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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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5757 Post No. : 18281

Today’s song is from the costume/stunt film Raj Darbar-1955. It was a partially coloured film. The film was directed by Balwant Bhatt and the music was by the king of melody-Chitragupt. Surprisingly, there was a duet song by Kishore kumar in this film. Normally he was not seen singing in this type of film. The cast of the film was Ranjan, Nirupa Roy, Ishwar Lal, B.M.Vyas, Asha Mathur, Ranjit Kumari, Azeem and others.

The year 1955 was full of musical films, making the audience very happy and satisfied. Films like Shri 420, Seema, Udan Khatola, Munim ji, Devdas, House No. 44, Azaad, Yasmin, Zanak Zanak Payal Baje, Mr. and Mrs. 55, Baradari, Tangawali etc. not only regaled the audience with a variety of Genres, but also hit, popular and memorable songs.

Music Directors like S.D.Burman, Vasant Desai, O.P.Nayyar, Nashaad, Salil Chaudhari, Shankar-jaikishen, C.Ramchandra and Naushad created heavenly songs. Truly, 1955 was one of the best musical years in the ‘Golden Era’. MDs like Ravi (Vachan), Jaidev (Joru ka Bhai), and N.Datta (Milap) made their Debut in this year. The famous NFS “Preetam aan milo” sung by C.H.Atma was used by O.P.Nayyar in the film Mr. and Mrs. 55, sung by Geeta Dutt. This song was written by O.P.Nayyar’s wife Mohini Nayyar. One of the prominent Music Historians has said that the said song was actually written by O.P.Nayyar but the payment was taken in the name of Mohini Nayyar, for Tax purposes. God Only Knows the Truth !

It was just 8 years since our Independence and only 5 years since declaring it a Sovereign Democratic Republic, but the speed at which the film industry managed itself in this short period was commendable. This was possible only because we had the equally talented second line of experts ready with us to fill the void immediately, after the migration of Muslim artistes. This precisely was the weakness for Pakistan, as after the migrated generation retired, there was no second line to take over and hence the Pakistan film industry never prospered.

In this period the main and probably the only way to film songs was the Radio. Tape recorders and gramophones were not that commonly found. Film song programmes like Binaca geetmala became 1 hour programme on every Wednesday at 8 p.m. from 1954 and also became a “Hit Parade” of songs. FilmFare awards were in its 3rd year and the best music Director’s award this year went to S.D.Burman for the film Taxi Driver. Films like Shri 420 (2 songs0, Udan Khatola (2 songs) and Nagin (1 song) featured in the Top 5 songs of Binaca geetmala. This year also saw the sad demise of Music director Arun kumar Mukherjee.

Railway platform was the Debut film of Sunil Dutt. Insaniyat was the film in which Dilip and Dev featured together for the first and last time. Film ‘Bakul’ was the last film made by New Theatres before finally closing down. Children’s film society was established with H.N.Kunzru as its first President. In later years Kidar Sharma was the president appointed by Nehru.

Film Raj darbar-1955 had Ranjan as its Hero. He was a rare personality having skills in various fields. He was also one of the highly educated actors. After him, I can only see S.D.Narang (B.Sc., M.B.B.S., Ph.D.) as a highly educated actor/director/producer in Hindi films. Actually, I had expected to see Ranjan’s fencing skills in this film, but there was only one scene in the last part of the film.

In the early times of the Film Industry, very few educated people used to join here. That is why Graduates or Postgraduates used to flaunt their degrees with pride- like Moti, B.A.-the lyricist ( though he was actually M.A.), or Kavi Pradeep’s pseudo name- Miss Kamal B.A. or even singer actor Surendra as B.A., LL.B. etc.etc.

After reading about this artiste, you will wonder if any such multi-talented person ever lived here ?

A highly qualified person and that too in an unrelated subject joining films was a wonder then. Thus, a young man with an unlikely name for a Hero, like RAMNARAYAN VENKATRAMAN SARMA Alias actor RANJAN was a novelty. Ranjan was born in Madras on 2-3-1918 in an orthodox Brahmin family.

He was an expert in playing Violin. He was a qualified dancer in Kathak,Kathakali and Bharat Natyam. He was an expert driver, swimmer and a swordsman of Olympic standards. He graduated in physics.After M.Sc. He did his Doctorate (Ph.D.) too. Ranjan knew 12 Indian and 4 foreign languages. He edited a Dance and Drama Magazine and wrote several books on it. He earned a Fellowship of New York University.

Ranjan learnt and became an A grade flyer. He was the first to buy a Rolls Royce car and a Tiger Moth Aircraft, in the Indian film industry ( later Motilal also owned an aircraft). He was a good painter and a Trained magician. He became Magician’s Association president for Bombay. P C Sorcar was All India president then. He was often invited by European and American Universities for lectures. Ranjan owned two big Hotels also. Ranjan was a good shooter. He played Cricket and Soccer frequently. Ranjan was a regular singer on Madras A.I.R..

In his first Tamil film, his Heroine was Vasundhara Devi- mother of Vyjayanthimala. Ranjan entered Hindi films through his blockbuster film ” Chandralekha-48 “. He did 58 Hindi films in the 50s and 60s. He was a script writer also.He wrote the story and screenplay of the film Munimji-55. He was a choreographer also. In the 50s decade the quartet of Raj, Dev, Dilip and Ashok kumar was ruling Hindi industry. Ranjan was not given any importance here. He was not even invited for the Golden jubilee of Talkie film celebrations in Bombay. He lived in his bungalow in Chembur Union park.

He was spotted by a Tamil Producer, when he was standing in a Bus queue and he made his Debut in the film ” Ashok Kumar “-1941. After a few films in Tamil and Telugu, he got the role of SHASHANK in the Magnum Opus film Chandralekha in 1948. The Drum dance and his fencing were the two attractions in the film. The final sword fighting is considered the Longest ever Fencing fight in films till today ! The film was a Hit and Ranjan became typecast in Action films. Ranjan was a very poor actor, but his Fencing skills were marvellous.

In 1949, came ” NISHAN “, based on the Hollywood film ” The Corsican brothers’-one good and one bad. It was a story of twins. The audience liked a scene from the film which showed that there were marks on one brother’s back if the other one was whipped ! The film, in Hindi, Tamil and Telugu, was a hit everywhere mainly for its fencing scenes. In ‘Mangala’ opposite Bhanumathi, he was the villain and the Hero too.

He was invited by New York University for a Fellowship, but Vasan did not leave him, so after Mangala-1950, as soon as the contract was over, Ranjan came to Bombay.

‘Shin shinaki Boobla Boo’-1952 saw him with Rehana but as a Romantic Hero, he was worse than Bharat Bhushan or Pradeep Kumar !

He acted in Sindbad the sailor, Baghi, Shahenshah, Kafila, Baghdad, Baap Beti, Nishan Danka and a host of B and C grade films, many of them dubbed or remakes of southern films. He was known for only Fencing. But he never became famous like Stewart Granger in ” Scaramouche” for his fencing. In the 50s he acted in 23 films, in the 60s he did 18 films and in the 70s his tally was 17 films. A total of 58 films in Hindi.

After Sword fighting became obsolete he shifted to writing. The story of the film MUNIMJI-55 was written by him. After a few years in the south he was seen again in ‘Chor chor’-74 and ‘Chaitali’-76. Ram Balram – 80 was his last film.

He married a Muslim girl and she converted to Hinduism taking the name of Laxmi.

Ranjan wrote 12 books on Dancing and music.

He moved to USA to live with his son, but died on 12-9-1983, in New Jersey-USA, due to Heart attack. He was so much forgotten that even the news of his death was not published in India.

