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Mithhaayee le lo baabu mithhaayee le lo raaja

Posted by: on: August 23, 2023


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 a Costume film ” Raj Mukut” (1950).

The decade of the 1950 was the one in which possibly the highest number of films having “King and Queen” stories were made . A cursory look at the Film Title Index shows a total of 77 such film titles, starting with the letters “Raj…”. Out of these, 17 films are from the 50’s. There must be more films having the trio of ” King,Queen and the Vazir”, but starting with other words like Raami Dhoban or films starting with Samrat or words connected with kingdoms etc. Finally I gave up my ‘Research’ !

This film was produced by Ramniklal Shah (husband of the Heroine Indurani – from the 30’s and the 40’s era) under his own banner Mohan Pictures. The film was directed by his Co-Brother (साडू ) Nanubhai Vakil (husband of actress Sarojini aka Roshan jahan aka Rani – sister of Indurani).

Nanubhai was an expert in directing C grade action/stunt/costume films. He was unique in two ways. Firstly, he was a highly educated person in those days in the film industry having done his B.A.,LL.B. and secondly, though he was in the film industry for so many years, he never attended any film function or a party or any celebration !

Nanubhai Vakil was born in Valsad in Gujarat in 1904. In his family there were many Advocates including his father,so their family name itself became Vakil. Nanubhai came to Bombay to study Law. He completed his B.A. LL.B from Wilson College, Bombay but he did not join his family profession. Instead he was attracted towards the film world.

He joined Sharada films as a screenplay writer and later joined Ranjit films as a Director. He directed 18 silent films for Ranjit studios. However, it was Sagar Movietone which gave him the first opportunity to direct his first Talkie film. It was the First Gujarati Talkie film, “Narsimh Mehto” in 1932. After this there was no looking back. He selected and became expert in directing only Fantasy,Stunt and Costume films.

In his career from 1929 to 1973 period,he directed 20 silent and 70 Talkie films -all stunt and fantasy films, except one social film Kya yeh Bambai hai in 1959.
He was associated with Mohan pictures for a long time and directed 18 films for this company. During this period he also married his Heroine Sarojini ( real name Roshan Jehan alias Ranee), sister of another actress – Indurani. They had one daughter-AZRA, who too became an actress. Unlike most of his colleagues ,who had no formal school education ,Mr Vakil was highly educated ,being B.A.L.L.B. in those days.

Since beginning,he was attracted to Fantasy & Arabian Night movies.He believed that,the audience visits the cinema hall,to experience some thing,which he has not seen in his real life.He wants to be entertained & to forget the harsh realities of the outer world.Fantasy/ Costume movies transports him to an imaginary world of King & Queens,where beside the crafty Vazir,he finds gorgeous girls dancing,the handsome,manly & brave hero,rescues the pretty damsel from the clutches of evil magician.The movie come to an end and the viewers come out from the theater,happy & satisfied,since evil doers have been eliminated & brave man living happily with the petite gal,in their fairy land.

Bulbul E Bagh,Rashk E Laila,Fakhr E Islam,Gulshan E Alam,Kumud Kumari were his earlier movies.In 50s & 60s,few of his movies were,Shan E Hatim,Khul Ja Sim Sim,Shan E Khuda,Idd Ka Chand,NoorMahal,Flying Rani,Alam Ara Ki Beti,Bansri Bala, Hatim Tai Ka Beta etc..He made remakes of many movies like Lal E Yaman, Alam Ara (Twice, in 1956 & !973) & Hatim Tai KiBeti in 1940 & 1955.During his five decades long career, he made movies with a small budget, with less paid actors and he was known as the fastest film maker !

Nanu Bhai Vakil had two production Companies viz. Desai Films & Vakil Production. All his movies had no connection with the present. Elite & pseudo intellectuals avoided to even discuss his movies, but Vakil Sahib had a dedicated audience consisting of the common public, less privileged & so called front benchers,who enjoyed his brand of cinema.

His films included less known stars like Sarojini, Navin Chandra, Rafiq, Prakash,Gulnar,Daljit, Chitra etc. He also worked with Zubeida, Yakub, Jal Merchant, Jaddanbai,Shanta Hublikar, Nimmi, Veena, Jairaj, Shakila,Nirupa Roy, Nadira,Mehmood,Shobhana Samarth, Nirmala,her husband Arun Ahuja etc. His MDs were also little known. However,Music Director A.R.Qureshi ( the famous Tabla Nawaz Alla Rakha-father of Zakir Hussain) gave music to his 18 films.
He never mixed with film folks and spent his life aloof. He died quietly on 29-12-1980 at Bombay.

