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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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#the Decade of Forties – 1941 – 1950 #
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In this post we are going to listen to a song sung by Naseem Akhtar from the movie ‘Sohni Mahiwal-1946’.
This movie had made its debut on the blog on 13.09.2014 with a duet song sung by Zohrabai Ambalewali and G.M. Durrani.
Thereafter another duet sung by the same duo was posted soon on 18.09.2014.
However, the third song appeared on the blog after a long gap of almost seven years. This song – a solo song sung by Zohrabai Ambalewali – was posted on 18.06.2021.
The fourth song from this movie, another solo by Zohrabai Ambalewali, was posted on 13.04.2022.
Today we are going to listen to the fifth song from this movie.
‘Sohni Mahiwal-1946’ was directed by Ishwar Lal and Ravindra Jaikar for ‘Jayant Desai Productions, Bombay’.
It had Ishwar Lal, Begam Para, Mubarak, Dixit, Rewashankar, Sayeed Ahmed, Gharpure, Bibibai, Shobha, Nafis Begam, Kesharbai and others.
This movie had as many as eleven songs. Nine songs were written by Swami Ramanand and two songs by Munshi Dil.
Music for this movie was composed by Lal Mohammad.
(I had in my earlier post with a song from this movie hd given the list of all songs from this movie and hence I am not repeating it here.)
The voice of Zohrabai Ambalewali appears in as many as eight songs of this movie. We have so far covered four of her songs from the movie on the blog.
Today we present a song sung by Naseem Akhtar from this movie ‘Sohni Mahiwal-1946’. This song is again a song from ‘falling in love category song’ 🙂 or ‘where one’s heart is stolen by someone’ (‘dil ka chori honaa’ or ‘dil churaa ke le jaanaa’ is another common thing in our ‘surroundings’ (or films only?) even now, or was it? :), and so here is a complaint for that 🙂 )
Lyrics are by Swami Ramanand and music is composed by Lal Muhammad.
Only the audio of this song is available.
Let us listen to this song now…
Audio
Song-Mujhe loot liya re bhole sanam ne (Sohni Mahiwal)(1946) Singer-Naseem Akhtar, Lyrics-Swami Ramanand, MD-Lal Mohammad
Lyrics
mujhe loot liyaa re ae
mujhe loot liyaa re ae
ae ae ae ae
bhole sanam ne
haan haan
baanke sanam ne
aankhon se ae
jaadu daal ke
mujhe loot liyaa re ae
khwaab ban ke
aankhon mein aayaa aa aa
khwaab ban ke
aankhon mein aayaa aa aa
pyaar ban ke
dil mein samaaya aa aa
pyaar ban ke
dil mein samaaya aa aa
hosh udaa ke
bekhabri mein
hosh udaa ke
bekhab\bri mein
le gaya chain nikaal ke ae
le gaya chain nikaal ke ae
mujhe loot liyaa re ae
ae ae ae ae
bhole sanam ne
haan haan
baanke sanam ne
aankhon se ae
jaadu daal ke
mujhe loot liyaa re ae ae
main dhhoondhh dhhoondhh kar
main dhhoondhh dhhoondhh kar
huyi deewaanee ee
main dhhoondhh dhhoondhh kar
huyi deewaanee ee
milaa na mujhko o
dilbar jaani ee
milaa na mujhko o
dilbar jaani ee
haaye
naa jaane ae
kahaan chhupaa hai
naa jaane ae
kahaan chhupaa hai
mere ae
dil ko
uchhaal ke ae
haan
mere ae dil ko
uchhaal ke ae
mujhe loot liyaa re ae
ae ae ae ae
bhole sanam ne
haan haan
baanke sanam ne
aankhon se ae ae
jaadu daal ke
mujhe loot liyaa re ae …
Kaliyon ko masalne aaye hain
Posted on: March 1, 2023
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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#the Decade of Fourties – 1941 – 1950 #
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In this post I present a song from the movie ‘Aaj Aur Kal-1947’.
Readers would have noted my growing interest in the songs of ‘1947’. After knowing (from Shri Arunkumar ji’s comment) that the year ‘1947’ still holds the record for maximum Hindi movies released, I have developed an interest to try and bring all the songs available from this year ‘1947’ on the blog.
Secondly this year ‘1947’ is an important year for all of us as it was in this year that we got our freedom. So I am keen to know more about the movies and songs of ‘1947’.
In case of today’s movie, not much information is available in HFGK as also mentioned by Shri Arunkumar ji while presenting the earlier two songs from this movie on the blog.
Here is this brief mentioned about this movie in HFGK Vol-II (1941-1950).
“Aaj Aur Kal-1947” alias ‘Today or Tomorrow’ was directed by K.A. Abbas for ‘Chitra Productions Ltd, Lahore’.
It had Neeta, Rashid Ahmed, Aarif and others.
Music for this movie was composed by Khursheed Anwar.
Respected Arunkumar ji has gathered some information about this movie after lot of efforts and he has given this information in one of his posts with a song of this movie on the blog. I am reproducing this information below.
I had to strive very hard to collect information on this film from various sources and I learnt that the producers of this film were CR Gwalani and RK Parasher. Actors Shyam and Nayantara were the lead actors and singers Zeenat Begum, Imdad Hussain and Naseem Akhtar sang some of the songs of this film. The most important information I got was that the story of this film was a science fiction story. It portrayed life in an imaginary city called Gandhi Nagar in the year 2048 (100 years later in future).
The cast of the film ‘Aaj Aur Kal’ aka ‘Today Or Tomorrow’ (1947) was Neeta, Rashid Ahmed and Arif as per HFGK. I do not know who Neeta or Arif, but I certainly know who Rashid Ahmed was. He was popularly known as Rashid Khan in later films.
( I have collated two separate paragraphs (second one not in full but partial only) from Shri Arunkumar ji’s post and given it above).
“Aaj Aur Kal-1947” has six songs and as specifically mentioned by Shri Arunkumar ji all the six songs are ‘sweet’ songs.
Though HFGK mentions the list of ‘song-titles’ of this movie it doesn’t mention the name of the lyricist and name of the singer/s for the individual songs.
Here is the list of these six songs.
| SNo | Song Title | Singer | Posted On |
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| 01 | Khuli hawaa mein udney waale | ||
| 02 | Is khat khat ne, is dhad dhad ne | ||
| 03 | Aao saathi aao, saathi tum kis ore chali,/a> | Zeenat Begum, Imdad Hussain | 22.08.2022 |
| 04 | Pade ishq mein jaan ke hamko laale | Zeenat Begum | 28.08.2019 |
| 05 | Jaam uthhaa le o peenewaale | ||
| 06 | Kaliyon ko masalne aaye hain |
(Note*- the singer’s names mentioned in above table are as mentioned in the posts with this song on the blog).
As mentioned above two songs from this movie have been posted earlier on the blog.
Today’s song is the third song from this movie. The links for the song mentions the name of the singer as Naseem Akhtar. However the name of the lyricist is not known.
Let us now listen to this ‘poetical’ beauty song. I hope readers will enjoy this song.
If someone comes across a lovely song like this it is difficult to hold the temptation to share it here on the blog 🙂 I am a big fan of such songs.
Let us now listen to this song, the third song from ‘Aaj Aur Kal-1947’ to appear on the blog.
Audio
Song-Kaliyon ko masalne aaye hain (Aaj aur Kal)(1947) Singer-Naseem Akhtar, Lyrics-Unknown, MD-Khursheed Anwar
Lyrics
kaliyon ko masalne aaye hain aen
kaliyon ko masalne aaye hain
phoolon ko jalaane aaye hain
kaliyon ko masalne aaye hain
phoolon ko jalaane aaye hain
is baagh ki daali daali mein
is baagh ki daali daali mein
wo aag lagaane aaye hain
kaliyon ko masalne aaye hain aen
mehmaan banaayaa thhaa unko
aankhon pe bithhaayaa thha unko o
mehmaan banaayaa thhaa unko
aankhon pe bithhaayaa thha unko o
maaloom na thhaa
wo is ghar ko o
maaloom na thhaa
wo is ghar ko
veeraan banaane aaye hain aen
maaloom na thhaa
wo is ghar ko
veeraan banaane aaye hain aen
kaliyon ko masalne aaye hain aen
wo apne geeton ke tohfe ae
le jaayen hamaari mahfil se ae ae ae
wo apne geeton ke tohfe
le jaayen hamaari mahfil se
ham amrit ke matwaalon ko o
ham amrit ke matwaalon ko
wo zahar pilaane aaye hain
ham amrit ke matwaalon ko
wo zahar pilaane aaye hain
kaliyon ko masalne aaye hain aen
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular 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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Today’s song is a duet from the film Wamiq Azra-1946.
