Posts Tagged ‘1948’
Dar dar ki thokaren hain
Posted on: June 3, 2021
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“Ghar Ki Izzat”(1948) was produced and directed by Ram Daryani for Murli Movietone Bombay. The movie had Mumtaz Shanti, Dilip Kumar, Manorama, Jeevan, Dixit, Suleman, Gulab, Gope etc in it. The movie had 12 songs in it. Eight songs have been covered in the past.
Here is the ninth song from “Ghar Ki Izzat”(1948) to appear in the blog. The song is sung by Shamshad Begam. I C Kapur is the lyricist. Music is composed by Pt Govindram.
The song is picturised on Mumtaz Shanti. Lyrics of the song were sent to me by Prakashchandra.
Song-Dar dar ki thokaren hain (Ghar Ki Izzat)(1948) Singer-Shamshad Begam, Lyrics-I C Kapur, MD-Pt Govindram
Lyrics(Provided by Prakashchandra)
dar dar ki ee thokarein hain
dar dar ki ee thokarein hain
dushman meraa jahaan hai ae
dar dar ki ee thokarein hain
dushman meraa jahaan hai ae
phootaa naseeb lekar
jaanaa mujhe kahaan hai ae
phootaa naseeb lekar
jaanaa mujhe kahaan hai ae ae
dar dar ki thokrein hain
bhatkaa huaa hai raahee
hain paaon dagmagaatey ae ae
bhatkaa huaa hai raahee
hain paaon dagmagaatey ae ae
manzil kaa kya thhikaanaa aan aa
rastaa hai na nishaan hai ae ae
manzil kaa kya thhikaanaa aan aa aa
rastaa hai na nishaan hai ae
dar dar ki ee thokarein hain
dushman mera jahaan hai ae
dar dar ki ee thokrein hain
shikwaa kisi se kyaa ho
jab apne huye paraaye
shikwaa kisi se kyaa ho o
jab apne huye ae paraaye aey
na zindagi hai saathi
naa maut meharbaan hai
na zindagi hai saathi ee
na maut meharbaan hai ae
dar dar ki thokarein hain
dushman meraa jahaan hai ae
dar dar ki thokarein hain
Jab Kaali Kaali Raatein Hongi
Posted on: June 1, 2021
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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‘Chanda Ki Chandni’ (1948) was directed by Dwarka Khosla for IA Patel Productions, Bombay. It was a social movie. It had Rehana, Jairaj, Veera, Bilimoria, Shanta, Neelkanth Tiwari, Moni Chatterjee, Pandey, Keshri, Ameer Banu and others.
This movie has nine songs penned by DN Madhok and music was composed by Gyan Dutt. So far, the following five songs from this movie have been posted on the blog.
| Sr.No. | Song Title | Posted on |
| 01 | Chanda ki chaandni hai mauj hai bahaar hai | 07.02.2014 |
| 02 | Ulfat ke dard ka kabhi mazaa lo | 11.03.2014 |
| 03 | Ham ko bhoolaa diya to kya | 16.03.2016 |
| 04 | Jab teri yaad aati hai dil mera bhar bhar aaye | 18.10.2017 |
| 05 | O jaadugar kaahe tihaar gali aaye | 16.07.2020 |
Today we are presenting sixth song from the above movie which is sung by Geeta Roy (later Geeta Dutt) and music is composed by Gyan Dutt. Lyrics are by DN Madhok as mentioned above.
I came across this song long back when I had shared one song each sung by Sulochana Kadam and Geeta Dutt. The today’s song was noted then but it had remained unposted so far.
Let us now enjoy today’s song …
Song – Jab Kaali Kaali Raatein Hongi (Chanda Ki Chaandni) (1948) Singer – Geeta Roy, Lyrics – DN Madhok, MD – Gyan Dutt
Lyrics
jab kaali kaali raatein hongi
jab kaali kaali raatein hongi
dil se dil ki baatein hongi
aur yaad tumhaari aayegi
aur yaad tumhaari aayegi
jab kaali kaali raatein hongi
dil se dil ki baatein hongi
aur yaad tumhaari aayegi
aur yaad tumhaari aayegi
jab aam ki daali dolegi
aur door koyaliya bolegi
aur yaad tumhaari aayegi
aur yaad tumhaari aayegi
jab kaali kaali raatein hongi
dil se dil ki baatein hongi
aur yaad tumhaari aayegi
aur yaad tumhaari aayegi
jab tum hum ko yaad karoge
jab tum hum ko yaad karoge
bhoole se ek aah bharoge
bhoole se ek aah bharoge
jab jhilmil jhilmil taare honge
jab jhilmil jhilmil taare honge
chanda se shokh ishaare honge
chanda se shokh ishaare honge
jab dhak se chhati dhadkegi
aur aankh hamaari phadkegi
aur yaad tumhaari aayegi
aur yaad tumhaari aayegi
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Hindi script lyrics (Provided by Sudhir Kapur)
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जब काली काली रातें होंगी
जब काली काली रातें होंगी
दिल से दिल की बातें होंगी
और याद तुम्हारी आएगी
और याद तुम्हारी आएगी
जब काली काली रातें होंगी
दिल से दिल की बातें होंगी
और याद तुम्हारी आएगी
और याद तुम्हारी आएगी
जब आम की डाली डोलेगी
और दूर कोयलिया बोलेगी
और याद तुम्हारी आएगी
और याद तुम्हारी आएगी
जब काली काली रातें होंगी
दिल से दिल की बातें होंगी
और याद तुम्हारी आएगी
और याद तुम्हारी आएगी
जब तुम हम को याद करोगे
जब तुम हम को याद करोगे
भूले से इक आह भरोगे
भूले से इक आह भरोगे
जब झिलमिल झिलमिल तारे होंगे
जब झिलमिल झिलमिल तारे होंगे
चंदा से शोख इशारे होंगे
चंदा से शोख इशारे होंगे
जब धक से छाती धड़केगी
और आँख तुम्हारी फड़केगी
और याद तुम्हारी आएगी
और याद तुम्हारी आएगी
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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Today’s song is from the film Taqdeer wale-aka- Lucky Friends – 1948. It was a Stunt film, a ‘C’ grade film made by Rajan pictures. The director was S H Tharani and music was composed by Shyam Babu Pathak and Ram Prasad Sharma. The cast of the film was Neelam, Rajan, Habib, Chandrika, Shanta Desai, Fazlu, Putli, Mannan and Maqbool – all typically stunt film regulars !