The film had comparatively a cast of well known artistes like Nimmi, Veena, Jairaj, Sapru, Ramsingh, Gulab, Janakidas, Baby Tabassum and others. let us take a look at the film’s story……..

Film Raaj Mukut-50 story was about a Prince who is more interested in doing social service for the poor and downtrodden ( and a love affair with the Village Mukhiya’s daughter) than getting crowned legitimately. So he disappears and goes to a village, to do what he always wanted to do, but could not do so far.

He learns that his younger brother, crowned after the deliberate false rumour of the prince- was perpetrating tyranny on the kingdom’s people and also arrested his own parents and jailed them. His blood boils and he enters the capital incognito, along with his girlfriend and others. There is a fight and the younger brother is killed. The King and Queen are released. The prince becomes the King and his girlfriend becomes his Queen. Clap, Clap !

From time to time there were some artistes in the Hindi film Industry who had achieved laurels in different fields, at the International levels. Some examples are Dewan Sharar, actor Ranjan and Shakuntala Paranjpye. The list may have more names but only a few are quoted here to prove the point. Today’s film also had one such actor who had won laurels in a different field at the International Level. His name was Janaki Das.

One can understand that people in India, with whatever avocation they followed were attracted to the film industry, but even a person with exceptional achievements at International levels, one who represented India 3 times in International games and established records – he too ? Yes, surprisingly one gentleman of this description and calibre, was keen to join films. His name was JANAKIDAS MEHRA.

Jankidas was born on 13th June 1916. He completed his M.A. from Punjab University. He was an athlete and a Cycle champion. By the age of 22 years, he represented India in 3 International meets and in 1938 had established a record for 1/2 mile race. He was the First and the only Indian to win the British Empire Games Distinction Medal.

Janakidas was also an author. He wrote and published books like, ” Mahatma Gandhi in his own words”, “Extinction of Tasmanian race’, “From brothel to Victory Stand”, and ” My sports ventures”. He was described as ” a rare combination of Student, sportsman, idealist, Aristocrat and Democrat” by Australia’s leading weekly ” Smith Weekly”, dated 22nd January 1938 !

Jankidas was keen to join the film industry. His first role was in Pancholi’s ” Khazanchi”-41. On coming to Bombay, he found that his high qualifications and achievements were deterrents for most illiterate producers, to get him roles. Frustrated, he told a lie to a Producer that he was illiterate and he got a role in the film ” Her highness”-46, but he was not credited. Disgusted, on some friend’s advice, he contacted V. Shantaram. Here he got a role in the film ” Jeevan Yatra”-46 and ” Dr. Kotnis ki amar kahani”-46.

Janakidas went on to do 344 films in his career of 60 years. In the later stage of his career he became India’s First ” Production Designer “. ( Nowadays, this is a very important post in the industry). As a production designer, Jankidas was responsible for the founding of many famous Indian actor’s careers. He was responsible for Madhubala’s role in Sohrab Modi’s Daulat in 1947, and introduced Meena Kumari in Nanabhai Bhatt’s Hamara Ghar, and Khushboo in Sunil Dutt’s Dard Ka Rishta. He also introduced actress Mala Sinha in Hamlet, produced and directed by Kishore Sahu.

In 1985, he wrote the script for the film Yaadon Ki Kasam.

Jankidas was the recipient of numerous national and international awards. In May 1996, he was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award given by the Indian Motion Pictures Producers’ Association.

Janakidas always remembered what his dear friend Dalsukh Pancholi told him, just minutes before his death. A film tycoon who carved a film empire at Lahore & made Khazanchi which celebrated Golden Jubilee, breathed his last, as he got into his car, while returning from the office of his distributor, who refused to pay him the installment. Actor Janki Das was with his mentor, when Pancholi uttered his last words “Janki Das ! Never put your children in films’. It was 10th october 1958 & Dalsukh Pancholi was of 53 years. He was driving his own car himself that time. He got an attack and stopped the car and died on his seat itself.

Jankidas expired on 18th June 2003.

There were 11 songs in the film, all written by Bharat Vyas. They were composed by one of the most respected Music Directors of that era. However he was downhill in his long career by this time. He was Pt. Gobind Ram.

In the pre-partition period of Hindi films, there were many schools of music directors, many times on a regional basis, but some were just unique. The Punjabi school of film composing was a very important and innovative school among these. This school gained popularity in the 1940s, which also resulted in the immense popularity of Punjabi folk music. Ghulam Haider was considered to be the most important of these, but equally great were Pandit Amarnath , Shyam Sundar , Husnlal – Bhagatram , G. A. Chishti , and Pandit Gobindram .

