Dhoop ke makaan sa ye
Posted on: April 2, 2013
This article is written by Peevesie, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
What makes a song beautiful? Is it its lyrics, its music, the instrumentation or the vocal quality? The best songs have all four in common, but some songs that we like can be for even one of the above reasons. A lot of people like to proclaim that the current set of songs do not have the same quality as older songs. I do not even know when the time period for new songs does begin and which songs get classified as old.
This especially got noticed by me in my college lab the other day when my classmates and I were working on our final year dissertations while my laptop was playing music to keep us from breaking down from the stress. After a couple of songs, a classmate remarked about how she never gets to hear these old songs anymore and how she would like to copy them from my collection. The songs were “Meri Saanson mein basa hai” from Aur pyaar ho gaya and “Ramta jogi” from Taal, both movies from the 90’s.
A parallel incident occurred in the preceding week that involved my mother. She was listening one afternoon to a local radio station that was celebrating the birthday of Hindi Film actor, Shashi Kapoor. Being a fan, she called the radio station and surprisingly got through. She requested for a lesser played song of the actor from the 70’s but was told that their database wouldn’t have such an old song and was offered alternate songs that are played to death.
Both incidents provoked the question in my mind, shouldn’t a song be judged on its own with any prejudice based on the year it was created removed. This prejudice puts a person like me in a weird limbo. In class, I am banned from playing songs that are dated before the 90’s. They are all supposedly “black and white” waale gaane which are boring. And I got that comment for the song “jab pyar kisise hota hai” which shows it is the era they judged not the song. While Atul refuses to post requests I make for songs after 2000 (Or even 1988 for that matter). My lyrics contribution for “dil mein jo baat” from Run has been long pending.
Today the song I want to post is again a song from the recent years. After a lot of waiting I decided to write an article for it myself, which I thought is the only way it will get posted. I had originally sent it for the birthday of one my favourite actors from the new set of actors that the last decade gave us – Imran Khan, who comes from a lineage of Film Professionals such as Nasir Hussain, Mansoor Khan and Aamir Khan. The song is one that is very dear to me. The lyrics, the tune, the voices used are all just perfect for the song. The song is from his Movie, Break Ke Baad which was directed by Danish Aslam and was released in 2010. The song has been composed by Vishal-Shekhar. The vocals are by Shekhar Ravijani and Sunidhi Chauhan in both versions of the song. The lyrics are by Prasoon Joshi. Hopefully now atul will listen to the song. 🙂
Video
Audio
Song-Dhoop ke makaan sa ye (Break Ke Baad)(2010) Singers-Shekhar Ravijani, Sunidhi Chauhan, Lyrics-Prasoon Joshi, MD-Vishal Shekhar
Lyrics
Baarish hai khayaalon mein
sab dhul jayega
raoshan rasta naya
ek khul jaayega
beh jaayega
tinka tinka kal ka silsila
chalo
mil jayega
aur ek haseen kaafila
chalo
dhoop ke makaan sa yeh
hai safar dhalaan sa yeh
mod meherbaan sa hai yeh
ho dhoop ke makaan sa yeh
hai safar dhalaan sa yeh
mod meherbaan sa hai yeh
Chhat tapakti hai kabhi ehsaas ki
yaad aati hai puraane pyaas ki
par naye naye baadal baras kar jhoomte hain
boond ki ladiyon se maathha choomte hain
bheegne ki yeh ghadi hai
ek nayi rut sang khadi hai
Baat chhoti par badi hai ae ae ae ae
Dhoop ke makaan sa yeh
Hai safar dhalaan sa yeh
Mod meherbaan sa hai yeh
Dhoop ke makaan sa yeh
Hai safar dhalaan sa yeh
Mod meherbaan sa hai yeh
Na na na na na na nan a nan a na
Na na na na na na nan a nan a na
Kitni oonchi shaakh pe khushiyon ke pal
phir bhi khushboo tod li humne uchal
haan
kaanch ka saamaan thhe aur gir gaye hum
jod kar khud ko banaane phir gaye hum
door dariya ke kinaare
zindagi karti ishaare
aasmaan pe hain naye taare
Dhoop ke makaan sa yeh
hai safar dhalaan sa yeh
mod meherbaan sa hai yeh
dhoop ke makaan sa yeh
hai safar dhalaan sa yeh
mod meherbaan sa hai yeh
6 Responses to "Dhoop ke makaan sa ye"
April 3, 2013 at 7:13 am
Peevesie,
I had heard this song many times on TV thanks to my grand daughter. But it is for the first time I have realised that this song has lovely lyrics.
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April 3, 2013 at 11:48 am
Peevesie ji
Me too, like Imran Khan, He is my favourite actor. Thank you for the nice post and the lyrics of nice song.