The 8 songs of this film were written by Indiwar and Muzaffar. Out of these 8 songs, 3 songs were originally recorded for an unreleased film-Parda aka Laparwah, for which Shyam Babu was the MD. Now these 3 songs were included in this film. Today’s song is also one of these “imported” songs from the film Parda. However, the singer’s name for any song is not known.
This is the problem with such small time ‘C’ grade films. Hardly any information is available about them, unless they are made by some prestigious banners like Wadia Movietone. In those times, stunt films were the best possible item to invest money and get sureshot profits. This was because there was a captive audience for stunt films, who were very loyal. Such films also were exhibited in dilapidated, old time theatres in some corner of the town.
According to Master Bhagwan, he used to make a stunt film for 50 to 75 thousand rupees in the 40’s decade. In the early times, i.e. the 30’s decade, a film was made in 15 to 30 thousand rupees. Of course in those days, living was much cheaper and the value of Rupee was also high. The same 30000 rupees would be equivalent to 6+ Lakhs today at current inflation rates, as per Mr. Google ji. Imagine even in 1963, a state Govt. Clerk’s starting salary was Basic 80 + DA 30 = 110 rupees total. Today a clerk starts at Rs. 33000, but he has the same difficulty in living a life as his counterpart had in 1963 – thanks to inflation !
Director S H Tharani had 5 films to his name as a Director- Stage Girl-47, Black Market-47, Taqdeerwale-48, Achhaji-50 and Azmaish-52. In 1954, I found one H S Tharani (his son ?) who had directed only the film Fujiyama-54.
Out of the cast, I found an interview of the heroine actress Neelam, which gives some information about her.
” Neelam, whose real name is Leticia Ferns, is a devout Roman Catholic and, to her, religion is the sheet-anchor which has given her strength and confidence to face many difficulties during her struggle for success. Dusky, limpid-eyed Neelam is the only film star of Bombay whose earliest ambition was to become a nun!
Born in Mangalore, Neelam was brought to Bombay when only one year old, and was educated at the Gloria High School where she did her matric. Right from her school days, Neelam was a serious and thoughtful girl and never indulged in fancy dreams of becoming a film star. She was happiest when attending her religion classes and she thought she would like to dedicate her life to the service of God. Her grandmother, however, wouldn’t hear of it. She did not want her pretty, talented grandchild to submit herself to the strict, austere life of a nun and promptly vetoed the idea.
There upon Neelam, who loves children and likes nothing better than to be with a roomful of kids, took up a position as a teacher in St. Teresa’s School. A year later, however, she found a better job with the Telephone Company, and quit teaching. It was here that Neelam, like a few of other filmland colleagues, made contacts which completely changed the placid routine of her everyday life.
She met several film personalities while working with the Telephone Company: Meena Shorey, Mumtaz Shanti, Sheila (who used to appear in Sohrab Modi’s films). Husn banoo and her mother, Sharifa. At the time, Neelam was always dressed in a frock, or a skirt, and blouse, but every one noticed her fresh, youthful looks, her trim figure and her charm and vivacity.
One day, Director S.M. Yusuf spotted her and insisted that she play the lead in “Chini Jadugar,” a “semi-stunt” picture. At first, Neelam was bewildered by the offer. She had never dreamt of a film career and when the chance to gain fame and make big money was thrust upon her, she didn’t know how to deal with it. She knew that her family would never approve of her taking up this “most dubious” of professions.
But a pretty, young girl cannot always resist a glamorous and luxurious life and the opportunity to be seen and admired by thousands of people. Neelam decided to take the plunge, come what may. She had accumulated a lot of leave at the office and, taking advantage of it, she started to work in “Chini Jadugar” without telling her family anything about it.
Neelam completed her role in the picture and then quietly went back to the routine of everyday life. Then the secret was out. A photograph of hers appeared in “The Times of India” and there was commotion in the Ferns family.