Pandit Gobindram Ji ( born in 1912) was a trained musician from Lahore, and was equally popular in both Hindi and Punjabi films. Unlike other music directors of the Punjabi school, music composed by him did not typically reflect native Punjabi trends, but instead lay firmly in the category of mainstream 1940s’ music. One could very well say that he played a crucial part in shaping the music of the 1940s. His music is truly melodious and varied, with a unique combination of highly expressive tunes, yet very fun and foot tapping and rhythmically catchy. He is one of the music directors who used a very large number of singers, only second to Gyan Dutt, one of his worthy contemporaries. He excelled equally in composing happy, sad, romantic, serious, comical, classical, just any kind of songs. It is a pity that he has never received the attention that he deserved.

Forgotten today, Gobind Ram ji was so important a composer in his times that when K.Asif conceived making Mughal-E-Azam for the first time, he had selected Gobind Ram as its MD. It is another matter that after many years, when that film was re-started afresh, by that time Gobind Ram had left this world. The two MDs who had influenced C.Ramchandra in his career were Sajjad Hussain and Pt. Gobind Ram. Lata Mangeshkar also respected him very much. However, none of her songs under his baton ever became noteworthy !

Among his landmarks are the introduction of enormous contributions to making Shamshad Begum and Zohrabai the top singers in Hindi films. He recorded the maximum number of Hindi film songs with Shamshad Begum – 86 songs in 19 films. He was also one of the foremost music directors to encourage and bring forward great veteran Rafi , and also introduced great singer Zeenat Begum to films. He has 32 films to his credit and each one had equally superb music. He composed 302 songs.

Some of his films were Himmat-41,Sahara-43, Pagli-43, Aabroo-43, Naseeb-45, Laila Majnu-45, Sassi Punnu-46, Chalis Karod-46, Ghar ki izzat-49, Nisbat-49, Bholi-49, Raj mukut-50, Chore-50, Sarkar-51 and his last film Naqab-55. Most popular singers of that period have graced his songs. His use of light music, Ghazals, Thumris and various popular music forms in films, provide a ready insight into the uniqueness of 1940s music, and with a slightly unique flavour of both his compositions as well as a tiny tinge of Punjabi style.

Pandit Gobindram Ji started his career with Jeevan Jyoti (1937), but his first Hindi film in the 1940s was Himmat (1941). Today, it is remembered for being the second ever Hindi film of veteran singer Shamshad Begum Ji, where she beautifully sang the traditional Dadra ‘Inhin Logon Ne Le Leena Dupatta Mora’ , in her young, sweet but powerful voice. The famous song with the same lyrics in Pakeezah (1972) is largely a copy of this song. The song was composed by him again for the film ‘ Aabroo’. This was the first song composed by Gobindram that helped him gain recognition. Other songs from this film included a beautiful duet by Ghulam Haider and Umraozia Begum , ‘Main Hoon Rani Ek Sunehri Nagri Ki’.

His last film was Naqaab-55. Gobindram worked with more than 30 lyricists during his career. With 56 songs in 8 films, his collaboration was the highest with Ishwar Chandra Kapoor. Some of the other prominent lyricists he worked with include Bharat Vyas , Ram Murti Chaturvedi , Ramesh Gupta , and Qamar Jalalabadi . (based on information from an article by Vidur Sury, book Dhunon ki Yatra by Pankaj Raag, Suvarn yug wale Sangeetkar by Prof. Yadav, muVyz, HFGK and my notes, with thanks).

Today’s song is a comedy duet by Gul Raja and Lata Mangeshkar.


Song- Mithaayee le lo Baabu mithhaayee le lo raaja (Raaj Mukut)(1950) Singers- Raja Gul, Lata Mangeshkar, Lyricist- Bharat Vyas, MD- Gobind Ram

Lyrics

mithaayee le lo babu
mithaayee le lo raaja
mithaayee le lo
aaya halwaayee Dilli shahar ka
mithaayee le lo
aaya halwaayee Dilli shahar ka

laddu le lo peda le lo
le lo baalushaahi
o baalushaahi
laddu le lo peda le lo
le lo baalushaahi
garma garm jalebi le lo
ras ki bhari malaai
o le lo le lo baabu
o le lo le lo raaja
aaya halwaayee Dilli shahar ka

nananananana
nanananana
okokokoko
kokokokokokokyon

arre bhaaye
ye
shakkar ke badle gud beche
aur baaten kare hazaar
aur Dilli ka ye halwaai hai
jhoothhon ka sardaar
mithhaayee mat lo is se
mithhaayee mat lo is se
jhoothha halwaayee Dilli shahar ka

