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6411 | Post No. : | 19893 |
“Hazaar Raaten”(1953) was produced and directed by Jayant Desai for Jayant Desai Productions, Bombay. The movie had Rehana, Bipin Gupta, Manhar Desai, Cuckkoo, Satyanarayan, Kuldeep Akhtar, Rewashankar, Gajendra Singh, Yunus, Shakuntala, Ameer Banu etc in it.
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6407 | Post No. : | 19874 |
Today’s song is from an unknown religious film Shyam ki Jogan-1957.
The film was made by K.B.Films, a banner owned by the film’s producer K. Bakshi. It was directed by S.P.Kalla, who also wrote the film’s 8 songs. The Music Director was Narayan Datt. The cast of the film was Sulochana, Shahu Modak, B.M.Vyas, Kamal Mehra, Kammo, Ratnamala, Jagdev, Maruti, Jeevankala, Funny Walker and many others.
This film raises ‘a never-satisfactorily answered’ question as to what makes a film successful ? No one has so far been able to give an answer, which can be applied to any or many successful films. If the answer was known, then ALL films would have been successful !
Various factors like the Banner, the Director, the Composer, the story, the songs and the promotion of the film contribute to the success of the film. However, this is no guarantee at all. There are cases when a low budget film, with no known or famous artistes or Director or the Composer has also succeeded. A case in point is that of “Jai Santoshi Maa “-75. Produced by a heavily debt-ridden failed producer Sitaram Rohara, the film was directed by an unknown person Vijay Sharma and the music was given by a less known composer C.Arjun. The main singer was Usha Mangeshkar and the film’s cast was of a C grade Mythological film. The story was totally imaginary, without any support of Puranas. Not just that, the film showed that Lord Ganesh had a sister and a daughter, something which was totally unheard of, by most people.
Despite all this, this film did business running into crores and gave a tough fight to more famous Blockbusters like Sholey, Aandhi, Chupke chupke, Deewar, Do Jasoos, Sanyasi etc. It was nothing short of a stroke of sheer LUCK or fluke. That’s all !
In this Film Industry, one needs LUCK. An Ounce of Luck is heavier than a Ton of Talent here. Otherwise, who can explain how the dumb, Non-actors like Karan Dewan, Pradeep Kumar and Bharat Bhushan became successful actors ? Or how the ‘not so good looking’ actors Ranjan, Shaikh Mukhtar and even Balraj Sahni did so many films ?
Anyway, today’s film was having less lucky people like the director and the Music Director. With an awful story, the film’s B grade cast could not help it. What’s more, this film came in 1957, when the year was one of the best years of the ‘ Golden Era’. The lineup of 1957 films looks like the selection of the creamy layer in everlasting music – ‘Mother India’, ‘Pyasa’, ‘Tumsa Nahin Dekha’, ‘Bhabhi’, ‘Asha’, ‘Miss Mary’, ‘Naya Daur’, ‘Do Aankhen Barah Haath’, ‘Paying Guest’, ‘Nau Do Gyarah’, ‘Dekh Kabira Roya’. ‘Nausherwaan e Adil ‘, ‘Gateway Of India’, ‘Hum Panchhi Ek Daal Ke ‘, ‘Kathputali’, ‘Sharada’ . . . Films like Baarish, Ab Dilli door nahin, Abhiman, Bada Bhai, Begunah, Beti, Chhoti Babu, Coffee House, Dushman, Johnny Walker, Miss Bombay, Miss India, Mr. X, Narsi Bhagat, Paak Daman, Pawanputra Hanuman, Ustad, Zamana. Films produced in Madras were quite popular. AVM’s ‘Bhabhi’, ‘Miss Mary’ and ‘Hum Panchhi Ek Daal Ke’, Prasad Production’s first Hindi film ‘Sharda’, and MV Raman’s film ‘Asha’ played havoc with their captive audiences. Films from south somehow have always concocted a success formula, mixing comedy, tragedy, social message, excellent production values and above all superb music, which made their films very popular everywhere. There was no chance for a mediocre film to succeed !
The story of the film was…..
This is the story of Shradha and Manu- of man and his faith. Even as a child Shradha, the daughter of Haridas, a God fearing man was known for her love, affectionate disposition and devotion to Krishna. She was the light of her fathers eye. In her childhood she was betrothed to Manu, the son of an unscrupulous Bania Dhaniram. Manu & Shri ( Shradha’s pet name) would have made an admirable couple, but for Danirams greed, whose stupidity led him to kill Gopal, the son of the blind poojari Soordas, for a little wealth.