By this time, Neelam had finally decided she wanted to remain in films and when her people raised objections she said that she would utilize part of the money she earned to maintain an orphanage. In the selection of her screen name she was guided by her friend, Meena, who had played the title role in a file called Neelam (1945).
After her role in “Chini Jadugar”-47, she worked in Wali’s “Padmini”-48, Taqdeerwalw-48, and was later asked to dance in Nargis Art Concerns’ “Romeo and Juliet.” But although she did not work in this picture she formed a fruitful association. She met Nargis and her mother, the late Jaddanbai. The latter took a tremendous liking to Neelam and groomed her with loving care. Sadly, Neelam says, “I miss her love and kindness. She was like a mother to me. I can say that I ‘woke up’ in her lap, because it was with her help that I saw life and learnt how to face it.”
For four years, Neelam spent most of her time with Jaddanbai who helped her find roles in “Anjuman,”-48, “Darogaji,”-049, “Pyar ki Baatien” -51, Bewafaa-52, Chori chori-55,and Bewaqoof-60. She worked in about 20 films or so.
True to her promise to her family, Neelam spent most of her money in looking after children whom she took from destitute mothers. Her innate love of children made this task a pleasant one for her. Neelam adopts children of all communities and personally attends to their education and general upbringing. At one time, when she could afford it, she adopted nine children, eight girls and one boy, and looked after them until they grew up and were able to look after themselves or were helped to pursue higher education.
As each lot of children passed on from her home, Neelam, even with her slender resources, continued to take in more each time. At present she has five children under her care. She and her brood of happy kids kneel down to pray every night, a practice which Neelam never misses.
Yet, the religious streak in her does not prevent Neelam from enjoying life to the hilt as most girls of her age do. She enjoys going to, and giving, parties and loves ballroom dancing. Her main recreation is reading – “novels, mostly” – and her favorite sport is swimming. Like most members of her sex, she loves to “just sit around and gossip,” although she likes people too much to be malicious about them.
Apart from looking after her own home, and her five little ones, she still takes the responsibility of supporting part of her family – a duty which she feels she owes to them. Her film career has not been a grand success in terms of fame and wealth, but this has not impaired her gay and carefree outlook on life.”
( Courtesy Cineplot: This interview was conducted in October 1954, contributed by Sudarshan Talwar).
Another name from the cast is Putli….very little information is available about her too. Mothers and daughters acted as leading ladies in the same era….Miss Putli or Putlibai and Miss Gohar Mamajiwala (the term Miss was used not merely to state the marital status of the leading ladies of those days)….
Like Miss Sharifa and Husna Banu , Putli and Gohar were mother and daughter. Putli was an accomplished actress of the silent screen who entered effortlessly in the Talkies because of her extraordinary singing talents. Gohar was born in 1910 and entered the screen in 1926, whereas her mother Miss Putli too entered more or less the same time. Information about Miss Putli is very limited. However, Gohar became India’s popular iconic star and is still remembered today.
Miss Putli acted in 33 Talkie films. Her first Talkie was Ratan Manjiri-35 and her last film was Dhoke baaz-46. She sang one song each in the film Lehri Badmash-44 and Dhokebaaz-46.
The Music Director Shyam Babu Pathak was born in 1908 at Gwalior. His music tuition started when he was just 7 years old. He studied in Madhav Sangeet Vidyalaya, under Raja Bhaiya Poonchhwale, Narayan Gupte and Bhatkhande etc. He became an excellent singer and was invited by several Royal houses all over India, for singing. Even V D Paluskar had blessed him. Strangely, though a good singer, he never sang a song in any film.
While touring all over India for Music Mehfils, he learnt many folk songs and tunes. This actually prompted him to join films as a composer. His first film was Royal Commander-1938 – a B grade Costume drama film made by Vishnu Cinetone. In his first film, for just 9 songs, he used as many as 6 different singers. Minimum songs had been his specialty. This was a novelty in the 30s, when the norm was on an average of 12 to 15 songs each film.
V M Vyas of Vishnu Cinetone, was impressed with him and he gave him many films. He got Rani saheba-40, Torpedo-40, Samsheerbaz-40, Malan-42 and Ghar sansar-42. He gave good songs sung by Kalyani, Sardar Akhtar and Kajjan. In Lajwanti-42, his songs were light and comedy type. By now, he had become a confirmed Stunt/action and B/C grade composer. Pyara watan-42,Double face-46 were such films. Double face was Indivar’s first film.
Black Market-47, Namak-47, krishna Sudama-47 and Kismatwali-47 were not much help. Takdirwale-48 with Ramprasad, Imtihan-49 and Ret Mahal-49 led him to film Jeet-49 with Anil Biswas. Actually,it seems Anil Biswas took over when Pathak left the film halfway.
After Janmashtami-50 and Achha ji-50, came Preet ka geet-50.Famous poet Harikrishna Premi wrote the songs, which were sung by Mukesh, Geeta and Johra. Next film Hamari Duniya-52 had good Lata songs. Meanwhile his film Parda remained unreleased. In the last phase of his career, came Sapna-52, Vanraj-52, Bombay Central-60 and finally, film Mehbooba-65 closed his career. In all he composed 224 songs in 29 films. He even sang a song in the film Krishna Sudama-47.