raaja khaaye bhikaaree khaaye
maal lagaa diya sasta
raaja khaaye bhikaaree khaaye
maal lagaa diya sasta
aslee ghee kee khaa kar dekho
garm kachoree khastaa
mithaayee le lo
haan haan
mithaayee le lo
aaya halwaayee Dilli shahar ka

ghee ke badle tel bechkar
par banta phire raees
ghee ke badle tel bechkar
par banta phire raees
dekho jee ye halwaayee hai
pakka chaar sau bees
dekho jee ye halwaayee hai
pakka chaar sau bees
mithhaayee mat lo is se
mithhaayee mat lo
jhoothha halwaayee Dilli shahar ka
mithaayee le lo
sachcha halwaayee Dilli shahar ka

ae halwaayee
agar tu dewe mujhko maal udhaar
to din duguna aur raat chauguna
badhe tera vyopaar
achcha baba khaa le barfee
naa maangoon main daam
saara maal phokat mein khaa le
mat kariyo badnaam
ye laddoo le
ye peda le
ye taaza taaza paapad
ye rabdee le
rasgulle le
ab mat karna tu gadbad
waah bhai waah bhai waah bhai waah
aahahahaha
aslee ghee hai aslee shakkar
aslee teree mithaayee
aslee ghee hai aslee shakkar
aslee teree mithaayee
ho sachcha sahookaar ye nikla
Dilli ka halwaayee
ho sachcha sahookaar ye nikla
Dilli ka halwaayee
mithaayee le lo is se
mithaayee le lo is se
sachcha halwaayee Dilli shahar ka

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O paltan waale jamaadaar jee

Posted by: on: October 9, 2019


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Blog Day : 4100 Post No. : 15247

“Raaj Mukut”(1950) was directed by Nanubhai Vakil for Mohan Pictures, Bombay. This Costume drama movie had Nimmi, Veena, Jairaj, Ram Singh, Sapru, Mishra, Gulab, Ramesh sinha, Ramesh Thakur, Jankidas, Baby Tabassum etc in it.

This movie had eleven songs in it. Five songs have been covered in the past.

The story of the movie, as goven by our beloved inhouse encyclopaedia Mr Arunkumar Deshmukh is as follows:

Film Raaj Mukut-50 story was about a Prince who is more interested in doing social service for the poor and down trodden ( and a love affair with the Village Mukhiya’s daughter) than getting crowned legitimately. So he disappears and goes to a village, to do what he always wanted to do, but could not do so far.

He learns that his younger brother, crowned after the deliberate false rumour of the prince- was perpetrating tyranny on kingdom’s people and also arrested his own parents and jailed them. His blood boils and he enters the capital incognito, along with his girlfriend and others. There is a fighting and the younger brother is killed. The King and Queen are released. The prince becomes the King and his girlfriend becomes his Queen. Clap, Clap !

On this occasion, here is a rare song from “Raaj Mukut”(1950). HFGK mentions this song as sung by Shamshad Begam. On listning to the song, we can detect an uncredited male voice as well. I request our knowledgeable readers to help identify this voice.

Bharat Vyas is the lyricist of this light hearted song. Pt Govindram is the music director.

Only the audio of the song is available. I request our knowledgeable readers to throw light on the picturisation of this fun song. The song appears to be a dance song or a roadside tamasha kind of a song to me.

Today 9 october 2019 happens to be the 4100th day for the blog. A century of a different kind for the blog.

This rare song was uploaded by our own Gajendra Khanna. What a delightful song it is ! Fit to be covered on the special occasion viz 4100th day of the blog.

Audio

Song-O paltan waale jamaadaar jee (Raaj Mukut)(1950) Singers-Shamshad Begam, Unknown male voice, Lyrics-Bharat Vyas, MD-Pt Govindram

Lyrics

o o
o paltan waale jamaadaar jee ee
oy hamen bhi bharti kar le apne topekhaane mein
oy hamen bhi bharti kar le apne topekhaane mein

o o
o vardiwaale jamaadaar jee ee
oy jamaadaar jee
jamaadaar jee
hoye
oy hamen bhi bharti kar le apne topekhaane mein
oy hamen bhi bharti kar le apne topekhaane mein

chham chham chham chham chham chham baaje
paayal ki jhankaar
aaha paayal ki jhankaar
chham chham chham chham chham chham baaje
paayal ki jhankaar
mere roop ke aage uthhe na
dushman ki talwaar
mere roop ke aage uthhe na
dushman ki talwaar
badon badon ko bech aaun main
jaake beech baazaar sipahiya
jaake beech baazaar
ham sa milega kaun sipaahi tujhe zamaane mein
oy ham sa milega kaun sipaahi tujhe zamaane mein
hoy jamaadaar jee
hoy hamen bhi bharti kar le apne topekhaane mein
hoy hamen bhi bharti kar le apne topekhaane mein

