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This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, 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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‘Bride and Prejudice’ (2004) was an English language film produced by Miramax Films, Pathe Pictures, UK Film Council and 5 other film production companies based in the USA and Europe. The film was directed by Gurinder Chadha. The cast included Aishwarya Rai and Martin Henderson in lead roles with the supporting cast of Anupam Kher, Nadira Babbar, Naveen Andrews, Namrata Shirodkar, Meghna Kothari, Piya Roy Chowdhary, Indira Verma, Daniel Gillies, Sonali Kulkarni, Nitin Ganatra etc. The film was shot in the UK, the USA and India. The lead actor, Martin Henderson was born and brought-up in Auckland, New Zealand and now settled in Los Angles with his career in films and TV. Naveen Andrews was born and brought up in London. His parents were immigrants from Kerala. He is now a naturalised US citizen with his career in films and TV.
This film is an attempt by its director, Gurinder Chadha to present a modern version of Jane Austen’s novel, ‘Pride and Prejudice’ in which there are fusion of Indian, British and American cultures. The inter-racial relationship between Lalita (Aishwarya Rai) and William Darcy (Martin Henderson) forms the core issues of tradition, culture and the race in the film with light comical element. In short, the basic themes of the novel, ‘Pride and Prejudice’ have been presented in a way that is relevant in the current century.
From the video clips of the song, it would appear that the director has taken recourse to the Bollywood style with songs and dances forming an important part of the film. There are ‘Naagin’ dance, Bhangra dance and Dandiya dance in the film. There is a song by a popular American singer, Ashanti as an item number. Like most of the Hindi ‘masala’ films, ‘Bride and Prejudice’ (2004) has a love triangle with a mild melodrama, a manipulative mother, a villain and finally the lovers getting united with a Punjabi fat wedding. The good thing about the film is that the ‘masala’ elements by way of manipulative mother, the villain and the fights have been toned down probably to make it palatable to the foreign audience to whom the film is mainly addressed.
The film is not available to watch in India either on any video sharing platform or on OTT platforms. Some snippets of the film are available as well as video clips of the songs on a video sharing platform which gives some story idea about the film. I have, therefore, weaved the story of the film based on the film’s snippets and from the synopsis of the film posted on IMDb. Wherever, I got confused, I have taken recourse to the original novel, ‘Pride and Prejudice’. as almost all the original characters of the novel have been retained in the film. The condensed story of the film is as under:
Amritsar-based Chaman Bakshi (Anupam Kher) and his wife, Manorama Bakshi (Nadira Babbar) is looking for perfect husbands for their four marriageable daughters – Lalita (Aishwarya Rai), Jaya (Namrata Shirodkar), Maya (Meghna Kothari) and Lakhi (Piya Rai Chowdhury). Lalita is hesitant about arranged marriage and prefers marrying a man of her choice.
Balraj Uppal (Naveen Andrews), a London-based barrister visits India to attend his friend’s wedding in Amritsar. He is accompanied by his American friend, William Darcy (Martin Henderson), a hotelier. In the wedding, they meet Bakshi family. While Balraj and Jaya feel attracted to each other, Lalita does not like William Dracy because of his negative opinion about India and Indians.
After the wedding, Balraj, Jaya, William and Lalita visit Goa. During a concert in Goa, Lalita meets Johny Wickham (Daniel Gillies), the son of a nurse who had raised William. Johny reveals to Lalita that William kicked him out of his household as soon as his father passed way. Lalita likes Johny.
Back in Amritsar from Goa, Kohli (Nitin Ganatra), a distance cousin of Bakshis’ who has migrated to the USA and a Green Card holder, visits Bakshi family. His visit is mainly for selecting a girl for his marriage. Manorama likes Kohli and wants Lalita to marry him. But Lalita rejects this proposal. Kohli has proposed Chandra Lamba (Sonali Kulkarni), a close friend of Lalita who has accepted his proposal. They get married and are leaving for the USA for their wedding reception. With all persons left, Lalita and Jaya are disappointed as neither Johny nor Balraj keep in touch with them. On the contrary, Johny is in touch of their younger sister, Lakhi without their knowledge.