Today’s song is the last and final song of this film, making it a YIPPEED film.


Song- Naachoon chhamachham raaja tere darbaar mein(Raaj Darbaar)(1955) Singer – Asha Bhosle, Lyricist- G.S.Nepali, MD- Chitragupt
Female chorus

Lyrics

Naachoon chhamachham raaja tere darbaar mein
ho tere darbaar mein
naachoon chhamachham raaja tere darbaar mein
ho tere darbaar mein

koi nahin tere jaisaa
saare sansaar mein
ho saare sansaar mein
naachoon chhamachham raaja tere darbaar mein
ho tere darbaar mein

naachen bahaaren titliyaan ban ke
main naachoon dhaanee chunree pahan ke
chunree pahan ke
naachen bahaaren titliyaan ban ke
main naachoon dhaanee chunree pahan ke
chunree pahan ke
paaon mein paayal boley
nainon mein ghaayal boley
paaon mein paayal boley
nainon mein ghaayal boley

ghaayal ki duniya doley
paayal ki jhankaar mein
naachoon chhamachham raaja tere darbaar mein
ho tere darbaar mein

koi nahin tere jaisaa
saare sansaar mein
ho saare sansaar mein
naachoon chhamachham raaja tere darbaar mein
ho tere darbaar mein

naache sitaare raha andheraa
main itna naachee hua saweraa
hua saweraa
naache sitaare raha andheraa
main itna naachee hua saweraa
hua saweraa
tum ho to roshnee hai
chaandee hai chaandnee hai
tum ho to roshnee hai
chaandee hai chaandnee hai

laakhon ki zindagee hai teree talwaar mein
naachoon chhamachham raaja tere darbaar mein
ho tere darbaar mein

koi nahin tere jaisaa
saare sansaar mein
ho saare sansaar mein
naachoon chhamachham raaja tere darbaar mein
ho tere darbaar 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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5593 Post No. : 18067

Today’s song is from the film Gogola-1966.

This film was an ordinary stunt film of 1966, but it had some interesting stories about it. At least I will never forget this film. 4 songs from this film have already featured here. 1 from Sudhir ji, 1 from me and 2 from Atul ji. This is my second song which I am writing about here today.

Why is it an unforgettable film for me ? I had seen this film in Hyderabad, where it was released in 1966. It was a very ordinary film. I wrote about its story etc in my diary and soon forgot about it. When I started writing comments on old film songs in 2011, I came across a song from the film Gogola-1966 posted by Atulji. I wrote a detailed comment on it, giving its story and other details. Then for the next 6 years Gogola did not return to me.

In the month of August 2017. I received an email from someone called Kelly Robinson, who was a researcher in Hollywood on Horror films and allied subjects. The writer wanted to know the information from me on the film Gogola-1966. I am yet to know how this person knew my name. Perhaps someone told him about me or he must have visited this Blog. Anyway, I wrote back to him giving the film story and all other details which I had. After an year or so, I was informed that my information on Gogola-1966 was used and published with my name in the book “Gods, Monsters and Lucky Peach”. I tried hard but could never get a copy of that book. So much about the International trip of this film !

Another interesting thing about this film was that this was the First film of the film’s lyricist Balkavi Bairagi. Those who are well versed with Hindi literature and poetry, must be knowing that Balkavi Bairagi was a very famous poet in Hindi in India. He had won several awards and was even a Congress M.P. from M.P..

There is no wonder that such a famous and honoured Hindi poet was attracted to the film industry. Earlier to this the works of several famous Saints like Meerabai, Kabirdas, Soordas, Tulsidas, Raidas, Raheem etc were used in Hindi films. Famous Urdu Shayars’ works from Mirza Ghalib, Bahadur Shah Zafar, Daag, Amir khusro, Iqbal, Qazi nazrul islam, Rabindranath tagore, Jigar Moradabadi etc were also used in Hindi films. Not only this, but works of famous Indian poets like Amritlal nagar, Amrita preetam, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Bhagwati charaqn Sharma, Bhagwati prasad Bajpayi, Jaishankar prasad, Rahi Masoom Raza, Ramprasad Bismil, Shyamlal Gupta, Sumitranandan Pant, Wajid Ali Shah etc were used in Hindi films.. To top it all, even a poem by William Shakespeare was used in the film Junoon-1978.

This time, instead of any actor, I am providing a short Bio of Balkavi Bairagi…….

Balkavi Bairagi, born Nand Ramdas Bairagi; (10 February 1931 – 13 May 2018) popularly known Rastrakavi Balkavi Bairagi was a Hindi poet, film lyricist and politician from India. His songs in Malvi, such as the very popular ‘Panihari’ (A woman carrying water) gave a stage to Malvi,a Hindi dialect spoken in the region of Malva (Malwa) in the mainstream Hindi poetry scenario. He was one of the several who have been hailed as a Rashtrakavi (‘national poet’). He was a Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha from Madhya Pradesh from 1998 to 2004.

Bairagi was born in Manasa in a Vaishnav Brahmin (Bairagi) family. Originally named Nand Ramdas Bairagi, he came to be popularly called as “Balkavi” Bairagi as he wrote some classic poems during his childhood. He obtained his post-graduate degree in Hindi from Vikram University, Ujjain. Bairagi wrote several Hindi poems and wrote prolifically for children. His poem “Jhar gaye paat, bisar gayi tehni” is considered a masterpiece by Hindi poets. He wrote lyrics for at least a dozen Hindi films, the most noted among them being Reshma aur Shera and Ankahee.[

He was seen in the film ” Kavi Sammelan-1972″, in which he is seen singing two of his poems. He wrote 33 songs in 13 commercial Hindi films namely, Gogola-66, Veer Chhatrasaal-71, Reshma aur Sehra-71, Do boond paani-71, Achha Bura-72, Khshitij-74, Rani aur Laal Pari-75, Jaadu Tona-77, Pal do pal ka saath-78, Mausam badalta hai-78, Chautha Paalna-78 , Azadi 25 baras ki-78 and Ankahee-1984.

As a politician affiliated to the Indian National Congress, he was elected to the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly from Manasa in 1968 and again in 1980. At various points in time, he served as the Minister of State for Information, the Minister of Language and Tourism and the Minister of Food and Civil Supplies in the Madhya Pradesh Government. He was a Member of the Lok Sabha between 1984 and 1989, representing the Mandsaur constituency. He was a Rajya Sabha member from 1998 to 2004.

He died in his sleep on 13 May 2018 at the age of 87 years. His legacy is continued by two sons and numerous grandchildren. He is remembered as one of the most popular and reputed poets of Hindi language. ( information collated from book ‘ Hindi filmon ke geetkar’, muVyz, HFGK, Wiki and my notes).

While this film was the First film of Balkavi Bairagi, it was the Last film of its director Balwant Dave. he had directed only 4 films, namely Namak-1947, White face-1948, Shahi bazar-1957 and Gogola-1966. In the Hindi film industry, Gujarati people have always been deeply involved in various activities, from the beginning. They had money, so some became Producer/Directors like Ardeshir Irani, Kanjibhai Rathod, Chandulal Shah, Chimanlal Desai, Dwarkadas Sampat, Nadiadwala, Maniklal Patel, Mehboob khan etc. They were in Direction too, namely Wadias, Pancholi, Doshi, Desai, Thakur, Mehta, Bhatt, Mistri, Dave, Vyas, Panchotia, Shah, Modi etc.

Infact, Gujaratis were into acting, Music Direction, Singing, Story writing, Art Direction, Cinematography, Sound Recording and other related departments like finance controller, Production manager etc. In addition to Marathi community, the Gujaratis have been the early builders of Hindi film industry.