So, here is a song from the film Taqdeerwale-48, which makes a Debut on the Blog. Singer’s name is not known but I liked the song. Thanks to Ajay Jain ji (US) for the song and Sadanand Kamath ji for uploading it for me.
Song – Mujhe wakt-e-Namaaz yaad jo aayee teri (Taqdeerwaale)(1948) Singer-Unknown female voice, Lyricist- Indivar, MD- Shyam Babu Pathak
Lyrics
Mujhe wakt-e-Namaaz yaad jo aayee teri
Mujhe wakt-e-Namaaz yaad jo aayee teri
khuda ko bhool ke ratt maine lagaayi teri ee
khuda ko bhool ke ratt maine lagaayi teri ee
Mujhe wakt-e-Namaz yaad jo aayee teri ee ee
misaale sirq e chashm(?) toone nikaala mujhko
misaale sirq e chashm(?) toone nikaala mujhko
meri aankhon mein phir bhi shakl samaayi teri
meri aankhon mein phir bhi shakl samaayi teri
Mujhe wakt-e-Namaz yaad jo ayee teri ee ee
deen o duniya se gaya
aa aa aa aa aa aa aa aa
koi nayi baat nahin
khuda se bhi juda
karti hai judaayi teri ee
khuda se bhi juda
karti hai judaayi teri ee
Mujhe wakt-e-Namaaz yaad jo aayee teri ee
aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa
qasoor teri kashish ka hai gunaah mera nahin een
qasoor teri kashish ka hai gunaah mera nahin een
aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa
gar main ?? kahoon gaa aa aa
dil ki duhaayi teri ee
gar main ?? kahoon gaa aa aa
dil ki duhaayi teri ee
Mujhe wakt-e-Namaaz yaad jo aayee teri ee ee
Aag dil mein lagaaye baithhe hain
Posted on: March 5, 2021
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
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Today’s song is a rare song, from an unknown film Suhagi-48. Yes, the title is Suhagi and NOT Suhag. It is rather an unusual and misleading title. There is a cluster of titles around the word Suhag. There were 4 films as Suhag and also 4 films as Suhagan. There was a film Suhag raat ke Pehle and then there were 3 films as Suhag Raat. 2 films as Suhag Sindoor. There were two films with funny titles like Suhag ka Daan and Suhag ka Balidan. And among all this cluster poor film Suhagi was hidden in a corner !
Made by Blue art pictures, the film was directed by A.Shakoor, who directed only one more film in his career- Paayal-48, also made by the same banner. Film Suhagi was produced by Ismaile Devjee and the MD was Shaukat Dehlavi.
1948 was an year in which all the industries-including film industry- were trying to come back to normalising their businesses. The new government had not yet changed any laws and rules, so there was peace on all fronts. The Black money which was being poured into making films was now used by Politicians and thus the film industry was almost back to genuine producers and filmmakers. Most of the famous studios were on the verge of ending the studio system and studio culture. Some big names like New Theatres, Prabhat, Sagar, Ranjit were now mere shadows of their earlier powerful existence.
While film makers lost an important topic of Patriotism( in a garb), they now concentrated on Indian culture, Mythology, History, Family values, Joint family importance, literacy and such development themes. This changed the face of films. However, stories based on Folk tales, Religion and Kings-Queens and evil Wazirs still continued with public patronage. Raj Kapoor emerged as a Director, Ashok Kumar became a middle aged Hero, Dilip and Dev prospered with love stories and young themes. Older Heroes, Heroines, Directors and character artistes started vanishing and a new crop of actors etc took over their mantle. Music was changing its tunes. Melody ruled over Lyrics now and Naushad, C Ramchandra, H-B, S – J, Madan Mohan and the likes of them started making names and films.
One major event that happened in 1948, was the entry of Southern producers into Hindi heartland, with a Bang, when S S Vasan brought his Magnum-Opus- ” Chandralekha”, with more than 600 prints for All Indfia release. The extraordinary success of this film paved the way of other big production houses of South, like AVM, L V Prasad etc. to push their Hindi remakes of successful Southern films into the Hindi markets all over India.
For the MD Shoukat Dehlavi of film Suhagi, it was only his second film as an MD. Do you know who this MD was ? He used 5 different names to compose music to 29 films in his career spanning from 1947 to 1965 in India. He composed 203 songs and also sang 3 songs in 3 films namely, Dildar-47, Aiye-49 and Baradari-55. His 5 names were 1. Shoukat Dehlavi, 2. Shoukat Hussain Dehlavi 3. Shoukat Ali 4. Shoukat Haidari and finally he took a permanent new name 5. NASHAAD.
I can remember only one more artiste who had 5 names in her life. She was known as Qamar Sultana, Indira, Indu, Jaijaywanti and AMEETA !
After Partition, there was a rush to migrate to Pakistan and artists continued to shift there from 47 to almost 1950. Some artistes like Noorjehan left immediately. There were few cases where some people borrowed money from friends and then left the country quietly, leaving the money lender high and dry. By about 49-50, almost everything was settled on both sides. The conditions in Lahore and Karachi had stabilised considerably for film making and lots of opportunities existed for film artistes there by mid 50s. That led to a second wave of migration to Pakistan at that time. Those who had continued in India completed their assignments here and went to Pakistan.
