Sun ri sakhi meri pyaari sakhi
Posted on: January 30, 2023
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A R Rahman started his filmy career as an independent music director with ‘Roja’ (1992) in Tamil which became a super hit film with its music playing an important role for the film’s popularity. About a year later, Hindi dubbed version of ‘Roja’ was released which also became a hit. I observe from the filmography of A R Rahman that 3 Tamil/Malayalam films out of his first 4 films were dubbed in Hindi and released. This may be a sort of record for A R Rahman at the beginning of his career as a music director among the music directors of South Indian films in the similar situation. Subsequently, some more Tamil films for which A R Rahman was the music director were dubbed in Hindi. One of the very successful films was ‘Kadhalan’ (1994) [English meaning: Loverboy] which was dubbed in Hindi with the title ‘Hamse Hai Muqabala’ (1995). The Hindi dubbed version of the film got Censor Certificate on May 31, 1995. The film was produced by K T Kunjumon and directed by S Shankar. Prabhu Deva and Nagma were in the lead role supported by S P Balasubrahmanyam, Girish Karnad, Vadivelu, Raghuvaran etc.
In an interview published in E-Times of India dated September 17, 2019, on the occasion of the completion of 25 years of the release of the film, K T Kunjumon, the producer of the film revealed that he and S Shankar, the director decided to work on the box office tested love story of a middle-class boy with a girl of an affluent and influential family. To develop the story further, Kunjumon gave an idea of fictionalization of the cold war then going on between the Chief Minister Jayalalitha and the Governor Dr Channa Reddy. Since Kunjumon was himself a functionary of AIADMK in Kerala, the Governor was made the villain in the film’s story.
In this film, all the ingredients for the box office success such as romance, dances, songs, villain, fights etc were included. The only worry for the producer and the director was the audience’s reactions to Prabhu Deva as a lead actor. In all his earlier films, Prabhu Deva had worked as a dancer and at most in a cameo role in the song sequence. To overcome the likely adverse reactions to Prabhu Deva as the lead actor, the producer and the director decided to make the film appealing to the audience, by making use of visual effects and animations in the songs.
‘Kadhalan’ (1994) became a super hit film which was beyond the expectations of the film makers as well as of the trade circles. The film’s songs became very popular. The film got five National Awards – four in the technical categories and one to debut playback singer, P Unnikrishnan, who sang Ennavale adi ennavale in Tamil. With more than expected success of the film on the box office front, the producer decided to dub the film in Hindi with the title. ‘Hamse Hai Muqabala’ (1995) for wider audience. Even Hindi version of the film became a box office hit.
The story of ‘Hamse Hai Muqabala’ (1995) which I have come to know only recently, did not motivate me to watch the film. To me, it was a wild imagination to show a constitutional head of a State as the initiator of the terrorist activities in his State to prove the breakdown of law and order situation thus facilitating the dismissal of the state government. The 9 songs of the film are musical treats, and I am happy restricting myself to watching the video clips of the songs. I will not miss the visual effects shown in the film as they are mainly used in the song picturization. All the songs have been written by P K Mishra. One song from the film has been represented on the Blog.
The two most popular songs of the film, if I go by the number of times, they were shown on the TV music channels in the year 1995 were ‘muqabala muqabala’ and ‘urvasi urvasi’. The immense popularity of these two songs seems to have sidelined in the popularity chart, my favourite song from the film, ‘sun ri sakhi meri pyaari sakhi’ which I am discussing here. The song is rendered by Hariharan. I have also enjoyed listening to the song’s Tamil equivalent, Ennavale adi ennavale rendered by debutant playback singer, P Unnikrishnan.
This song has everything. The beautiful lyrics by P K Mishra, the pleasing to the ear melody, the novelty in the orchestration, the soulful rendition by Hariharan and nicely picturised on Prabhu Deva and Nagma with visual effects in a picturesque location gives a feel of sublime love song. For P K Mishra, it is not an easy work of transliteration of Tamil song into Hindi as he has to find the appropriate Hindi words to match the lip syncing of Tamil words on actors in the song picturisation. So, in some lines, P K Mishra has used words in Hindi which is not the exact translation but broadly in line with the mood of the song.
I often get a feel of spirituality in A R Rahman’s musical compositions in which the semi-classical melody is blended with soulful orchestrations. For example, the violin played between 1:58 – 2:18 and the flute (probably played by Naveen Kumar) between 3:30 – 3:48 of the song provide the synergy of soul and exuberant. Another feature of the song is that Hariharan sings in a higher octave (pitch) some lines in the song to emphasise the genuineness of love. The wordings of the song also give me a feel of the Radha-Krishna song. This is more pronounced when I listen to the audio clip.
The song has a classical Carnatic touch. A couple of comments on ‘ennavale adi ennavale’ suggest that the song is based on Carnatic raag Neelambari. A further search on Youtube reveals that this raag is mainly used for singing lullaby. Truely, listening to this song makes me to close eyes with mind relaxed. I have listened to this song as well as its Tamil version many times during the last few days and my interest in the song has not diminished.
Video Clip:
Audio Clip (Full)
Song-Sun ri sakhi meri pyaari sakhi (Ham Se Hai Muqaabla)(1995) Singer-Hariharan, Lyrics-P K Mishra, MD-A R Rahman
Unidentified female singer
Lyrics (based on Audio Clip):
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sun ri sakhi meri pyaari sakhi
yeh dil kahin khoya hai mera
jaane kahaan ise bhool gaya
nahin kuchh bhi hai mujhko pata
teri paayal mein maine dhoondh liya
tere kadmon tale sajni
pyaar kiya to jaan gaya
yeh mushkil hai kitni ee
meri saanson mein tera pyaar basa
aankhon mein tumhin sajni ee
sun ri sakhi meri pyaari sakhi
yeh dil kahin khoya hai mera
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kaise tujhe izhaar karoon main
haalat iss dil ki
tan mein man mein iss dhadkan mein
ho rahi halchal si
dekhe bina tujhe lagti hai
ik yug si ek ghadi
sab nazren jo dekh rahin
mere dil mein dahshat si
yeh swarg hai
yaa nark hai
mujhko hosh nahin
meri zindagi aur maut hai
ab haath mein tere hi…ee ee ee
sun ri sakhi meri pyaari sakhi
yeh dil kahin khoya hai mera
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koyaliya tu kah de
to tujhe geet sunaaun main
naagmani teri naagin si
zulfon ko sanwaaroon main
chandramukhi tujhe neend nahin
to lori sunaaun main
thhandi hawa nahin lag jaaye
tujhe chunari odaaun main
mere pyaar ki jo baat hai
kaanon mein bataaun main
tere kadamon ke jo nishaan hain
yaadon mein basaaun main…aen aen aen
sun ri sakhi meri pyaari sakhi
yeh dil kahin khoya hai mera
jaane kahaan ise bhool gaya
nahin kuchh bhi hai mujhko pata
teri paayal mein maine dhoondh liya
tere kadamon tale sajni
pyaar kiya to jaan gaya
yeh mushkil hai kitni
meri saanson mein tera pyaar basa
aankhon mein tumhin sajni
sun ri sakhi meri pyaari sakhi
yeh dil kahin khoya hai mera
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