Mujhe tum chupke chupke jab aise dekhtee ho
Posted on: August 14, 2023
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Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek Bachchan have worked together in 8 films before they got married in April 2007. Their first film was ‘Dhaai Akshar Prem Ke’ (2000). Just before their marriage, they worked together in ‘Guru’ (2007). In this article, I am taking up for discussion, their second film as a lead pair, ‘Kuchh Na Kaho’ (2003). The film was produced by Ramesh Sippy and was directed by Rohan Sippy. The other supporting cast included Arbaaz Khan, Satish Shah, Suhasini Mulay, Himani Shivpuri, Jaspal Bhatti, Meghna Malik, Tanaaz Irani, Jennifer Winget, Razak Khan, Gautami Kapoor, Ejaz Khan etc.
I had no idea as to how the story of the film unfolded as I selected this film mainly for the good musical scores by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, the well-crafted lyrics by Javed Akhtar and the picturesque location of a couple of songs. I watched the film only a few days back. Briefly, the story of the film is as under:
Raj (Abhishek Bachchan) who is a bachelor, stays with his widow mother (Suhasini Mulay) who is a doctor in the USA. He has no intention of marrying. However, his maternal uncle, Rakesh (Satish Shah) who stays in Mumbai is constantly forcing him to get married. Raj has to visit Mumbai to attend his cousin, Nikki’s (Meghna Malik) engagement. Rakesh sees an opportunity to get Raj married. He assigns the work of finding a suitable bride to Namrata (Aishwarya Rai), who is an employee of his firm.
Namrata brings many proposals for the selection of brides but Raj with his wired plans makes the prospective brides to run away from him. During this process, Raj falls in love with Namrata, without being aware that she is already married, but her husband Sanjeev (Arbaaz Khan) has deserted her without his whereabouts soon after the birth of her son, Adi (Parth Dave). Hence, she is hesitant to reciprocate Raj’s advances. Finally, she discloses to Raj her status as a deserted wife. Raj is still firmly resolved to marry her. While they are planning to get married, Sanjeev returns as a spoiler in their plan. But Namrata’s firm stand against Sanjeev with her feminine monologue, forces him to have a change of heart. While leaving, Sanjeev gives advice to Raj that he should not treat Namrata after marriage in the same way as he had treated her.
The story of the film does appear to remind me of almost similar lines of stories in some other films which I am not able to recall; or may be a hotchpotch of stories taken from a couple of Hindi films. The film could have become an absorbing one with a tight screenplay to reduce its run time from nearly 3 hours to say 2:15 hours. The first half of the film is interesting while the second half gets dragged. However, film is visually appealing with outdoor shootings at some of the beautiful locales in India and abroad.
The film has six songs written by Javed Akhtar and set to music by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy. I liked three songs from the film but my most favourite song from the film which I am presenting here is ‘mujhe tum chupke chupke jab aise dekhti ho, achchi lagti ho’, the first song to appear on the Blog. The song is rendered by Udit Narayan and Kavita Krishnamurthy. This is a mutually praising song of a loving couple in their romantic sojourn in the imagination of Raj (Abhishek Bachchan) when he is planning to convey his love to Namrata (Aishwarya Bachchan) through a letter. His imagination takes the shape of a song through beautiful locales.
The song starts with a whispering female chorus, ‘achchi achchi achchi’ as if it is addressed to be heard by Namrata’s ears only. The entire first stanza of the song is beautifully picturised in-around Athirappilly Falls in Kerala. Raj admires Namrata the way she looks at him, the way she plays with her hair and the scarf. Namrata reciprocate by admiring Raj for the display of the his sigh of relief on seeing her presence which makes her feel that he loves only her. It is now the turn of the Raj to shower praises for her ‘bholapan’(innocence), ‘saadgi’ (simplicity), ‘dilkashi’ (charming) and ‘taazgi’ (freshness). She returns his compliments by saying that all these colourful qualities in her have been derived from him.
There is a long interlude of nearly 1:30 minutes between the first and second stanza with an excellent choreographic presentation in beautiful locales, probably Ooty. The level of praise for each other go higher up in the second stanza. Raj calls Namrata, giving her new names like ‘dilnasheen’ (attractive), ‘naazneen’ (elegant), ‘maahroo’ (moon-faced) and ‘mahajabeen’ (beautiful). Namrata is overwhelmed by so many beautiful names given to her by Raj.
The song is good to watch on a video clip to witness good on-screen chemistry between Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek Bachchan in the midst of beautiful locales.
Editor’s note:-With this song, Javed Akhtar now has 100 songs in the blog as a lyricist. He becomes the 36th lyricist to reach 100 songs mark in the blog. In addition, 39 music directors and 23 singers have also completed their centuries in the blog.
Video Clip:
Audio Clip:
Song-Mujhe tum chupke chupke jab aise dekhti ho (Kuchh Na Kaho)(2003) Singers-Udit Narayan, Kavita Krishnamurthy, Lyrics-Javed Akhtar, MD-Shankar Ehsan Loy
Lyrics(Based on Audio Clip)
achche achche achche
achche achche achche
mujhe tum chupke chupke jab aise dekhti ho
achchi lagti ho
kabhi zulfon se kabhi aanchal se jab khelti ho
achchi lagti ho
mujhe dekh ke jab tum youn thhandi aahen bharte ho
achche lagte ho
mujhko jab lagta hai tum mujh par hi marte ho
achche lagte ho
tum mein ae meherbaan
saari hai khoobiyaan
bholaapan
saadagi
dilkashi
taazagi..eeee
dilkashi
tumse hai
taazagi tumse hai
tum huye hamnashi
ho gayi main haseen
rang tumse miley hain saare
taareef jo sunke tum aise sharma jaati ho
achchi lagti ho
kabhi hans deti ho aur kabhi itra jaati ho
achchi lagti ho
mujhe dekh ke jab tum youn thandi aahen bharte ho
achche lagte ho
khoye se tum ho kyun
soch mein gum ho kyun
baat jo dil mein ho
keh bhi do
keh bhi do…o o o
sochta hoon ke main
kya pukaaroon tumhen
dilnasheen
naazneen
maahroo
mahajabeen
yeh sab hain naam tumhaare
mere itne saare naam hai jab tum ye kehte ho
achche lagte ho
mere pyaar mein jab tum khoye khoye se rehte ho
achche lagte ho
mujhe tum chupke chupke jab aise dekhti ho
achchi lagti ho
kabhi zulfon se kabhi aanchal se jab khelti ho
achchi lagti ho
achche lagte ho
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