Kohli who has gone back to USA along with Chandra for their wedding reception, sends flight tickets to Bakshi family. In the USA, Balraj’s parents have lined up his meeting with his prospective brides. While Bakshis are taking the connecting flight from London to the USA, they meet William who is also taking the same flight to the USA. He exchanges his first-class ticket with Manorama Bakshi’s economy class ticket so that he can sit with Lalita and clear her misunderstanding about him.
Co-incidentally, Kohli’s wedding ceremony is being held in one of Wiiliam’s hotels. Lalita meets William’s sister who reveals that her brother has been talking nice thing about her. With misunderstanding about William cleared, Lalita and Wiiliam are now on good terms and started liking each other. However, at the wedding venue, William’s mother introduces a girl of her choice to William to eventually marry her. William says to his mother that he is in love with Lalita. William’s mother gets annoyed and leaves the venue. She has also tried to create misunderstanding between Balraj and Jaya.
Next day, William goes to meet Lalita only to find that Bakshis have already left for London. When William reaches London and meets Lalita, he comes to know that Lakhi, in the pretext of shopping, has actually gone with Johny. Both William and Lalita go in search of them and find them in a theatre, A fight ensues between Johny and William during which Lakhi is pulled away from Johny. Bakshi family is relieved that Lakhi is back. They also get a good news that Balraj has proposed to Jaya, and she has accepted. Bakshis are back in Amritsar for a twin wedding. Lalita’s marriage with William and Jaya’s marriage with Balraj takes place and they are taken in procession on the two decorated elephants in the midst of a large gathering of guests in keeping with a fat Punjabi wedding.
The film had 7 songs written by Javed Akhtar (4), Dev Kohli (1), Chaman Lal Chaman (1) and Anu Malik (1) which were set to music by Anu Malik. Two songs had English lyrics. I am presenting the first song from the film, ‘balle balle je soniyaa de rang dekh lo’ to appear on the Blog. The song is rendered by Sonu Nigam, Gayatri Iyer and chorus on the lyrics of Chaman Lal Chaman. This is a Punjabi folk wedding song on Bhangra beats. The first part of the song is a teasing one. The second part of the song is the expression of love. I give below a rough English translation of the teasing part of the song:
The boys say: Look at the colours of these beauties who are as free as kites without strings. They move too fast to grab them. Beware that their beauty can sting like bees.
The girls say: O good looking boys, you want to dance. Let us see how good you can dance. You only know how to talk and tease.
The boys reply: You are like sharp knives. You are like electric wires without insulation. If you come close to us, we will get the ‘shock of love’.
The song, choregraphed by Saroj Khan, is fast-paced and is full of energy. The main dancer (in black sherwani) is Naveen Andrews in the role of Balraj in the film. He dances with full energy and pace. In an interview, Saroj Khan stated that she had to teach Naveen Andrews the Bhangra dance steps from scratch and he has come out with a flying colour in this song. According to director, Gurinder Chadha, it took six days to complete the picturisation of the wedding song. The crew members – both Indian and foreigners – were so mesmerised by the rhythm of the song that they impromptu performed on the wedding song after the shooting of the song was completed.