The sins of the father were vested upon the son’s head and Manu took to the roads of vice and destruction. . Dhaniram’s blood stained wealth made a satire out of him and while Shri pined for her brother Gopal, the tortured soul of the blind Soordas cried out for justice. . Thus seven years rolled away & now Dhaniram had become a man of means. But nothing is even hidden from the eyes of God. His mills grind slowly but they grind exceedingly fine.
Responding to the calls of his distressed devotees, God came down to the village in the guise of Behroopiya Gopal. He was instrumental in getting Shri and Manu married. Dhaniram demanded a fantastic sum as dowry from Haridas, on the eve of Manu’s marriage to Shri & God made the demands good. Shri and Manu were married. One day doubts crept into the mind of Manu. He suspected an illicit relationship, between his wife Shri and Gopal and after that Shris life was a veritable series of night-mares.
When the old and ailing Haridas came to console his daughter, he was beaten to death.
In the meantime Manu fell so low that he spared nothing in an effort to divert his mind; and one day he lost his life by drowning. But Shris satitva brought him back to life.
Dhaniram, thinking his son dead, turned the widowed Shri out of the house. She became a Jogan. The long search for her Shyam began. In the meantime Manu had awoken to his misdeeds and follies. He rushed to find his Shri, but she had already left. After a long and heart breaking search, they met at the temple of Krishna, but Shri was already preparing for her final Journey. But God also knew that if Shri left Manu, faith would be lost to man forever. There would be chaos in the world.
So Shri is convinced by Gopal not to take extreme steps and stay happy with the reformed Manu. So,all is well in the end.
The director/lyricist of this film Sooraj Prakash Kalla or S P Kalla was a resident of Jodhpur, Rajasthan. In the early 50s he was having a nice job in the state Secretariat in Jaipur. He was a good writer of songs. During his service tenure, once he visited Bombay casually and then stayed back here only, leaving the lucrative steady job, to enter the film industry as a lyricist.
His first film was ‘Lanka Dahan’-52, in which he wrote all 8 songs. Due to his easy and meaningful Lyrics he started getting film after film. After about 7 more films – Hanuman janma-54, Harihar Bhakti-56, Astik-56, Shyam ki Jogan-57, Naya kadam-58, Gauri Shankar-58 and Ye kadam nahi rukenge-68, he turned to Film direction and succeeded in this too.
Some of the films he directed were, Aastik-56, Naya kadam-58, and Shyam ki Jogan-57. He also did a small role in the film Kailashpati-62.
Having won laurels here he became a Producer and that proved to be his nemesis. He lost everything he had earned. Family life became miserable and all friends deserted him. Finally he separated from his family and went back to Jaipur. There he got two Rajasthani films for direction. Then he got some serials and video films. Some of his serials on TV were ‘ Samay ki Dhara’ and ‘Teesmar khan’,which were popular.
He became an alcohol addict and closeted himself in a small room, where he ended his own life on 10-5-2007.
Many people may not be even aware that any MD by the name of NARAYAN DUTTA existed, but in reality he did and has contributed to Hindi film Music to the best of opportunities that he got to do so. NARAYAN DUTTA, I feel , was one of those unlucky composers like, C.Arjun, Sailesh Mukherjee, Daan singh, Sardar Malik, Jamal Sen, Pardesi etc, who had enough talent but luck was not in their favour.
Most internet sites and few writers also get confused between these two MDs, thinking that N.Datta means Narayan Dutta . Consequently, films in which Narayan Dutta gave music are coolly added to the filmography of N.Datta !
NARAYAN DUTTA was born in Bilawas village in Jodhpur state. His father Durgaprasad was the Court Singer (Raj Gayak) with Bikaner king Ganga Singh. Narayan learnt music from his father since childhood. With a desire to sing in Hindi films, like many other such dreamers, he reached the Mayanagari-Bombay in 1946.
He sang his first song for Raj Kapoor in ” Neelkamal”-1947.However the commercial record of this song was made with the composer’s voice- Snehal Bhatkar. Then he sang two songs, one with Geeta and one with Mukesh in Rasili-47. With the help of Kidar Sharma he sang songs in Sehra-48, Gauna-49 and Uddhar-49, in addition to some stunt films of Mohan Pictures, but no records were made.
