratham, a wealthy merchant was passing by. He anchored his boat, went to the king and asked him, “Oh King, please let me know the details about the vratham you are performing with such devotion”. The king replied that he was performing Lord Satyanarayana Swami’s vratham. He said that one who performs this vratham will gain worldly pleasures and attain salvation. The merchant with much eagerness asked him the details stating that, “Oh King, I would like to know the details as I am childless and would like to perform this vratham”. The king gladly gave the entire details about the vratham and its vidhanam.

After acquiring the entire details of the vratham, the merchant and his wife decided to perform the fast if they get a child. Sometime later his wife Lilavati became pregnant and she delivered a girl who they named Kalavati. The merchant’s wife Lilavati reminded him about his promise to keep the fast and perform the vratham. The merchant postponed it saying that he would do so when the daughter grows and is ready to be married. The merchant told his wife that during the time of Kalawati’s wedding it would be easy to do the fast because at the moment he was busy in his business. So saying he left for his business trip to various villages.

Kalawati grew up to be a beautiful girl. When the merchant saw his daughter was of marriageable age; he called the match-maker and requested him to search for an ideal match for his daughter. Hearing the merchant’s request, the match-maker reached Kanchan Nagar. From there, he brought the proposal of a young handsome boy. Agreeing to the proposal and after speaking to the boy’s parents, Kalavati’s marriage was performed with much fanfare and religious ceremonies & rituals. All this while and even at this time of his daughter’s wedding the merchant forgot about the promise to perform the Satyanarayana vratham. So the Lord decided to remind the merchant about his promise.

The merchant, after a few days, left for his business trip with his son-in-law by boat. They anchored their boat in a beautiful village, named Ratanpur ruled by King Chandraketu. One day, the thieves robbed the wealth of the king. After robbing they went and stayed at the same place where the merchant was staying. Seeing the guards following them, they left the entire loot near the merchant and then hid themselves. When the guards reached the merchant’s place, they saw all the king’s wealth beside the merchant and his son-in-law. Thinking them to be robbers, they arrested them and brought them before the king stating that they were responsible for the theft. The king, without giving any chance of explaining their case ordered both be confined to behind bars. Even their wealth was confiscated by the king.

While at the merchant’s house, the thieves robbed their entire wealth. This left his wife and daughter to beg for their daily bread. One day while begging for food, Kalawati reached a Brahmin’s house. At that time the Brahmin and his family were performing Lord Satyanarayana’s puja. After listening to the prayer and taking the prasadam, she left for home. By the time she reached home it was already dark.
Leelawati was worried. She asked her daughter Kalawati why it took her so much time to come home. Kalawati replied, “Oh Mother, today I was at a Brahmin’s house where they were performing Lord Satyanarayana’s vratham.” On hearing this, Leelawati recollected the long pending promise by her husband and narrated it to her daughter. She soon began the preparations for the Lord Satyanarayana vratham. She did the fast & prayed and asked the Lord for forgiveness. She prayed that her husband and her son-in-law return home safely.

Lord Satyanarayana was pleased with the prayer and the fast. One day, he told King Chandraketu in his dream, “Oh King, You must release the merchant and his son-in-law as they are not the robbers. Return their wealth and set them free. If you do not do so, your kingdom will be destroyed.” In the morning, the king called the people in his court and told them about the dream.

The people agreed that the merchant and his son-in-law should be released by the king. The king asked the guards to bring the prisoners, returned all their belongings and set them free. The king told them that due to their wrongdoings, they had to undergo this suffering, but now there was nothing to fear & they could go back home. They bowed down to the king & left for home.

The merchant prayed first and then gave some wealth to the Brahmins before starting his journey home. When they went a little further, Lord Satyanarayana wanted to test them. He disguised as an old man and went up to the merchant. The Lord asked, “What is in your boat, give me little from there.” The merchant, in arrogance and pride, replied, “Oh Old man, we have nothing in our boat except hay and leaves.” On hearing such harsh words from the merchant, the Lord said, “Your words shall be true”. So saying, he went from there and sat on the bank of the river.

