O’GHATA SAANWARI,
THODI HUI BAANWAARI : the Song That Made Hema Malini the Dream Girl
This was way back in the 1967. The story starts from there
where Saira Banu was married to Dilip Kumar in 1966 and the entire industry
immersed under the notion that after the marriage perhaps saira Banu would not
act in the films. In those days especially the Indian silver screen heroines
desetrted the film industry especially after their marriage. It was so felt
that saira having married to Mr Dileep Kumar and that the tradition that during
those days that followed that a heroine of the silver screen after marrying do
not prefer to continue in the films, it was assumed that Saira would not ever
act in the films
There is a saying that Raj Kapoor always believed and said- THE SHOW MUST GO ON . He had planned a
film and the project was complete as far as it’s before the stage preparation
was concerned. He was to make a movie “ SAPNON KA SAUDAGAR “ That character needed n innocent,a raw but a
very attractive and a beautiful face who would be innocent to portray herself
as an character of “ Mahi “ in the
film who actually was otherwise very prank but was a lovable and an innocent
character . With Saira’s future and her planning not very sure Raj Kapoor
thereafter started hunting for a lady that would be as beautiful as Saira and
as electrifying as her to portray that character Well the search began and Hema
Malini was the answer
Sapnon Ka Saudagar:
Raj Kapoor introduces Hema Malini to the Indian Film World
The film Sapnon Ka Saudagar was a flop venture
and that put Raj Kapoor in the drums and
if not totally in the doldrums. Raj Kapoors misery started from here and
it went deepest to the end of nadir MERA NAAM JOKER but somehow Bobby saved the empire of R K
Studio. Well more about that later .
when he projected himself as a joker in
The release of Sapnon Ka Saudagar somehow brought Madam Hema
Malini to the forefront of the Indian cinema and she made many to feel in the
Indian film industry that she had the face and the glamour to carry her
forward. She just needed a banner and a strong poitrayal to portray herself as
a strong lady who could rule the females department and the section of the
leading film heroines of the film industry
During those days the DOYEN
who were considered to be the top most heroines of the Indian film industry was
in and at a sateg where they had at the best say about five years to be there
at the helms of the heroine’s domain in the industry. They were slowly fading
and the names in that list were Nutan, Waheeda
Rehman and Nargis. Infact Nargis
by that time had quit the film industry and though Waheeda Rehman and Nutan
were there but they were slowly approaching the twilight zone of their career
Thus the film industry was looing out for some new but
attractive face to put all their bet and money on that face for a bountiful
return and the one’s to get that nod were Tanuja, Hema Malini and Saira Banu
.Saira banu’s future as described was on tenterhook and hence it was a TWO-WAY
race between tanuja and Hema Malini.Tanuja had come here after completing her
studies at Switzerland. She had her mother Madam Shobhna Samarth to get herself
identified as somebody who had a lineage of the ffilms.However the problem with
tanuja was inspite of being so highly attractive and talented she was NEVER very SERIOUS with herself in the films or her career. That made the way
a one-way-easy for Hema Malini
Yet that was not that easy for Hema Malini. Her first film
had failed at the box-office She had the face she had the capability to make it
big but as it is in the film industry at that time nobody wanted to take a risk
on a heroine whose very first film had failed
Abhinetri , The Film
: Hema Malini Is The Dream Girl
It was here that the house of the Mukherjee’s and the lead
of that Mr Subodh Mukherjee the father of the star actor Joy Mukherjee then
took a risk He was to make a film by the name ABHINETRI and he was looking out
for a face Infact Mr Subodh Mukherjee had Saira banu in his mind for that
project to cast him opposite Joy Mukherjee then But with Saira Banu not sure
about her career in the film and with her marriage to Dileep Kumar , and with
Joy Mukherjee not agreeing to put his hand on this project because of his pre
engagement for his film “ Love In Tokyo
“ and “ Humsaya “ then it was
decided that to go in for the project ahead a new pair for the film may be
looked for and the two names that came to Mr Subodh Mukherjee was Shahshi
Kapoor who till then was really struggling very hard to emphatically lay his
feet on the film industry and Hema Malini
Mr Mukherjee was one Director who paid according to HORSE FOR THE COURSE & COARSE He
was a brilliant Prodcucer-Director but he was more brilliant when it came to
pay and choose the characters of his films The reason to cat Hema Malini and
Shashi Kapoor was that both the stars by then were considered to be a flop
stars and the flop stars more searched for the job to keep them afloat Shashi
Kapoor agreed to what he would receive but a screen test of Hema malini was
done and she passed it with distinction to bag the role
Well the film was a story between the Scientist and a class
dancer who meet accidently and fall in love. That love convereged into a
marriage . the problem started after the marriage where Shashi Kapoor would not
allow his wife to dance in front of the p[ublic on the stage show and the lady
was so adamant and so in great love with her dances that she would not budge to
the whims and the fancies of her husband to give up dancing Ultimately the
marriage stood on the rocks of being separated from each other till the mother
the role played by Nirupa Roy comes in between and saves the marriage That was
the story
Center piece of film
was a song “ O Ghata Sawanari Thodi Hui Baanwari ” : Hema is the DREAM GIRL
During those days the songs used to be the centre piece of
all the attractions. However there would be one song especially in the film
especially on the female who would lead the film and the idea was to highlight
the film through the female lead so as to create a ripple in the box-office .
