Archive for the ‘Songs of 1957’ Category
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.
|
Blog Day : |
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
Kehtee hoon har baar yahee
Posted on: January 19, 2026
This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
|
Blog Day : |
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.
Read more on this topic…
Kar le dil ka sauda dil se
Posted on: January 15, 2026
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.
|
Blog Day : |
6390 | Post No. : | 19818 |
Today’s song is from a costume film Yahudi ki Ladki-1957. The film was produced and directed by S.D.Narang for New oriental Pictures, Bombay. Music was by Hemant Kumar, ably assisted by Ravi, who had already started giving music to films independently since film Vachan-1955. The Lyricist was S.H.Bihari. The film cast included Madhubala, Pradeep Kumar, Gajanan Jahagirdar, Heeralal, Sunder, S.D.Narang, Smriti Biswas, Krishnakant, Helen and many others.
When Talkie films started, films made in Bombay had two major influences. One influence was films made from Calcutta ( in my opinion,every Hindi film coming from Calcutta was like watching a Bangla film with Hindi dialogues,using Bookish Hindi language) and the second influence was that of the Parsee Theatre stories. Parsee Theatre was very active from 1850 to 1930s. With their costumes, sets,stories and dialogues they influenced theatres of all languages of India. Plays were in Gujarati,Hindi,Urdu and English, but its impact was widespread. The Parsee Theatre dramas spread from Bombay to Karachi, Lahore, Dacca, Lucknow, Aligadh, Meerut, Delhi, Calcutta, Jodhpur and Hyderabad. The active theatres lasted till the 40s, but then most big drama companies started film companies like Imperial, Minerva,Wadia and Madan from Calcutta. They borrowed stories from Parsee Shahnama, Arabian Nights, Mahabharat, Shakespeare etc. They employed paid drama writers.
Read more on this topic…
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.
|
Blog Day : |
6386 | Post No. : | 19804 |
Today’s song is from a Muslim Social film Paak Daman-1957.
1957 – what a year it was ! The best year in the Golden Era! The best year in the 50s! The best year for melody and music! Such wonderful films came this year!!! The lineup of 1957 films looks like the selection of the creamy layer in everlasting music – ‘Mother India’, ‘Pyasa’, ‘Tumsa Nahin Dekha’, ‘Bhabhi’, ‘Asha’, ‘Miss Mary’, ‘Naya Daur’, ‘Do Aankhen Barah Haath’, ‘Paying Guest’, ‘Nau Do Gyarah’, ‘Dekh Kabira Roya’. ‘Nausherwaan e Adil ‘, ‘Gateway Of India’, ‘Hum Panchhi Ek Daal Ke ‘, ‘Kathputali’, ‘Sharada’ . . . Films like Baarish, Ab Dilli door nahin, Abhiman, Bada Bhai, Begunah, Beti, Chhote Babu, Coffee House, Dushman, Johnny Walker, Miss Bombay, Miss India, Mr. X, Narsi Bhagat, Paak Daman, Pawanputra Hanuman, Ustad, Zamana.
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.
Read more on this topic…
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.
|
Blog Day : |
6273 | Post No. : | 19414 |
#the Decade of Fifties – 1951 – 1960 #
————————————————
Today’s song is from the movie ‘Amar Singh Rathaur-1957’. This historical genre movie was directed by Jaswant Zaveri for Dinesh Films, Bombay. This movie was passed by the Censor Board on 09.04.1957. Geet kosh mentions that some part of this movie was in colour. The producer of this movie was Gaurishankar Goel. The cast of this movie has Nirupa Roy, Jairaj, Ram Singh, Al Naseer, Ramesh Sinha, Sunder, Murad, Rajkumar, Shree Bhagwan, Ramlal, Sapru, Shyam Lal, Pandey, R.S. Dubey, Devchand, Yashodhara Katju, Ratnamala, Heera, Helen, Veena and others. Meenu Mumtaz had a guest appearance in this movie.
Read more on this topic…
Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
Recent comments