When the Lord went away, the boat started to rise higher in the water. The merchant was surprised at this. He went to check inside the boat. To his shock he saw that his boat which was filled with his wealth now contains only leaves and hay. Seeing this he fainted. When he came to his senses, he said “How could this happen?” His son-in-law meanwhile told him, “Do not cry over this. All has happened because you spoke harshly to the old man and lied to him. Still, nothing is lost. You could go back to him and ask him for his forgiveness. He may set everything right.”

The merchant, after hearing the words of his son-in-law, went in search of the old man. He bowed down before him and with respect said, “Oh Lord, please forgive me for the words I have spoken.” So saying, he bowed down with tears of sorrow in his eyes. When the Lord saw the merchant in his state of sorrow and crying for forgiveness, he said, “Oh foolish person, due to your deeds, you have seen all this sorrow & suffering.”

On hearing the merchant’s words filled with bhakti, the Lord was happy & he turned the boat full of wealth. When the merchant mounted his boat and saw it full with wealth again, he thanked the Lord & said, “With Lord Satyanarayana’s grace, my wish is fulfilled. When I reach home, I will do his prayer & fast”, so saying he left for his home.

When the merchant saw that his home-town Ratanpur is nearing, he sent a messenger in advance, to his house to inform his wife & daughter of his arrival. The messenger, on reaching the merchant’s house, bowed down to the merchant’s wife & gave them the most awaited news that the merchant & his son-in-law have reached Ratanpur.

Leelawati had just finished doing her Satyanarayana Puja meanwhile. She told her daughter to finish doing the prayer and then come & receive her husband & her father. Kalawati finished doing her puja quickly & without taking the prasadam left to meet her husband. The Lord got angry at her for this, and so he drowned her husband with the boat. When Kalawati did not see her husband; she was shocked and she fainted on the floor.

On seeing his daughter and the sudden disappearance of the boat, the merchant was shocked. He prayed to Lord Satyanarayana, asked him for his forgiveness and prayed to the Lord to take them out of this difficulty. The Lord said to the merchant, “Oh merchant, your daughter, in a hurry to meet her husband has left my prasadam. When she goes back and takes the prasad with due respect, only then will she see her husband.” On hearing this, Kalawati ran home, ate the prasad, offered respects to Lord Satyanarayana and came back to meet her husband. When the merchant saw this, he was very happy.

The merchant then performed Lord Satyanarayana’s vratha with his family every month from then onwards. They all gained the pleasures of life and after their death they got the ultimate gift of ‘Moksha’ (Salvation – Liberation from the cycle of life and death).

The main role in this film was done by Anant Marathe. Anant Marathe aka Anant kumar was the brother of actor and famous singer Ram Marathe. I was searching for his information for quite some time. My search ended when I found an article written by his son about his father.

Anant Marathe was born on 24-11- 1936. In a career that spanned over 50 years, he was a witness to many changes and upheavals in the Hindi film industry. Born in Pune, in a family that was doing well for itself, he had three brothers and two sisters. Losing his father at the tender age of four, he was forced to give up education and begin work, to fend for his family. In the process the family left Pune and came to Mumbai, the city that fed every soul.

The world of films, those days, was not an industry. It was just like a 9 to 5 job in an office. Anant Marathe, with his innocent looks, expressive eyes and inborn confidence, was chosen by Master Vinayak, to play a role as a child artiste in a hindi film, Chhayaa. In this film he played the role of a son, who for his own selfish means is used by his father, ( played by Late Shri Chandra Mohan).

