Sun zara sun zara aaya hai pi ka sandesaa
Posted on: July 17, 2023
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‘Well Done Abba’ (2010) was produced under the banner of Reliance Big Pictures and was directed by Shyam Benegal. The main actors in the film are Boman Irani who played a double role of twin brothers and Minisha Lamba in the role of his daughter/niece. Other major actors in the film were Sameer Dattani, Ila Arun, Ravi Kishan, Sonali Kulkarni, Rajit Kapur, Ravi Jhankal, Yashpal Sharma, Rajendra Gupta, Rahul Singh, Salim Ghouse, Lalit Tiwari, Ayesha Jaleel, Deepika Amin etc. The film was majorly shot in Ramoji Film City and Ibrahimpatnam village near Hyderabad. The film was premiered at the Montreal International Film Festival in August 2009. It was later shown at London International Film Festival in October 2009 and at Dubai International Film Festival in December 2009. The film was released in India on March 26, 2010.
The film’s story is based on three short stories – (1) ‘Narsaiyyan Ki Bawdi’ by Jeelani Bano, (2) ‘Phoolwa Ka Pul’ by Sanjeev and (3) ‘Still Waters’ by Jayant Kripalani. The film is a political and social satire, a sort of black comedy in which some of the distressing issues in a village is presented in humorous ways.
It may be noted that in ‘Welcome To Sajjanpur’ (2008) also, Shyam Benegal has presented the story of a village as a political and social satire. Incidentally, during the making of these two films, Shyam Benegal was a member of Rajya Sabha (2006-12). Probably, he may have got the inspiration to make these two films from his exposures to the proceedings of the Rajya Sabha sessions.
The film is presented as his own storytelling by a driver, Armaan Ali (Boman Irani) to his boss (Rahul Singh) as to what led him to prolong his leave from one month to three months for visiting his native place in a village in, what is now Telangana. His boss is furious when Armaan resume duty after 3 months. He decides to sack Armaan for his indiscipline. However, before getting sacked, Armaan requests his boss to listen to his side of the story. However, his boss has no time to listen as he has to immediately leave on a tour to Pune. Armaan persuades his boss to allow to drive him to Pune during which he would narrate the reasons for his extended leave. If he is not convinced, he would leave the job after reaching Pune. The entire film is in flashback mode, based on Armaan’s narratives to his boss during the road journey on Mumbai-Pune Expressway. Armaan Ali’s true stories, though distressing, are not only hilarious but also bizarre to some extent.
The gist of the story narration in the film is as under:
After taking one month’s leave, widower, Armaan Ali (Boman Irani), the driver in a company in Mumbai, has gone to his native place to fix the marriage of his daughter, Muskaan Ali (Minisha Lamba). Armaan finds that the village is facing a scarcity of water for a long time. The Government has advertised that those below the poverty line (BPL) having the agricultural land holding of 2.5 acres and less, can get a Bawdi (well) constructed with 100% Government grants. Armaan decides to build a well on his piece of land. This is the beginning of Armaan’s tryst with bureaucratic processes involved in the construction of the well.
Armaan faces obstacles at every stages of processing of his application for the construction of a well – from getting BPL Certificate, Index of Land to prove the ownership of the land, inspection of the site by the Jr. Engineer, submission of photographs of the progress of the well construction etc. All these process turns out to be a bribery scam run by the bureaucrats. As a result, Armaan is left with no money to construct the well as almost all money he gets in three installments of grant is exhausted in paying bribes.
Watching her father in a distressing mood after he fails to get his well constructed, Muskaan decides to step in and takes the help from Arif (Samir Dattani). The two have soft corner for each other. They get to know through Right to Information Act that there are some more villagers who were all cheated in the bribery scam run by the bureaucrats for the construction of wells. Armed with the photos showing the progress of the construction of the well (which were printed by the Government approved photographer by using the photoshop editing tools), the letter of disbursal of grants, the letter of verification by the Government engineer and the receipt of the money received by the contractor, Muskaan lodges a FIR in the police station that someone has ‘stolen’ all the newly constructed wells. Police Inspector (Rajit Kapur) is intrigued as to how the wells can be ‘stolen’. His inspection reveals that none of the wells are in existence in the village.
Armaan knows that State’s assembly election is due, and this is the right time to bring this issue to the notice of the Government. He arranges the morcha of the affected villagers to the Irrigation Minister (Rajendra Gupta) who assures Armaan that he would get the matter sorted out. But emotionally, Armaan is so much affected by the entire process that he decides not to drink water from now onwards until he gets water from his own well. The news of morcha and the Amaan’s fast of not drinking water get prominence in the newspapers and TV news channels with the interviews of Armaan and Muskaan.