While for Balkavi this film was the First and for Balwant Dave it was the Last film, for the Music Director Duo of Roy- Frank, film Gogola-1966 was their First and the Last film together ! Frank had been working as an assistant to Kalyanji-Anandji before and after Gogola, Roy (real name Mukund Rai Trivedi) had no connection with the film industry. He was the producer of this film and due to his interest in music, he got hold of Frank and made up a pair. Mukund Rai was the son of a rich businessman in M.P. The family was into Mining business. After this film Mukund Rai also joined his family business and became very rich. Later on he also became a Congress M.P. from M.P. Thus film Gogola-66 was made by 2 Congress M.P.s from M.P. !

The story of film Gogola-1966 was….

Although Azad worked in this movie,it was not one of those Raja-Rani-Vazir movies,but a different type of B grade movie.Probably it was inspired by KING KONG and such similar Republic Serial movies coming from Hollywood in the late 50s and early 60s.

Asha(Tabassum),Kumar(Azad) and friends are terrified seeing a gigantic Sea Monster coming out of the sea,known as GOGOLA,while picnicking on a Bombay beach.They run away to police who do not believe them.
Asha’s father (Nayampally) is a scientist who is indebted to Lachhoo(Habib),due to loans taken to discover medicine for Heart attack.Asha is a club dancer and Lachhoo is after her,hence Kumar and Lachhoo become enemies.
Gogola comes to town,kills people and breaks buildings and other structures in Bombay,thereby flooding it.Asha’s father develops a poison for Gogola and Kumar goes to the bottom of sea to inject it to Gogola.Lachhoo tries to kill him in the sea,but Kumar injects Gogola.

Before dying,Gogola obliges Kumar by killing Lachhoo.

Kumar gets reward from Police and Asha from her father.

Today’s song is sung by Usha Mangeshkar.


Song- Mohey laa de raaja Machhariya re (Gogola)(1966) Singer- Usha Mangeshkar, Lyricist- Balkavi Bairagi, MD- Roy- Frank
Chorus

Lyrics

mohey laa de raaja machhariya re
mohey laa de raaja machhariya re
machhariya machhariya machhariya re
mohey laa de raaja machhariya re
mohey laa de raaja machhariya re

laa de ek machhariya aisi
jo behad makkaar
rishwat khaana jiska pesha
chot kare khoonkhaar
rishwat khaana jiska pesha
chot kare khoonkhaar

saara saagar maila karke
nahin sharm aur laaj
is machhli ko ?? tab to
hukam mera sartaj nahin to
jhoothhi hai teri kachhahariya re
mohe la de raaja machhariya re
machhariya machhariya machhariya re
dekho bach nahin jaaye machhariya re
mohey laa de raaja machhariya re
aa aa aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa aa aa

la de ek machhariya aisi jo behad shaitaan
kare milaawat khaan-paan mein
leti sabki jaan
kare milaawat khaan paan mein
leti sabki jaan

saara saagar maila karke
nahin sharam aur laaj
is machhli ko ?? tab to
hukam mera sartaj nahin to
jhoothhi hai teri kachhahariya re
mohey la de raaja machhariya re
machhariya machhariya machhariya re
dekho bach nahin jaaye machhariya re
mohey la de raaja machhariya re


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5485 Post No. : 17918

“Chandirani”(1953) was produced by P Bhanumathi and her husband P.S.Ramkrishna Rao and directed by P Bhanumathi for Bharani Productions, Madras. The movie (a trilingual movie) had Bhanumathi, N. T. Ramarao, Ranga Rao, Agha, Amarnath, A. Nageswara Rao, Vidyavathi, Kumari Thulasi, Hemlata etc in it.

The movie had nine songs in it. Two songs have been covered in the past.

Here is the third song from the movie to appear in the blog. The song is sung by Meena Kapoor. (the song link wrongly mentions Madhubala Jhavery as the singer). Vishwamitra Adil is the lyricist. Music is composed by Ms Vishwanathan and Rammurty.

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


Song-Dene badhaayee aa gayee (Chandi Rani)(1953) Singer-Meena Kapoor, Lyrics-Vishwamitra Adil, MD-M S Vishwanathan-Rammurthy

Lyrics

dene badhaai aa gayi
ho main jo aa gayi ee
bin maange hi sabkuchh paa gayi ee
main to raaja ke man mein sama gayi ee
main to raaja ke man mein sama gayi
dene badhaai aa gayi
ho main jo aa gayi ee
bin maange hi sabkuchh paa gayi ee
main to raaja ke man mein sama gayi ee
main to raaja ke man mein sama gayi

gaa liye maine aashaa ke geet
dil mein sunehree kaliyaan khilin
?? chali mere jeewan ki ??
naina mile do dil bhi milen
bin dekhe hee main sharmaa gayee ee
main to raaja ke man mein sama gayi ee
main to raaja ke man mein sama gayi
dene badhaai aa gayi
ho main jo aa gayi
bin maange hi sabkuchh paa gayi
main to raaja ke man mein sama gayi ee
main to raja ke man mein sama gayi


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5374 Post No. : 17624

“Hanste Aansoo”(1950) was produced and directed by K B Lal for Akash Chitra, Bombay. The movie had Motilal, Madhubala, Manorama, Gope, Mirza Musharraf, Jankidas, Kapil etc in it.

The movie had eleven songs in it. Seven songs have been covered in the blog so far.

Here is the eighth song from “Hanste Aansoo”(1950) to appear in the blog. The song is sung by Shamshad Begam. Majrooh Sultanpuri is the lyricist. Music is composed by Ghulam Mohammad.

Only audio of this 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-Chhod chale raaja jee (Hanste Aansoo) (1950) Singer-Shamshad Begam, Lyrics-Majrooh Sultanpuri, MD-Ghulam Mohammad

Lyrics(Provided by Prakashchandra)

chhod chaley rajaa jee ee ee ee ee
chhod chaley rajaa jee
haayye ae rahoon kaise akelee ee
rahoon kaise akelee
chhod chaley raajaa jee
chhod chaley rajaa jee ee ee eee
chhod chaley rajaa jee
haayye ae rahoon kaise akelee
rahoon kaise akelee
chhod chaley raajaa jee

jab se sajan tum aaye nazar mein aen
dard uthhey hai mere jigar mein
jab se sajan tum aaye nazar mein aen
dard uthhey hai mere jigar mein
ab na jiyaa chain paaye
ke haayye ae ae
rahoon kaise akelee
rahoon kaise akelee
chhod chaley raajaa jee

nanhaa saa naazuk
dil hai hamaaraa aaa aaa
dekho kaheen tootey na bechaaraa
nanhaa saa naazuk
dil hai hamaaraa aaa aaa
dekho kaheen tootey na bechaaraa
jaao naa daaman bachaaye
ke haayye ae
rahoon kaise akelee ee
rahoon kaise akelee
chhod chaley raajaa jee

oo ooo
kaisey sahegaa dil ab ye judaayee
haayye muhabbat teri duhaayee
kaisey sahegaa dil ab ye judaayee
haayye muhabbat teri duhaayee
sainyyaan mujhe chhod jaaye
ke haayye ae ae
rahoon kaise akelee
rahoon kaise akelee ee
chhod chaley raajaa jee
chhod chaley rajaa jee ee ee ee
chhod chaley rajaa jee
haayye ae ae
rahoon kaise akelee
rahoon kaise akelee
chhod chaley raajaa jee


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5359 Post No. : 17577 Movie Count :

4725

Hullo Atuldom

Born into the film industry. Married into another famous movie-making family. Debut film (in Hindi) with a star-son; a Khan at that. In fact, heroes in her first six films had KHAN as their last name.

