Aanki chali baanki chali
Posted on: July 23, 2013
This article is written by Pamir Harvey, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
With this song Namkeen (1982) makes its debut on this blog. Namkeen is the story of an old woman and her three daughters, as Gulzar says, in their incomplete family (adhooraa saa parivaar). The elder daughter, Nimki (Sharmila Tagore) has passed the age of marriage (Gulzar’s words, not mine), the middle one Mitthu (Shabana Azmi) is speech-impaired and the youngest is Chinki (Kiran Vairale), who is very cheeky. In this family arrives as a paying guest the truck driver Gherulal.
The three sisters are shown pounding grain in the song and going about their work and singing this song with partly nonsense words. Gulzar additionally puts in the words pantaa bhate tattkaa baigun poraa, which geographically doesn’t make sense, since they are Bangla words of a brinjal dish. I have been told that it means “fresh eggplant roast in wet rice”.
I think the issh issh noise is not a human voice but from an instrument or something else, but since one can see the actresses moving lips to it, I’ve included it in the lyrics. Enjoy!
Audio
Video
Song-Aanki chali baanki chali (Namkeen) (1982) Singer-Asha Bhonsle, Lyrics-Gulzar, MD-R D Burman
Chorus
Lyrics
issh issh issh issh
issh issh issh issh
issh issh issh issh
issh issh issh
hmm hmm hmm hmm
baanke chali
hmmm hmmm hmm hmmm
jhaanki chali
aa aa aa a aa aa aa aa
paantaa bhate
tattkaa baigun poraa
hahahahaha
hahahahaha
hahahahaha
aanki chali
baanki chali
chowrangi mein
jhaanki chali
aa aa aa aa aa aa aa aa
paantaa bhate
tattkaa baigun poraa
ho o o o
issh issh issh issh
issh issh issh issh
issh issh issh issh
issh issh issh
ek gali se jhuman nikle
ek gali se jhuniyaa
beech sadak mein
ho gayi shaadi
bhaad mein jaaye duniya
ho bhaad mein jaaye duniya
jhoom jhoom jhoom jhoom ke naache
naache jhuniyaa baai
sau sau phere lewe jhuman
khoob baji shehnaai
ho o o o
aanki chali
baanki chali
chowrangi mein
jhaanki chali
paantaa bhate
tattkaa baigun poraa
ho o o o
issh issh issh issh
issh issh issh issh
issh issh issh issh
issh issh issh
jhuman ke ghar beti janmi
jhuniyaa jaise gaal
moonch marod ke nikle jhuman
jaa pahunche sasuraal
ho jaa pahunche sasuraal
baat baat pe Faarsi boley
paani maange aab
pyaase mar gaye jhuman miyaan
par na chhodi taab
o o o o o o o o o o o
aanki chali
baanki chali
chowrangi mein
jhaanki chali
paantaa bhate
tattkaa baigun poraa
ho o o o
issh issh issh issh
issh issh issh issh
issh issh issh issh
issh issh issh
jeem se jummaa
jeem jalebi
jhuman jhuniyaa jeem
alif bey ki patti padhke
jhuman huwe hakeem
haan jhuman huwe hakeem
phool phool ke
phulkaa phoole
pichak pichak pichkaari
nimki daawe
kattha choonaa
mitthu paan supaari
o o o o o o o o o o o
aanki chali
baanki chali
chowrangi mein
jhaanki chali
paantaa bhate
tattkaa baigun poraa
ho o o o
issh issh issh issh
issh issh issh issh
issh issh issh issh
issh issh issh
paantaa bhate
tattkaa baigun poraa
4 Responses to "Aanki chali baanki chali"
July 31, 2014 at 4:46 pm
Hi. Though I’m not a regular at this blog, I do use it as a resource tool from time to time when I want to know more about a particular song or movie.
Came looking to find the significance of the Bengali words in the lyrics, but the post doesn’t have much to go on. Any updates available? Thanks in advance.
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February 7, 2022 at 4:24 am
Wonderful!! 👍👍👍 Many thanks for the meaning of those Bengali words…
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