Ask anyone to name a famous love pair and the answer would be Romeo and Juliet, Laila Majnu or Shirin Farhad. These are all lovebirds from foreign lands. In fact Romeo and Juliet never even existed, they are the fictional char acters from the drama “Romeo and Juliet” written by William Shakespeare in 1597 a.d. Layla-Majnun pair was from Arabia and Shirin and Khusro Farhad were from Persia or Iran. Likewise Wamiq and Azra were also from Persia.
There are several love pairs from our own Indian Mythology and Indian History, but most people do not either know about them or they simply do not remember, till reminded. So much for the knowledge of our own history ! How many of us really know about the love pairs from our Mythology, is a question better left unasked !
The famous Subhadra and Arjun pair, the Uttara- Abhimanyu pair which culminated in the sad end of Abhimanyu, and Usha- Aniruddha are some of the interesting love stories of Mythology. Surprisingly, there seem to be no love stories from Ramayana and all these are from Mahabharat or during the Krishn Avtar. And why not, when Krishna himself had Radha as his Love-mate.
Indian History too is replete with love stories like Jodha-Akbar, Salim- Anarkali, Bajirao -Mastani, Prithviraj-Sanyogita, Amrapali-Bimbisara, Mumal- Mahendra, Amaravati- Ambikapathy (Tamilnad) etc.etc.
In addition there are the Folk Love stories of India. India is a unique country in the world. ” Vividhata mein ekta” (विविधता में एकता ). A country which has 28 states and 9 UTs, 22 languages mentioned in its Constitution, 30 languages spoken by 30 lakh people each, 122 languages spoken by more than 10000 people each and 1652 languages spoken in all the country. So many religions are living amicably for thousands of years and still the country is ONE unit, when the Nation needs it. Proving all the Pundits of the world saying that India will break into pieces after independence, we are stronger and more developed by the day. So, what is the secret ?
The secret is its Culture, which keeps all faiths and languages bound together. In India, Culture is greater than and a bigger influence than individual religions. The flexibility, adaptability and readiness to make changes by the majority section, is the secret. This makes India the biggest Democracy in the world today. The entire world looks up to us as a final Saviour.
Culture and Folklore have bound Indians together. In every state there are its own Folk tales, Folk Dances and Folk Music. Still, some common Folklore is famous all over the country. Though every region has its own Folklores, Lovers’ Folk lore from Punjab and Sind have been traditionally well known throughout India, e.g. Heer-Ranjha or Sohni-Mahiwal etc etc. Our films have a great contribution in keeping the country United and Together,despite calamities and aggressions. Some of the Folk tales of Love from Punjab and Sindh became well known due to films made on them.
There are 9 Tragic Love stories from Punjab and Sindh,in which both the lovers die without getting united. These 9 Love stories are-
Mirza-Sahiban
Heer – Ranjha
Sassi-Punnu
Momal-Rano
Umar-marvi
Sohni-Mahiwal
Lila-Chanesar
Noorie-Tamchi
Dhaj-Rorkumar (Unlike most pairs,in Mirza Sahiban,the Male name comes First !)
Dhola-Maaru (a story from Rajasthan).
Indian film producers have helped spread these Immortal Love stories by making movies on them,as under-
Heer-Ranjha… Films made in 1931,32,48 and 1970
Mirza-Sahiban… In 1933,35,47 and 1957
Sassi-Punnu… In 1932,33 and 1946
Sohni-Mahiwal…In 1933,46,58 and 1984
Umar-Marvi…in 1942
Noorie-Tamchi…In 1934
Dhola-Maaru….1956
Film Wamiq Azra-1946 was made by Hind Pictures, Bombay. It was owned by actor, Director Nazir Ahmed khan who was a very enterprising and capable, multi faceted artiste. He acted in 25 films, from 1933 to 1942, directed 8 films from 1940 to 1947,sang 7 songs in 5 films and even wrote lyrics in filmAabroo-1943. His first wife was Sitara Devi-dancer and actress, who eloped with his nephew-K.Asif. His second wife was Swarnalata-a Siyal Sikh actress. Nazir established his film Studio in Dadar-Hind Pictures. In the riots of 1947, his studio was burnt by a frenzied mob and he stood in a corner watching it burn completely, while he smoked cigarettes. Next week he migrated to Pakistan with wife Swarnalata in tow. He is regarded as the builder and developer of Pakistani Film industry, in the initial stages.
The film was directed by his Cinematographer Nazir Ajmeri. This was his first film as a Director and later he directed Rupa-46, Keemat-46, Majboor-48 and Abida-48, before he too migrated to Pakistan and joined his Mentor Nazir Ahmed khan. The film had music by A.R.Qureshi (29-4-1919 to 3-2-2000). He gave music to 40 films composing 356 songs and singing 14 songs in 7 films. By 1958 he left films and concentrated on his speciality- Tabla, holding concerts all over the world. He became very famous with his real name All Rakha Khan. His son Zakir Hussain is also an internationally famous Tabla Nawaz.
The songs of this film were written by Lyricist Tanvir Naqvi. Tanvir Naqvi ( real name- Syed Khursheed Ali ) was born on 16th February 1919, at Lahore. His father was a Jahagirdar and elder brother was ADC to a Nawab. Tanvir went to Persia, along with father, where he was educated in Urdu and Persian. From the age of 14 years, he started writing poetry and participated in various Mushairas. He published a book ” Suhane Sapne ‘ of his poetry. By chance, A R Kardar read it and called Tanvir to Bombay to write for his film ‘ Swami’-41 made by CIRCO.
In his next film, Nai Duniya-42, Suraiya sang his song as her First song. His films Anmol Ghadi-46 and Jugnu-47 became hits and all his songs were appreciated much. He had earned a good name. However, after the film Parda-49, he migrated to Pakistan. In 1954, K.Asif invited him to India to write songs for his film ‘Mughal E Azam’, but by that time, Naushad had built his own team and he declined to take Tanvir Naqvi. From 1954 to 1959, Tanvir did many films. He also joined S.Mohinder and wrote songs for his 7 films.
In 1959, Tanvir Naqvi shifted again to Pakistan, but this time for good. There also, he wrote for many films,like Koel, Jhoomar, Salma, Gulfam,Elaan etc etc. He also wrote for Punjabi films. He had married Idaan- elder sister of actress singer Nurjehan. However,since he had no children from her, he married again and had 2 children. He died in Lahore on 1-11-1972. In India, he wrote 224 songs for 48 films. Some of his songs are popular even today.
Today’s song is sung by A.R.Qureshi and Naseem Akhtar.
Song-Do hi lafzon ka thha ye afsaana (Wamiq Azra)(1946) Singers-A R Qureshi, Naseem Akhtar, Lyrics-Tanveer Naqvi, MD-A R Qureshy
Lyrics
Do hi lafzon ka thha ye afsaana
jo suna par khaamosh ho baithhe ae
ik ada ye ke tumko paaya thha aa
phir kaha ye ki tujhko kho baithhe
bhala koi kyun kar tumhen bhool jaaye
bhala koi kyun kar tumhe bhool jaaye ae ae ae ae
bhulaane se tum aur bhi yaad aaye
bhulaane se tum aur bhi yaad aaye
na socha na samjha
na dekha na bhaala aa
na socha na samjha
na dekha na bhaala
chale aaye hum tujhpe duniyaa lutaaye
chale aaye hum tujhpe duniyaa lutaaye
na maano
magar jab se tumse juda hain
na maano
magar jab se tumse juda hain
tumhaari kasam
hum nahin muskuraaye
tumhari kasam
hum nahin muskuraaye
bhala koi kyun kar tumhen bhool jaaye
bhala koi kyun kar tumhen bhool jaaye
ae ae ae ae
bhulaane se tum aur bhi yaad aaye
bhulaane se tum aur bhi yaad aaye
Aa sajni pyaar karen
Posted on: May 23, 2021
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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Most of us like to see films, be it on a TV, in a cinema hall, or through DVD. Some like old films, some like new films. Did you ever see films like, Khooni Khanzar, Dagabaj Doctor, Shaitaan ka paash, Char chakram, Daku Rani Talwarwali, Jaadu ka dandaa, Zinda Laash, Revolver Rani, Sindbad-Alladin-Alibaba, Flying man, Fighter Sheela, Khooni Darinda, Tarzan aur Jadugar, Tarzan aur Jadui Chiraag, Golden Gang, Murde ki jaan khatare mein, or Jadui putli ?
I bet none of these movie names have been even heard by you ever. These are all STUNT FILMS or in other words ‘C’ grade films.
Stunt films, Costume films, fantasy films and purely Religious films are normally treated as C grade films. These film do not carry any prestige, the actors working in them are exclusive to C grade films, the production values and the budget is quite low and most important, they are ALWAYS shown in theatres situated in older parts of the town, single screens, or only for Morning shows or in Theatres generally frequented by lower strata of society.
