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Blog 10-Year Challenge (2012-2022) – Song No. 51
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This date (10 June) ten years ago (2012) was a lean day or the blog when only two songs from two different movies were covered in the blog.
Here are the details:-
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| Blog post number | Song | Movie (Year) | Reamrks |
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| 6067 | Har zabaan ruki ruki | Baaz (1953) | Movie YIPPEED by now |
| 6068 | Raat bhi sard hai | Mujrim (1970) | 3 songs covered out of 5 |
We observe from the table that one out of two movies whose songs were covered ten years ago on this date has since been YIPPEED.
That leaves us with only one movie that is eligible for Blog Ten Year Challenge today (10 June 2022).
This movie is “Mujrim”(1970).
“Mujrim”(1970) was produced by Rajkumar Kohli and directed by Kewal Mishra for Shankar Films, Bombay. The movie had Joy Mukerjee, Kumud Chugani, Dev Kumar, Jayant, Nishi, Brahmchari, Hiralal, Rajen Haksar, Kundan, Balwant, Jayashree.T., Meenakshi, Rekha Chauhan, Roopali Birbal, Rirkoo, Umadatt, Kapila,Aassie, cocacola, Khairati, Gama, Anil Hanspal, Shirley(dancer), Ramesh Deo, Ram Kumar etc in it.
“Mujrim”(1970) had five songs in it. Three sngs have been covered so far.
Here is the fourth song from the movie. It is sung by Asha Bhonsle. The song is picturised on Nishi Kohli and Joy Mukherjee.
The movie had two lyricists, but the lyricist of this song is not known. Music is composed by Sonik Omi.
Lyrics of the song and other details were sent by Prakashchandra.
Video
Audio
Song-Dil ke mehmaan mujhe kahaan chala chhod ke (Mujrim)(1970) Singer-Asha Bhonsle, Lyrics-Not known, MD-Sonik Omi
Lyrics(Provided by Prakashchandra)
haayye rabbaa..aaa
haayye ae
dil ka mehmaan mujhe kahaan chalaa chhod ke
haayye
dil kaa mehmaan mujhe kahaan chalaa chhod ke ae
baahon ka haar dekho jaanaa nahin tod ke
nainon kaa teer tooney
uyyee..eee
chubho..ooo diyaa rey
jadga jillaa
jadga jillaa
jadga jillaa
haayye jadga jillaa
jadga jillaa
jadga jillaa
dil kaa mehmaan mujhe kahan chalaa chhod ke ae
baahon ka haar dekho jaanaa nahin tod ke
naainon kaa teer tooney sssss
uyyee chubho..ooo diyaa rey
jadga jillaa
jadga jillaa
jadga jillaa
haayye haayye
jadga jillaa
jadga jillaa
jadga jillaa
(laughing sound)
haayye main mar jaawaan..aan
dekhaa karoon
tujhey dekhaa karoon
dil na maaney
o meri haalat buree hai
dekhaa karoon
tujhey dekhaa karoon
dil na maaney ae ae
o meree haalat buree hai
tadpaa karoon
main to tadpaa karoon
din dahaadey ae
o bairee chaahat buree hai
chaahaa karoon..oon
main to..oo raat bhar
o dholaa aahein bharoon
main to..oo raat bhar
haayye tere binaa to..oo rahaa naa jaaayein
dil kaa mehmaan mujhe kahaan chalaa chhod ke ae
baahon ka haar dekho jaanaa nahin tod ke
nainon kaa teer tooney ss
uyyee chubho..ooo diyaa rey
jadga jillaa
jadga jillaa
jadga jillaa
haayye haayye
jadga jillaa
jadga jillaa
jadga jillaa
naa jaa rey julmee
le chal kaheen
chaahey le chal kaheen
rut suhaanee ee
o sajan tere liye hai
le chal kaheen
chaahey le chal kaheen
rut suhaanee
o sajan tere liye hai
behki nazar
meri behkee nazar
ye jawaanee
o balam tere liye hai
le ley mazaa aa
tu mere..ae roop kaa
o raajaa
thhandi thhandi sunehree dhoop ka
arrey dil mein jo hai..ae..ae
kahaa naa jaaye
dil kaa mehmaan mujhe kahaan chalaa chhod ke ae
baahon ka haar dekho jaanaa nahin tod ke
nainon kaa teer tooney ss
uyyee chubho..ooo diyaa rey
jadga jillaa
jadga jillaa
jadga jillaa
haayye
jadga jillaa
jadga jillaa
jadga jillaa
dil kaa mehmaan mujhe kahaan chalaa chhod ke ae
baahon ka haar dekho jaanaa nahin tod ke
nainon kaa teer tooney
uyyee chubho..ooo diyaa rey
jadga jillaa
jadga jillaa
jadga jillaa
haayye haayye
jadga jillaa
jadga jillaa
jadga jillaa
Mori dukaniya aanaa baabu
Posted on: September 1, 2021
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular 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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Leela Desai was one of the top actresses during 1937-47 both in Kolkata and Mumbai. There was a curiosity in me as to why she suddenly disappeared from the film industry after 1947 when her career was at the peak. Thereafter, she lived in almost obscurity. What is surprising about Leela Desai is that information about her date/year of birth, her marital status, what she did after she left the film industry and when she passed away are unknown or sketchy.