Somehow, he felt that there was not much scope for singing so he turned to composing and his first film was Mordhwaj-52, followed by Astik-56,Shyam ki Jogan-57,Naya Kadam-58 and Pujarin -72 (in the period 58-72,his few films remained incomplete like Aji bas rahne do, Meerabai, Bhakta Pralhad etc.) Narad Leela-72,Jai Hanuman-73,Seetaram Radheshyam-73, Saraswati-Laxmi-Parvati-75, Sindoor ka Daan-84 and Humse mile tum-86. In addition to these 11 Hindi films, he also gave music to 3 Rajasthani films- Baba Ramdev Peer-63,Mhari Pyari Chanana-83 and Nani Bai ko Bhayro-84.
After films stopped coming, he engaged himself in making NFS based on local folk tunes. He also composed songs for Jain Samaj and Rajneesh Foundation. He established “Sur Tarang” , a school to teach Music.
This talented but unlucky composer died on 16-6-1988. ( Based on an article by Shri Murlidhar Soni ji, in Listener’s Bulletin No. 76 Feb 1989, with thanks and my own notes.)
Here is a song from this film, sung by Shamshad Begum. Enjoy….
Song- Aadhee aadhee raat sainyaan uthh uthh jaagoon re (Shyam Ki Jogan)(1957) Singer-Shamshad Begam, Lyricist-S P Kalla, MD-Narayan Dutt
Lyrics
Aadhee aadhee raat sainyaan
aa aa aa oye
uthh uthh jaagoo re
jaane kya baat piya
man naheen kaaboo re
aadhee aadhee raat sainyaan
uthh uthh jaagoo re
jaane kya baat piya
man naheen kaaboo re
aadhee aadhee raat sainyaan
nainon se poochhaa to
wo sharma gaye
nainon se poochhaa to
wo sharma gaye
dil ne jawaab diya
dil pe koi chhaa gaye
dil ne jawaab diya
dil pe koi chhaa gaye
main kya bataaoon
main to kuchh naheen jaanoon re
jaane kya baat piya
man naheen kaaboo re
aadhee aadhee raat sainyaan
uthh uthh jaagoo re
jaane kya baat piya
man naheen kaaboo re
aadhee aadhee raat sainyaan
kis ko sunaaoon baaten
duniya hai bahree
kis ko sunaaoon baaten
duniya hai bahree
chhaliya jee teree meree
preet hai gahree
chhaliya jee teree meree
preet hai gahree
tere bina main haaye
birhan laagoon re
jaane kya baat piya
man naheen kaaboo re
aadhee aadhee raat sainyaan
uthh uthh jaagoo re
jaane kya baat piya
man naheen kaaboo re
aadhee aadhee raat sainyaan
O Mrignainee Madhubainee Menaka
Posted on: January 26, 2026
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6401 | Post No. : | 19856 |
Mr. Sampat (1952) was produced and directed by S S Vasan under the banner of Gemini Pictures. The film starred Motilal, Padmini, Vanaja, Sundari Bai, Swaraj, Agha, Kanhaiyalal, Badriprasad, Kailash Nath, Ramamurthy, J S Casshyap, B S Kalla etc. The film was adapted from R K Narayan’s novel, ‘Mr. Sampat – Printer of Malgudi’ (1949). It is a satirical film. This was Padmini’s first Hindi film in a lead role while Motilal was in the title role of Mr. Sampat. The film was first made in Tamil in 1948 but R K Narayan made some revision in the story based on which the Hindi version was made.
I have already given the story of the film in some detail while covering one of the film’s songs, laila laila pukaaroon main ban mein. So, I will cover here only the gist of the story which is as under:
Mr. Sampat, (Motilal) sustains himself by coning the people through presenting himself in immaculate western attires with his smooth and humourous talks. He has the power to convince his potential targets with his believable schemes. One of his potential targets is Malini (Padmini), a stage artist who has a good fan base. Simultaneously, he has one more target, Seth Makhanlal Gheewala (Kanhaiyalal) who is standing for a municipal election. Sampat uses Malini in the guise of an interview for a newspaper and brings her at Gheewala’s tea party for her. Because of Malini’s fan base, Gheewala wins the municipal election thus creating a confidence in the ability of Sampat.