During the make of Sapnon Ka Saudagar Latadi had sung a song for Hema Malini in
that film but had not seen her in front of her eye . Here it was Mr Subodh
Mukherjee who got Hema Malini introduced to the NIGHUNGLE OF INDIAN MUSIC .
That was the first introduction and that was enough
Latadi exactly
knew how to sing that one for Hema Malini and how to take it to the sky over
the seventh sky in the film. Otherwise too the film was a heroine based
film where the dances of Hema Malini was the bone and the marrow of the film.
Obviously Hema Malini ought to have projected in an manner that carried the
film to the sky and make it a overwhelming success
Obviously that song which I have written here was sung in an
manner to project Hema Malini as a LIVING
ANGEL whom the beauty would seek the
permission to be BEAUTIFUL.
The act that Hema Malini did in this song was simply a class
in itself but the way Latadi sang it to make it the beautiful of the most
beautiful to BEAUTIFY Hema Malini was something the MOST BEAUTIFUL act of the
entire film Well the film released and overwhelmingly the success was the film,
it’s story because of the beautiful acting by Hema Maliniji on that sequence O! GAHA SAANWARI, THODI HUI BAANWARI .
What a SONG, what
beautiful music and the way it was shot on Hema Malini and the way she acted on
the song When the film released it hit the box office It was a SILVER-JUBILEE
starrer. This is the film which made and changed the entire CARREER of Shashi Kapoor
and made Hema Malini the DREAM-GIRL of the Indian film industry The “ SOBRIQUET ” “ Dream
Girl ” to Madam Hema Malini was given to her after the release of this film
Kisi Shayar Ki Ghazal
Dream Girl, Kisi Jheel Ka Ghazal Dream Girl : Kishore Kumar rechristens Dream
Girl
Well- that was in
1970 when the film was a silver jubilee hit after it got released in 1969. By
1976 Dharmendra was finding it very hard to set his place in the film even
after the release of the film Sholay in 1975. Sholay gave Amitabh Bachchan,
Amzad Khan and Sanjeev Kumar more and more lusters’ and a terrific grounding to
feel that their roots in the film industry was as strong as the root of the
banyan tree . However that was not the case with Dharmendra He was getting the
roles but not at that price.He needed the oxygen
Came the film DREAM GIRL in 1976 and a song in it Kisi
Shayar Ki Ghazal Dream Girl. It added the cutting edge in a greatest way of
Madam Hema Malini to be considered as the ORIGINAL and the FIRST Dream Girl of
the Indian industry That song similised Hema Malini all about a dream girl but
that was the song that lengthened the career of Dharmendra as a hero and as a
leading star for a very long duration of time in the film industry One Song and
that made this pair to act in another 22 films as a leading pair of the Indian
film industry In toto Dharmendra and Hema Mailini togethjet have acted in 29
films as a leading pair but this was the song that made it possible
October 16th 1948 is the year when Hema Malini
was born .She stpeed into the Indian film in the Hindi film industry in 1968.
Her first film Sapnon Ka Saudagar hit the screen in 1969 That was she has
completed a GOLDEN JUBILEE of her career in the Indian film industry Beside
that she has also completed her 71 years of her glorious life
THIS ARTICLE IS TO
PAY HER A GLOWING TRIBUTE WITH THE HELP OF THOSE TWO SONG
Carry On Hema
Maliniji – Thanks to you for giving us the GIRL who never dreamt but was a
DREAM GIRL
Thanks and Regards
Shyamal
Bhattacharjee
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