Video Clip:
Audio Clip:
Song-Balle balle je soniya de rang dekh le (Bride and Prejudice)(Eng)(2004) Singers-Sonu Nigam, Gayatri Iyer, Lyrics-Chamanlal Chaman, MD-Anu Malik
Sonu Nigam and a male voice,
Gayatri Iyer and a female voice,
Male Chorus,
Female Chorus
Lyrics (based on audio clip):
hoye hoye
hoye hoye
hoye hoye
hoye hoye
hoye hoye
hoye hoye
o balle balle
o balle balle je soniyaa de rang dekh lo
binaa dor di udh di patang dekh lo
ho balle balle je soniyaa de rang dekh lo
binaa dor di udh di patang dekh lo
aaj munde huye enhan de malang dekh lo
binaa dor di udh di patang dekh lo
ay kudiyaan kudiyaan
ay tikhiyaan chhuriyaan
ay kudiyaan kudiyaan tikhiyaan chhuriyaan
kudiyaan jawan hath na aawan
ho o o
ena pundiyaan de maare huye tang dekh lo
o balle balle je soniya de rang dekh lo
bina dor di udh di patang dekh lo o o
sat sri akal soniyo
sunaao sanoon haal soniyo
sat sri akal soniyo
sunaao sanoon haal soniyo
oh zaraa nach ke dikhaoo
sadde naal soniyo
na soch sawaal soniyon
ehdi kyun chaal soniyo
na soch sawaal soniyo
ehdi kyun chaal soniyo
eh naaraa naaraa naaraa
eh tikhiyaan tejh kataaraa
eh naaraa naaraa naaraa
eh tikhiyaan tejh kataaraa
bijli di nangiyaan taaraa
oh taaraa taaraa taaraa
je kol enaa de aaoge ta
pyaar de chakke khaaoge
je kol enaa de aaoge ta
pyaar de chakke khaaoge
ho o o o o o
ho o o o o
ho o o o o
ho o o o o
baage vich aayaa karo
baage vich aayaa karo
jab chand chup jaawe
tusi mukhdaa dikhaayaa karo
jab chand chup jaawe
tusi mukhdaa dikhaayaa karo
tu aagayaa to bahaar aayi
haseen ho gayi nazaare saare
tu aagayaa to bahaar aayi
haseen ho gayi nazaare saare
maalaa vich phul tangeyaa aa
maalaa vich phul tangeyaa
umraan lang chali aan
par joban nahin langeya
umraan lang chali aan
par joban nahin langeya
hooooooooooooo
ho o o
hooooooooooooo
ho o o
ho o o o o
ho o o o o
aa aa aaa
aa aa aaa
aa aa aaa
aa aa aaa
hmm hmm hmm hmm
hmm hmm hmm hmm
hmm hmm hmm hmm
hmm hmm hmm hmm
aa aa aa aa aaa
aa aa aa aa aaa
hmm hmm hmm hmm
hmm hmm hmm
hmm hmm hmm
hmm hmm hmm
Rang Holi ka niraala
Posted on: March 29, 2021
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“The Right And the wrong”(1970) was written, produced and directed by Harbans (Micky) Kumar for Deluxe Films Corporation. It was the first Carribean (West Indian) colour movie, produced in Trinidad and Tobago, a country with large population of Indian origin emigrants who left India and settled in that as well as neighbouring countries (such as Guyana, Suriname etc) a few centuries ago. Many West Indian Cricketers with Indian sounding names are descendents of those Indian origin people. Names like Sonny Ramadhin, Rohan Kanhai, Alvin Kalicharan, Shivnaraine Chanderpal, Ravi Rampal, Darren Ganga, Ramnaresh Sarwan are familiar to cricket lovers.
“The Right And the wrong”(1970) had Ralph Maharaj, Angela Seukaran, Elain Le Gare, Frant Raiter,Francis ashlby, Gloria Kim david, Holly Betaudier, Jasse mcdonald,Mark mathews, Rasheed Pier khan, Susan Hawkins, Tony Maharaj,Yusuf Ali etc in it.
This movie was set in the era hen these emigrants from India were used by white people as contract labours. The movie was in English but it had two Hindi songs in it. Some Hindi movie names were roped in to create these songs.
One such song is already represented in the blog. This song is sung by Mukesh ! This song (and for that matter the movie itself) was a big hit among Indian origin people of West Indies. If one is not aware, one would consider that song as from an Indian movie. This song, O mere hamraahi kyun tera man ghabraaye was discussed in the blog on 2 January 2009, more than 12 years ago !