Prakash
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
April 3, 2013 at 12:09 am
There are good singers, lyricists and musicians in the current era too, but only a handful. They still make good music from time to time, but in general today’s music lacks the melody and soul. Earlier, even B-Grade movies had nice compositions. If the ratio of good versus bad music was 80 to 20, now its less than 20 to 80. So to speak.
Most of the music is club music or geared towards taking people to the dance floor. Sunidhi Chauhan here is also known mostly for her “item songs”. Remix seems to rule the day. Almost every album has 3-4 songs and 3-4 remixes of the same, thanks to Himesh Reshammia, who started this trend back in 2005 or so.
With 24×7 media around, emphasis is mostly on videos, and not so much on audios. So music doesnt have time to grow on radio listeners like before. Earlier also, if the song was too long, they would drop a stanza from the picturization. But that would happen to a handful of songs. Nowadays, almost every song is 6-7 mins audio and 3 mins or so of video. Because of westernization, usual movie making formulas are out, and everyone is trying to make “hatke” movies while trying to reduce the movie time according to western norms. So 2.5-3 hrs movies are becoming 1.5-2hrs and songs are mostly being used as “background” songs and there is less and less lip syncing involved. That doesnt help either. We have only a few “song situations” remaining in the movies – either its an item/dance song, or a happy/romance song for the background, or sad/philosophical/life song in the background. Rarely u see a holi song etc since its still a fun festival, but otherwise, diwali, rakhi, brother-sister, family situations, etc are becoming extinct, cause there is no family anymore in the movies. I’m not saying they are completely gone, but they are on their way…
I’m not a writer, but these blogs give me a platform to express my thoughts, thanks to world wide web. Similarly, anyone with a remix software becomes a DJ and launches own albums! So many reality shows and music shows, keep bringing new folks not necessarily with the talent. So u dont have a continuity like before when a few singers ruled the scene. All top singers had close to thousand movie songs or more. Now every movie introduces a new singer. If u get 4-5 songs to sing during a year, its a success. Kunal Ganjawala, for example, has been singing since 1996 and has barely 250 songs. Sonu Nigam is almost being sidelined these days and i doubt he would reach 1000 songs either. So every movie/every song brings a new voice and there is no continuity for the listener to “connect” with the singer/musician/style like they did with Lata/Asha/Kishore/Rafi or even with Kumar Sanu/Udit Narayan/Alka Yagnik/Kavita Krishnamurthy, etc. All these websites were celebrating birthday of Amey Date. I looked it up and he has like total 5 songs in 5 years career! With so much competition and the crowded scene, people need to get famous to survive so that they can become participants in the reality shows, celebrity judge in competition shows, etc. And hence singers also need to be “beautiful” and “attractive” to the audience. So just like “beauty queens” passing as actresses these days, beautiful singers are also being marketed.
Most of the population is stupid. Thats how 1% of population owns 99% of the wealth and controls 99% of population. If u keep feeding garbage, people would get used to it eventually. Thats the name of the game in everything in life. So why music/bollywood should be any different?
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April 3, 2013 at 7:00 am
bluefire,
A well articulated comment. In fact, it is an article on the current scenarios in Bollywood in general and the film music in particular.
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April 3, 2013 at 10:36 am
bluefire ji,
You have perhaps echoed the thoughts of many people like me,who would not have been able to put it the way you have done.
The basic factors for this change are-the values,needs,goals and modes of achieving all this have drastically changed.
In the eyes of seniors this is degeneration,but today’s generation is happy with all this,because where are the old values remaining?
I,however,feel it is not right to judge today’s things with Yesterday’s measures/standards/methods. The comparison becomes uneven,if it is not ‘like with like’ basis.
If today’s youth is happy with today’s music,so be it.
To each his own!
-AD
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April 3, 2013 at 11:58 pm
Thanks Kamathji and Arunji for ur feedback. Didnt plan to write such a long comment, just happened. Its really not about old versus new generation. We used to have Helen and Padma Khanan doing Mungda Mungda and Husn Ke Laakhon Rang before too, so there are no issues with Munni Badnaam or Sheila Ki Jawani. Since we are talking about music and bollywood, wont go off-tangent, but would like to add one thing though that I dont really believe that movies these days are just a reflection of the society and values. In fact, in my opinion, for the past decade, bollywood is just being used to force down agendas on people in a subtle fashion. For example, may be people are not religious/ritualistic like before, but everyone i know, even the ones living in metros in India are somewhat religious, taking pilgrimages and so on. We read reports of so many people dying at Kumbh Melas. But if u watch the current bollywood, u would think no one believes in god or prays. There are no more temple songs and so on. That i dont think is a true representation of the society, even the urban one. Its more like shove down the thoughts/philosophy down the throats of people to “change” society.
Regards.
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