This type of Migration continued till almost mid 60s, when actor Kumar, MD Naashaad, producer actor Shaikh Mukhtar etc migrated to Pakistan. For the lucky ones, the talented ones and those who had preexisting ties in Pakistan sustained, prospered and were happy, but a few artistes suffered heavily. Once a popular Heroine, Meena Shorey, one of the most handsome actors of his times-Najmul Hasan and the hopeful Shaikh Mukhtar spent their last days in utter neglect, penury, disillusionment and sorrow. Actors like Noor Mohammed Charlie regretted their decision to migrate, but it was too late.
One of the later migrants was NASHAD, music director,who shifted in 1963 or so.
NASHAD was born as Shaukat Haidari,in Delhi,on 11-7-1923. He completed his schooling in Delhi, where he learnt playing the flute. He came to Bombay and worked as assistant/helper to many composers, learning to play different instruments. He even worked as assistant to Ghulam Haider and Naushad.
He was one composer who used several names to give music. His first film was Dildar in 1947. He used the name Shaukat Dehlavi for Dildar-47, Paayal-48, Suhagi-48, Dada-49, Ghazab-51 and Ram Bharose-51. He was Shaukat Hussain Dehlavi for Jeene do-48, Shaukat Ali for Toote Tarey-48 and Shaukat Haidari for Aiye-49.
He was considered a mediocre composer in India. Then one day he was called by producer Nakshab Jarchvi,who offered him a film,with a condition that he changed his name to Nashad. He accepted the offer and used the name Nashad throughout his life. After him his 15 children too used Nashad as their surname.
Nakshab Jarachavi wanted to make a film. Those days Naushad was the Top composer. Films were sold on his name. Naushad worked only for Top banners. Nakshab approached him and offered his film. Naushad scornfully said,” Hum kisi aire gaire ki film ko music nahi detey”. This infuriated Nakshab no end and he challenged Naushad that he will make another Naushad in the industry. He called the comparatively less known but talented Shaukat Haidari,changed his name to NASHAD (to resemble Naushad’s name) and gave him the film.
Nashad, on his part, tried very hard and gave the music to film Naghma. It was,though not like Nashad’s standard, but excellent songs were there and the film became a hit due to its music. Unfortunately, Nashad could not repeat his success again ever in India. As Nashad he gave music to 21 films (total 30 films),like Bara Dari, Bada Bhai, Naghma, Char chaand, Kaatil Jawab, Sabse bada Rupiah, Rooplekha, Darwaza etc
Nashad gave their first hindi movie singing breaks to Mubarak begum, Suman Kalyanpur and Sabita Banerjee.
His friend Nakshab Jarachavi had migrated to Pakistan after 1947 and was making films there. He called Nashad to Pakistan as a composer for his film Maikhana-64 (after his film Fanoos also crashed at the Box office in Pakistan). Nashad accepted his offer. Before leaving , Nashad married singer Premlata and both went to Pakistan. His first film became a major hit and Nashad was on top. He gave music to 64 films in Pakistan.
Nashad died in Lahore on 3-1-1981.
While in India, Nashad was always accused of plagiarism, to which he answered through an interview to Filmfare, dated 5th August 1955, ( Thanks to Cineplot) thus….
” Although no one says it to my face, I know that there is a section in the film industry who decry my music as “a rehash of familiar tunes.”
This amounts to a charge of plagiarism.I have no defense, no apology, to offer, except to say that, if I am a plagiarist, I am one unconsciously.
With only seven main notes, six ragas, thirty-six raginis and seventy-two sub-raginis, every “new” musical composition is bound to sound familiar in places.
Try to hum any popular film composition of today and then cast back your mind. Make a careful search for a parallel and you will easily find one in some celebrated songs of yesterday.I believe in popular music, music which people will like, humming and singing it in their homes—in moments of joy or sorrow. I try my-best to keep my compositions free from complicated “alaps,” “tans” and those notational cascades which the man-in-the-street (who has no musical training) cannot easily remember and hum.
Film music, to be good and popular, must always be the result of team-work. The ego of the music-director as well as that of the lyric-writer needs to be suppressed completely, even to the extent of accepting suggestions from everyone in the unit.
In the music of one of my forthcoming films, the appeal of the songs owes much to suggestions made by the producer and members of his staff. One of the tunes owes its origin to an air I heard the office-boy humming!
The producer was no professional musician, but I discarded two of my best tunes to fit in a completely different third one based on his suggestions.
I am glad that I do not live in an ivory tower and am not deaf to the music of ordinary people, I say to myself : “If this is the kind of music they love, it is absurd to give them a high-brow composition. Both in rhythm and structure, I stick rigorously to what is popular, even at the sacrifice of my own preferences.Such film music can be planned scientifically and with precision. My first job usually is to sit with the director and determine the musical “situations”. Once these are agreed upon, I start composing the melodies, in harmony with the “mood” of those situations. Then the lyricist writes the words of the approved tune.
After the song has been recorded, our work is ended and it now depends on the director to make or mar it in his picturisation of it. This, indeed, is a hurdle all film music must take.
