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Beet gaya beet gaya Prabhu Raam ka raaj re

Posted by: Atul on: September 3, 2025

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Today’s song is from an unknown film of 1948 – Adalat-1948.

1948 was an year when the filmmakers breathed a sigh of relief, because now there was no restriction on making films openly on our Independence efforts or having songs of patriotism and Indian culture.

Film Shaheed made by Filmistan was based on the 1942 Quit India Movement. This was Dilip Kumar’s first Hit film.

Bombay Talkies made Majboor on the exit of the British from India. There was a song also describing it.

Internationally famous dancer Uday Shankar made ‘Kalpana’ glorifying different dances of india. It ran well in Calcutta, but other places it had a lukewarm reception.

Suhag Raat by Kidar Sharma -his best in career- presented Geeta Bali (who resembled his wife Kamla Chaterjee), as a Heroine for the first time. She too did justice to her role.

Raj Kapoor established his RK Studio and made Aag with 3 heroines- Nargis, Kamini Kaushal and Nigar Sultana. He did not match them, but managed well with good songs.

Another Dilip film Mela was full of melodious songs. Suraiya’s Pyar ki jeet too was a musical.

Chandralekha from the South created history with its impressive challenge to Hindi films. Lavishly made and released with over 600 prints all over India at the same time it indicated the future competition from southern films !

Dev Anand’s Vidya and Ziddi made an impression.

Kishore Kumar sang his first song in Ziddi. Asha Bhosle sang her first solo in Chunaria.

Anokhi Ada with veteran Naseem and Surendra was successful.

Grihasthi, Pagdi, Gopinath, Nadiya ke Paar etc were other notable films.

Among these famous and hit films, a film made with artists who were unknown to Hindi film audiences had no chance to succeed. Additionally, the film had nothing unusual about it…story, music, songs or anything else It was the first film with this title. Later on came the more famous and successful film Adalat in 1958 and then Adalat in 1976.

This film was produced by Mangal Pictures. It was directed by Vasant Joglekar and the music was provided by Datta Davjekar, for songs written by Mahipal and Narendra Sharma. Yes, he is the same Mahipal who became a regular feature in 131 Hindi Stunt, Action, Costume, Historical and Mythological films. Incidentally, Adalat-48 was Mahipal’s last film as a Lyricist. he wrote 13 songs in 4 Hindi films.

The cast of the film was Baburao Pendharkar (brother of Bhalji Pendharkar),Salvi, Jog, Madgulkar, Jaysingh, Saroj Borkar, Sudha Apte, Nalini Dhere, Shalini and Rajan (Jawale). The cast, MD, Director all singers except Mohd.Rafi were Marathi people. Most of them are unknown to Hindi audiences.

Jaysingh was the son of director Bhalji Pendharkar, from his first wife. From his second wife(Miss Leela aka Leela Chandragiri) he got another son Prabhakar. Combining the names of these two sons, Bhalji named his new studio “Jayprabha” at Kolhapur. During the riots against the Bramhins, after the murder of Gandhi, this studio was burnt, because Bhalji Pendharkar was a Brahmin. The studio was rebuilt. It was later purchased by Lata Mangeshkar,only to get embroiled in court cases with the Maharashtra Government, for a long time.

Actor Rajan (Jawle) was a Marathi actor. He is the person who lived with and looked after actress Hansa Wadkar in her later bad days in her life, till she died. Actress Nalini Dhere was a Marathi actress but had done few Hindi films like Nagad Narayan-43 etc. In Hindi film industry, at some or the other times, there were as many as 8 Nalini’s operating as actresses and singers – Nalini Tarkhad, Nalini Jaywant, Nalini Nagpurkar, Nalini Gupte, Nalini Dhere, Nalini Saraf (who became Seema Deo-wife of actor Ramesh Deo), Nalini Chonkar and Nalini Korgaonkar (singer-Jail Yatra-47).

Our film industry is full of ungrateful people. There is nothing like true friendship here. So called friends do not hesitate to cut the throat of others for selfish purposes. There are hundreds of such instances here. However for every rule there is an exception and there was ONE friendship which was used as an example here. That is the friendship of Vasant Joglekar and Ashok Kumar. They were true friends and their friendship ended only when Joglekar died.

Vasant Joglekar, actor-by compulsion and producer/Director-by choice was born on the Christmas day, 25th September 1914 at Nagpur. He started his filmi career as asstt. to Master Vinayak in 1942. In the struggling days he met Ashok Kumar and they became friends forever.