mohe sipahiya de de naukri
o tohe joru mil jaaye gori gori
oy gori gori
mohe sipahiya de de naukri
o tohe joru mil jaaye gori gori
tu jaana us’se milne
raaton ko chori chori
tu jaana us’se milne
raaton ko chori chori
main doongi tera pahra
main doongi tera pahra
kamariya mein baandh ke talwaar
kamariya mein baandh ke talwaar
le baandh le talwaar
le baandh le talwaar
o gori baandh le talwaar
baandh ke talwaar main jaaun shahar ke thaane mein
baandh ke talwaar main jaaun shahar ke thaane mein
oy shahar ke thaane mein
hamen bhi bharti kar le apne topekhaane mein
hamen bhi bharti kar le apne topekhaane mein

o o
o paltan waale jamaadaar jee ee
oy hamen bhi bharti kar le apne topekhaane mein
oy hamen bhi bharti kar le apne topekhaane mein

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Dil hai lagaane ke liye ise laga lo yahin kahin

Posted by: on: August 21, 2019


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 : 4051 Post No. : 15180

Today’s song is from film Raj Mukut-50.

From the title itself one would know what type of film this could be. In our childhood we were fond of, first listening and then reading stories of Raja-Rani. As we grow older, this liking seems to have ended,but it is not so, in reality. Every adult has a child in him and the love for the Raja Rani stories is hiding behind the facade of other serious life matters of the adult age.

Precisely, this liking was identified by B and C grade action and costume filmmakers and films on Kings, Queens, the evil Vazier or the Army Chief, plus or minus the evil Magician were made. From the point of business, it was wise to make such films, because its Producers never suffered loss, where as failure of an A grade film invariably ruined the producer.

The simple reason was, the production cost, distribution cost, actors’ payments etc were very low and the income was very good. May be that was the reason, that even the big banners also sometimes or the other had made costume films about Kings and Queens etc.

Going by the film title list made by Hamraz ji, I found at least 43 films starting with Raaj – like Raaj Mukut, Raaj Tarang, Raaj Ratan, Raaj Nandini etc etc. There were 32 films having titles starting with Raja, like Raja Gopichand, Raja Harishchandra, Raja Vikram etc etc. Movie titles with Rani prefix were just 11 (Gender Bias ?).

Coming to the story of Raaj Mukut-50, it is no different than hundreds of its ilk. I wonder why are there story shortages in films ? Why do films have similar stories ? In the 40’s decade ,Master Bhagwan used just one story to make 11 action films. In later times, it was Nasir Hussain, who – starting with Tumsa Nahin Dekha-57 – used only one skeleton story for most of his films and what’s more surprising is that his most film were Hits.

While thinking about it, I found that, in 2004, a book called “Why we tell stories”, written by Christopher Booker was published. It is a book having 728 pages to be exact. The book says “There are only 7 (Seven) basic plots in the whole world. They are recycled again and again in Novels, movies, Plays and Operas. These are
1.Overcoming the Monster
2.Rags to riches
3.The quest
4.Voyage and return
5.Rebirth
6.Comedy and
7.Tragedy “.

After this book was published, there was a chaos and criticism started. ‘New York Times’ also jumped in. The author coolly replied to all points and stuck to his statements. If we look at Hindi films, I personally feel that what the author has said is true in our case. Only thing is that our film stories are always a clever mixture of all or some of the above points.

If we take a look at the cast of the film Raaj Mukut-50, we find some heavyweights like Veena, Jairaj, Nimmi, Sapru, Gulab, Janakidas, Baby Tabassum etc. The decade of the 50s started with the decline of old stalwarts of 30s and 40s, because of the rise of new generation of actors, actresses, directors, MDs and almost all departments of film making. Nimmi was a ‘ Black Sheep’ in this cast because she was from the newer generation rising star.May be she did this film to get well entrenched in the film industry. Moreover the banner was good and the other actors were well known too. Director Nanubhai Vakil was an expert veteran in costume and action film direction. The music was given by Gobindram, a respected name in the musical circles.

Baby Tabassum had debuted with film Nargis-46 ( released in 47). Tabassum – real name Kiran Bala Sachdev was born in 1944 in Mumbai to Ayodhyanath Sachdev, an Indian freedom fighter, and Asghari Begum, freedom fighter, journalist and an author. Her father named her Tabassum, keeping her mother’s religious sentiments in mind, while her mother kept her name Kiran Bala, keeping her father’s religious sentiments in mind. Her official name as per pre-marriage documents was Kiran Bala Sachdev.