I am speaking of Rani Mukherjee who was born into the Mukherjee-Samarth family. Her father Ram Mukherjee was the son of Ravindramohan Mukherjee who was Sashadhar Mukherjee’s (founder of Filmalaya studios) brother. Her mother is the playback singer Krishna Mukherjee. Additionally her brother is director Raja Mukherjee. So that is Rani’s maayka.

She is married to Aditya Chopra; Yash Chopra’s son. ‘Shadaab Khan’ (Amjad Khan’s son) in ‘Raja ki Aayegi Baraat’; ‘Aamir Khan’ in ‘Ghulam’; ‘Shahrukh Khan’ in ‘Kuch Kuch Hota Hai’; ‘Faraaz Khan’ (son of Yusuf Khan a.k.a Zebisco of ‘Amar Akbar Anthoy’) in ‘Mehndi’; ‘Salman Khan’ in ‘Hello Brother’; were her first five movies with the Khans. The sixth film, that I spoke of at the start of this post, ‘Mann’ had Rani only for a song where she shared screen time with Aamir Khan for a song.

Anil Kapoor, Bobby Deol, Abhishek Bachchan, Govinda, where the other heroes she was usually cast opposite in the first few years of her career. She also played Kamal Haasan’s wife in ‘Hey Ram’; incidentally Shahrukh Khan also had a role in the film, not opposite Rani though.

Subsequent films saw her in a few two-heroine films like ‘Chori Chori Chupke Chupke’; ‘Kahin Pyaar Na ho jaaye’; ‘Mujhse Dosti Karoge’ etc.
Movies with Rani Mukherjee were full of good songs, and commercial entertainers. Today she turns a year older- 45 to be exact.

Last Friday saw the release of “Mrs Chatterjee v/s Norway” which has Rani playing a mother and the promos show her to be playing some kind if activist. She has been seen in this type of movies since 2011 when she appeared in ‘No one killed Jessica’.

The song with this post is from her debut film ‘Raja ki Aayegi Baraat’ (1996). Other than Rani Mukherjee & Shadaab Khan the film also had Saeed Jaffery, Raja Murad, Gulshan Grover, Divya Dutta, Asrani, Shashi Sharma, Mohnish Behl, Goga Kapoor, Yunus Parvez etc. in the cast. The film showed Rani playing a girl with happy dreams of marriage and a rosy life. These dreams are shattered when Shadaab Khan enters her life, rapes her to avenge her humiliating him etc. But Shadaab is forced to marry Rani as a punishment for his crime against her by the judge played by Yunus Parvez. Rani uses this opportunity to get even with her tormentor but the couple end up falling in love and the marriage becomes a success. There are some twists and turns before the movie ends in a “marriage baraat”; the kind which Rani had dreamt of.

Let us wish Rani a Happy Birthday with this song which sees Rani living her dream of a “Grand Baraat” at her wedding.


Song-Raaja ki aayee hai baaraat (Raja Ki aayegi Baaraat)(1996) Singer-Vijeyta Pandit, Lyrics-Sameer, MD-Aadesh Srivastava
Female chorus

Lyrics

raaja ki aayi hai baaraat mere aangan mein
raaja ki aayi hai baaraat mere aangan mein
main to naachoon hilaa ke roomaal mere aangan mein
aangan mein

sabke chehre khil rahe hain
masti aisi hai chhaayi
haaye
masti aisi hai chhaayi
phool barse
rang bikhre
mil rahi hai badhaayi
haaye haaye
mil rahi hai badhaayi
ye to bade hi shagun ki hai baat mere aangan mein
raaja ki aayi hai baaraat mere aangan mein
main to naachoon hilaa ke roomaal mere aangan mein
aangan mein

dulhe raaja janch rahe hain
baandh ke sar pe sehra
haaye
baandh ke sar pe sehra
is khushi mein lag raha hai
waqt jaise ho thahra
haaye haaye
waqt jaise ho thahra
saath dulhan ke saj gayi raat mere aangan mein
raaja ki aayi hai baaraat mere aangan mein
main to naachoon hilaa ke roomaal mere aangan mein
aangan mein

bhaabhi meetha munh karaaye
note bahnon ne waare
haaye haaye
note bahnon ne waare
bin piye hi jhoom rahe hain paapa jee bhi hamaare
haaye
paapa jee bhi hamaare
aisi khushiyon ki huyi barsat mere aangan mein
raaja ki aayi hai baaraat mere aangan mein
main to naachoon hilaa ke roomaal mere aangan mein
aangan mein
oye
oye
oye oye oye


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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5355 Post No. : 17563

#the Decade of Fifties –1951 – 1960 #
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“Saltanat-1954” was directed by Dwarka Khosla for ‘Vikas Productions’. It had Shyama, Manhar Desai, Anwar, Sulochana, Neeru, Tripathi, B.M. Vyas, Babu Raje, Shanta Patel, Muhammad Ismail, D.R. Begam and others.

“Saltanat-1954” has six songs in it which were shared by two lyricists Gopal Singh Nepali- four songs and Anjum Jaipuri-two songs.

Music for this movie was composed by Chitragupt.

This movie was passed by Censor Board on 02.08.1954.

HFGK Vol-III (1951-1960) mentions in its foot-note for this movie that this movie was created under the supervision of Homi Wadia.

“Saltanat-1954” had made its debut on this blog on 17.04.2015 whern its ‘lovely song’ ‘ham thhe intezaar mein, ghaayal tere pyaar mein’ was presented by our respected Shri Sudhir Kapur ji. This song is in the voice of Asha Bhonsle.

The second song from this movie was presented by Shri Atul ji on 18.06.2018 which is ‘teer na talwaar se duniya maane pyaar se’ which also is another ‘fast paced’ song from this movie. This song is sung by Shamshad Begam.

Both the abovementioned songs from this movie have lyrics written by Gopal Singh Nepali.

Today we listen to the third song from this movie which is yet another ‘lovely-fast paced’ song sung by Shamshad Begam. ALyricist for this song is Anjum Jaipuri.

The ‘lilting’ music for the today’s song is composed by Chitragupt.

I wish to express my gratitude to the up-loader of the songs of this movie, which has provided us with the opportunity to bring them here.

I do not remember to have listened to the songs of this movie earlier. When I listened to this song in today’s post, I also listened to the earlier two songs of this movie which are already on the blog. I guess that the remaining songs of this movie must be interesting songs too. From the list I can say that the at least one of the remaining three is ‘special song’ for us. 🙂 Let us see when it is going to appear on the blog.

For now let us listen to this song. Only its audio is available.

I would request knowledgeable readers to throw more light on this movie and the picturisation of it’s’ songs.

