Bengali Films of Salil Chowdhury

Rikshawaala (1953)
(Bengali)
Story: Salil Chowdhury

Lyrics: Song#1 is by Govind Munshi, #2 by Salil

Nr

Song

Singer

Other known variations

Hnd Mal Tam Tel Kan Bng Oth

RW1

Siaram siaram(Hindi) Satinath Mukherjee - - - - - - -

RW2

Aay re o pousaali bataasey Chorus - - - - - - -
The success of this film encouraged Bimal Roy to invite Salil to Bombay. The result was the phenomenally sucessful film "Do Bigha Zameen". The story and the music was done by Salil. Its a great pity that the song "aay re o pousali bataasey " was never released. This is one of Salil's earlier compositions during the IPTA days. Mach later, in 1959 Salil composed a wonderful hindi version of this song naach re dharti ke laal" (lyrics: Shailendra) in the film "Heera Moti" although the music director for "Heera Moti" was Roshan.