Starting with Aap ki seva mein-47, in which Lata Mangeshkar sang her first Hindi film solo, Joglekar produced 10 films and directed 20 films ( 11 Hindi and 9 Marathi). In one of the Marathi films directed by this young man-Vasant Joglekar, actress Sumati Gupte was acting in it. They fell in love and soon got married in 1943. Sumati became Sumati Gupte Joglekar. In due course, the couple had 3 daughters- Meera, Chanda and Madhushri.

In almost all his films Ashok Kumar was a fixture. There was a time when Ashok kumar was involved in 30 films at one time,still the 31st film was that of Joglekar. The only condition Dadamuni used to put was that Joglekar’s wife, actress/housewife Sumati Gupte Joglekar should provide him food Tiffin cooked by her own hands, at the shooting place ! . He was very fond of her cooking. No wonder, Sumati was a CKP by birth-a fish eater and Bangali babu liked Fish dishes very much !

Joglekar’s Filmography as a Director in Hindi films – Aap ki sewa mein-47, Adalat-48, Nand Kishore-51, Jeet Kiski-52, Firdaus-53, Samaj-54, Karigar-58, Aanchal-60, Aaj aur kal-63, Ek Kali Muskayee-68 and last film Prarthana-69. Vasant Joglekar tried to promote his daughter Meera as a Heroine in Hindi films, with the film Ek Kali Muskayee-68. However, she was not successful and the film was a flop. Vasant Joglekar died on 13-1-1993.

One of the cast members was G.D.Madgulkar. Though this name is unknown to most Hindi film lovers, he has contributed to films in a substantial way In marathi literature and films, his name is taken with respect. Gajanan Digambar Madguḷkar (1 October 1919 – 14 December 1977) was a Marathi poet, lyricist, writer and actor. He was born in village Shetphal, Atpadi Taluka, Sangli district in Maharashtra. His family hailed from village Madgule in the same Taluka.

He is popularly known in his home state of Maharashtra by just his initials as Ga Di Ma (गदिमा). He was awarded Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1951 and Padma Shri in 1969. He has written 157 screen plays and over 2000 songs in his career. He was called Adhunik Valmiki (the modern Valmiki) of the current era due to his composition of Geet Ramayan ( Ramayana in Songs) as the most notable work. 2019 was celebrated as his Birth Century year. The Government of Maharashtra hosted various events and festivals to grace the occasion.

Madgulkar wrote poetry, short stories, novels, autobiographies and scripts, dialogues and lyrics for Marathi as well as Hindi movies. His poems have been adapted to a wide range of musical forms such as Sugam-Sangeet (light music), Bhav-Geet (emotional songs), Bhakti-Geet (devotional songs), and Lawani (a genre of folk songs in Maharashtra). Madgulkar entered the world of movies in 1938 at Kolhāpur. He contributed to 157 Marathi and 25 Hindi movies. He was also an artist. He loved to draw nature scenes. Special mention must be made for the films, Jeewan Jyoti-53-S/play and dialogues, Toofan aur Diya-56- story, and Do aankhen barah haath-57-Story, S/play and dialogues.

A noteworthy fact about Madgulkar is that during his peak period in Marathi films, he created a World Record. He teamed up with Music Director Sudhir Phadke and director Raja Paranjape. Together, as a team, they gave a total of 11 Hit films,in a row in 18 years- from 1948 to 1966 … a record for a Team.

He had knowledge of 10 languages including Marathi, Hindi, English, Urdu, Bengali, Gujarati, Punjabi, Kannada, Tamil and Telugu.

Madgulkar was married to Vidya (Padma Patankar, Kolhapur) and they had 3 sons (Shridhar, Anand, Sharad Kumar) and 4 daughters (Varsha, Kalpalata, Deepa, Shubhada). The popular Marathi writer, Vyankatesh Madgulkar was his younger brother.

His home in Pune (‘Panchavati Bungalow’) has become a place of attraction for his fans.

I was based in Poona during the period 1974 to 1976. In this period one of my local friends took me to Madgulkar’s bungalow and introduced me. When Madgulkar came to know that I hailed from Hyderabad, he was very excited and asked me several questions. I spent about 4-5 hours with him and had lunch also with him, on his repeated insistence. He was a good conversionist and loved to talk and listen. I will never forget this meeting. Those days he was not keeping good health.

I have not seen this film, but I know that this was a film based on a Love marriage which goes sour ending up in a family court for a divorce. However, the skillful judge tries and the couple reunite with greater love and return to their sweet home happily.