Enjoy the song now …


Song-Mere raaja kisi ka ho jaa (Saltanat)(1954) Singer-Shamshad Begam, Lyrics-Anjum Jaipuri, MD-Chitragupta
Chorus

Lyrics

ho o o o o
mere raajaa aa

mere raajaa
o mere raajaa
mere raajaa

o o o o o o o
mere raajaa
o mere raajaa

mere raajaa
kisi ka ho jaa
pyaar mein kho jaa
ke ismen badaa mazaa hai
badaa mazaa hai ji
badaa mazaa hai
badaa mazaa hai ji
badaa mazaa hai

mere raajaa
kisi ka ho jaa
pyaar mein kho jaa
ke ismen badaa mazaa hai
badaa mazaa hai ji
badaa mazaa hai ae

phoolon se naazuk
meri nazar ho o
phoolon se naazuk a a
phoolon se naazuk
meri nazar ho o
faulaad kaa hai
meraa jigar r r
meraa jigar
mere raajaa
ho mere raajaa
nazar jab uljhe
kabhi naa suljhe
ki ismen badaa mazaa hai ae
badaa mazaa hai ji
badaa mazaa hai ae
badaa mazaa hai ji
badaa mazaa hai
mere raajaa
kisi ka ho jaa
pyaar mein kho jaa
ke ismen badaa mazaa hai
badaa mazaa hai ji
badaa mazaa hai

palkon kaa kaajal
tere liye ho o
palkon kaa kaajal
palkon kaa kaajal
tere liye ho o
zulfon kaa baadal
tere liye ae
tere liye
mere raajaa
ho mere raajaa
mujhe dil denaa
meraa dil lenaa
ki ismen badaa mazaa hai ae
badaa mazaa hai ji
badaa mazaa hai
badaa mazaa hai ji
badaa mazaa hai

mere raajaa
kisi ka ho jaa
pyaar mein kho jaa
ki ismen badaa mazaa hai
badaa mazaa hai ji
badaa mazaa hai
badaa mazaa hai ji
badaa mazaa hai


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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5347 Post No. : 17532 Movie Count :

4717

Today’s song is from a C grade Stunt film – Fighting Hero-1946.

1946 was an important year in the history of Hindi films. This was the period when the impending Independence of India was on the Anvil and everyone knew that in the year 1947 it would take place. At the same time when the country was to be divided on the basis of Religion and another muslim country Pakistan was to come into existence. Many of the muslims in the film industry were excitedly awaiting their departure from India to the Utopia. This would, naturally, create a lot of vacancies in every department of film making. However, there was enough talent available in the remaining India to fill up the void. Hence from the year 1946 itself there were several debutantes. This made the year 1946 an year of Debuts of several new actors, directors, MDs, Lyricists etc etc.

The second World War had just ended, which had created inumerable millionaires, fed on black marketing and illegal trades in the war period. Many of them were keen on investing their ill gotten wealth in the film industry. Thus, there was no dearth of finances in the industry. From 1946 to around the early years of the 50’s, some of these ” novo-rich” persons provided finance. Some even tried their hand at directing films or even acting in it. Let us see what other things happened during this period.

By 1946 to 1950 old towers shook hard to crumble. The studio system almost disappeared. Film industry could now boast of people highly educated, talented and hard working. Even artistes with International experience and success like Dewan Sharar, Shakuntala Paranjpye, actor Ranjan, Balraj Sahni etc contributed to Indian films. The old horse of Calcutta-New Theatres broke down and actors, directors and Music specialists from Bengal made a Bee-Line to Bombay, thus making it the strongest ever film centre.

1946 was also an year of consolidation, in a sense that due to the iminent Partition of India on the basis of Religion, agreed upon by Gandhi-Nehru combine, made Muslim artistes and filmmakers plan to pack their bags and move over to the new Utopia across the border. Their vacancies were to be filled up by the waiting second line of actors,directors and MDs. The film industry was to have a complete new look within 1-2 years and the beginning was from 1946. Thus the year was very important.

The year 1946 was an year which saw many changes in the film industry. The II world war had just ended. Rationing and control on many items had created Black marketing. This made many people Millionaires. The extra income started getting invested in Film making. The increased cost of Raw Films made filmmaking 7 to 8 times costlier. A film which was made in about 1 Lakh rupees in 1940, needed 8 Lakhs now. Studio system was waning and artiste rates increased in Lakhs instead of thousands.

In 1945, only74 films were made. This number increased to 153 films in 1946. Further, in 1947, the film industry produced a record number of films – 181, but of course that was due to Partition. The quality of films was sacrificed at the cost of the quantity of films made in 1946. However, some quality films were made in 1946, indicating the changing face of filmmaking.

Film Dharati ke Lal-46 was made by IPTA people and it became the first film to be exhibited in Russia. Neecha Nagar-46 won the Grand Prix award in the French Film Festival. Film Dr. Kotnis ki amar kahani-46 was dubbed in English as ‘ The journey of Dr. Kotnis’. It was shown in the USA and then in the Venice Film Festival. Two musical films- Anmol Ghadi and Shahjahan were made in 1946.

Year 1946 also saw the Debut of several stars and artistes. In fact one can call 1946 as the ” Debut year” of the Hindi film industry. See this….

Nirupa Roy debuted in film Amar Raaj-46

Nasreen (real name Zareena), daughter of Rafiq Gaznavi and Anwari bai had debuted in her first released film ” Shahjahan-1946.

Geeta Bali debuted with a dance in film Badnami-46

Geeta Roy sang her first film song in film Bhakta Prahlad-46

Balraj Sahni debuted in the film Insaaf-46. It was a small role,though.

K A Abbas-Director, Pt.Ravi Shankar-MD, Balraj Sahni as Hero and Damayanti Sahni as Heroine made their Debut in film Dharti Ke Lal-46

Meena kapoor sang her first released Hindi film song in the film Eight Days-46. She also recorded her first Hindi film song in the film ‘Door Chalen’-1946, which was released later than the film Eight Days-46.

Sudhir Phadke debuted as MD in film Gokul-46

P L Santoshi as Director, Dev Anand, Rehman, Rehana and Kamla Kotnis debuted as actors in film Hum Ek Hai-46

Chitragupta did his first film as MD in Lady Robin Hood-46

Ram Ganguly became MD with film Maharana Pratap-46

Abhi Bhattacharya debuted in Hindi film Milan-46

Chetan Anand as Director, Uma Anand and Kamini kaushal as actresses debuted in film Neecha Nagar-46

Hansraj Behl debuted as MD with film Pujari-46

Madhubala(as Baby Mumtaz) sang her first song in film Pujari-46

Majrooh Sultanpuri wrote his first Hindi film song in film Shahjahan-46

S D Burman as MD and Kishore Kumar as an actor debuted with film Shikari-46

So, you will find the year 1946 was truly an year of change. The winds of Partition were already blowing and the second line of supplementary artistes was ready to replace the Migrators, after the Partition.

Film Fighting Hero-46 was produced by Keshav k. Talpade, under his own banner- Talpade productions, Bombay. He also directed the film. He had already directed another film-Stunt king-in 1944, so he got confidence. Later he also directed 2 more films for Basant Pictures of Homi Wadia and directed Fearless Nadia in Tigress-48 and Maya Mahal-49. After this his name does not appear anywhere. Keshav was earlier in the petrochemical business and apparently had earned a lot. However after this one film – Fighting Hero he did not produce any other film. He purposely chose this Genre of stunt films, because in that period, this was a genre in which a stunt film could be made in 5 to 7 lakhs only. Further it did not require well known actors or Music directors.

The Music Director for this film was Chitragupt for whom this was only the third film as a Music Director, having debuted in the same year with the film Lady Robin Hood-46. Chitragupt (16-11-1917 to 14-1-1991) later became a Melody maker giving music to 149 films and composing 1036 songs. He also sang29 songs in 16 films. He was one of my favourite composers. Though a genius, he was not lucky enough to ever join the grade A MDs simply because he did not get any famous film house as a mentor.

The film had only 6 songs, 3 of which were sung by Mohantara Talpade, niece of the Producer/Director. She started in 1942 and sang 117 songs in 54 films till 1958. She was a very popular singer in marathi films and NFS. She was born on 24-10-1926 in Bombay. She studied upto matriculation. She learnt music from Heerabai Zaveri, Shyamalabai Mazgaonkar and Navrang Master too. Khemchand Prakash recorded her first song in 1941 but her song in the film Mamaji-1942 was released first. It was composed by H.C.Bali, who was responsible for Saigal’s entry in films.