Tabassum made her film debut as a child actor with Nargis (1947) followed by Mera Suhaag (1947), Manjhdhar (1947) and Bari Behen (1949). Later in Deedar (1951), directed by Nitin Bose, she played the childhood role of Nargis; the hit song Bachpan Ke Din Bhula Na Dena sung by Lata Mangeshkar and Shamshad Begum was picturised on her. Also, in the next year, she appeared in another important film Baiju Bawra (1952) directed by Vijay Bhatt, where she appeared in the childhood role of Meena Kumari. After a gap, she reentered films in adult roles, working as a character actress.

She hosted the first talk show of Indian television, Phool Khile Hain Gulshan Gulshan, which ran for 21 years from 1972 to 1993. Produced by Doordarshan Kendra Mumbai, it was based on interviews of film celebrities and became immensely popular. This also led to a career as stage compere. She was also the editor of Grihalaxmi, a Hindi women’s magazine for 15 years and wrote many joke books.

In 1985, she directed, produced and wrote her first film, Tum Par Hum Qurban. In 2006, she returned to television, as an actress in Pyaar Ke Do Naam: Ek Raadha, Ek Shyaam, produced by Rajshri Productions. She became a judge in a reality stand-up comedy show Ladies Special (2009) on Zee TV.

She continued to work as an interviewer for television and is currently doing a TV show on TV Asia USA and Canada titled Abhi Toh Main Jawaan Hoon based on the Golden Era of Hindi Cinema. Currently, she has launched her own channel on YouTube, titled “Tabassum Talkies” which consists of nostalgic talks, interviews of celebrities, shayaris, jokes and more.

She is married to Vijay Govil, elder brother of TV actor Arun Govil. Their son Hoshang Govil had brief career as a lead in three films Tum Par Hum Qurbaan (1985), which was produced and directed by Tabassum in which she introduced Johnny Lever for the first time on screen as a comedian. Kartoot (1987) and Ajeeb Dastaan Hai Yeah (1996) produced by Zee TV and directed by J Om Prakash (grandfather of Hritik Roshan). In 2009, her granddaughter Khushi (daughter of Hoshang) made her film debut with Hum Phir Mile Na Mile. ( courtesy- Wikipedia).

Tabassum is an actress of a kind who was an All rounder-not in body shape-(that she is in now!), who is the only one having succeeded in 5 different mediums of entertainment. Films,TV,Radio,Print Media and Stage. Here is a small note about her,as it appears on her Facebook page-

“Tabassum ,during her years as child star ,was dubbed by her fans ,the movie -industry and the media as “THE SHIRLY TEMPLE OF INDIA”.

FILMS

She made her debut at the age of two and half years, in 1946, in her first film –Famous Pictures “Nargis’.This film was produced by Baburao Pai ,directed by D.D.Kashyap ….“Nargis” starred the legendary Nargisji herself with Rehman ,Shahnawaz ,Alka ,Achrekar and BABY TABASSUM.

In a short span of about six years Tabassum chalked up a record of child artist roles in more than thirty films ,and she’s working in films even today with a total of more than 100 films to her credit.

TELEVISION

Tabassum was the first to start the movie- oriented T.V. series on Doordarshan (India’s Government owned Television channel) which started on October 2nd, 1972. On October 8th 1972 , she launched her famous series of film-personality interviews. The first person to be interviewed in these series , titled “PHOOL KHILE HAIN GULSHAN GULSHAN” was a veteran music director Naushad.

This programme ran continuously on Doordarshan for 21 years ..

Various cultural organizations ,audiences ,and the media in general even the then INFORMATION AND BROADCASTING MINISTER Mr. V.P.Sathe have dubbed Tabassum as THE T.V. QUEEN OF INDIA .

RADIO

Tabassum started on radio in 1946 with children programmes and did many other programmes regularly on All India Radio.
For 15 years from 1970 to 1985 Tabassum ran a regular radio programme of jokes on the commercial services of Radio Ceylon.The same programme was later switched also to Vividh Bharti where continued for many years. She is still doing programmes regularly on Vividh Bharti.

She was conferred the award of “JOKES QUEEN OF INDIA”.

AUTHORSHIP AND JOURNALISM

Tabassum has been writing Urdu poetry , jokes ,short stories since her childhood which were being regularly published in Urdu and Hindi magazines ,newspapers ,etc.

During her more than sixty four years long career in show business ,Tabassum has also written seven books of Jokes ,Poetry ,and Urdu shayris ,the first of which was published at the age of 17 years when she had just passed her matriculation examination. She did her B.A. in Urdu from Aligarh University.