Leela Desai was the 4th of the 5 children born to Dr Umedram Desai from Gujarat and Satybala Devi, daughter of a Bengali landlord settled in Bihar. It was a second marriage for both of them as Satyabala Devi lost her husband during the childhood while Dr Umedram Desai got married to his first wife in his childhood through whom he had two sons. Later, Dr Umedram Desai married Gunobati Mitter, a Bengali Christian, for the third time with whom he had 6 children. Before her marriage, Gunobati Mitter worked as a tutor for the children of Dr Umedram Desai and Satyabala Devi in Rampur. So apart from her own 4 siblings, Leela Desai had 8 step brothers/sisters.
Leela Desai was born in Newark when her parents were in the USA for a 3-year stint. She was brought up in Rampur as her father, Dr Umedram Desai became the State Surgeon for the State of Rampur and the personal Physician to the Nawab of Rampur. At the age of six, Leela Desai was sent to Kolkata for her primary schooling and to Kurseong near Darjeeling from where she completed her Matric and Junior College. Thereafter, Leela Desai returned to Lucknow by which time her father had passed away in Mumbai. In Lucknow, she enrolled to learn Kathak from Shambu Maharaj. During her training, she gave a lot of charity dance performances and made a good name as a dancer.
Hemchandra Chunder, one of the film directors in New Theatres who was on a visit to Lucknow, attended one of Leela Desai’s dance performances. He was impressed by her dance performance with her expressive eyes. He offered her a role of a younger sister of Kamlesh Kumari in New Theatre’s ‘President’ (1937) in which she had also a dance performance. At first, she did not show much interest to work in the film. However, after few days when she watched New Theatres’ Krorepati’ (1936), she felt that she could act in the film. She wrote to Hemchandra Chunder about her willingness to work in the film. The fact that Hemchandra along with Nitin Bose rushed to Lucknow with a contract showed their eagerness to take Leela Desai for the film without the screen test.
‘President’ (1937) became a hit on the box office and Leela Desai’s performance in the film was appreciated so much that overnight she became the star. Under New Theatres’ banner, apart from ‘President’ (1937), she worked in ‘Vidyapati’ (1937), ‘Dushman’ (1938), Kapal Kundala’ (1939) and ‘Nartaki’ (1940). Except ‘Kaapal Kundala’, she also acted in Bangla versions of the films and had also dance performances in these films.
After ‘Nartaki’ (1940), Leela Desai left New Theatres and took a year-long all-India tour with her dance troupe which became very successful both in terms of recognition as a dancer as well as in monetary terms. After accepting the attractive offer from Chimanlal Trivedi of Laxmi Productions, she landed in Mumbai to act in their maiden film ‘Tamanna’ (1942). In Mumbai, though Leela Desai worked as a free-lance actor, she was associated with Laxmi Productions for ‘Inkaar’ (1943), ‘Sharaafat’ (1943), ‘Miss Devi’ (1944), ‘Kamala’ (1946), and ‘Maharani Milandevi’ (1946). She also worked with her New Theatres’ colleagues and directors in Mumbai such as Nitin Bose in ‘Paraaya Dhan’ (1943) and ‘Mujrim’ (1944), with Debaki Bose in ‘Meghdoot’ (1945) and with Kidar Sharma in ‘Kaliyaan’ (1944). In addition, she worked with veterans directors like Vishram Bedekar in ‘Nagad Narayan’ (1943), R S Chaudhary in ‘Magadraj’(1946) and with Ramchandra Thakur in ‘Geet Govind’ (1947).