1946 was the best year for her as she sang in 12 films in 1946. Her best period was 1946 to 1948. Then Lata overtook and she fell back. She was married in 1949 and took a 3 years’ gap to raise a family. She became Mohantara Ajinkya. From 1952 to 1955 again she sang. Then she shifted to Marathi and became popular there.

The cast of the film included Sudha Rao, Iqbal Begum, Kavita Sardesai, Romesh Vyas, Moolchand, Niranjan Sharma and others. Except Moolchand and Niranjan Sharma, I do not know about anyone else in the cast. Moolchand made his acting Debut in this film. He acted in 131 films till the film Toofan-1989. He died on 18-12-1988. Niranjan Sharma was a well known Character actor. He too made his Debut in this film. He worked in 129 films till mata vaishno devi-1971. He wrote Lyrics in 3 films for 23 songs. Niranjan Sharma wrote the story and Dialogues of the film Fighting Hero-1946, besides acting in it. All in all, I guess this must be one of the most economically made films of that time.

Today’s song is sung by Mohantara Talpade and written by I.C.Kapoor.


Song- Mere sapnon ke raaja mere jeewan mein aa jaa (Fighting Hero)(1946) Singer- Mohantara Talpade, Lyricist- I.C.Kapoor, MD- Chitragupt

Lyrics

Mere sapnon ke raaja
mere sapnon ke raaja
mere jeewan mein aa jaa
mere jeewan mein aa jaa
aa jaa aa jaa
mere sapnon ke raaja
mere sapnon ke raaja
mere jeewan mein aa jaa
mere jeewan mein aa jaa
aa jaa aa jaa

sapnon mein hans hans kar aanaa
sapnon mein hans hans kar aanaa
jeevan mein tarsaana
sapnon mein hans hans kar aanaa
jeevan mein tarsaana
kaisi hai ye preet balamwaa
kaisi hai ye reet
kaisi hai ye preet balamwaa
kaisi hai ye reet
kuchh mujhko samjha jaa
mere jeewan mein aa jaa
aa jaa aa jaa
mere sapnon ke raaja
mere sapnon ke raaja
mere jeewan mein aa jaa
mere jeewan mein aa jaa
aa jaa aa jaa

jab se tose nain lade hain
jab se tose nain lade hain
tab se teri raah khade hain
tab se teri raah khade hain
dil mein meethhi meethhi chaahen
dil mein meethhi meethhi chaahen
khuli huyi hain meri baahen
khuli huyi hain meri baahen
mere dil ki aag bujhaa jaa
mere jeevan mein aa jaa
mere dil ki aag bujhaa jaa
mere jeevan mein aa jaa
aa jaa aa jaa


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5250 Post No. : 17251

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Blog 10-Year Challenge (2012-2022) – Song No. 135
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On this date ten years back viz on 2 December 2012, eight songs from eight movies were covered in the blog. Here are the details:-

Blog post number Song Movie (Year) Remarks
7108 Wo aayenge khushi ban kar Aurat(1953) Movie YIPPEED in the blog by now
7109 Dard e muhabbat buri bala hai o chacha jee Captain Kishore(1957) 4 songs covered out of 7 by now
7110 Dil lagaa ke qadar gayi pyaare Kaala Paani (1958) Movie YIPPEED in the blog with this song
7111 Lehron mein jhool ke Do Gunde(1959) Movie YIPPEED in the blog by now
7112 Wo teer dil pe chala Aarti(1962) Movie YIPPEED in the blog by now
7113 Ek thha raaja ek thhi raani Hariyaali aur Raastaa (1962) Movie YIPPEED in the blog with this song
7114 Na itna sitam mujhpe dhaayaa karo Geet (1970) Movie YIPPEED in the blog by now
7115 Gagan ye samjhe chaand sukhi hai Saawan Ko Aane Do(1979) Movie YIPPEED in the blog by now

We can observe that as many as seven movies (out of eight) whose songs were covered in the blog on this date ten years ago (on 2 december 2012) have since been YIPPEED. That leaves us with just one movie that is still unYIPPEED and is therefore eligible for Blog Ten Year Challenge today (2 december 2022).

The BTYC eligible movie today is “Captain Kishore”(1957).

“Captain Kishore”(1957) was produced and directed by JBH Wadia for Wadia Movietone, Bombay. The movie had Shashikala, Suresh, Anwar, Naina, Roopmala, Mirza Musharraf, Sheikh, Tuntun, Munshi Munakka, Pakkoo, Shri Bhagwan, Azeem, Mohini, Abdullaa, Korega, Jullian etc in it.

“Captain Kishore”(1957) had seven songs in it. Four songs have been covered so far.

Here is the fifth song from the movie to appear in the blog. The song is sung by Geeta Dutt and female chorus. Khumar Barabankwi is the lyricist. Music is composed by Chitragupta.

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 and other details were sent to me by Prakashchandra.

Audio link:

Song-Aiyy aiyy aiyyo raaja (Captain Kishore)(1957) Singer-Geeta Dutt, Lyrics-Khumar Barabankwi, MD-Chitragupta
Female chorus

Lyrics (Provided by Prakashchandra)

Aiyy aiyy aiyyo raajaa
aankhon mein tu samaa jaa
dil se dil milaa jaa
phir duniya apnee hai aey
aiyya aiyy aiyyo raajaa
aankhon mein tu samaa jaa
dil se dil milaa jaa
phir duniya apnee hai ae

ooo ooo oh oho
aaa aaaa aaa aa ha aa
nazar nayee hai
daur nayaa
tujhko mubaarak pyaar nayaa
samaa hai suhaanaa
jiyaa na jalaanaa
tujhko qasam hai
raajaa paas mere aa jaaa
aiyya aiyyaiyyo raajaa
aankhon mein tu samaa jaa
dil se dil milaa jaa
phir duniya apnee hai ae

ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo
ooo ooo
ooo ooo ooo ooo
ooo ooo ooo
aaa aaa aaa aaa aaaa
aaa aaaa
aaaa

raat se din kaa mel naheen
pyaar nibhaanaa khel naheen
aaa aaaa hhaaa aa hhaaa aaaa
hhaahhhaaa hhaaa hhaaa

raat se din kaa mel naheen
pyaar nibhaanaa khel naheen
chhodo jee bahaanaa
hansegaa zamaanaa
achchaa hai ye maukaa rajaa
apnaa banaa jaa
aiyya aiyyaiyyo raajaa
aankhon mein tu samaa jaa
dil se dil milaa jaa
phir duniya apnee hai ae

ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo
ohho oohho hho o o
aaa aaaa aaa haa aaaaaaa
chal gayaa jaadoo pyaar huaa
nazar jhukee iqraar huaa
hhaa hhaaa haahhaa aaaa
haahhaaa aaa haaaa

chal gayaa jaadoo pyaar huaa
nazar jhukee iqraar huaa
dil hai nazraanaa
isey na bhulaanaa
chori chori pyaar ka
? uthhaa jaa
aiyya aiyyaiyyo raajaa
aankhon mein tu samaa jaa
dil se dil milaa jaa
phir duniya apnee hai ae


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5203 Post No. : 17187

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Blog 10-Year Challenge (2012-2022) – Song No. 114
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Ten years back on this date viz on 16th October 2012, five songs from five different movies were covered on the blog. Here are the details:-

Blog post number Song Movie (Year) Remarks
6861 Ambuaa ki daal daali jhoom rahi hai aali Vidhyapati (1937) Movie YIPPEED by now
6862 Tum bhi wohi ho main bhi wohi hoon Siskiyaan (UR)(1952) Unreleased movie. Number of songs unknown
6863 Mere dil kabhi to koi aayegaa Main Chup Rahoongi (1962) Movie YIPPEED by now
6864 Ye mausam bheega bheega hai Dharti (1970) Movie YIPPEED by now
6865 Kisi shaayar ki ghazal dream girl Dream Girl (1977) 5 songs out of six covered

We can see from the above that four movies (out of six) whose songs were covered on this date ten years ago (16 october 2012) have since been YIPPEED in the blog. Out of remaining two movies, one movie was unreleased and totl number of songs recorded for that movie is not known. Other songs of that unrelaesed movie may not be available either.