The real breakthrough came when he was called for an audition at Prabhat Studios, the most distinguished film company of those days. This 1943-44 film was ‘ Ramshastri’, in which he was to play the part of Chhota (young) Ramshastri. Ramshastri Prabhune was the Supreme Judge of the Peshwa dynasty and known for his supreme judgement. Once he was selected for the role, his grooming as an actor really began. In the storyline, Chhota Ramshastri was depicted as a boy who hates to study and loves to play all day long. He would swim, roam about with his pet dog and enjoy life. For this role Anant marathe was made to learn swimming even though he was scared of water! He could not get along with the puppy dog, even though it was supposed to be his pet. And to top it all, after shooting, the swimming and the sequences with the dog were edited from the film! The song, ‘Don ghadicha daav, yala jeevan aise naav” sung by him was very popular at that time. He received an award for his performance as Ramshastri from Bengal Film Journalists Association as the best supporting actor of the year. This film was screened in a number of National and International film festivals.

Film industry in South India was very active in the early 50’s. Anant Marathe acted in a number of films produced by the South Indian film studios, namely AVM, Gemini studios etc. Shri Chettiar of AVM was planning a socio-mythological film on the life of a famous saint. The lead role was played by Shahu Modak. The film in general was devotional and to bring in an interesting element, a comic character was created, in the form of the saint’s shishya ( pupil ). This role was offered to Anant Marathe and he displayed histrionics that astonished everybody on the sets.

The Director who groomed the great showman Raj Kapoor was Kidar Sharma and Anant Marathe had the privilege to work in one of his films, this time as a villain! The film was Hamaari Yaad Aayegi. This film also launched Tanuja, who would be known as a talented actress in the coming years. Anant Marathe played the role of a character called Pyarelaal, a very deceiving name for a villain! He is a suave character, moving about in the company of elite people but behind the cute face there is a monster of sorts, a wolf in sheep’s clothes. Anant Marathe, with his charming smile was very stunning, not only in his looks but in every move. Kidar Sharma was known to reward any actor who performed a great scene with a 4 anna coin, known as chavanni in those days. A chavanni earned for a great shot was like an achievement. And Anant Marathe earned many, which he cherished till the end.

His journey as an actor continued with great flourish. Since he could speak Marathi and Hindi fluently, he received offers from both Marathi and Hindi films. He was truly a bi-lingual actor.

Manoj Kumar was inspired by the life of Bhagat Singh, the great sikh patriot from Punjab and was planning a film on his life. Manoj Kumar and Prem Chopra were to play the roles of Bhagat Singh and Sukhdev respectively but casting for Raajguru, the third freedom fighter was still to be done, as Manoj Kumar wasn’t happy with the short-listed few, to play the role. Manoj Kumar heard about Anant Marathe, who had acted in many hindi and marathi films. Anant Marathe was asked to come over and meet Mnoj Kumar. One look at him and he had found his Raajguru! The experience of working in a truly patriotic film, that too with a thespian like Pran who played a cameo in Shaheed, was a very inspiring experience for him. Incidentally Pran did not charge a single rupee for this role! Shaheed brought a wave of patriotism in the audience, they cheered and loved their heroes. The real mother of Bhagat Singh was felicitated at the premiere of this film at Delhi. She was moved by the performances of every actor in the film. What’s more, a special screening was arranged for the then Prime Minister of India, Late Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri, who praised the film and awarded certificates of honour to all the actors.

Anant Marathe acted in over 250 Hindi and Marathi films, out of which 71 films are Hindi. he also sang 5 songs in 5 Hindi films.When he made his foray in Hindi films, he was not very fluent in Hindi so he took lessons from a tutor who taught him the nuances of Hindi, thus improving the pronunciations so he could speak the language flawlessly. He also learnt English to give his persona the required sparkle, so important for a lead hero. He had to give up formal schooling due to circumstances that prevailed and may be he made up for it in this manner.

Some of the films he acted in are, Bhakta Bilwamangal (Durga Khote), Bhakta Gopalbhaiya (Amir Kanataki), Geeta (Chandra Mohan, Durga Khote), Gokul ( Kamla Kotnis, Sapru), Jivacha Sakha (Durga Khote, Sulochana), Malti Madhav (Durga khote, Baby Shakuntala), Nanda Kumar ((Durga Khote), Sant Janabai (Hirabai Badodekar), Seeta Swayamvar (Durga khote, Baby Shakuntala), Jawaee Majha Bhala, Choravar Mor, Bhintila Kaan Astaat, Shri Krishna Darshan ( (Durga khote, Usha Kiran), Sampoona Ramayan, Bharat Milaap and many more.