It turns out that the second Hindi song from this movie was a Holi festival song ! Today (29 march 2021) is the festival of Holi. These are unusual days for India and the world, when extreme caution is advisable while celebrating festivals. On this occasion, here is this “unusual” Holi song from an English language Carribean movie.
If the earlier song was sung by Mukesh, then this song is sung by Manna Dey. The song also has male and female chorus. Thakur Chhabra is the lyricist. Music is composed by Vedpal Verma.
Lyrics of this song and other details ere sent to me by Prakashchandra.
I take this opportunity to wish everyone a happy and safe Holi.
Audio link:
Video link:
Song-Rang holi ka niraala (The right and the wrong)(1970) Singer-Manna Dey, Lyrics-Thakur Chhabra, MD-Vedpal Verma
Male chorus
Female chorus
All chorus
Lyrics(Provided by Prakashchandra)
aaaa…aaan…aaan…aaan…aaa
aaaan..aaa..aaaa..aaa..aaa.aa
aaa..aaa…aaa…..aaaa
haaaa…aaa….aaa…aaaa…aaa..aaa…aa
hoyye rang holi ka niraalaa
na koyi gora na koyi kaalaa
hamein ek kar daalaa
is rang ne ae
rang daalaa hamein apne hi rang mein hoyye ae ae
o rang holi ka niraalaa
na koyi gora na koyi kaalaa
hamein ek kar daalaa
is rang ne ae
rang daalaa
hoyye hoyye
jaat paat aur bhed bhaav ke ae ae
is ne bandhan todey ae ae
ho o o o ho o ho o o is ne bandhan todey
haayye ae
jhoom jhoom sab naach rahey hain aen aen
mann se mann ko jodey ae
ho o ho o o o mann se man ko jodey
jhoom jhoom sab naach rahey hain
mann se man ko jodey
haayye chhotey badey ko milaayaa
bhed bhaav ko mitaayaa
rang daalaa hamein apne hi rang mein aen
o ho oo oho o o o
ho o o ho o o ho o o ho
ho o oo ooo ho oo
ho o o ho o o oho oo ho oo oo hho hho o ho
rang rangeela phagun aayaa
masti hai ang ang mein aen aen aen aen
bhar pichkaari phaguaa kheley
nar naari sang sang mein
haayye dholak baajey dhamaakk dhamm dhamm
hho gori naachey chhamaakk chhamm chhamm
chhedi pyaar ki aisi sargam
is rang ne ae ae
rang daalaa hamein apne hi rang mein aen
o rang holi ka niraalaa na koyi
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, 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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This is the story of a Telugu man born in Hyderabad in an upper middle-class Naidu family. He completes his schooling in a Boarding school in Yercaud. After graduating in Chemical Engineering from Osmania University, he proceeds to USA and completes M.S. in Chemical Engineering. He gets a good job in the USA as an Environment Consultant. So far so good. The boy has met successfully, the sequential schedules of most of the middle and upper middle-class families – Good schooling and college, higher studies in the USA followed by a good job there. The next in the sequence is finding a good bride for the boy to settle down and showcase him among the family and friends. But at this stage, there a break in the sequence of our Telugu man.
During his stay of about a decade in the USA, our man develops interest in film-making. Perhaps, he was influenced by watching many Hollywood films during his stay in the USA. Slowly, this interest turns into a passion. Now, he finds his job monotonous. One day, he resigns from the job and enroll himself in film making and acting courses. Armed with the story, screen-play and dialogues for his film, he returns to India. He selects himself as the actor who is the protagonist in the story of his first film in the making. He finalises a couple of other actors and actresses who are fresh faces. But his first obstacle in making the film is finding a financier who can invest money in his film.