That leaves us with only one movie that is eligible for Blog Ten Year Challenge today (16 october 2022).

That movie is “Dream Girl”(1977).

“Dream Girl”(1977) was produced by I K Bahl & Jaya Chakravorty and directed by Pramod Chakravorty for Trimurty Films, Bombay. The movie had Ashok Kumar, Dharmendra, Hema Malini, Prem Chopra, Lalita Pawar, Dina Pathak, Komila Wirk, Alka, Pinchoo Kapoor, S.N.Bannerjee, Sapru, Parveen Paul, Birbal, Kuljeet, Shaikh, Lalita Kumari(Sinha), Dube, Satyen Kapoo, Ritu Kamal, Madhu Chauhan, Kamal, Julie, Millie, Ratna, Madhup Sharma, Jagdish Raj, Rajan Kapoor, Mirza,  Mohan,  Jaswant, Darshan, Shidke, Bihari, Randhir, Dhumal, Master Chintoo, Rajoo, Alankar, Ladoo, Padmini Kolhapure, Chikoo, Bunty, Bobby, Madhu Malini,Jang Bahadur, Pallavi, Komal, Titoo, Romy, Ravi, Abbas, Asrani etc. The movie also had Seema deo, Ramesh deo, Mohan Choti and Sujit Kumar in special appearances.

“Dream Girl”(1977) had six songs in it. Five songs have already been covered in the blog. Here are their details:-

Blog post number song Date of post Singer (s)
6865 Kisi shaayar ki ghazal dream girl 16 october 2012 Kishore Kumar
8843 Duniya ke log kitne achche hote 16 october 2013 Asha Bhonsle
10969 Hua kya agar tu zara bewafa hai 24 march 2015 Hema Malini, Kishore Kumar
15975 Chhuppa chhuppi khelen aao Multiple version song 16 october 2020 Lata Mangeshkar

One can notice that all songs (except one song) of “Dream Girl”(1977) have appeared on the blog on 16 october of various years. That is no coincidence. This date happens to be the birthday of Hema Malini (DoB 16 october 1948). Moreover, all these posts have been by different posters, all obviously great fans of Hema Malini.

It must be said that Hema Malini had aged gracefully. She still appears in advertisements and helps sell household products like water filter. If a person unfamiliar with Hema Malini is informed that she is 74 years old then he/she will refuse to accept it ! That is how young and well preserved she looks.

Peevesie’s mom, who was the poster of Duniya ke log kitne achche hote the Hema Malini birthday article on 16 october 2013, had the good fortune of once meeting Hema Malini personally at an airport and Hema Malini graciously agreed to get herself photographed with Peevesie’s mom. 🙂

Hema Malini was a Rajya Sabha member from 2003 to 2009. Today Hema Malini is a Member of Lok Sabha from Mathura (UP). She has no connections with Mathura or UP,  still she continues to win parliamentary election from this seat comfortably. Today she is into her second term as an MP from Mathura. It shows how popular she still is all over India.

She obviously looks after the needs of her constituency. I can vouch for that. I was posted at Izatnagar workshop (Bareilly) which is located near Mathura. I received a letter from her that the Railbus running between Mathura and Vrindawan had become overaged and gone out of order. A new rail bus may kindly be manufactured in Izatnagar workshop for this service. I wondered why railbus, clearly a loss making proposition should be manufactured. Hema Malini clearly had influence among the higher echelons of Railways, because a senior officer from North Central Railway (under whose jurisdiction Mathura falls), visited me and convinced me why manufacturing this railbus was important for Mathura as well as for Railways.

This new railbus, manufactured in Izatnagar Railway workshop, is today an important tourist attraction in Mathura. 🙂

We take this opportunity to wish Hema Malini a very happy birthday. Let there be many more returns of the day.

On this occasion, here is a song from “Dream Girl”(1977) that is bound to chear everyone up. The song is sung by Lata Mangeshkar. Anand Bakshi is the lyricist. The lilting music is composed by Laxmikant Pyarelal. The song is lip synced by Hema Malini. Sujeeet Kumar, Dharmendra, Asrani, Rajrani, Mohan Choti etc can also be seen in the picturisation.

With this song, the sixth and final song from “Dream Girl”(1977), all the songs of the movie have now been covered in the blog. With this song, “Dream Girl”(1977) joins the list of movies that have been YIPPEED in the blog.

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

Video


Audio link:

Song-Ho Raaja baabu dil ko sambhaal rakhna (Dream Girl)(1977) Singer-Lata, Lyrics-Anand Bakshi, MD-Laxmikant Pyarelal

Lyrics(Provided by Prakashchandra)
(Lyrics of audio version)

Soch ke haath pakadna re
mat jaana is akeli pe
mere paas jo aaye
rakhe apni jaan hatheli pe
ho raaja baabu
ho raaja baabu
dil ko sambhaal rakhna aa aa
mere kanne chhuri hai
ho mere kanne chhuri hai
khayaal rakhna
ho raaja baabu
dil ko sambhal rakhna aa aa
mere kanne chhuri hai
khayaal rakhna
ho raaja baabu
raaja baabu
dil ko sambhaal rakhna aa aa
mere kanne chhuri hai
khayaal rakhna

ja tere haathon mein
mera aanchal nahin aayega
mere peechhe peechhe bhaagega
to dhokha khaayega
chaltee hawa ko pakadna hai mushqil
yaad hamesha
yaad hamesha ye misaal rakhna aa
mere kanne chhuri hai
khayaal rakhna
ho raaja baabu
dil ko sambhal rakhna aa aa
mere kanne chhuri hai
khayaal rakhna

aag sey jo khela karte hain
wo deewaane hote hain
mujhko chhed ke hansne waale
dil ko thhaam ke rote hain
ponchhega tu kis tarah apne aansu
jeb mein hamesha
jeb mein hamesha roomaal rakhna aa aa
mere kanne chhuri hai
khayaal rakhna
ho raaja baabu
dil ko sambhaal rakhna aa aa
mere kanne chhuri hai
khayaal rakhna

toone kya socha hai
tujhse dar ke main jhuk jaaungee
main bijli hoon
kyaa main tere
roke se ruk jaaungee
main tere bas mein na aaungee rasiya
dil se ye armaan
dil se ye armaan nikaal rakhnaa aa aa
mere kanne chhuri hai
khayaal rakhna
ho raajaa baabu
dil ko sambhaal rakhnaa aa aa
mere kanne chhuri ee
kyaa ?
mere kanne chhuri hai
khayaal rakhnaa
ho o raajaa baabu u u


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Hullo Atuldom

Top three actors of the golden era of Hindi cinema (from mid 1940s to late 1960s) were Dilip-Dev-Raj. They were nearly of the same age though their debut years were “Jwar Bhata” (Dilip Kumar) in 1944, “Hum Ek Hain” which came in 1946 (Dev Anand) and “Valmiki” also in 1946 which had Raj Kapoor in his first adult role but it was a tiny role. The three of them carved their own path and were the dominant stars of the Golden Era. Raj Kapoor went on to become a much-acclaimed actor-director earning him the title of ‘The greatest Showman’, Dev Anand also became an actor-director and was usually associated with slick and stylish city-based films and became popular for his trendy fashion sense as well, and Dilip Kumar came to be hailed as the greatest actor and set a high bar for future generations to emulate.