With this success, Sampat spells out a scheme, both for Malini and Gheewala to start a bank by offering the customers a high interest rates on deposits. The new bank thrives in its business and attract huge deposits. Raj Mohan (Kailash Nath) from a former royal family member has put a large chunk of deposits in the banks because he has developed infatuation with Malini. For Sampat, things are working nicely as per his plans and he has now improved his status. One day, Malini rejects Raj Mohan’s advances which angers him. He immediately withdraws his entire deposits from the bank. Soon the bank collapses and the entire investments made by Malini and Gheewala are lost. Creditors are queuing up and to meet their demand, Malini’s house is under auction. Knowing that he has nothing to gain now, Sampat leaves them after pocketing Malini’s theatre collections and moves on to select his next potential target for coning. And this time, he has been seen as a godman giving an impressive lecture to his followers.
The film was under production before India became a republic in 1952 and before the first general election took place. So, there was no major corruption and fraudsters cases at the time of making the film. The Haridas Mundra case and much later, Natwarlal’s coning instances came to light only sometime in mid-1950s though he was involved in theft and cheatings during the British Rule. Hence, it is to the credit of story writer, R K Narayan that he could foresee such scenarios which became realities in India in the later years. The film is still relevant and it is for the reason that film is enjoyable to watch even after seven decades from its release. Despite the role of Sampat having some negative shades, Motilal in the title role, has given an excellent performance and has been successful in creating an impression on the audience of his likeable character mainly because of his natural acting.
The film had 13 songs written by Pandit Indra (10) and others (3) which were set to music by Balkrishna Kalla and E Shankar Shastri. All are the stage songs. Surprisingly, not a single song was picturised on Motilal.
Five songs have been represented on the Blog. I present the 6th song, ‘o mrignaini madhubani……o bairaagi banwaasi’ which is tandem song rendered by Talat Mehmood, Shamshad Begum and Geeta Dutt. The soundtrack of the song in the film appears as a continuous song. Due to technical reasons, this song on gramophone records have been released in two parts. Geeta Dutt parts of the song is composed in Baul style, a type of kirtan song, which has been prevalent in Bengal.
This tandem song is a part of the mythological story of Menaka and sage Vishwamitra being staged in a theatre. In the first part of the song, Menaka (Padmini) is directed by Lord Indra () to entice sage Vishwamitra (Ramamurthy) who is on a deep meditation to attain the highest status of a Brahmarishi which can dethrone Lord Indra in heaven. In the second part of the song, Menaka goes from heaven to earth and starts singing and dancing. Towards the end of the song, Menaka is successful in breaking sage Vishwamitra’s meditation and he gets attracted to Menaka.
Incidentally, HFGK shows the song under discussion as two different songs because it has been issued on 78 RPM gramophone records with two different matrix numbers. In the film, it is a continuous but tandem song. Since the theme of both the songs is a part of the same story with continuity in stage performance, I felt that both the songs should form a part of the single post for the better understanding of the context of the song.
Video Clip (Part-1):
Video Clip (Part-2):
Audio Clip (Part-1):
Audio Clip (Part-2):
Song-O mrignainee madhubainee Menaka (Mr Sampat)(1952) Singers-Talat Mehmood, Shamshad Begum/ Geeta Dutt, Lyricist-Pt Indra Chandra, MD-B S Kalla
Chorus
Lyrics:
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Part-1 (Based on Video Clip)
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Devendra dev ki jai jai jai
?? kee jai jai jai
Gajpati Narendra kee jai jai jai
Gajpati Mahendra kee jai
Mahendra kee jai
Mahendra Kee jai
[Dialogues]
o o
mrignaini madhubaini Menaka
tum ho kahaan
tum ho kahaan
swaami ee
o o o o
haazir hoon main naath yahaan
haazir hoon main naath yahaan
haazir hoon main naath yahaan
o o o
mrignaini madhubaini Menaka
tum jaao
tum jaao
o o o
o o
meree laaj aabroo
ab to tumheen bachaao
salonee jaao
tum jaao
ab tajo shok tum swaami naath hamaare
ab tajo shok tum swaami naath hamaare
naath hamaare
sab bade bade brahmchaaree mujhse haare
mujhse haare
main jaaun
main jaaun aur suljhaaoon sabhee samasya
taphaaree kee kar aaoon
bhang tapasyaa
bhang tapasyaa…..aa
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Part-2 (Based on Audio Clip)
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o o o
bairaagee banwaasee..ee
o o o
bairaagee banwaasee ee
charnon kee daasee
darash ko pyaasee
bairaagee banwaasee
o o o
bairaagee banwaasee ee
ab nain khol kar dekh re
ab nain khol kar
ab nain khol kar dekh
dwaar tere chhaayee pooranmaasee
o bairaagee banwaasee
main daaroongee galbaiyaan
tod de maala
main daaroongee galbaiyaan
tod de maala
main apnaa hriday bichhaaoon
phenk mrigchhaala
dho daal bhaal ke bhabhoot
bhagwa taj de
?? ang ang ras bhar le
dho daal bhaal ke bhabhoot
bhagwa taj de
?? ang ang ras bhar le
preet mohse kar le
preet mohse kar le
preet mohse kar le
chhod udaasee
preet mohse kar le
chhod udaasee
o banwaasee
o banwaasee
o banwaasee
Main to aa ke lut gayee
Posted on: January 21, 2026
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6396 | Post No. : | 19841 |
Today’s song is from an imaginary (Kalpanik) film – Hatimtai ki Beti-1955.