Our man spends about a year in Mumbai for studying the nuances of film making and also finding a financier. He is disillusioned by the way Bollywood works. He also fails to find a financier for the film. He comes to the conclusion that if he wants to make a film on his own terms, he needs to finance the film himself. So, he goes back to the USA, works there for about a year and saves US$40000/-. With this money, he returns to India for good. In his earlier visit to Hyderabad, he had met a lady who is the boutique fashion shop owner. After audition, he ropes her in the film as an actor and makes her the partner in his film production company. The film’s shooting commences and is completed in 17 days at the total cost of about 17 lakhs. The film is submitted to the Censor Board for certification. And here our man faces the second hurdle.
The Censor Board suggests about two dozen of cuts including a kissing scene to certify the film. Our man visits to meet the Censor Board officials. He finds that if he agrees to the cuts suggested by the Censor Board, the entire sensibility of the film is lost. On the other hand, Censor Board is not prepared to certify the film without the cuts suggested by it. He files an appeal to the Appellate Authority of the Censor Board for the review of the cuts. The Appellate Authority upholds the views of our man. The film is certified without any cut but a couple of words in the dialogues are muted. Now the film is ready for the release. Here our man faces the third obstacle.
The film remains in the cans for nearly a year as no distributor is willing to take up to release the film. First, the film is in English language. Second, the film maker is an unknown entity to the film world apart from the absence of star value in the film’s cast. Third, the film’s story would have attracted only a section of the audience. In desperation, our young man releases the film on Doordarshan in 1997 on a paltry sum of Rs.2 lakh. But this gave the film some exposure to the English-speaking audience.
In the meanwhile, the film is shown in MAMI film festival in Mumbai sometime early 1998 and receives encouraging responses from the festival audience including Shyam Bengal. On the recommendation of Shyam Bengal, one of the leading film distributors of Mumbai watches the film in a preview theater and agrees to distribute the film. The film is released and receives tremendous support from the audience as well as from the critics. The film is a box office success. A new name of the producer-director is added to the list of parallel film-makers in India.
The young Telugu man is Nagesh Kukunoor and his maiden film is ‘Hyderabad Blues’ (1998). The owner of the boutique shop is Elahe Hiptoola who became the partner in Nagesh’s film production company, SIC, besides acting in some of his films and assisting him in the direction. The film revolves around a NRI who after spending a considerable time in the USA, is caught in a cross fire of Indian and foreign cultures. The film was in English language though a few dialogues were in Telugu and Hyderabadi Hindi.
After the success of ‘Hyderabad Blues’ (1998), Nagesh Kukunoor has produced and directed films such as ‘Rockford’ (1999), ‘Bollywood Calling’(2001), ‘3 Deewaaren’ (2003), ‘Hyderabad Blues-2’ (2004), ‘Iqbal’ (2005), ‘Dor’ (2006), ‘Bombay To Bangkok’ (2008), ‘8×10 Tasveer’ (2009), ‘Aashaayein’ (2010), ‘Mod’ (2011), ‘Lakshmi’ (2014), ‘Dhanak’ (2016) etc. Although many of his films have been critically acclaimed, some of which got national and international awards, most of them had failed at the box office collections.
Nagesh Kukunoor also tried his hand in producing and directing a couple of the ‘middle of the path’ films by taking Bollywood stars. In ‘8×10 Tasveer’ (2009), he got Akshya Kumar to play the lead role. In ‘Aashaayein’ (2010), he roped in John Abraham. Both these films did not fare well at the box office. So he has reverted to parallel cinemas again.
‘Rockford’ (1999) was Nagesh Kukunoor’s second film in English which revolved around the story about ‘coming of age’ boy who is admitted to a boarding school. Film shows his transformation from a naive, scared boy into a confident teenager after facing some problems in adjusting to new environment. There is a scene in the film in which he develops a soft corner for the only lady teacher (Nandita Das) in the school. His day-dreaming about singing ‘shokhiyon mein ghola jaaye…’ from ‘Prem Pujaari’ (1970) with the lady teacher is hilarious. He then finds her sitting with PT teacher (Nagesh Kukunoor). Now his imagination takes him to Nagesh Kukunoor singing with the teacher. He becomes jealous. Watch the video.