A person seeing/loving or craving for such films is generally considered a ‘Low’ creature and a person with ‘child brain’.
In India ,this is the fate of C grade films .Actually these films have everything that A and B grade films have, like, story, songs, dances, fights etc, but still, the treatment given to handling of the story etc in the films is very poor or lacking in expertise.
Stunts have improved, Technology has evolved but the participation of Zippy the Monkey, Tiger the Horse, Moti the Dog, parrots, snakes and khatara cars named Rolls Royce ki beti and Austin ki Bachhi is missing ! The contribution of Fearless Nadia in making Stunt films popular can not be denied, but then she had the backing of companies like Wadia Movietone. Basant pictures, Ranjit, Sagar, National etc. When you read the stories of these films please don’t employ Logic or common sense to it. This is a different world altogether. The set of actors is fixed, many times the composers are unheard of or they are known composers now in bad shape, the Directors are typical and the production houses are exclusive to churn out such films.
It is, nevertheless, a fact that many well known and famous actors and actresses of the 40s and 50s evolved from the stunt films of yore. Examples are Jairaj or Master Bhagwan. Can you believe that this roly-poly Bhagwan Dada was a great body-builder when he started in stunt films in the late 30’s ? Lalita Pawar (Amboo), Madhuri, Rampyari, Miss Moti, Sabita Devi, and Sulochana (Ruby Myers) are some female examples who graduated to Social films via Stunt films.
Sometimes Gems are found in these C grade films. Remember the famous qawali- Hamen to loot liya mil ke husn walon ne- which had the honour of becoming the prestigious 5000th song in this Blog ? This was from a C grade film- AL HILAL.
In the 50s and 60s,some respectability was brought to these stunt films by actors like Mahipal, Ranjan, Dara Singh, Azad, Hemant Birje etc. The Heroinesof these movies included Mumtaz, Tabassum, Vijaya Chaudhary, Indira, Nishi etc. Mumtaz started with Stunts and graduated to greater heights and was counted in Top actresses of her days. Costume and Stunt films like Baaz, Insaniyat and Azaad etc were made respectable by the stars acting in them. Over a period the picture changed and nowadays every alternate film has breath-taking stunts done by almost all top Heroes. Thanks to SFX !
Action/Stunt films have a major segment and that is films made with Jungle as a background. Such films had their inspiration from Hollywood Tarzan films. The original Tarzan story was written by Sir Edgar Rice Burrows and it was first published in 1912,followed by its 23 sequels. The story proved to be immensely popular.No wonder, then, that it attracted the Hollywood producers.
The First Silent film ” Tarzan of the Apes” was released in 1918 in which Tarzan’s role was done by Elmo Lincoln and Jane Porter was Enid Markey. From 1918 to 2008,Hollywood made 89 Tarzan Films. The First Talkie film on Tarzan was ” Tarzan-The Ape Man” in 1932.Johnny Weissmuller was doing Tarzan’s role and Maureen O’Sulivan was Jane in it. Johnny was a German bred Romanian settled in America. He was an Olympic Swimming Champion with 5 Gold medals. The pair of Johnny and Maurine was very popular. Johnny Weissmuller did 12 films of Tarzan from 1932 to 1948. 6 films with Maureen,2 without any Jane and 4 with Brenda Joyce. After Johnny, 5 Tarzan films were done by Lex Barker and 6 were done by Gordon Scott. After 1960,there were different Tarzan actors in every film. The Chimpanzee “Cheetah” was there in films from 1932 to 1960,when he died.
In most films, the scripts were loyal to the novels. However, in the novel, Tarzan and Jane get married and they have a son too. In films, they never got married and their son ” BOY ” was found and adopted by Jane. There was one film ” Tarzan goes to India”-1962, in which Firoz khan, Simi Garewal, Jagdish Raj (as Police Inspector),Murad and G. Raghavan had also acted.
In western films, the popular roles are done by the same actors in many films and they are known by that character. For example Sean Connery is famous for James Bond roles, similarly, Johnny Weissmuller is known for his Tarzan roles. These actors later did many other films but their names were connected to the famous roles forever. In India, we do not find such consistency. Here the actor is known by the Genre of his specialty films-like tragedy films-Dilip kumar, Comedy Films-Kishore kumar, Romantic films-Dev Anand, Action Films-Akshay kumar etc.
In India, the core concepts of famous stories on Tarzan, Mythology or folk/costume are adapted by our filmmakers with great talent and creativity. While doing so, they have twisted the Time frame, boundaries of famous stories have been scaled with exceptional ease and an unusual mixture of story characters woven into films. For example, films like Sindbad, Alibaba and Alladin-65 or Shankar, Seeta and Anusuya-65 can only be thought of by the most creative and innovative story writers !
Famous character Tarzan has been combined with Delilah, King Kong, Circus, Cobra, Gorilla, Hercules, Jadugar, Magic lamp, Jalpari, Paristan, Fairyland and even Delhi ! For our filmmakers Time and History are no barriers. Tarzan has been adapted to its Avatar in the form of Zambo, Zimbo, Zanga and Zingaro.
Films with Jungle Titles are almost 60. Here too, the kind of variety in Titles will surprise you. Jungle is coupled with Boy, Beta, Man, King, Jawan, Jawahar, Hero, Girl, Goddess, Princess, Chandni, Sherni, Nagin, Queen, Love, Love story, Haseena, Hoor, Ladki, Sundari, Jawani, Pyar, Muhabbat etc etc. There is one Junglee Tarzan also to sum up the titles.
Sometimes stunt films have a misleading title like Dildar, Dhokebaz, Bahadur kisan, Attention, Azad jeewan etc.etc. However expert Stunt lovers can make it by just seeing the cast. That’s one speciality of stunt films. Names of actors working in stunt films are rather unusual and sometimes weird too. Here are some examples – Mithoo Miyan. Bismilla, Jiji Bhai, Kunzroo, Runzod, Gareeb Shah, Fatty prasad, Kurban Jaun, Manchi Toothi, Bachha, Fazloo, Khodu Irani, Premi, Maqbool Pujari, Nirasha, Vilayatu and two special names CHEMIST and BAJARBATTU.
I was very curious about this name Bajarbattu and wanted to know who this person was. After many years, atlast I came to know about him. His real name was Anant Apte. He started his career with silent films, shifted to Talkie and finally he became a cinematographer and a leading Film Editor. In 1930, Prabhat Film Company had made a silent film “RANISAHEBA”. This was India’s first children’s film. In this film, actor Anant Apte’s name was Bajarbattu. This name became so popular that as long as he was acting, he used that name only in film credits. There is an anecdote about how he helped actor Dharmendra to get established in Hindi films.
Dharmendra was a struggling actor in 1961. He was working in Shola aur Shabnam- his just the second film. He came to know that Bimal Roy was planning to make Bandini. He knew that once he acts in Bimal Ro’s film, his struggle will be over, so he went to Bimal Roy and asked for work. He also told him about his 2 films. Bimal Roy said, ” If you can bring and show me 1 or 2 reels of your films, I can think about you.” Dharmendra went to Ramesh Saigal to ask for 2 reels of film Shola or Shabnam to show to Bimal Roy. Saigal was angry and said” I dont show my film reels to any other director-even if he is Bimal Roy”
Dharmendra was in tears. Those days Anant Apte (Bajarbattu) was the editor of that film. He told Dharmendra ” dont lose hopes. I will give you 2 reals ” He gave 2 reels to Dharmendra and those reels won him a role in film Bandini ! Then there was no stopping him. Anant Apte’s younger brother Madhu Apte was also an actor in Marathi and Hindi films. He stammerred a lot, but he used this lacuna to advantage and did comic roles. ( information from book ” गाथा मराठी सिनेमाची ” by Isak Mujawar ).
Today’s song is from film DILDAR-1947. This Stunt film was made by Shivraj productions and was directed by R.Shivraj, the owner himself. After the second world war many people who earned extra money by Black Marketing etc entered film industry and made many films. Some of them even directed films. This Shivraj probably was also one of them. Having directed his first film Dhokebaaz in 1946, he tried once again with this film and them closed his shop. I did not find his name ever after in any film.
The music was by Shaukat Dehalvi….who became famous and well known after changing his name for the 4th time as NASHAAD. Born as Shaukat Haidari, in Delhi, on 11-7-1923, He was one composer who used several names to give music. His first film was Dildar in 1947. He used the name Shaukat Dehlavi for Dildar-47, Paayal-48, Suhagi-48, Dada-49, Ghazab-51 and Ram Bharose-51. He was Shaukat Hussain Dehlavi for Jeene do-48, Shaukat Ali for Toote Tarey-48 and Shaukat Haidari for Aiye-49.