Everyone has listened to film songs which sound good on the radio, yet have been “murdered” by poor picturisation. Everyone, too, has heard songs which on the air have sounded mediocre and of no particular merit, yet have been things of beauty in the film—thanks to clever directorial work. A really good song, given to a good director to picturise, seldom fails to go over in a big way with the public.
It is thus necessary for a music director to be careful in signing his contracts. It is important to him to make sure that the film for which he is employed to provide music will be directed by a competent man, so that not only are his songs not “murdered” in transcription to the screen but any possible shortcomings in them are glossed over by good picturisation.
Consequently I have always studied the directors of the films for which I am to provide music. One knows that one’s songs are safe with them and gain in appeal from attractive picturisation.
To these men, too, my tunes often sound “vaguely familiar”! But, then, what tune doesn’t ?
With only seven notes, six ragas, thirty-six raginis—but we’ve just gone over that! ”
Film Suhagi-48 had a starcast of Begum Para, Manorama, Sadiq Ali, Badri prashad, Jilloobai, Abu Bakar etc. The word Suhagi means ‘ Lucky ‘. However the name benefit does not seem to be got by the film, as it was not a famous or popular film.
I have no idea about the story of this film. From its ad.s in Film India, I guess the story was about a family’s bahu who is Lucky after marriage. Today’s song is sung by Rajkumari. With this song, film Suhagi-48 makes its Debut on our Blog.
Song-Aag dil mein lagaaye baithe hain (Suhagi)(1948) Singer- Raj Kumari Dubey, Lyricist- Not known, MD- Shaukat Dehalvi
Lyrics
Aag dil mein lagaye baithe hain
Aag dil mein lagaye baithe hain
apni duniya aa aa aa
apni duniya lutaayye baithhe hain
haaye
Aag dil mein lagaye baithe hain
haaye majbooriyaan
haaye majbooriyaan muhabbat ki
haaye majbooriyaan muhabbat ki
unko apna banaaye baithhe hain
apni duniya lutaayye baithhe hain
haaye
Aag dil mein lagaye baithe hain
toone kya kya aa aa
kya kya
toone kya kya sitam kiye hum par r
toone kya kya sitam kiye hum par r
yaad hai par bhulaaye baithhe hain
apni duniya lutaayye baithhe hain
haaye
Aag dil mein lagaye baithe hain
ashq aankhon mein hai
haaye ae
ashq aankhon mein hai
labon pe se haan
labon pe se haan
aan aan
dard dil mein dabaaye baithhe hain
dard dil mein dabaaye baithhe hain
haaye
aag dil mein lagaaye baithhe hain
aag dil mein lagaaye baithhe hain aen aen
Tu chanda main chaandni
Posted on: January 24, 2021
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“Papiha Re”(1948)was produced by Kuldeep Sahgal and directed by Dawood Chand for Kuldeep Pictures, Bombay. The movie had Amarnath, Akhtari, Pran, Asha Posley, Mumtaz Begum, G N Butt etc in it.
The movie had 12 songs in it. One song has been covered in the past.
Here is the econd song from “Papiha Re”(1948) to appear in the blog. This song is sung by Zeenat Begam and Dhaniram. Lyrics are by Mulkraj Bhakri. Music is composed by Dhaniram ho as making his debut as a music director ith this movie.
Only the audio of the song is available. I request our knoledgeable readers to thro light on the picturisation of this song.
Song-Tu chanda main chaandni (Papiha Re)(1948) Singers-Zeenat Begam, Dhaniram, Lyrics-Mulkraj Bhakri, MS-Dhaniram
Both
Lyrics
Tu chanda main chaandni ee
tu chanda main chaandni
ho tera mera
mera tera
janm janm ka saath
haath pakadkar chhod na dena
rahe haath mein haath
hamaara rahe haath mein haath
tu chanda main chaandni ee
main baaghon ki morni
main baaghon ki morni
aur tu ghata ghanghor
main sajan teri baawri
aur tu mera chitchor
main pyaasi ik boond hoon saajan
main pyaasi ik boond hoon saajan
tu meri barsaat
haath pakadkar chhod na dena
rahe haath mein haath
hamaara rahe haath mein haath
tu chanda main chaandni ee
ho o o
aan basi tu dil mein mere
ho o o
aan basi tu dil mein mere
jaise phool mein baagh
in nainon ko o
en nainon ko
hardam laagi tere daras ki pyaas
tere bina mohe kuchh na bhaaye
tere bina mohe kuchh na bhaaye
bhool gaya har baat
haath pakadkar chhod na dena
rahe haath mein haath
hamaara rahe haath mein haath
tu chanda main chaandni ee
>milke na bichhden do dil saajan
aisa ho jaaye pyar
bhool ke bhi patjhad na aaye
hardam rahe bahaar
hum tum donon jab mil baithen
hum tum dono jab mil baithhen
rahe sada phir saath
haath pakadkar chhod na dena
rahe haath mein haath
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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Today 5th January’2021 is the thirty-nineth ‘Remembrance Anniversary’ of music director C. Ramchandra (12.01.1918 – 05.01.1982) also known by the names of Anna Saheb and Chitalkar.