Here is a 77 year old song, sung by V.S.Jog. This must be his first song on this Blog. V.S. Jog was a notable Indian actor, primarily known for his work in Marathi films and theatre, with notable films including Pratibha (1937), Lagna Pahave Karun (1940), and Amrit (1941). He was involved in the Marathi theatre scene, particularly in a period when naturalism was gaining prominence, with connections to the Natyamanwantar group and actor-writer K. Narayan Kale.

He made a comedy pair with Damuanna Malavankar. He also was ‘Gundyabhau’ in some films of a known popular character ‘Chimanrao’, along with Damuanna Malavankar.
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Song- Beet gaya beet gaya Prabhu Raam ka raaj re (Adalat)(1948) Singer- V S Jog, Lyricist- Mahipal, MD- Datta Davjekar

Lyrics

Beet gaya aa aa aa aa
beet gaya aa aa aa

Beet gaya
Beet gaya
Prabhu Raam ka raaj re
Prabhu Raam ka raaj re
Beet gaya
Beet gaya
Prabhu Raam ka raaj re
Prabhu Raam ka raaj re
kalah ka Raavan ghar ghar janma
kalah ka Raavan ghar ghar janma
nasht bhaye sab kaaj re
nasht bhaye sab kaaj re
nasht bhaye sab kaaj re
nasht bhaye sab kaaj re
Beet gaya
Beet gaya
Prabhu Ram ka raaj re
Prabhu Ram ka raaj re

dukh ke madir(??) baraabar bikhre
dukh ke madir(??) baraabar bikhre
aaj sanehee sanehee ko bisre
dukh ke madir(??) baraabar bikhre
aaj sanehee sanehee ko bisre
palat gaye patwaaar
palat gaye patwaar
samajh ke
ulta beech(?) jahaaj re
ulta beech(?) jahaaj re
ulta beech(?) jahaaj re
ulta beech(?) jahaaj re
Beet gaya
Beet gaya
Prabhu Raam ka raaj re
Prabhu Raam ka raaj re

Danav ka avtaran hua hai
Danav ka avtaran hua hai
Seeta maa ka haran hua hai ae ae
Seeta maa ka haran hua hai
koi upaay karo Prabhu aisa
koi upaay karo Prabhu aisa
Lanka dahan ho aaj re
Lanka dahan ho aaj re
Lanka dahan ho aaj re
Lanka dahan ho aaj re ae ae ae

Tags: 1948, Actor-Singer, Adalat, Datta Davjekar, Mahipal, V S Jog

Uthha ke sar chalo jawaan

Posted by: Atul on: March 5, 2022

In: "War" song | Guest posts | Inspirational song | Post by Arunkumar Deshmukh | Rafi solo | Rafi songs | Songs of 1950s (1951 to 1960) | Songs of 1954 | Yearwise breakup of songs
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Today’s song is a good Marching song from the film ‘Golconda Ka Qaidi’ – aka ‘Prisoner of Golkonda’ (1954). This was a film made in both Hindi as well as English.

Way back in 1954, when this film was released and shown in Hyderabad, I was still in school, studying for my Matriculation- that is 10^th standard. In those days, for 10^th standard, a novel used to be studied as a ‘Non-Detail’ subject along with the regular English Text paper. This was to ensure to inculcate a liking for literature among the students as well as introduction of world famous novels etc to them. In that year, we had the famous novel by Anthony Hope – ‘The Prisoner of Zenda’ as a ‘Non-Detail’ syllabus. Fond of reading novels etc, I was simply fascinated by this novel. Till today, I have this novel in my book collection.
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Tags: 1954, Anjaan, Datta Davjekar, Golconda Ka Qaidi

Kyun bichhad gaye

Posted by: Atul on: October 11, 2020

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After a long gap, in which I discussed songs and films of the 1950’s for a few months, I am now returning to the decade of the 1940’s. I discussed songs from 25 films of the 1950’s with the last post coinciding with completion of my 8 years of writing posts on this popular Blog.

Today’s song is from a less known- rather an unknown- film, Adalat-1948. It was the first film with this title. This title was lated used by the more famous film Adalat-1958 and also in Adalat -1976.
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Tags: 1948, Adaalat, Datta Davjekar, Mahipal, Rafi

Ab kaun sunega mere man ki baat

Posted by: Atul on: September 28, 2020

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Yearwise discussion of Lata Mangeshkar songs in HFM: Part I: 1946-1947

Today (28 september 2020) is the 91^st birthday of Swar Samragyi Lata Mangeshkar (DoB 28 September 1929). We as part of HFM lovers extend her a very happy birthday and wish her many happy returns of the day.