The Lyricist was C.M.Hunar. He wrote 89 songs in 12 films – Neelam-45, Kango-46, Haqdar-46, Stage Girl-47, Kismatwali-47, Dildar-47, Tigress-48, Jungle Goddess-48, Naqli Baap-49, Billi-49, Do Bahadur-53 and Jaani Dushman-57.
The song is a duet by Shaukat Dehalvi and Naseem Akhtar. With this song, film Dildar makes its Debut on this Blog.
Song-Aa sajni pyaar karen (Dildaar)(1947) Singers-Naashaad, Naseem Akhtar, Lyrics-C M Hunar, MD-Nashaad
Both
Lyrics
Aa sajni ee
Aa sajni ee
pyaar karen
haan pyaar karen
aa saajan
pyaar karen
pyaar karen
aa saajan
prem ki sundar raaton mein
pyaar ki meethhi baaton mein haay
prem ki sundar raaton mein
pyaar ki meethhi baaton mein
haay
pyaar ki meethhi baaton mein
man se man ka
man se man ka
vyopaar karen
haay pyaar karen
aa saajan pyaar karen
pyaar karen
aa sajni
saare jagat ki reet bhulaa kar
saare jagat ki reet bhulaa kar
do dinon ki duniya basaa kar
do dinon ki duniya basaa kar
prem ka saagar
prem ka saagar paar karen
haay pyaar karen
aa saajan
pyaar karen
pyaar karen
aa sajni
pyaar karen
haan pyaar karen
aa saajan
ha ha ha ha
ha ha ha ha
ha ha ha ha
pyaar ko apne tan man ka
aa aa aa aa
pyaar ko apne tan man ka
aa aa aa
pyaar ko apne jeevan ka
pyaar ko apne jeevan ka
pyaara pyaara haar karen
pyaara pyaara haar karen
pyaar karen
aa saajan
pyaar karen
pyaar karen
aa sajni
pyaar karen
haan pyaar karen
aa saajan
pyaar karen
haan pyaar karen
Aa niklo guinyaan meri gali se
Posted on: April 1, 2021
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Blog 10-Year Challenge (2011-2021) – Song No. 20
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This day ten years ago (viz on 1 april 2011), five songs from five different movies were covered in the blog. Here are thge details:-
| Blog post number | Song | Movie (Year) | Remarks |
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| 3717 | Pareshaan hoon ki kyun apni pareshaani nahin jaati | Parbat Pe Apna Deraa(1944) | 5 songs covered out of 9 |
| 3718 | Yaad aane lagee | Daman(1951) | 8 songs covered out of 10 |
| 3719 | Dekho dekho jee gori sasuraal chali | Shagoon(1964) | Movie YIPPEED by now |
| 3720 | Naach re man badkamma | Rajkumar(1964) | Movie YIPPEED by now |
| 3721 | Gori ke haath mein jaise ye chhallaa | Mela(1971) | Movie YIPPEED by now |
One can notice that three movies out of five have since been YIPPEED in the blog.
“Parbat Pe Apna Dera”(1944) is one of the two movies not yet YIPPEED. This movie was directed by V.Shantaram for Rajkamal Kala Mandir Limited, Bombay. The movie had Vanmala, Ulhas,Shantarin, Madan Mohan, Kantakumari, P L Samant, Baby Nalini, Vijaya, Suman, Kamal etc in it.
Five songs from the movie (out of 9) have been covered so far.
As blog ten year challenge today, here is a song from “Parbat Pe Apna Dera”(1944). This song is sung by Vasant Desai and Naseem Akhtar. Dewan Sharar is the lyricist. Music is composed by Vasant Desai. The song is picturised as a romantic song on Madan Mohan (later he would make his mark as a music director) and Shantarin. Ulhas is also seen in the picturisation serving as a peeping Tom.
Lyrics of this song were sent to me by Prakashchandra.
video link:
Song-Aa niklo guinyaan meri gali se (Parbat Pe Apna Dera)(1944) Singers-Vasant Desai, Naseem Akhtar, Lyrics-Dewan Sharar, MD-Vasant Desai
Lyrics(Provided by Prakashchandra)
aa niklo guinyyaan meri gali se
aa niklo guinyaan meri gali se
raatein guzaari maine
bekali se
raatein nahin ratiyaan
ratiyaan guzaarin maine bekali se
aa niklo guinyaan
aa niklo guinyaan meri gali se
sunn lo jee..eee..eee..ee..eee
sunn lo jee baatein
batiyaan
sunn lo jee batiyaan mori..ee..ee
paas bhi aao gori..eee
aao aa khelo holi
aao aa khelo holi bali se
aa niklo guinyaan meri gali se
baali
baali umariyaa mori..eee..ee
baali umariyaa mori
kheloon main tujhse hori..ee..eee
kheloon main tujhse hori
guzroongi chori chori
guzroongi chori chori
gali se
chori se kyon ?
bijuri ..eee giraati aao aao
bijuri giraati aao
teer chalaati aao
o teer chalaati aao
aankhein
ankhiyaan ladaati aao gali se
aa niklo guinyaan aan aan aan
aa niklo guinyyaan meri gali se
aaoon..oon oon oon oon
aaoon oon
aaoon bahaanaa kar ke ae ae
dil ka nishaanaa karke
dil ka nishaanaa kar ke ae ae
jaaoon
jaaoon thhikaanaa kar ke
jaaoon thhikaanaa kar ke
gali se
hhaa. hhaa…ha..haa..aaa…aaaa
niklo guiyiyyaan meri gali
meri gali se
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Today’s song is a rare song from a C grade Stunt film-Khooni Laash-43. This film was made by Amrit pictures. The name of Producer or the Director of this film is not mentioned in HFGK. This is one of the several problems of the C grade Stunt/ Action films, made on shoestring budgets. Most times the film booklet was not issued and in maximum cases the song records were also not issued commercially. In some films, selected songs are available on records. In the cast also only 4 names are given. The music director was K.Narayan Rao.
K. Narayan Rao is known to be a composer of C grade action/stunt films. No book or Encyclopedia gives information about his Bio data. All the information is available only via the HFGK only.
The first film of K Narayan Rao seems to be Madari Mohan-40, where he joined hands with another composer Prof. B R Deodhar. In 1943 he gave music to Pistolwali,Khazanchi Ka beta,Khooni Laash and Duniya Deewani.In 44,it was Lehri Cameraman and Qatil. In 46,he gave music to Royal mail, Khooni, Reporter, Maaf Kijiyega and Dhokebaaz. In 47-Extra Girl, Chabuk sawar and Sher E Bangal. In 48-Bahadur Naresh, Jungle Goddess, and white Face. 1949-Jagriti, Nakli Baap, Chunnu Munnu and Billi. 1950- Meri Asha and Meherbani. Then in 1959 came his last film with Lacchhiram- Hazar Pariyan. Thus he gave music to 25 films, but not even one film was a Hit, nor was any of his songs famous.
People like Narayan Rao reflect the kind of artistes that were used in C grade films. The audience of such films was typical. They were not worried about the film story or the songs. All that they looked for was sensational dangerous stunts, fighting, a little raw comedy and a reasonably good looking Heroine. With these basic requirements, stunt films did not need well known actors, MDs, Directors or story writers. These films touched the baser emotions of the audience which was generally the lower strata of the society, daily earners and uneducated lot.
Most of us like to see films, be it on a TV, in a cinema hall, or through DVD. Some like old films, some like new films.
Did you ever see films like, Khooni Khanzar, Dagabaj Doctor, Shaitaan ka paash, Char chakram, Daku Rani Talwarwali, Jaadu ka dandaa, Zinda Laash, Revolver Rani, Sindbad-Alladin-Alibaba, Flying man, Fighter Sheela, Khooni Darinda, Tarzan aur Jadugar, Tarzan aur Jadui Chiraag, Golden Gang, Murde ki jaan khatare mein,or Jadui putli ?
I bet none of these movie names have been even heard by you ever. These were all STUNT FILMS or in other words ‘C’ grade films.
In India I really wonder how the classification or Grading of films was done, or who was the person or the body authorised to do it. Censor Certificates do not label A B or C grades at all. Then how does this happen ?
My guess is that films are graded on 2 counts- One, The cost of production or Budget and the class of stars in it and Two, The class of people for whom the film is made or directed, like the Rich, middle and the Poor class. Whatever the basis, there is a very thin line between A and B grade films, while between these two and the C grade films, the line is very Bold and thick indeed !
Stunt films, Costume films, fantasy films and purely Religious films were normally treated as C grade films. These film did not carry any prestige, the actors working in them were exclusive to C grade films, the production values and the budget was quite low and most important, they were ALWAYS shown in theatres situated in older parts of the town, single screens, or only for Morning shows or in Theatres generally frequented by lower strata of society.
A person seeing/loving or craving for such films was generally considered a ‘Low’ creature and a person with ‘child brain’.