During her short filmy career between 1937-47, Leela Desai worked in 22 films. After 1947, Leela Desai seems to have taken a ‘voluntary retirement’ from the film industry. Her only connection to filmy industry after 1947 was that her name appeared on the credit titles of Bimal Roy’s film, ‘Kabuliwala’ (1961) as Associate Producer. It is said that Leela Desai bought the rights of ‘Kabuliwaala’ (1961, Bangla) from Tapan Sinha with an intention to make the film in Hindi. However, later she sold the rights to Bimal Roy.
Leela Desai’s elder sister, Shanti Desai was married to Bratindranath Tagore, a nephew of Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore. Her younger sister, Monica Desai was also an actress in Bangla and Hindi films who got married to film director, Phani Majumdar in 1947.
As I said earlier, not much information about Leela Desai was available after she left the films. One of the commentators has mentioned on the facebook page that Leela Desai remained unmarried for rearing the children of her elder sister, Shanti who passed away at a young age. If it is true, it is a sacrificial act by her to leave the film industry and remain unmarried to take care of her elder sister’s children.
Another reference I got about Leela Desai after her leaving films was from an obituary of Sumita Sanyal written in 2017 by Shoma A Chatterji, a film scholar and a free-lance journalist. In this article, she has mentioned that Leela Desai was staying in Mumbai at her apartment in Worli Sea Face where she used to conduct acting classes for the prospective actors coming from Kolkata. One of such actors to whom she gave acting training was Sumita Sanyal. It is possible that Leela Desai may have recommended Sumita Sanyal to Hrishikesh Mukherjee for the film ‘Ashirwaad’ (1968).
As per the comment on Upperstall, written by Shoma A Chatterji in the context of yester year stars who passed away in oblivion, it was stated that Leela Desai passed away in Mumbai. But her date/year of death was not mentioned. She further stated that none of the newspapers and film magazines carried the news of her death.
Leela Desai who started her filmy career with her maiden film “president’ (1937) under the direction of Nitin Bose, got the opportunity to work under his direction in ‘Paraaya Dhan’ (1943) and ‘Mujrim’ (1944), later film being also produced by Nitin Bose under the banner of Vishnu Cinetone. The star cast included Motilal, Leela Desai, Jagdish Sethi, Yakub, Veena Kumari, Sunalini Devi, Cuckoo etc.
From a very short synopsis available on-line, the film was a ‘musical crime-thrilling family drama’. Motilal is a kind hearted person who meets Leela Desai and fall in love with her. Both of them want to marry each other but a villain, Yakub comes in the way as Leela Desai would inherit a lot of wealth if she gets married. So, Motilal is framed under a false murder case by Yakub. How the real culprit is traced and Motilal and Leela Desai get united, becomes the part of the thrilling end.
The film had 6 songs written by Kailash Matwala (4) and Rammurti Chaturvedi (2). The songs were set to music by Padmabhushan Pandit Jnan Prakash Ghosh, one of the greatest Tabla and Harmonium players.
I am presenting the first song ‘mori dukaniya aana baabu’ from ‘Mujrim’ (1944) to appear on the Blog. The song is rendered by Rajkumari Dubey on the words of Rammurti Chaturvedi. It is very melodious song with unusual orchestration. There is also some influence of Rabindra Sangeet in the musical composition of the song.
With this song, ‘Mujrim’ makes a debut on the Blog.
Note: Leela Desai’s early life sketch is based on an article which appeared in July 1942 issue of ‘Filmindia’ magazine after the release of ‘Tamanna’ (1942), her maiden film in Mumbai. Some personal information about Desai family is supplemented from a Blog of Adeel Desai.