However, ironically all three never got the opportunity to come together on screen and act in a single film. Maybe no director or story writer could conceive a script to bring these stars together. However, there were two films where two of the three acted as co-stars and these two films therefore are rare treasures to be appreciated and preserved for this unique aspect.

The above are the thoughts expressed by a blogger in this post.

I had similar thoughts about the troika of the 1970s Jeetendra- Amitabh Bachchan- Rajesh Khanna and have stated it in this post. On further rewinding I recalled “Anand” (1970), “Namak Haram” (1973), “Gehri Chaal” (1973) & “Dharam Kaanta” (1982). That is a list of movies which had Amitabh Bachchan & Rajesh Khanna; Jeetendra & Amitabh Bachchan; and Rajesh Khanna & Jeetendra. But there were non after these. I am sure, readers will agree that it was a loss for Hindi Movie buffs. Here I would like to mention that Amitabh Bachchan was the last to make his debut in Hindi films; the other two had their first releases in 1964 and 1966.

This was a post to celebrate Jeetendra turning 80. With today’s post we are wishing The Big B- as many of his fans address him- on turning 80. He is still very active and his last movie released on 7th October.

For the last 10-15 years he has been playing roles of older characters but mostly roles specially written keeping his abilities in mind. “Piku” one of his recent movies had him play an eccentric 70 year old father of an architect (Deepika Padukone), living in Delhi. His act of the Hypochondriac with chronic constipation, who traces every problem to his bowel movements is a standout from his recent movies. In 2020, we saw him play a stingy old ghar jamai Chunnan ‘Mirza’ Nawab in ‘Gulabo Sitabo”. That role won him a Critics Best Actor award at the 66th Filmfare Awards. This man is still getting roles which get him awards.

Since 2000 he has been the host of the Indian version of “Who Wants to be a Millionaire?” i.e. “Kaun Banega Crorepati?” (KBC for short) and people who know me know that I am addicted to that show. But then my family and friends will say that I am addicted to anything that so much as shows Amitabh Bachchan’s shadow. I will stop any job at hand if I spot “Sholay”, “Deewar”, “Amar Akbar Anthony”, “Khuddar”, “Trishul”, “Don”, “Satte Pe Satta”, “Mahaan” and “Bhootnath”, “Piku”, “Black”, “Ab Tumhaare Hawaale Watan Saathiyo” and most of the 200 movies (maybe I will give a few of his initial movies a miss) that he has acted in, over the last 53 years. And when there is such a huge library of movies and songs to choose from getting the one that highlights the person’s abilities is not easy.
The song that I have chosen shows Amitabh Bachchan with Aruna Irani who incidentally was the first heroine who played AB Sr’s romantic interest in the 1972 released “Bombay To Goa”. There is an interview of Aruna Irani that keeps popping up on YouTube where she speaks of how uncomfortable AB Sr. used to be in the dance sequences of “Bombay To Goa”. AB Sr. was always good at action, emotion, comedy etc; today’s song will show the improvement that had come in his dancing over the years.

The song is from the 1983 released “Mahaan” which was directed by S. Ramanathan. If I am not wrong he had directed “Bombay To Goa” also. “Mahaan” had AB Sr. in a triple role of father and sons who are twins. Waheeda Rehman, Zeenat Aman and Parveen Babi played the heroines. Amjad Khan led the brigade of villains that included Kadar Khan, Shakti Kapoor, Sujit Kumar, Mac Mohan. Ashok Kumar, Mukri, Urmila Bhatt, Aruna Irani and Meenakshi (or was it Nandita Thakur) who formed the rest of the cast. The songs were written by Anjaan and RD Burman was the music director. Asha Bhonsle, Kishore Kumar, Amit Kumar, RD Burman and Amitabh Bachchan were the playback singers used.

Happy 80th Birthday to the Darling of the masses. Happy Birthday to the Big B. Happy Birthday to Amitabh Bachchan.


Song-Har chhori raani hiyaan har chhora raaja(Mahaan)(1983) Singer-Kishore Kumar, Lyrics-Anjaan, MD-R D Burman

Lyrics

hmmm mm mm
ee galiyan ka dharam alag hai
alag hai reet riwaaz
kaa samjhe
na samjhe to samajh lo hamse
ham samjhaa den aaj

har chhori raani hiyaan
har chhora raaja
har chhori raani hiyaan
har chhora raaja
magar kabhi baja nahin
hiyaan band baaja
magar kabhi baja nahin
hiyaan band baaja

aawara galiyan ki pariyaan
dekh uthhe dil jhoom
waah waah
kya maza
aawara galiyan ki pariyaan
dekh uthhe dil jhoom
itar paan gajre ki mahak
ghunghru mujre ki dhoom
chanchhan chhanan chhanan
khankhan khanan khanan
chanchhan chhanan chhanan
khanan khanan
natkhat chhori
ban ke chakori
chanchal gori
kare dil ki chori
kabhi lachak lachak kar
kabhi chhamak chhamak kar
kabhi jhatak jhatak kar
kabhi matak matak kar
kabhi latkau latkau
kabhi jhatkau jhatkau
kabhi thumkau thumkau
kabhi matkau matkau
lachak lachak chhamak chhamak
jhatak jhatak matak matak
palat tera dhyaan kidhar hai bhai

har chhori raani hiyaan
har chhora raaja
haan
har chhori raani hiyaan
har chhora raaja
magar kabhi baja nahin
hiyaan band baaja
magar kabhi baja nahin
hiyaan band baaja

suno suno
ee aasik maasuk ke jhagde
ee meethi takraar
aa haa haa haa
ee aasik masuk ke jhagde
ee meethi takraar
baat baat mein baat badhe to chale teg talwaar
are chal gayi laathi
badi mar gulaati
are chal gayi laathi
badi mar gulaati
chheer vayra
tamacha koochh
chheer vayra
tamacha kooch
chheer vayra
tamacha kooch
aah
are bam babam bam bambu
tad patrika tambu
kabhi tadip tad kabhi satykam
kabhi kurukshetar ka lambu
bambu
tambu
kabhi tadip tad kabhi satykam
kabhi kurukshetar ka lambu

bar jorikar na sainya
ho bar jori kar na sainya
ho meri chhod chhod bainya
chhod baiya
ho padoon painyaan
palat tera dhyan kidhar hai bhai

har chhori raani hiyaan
har chhora raaja
bhai
har chhori raani hiyaan
har chhora raaja
magar kabhi baja nahin
hiyaan band baaja
magar kabhi baja nahin
hiyaan band baaja

hey shiv shambhu
uthha ke taal tamboora
aur ukhaaaad de tambu

are hiya raat bhar raas rachaawen
dharam k thekedar
sach to ee hai
inhi ke dum pe chale hai ee baazaar
khabardar hoshiyar thaanedar hawaldar
pahredar aur jamaadar
pakad lo in bandaron ko
aur
suno suno in ghonchu paakhandiyon ke kaarykram
arre vadki jinko sunke toot jaayenge tumhaare saare bharam

arre din bhar ye jogi re jogi
haa
raat bhar ye bhogi re bhogi
dekho re dekho
roop ke lobhi kaise hai ye dhongi re dhongi
inki najar me hum saare hain mooli gajar aalu gobhi

har chhori raani hiyaan
har chhora raaja
haan
har chhori raani hiyaan
har chhora raaja
magar kabhi baja nahin
hiyaan band baaja
magar kabhi baja nahin
hiyaan band baaja


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