In India ,this was the fate of C grade films. Actually these films had everything that A and B grade films had, like, story, songs, dances, fights etc, but still, the treatment given to handling of the story etc in the films was very poor or lacking in expertise.
Stunts have improved, Technology has evolved but the participation of Zippy the Monkey, Tiger the Horse, Moti the Dog, parrots, snakes and khatara cars named Rolls Royce ki beti and Austin ki Bachhi is missing ! The contribution of Fearless Nadia in making Stunt films popular can not be denied, but then she had the backing of companies like Wadia Movietone, Basant Pictures, Ranjit, Sagar, National etc. When you read the stories of these films please don’t employ Logic or common sense to it.
This was a different world altogether. The set of actors was fixed, many times the composers were unheard of or they were known composers now in bad shape, the Directors were typical and the production houses were exclusive to churn out such films.
It is, nevertheless, a fact that many well known and famous actors and actresses of the 40s and 50s evolved from the stunt films of yore. Examples are Jairaj or Master Bhagwan.Can you believe that this roly-poly Bhagwan dada was a great body-builder when he started in stunt films in the late 20s and 30s ? Lalita Pawar(Amboo), Madhuri, Rampyari, Miss Moti, Sabita Devi, and Sulochana (Ruby Myers) are some female examples who graduated to Social films via Stunt films.
C grade films were those films which were made by not so famous banners, almost unknown actors directors and composers. Usually C grade films used to be action/stunt films, made on shoestring budgets, having a fixed storyline resembling Tarzan, Hercules or Hollywood action films of Robin Hood, with the background of a jungle, Tribal people, King-Queen-wicked Vazir and similar stories.
C grade films were always quickies, made on shoe-string budgets. During the late 30s and 40s, Master Bhagwan action films used to be completed in about Rs. 50,000 only- including studio rent, sets, artistes’ fees and other expenses. C grade films had a captive audience comprising factory workers, daily wagers, Low grade earners and students. However, such films used to rake in big profits to the film makers. Therefore, even top class banners sometimes made C grade films, to make up their losses in big film flops.
There were certain production houses specialised and thriving on such films, like Paramount films, Jagriti films, Mohan pictures, Wadia Movietone etc etc. The actors and actresses of such films were fixed. Since the studio system was in vogue, the film studios usually had their actors and directors fixed. Music directors were of no consequence, so anybody would do. Well known composers like C.Ramchandra used to take another name while composing music for C grade action films. Music assistants of famous composers used to give music to such films. Well known composers falling on bad days also gave music to such films. C grade films rarely made Commercial records for their film songs, so such songs are a real rarity even with big collectors.
Some common and regular names one found in Action/Stunt films are, Nadia, Boman Irani, Sayani, Bilimoria bros, Cooper sisters, Zohra Khatun, Ameena Khatun, Khatun Bai, Prakash, Adjania, Noorjehan (sr.), Moosa Pehelwan, Vasantrao Pehelwan, Baburao Pehelwan, Marutirao Pehelwan, Azim bhai, Basheer, Ali, Bachha, Chandra Rao, Harishchandra Rao, Shankar Rao, Master Bhagwan, Mirajkar, Jamshed, John Cavas, Lalita Pawar, Navin chandra…and many such names.
Barring a few names like Lalita Pawar, Bhagwan, Nadia etc, all the other action film actors remained unknown. No one knows anything about them.Actors like Baburao pehelwan, Marutirao Pehelwan ( He was the Hero in the First Gujarati Talkie film ‘ Narsi Mehta ‘), Chandra Rao, Sayani etc were quite famous in their times, but except their Filmography (thanks to HFGK), nothing more is known about them. All of them ended with only mere names !
Sometimes Gems were found in these C grade films. Remember the famous qawali- Hamen to loot liya mil ke husn walon ne- which had the honour of becoming the prestigious 5000th song in this Blog ? This was from a C grade film- AL HILAL-58
In my young age I was fond of stunt films and used to travel to theatres in Old city of Hyderabad, to watch films featuring Kamran (father of famous choreographer and Director Farah khan and Director, comedian, Anchor Sajid Khan), Naazi, Bhagwan and many such actors.” Adventures of captain marvel and Trip to the Moon” were my favourites from Hollywood’s Republic Serial productions.
In the 50s and 60s,some respectability to these stunt films was brought by actors like Mahipal, Ranjan, Dara Singh, Azad, Hemant Birje etc. The set of Heroines was also set to Mumtaz, Tabassum,Vijaya Chaudhary, Indira, Nishi etc. Mumtaz started with Stunts and graduated to greater heights and was counted in Top actresses of her days. Costume and Stunt films like Baaz, Insaniyat and Azaad etc were made respectable by the stars acting in them.Interestingly, some famous actresses like Meena Kumari, Shobhana Samarth,Nirupa Roy, etc had acted in stunt C grade films initially.
Over a period the picture changed and nowadays every alternate film has breath-taking stunts done by almost all top Heroes, thanks to SFX, of course !
I am not aware about the film’s story or other details. The cast shown in HFGK is Baburao (Pehalwan), Shanta Rin, E.Bilimoria and Ali. Obviously Eddie Bilimoria was the hero and Shanta Rin must have been the Heroine. Dinshaw and Eddie Billimoria were the brothers who were active from silent films upto films of 50’s decade through the Talkie era, but they always featured in C grade films and hence even their long careers did not make them big stars.
Today’s song from this film is sung by Naseem Akhtar. In fact this was her first hindi film in Bombay for which she sang songs. Naseem Akhtar ‘s father was a Sarangi player. They were originally from Kashmir. She was born in 1924. She started singing on Lahore Radio. Impressed with her singing style,composer pt. Amarnath gave her a break in Nishani-1942. Till then she used to sing at rich people’s functions and mehfils etc. after Nishani,she came to Bombay to sing for Khooni Laash-43.She never acted in any films.She sang in Bhai, Ek din ka Sultan, 40 karod, Flat no.9, Pehli nazar, Ratnavali, Dharma, Sanyasi, Wamiq Azra, Tadbir, Shahjehan, Nek Parveen, Safar, Keemat, Sohni Mahiwal, Bhanwar, Ek Roz, Doli, Parai aag etc. She sang for Naushad, Ghulam Mohd, Anil Biswas, Shyamsunder, Ghulam Hyder, Rafiq Gaznavi, Govind Ram, Sajjad Hussain, Firoze Nizami and C.Ramchandra.
She sang 72 songs in 40 films in India. She left for Pakistan after Partition and sang in a few films, but was not successful. She got married and settled as a housewife. It seems she died in Lahore on 11-5-2007 at the age of 87 years.
With this song, film Khooni Laash-1943 makes its Debut on this Blog.
Song- Loot liya loot liya nainan ne haay ree (Khooni Laash)(1943) Singer- Naseem Akhtar, Lyricist- Shevan Rizvi, MD- K Narayan Rao
Lyrics
Loot liya
Loot liya nainan ne
haaye ree
haaye ree
Loot liya
Loot liya nainan ne
haaye ree
haaye ree
nazar uthhaana halke se
haay
nazar uthhaana halke see
kaale gusuon ki ye zulfen
haaye
kaale gusuon ki ye zulfen
das liyo das liyo naagan ne
haay
das liyo das liyo naagan ne
haay naagan ne
haay
Loot liya
Loot liya nainan ne
haaye ree
haay ree
Loot liya
Loot liya nainan ne
haaye ree
haay ree
kahaan hai ??? raha aa aa aa
milte hi ??
?? nazar ka
aayi aawaaz lehron se
chalaa aaye ??
maar diya
maar diya
chitwan ne
haay
maar diya
maar diya
chitwan ne
haay chitwan ne
haaye
Loot liya
Loot liya nainan ne
nainan ne
haay ree
Khan Kabul se aaya ji wai wai
Posted on: April 23, 2019
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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Mukesh song ” Dil jalta hai to jalne de” actually introduced me to the film Pehli Nazar-45. Being a Muslim social film, it was quite popular in Hyderabad, which was Nizam state, with a considerable Muslim population in it.
When the Fazli Brothers-the Director brothers- decided to make their first Muslim social film, ” Qaidi” in 1940, they were not sure how the purists in their religion would accept a film on Muslim life.But the director-Hussanain Fazli- was very firm that come what may, he would produce a Muslim social film. Just to be on a safe ground, he chose to make the film in Calcutta- far off from Bombay to avoid any resistance from the fundamentalists. The film was made by Film Corporation of India, Calcutta.
Contrary to Fazli’s fears, film Qaidi-40 was received by the Muslim community with open arms. It was a Box office success wherever it was released. For first time perhaps, the community was treated with a film about their culture and social life. Film Qaidi-40 set the ball rolling. It gave a feeling of ” yes, we can do it” not only to Fazli Brothers but many other producers, like Mehboob, K.Asif, Mazhar Khan etc etc.