On this occasion here is song composed by him from the 1948 movie ‘Jalan’.
One song of ‘Jalan-1948’ have been posted on the blog on. Today’s song was noted by me more than six years back now. I had noted two songs then, the earlier posted one (which missed from my score 😊) and the today’s song. I like both the songs and particularly the today’s song. I think this one has been a forgotten gem.
Today’s song is also sung by Lalita Deulkar.
‘Jalan-1948’ was directed by Bhagwan for ‘Chandni Chitra, Bombay’. It was a ‘stunt movie’. It had Baburao, Bhagwan, Vasant Rao, Azim Bhai, Kanti Lal Ratan, Deepak, Deepak, Balaram, Yashwant, Mirajkar, Usha Shukla, Gaffar, Chanchala, Prema Lokre, Haresh Palav and others.
This movie had six songs written by Ehsan Rizvi and composed by Anna Saheb (or C. Ramchandra).
HFGK Vol-II (1941-1950) lists the songs as under;
| S.No. | Song Title | Singers Posted On | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Aaj basaa nain mere pyaar nayaa | Gandhari, Chitalkar, chorus | ||
| 02 | Bataa do bataa do koi | Lalita Deulkar | 14.11.2016 | |
| 03 | Neer bhare morey nain sajanwa | Lalita Deulkar | ||
| 04 | Jawaani hoti hai gaarat muhabbat aajmaane mein | Chitalkar | ||
| 05 | Nazar mili tum bhi miley, ham bhi miley | Lalita Deulkar, Chitalkar | ||
| 06 | Zaraa mere dil se poochho, mere dil ka afsaana | Lalita Deulkar |
Though I have not listened the other four songs from this movie, I am sure that they also must be good compositions, particularly when the music is by C. Ramchandra.
Let us now enjoy today’s song…
Song-Zara mere dil se poochho mere dil ka afsaana (Jalan)(1948) Singer-Lalita Deulkar, Lyrics-Ehsan Rizvi, MD-C Ramchandra
Lyrics
Zaraa mere dil se poochho
Zaraa mere dil se poochho
Mere dil ka afsaana
Zaraa mere dil se poochho
Zaraa mere dil se poochho
Mere dil ka afsaana
udi aankh se neendein lekin
Tumne kuchh na jaana
Udi aankh se neendein lekin
Tumne kuchh na jaana
Zaraa mere dil se poochho
Zaraa mere dil se poochho
Mere dil ka afsaana
Din to katen yaad mein lekin
Katen na lambi raaten aen aen aen aen
Din to katen yaad mein lekin
Katen na lambi raaten
Hansi hamaare honthon par hain
Nainon mein barsaatein
Hansi hamaare honthon par hain
Nainon mein barsaatein
Main na jaanoon samjhaana
Aur tum na jaano samajhna
Main na jaanoon samjhaana
Aur tum na jaano samajhna
Zaraa mere dil se poochho
Zaraa mere dil se poochho
Mere dil ka afsaana
Preet ki reet na jaane koyi
Kya keh kar samjhaaun un un un un un
Preet ki reet na jaane koyi
Kya keh kar samjhaaun
Dil tode jhankaar na samjhe
Kaisa geet sunaaun
Dil tode jhankaar na samjhe
Kaisa geet sunaaun
Yahi soch kar sharmaaun main
Kaise bhed bataana
Yahi soch kar sharmaaun main
Kaise bhed bataana
Zaraa mere dil se poochho
Zaraa mere dil se poochho
Mere dil ka afsaana
Zaraa mere dil se poochho
Mere dil ka afsaana
Aa jaa papeehe geet sunaa de
Posted on: November 23, 2020
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Today 23rd November’2020 is ninetieth birth anniversary of singer Geeta Dutt (born on 23rd November’1930).
She passed away on 20th July 1972 at the age of forty-one only. Reading her life story stirs the heart even today, and the Hindi Film Industry and Hindi Film Music will always feel sad for losing her so early.
Geeta Dutt was one of the legendary singers of yesteryears and sang many for Hindi film, Bengali films. Also, she sang many non-filmy Hindi and Bengali songs.
I will not go into her detailed biography or whatever has been written about her on this blog earlier. And, also, I will not mention her songs which are my favorite and those I like very much. That will be a long list. Today I would only like to pay my tributes to her with a song from an unreleased movie ‘Hamraaz’.
This movie is said to be made somewhere in between ‘1941-1950’.
I had come across songs of this movie in 2014 and had then shared fours songs from this movie to our editors then. At that time the year of this movie was mentioned as ‘1950’ on some links and ‘1940’ on others so it was not clear.
However, somehow the movie remains still to be launched on the blog in the ‘rush’ of other priorities.
When I had initially shared the songs from this movie, I was not having its detailed information, but now with the help of HFGK Vol-II (1941-1950) we can have this brief about this movie.
HFGK Vol-II 91941-1950) lists this movie as ‘Un-released’ movie of ‘1941-1950’.
On page number 607 – Appendix-1 Movie number 1214 this movie is mentioned as presented by ‘Rahnuma Pictures’.
However, its star cast and director is not mentioned. Music director is mentioned as Shankar Lal.
Lyricist names are mentioned as Shyam Hindi and Kamran Momin.