In “Barkhaa”, he played the role of a doctor opposite Nanda. The song, “ Ek raat mein do-do chaand khile…” became an instant hit. “Bada bhai”, a film starring late Ajit, had him playing Ajit’s younger brother with Amita as the female lead. In “Sanskaar” also he played the lead role opposite Amita. He acted in some Gujrati films also.

In the early stages acting was like a job for him but soon it became a passion. All these years, while he worked in front of the camera as an actor, he learnt the finer details of film making, by observing, making mental notes. He had a flair for writing. In fact, he was a habitual diary writer. He wrote poems for small children and later they were published in the form of a book. He had a good voice and was planning to be a singer but destiny had something else in store for him, a career in acting.

He wielded the megaphone in 1974, for a Marathi film named “Sonarana Tochala Kaan”, starring comedian and an intense actor Nilu Phule in lead role with Usha Chavan as the female lead. It was inspired by a Hollywood caper with famous comedian, Bob Hope in lead. The film was a huge success all over Maharashtra. Soon he was set to direct a film in Hindi. After a detailed script was worked out by him, the producer backed out. Losing hope but not the spirit, he turned a new leaf and began work on his next project, once again in Marathi. The name of the film was “ Bijlee”, meaning lightning.

Rangat-Sangat Pratishthan, founded by the wife of late Shri Shahu Modak conferred the Manus puraskaar, an award on him for life-time achievement. The name for this award, for obvious reason is Manus (meaning human), a film by this name had Shahu Modak in a memorable role as a Havildaar.

Anant Marathe lived a contented life. Having worked in films from the age of 8 took its toll on him and he passed away on 1-12- 2002.(Thanks to http://www.writewrong.wordpress.com, muVyz, HFGK, and my notes).

Let us now enjoy the song by Manna Dey under his own Baton….


Song- Bhagwan bhagat tere tujhko bula rahe hain (Mahapooja)(1954) Singer- Manna Dey, Lyricist- Ramesh Gupta, MD-Manna Dey

Lyrics

bhagwaaa aa aaa aan
o o o
bhagwaan bhagat tere
bhagwaan bhagat tere
tujhko bula rahe hain aen
bhagwaan bhagat tere
tujhko bula rahe hain
barson se tu kasauti
karta raha hai jinki
ab tujhko chhod Mohan
jaayen wo sharan kiski
dukhiyaare bhookhe pyaase
aansoo baha rahe hain
bhagwaan bhagat tere

soona pada hai madhuban n
soona pada hai madhuban
gauyen pukaarti hain
gokul ki kunj galiyaan
tujhko nihaartin hain
wo gop baal gwaale
gun tere gaa rahe hain
bhagwaan bhagat tere

ek baar phir se aaja aa
aaja aa
aaja aa aa aa aa aa aa
ek baar phir se aaja
murli madhur baja ja aa
jeevan ke taar Mohan
ek baar jhanjhana jaa aa
sun’ne ko gyaan geeta
hum tilmila rahe hain
bhagwaan bhagat tere
tujhko bula rahe hain aen
bhagwan bhagat tere


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5416 Post No. : 17761

“Veena”(1948) was directed by J P Advani for Jagat Pictures. The movie had Sulochana Chatterjee,Veera,Rehman,Hemavati,Leela Mishra,Girdhaari, Yakub etc in it.

“Veena”(1948) had 12 songs in it. Nine songs have been covered in the blog.

Here is the tenth song from the movie to appear in the blog. The song is sung by Manna Dey. Prem Dehalvi is the lyricist. Music is composed by Anil Biswas.

Only audio of the song is available. I request our knowledgeable readers to throw light on the picturisation of the song.

Lyrics of the song were sent to me by Prakashchandra.