‘Rockford’ (1999) have six songs of which 2 songs are in Hindi. The song ‘yaaron dosti badi hi haseen hai’ sung by KK is from his non-film album which is used in the film. The other Hindi song which I am presenting today is ‘aasmaan ke paar shaayad aur koi aasmaan hoga’ is rendered by Shankar Mahadevan who has also composed the music with his music partners, Ehsaan Noorani and Loy Mendoca.
This song in CD version is of 6-minute duration. However, in the film, this song is used only for 1:35 minutes in the background of the main credit titles at the beginning of the film probably to set the mood of the film. A promotional video featuring Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy and the three actors in the role of students in the film, namely, Rohan Dey, Imran Mirza and Kailash Athmanathan was also released. The theme of the music video is a trip to the down memory lane. Shankar Mahadevan, in his interview at the time of the release of this music video had revealed that he had composed this song in Raag Jog in combination with Raag Kedar. What a violin interlude between 2:51 and 3:22 in the audio clip in Carnatic music style!
There was no need for me to search as to who wrote lyrics for this song. A reading of the mukhda of the song with unusual imageries undoubtedly pointed to Gulzar. Yes, the lyrics are by Gulzar saab.
baadalon ke parbaton par
koi baarish ka makaan hoga
I like it.
Acknowledgement : The ‘story’ of Nagesh Kukunoor is based on a number of interviews he gave on visual and print media over the years.
Promotional Video Clip :
Audio Clip :
Song-Aasmaan ke paar shaayad aur koi aasmaan hoga (Rockford)(1999) Singer-Shankar Mahadewan, Lyrics-Gulzar, MD-Shankar Ehsan Loy
Chorus
Lyrics (Based on audio clip)
sansana
albela sansana
sansana
albela sansana
aasmaan ke paar shaayad
aur koi aasmaan hogaa
sansana
albela sansana
o
aasmaan ke paar shaayad
aur koi aasmaan hogaa
baadalon ke parbaton par
koi baarish ka makaan hogaa
main hawa ke paron pe kahaan
jaa raha hoon kahaan
kabhi udta huaa
kabhi mudta huaa
mera raasta chala
ho ho ho ho o
main hawa ke paron pe kahaan
jaa raha hoon kahaan
ho ho ho
ho ho ho
ho ho ho
ho ho ho
mere paaon ke tale ki
yeh zameen chal rahi hai
kahin dhoop thhandi thhandi
kahin chhaanv jal rahi hai
is zameen ka aur koi
aasmaan hoga
hogaa aa aa
aasmaan
ho aasmaan hogaa
main hawa ke paron pe kahaan
jaa raha hoon kahaan
in lambe raaston par
sab tez chalte honge
ho o o
in lambe raaston par
sab tez chalte honge
copy ke pannon jaise
yahaan din palate honge
shaam ko bhi subah jaisa
kya sama hogaa
hogaa aa
kya samaa aa
kya shama hogaa
main hawa ke paron pe kahaan
jaa raha hoon kahaan
aasmaan ke paar shaayad
aur koi aasmaan hoga
aur koi aasmaan hoga
baadalon ke parbaton par koi
baarish ka makaan hogaa
hoga
ho o o
main hawa ke paron pe kahaan
jaa raha hoon kahaan
kabhi udta huwa
kabhi mudta huwa
mera raasta chala
o ho ho ho
main hawa ke paron pe kahaan
jaa raha hoon kahaan
main hawa ke paron pe kahaan
jaa raha hoon kahaan
main hawa ke paron pe kahaan
jaa raha hoon kahaan
ho ho ho
ho ho ho
ho ho ho
ho ho ho
ho ho ho
ho ho ho
ho ho ho
ho ho ho
This article is written by Avinash Scrapwala, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in sites like lyricstrans.com and ibollywoodsongs.com etc then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
When this song Khit pit khit karey aur kat kat ke girey was shared, it immediately reminded me of another song which I had heard during 1985-86 either on radio or in the collection of the music centre which I used to visit daily evening during those days.
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