For the past many years Tabassum has fitted also journalism into her over crowded schedule when she took over as editor of the large circulation of a Woman’s magazine GRIHA LAKSHMI which is published monthly from New Delhi since last 17 years.

STAGE

As Baby Tabassum , Filmland’s original child-star the Shirley Temple of India ,began to appear on stage shows since the tender age of three to four years.Over three decades ago she launched her own stage show unit named “TABASSUM HIT PARADE’.This stage entertainment unit has over the past three decades performed variety entertainment shows all over India and in almost every country of the world from U.S.A.and Canada to the United Kingdom and Europe ,the Middle east and Gulf countries to South-east Asia ,Singapore and the far east in Hong Kong ,China ,Taiwan and Japan.

Now she is busy in promoting a stage programme titled “Tabassum Bhajan Sandhya” in India and abroad as spiritual entertainment.

On May 8th 1995 various well known cultural organizations of India celebrated TABASSUM’S HALF CENTURY IN FILM INDUSTRY AND SHOW BUSINESS AND WAS LARGELY ATTENDED BY FILM AND OWN MEDIA PERSONALITIES INCLUDING THE PRESS. ”

Film Raaj Mukut-50 story was about a Prince who is more interested in doing social service for the poor and down trodden ( and a love affair with the Village Mukhiya’s daughter) than getting crowned legitimately. So he disappears and goes to a village, to do what he always wanted to do, but could not do so far.

He learns that his younger brother, crowned after the deliberate false rumour of the prince- was perpetrating tyranny on kingdom’s people and also arrested his own parents and jailed them. His blood boils and he enters the capital incognito, along with his girlfriend and others. There is a fighting and the younger brother is killed. The King and Queen are released. The prince becomes the King and his girlfriend becomes his Queen. Clap, Clap !

The film had 11 songs. 4 songs are already discussed. Today’s song is the 5th song. It is sung by Shamshad Begum, Amirbai, Rafi and another unknown male voice. Incidentally, Gobind Ram had a special affinity for Shamshad Begum. He gave music to 32 films and composed 302 songs. Out of these, he composed as many as 86 songs in 19 films for Shamshad Begum. I believe, he may be the music director who has most songs for Shamshad Begum- atleast percentage wise (28.4 %).


Song- Dil hai lagane ke liye (Raj Mukut)(1950) Singers- Amirbai Karnataki, Shamshad Begam, Rafi, Lyrics-Bharat Vyas, MD- Pt Gobind Ram
Amirbai Karnataki + Shamshad Begam
Rafi + Unknown male voice

Lyrics

dil hai lagaane ke liye
ise laga lo yahin kahin
aji ise laga lo yahin kahin
nahin nahin jee nahin nahin
nahin nahin jee nahin nahin
dil hai lagane ke liye
ise laga lo yahin kahin
aji ise laga lo yahin kahin
nahin nahin jee nahin nahin
nahin nahin jee nahin nahin

chaar dinon ki hai ye jawaani
chaar dinon ka khel
aji chaar dinon ka khel
chaar dinon ki hai ye jawaani
chaar dinon ka khel
khatkhat karti chali jaa rahi
jeewan ki ye rail
suno jee
jeewan ki ye rail
mauj manaa lo phir nahin kehna
haan
mauj manaa lo phir nahin kehna
dil ki baaten dil mein rahin
is dil ko laga lo yahin kahin
nahin nahin jee nahin nahin
nahin nahin jee nahin nahin
dil hai lagaane ke liye
ise laga lo yahin kahin
aji ise laga lo yahin kahin

jaante hain haal hum
majnu dil e barbaad ka
haan aan aan aan
haan aan
jaante hain haal hum
majnu dil e barbaad ka
aur ishq mein anjaam dekho
kya hua farhaad ka
aur ye barbaadi ka rasta hai
is par chalna nahin nahin
hoy ye barbaadi ka rasta hai
is par chalna nahin nahin
is dil ko lagaa lo yahin kahin
nahin nahin jee nahin nahin
nahin nahin jee nahin nahin
dil hai lagaane ke liye
ise laga lo yahin kahin
aji ise laga lo yahin kahin

honthon par hai naam tumhaara
soorat dil mein basi huyi
aeji soorat dil mein basi huyi
honthon par hai naam tumhaara
soorat dil mein basi huyi
tum chaaho na chaaho
ham hain prem jaal mein phansi huyi
ham prem jaal mein phansi huyi
duniya mein badnaam huyi hain
haay
duniya mein badnaam huyi hain
kya kya baaten hamne sahin
is dil ko laga lo yahin kahin
nahin nahin jee nahin nahin
nahin nahin jee nahin nahin
dil hai lagaane ke liye
ise laga lo yahin kahin
aji ise laga lo yahin kahin

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Meri lagi kisi se preet duniya kya jaane

Posted by: on: August 12, 2018


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“Raaj Mukut” (1950) was directed by N Vakil for Mohan Pictures. The movie had Nimmi, Jairaj, Veena, Ramsingh, Sapru, Tabassum, R. Sinha etc in it.