Song-Chal tu preet nagariya raahee (Veena)(1948) Singer-Manna Dey, Lyrics-Prem Dehalvi, MD-Anil Biswas

Lyrics(Provided by Prakashchandra)

ooo ooo oo
oo ooo ooo ooo
oo ooo ooo ooo
aaa aaa o o

chal tu preet nagariyaa raahee
chal tu preet nagariyaa aaay
chal tu preet nagariyaa raahee
chal tu preet nagariyaa
ye preet nagar mein koyaal khookey
meethey bol sunaaye aey ae aen
bahey prem ras kee dhaaraa
aur amrit saa barsaaye ae
ooo ooo oooo
oooo ooo
prem ki chhaaye badariyaa
hoye prem ki chhaaye badariyaa
raahee chal tu preet nagariyaa aaay
chal tu preet nagariyaa raahee
chal tu preet nagariyaa aa aa aa

ooo ooo oooo ooo ooo ooo
o oo ooo ooo ooo
sarson phooley prem ki dhaarey
man kee harey udaasee eee
prem ke jhooley daal ke gaayein
preet nagar ke vaasee
ooo ooo oooo
oo ooo ooo
oooo oo
baajey prem bansuriyaa
heyye baajey prem bansuriyaa raahee
chal tu preet nagariyaa aaye
chal tu preet nagariyaa raahee
chal tu preet nagariyaa aaay

heyy meethee meethee chot prem ki
dil mein dard basaaye aey ae
armaanon ke thhandey jal mein
aag si lag lag jaaye
oo oo ooo
ooo ooo
jab chhalkey prem gagariyaa
jab chhalkey prem gagariyaa raahee
chal tu preet nagariyaa aaay
chal tu preet nagariyaa raahee
chal tu preet nagariyaa aay

ooo ooo
oooo ooo ooo ooo
ooo ooo oooo
ooo ooo ooo
atak na jaaye chaltee gaadee
rakhiyo kadam sambhaal
ye preet ki raahein
tirchhee aadee
aur bahut janjaal
oo oo oo
ooo ooo oooo
kathin hai prem dagariyaa
heyye kathin hai prem dagariyaa raahee
chal tu preet nagariyaa aaay
chal tu preet nagariyaa raahee
chal tu preet nagariyaa aaaye


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5413 Post No. : 17756

“Maharaja”(1970) was produced and directed by Naresh Saigal for N S Films, Bombay. The movie had Nutan, Sanjay Khan (in title role), Sujit Kumar, Rajendranath, Jeewan, Tarun Bose, Manmohan Krishna, Manmohan, Rajan Haksar,
Onkar, Ameena, Lalita Kumari, Assie, Dilip Dutta, Sumal, Prabhat Kumar, Karim, Master Omi, Master Raja etc. The movie introduced Roopa. The movie also had
Helen, Nirupa Roy in special appearances with guest appearances by Hiralal, Murad, Randhir and Shashi.

“Maharaja”(1970) had five songs in it. Two songs have been covered in the past.

Here is the third song from the movie. This song is sung by Manna Dey and chorus. Akhtar Romani is the lyricist. Music is composed by Madan Mohan.

Only audio of the song is available. I request our knowledgeable readers to throw light on the picturisation of the song.

Lyrics of the song were sent to me by Prakashchandra.

audio link:

Song-Raste ka maal saste mein (Maharaja)(1970) Singer-Manna Dey, Lyrics-Akhtar Romani, MD-Madan Mohan
Chorus