The State Government also faces the ‘no confidence motion’ by the opposition members on this issue which would come for discussion after a week. The irrigation Minister is anxious that the matter of ‘stolen’ wells is resolved before the ‘no confidence motion’ comes for discussion. He orders his bureaucrats to organize machinery and laborers to get all the ‘stolen’ wells constructed well before the ‘no confidence motion’ is taken up for discussion in the assembly. At the end, Armaan gets his dream of having a well in his land fulfilled along with other affected villagers. He breaks his fast by drinking water from his newly constructed well.
Along with his pre-occupation with the construction of the well, Armaan has also tried his best to fix Muskaan’s marriage. But he is not successful as the prospective grooms’ families do not agree to the marriage proposal because Muskaan does not like to wear hijab and burqa and wishes to continue her education after her marriage. Knowing very well that both Muskan and Arif like each other, finally, Armaan goes to Arif’s father (Lalit Tiwari) with the marriage proposal of Muskaan with Arif who gladly agrees for the marriage without any precondition. The marriage is solemnized.
There are some more sub-plots in the story of the film which I have avoided as the article will become too long. There is more fun in watching the film than reading the film’s story.
In this film, Boman Irani has given yet another brilliant performance in continuation of his earlier performances in the films like ‘Khosla Ka Ghosla’ (2006) and ‘3 Idiots’ (2009). I am surprised by the excellent performance of Minisha Lamba. She has completely transformed herself from a modern girl in her other films to a village girl with her immaculate mannerism and dialogue delivery. All other actors in the film, even in minor roles have performed well.
The film was successful at the box office. It won the National Award for the Best Film with a Social Message.
‘Well Done Abba’ (2010) had 5 songs written by Ashok Mishra (3), Swanand Kirkire (1) and Ila Arun (1). One song each was the theme song played in the background during the main credit titles at the beginning and the detailed credit titles at the end of the film. All the songs were set to music by Shantanu Moitra.
I am presenting the first song from the film, “Sun Zara Sun Zara Aaya Hai Pi Ka Sandesa” to appear on the Blog. This duet song is rendered by Shreya Ghoshal and Rupankar with chorus. The song is written by Swanand Kirkire. I did not find this song in the film if I go by the DVD of the film I watched on one of the OTT platforms. It appears that the song was deleted from the film as only the prelude music of the song is heard in the film when Arif Ali (Sameer Dattani) and his love interest, Muskaan Ali (Minisha Lambha) exchanges messages on their mobiles.
My hunch is that the song was planned to be picturised on them while exchanging the messages on their mobiles. Probably, song did not make it to the final print of the film. Incidentally, Rupankar, in his interview which was published on Calcutta Times of The Times of India (date unknown) had revealed that while recording the song, music director, Shantanu Moitra had told him that the song would need the approval from Shyam Benegal to appear in the film’s soundtrack.
With this song, Rupankar (Bagchi) made his debut in Hindi films as a playback singer. Rupankar is a well-known singer-lyricist-actor-composer in Bangla films and non-film songs. He is also a guitarist.
Audio
Song-Sun zara sun zara aaya hai pi ka sandesa (Well Done Abba)(2010) Singer-Shreya Ghoshal, Rupankar, Lyrics-Swanand Kirkire, MD-Shantanu Moitra
Chorus
Female chorus