The film was produced and directed by Nanubhai Vakil for his own banner Vakil productions, Bombay. Music was by A.R.Qureshi, assisted ably by the yesteryear’s composer, Damodar Sharma. Sharma was one of the well known Music Directors of the early era films. Among the old era MDs, Damodar Sharma was different, in the sense that his songs were always unlike those of his contemporaries. When you hear his songs, you will notice that difference. From 1934 to 1948, he gave music to just 41 films. All his films were C grade films made by Paramount, Liberty, Ramnik Productions, Mohan Pictures and others. After 1948, he stopped getting films, so he worked as assistant to MD A.R.Qureshi till 1964.
The cast of the film included Chitra, Mahipal, Daljit, Krishnakumari, Kamal, Kammo, Heera Sawant, Helen, Ruhi, Tun Tun, Naaz,Maruti, Sunder, Kesari, W.M.Khan and others. The guest artistes were Heeralal, Ram Singh, Al Nasir etc. Lyricists were Shevan Rizvi and Kaifi Azmi.
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Kehtee hoon har baar yahee
Posted on: January 19, 2026
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6394 | Post No. : | 19835 |
“Taajposhi”(1957) was produced by Tejnath Zaar and directed by Dwarka Khosla for Zaar Productions, Bombay. The movie had Shyama, Ranjan, Shammi, Manju, Maruti, Jeevan, Praveen Pal, Bhagwan Sinha, Kanchanmala, Satish Batra, Gopal Vashishtha etc in it. Kammo had a guest appearance in this movie.
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6394 | Post No. : | 19834 |
Today ‘s song is a typical 1950’s Fun song from a Mythological film – Durga Pooja-1954.
The film was produced by Dhirubhai Desai and his son Sharad Desai for their family banner Sharad Productions, Bombay. The director of this film was Dhirubhai Desai. Music Director was a veteran of such films – S.N.Tripathi. He used 4 lyricists for the film’s 10 songs namely, Bharat Vyas (3 songs), G.S.Nepali (2), B.D.Mishra (3) and Saraswati Kumar ‘Deepak’ (2). The cast included Nirupa Roy, Trilok Kapoor, Shahu Modak, Kamal( wife of comedian actor Maruti), Yashodhara Katju, Ratnamala, S.N.Tripathi, Rajkumar Khatri, Indira Bansal, Yashwant Dave etc.
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Umangon ke din beete jaayen
Posted on: November 30, 2025
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6344 | Post No. : | 19655 |
Today’s song is from a musical film – Sunehre Din-1949. The film was directed by Satish Nigam and the wonderful music came from the veteran Gyan Dutt. Lyrics were by D.N.Madhok, Shevan Rizvi and Shekhar, M.A. The cast included Rehana, Raj Kapoor, Nigar Sultana, Ramesh Sinha, Heera Sawant and others. Here is some information on the less known and the least discussed actress cum dancer Heera Sawant.
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Aao re aao re aao aao re
Posted on: November 27, 2025
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6341 | Post No. : | 19646 |
Today’s song is from an eminently forgettable film Ek tha Ladka-1951. The film was produced and directed by Roop Sanwre and the music was handled by 2 MDs- both unknown to most people- Murari Sharma and Rajhans Kataria.
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