From the 40s to the 47, there was a line of Muslim social films lined with pride and confidence. Notable amongst them was Paak Daaman-40 by Rustom Modi, Masoom-41 by Fazli brothers, Muslim ka lal-41 by Mohan Pictures, Fashion -43 by Fazli Brothers, Najma-43 by Mehboob, Salma-43 by Nazir Ahmed, Ismat-44 by Fazli Brothers, Bade Nawab saab-44 by actor Kumar and Pramila, Bhaijaan-45 by United Films and Phool-45 by K.Asif.
With this background, the Actor, Producer and the Director Mazhar Khan decided to make a Muslim social film and he started ” Pehli Nazar’ in 1945. When he was thinking about the cast, one of his friends from Lahore told him about a new beautiful girl from Lahore who acted in film Khazanchi-41 in a small role of a Bar Girl-on whom a full song was filmed. She, though a Muslim, called herself “Asha”. Mazhar khan saw the film and decided to feature this girl as heroine of his film. he went to Lahore, met the girl and gave her such a lucrative offer that she accepted it immediately. She was Munawar Sultana.
We have often heard and read that in olden days, young film aspirants from far off cities and smaller towns, ran away from homes to the Maya Nagari-Bombay, to try their luck. Few of them succeeded. But mind you, not ALL stars came running away to Bombay. Many of them were brought honourably too, particularly from other film centres like Calcutta and Lahore. For example, Shamshad Begum was brought to Bombay, honourably from Lahore. Saigal was brought from Calcutta to Bombay, with attractive offer.
That, precisely, was the fame of Bombay, that careers are made in Bombay and opportunities are found in abundance for them who have Talent and Luck ! Munawar Sultana, was one such star, who was brought from Lahore with an offer of Rs. 4000 pm and rented furnished accomodation – by Mazhar Khan
Munawar Sultana was born on 8 November 1924, in Lahore, into a strict Punjabi Muslim family. According to an interview with son Sarfaraz and daughter Shaheen, conducted by Shishir Krishna Sharma, Munawwar’s father was a radio announcer. Munawwar wanted to become a doctor, but was side-tracked by an offer in films. This was a small role in the film, Dalsukh Pancholi’s Khazanchi (1941), where she played a barmaid, and had a song, “Peene Ke Din Aaye” picturised on her. She went by the screen name Asha for this period.
In 1945, she was visited in Lahore by producer-actor-director Mazhar Khan, who contracted her on a monthly fee of Rs. 4000 plus an apartment, and brought her to Bombay. Munawwar’s first film with Mazhar was Pehli Nazar, where she was cast opposite actor Motilal. In the popular song “Dil Jalta Hai Toh Jalne Do” (Let the Aflame Heart Burn) playbacked by singer Mukesh for Motilal, Khan focused on Munawwar’s close-ups during the picturisation.
Following Pehli Nazar, she was kept busy through 1947 to 1949 working in several films. Baburao Patel wrote in the cine-mag Filmindia 1949, about her being one of the most over-worked actresses along with Suraiya and Nargis.
In 1947, Munawar acted in four films Dard, Elaan, Andhon Ki Duniya and Naiyya. Dard was directed by Kardar under Kardar Productions. In spite of no big stars being in the film, it turned out to be a surprise “musical hit” at the box office. The hero of the film was Kardar’s brother Nusrat (Kardar). The song “Afsana Likh Rahin Hoon” became a big success. Elaan garnered positive reviews for Munawwar. A Muslim social, the film was praised for its “progressive attitude” towards the need of education.
A lot has already been written about Elaan-47,elsewhere,as well as on this blog too,earlier.
When Mehboob Khan heard the story initially,he spent few days thinking about it.He anticipated the adverse reactions of the Fundamentalists on this film. His team for this film included many Muslims, almost in every department. Major contributors like Naushad, Zia Sarhadi, Amirbai Karnataki and most important , Munawar Sultana,the Heroine,were all Muslims.Others at least were connected indirectly,but Munawar was the Heroine.
Mehboob Khan had a sitting with her and explained to her the entire story and the likely repercussions to the film.He gave her an option to opt out of the film. Munawar played very brave and firmly told Mehboob Khan that she was 100% with him and was ready to work and face,whatever happens as an aftermath.
This act of courage was loved and appreciated by Mehboob Khan very much and he remained indebted to her ever after.
1948 saw Munawar in four more films. Parai Aag, Sona, Majboor and Meri Kahani
1949 was Munawar’s busiest year with seven releases. Out of her four films released in 1950, Munawar’s most notable film was Babul (Father’s House). She acted opposite Dilip and Nargis in this love triangle. Directed by S. U. Sunny, the music was composed by Naushad The film became a major success at the box office. She acted in a few more films till 1956, with Jallad being her last appearance.
From 1950, Munawar’s career slowed down, and she acted in fewer films. She met her husband Sharif Ali Bhagat, a businessman, on the sets of a movie for which he provided furniture. He produced two films with Munawar in the lead, Meri Kahani (1948) and Pyar Ki Manzil (1950). Following the sudden death of her husband in 1966, Munawar managed her family of four sons and three daughters . In the last eight years of her life, Munawar suffered from Alzheimer’s disease. She died on 15 September 2007, at her home in Ambedkar Road. Pali Hill, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
For the second Heroine’s role, Mazhar had already signed actress Veena. He was impressed with her looks and style. Getting Veena for this film posed no problem.The Hero was to be Motilal. Anil Biswas too had been signed for its music. The shooting started in early 1945. In between Mazhar khan himself as well actress Veena were acting in K Asif’s film Phool-a Muslim social film again. This film was full of Top stars of those times, so even after completion of the shooting of the film Pehli Nazar, the film was not released in Bombay. The film was censored in the end of 1945. Then the film was first released in Lahore and then in major cities of Northern India. Finally Pehli Nazar was released in Bombay on 18-4-1947 at Minerva Theatre. Originally it was to be in Royal opera House, but the inordinate delay in Bombay release forced it to be in Minerva, another posh theatre of repute.
The film and the acting, particularly of Motilal and Munawar Sultana was appreciated by newspapers and film magazines. There were different opinions about the end of the film. Overall Mazhar khan was successful in fulfilling his dream of making a good Muslim social film, after all. The cast of the film was Motilal, Veena, Munawar Sultana, Baburao Pendharkar, Balakram,Bhudo Advani, Cuckoo, Parveen ( made her debut in this film), Nemo, Nafeesa Begum, Bibbo, Leela Pawar etc etc.
Nemo’s real name was M M Beg. Born at Calcutta on 27th December 1903. Passed Senior Cambridge exam and entered Film line. In 1933. He edited the periodical ‘ AKKAS’ for New Theatres, in English and Urdu. Wrote story of film “President”. Debut in film Yahudi ki Ladki-33 Mostly worked in NT films. till Kashinath-43. In all, he worked in 25 films, 17 of them with new Theatres only. I remember him in film Shri 420 as the seth who brings Police to stop the song and dance of the Basti.
The story of film Pehli Nazar-45 was….. Nasir Mirza and Akhtar Mirza were Lucknow based brothers. Due to a rift between them they lived separately in the same Haveli as neighbours. There was no talk between the brothers.
However Shahida ( Veena), daughter of Nasir and Husna (Munawar Sultana) daughter of Akhtar were bosom friends since childhood and were almost inseparable.
Nasir’s friend in Bareilly sends his son Mushtaq (Motilal) for studies in Lucknow. Mushtaq and Shahida become friendly and Nasir gets them engaged. But, as the brothers are not on talking terms this is kept secret.
One day Mushtaq happens to see Husna, she also sees him and love blooms between them. Mushtaq is so enamoured with Husna, that he breaks his engagement with Shahida. Upset Shahida feels guilty that she did not inform Husna about their engagement.
When Husna learns about the engagement of Shahida and Mushtaq, she feels guilty and perturbed. There is now a chaos in both families. Husna fears that her father may commit suicide to avoid humiliation. After lot of thinking Husna decides to end her life and consumes poison and dies.
The brothers are in shock and grief. They realise their follies and unite. Mushtaq finally marries Shahida only.
There are 10 songs in this film. 7 songs are already discussed. There are several stories about the recording of song ” dil jalta hai to jalne de”. which have been discussed earlier, so we bypass them today. Songs of this film have been discussed by Sadanand ji, Sudhir ji and Atul ji. With me presenting a song today, the film becomes Unique whose songs have been discussed by all 4 of us !
Today’s song is a song and dance, shot on Cuckoo and others. HFGK is silent on the names of singers. This is an issue which is unnecessarily magnified. One must understand that Harmandir ji did this colossal work of HFGK, with great hard work and used whatever information was available to him that time. In few cases no information was available, in some cases wrong information was used and in some case doubtful information was there. He added ” Addenda” to all volumes, with additional information correcting the gaps etc. So, even if singers are not mentioned for some songs, later on experts have rightly identified the voices and due credit is given. We did it on our Blog this, several times. So ” HFGK does not mention singer” need not be made into a big issue at all. In today’s case Sadanand ji-the uploader- has identified the main voice as that of Binapani Mukherjee. Some other expert has identified Naseem Akhtar as the second voice. I am considering both these names as singers.