Lyrics
sun zara sun zara
aaya hai pi ka sandesa
sun zara sun zara
aaya hai pi ka sandesa
hawa mein udd udd ke aaya hai
aaya hai pi ka sandesa aa
fiza mein ghul ghul ke poochhe hai
jiya tera haal hai kaisa aa aa aa
sun zara sun zara
sandesa ishq ka andesa
sun zara sun zara
sandesa ishq ka andesa
hawa mein udd udd ke aaya hai
aaya hai pi ka sandesa..aa
fiza mein ghul ghul ke poochhe hai
jiya tera haal hai kaisa aa aa
sun zara sun zara
aaya hai pi ka sandesa
sun zara sun zara
aaya hai pi ka sandesa
sandesa..aaaaa
sandesa
ishq kaa…aa sandesa
ambar resham zari mein
taaron ko bun ke laaya
sandesa tera sandesa
haaye sandesa
mausam wo saare saare
lafzon mein chunke laaya
sandesa are sandesa
haaye sandesa
arre dil to o hatheli pe hai
rog laga hai hamein jaane kaisa
ik haseen khwaab saa
chamka kare hai tera sandesa
ummeeden jagaaye hai tera sandesa
arre haay ram
hamen ishq ka hai andesa
sandesa..aaaaaa
sandesa
ishq kaa..aa sandesa
sun zara sun zara
aaya hai pi ka sandesa
sun zara sun zara
aaya hai pi ka sandesa
hmm
baadal patang dil ki dori se baandhe
laaya sandesa
tera sandesa
haan sandesa aa
jaise malang dil mein dhooni ramaaye
tera sandesa
haan sandesa
ho sandesa
dil to hatheli pe hai
rog laga hai hamen jaane kaisa
ek haseen khwaab sa
chamka kare haaye tera sandesa
umeeden jagaaye tera sandesa aa
arre haay ram
hamen ishq ka hai andesa
sandesa..aaaaaa
sandesa
ishq kaa….aa sandesa
sun zara sun zara
sandesa ishq ka andesa
sun zara sun zara
sandesa ishq ka andesa
ho o o
hawa mein udd udd ke aaya hai
aaya hai pi ka sandesa aa
fiza mein ghul ghul ke poochhe hai
jiya tera haal hai kaisa
hmm hmm hmm hmm
sun zara sun zara
aaya hai pi ka sandesa
sun zara sun zara
aaya hai pi ka sandesa
sandesa..aaaaaaa
sandesa
sun zara sun zara
aaya hai pi ka sandesa
ishq kaa….aa sandesa
sun zara sun zara
aaya hai pi ka sandesa
sandesa..aaaaaa
sandesa
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Hindi script lyrics (Provided by Sudhir)
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सुन ज़रा सुन ज़रा
आया है पी का सँदेसा
सुन ज़रा सुन ज़रा
आया है पी का सँदेसा
हवा में उड़ उड़ के आया है
आया है पी का सँदेसा॰॰आ
फिज़ा में घुल घुल जे पूछे है
जिआ तेरा हाल है कैसा॰॰आ॰॰आ॰॰आ
सुन ज़रा सुन ज़रा
सँदेसा इश्क़ का अंदेसा
सुन ज़रा सुन ज़रा
सँदेसा इश्क़ का अंदेसा
हवा में उड़ उड़ के आया है
आया है पी का सँदेसा॰॰आ
फिज़ा में घुल घुल जे पूछे है
जिआ तेरा हाल है कैसा॰॰आ॰॰आ॰॰आ
सुन ज़रा सुन ज़रा
आया है पी का सँदेसा
सुन ज़रा सुन ज़रा
आया है पी का सँदेसा
सँदेसा॰॰आ॰॰आ
सँदेसा
इश्क़ का॰॰आ॰॰आ सँदेसा
अंबर रेशम ज़री में
तारों को बुन के लाया है
सँदेसा तेरा सँदेसा
हाय सँदेसा
मौसम वो सारे सारे
लफ़्ज़ों में चुन के लाया है
सँदेसा अरे सँदेसा
हाय सँदेसा
अरे दिल तो हथेली पे है
रोग लगा है हमें जाने कैसा
इक हसीन ख्वाब सा
चमका करे है तेरा सँदेसा
उम्मीदें जगाए है तेरा सँदेसा
अरे हाय राम
हमें इश्क़ का है अंदेसा
सँदेसा॰॰आ॰॰आ
सँदेसा
इश्क़ का॰॰आ॰॰आ सँदेसा
सुन ज़रा सुन ज़रा
आया है पी का सँदेसा
सुन ज़रा सुन ज़रा
आया है पी का सँदेसा
हम्म
बादल दिल की डोरी से बांधे
लाया सँदेसा
तेरा सँदेसा
हाँ सँदेसा॰॰आ
जैसे मलंग दिल में धूनी रमाए
तेरा सँदेसा
हाँ सँदेसा
हो सँदेसा॰॰आ
अरे दिल तो हथेली पे है
रोग लगा है हमें जाने कैसा
इक हसीन ख्वाब सा
चमका करे है तेरा सँदेसा
उम्मीदें जगाए है तेरा सँदेसा
अरे हाय राम
हमें इश्क़ का है अंदेसा
सँदेसा॰॰आ॰॰आ
सँदेसा
इश्क़ का॰॰आ॰॰आ सँदेसा
सुन ज़रा सुन ज़रा
आया है पी का सँदेसा
सुन ज़रा सुन ज़रा
आया है पी का सँदेसा
ओ ओ ओ
हवा में उड़ उड़ के आया है
आया है पी का सँदेसा
फिज़ा में घुल घुल जे पूछे है
जिआ तेरा हाल है कैसा
हम्म हम्म हम्म हम्म हम्म
सुन ज़रा सुन ज़रा
आया है पी का सँदेसा
सुन ज़रा सुन ज़रा
आया है पी का सँदेसा
सँदेसा॰॰आ॰॰आ
सँदेसा
सुन ज़रा सुन ज़रा
आया है पी का सँदेसा
इश्क़ का॰॰आ॰॰आ सँदेसा
सुन ज़रा सुन ज़रा
आया है पी का सँदेसा
सँदेसा॰॰आ॰॰आ
सँदेसा
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