She has been the most influential singer of HFM (and by extension all Indian film music).

A lot has been written on her career and her songs and her life. Instead of joining that race and repeating the already much repeated facts about her, I would take this occasion to start my discussion of her HF songs yearwise, right from the beginning. So one can see that it is going to be a long series, which may have started on her birthday and it will continue on and on, and each post will discuss one year. She has been around for more than six decades. It will take me at least 40 posts, may be more to discuss her songs over the years. I plan to publish one article every week. At this rate, this series could take upto one year. But then what is one year for this blog which is going on for more than 12 years !
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Tags: 1947, Aapki Sewa Mein, Datta Davjekar, Lata, Mahipal

Kismat to dekho

Posted by: Atul on: September 7, 2020

In: Melancholic song | Rafi solo | Rafi songs | Rare song | Songs of 1940s (1941 to 1950) | Songs of 1948 | Yearwise breakup of songs
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“Adalat” (1948) was directed by Vasant Joglekar for Mangal Pictures Production, Bombay. The movie had Baburao Pendharkar, Shalini Devi, Jog Madgulkar, Sudha Apte, Saroj Borkar etc in it.
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Tags: 1948, Adalat, Datta Davjekar, Mahipal, Rafi

Desh mein sankat aaya hai

Posted by: Atul on: August 15, 2020

In: Guest posts | Post by nahm | Rafi songs | Song with a message | Songs of 1940s (1941 to 1950) | Songs of 1947 | Yearwise breakup of songs
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This article is written by nahm, 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 is 15th August, 2020 and we are celebrating 74rd Independence day. A national festival in COVID times, when all the festivals and celebrations have been kept low key and confined to own dwellings, very small gatherings or on the modern wonders of 21st century whatsapp and video conferences. But these small mercies have also been marred by the casualties. Most painful is the inability to visit the sick and not go the two steps distance towards the final rites of those who have lost this battle.
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Tags: 1947, Aaki Sewa Mein, Datta Davjekar, G M Sajan, Mahipal, Rafi

Bairan ho gayi raat

Posted by: Atul on: May 26, 2018

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Tags: 1948, Adaalat, Datta Davjekar, Mahipal, Mohantara Talpade, Rafi

Bahaaren laane waale hain

Posted by: Atul on: March 26, 2017

“Golkunda Ka Qaidi”(1954) was produced and dircted by actor Premnath for his P N Films, Bombay. The movie had Premnath, Bina Rai, Agha, Shobhana samarth, Hiralal, Michaeel shea, Armelene, Shambhunath, Kalandar Khan, M Ilyas, Iqbal, Hiru, Indumati, Madan Bhandari, Rajan Kapoor, Premnath (junior), Cuckkoo, Rajendranath, with guest appearances by Omprakash, Bipin Gupta and Sundar.
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Tags: 1954, Datta Davjekar, Geeta Dutt, Golkunda Ka Qaidi, Jagannath (MD), Prakash Sathi

Door Desh Se Aane Waale. . . Piya Milenge

Posted by: skapur01 on: April 20, 2016

This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in sites like lyricstrans.com and ibollywoodsongs.com etc then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

This article is the 12000^th song post in the blog.

The counter has been stuck at double one triple nine, for three days now. That, I am sure, will have beaten all the records in the books.
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Tags: 1943, Datta Davjekar, Gaj Bhaau, Lata Mangeshkar

Meri aankhon ke taare

Posted by: Atul on: March 31, 2013

In: "Aankh" song | Feelings of heart | Rafi solo | Rafi songs | Songs of 1940s (1941 to 1950) | Songs of 1947 | Yearwise breakup of songs
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“Aap Ki Sewa Mein” (1947) was a Chandrma Pictures Production. It was directed by Vasant Joglekar. It had Dikshit, Kesri, Shantaarin, Saroj Borkar, Nimbaalkar, Samson, DR Gokhale, Bhaal Maraathe, Vijaya, Baby Nalini etc. This otherwise lesser known movie has gone down in the history of Hindi movies as the movie where Lata Mangeshkar made her debut as a playback singer with the song Paa laagoon kar joree re. Less well known is the fact that this movie was also the Hindi movie debut for music director Datta Davjekar who otherwise was a big name in Marathi movies as a music director at that time.
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Tags: 1947, Aapki Sewa Mein, Datta Davjekar, Mahipal, Rafi

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