Lyrics(Provided by Prakashchandra)

raste ka maal sastey mein
sastey ka maal bastey mein aen
raste ka maal sastey mein
sastey ka maal bastey mein
aa mere paas
mat ho udaas
kar doon main bojh halkaa aa aa
kya aitbaar kal kaa
raste ka maal sastey mein
sastey ka maal bastey mein ae ae
raste ka maal sastey mein

yennaa swaamee
swaamee ingey waa ingey waa
eeyodu bhagyaam nallaa irthaa/irukkaa/??/yatthaa
evaadu ne/ley/
your name money
you got lot money..eee

o naseebawaaley paashaahho
aao twaanoo kam dee gallaa dass ye
tussee apni watchnoo badey changey lagdey o
par twaanoo paisaa changaa lagdaaaye
aur tussee mainoo daadey changaa lagde hey/hai
rab dee meharbaanee naal
kinnaaa sohnaa mel hoyyaa aaa

koyi chalaaye chhakdaa
koyee udaaye raackitt
pehnee kisee ne dhotee
pehnaa kisee ne jaackitt
iske galey mein phandaa
uskey galey mein laackkitt
khaalee kisee kaa batuaa
aur full kisee ki paackit
tere ghar mein ho
mere ghar mein ho
farq kyaa hai pyaarey aaaa
aa aa mere paas
mat ho udaas
kar doon main bojh halkaa aaa aaa
kya aitbaar kal kaa
raste ka maal sastey mein
sastey ka maal bastey mein ae ae
raste ka maal sastey mein

aei ae money money
too roo ooo oo tu roo roooo ooo
money money
too roo ooo oo tu roo roooo ooo
money monney
aayye ae ae ae aey ae
everybody loves money money
everybody needs money money
everybody wants money money
maaanee maanee maanee ee ee ee eeee

if you haven`t got money you look so funny
if you have got money you`re nice and bright
& you dearest/?? sonny
you understand my sonny…eeee…eeeee
oo ooo so ooo so o ooo
everybody loves money money
everybody needs money money
everybody wants money money

maaneee maanee maneeee eee eee hheee eee eeee

haayyerey haayye
haayyerey haayye
haayyerey haayye mera money money
abhi idhar thhaa mera money money
kidhar gaya rey mera money money
gum gayaa rey mera money money
lutt gayaa rey mera money money
haayyerey haayye mera money money
haayyerey haayye mera money money
haayyerey haayye mera money money
haayyerey haayye mera money money


This article is written by Avinash Scrapwala, 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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5400 Post No. : 17716

#the Decade of Seventies – 1971 – 1980 #
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# Bhoole-Bisre Geet # (1st May -Birth Anniversary-Manna Dey)
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Today 1st May’2023 is the one hundred and fourth birth anniversary of legendary Singer Manna Dey (01.05.1919-24.10.2013).

As per our blog statistics Manna Da has sung around thirteen hundred and fifty songs for Hindi movies.

We still have a long way to go to bring all the songs sung by him here on the blog.

Manna Da has sung a variety of songs from all ‘genres’ in Hindi movies but majority of his songs are classical based, Qawwalis, philosophical, inspirational, and motivational songs other than romantic songs.

Manna Dey’s songs of various moods are perfect songs to listen to for a music lover no matter what mood he find himself in.

I personally like his classical based, philosophical, inspirational, motivational genre of songs and the ‘Qawwalis’ sung by him.

Recently I had presented some of this songd which are ‘background’ songs in Hindi movies. Majority of them are philosophical songs as well.

Today I present another background song sung by Manna Dey. It is from the ‘1978’ movie ‘Karmyogi’.

‘Karmayogi-1978’ was directed by Ram Maheshwari for ‘A.R. Productions, Bombay’. It was produced by Anil Suri.

It had Mala Sinha, Rajkumar, Jeetendra, Rekha, Reena Roy, Ajit, Nazeer Hussain, Jagirdar, Yogita Bali, Sudhir Dalvi, Dheeraj, Kanhaiyalal, Jagdeep, Dhoomal, Mushtaq Merchant, Omkar Ema, Chandrashekhar, Jagdish Raj, Master Abbas, Master Parvez, Master Rajiv, Master Sonu and others.

Screenplay of ‘Karmayogi-1978’ was written by Benoy Chatterjee and C.J. Pavri.

Dialogues for this movie were written by Sagar Sarhadi. Ela Maheshwary was the additional dialogue writer for this movie.

