18 Responses to "Dekh tere sansaar ki haalat…Kitna badal gaya insaan"
January 15, 2009 at 12:52 am
I was listening to this song a few days ago, what was true 50-60 years ago is even truer now. Can’t imagine someone trying to compose a song like this or sing it, it would just end up sounding and feeling lame. The voices of today are just not there, the mono sound + lack of clarity add to the charm of this song.
January 15, 2009 at 11:14 pm
This song made me weep when I watched the film, and I ended up just watching it about ten times before I could continue on with the movie. I think Ajit’s face picturized during the song is just amazing, too—he doesn’t do anything but sit there, and it’s so eloquent.
Pradeep too was a genius along the lines of Sahir 🙂 (if I’m allowed to say so considering I need subtitles!)…
January 16, 2009 at 9:09 am
Pradeep wrote and sung with his heart, that is for sure.
August 7, 2009 at 6:25 am
Got delighted, very much satisfied after hearing. Very nice song as well as singing, composition.
September 14, 2009 at 9:10 pm
Amazing lyrics and equally complementary music.
This reminds me another Pradeep/C Ramchandra classic (and sung by Lata) : “Aye mere watan ke logon”
October 3, 2009 at 9:50 pm
Pradeepji as a singer and poet was held in very high esteem.
Though the words were written in late 50s for a song of film Nastik, it really holds true for this modern times which we are seeining now than what happened in those days.
Every word is presently enthroned into the indian society in present day India. When I go to India, I feel we have totally lost our culture and no one has a clue where we are we heading for??
October 26, 2011 at 3:29 pm
Excuse my Indian / Hindi ignorance- is there a youtube of this song with English subtitles – I feel what the song is saying but do not really understand Indian / Hindi – brought up in the west. Please email / rely to davejaswal333@gmail.com.
Dave.
November 1, 2009 at 3:05 pm
I am an admirer of Chitalkar, who combined both Indian classical with the Western. Pradeep’s lyrics have added both lustre and satire to it. What great lyrics depicting the aftermath of partition ! A fine combination in deed and what to speak of Pradeep’s voice ?
November 1, 2009 at 3:33 pm
This is a song that is written and sung by Pradeep from the heart, and one can feel it even today.
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June 22, 2010 at 7:34 pm
This is an evergreen master piece, this brings tears to the eyes, a true dipiction of what is going on today. May we all go back to the good old days.
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May 23, 2011 at 7:38 pm
This is amazing song.when this song was make who was write this song he was looking vry frward fr future..love this song.
January 14, 2009 at 11:50 pm
What a great song! True, we do keep longing for the olden days when things were gentler, and then we are reminded of the times when things weren’t so great even then, as it was during Partition. It is just that as one grows older, one tends to look through rosy spectacles at the past, and everything seems to have been better then. It could also be that as children, our parents sheltered us from the grim realities of life.
In any case, one point is inarguable – our hindi film songs had better lyrics in those days, the lyrics were generally meaningful and appealed to the heart and, most important, were in Hindi and not in English!