Editor note- There is a third female voice in the song as well.
( I am thankful for some information used from ‘Forgotten movies on Muslim culture 1933-1947’ by Kamlakar Pasupuleti ji, The Filmdom-1946, Harish Raghuwanshi ji, and my notes ).
Song- Khan Kaabul se aaya ji wai wai (Pehli Nazar)(1945) Singers – Naseem Akhtar, Binapani Mukherjee, Unknown female voice, Lyrics- Dr. Safadar Aah, MD- Anil Biswas
Lyrics
hoy
khan kaabul se aaya ji
wai wai wai
pista chilgoza laaya ji wai wai
shawl lena ji pashmeena lena
ho na naqdi to kishton pe lena
shawl lena ji pashmeena lena
sasta sauda lagaaya ji
sasta sauda lagaaya ji
wai wai wai wai
wai wai wai wai
kaabul se aaya
haan maano(?) hamaari gali aana
hamaari gali aana
zara nainon se naina milaana
ji naina milaana
khan aaya ji
aaya ji
wai wai wai wai
wai wai wai wai
kaabul se aaya
chalo kaabul hamaare saath janiya(?)
ho janiya janiya (??)
chalo kaabul hamaare saath janiya(?)
mujhe maaregi teri pathaniya
mujhe maaregi teri pathaniya
main pathaani ko ghar se nikaaloon
main pathaani ko ghar se nikaaloon
paani paani(?)
phir to bainyyaan main tere gale daaloon
phir to bainyyaan main tere gale daaloon
tujhko ?? banaaya ji
aurat banaaya ji
bibi banaaya ji
wai wai wai
aayi meri pathaani hathheeli
kahin mujhko chhupa le chhabeeli
kahin mujhko chhupa le chhabeeli
zara mujhko nigode bata de
kya huye tere shaadi ke waade
kya huye tere shaadi ke waade
sab bhulaaya
sab bhulaaya
bhulaaya ji
wai wai wai wai
wai wai wai wai
kaabul se aaya
kyun aaya
khan ki ham to aurat pathaani
ae kaun shaitan ki tu hai naani
ae kaun shaitan ki tu hai naani
mard hamaara churaaya ji wai wai wai
mard hamaara churaaya ji wai wai wai
mard hamaara churaaya ji wai wai
jaan jaane de
jaan jaane de
hatt jaa deewaane
kyun re aaya thha naina ladaane
kyun re aaya thha naina ladaane
too ne isko bhulaaya ji
too ne isko bhulaaya ji wai wai wai
too ne isko bhulaaya ji wai wai wai
too ne isko bhulaaya ji wai wai wai
Dil jo diya kehne lage aaj naa
Posted on: November 29, 2018
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 sites like lyricstrans.com and ibollywoodsongs.com etc then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
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Today’s song is from the film Safar-1946. This was a film made by Filmistan, directed by a comparatively new person-Bibhuti Mitra. The lyricist was G S Nepali and composer was C.Ramchandra.
This was C Ramchandra’s first film after joining Filmistan. His friend, Kavi Pradeep, who was close to S Mukherjee of Filmistan, had brought C Ramchandra to this company. Now it was imperative for C Ramchandra to make his first film a musical hit, to establish himself, impress the owners and earn respect.
The working conditions at Filmistan were much better than what they were at Jayant Desai’s company, C Ramchandra’s earlier job. This was because, here all the people-atleast the most important ones- were from Bombay Talkies and Discipline and commitment were built into their work pattern. The planning was good and good facilities were provided to its workers.
The cast of film Safar-46 was Shobha, Kanu Roy, V.H.Desai, Haroon, Chandrika, Mumtaj Banu etc etc.
When I talk about film Safar-46, I invariably remember the film ” Maine Pyar kiya”-89. There are many similarities in both films.
First, both films were made by Big banners like Filmistan (Safar-46) and Rajashri (Maine Pyar Kiya-89).
Secondly, the lead pair in both films were unknown and New comers. It was just the second film of Salman Khan-his First film as a Hero. His Heroine Bhagyashree (Patwardhan) was making her Debut with the film Maine Pyar kiya-89. In Safar-46, the Heroine Shobha was totally unknown and she was making her a Debut as a Heroine here. For Kanu Roy, this was the first film as a Hero.
The name Kanu Roy is generally confused with composer Kanu Roy. Actor Kanu Roy was a different person.
Kanu Roy (the Actor) was in reality a name for Nalini Ranjan Roy, born on 9-12-1912 at Jabalpore. He was very fond of acting and so landed at Bombay Talkies, a company started by two Benagalees- Himanshu Roy and Devika Rani. Those days many people from Bengal used to come to Bombay Talkies, but only the capable ones like Amiya Chakravarty, Shashadhar Mukherjee or Ashok Kumar etc could make their careers here.
Kanu Roy started his acting career from the film Basant-1942. His name Nalini was sounding like a Girl’s name in Bombay ( there were already half a dozen Nalinis working in films those days), so it was changed and he opted for Kanu, his pet name in the house. Thus Kanu Roy came into films. Due to his good looks, he even became a lead actor in a few films. Nazrana-46 (UR) was one such film where he was working opposite Kamini Kaushal.
Kanu Roy worked in about 40 odd films from 1942 to 1983 ( Kisi se naa kehna). Kanu Roy also left Bombay Talkies along with S.Mukherjee and others and joined Filmistan. He was in many Filmistan films like, Munim ji, Nastik, Naagin, Jagriti etc. He acted in a Bangla film ‘Samar’ too in 1950.
Kanu Roy (the Composer) gave music to very few films like Uski Kahaani-66, Anubhav-71, Avishkar-74, Tumhara Kallu-76, Grih pravesh-79, Mayuri-81 and Shyamla-79 which was re-censored in 1981 as Woh phir naa aayee. Some people and sites describe him as Geeta Dutt’s brother, but he was not her brother. Her brother was Mukul Roy. Kanu Roy, the composer died in Bombay on 20-12-1981.
Thirdly, the Director of Maine Pyar Kiya, Sooraj Barjatya was making his Debut with this film. ( Later on he made Hits like, Hum apke hai kaun and Hum saath saath hai etc.). For film Safar-46, the Director was Bibhuti Mitra-an import from Calcutta.
It was just his second film. His first film ‘ Angoothi’-43 was a resounding Flop. Actually Ashok Kumar was its Hero and when Angoothi was released Ashok’s film Kismet was making records all over India. Film Angoothi ran only for 3 days and it was then withdrawn from theatres. Normally, in Film Industry, an unsuccessful Director is not touched even with a barge pole, but S. Mukherjee selected him as a Director. ( C Ramchandra has written in his autobiography that this Bibhuti Mitra had a nasty habit of interfering in Music Director’s work, which irritated him. He tolerated him, because this was C Ramchandra’s first film in Filmistan. Anyway, after this film was done, Mitra went back to Calcutta….only to come back again to Filmistan to direct Shabistan-51, for which C Ramchandra was the Music Director. This time, C Ramchandra was ready. When Mitra started his interference, C Ramchandra not only left the film halfway, but also left Filmistan.)
Lastly, the Music Director for Maine Pyar kiya-89 was Ram-Laxman, hardly a known name at all. For Safar-46, C Ramchandra was selected. He had done 10 C grade films and just 5 social films till then and his name had not yet become famous. In spite of this, S.Mukherjee took the risk and trusted his talent, which he had judged correctly. S.Mukherjee was known to judge person’s capabilities accurately. In only one case- that of Lata- he went flat wrong.
Despite the Actors, MDs, Director and the lead pair being either Unknown, making a Debut or less known, both the films became Hits- only because of Music. Both Music Directors, C Ramchandra as well as Ram-Laxman became famous overnight and this became virtually the starting point of their ascent to the Top of HFM. What happened first with Safar-46 repeated itself after 43 years in the success of Maine Pyar Kiya-89 !!!
Besides this similarity, I feel the story of Safar was inspired by a Hollywood film of the year 1934- ‘It happened one night’. Directed by Frank Capra, the film had Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert in the lead. This film had become popular wherever English films were shown in the world. In turn, film Safar-46 inspired many films made in later years, in many languages. Two names come to the mind- Raj-Nargis film Chori Chori-56 and Amir Khan-Pooja Bhatt film ‘ Dil hai nki manata nahin’-1991. Of course in every such film some changes to suit the public taste were made.
