जादुई झूला

A 1943 Bombay-made fantasy musical (jadui = magical; jhoola = swing/cradle) produced by Mohan Pictures and directed by A.M. Khan. In the tradition of the 1940s 'magic-and-myth' costume pictures, the film leans on spectacle, devotional set-pieces and a song-heavy structure; its eleven numbers — all composed by Damodar Sharma to Ramesh Chandra Pandey's verses — carry the bulk of its appeal.

All eleven songs were composed by Damodar Sharma — a prolific 1930s–40s composer active from 'Baghdad Ka Chor' (1934) through 'Jadui Chitra' (1948) — to lyrics by Ramesh Chandra Pandey. The set spans devotional numbers ('Radheshyam Ki Aarti Utaru Main', 'Guru Gorakhnath Ki Jholi'), a Holi celebration song ('Aayi Holi Ki Bahar') and romantic/folk pieces, reflecting the genre's mix of bhakti spectacle and festive song. Per-song playback singers are not documented in surviving catalogues.

Jadui Jhoola is a representative artefact of the fantasy genre that filled Bombay's wartime release calendar — a strand of cinema where mythological devotion, magic and folk theatricality met the gramophone-era song reel. Its surviving documentation rests almost entirely on its soundtrack, which catalogues like HindiGeetMala preserve as a complete eleven-song list under Damodar Sharma's baton.