Audio Clip:
Song-Mori dukaniya aana baabu (Mujrim)(1944) Singer-Rajkumari, Lyrics-Rammurty Chaturvedi, MD-Pandit Jnan Prakash Ghosh
Lyrics
mori dukaniya aana baabu
mori dukaniya aana
mori dukaniya aana baabu
mori dukaniya aana aa aa
bhaant bhaant ke phool rangeele
des lekar jaana
haan aan aan
bhaant bhaant ke phool rangeele
des lekar jaana baabu
mori dukaniya aana aa aa
jeth maheena aa aa
raat ki raani ee ee
jeth maheena raat ki raani
phoolen aadhi ratiyaan aan aan
jeth maheena raat ki raani
phoolen aadhi ratiyaan aan aan
bahey paseena jee ghabraaye
saajan karen na batiyaan
karen na batiyaan
karen na batiyaan
aan aan aan aan aan aan
phool ka haar pahan ke sajni
saajan ko lalchaana aa aa
mori dukaniya aana baabu
mori dukaniya aana aa aa
aaya maas ashaadh
chameli phooli kyaari kyaari
aaya maas ashaadh
chameli phooli kyaari kyaari
kali kaliyon mein se khushboo nikli pyaari pyaari
chilla chilla kar baabu mere roothhi naar manaana
chilla chilla kar baabu mere roothhi naar manaana
baabu roothhi naar manaana
mori dukaniya aana baabu
mori dukaniya aana aa aa
bhaant bhaant ke phool rangeele
des lekar jaana
baabu
mori dukaniya aana aa aa
Sun sun Madras ki chhori
Posted on: July 30, 2013
“Mujrim” (1958) was an Eagle Films Production. It was produced by F C Mehra and directed by O P Ralhan. The movie had Shammi Kapoor, Ragini, Tuntun, Shubha Khote, Kamal Kapoor, S.N.Bannerjee, Mumtaz Begum, Amrit Rana, Abdul, Agha Miraz, Sood, Ratan Gaurang, Murad, Johnny Walker, Ramesh Thakur, Geeta Bali, Padmini etc in it.
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“Mujrim” (1958) was an Eagle Films Production. It was produced by F C Mehra and directed by O P Ralhan. The movie had Shammi Kapoor, Ragini, Tuntun, Shubha Khote, Kamal Kapoor, S.N.Bannerjee, Mumtaz Begum, Amrit Rana, Abdul, Agha Miraz, Sood, Ratan Gaurang, Murad, Johnny Walker, Ramesh Thakur, Geeta Bali, Padmini etc in it.
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“Mujrim” (1958), an Eagle Films Production was produced by F C Mehra and directed by O P Ralhan. The movie had Shammi Kapoor, Ragini, Shubha Khote, Kamal Kapoor, S N Banerjee, Tun Tun, Mumtaz Begum, Amrit Rana, Abdul, Agha Miraz, Ratan Gaurang, Sood, Johnny Walker, Geeta Bali, Murad, Ramesh Thakur, Padmini etc in it.
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Jaan e jigar yoon hi agar hota rahey
Posted on: May 4, 2013
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Normally it is believed that O P Nayyar composed music for only two Shammi Kapoor movies, viz. “Tumsa Nahin Dekha” (1957) and “Kashmir Ki Kali”(1964). But that is not correct. O P Nayyar also composed the music of “Mujrim” (1958). This was an Eagle Films Production. It was produced by F C Mehra and directed by O P Ralhan. The movie had Shammi Kapoor, Ragini, Shubha Khote, Kamal Kapoor, S. N. Banerjee, Tun Tun, Mumtaz Begum, Amrit Rana, Abdul, Agha Miraz, Ratan Gaurang, Sood, Johnny Walker, Geeta Bali, Murad, Ramesh Thakur, Padmini etc in it.
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Raat bhi sard hai
Posted on: June 10, 2012
“Mujrim”(1970) was produced by S P Suri and directed by Kewal Mishra. The movie had Joy Mukherjee, Kumud Chuggani, Dev Kumar, Jayant, Nishi, Brahmachari, Hiralal, Rajan Haksar, Kundan, Balwant, Jayshree T., Meenakshi, Rekha Chauhan, Roopali, Birbal etc in it.
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Ae meri jaane chaman
Posted on: April 27, 2012
There have been quite a few Rafi songs where Rafi has sung with such high energy levels that the listeners are left gasping for breath literally. To this day I keep wondering how a singer can sing with such high energy level throughout in a song lasting well over three minutes and sometimes more. Songs of “Junglee”(1961), “Rajkumar”(1964),”Prince” (1967),”Saawan Bhaadon”(1970) etc readily come to mind as songs whose energy levels could have lit up a few households if harnessed properly.
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