Editing of this movie was done by M.S. Shinde.

This movie was passed by Censor Board on 23.10.1978.

This movie had six songs, including one multiple version song. Lyrics for all songs were written by Verma Malik and music was composed by Kalyanji-Anandji.

Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhonsle, Mohd Rafi, Kishore Kumar and Manna Dey were the playback singers for this movie.

In my earlier post while presenting the first song from this movie on the blog I had mentioned that I had watched this movie on VCR during my stay at Kota and i.e., may be in 1990-1991 and have forgotten the movie by now.

However, for the preparation of this post I watched this movie online (though in parts) and liked it very much.

I personally feel that this movie was one of the top movies of Raj Kumar if not a ‘milestone’ movie.

He plays a father (Shankar) and his son (Mohan) in this movie and he has done justice to both the roles with his characteristic style and dialogue delivery where he plays a ‘bitter’ human being who after being betrayed by people and having lost his wealth takes to the path of ‘crime’ for ‘instant results’ to earn ‘money’ and ‘power’.

Mala Sinha plays the wife of Shankar who is a religious lady believing in the teachings of ‘geeta’ and believing in ‘good deeds will yield good results’ or ‘karma’.

Jeetendra plays Ajay the younger brother of Mohan who walks on the path of ‘good deeds’ and is groomed by his mother as a true ‘idealist’.

Ajit is the partner of Shankar in the world of crime, but ditches him which leads to Shankar being caught by the police and is given ‘death sentence’ in the court.

Before leaving this world Shankar shares with Mohan his bitter experiences of this world and asks Mohan to take revenge from the conspirators.

Reena Roy plays Ajay’s love interest while Rekha is her elder sister who sacrifices her life for the well-being of her younger sister and plays a ‘club dancer’.

That is the ‘brief gist’ of this movie but the real thrill is watching this movie and watch the ‘fight of the principles’ through the powerful dialogues on the screen.

For the preparation of this post I watched parts of this movie which is available online.

Let us come to the song under discussion now. As mentioned above it is a background song appearing in parts on the screen.
The first part of the song is played while the titles of the movie are rolling on the screen.
This first part is again repeated as it is when Shankar leaves his wife Durga (while she is still pregnant and expecting the second child) taking Mohan with him.

The third part of this song is played when Durga has to leave the house as the house owner Kanhaiyalal seeks repayment of the loan taken by Shankar, but eyeing on her instead.

Fourth part of this song is played where we can see Mohan is growing up while his father Shankar also making progresses in his world of crime and earning a lot and living lavishly.

The next part the fifth part of this song happens when Shankar already announced a death sentence is preparing for the ‘gallows’ without having any regrets for his deeds and the path he has chosen in his life.

The last part of the song happens when Durga learns about the hanging of Shankar through a newspaper which Ajay has brought with a shawl for her.

This song is wonderful to listen to as is usually the case with Most songs sung by Manna Da.

‘Karmayogi-1978’ is ranked between – 15 to 25 – by some sources among the ‘top Hindi movies’ of ‘1978’.

Let us now listen to this song. HFGK Vol-V (1971-1980) mentions this song as a ‘two part’ song only.

Video of all parts of this song is available in one single link. The audio link does not contain the part no.3, 5 & 6 in the song.

(The part numbers mentioned in the lyrics are based on the link of the movie available online).

I think this song serves as a perfect tribute to Manna Da on his birthday today. He did his ‘karma’ with devotion and left behind an invaluable treasure of innumerable unforgettable songs for us to savour.