The movie had eleven songs in it. Three of these songs have been covered in the blog.

Here is the fourth song from “Raaj Mukut” (1950) to appear in the blog. The song is sung by Geeta Dutt (then Geeta Roy). Bharat Vyas is the lyricist. Music is composed by Pt Govindram.

Only the audio of the song is available. I request our knowledgeable readers to throw light on the picturisation of this song.


Song-Meri lagi kisi se preet duniya kya jaane (Raj Mukut)(1950) Singer-Geeta Dutt, Lyrics-Bharat Vyas, MD-Pt Govind Ram

Lyrics

meri lagi kisi se preet
duniya kya jaane
ho kya jaane
ho meri lagi kisi se preet
duniya kya jaane
ho kya jaane
mujhe mil gaya man ka meet
mujhe mil gaya man ka meet
duniya kya jaane
ho kya jaane
ho kya jaane
meri lagi kisi se preet
duniya kya jaane
ho kya jaane

nainon ki baazi lagi
chale teer talwaar haan
nainon ki baazi lagi
chale teer talwaar
jeet gaya koi mujhe
aur gayi main haar
jeet gaya koi mujhe
aur gayi main haar
hai ajab preet ki reet
duniya kya jaane
ho kya jaane
meri lagi kisi se preet
duniya kya jaane
ho kya jaane

mere dil pe ho gaya
sainya ji ka raaj
mere dil pe ho gaya
sainya ji ka raaj
main unki raani banoon
wo mere sartaaj
main unki raani banoon
wo mere sartaaj
dil liya kisi ne jeet
duniya kya jaane
ho kya jaane
ho meri lagi kisi se preet
duniya kya jaane
ho kya jaane

aaj hai bagiya mein khile rang barange phool
aaj hai bagiya mein khile rang barange phool
daal ke jhoola prem ka
koi raha hai jhool
dal ke jhoola prem ka
koi raha hai jhool
man gaaye madhur sangeet
duniya kya jaane
ho kya jaane
man gaaye madhur sangeet
duniya kya jaane
ho kya jaane
mujhe mil gaya man ka meet
mujhe mil gaya man ka meet
duniya kya jaane
ho kya jaane
ho kya jaane
meri lagi kisi se preet
duniya kya jaane
ho kya jaane

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Apni nagariya chhod ke raaja mere gaanv kyun aaye

Posted by: on: September 9, 2017


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“Raaj Mukut” (1950) was directed by N Vakil for Mohan Pictures. The movie had Nimmi, Jairaj, Veena, Ramsingh, Sapru, Tabassum, R. Sinha etc in it. The movie had eleven songs in it. Two of these songs have been covered in the blog.
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Chalaawo Na Teer e Nazar Jaate Jaate

Posted by: on: June 29, 2015


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The Wonderful Sounds of 1930s – 9
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What an enchanting and rare piece of music this one is.  Coming from the 1935 film ‘Raaj Mukut’, this song is part of the history that is eight decades old now.  Of the fourteen songs that are listed for this film in the Geet Kosh, only this one is so far traceable and available.
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Do dilon ke mil jaane ka ye bahaana ho gaya

Posted by: on: February 8, 2014


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The Voice of Mukesh #54
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As we are getting close to the end of list for the Mukesh songs for 1950, the songs are increasingly becoming difficult to trace. Today’s song I have been able to locate in my own collection, and am posting it online, for the first time today. The film is an obscure one, titled ‘Raaj Mukut’. The film is a production from Mohan Pictures, Bombay and is directed by Nanubhai Vakil. The film has an impressive star cast that includes Nimmi, Veena, Jairaj, Ram Singh, Sapru, Mishra, Gulab, Ramesh Sinha, Ramesh Thakur, Jankidas, Baby Tabassum.
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Panghat pe na jaiyyo gori ghoonghat utaar ke

Posted by: on: January 11, 2014


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“Raaj Mukut” (1950) was directed by N Vakil for Mohan Pictures. The movie had Nimmi, Jairaj, Veena, Ramsingh, Sapru, Tabassum, R. Sinha etc in it.
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