The list mentions total eight songs in this movie.
| S. No | Song Title | Lyricist |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | Ga re manwaa gaa | Shyam Hindi |
| 02 | Ghoonghat mein sharmaaye dulhaniya | Kamran Momin |
| 03 | Baat kuchh aisi wah hamse kah gaye | Shyam Hindi |
| 4 | Cham cham chamken taare | Shyam Hindi |
| 05 | In do matwaale nainon mein | — |
| 06 | Aabaad hai saraa jahaan | Shyam Hindi |
| 07 | Khushi chaaron taraf chhaayi | Shyam Hindi |
| 08 | Aa jaa papeehe geet sunaa re | Kamran Momin |
Some links of the songs shared earlier are fortunately available but for one song that I shared the link is no longer available now.
As mentioned above today we will listen to a song sung by Geeta Dutt, written by Kamran Momin and composed by Shankar Lal.
With this song the movie ‘Hamraaz (UR)-1941-1950 makes its debut on the blog and joins its ‘ham-naam’ ‘Hamraaz-1968’ 😊 on the blog.
Remembering Geeta Dutt. Let us now listen to the song of today…
Song-Aa jaa papeehe geet suna de (Hamraaz)(UR)(1948) Singer-Geeta Dutt, Lyrics-Kamran Momin, MD-Shankar Lal
Lyrics
aa ja aa aa aa
aa jaa
aa ja aa aa aa
aa jaa
aa ja papeehe
geet sunaa re
ro ro birhan rain guzaare
aa ja aa
aa ja aa aa aa
aa jaa
yaad kisi ki jab aa jaaye
yaad kisi ki jab aa jaaye
hook uthhe man tadpaa jaaye
hook uthhe man tadpaa jaaye
neer bahaaye nain bechaare
aa ja aa
aa ja aa aa aa
aa jaa
saajan bairee saara zamaana
saajan bairee saara zamaana
aise mein tum bhool na jaana
aise mein tum bhool na jaana
thhaame jigar ginti hoon sitaare
aa ja aa
aa ja aa aa aa
aa jaa
jeewan naiyya dagmag dole
jeewan naiyya dagmag dole …
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Devnagri Script lyrics (Provided by Avinash Scrapwala)
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आ जा आ आ आ
आ जा
आ जा आ आ आ
आ जा
आ जा पपीहे
गीत सुना दे
रो रो बिरहन रैन गुज़ारे
आ जा आ
आ जा आ आ आ
आ जा
याद किसी की जब आ जाए
याद किसी की जब आ जाए
हूक उठे मन तडपा जाए
हूक उठे मन तडपा जाए
नीर बहाए नैन बेचारे
आ जा
आ जा आ आ आ
आ जा
साजन बैरी सारा ज़माना
साजन बैरी सारा ज़माना
ऐसे में तुम भूल न जाना
ऐसे में तुम भूल न जाना
थामे जिगर गिनती हूँ सितारे
आ जा आ
आ जा आ आ आ
आ जा
जीवन नैय्या डगमग डोले
जीवन नैय्या डगमग डोले …
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“Gopinath”(1948) was produced by Brij Kishore Agrawal and directed by Mahesh Kaul for Shanti Lok Chitra Production, Bombay. The movie had Raj Kapoor, Tripti Mitra, Nand Kishore, Latika, Sachin Ghosh, Anwari Bai, Feroz, Niranjan Tiwari, Mahesh Kaul, Randhir, Baby Zubeida etc in it.
This “social” movie had nine songs in it that were penned by three lyricists namely Soordas, Meerabai and Rammurty Chaturvedi. Two of the three “lyricists”, viz Soordas, Meerabai lived hundreds of years ago and their creations could be used without any need to pay any royalties to their descendants.
Three songs have been covered in the past.
Here is the fourth song from “Gopinath”(1948) to appear in the blog. This song is sung by Shamshad Begam. Rammurthy Chaturvedi is the lyricist. Music is composed by Ninu Majumdar.
Audio as well as video of the song is available. The video has the word Latika printed over it. I wonder if that tells us the name of the lady lip syncing the song. One can see a very young Raj Kapoor playing the patron of the lady.
Video
Audio
Song-Bahutero samjhaaya ree laakhan baar(Gopinath)(1948) Singer-Shamshad Begam, Lyrics-Rammurty Chaturvedi, MD-Ninu Majumdar
Lyrics
aa aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aaaa
aa aa aa aa
aa
bahutero samajhaayo ree laakhan baar
bahutero samajhaayo ree laakhan baar
ho laakhan baar
ho laakhan baar
laakhan baar
bahutero samajhaayo ree laakhan baar
bahutero samajhaayo ree laakhan baar
laakh kahi mori ee ee
laakh kahi mori
ek nahin maani
ek nahin maani
ek nahin maani
laakh kahi mori ek nahin maani
samajh samajh pachhataayo ree laakhan baar
samajh samajh pachhataayo ree
samajh pachhtaayo ree
samajh pachhtaayo ree
laakhan baar
bahutero
bahutero samajhaayo ree laakhan baar
bahutero samajhaayo ree laakhan baar
ho laakhan baar
ho laakhan baar
laakhan baar
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