Today’s song is sung by Naseem Akhtar. The history of Hindi Films and Music is replete with unsolved mysteries, disputes, misinformation, riddles and puzzles as well as half or wrong informations. Fortunately, there are few dedicated workers who constantly dig out correct information and few matters are thus straightened. Though delayed, at least the true information is available for the future workers.
There was the case of who actually sang the song Dilli se aaya bhai Tingu from film EK THI LADKI-1949. For almost 50-60 years it was believed that Honey O’Brion, who lip synched this song in the film had sung this song herself-though there was no history of her singing any songs anytime. And then the interview of singer Binota Chakraborty (nee Vinita Amladi ) was published in July 2007 issue of the Listeners’ Bulletin of Hamraz ji, and it was revealed that it was she who had actually sung this song !
Similarly, the name of MD Mohan Junior (Ajamil-48 and Dana pani-52) was treated as the cover-name of MD Madan Mohan. After about 60 years, it was proved that Mohan junior (Real name- Mohan kanoji Rajpoot) was a Gujarati composer and a different person-and NOT Madan Mohan. Even mMadhubala Jhaveri who sang for him also confirmed this in an answer to a Telephone call made to her.
It was commonly believed that the MD pair of “VASANT-RAMCHANDRA” ( Kalakar, Suhagan of 1954) was short forms of Vasant Desai and C Ramchandra. The myth of almost 65 years was busted when it was revealed that C Ramchandra himself had said, that it was not him, but they were Vasant Prabhu and Ramchandra Vadhavkar.
One more example is that of Child actor Shashi Kapoor. It was popularly believed that Shashi Kapoor (Deewar, Trishul, Dharmaputra fame) had acted as a child artist in about 25 films. This misinformation was cleared when the real child artist-Shashichand Kapoor gave an interview on Cineplot and Maitri Manthan, explaining that it was him who had acted in 21 films as child actor (Bhakta Prahlad-46 etc). Shashi Kapoor (Deewar wala) had actually done only 5 child roles-in Aag-48, Bhakta Bilwamangal-48, Patanga-49, Sangram-50 and Aawara-51.
In case of today’s singer-Naseem Akhtar also, the same thing is happening. It was popularly believed that Naseem Akhtar is the sister of Sardar Akhtar( wife of Mehboob Khan) and Bahar Akhtar( wife of A.R.Kardar),but it is NOT TRUE !
Both Sardar Akhtar-known as Daari and Bahar Akhtar-known as Bahaaro were tawayafs of Hiramandi Lahore. When A R Kardar eloped with Bahar Akhtar and married her, Sardar Akhtar registered a Police complaint of abduction. Kardar and his family were arrested and put in lock up. It was only after Bahar’s statement that she married Kardar on her own choice, they were released. Sardar Akhtar herself later married Mehboob Khan.
Naseem Akhtar’s father was a Sarangi player. They were originally from Kashmir. She was born in 1924. She started singing on Lahore Radio. Impressed with her singing style, composer Pt. Amarnath gave her a break in Nishani-1942. Till then she used to sing at rich persons functions and mehfils etc. after Nishani, she came to Bombay to sing for Khooni Laash-43. She never acted in any films. She sang in Bhai, Ek din ka Sultan, 40 karod, Flat no.9, Pehli nazar, Ratnavali, Dharma, Sanyasi, Tadbir, Shahjehan, Nek Parveen, Safar, keemat, Sohni Mahiwal, Bhanwar, Ek Roz, Doli, Parai aag etc. She sang for Naushad, Ghulam Mohd, Anil Biswas, Shyam sunder, Ghulam Hyder, Rafiq Gaznavi, Govind Ram, Sajjad Hussain, Firoze Nizami and C.Ramchandra. She sang 67 songs in 38 films.
She left for Pakistan after Partition and sang in few films,but was not successful She got married to Rauf Maula, a Producer and settled as housewife. It seems, she died in Lahore on 11-5-2007.
Out of the 10 songs of film Safar-46, 6 songs have already been discussed. This is the 7th song. The song is quite good, however some other songs of this film had more melodious tunes and catchy rhythms.
Song-Dil jo diya kehne lage aaj na(Safar)(1946) Singer- Naseem Akhtar, Lyrics-G S Nepali, MD- C Ramchandra
Lyrics
dil jo diya
dil jo diya
kahne lage aaj naa
dil jo diya
kahne lage aaj naa
mujhse
mujhse mil ke gaye bhole bhaale saajna
o mere
o mere saajna
saajna aa
mujhse
mujhse mil ke gaye bhole bhaale saajna
dil jo diya
kahne lage aaj naa
mujhse mil ke gaye bhole bhaale saajna
daal milee daal se ae ae ae ae
phool mila phool se
phool se
daal milee daal se ae ae ae ae
phool mila phool se
ham bhee mil gaye kaheen pe raaste kee dhool se
kahne lage ae ae
maan jaao
ek maheena
main kah naa sakee naa
taar mere
taar mere dil ke uthhe jhanjhana
mujhse
mujhse mil ke gaye bhole bhaale saajna
o mere
o mere saajna
saajna aa
mujhse
mujhse milke gaye bhole bhaale saajna
dil jo diya
kahne lage aaj naa
mujhse mil ke gaye bhole bhaale saajna
mere prem ke kumkum
khilo tum hanso tum
aise hee mere baag mein uss roz bhee khilna
jis roz hamaara ho kisee kunj mein milna
aise hee mere baag mein uss roz bhee khilna
jis roz hamaara ho kisee kunj mein milna
nain miley jinse hamaare
jinse hamaare
ab unki
abb unki yaad mein hai jaagna
mujhse
mujhse mil ke gaye bhole bhaale saajna
o mere
o mere saajna
saajna aa
mujhse
mujhse mil ke gaye bhole bhaale saajna
dil jo diya
kahne lage aaj naa
mujhse mil ke gaye bhole bhaale saajna
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“Paraayi Aag”(1948) was directed by Najam Naqvi for Great India Pictures. The movie had Munawwar Sultana, Ulhas, Mumtaz (Madhubala), Sheri, A Shah, W M Khan, Jilloo Bai etc in it.
The movie had eight songs in it. Six of them have been covered in the past.
Here is the seventh song from “Paraayi Aag”(1948) to appear in the blog. This song is sung by Zohrabai Ambalewaali and Naseem Akhtar. Akhtar Ul Imaan Naqvi is the lyricist. Music is composed by Ghulam Mohammad.
Only the audio of this song is available. It sounds like a stage performance song where who ladies are presenting a roothhna-manaana song and dance performance, with one lady playing the role of a male. I request our knowledgeable readers to throw light on the picturisation of this song.
Song-O tohe kaise dikhaaun dil cheer ke (Paraai Aag)(1948) Singers-Zohrabai Ambalewali, Naseem Akhtar, Lyrics-Akhtar Ul Imaan, MD-Ghulam Mohammad
Lyrics
tohe kaise dikhaaun dil cheer ke
tohe kaise dikhaaun dil cheer ke
ho gori
kaise dikhaaun dil cheer ke
ho gori
ho gori
kaise dikhaaun dil cheer ke
haay
tohe kaise dikhaaun dil cheer ke
hato jaao jee
hato jaao jee
baaten banaate ho kyun
hato jaao jee
hato jaao jee
baaten banaate ho kyun
jhoothhi chaahat jata ke jalaate ho kyun
jhoothhi chaahat jata ke jalaate ho kyun
khote hote hain chhore aheer ke
haay gori
kaise dikhaaun dil cheer ke
ek hi daaon mein
khelwaa rahoon main
aen aen aen aen
ek hi daaon mein
khelwaa rahoon main
keh diya tere nainon ka maara hoon main
tohe kaise dikhaaun ghaav teer ke
haay gori
kaise dikhaaun dil cheer ke
bhanwre udte phirte hain
idhar se udhhar
bhanwre udte phirte hain
idhar se udhhar
aaj is phool par
kal hai us phool par
aaj is phool par
kal hai us phool par
lobhi kaaran hai auron ke peer ke
haaye
lobhi kaaran hai auron ke peer ke
to main harjaai hoon
jaao yoon hi sahi
ab na aaunga mud kar tumhaari gali
haan tumhaari gali
dhun ke pakke hain chhore aheer ke
kahaan jaate ho
o o o
kahaan jaate ho tum to
banaati thhi main
man ki lene
jhoothhon sataati thhi main
tum hi maalik ho
man ke shareer ke
haay bhala kaise
dikhaaun dil cheer ke
ho gori
ho chhaila
ho gori
ho chhaila
tohe kaise dikhaaun dil cheer ke
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“Wamiq Azra”(1946) was directed by Nazeer for Hind Pictures, Bombay. This movie had Swarnlata, Nazeer, M Ismail, Wazeer Mohammad Khan, Kusum Deshpade, Tasneem, Chacha Premi, Agha Peer Jaan etc i it.
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