Video (all parts)

Audio

Song-Tere jeewan ka hai karmon se naata (Karmyogi)(1978) Singer-Manna Dey, Lyrics-Verma Malik, MD-Kalyanji Anandji

Lyrics

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(Part-1) with titles
—————————-
tere jeewan kaa hai
ae ae
karmon se naataa
tere jeewan kaa hai
karmon se naataa aa
tu hi apnaa bhaagyavidhaataa aa
o o o o
jaisi likhegaa karmon ki rekhaa
jaisi likhegaa tu
karmon ki rekhaa
dena hoga til til kaa lekhaa
o o o
dena hoga til til kaa lekhaa
tere jeewan kaa hai ae ae
karmon se naataa

aaj tu jisko achchhaa samjhe
jaan le uskaa kal kya hai ae
kal kya hai ae
soch le chalne se pehle tu
un raahon ki manzil kya hai
manzil kya hai ae
jo bhi kiyaa hai
aage aataa
tu itnaa bhi soch na paataa
o o o o
jaisi likhegaa karmon ki rekhaa
jaisi likhegaa tu
karmon ki rekhaa
dena hoga til til kaa lekhaa
o o o
dena hoga til til kaa lekhaa
tere jeewan kaa hai ae ae
karmon se naataa

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(Part-2) 00:10:11
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tere jeewan kaa hai
ae ae
karmon se naataa

tere jeewan kaa hai
karmon se naataa aa
tu hi apnaa bhaagyavidhaataa aa
o o o o
jaisi likhegaa karmon ki rekhaa
jaisi likhegaa tu
karmon ki rekhaa
dena hoga til til kaa lekhaa
o o o
dena hoga til til kaa lekhaa
tere jeewan kaa hai ae ae
karmon se naataa

aaj tu jisko achchhaa samjhe
jaan le uskaa kal kya hai ae
kal kya hai
soch le chalne se pehle tu
un raahon ki manzil kya hai ae
manzil kya hai
jo bhi kiyaa hai ae
aage aataa
tu itnaa bhi soch na paataa
o o o o
jaisi likhegaa karmon ki rekhaa
jaisi likhegaa tu
karmon ki rekhaa
dena hoga til til kaa lekhaa
o o o
dena hoga til til kaa lekhaa
tere jeewan kaa hai ae ae
karmon se naataa aa

————————
(Part-3)00:22:21
———————–

sach ki raah
kaanton se bhari ee
dukh kadam kadam
pe ae aataa hai
jo dukh aur sukh mein ae
ae ae
ek rahe
wo hi karmyogi
kehlaataa hai

—————————
(Part-4)00:31:31
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o o o o o o
maanaa ke kaale karmon se tujhko
khushiyaan aur sukh miltaa hai ae
khushiyaan aur sukh miltaa hai
aasmaan ko o chhoone waale ae
ye kitne din chaltaa hai ae ae
ye kitne din chaltaa hai ae
kaahe ret ke mahal banaataa
jhoothhe bal pe tu kyun itraataa
o o o o o
jaisi likhegaa karmon ki rekhaa
jaisi likhegaa tu karmon ki rekhaa
dena hoga til til kaa lekhaa
o o o
dena hoga til til kaa lekhaa
tere jeewan kaa hai ae ae
karmon se naataa
tu hi apnaa bhaagyavidhaataa aa
o o o o
jaisi likhegaa karmon ki rekhaa
jaisi likhegaa tu karmon ki rekhaa
dena hoga til til kaa lekhaa
o o o
dena hoga til til kaa lekhaa aa
dena hoga til til kaa lekhaa
dena hoga til til kaa lekhaa
aa aa

—————————
(Part-5) 01:06:00
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o o o sssssssssssss
o o o
jaisi karni
waisi bharni
ye to ik sachchaayi hai
ye to ik sachchaayi hai
dekh le tu teri karni
tere aage aayi hai ae
tere aage aayi hai ae
jo hai kartaa
wo hi paataa
koyi kisi ke saath na jaataa
o o o o
jaisi likhegaa tu
karmon ki rekhaa
dena hoga til til kaa lekhaa
o o o
dena hoga til til kaa lekhaa aa
dena hoga til til kaa lekhaa

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(Part-6) 01:09:50
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khushi luti ee
gharbaar gayaa aa
chhootaa jeewan kaa aa aasaathi
duniyaa ke maalik
ye to bataa aa aa aa aa
ab kaunsi pareekshaa hai ae ae baaki


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