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In the year 1966 we found a marvellous रागमालिका composition in the film, ममता . Music director रोशन created memorable melodies for this film,which are worth listening even today.
Film MAMTA was a great movie of सुचित्रा सेन ,who played the double role,one of a mother and the other as her daughter.In miserable conditions mother had to adopt the profession of singing on a ‘kotha ‘.But her daughter is brought up in an elite society under the patronage of film's hero अशोक कुमार,who plays as a famous Barrister and ex-fiancee of the heroine Suchitra Sen .
In a dramatic situation she narrates her past life and coming up to this age to Ashok Kumar.This all is shown through the given raagmalika.
The first song is:
‘हम गवनवा न जैबे हो बिना झूलनी..,
अमवा की डारी पड़ रहीं बुंदियाँ ,
अमवा की डारी पड़ रहीं बुंदियाँ।
अंचरा से उलझे लहरिया,
लहरिया हो बिना झूलनी।
हम गवनवा न जैबै हो बिना झूलनी...।।’composed in राग बसंत- मुखारी .
The second number is:
" सकल वन गगन पवन चलत पुरवाई री।
माई रुत बसंत आयी,
फूलन लागी बेलरिया,
डार डार अमवन की,
कोहरिया रही पुकार,
और मेघवा बूंदन झर लाई।
सकल बन गगन पवन ..…।।"
a द्रुत ख्याल sung in राग खम्माज -बहार .
The next stanza is composed in राग जोगिया, which is:
‘विकल मोरा मनवा उन बिन हाय।
आये ना सजनवा रुत बीती जाए ।।
विकल मोरा मनवा …।।’.
During the rendering of this part of the raagmala,the
passage of time leaving ageing effect ,with the graying of hairs and appearance of wrinkles on face of heroine Suchitra Sen is shown on the screen.
The last part of this raagmalika is:
’भोर पवन चली बुझ गए दीपक,
ढल गयी रैन सिंगार की |
हो ,केस पे बिरहा की धूप ढली,
अरी,एरी कली अंखियन की....
पड़ी कुम्हलाये ||
विकल मोरा मनवा,उन बिन हाय ।।
युग से खुले हैं पट नैनन के मोरे,
युग से अन्धेरा मोरा आँगना |
हो ,सूरज चमका न चाँद खिला,
अरी ,एरी जला रही अपना...
तन मन हाय ||
विकल मोरा मनवा...।।’. composed in राग पीलू .
In the film this last part was not shown in video, but it is available on audio tracks. This रागमालिका was sung by लता मंगेशकर ,pouring her heart and soul in it and making it immortal.The beautiful lyrics of the रागमालिका were written by poet मजरूह सुल्तानपुरी .
We can very easily understand the complicated philosophy of human life in a different perspective, looking into it through the ‘SARGAM’ of music. The existence of human life since its birth till death, is through its physical body,created out of five basic elements of nature.Death symbolizes the end of life.The सरगम of music has seven basic notes: सा ,रे ,गा ,म ,प् ,ध and नि whereas the physical human body is also said to be made of these five natural elements:Earth(क्षिति ),Water(जल ),Fire(पावक ),Sky(गगन ) and Air(समीर ) {Ref. रामचरितमानस :क्षिति जल पावक गगन समीरा | पञ्च तत्वा यह मनुज शरीरा ||}.We can now investigate,how these seven musical notes of ‘सरगम ’, show their perfect identity, with the whole span of human life. As our body life exists between its birth and its death, similarly, five musical notes are enclosed between 'सा ' and 'नि '.The sargam begins with 'सा ' and also the birth of a child is rejoiced in the family and community by singing of folk song 'सोहर '.The last seventh note of sargam is 'नि ' and also the ultimate end of life is Death which is consoled by singing of philosophical song 'निर्गुण '.The remaining five notes exactly represent the five elements, constituting the human body.Here 'रे ' stands for'रोहिताश्वा or fire(पावक )','गा ' stands for 'गगन or sky','म ' stands for'मरुत or air(समीर ),'प् ' stands for 'पावस /पयोधि or water(जल )', 'ध stands for 'धरती /पृथ्वी or earth(क्षिति ).In this way we see that music is a real representation of human life.It is an integral part of our lives.Thus how can a person dislike music at all ? Music cannot be seperated from human life,both are complimentary to each other.
