Baarhaan dil mein ik sawaal aayaa
Posted on: September 9, 2023
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Sometime in 2005, a film, ‘Mr Mehta/Mrs Singh’ was in the planning stage which was to be produced by Vishal Bhardwaj and UTV and was to be directed by Vishal Bhardwaj. Amir Khan and Kareena Kapoor were to act in lead roles. It was planned to be a romantic comedy. However, the film got aborted at the planning stage itself for reasons known to the producers.
About 5 years later, Medient Studios in association with Tarlac produced a film with similar sounding title, ‘Mr Singh/Mrs Mehta’ (2010) with ‘cross infidelity’ of two married couples as the theme of the story. The film was directed by Pravesh Bhardwaj who also wrote the story, screenplay, and dialogues. The main cast consisted of Prashant Narayanan, Aruna Shields, Naved Aslam, Lucy Hassan, Shilpa Mittal etc. Except for Prashant Narayanan, I had not heard the names of the other actors of the film. The film got ‘A’ certificate from Censor Board for its India release.
I have watched the film which is available for viewing on Dailymotion. The gist of the story of the film is as under:
Two married couples – Ashwin Mehta (Prashant Narayanan), a painter and Sakhi Mehta (Lucy Hassan), the first couple and Karan Singh (Naved Aslam)/Neera Singh (Aruna Shields), the second couple live in London. Neera suspects that Karan is having an affair with another lady and soon she gets to know the identity of lady as Sakhi. She visits Sakhi’s house but instead finds her husband, Ashwin in the house. Both are shocked to learn the affairs between Karan and Sakhi. Ashwin and Neera give solace to each other as they are sailing in the same boat. They often spend time together and recall their romantic moments with their spouses. With this background, they are unable to come to terms as to how quickly things have changed in their lives. Eventually, Neera and Ashwin become friends. Ashwin dare not ask his wife, Sakhi over her affair with Karan as if she confesses, it will shatter his life.
The friendship between Ashwin and Neera become stronger day by day. One day, Ashwin reveals his wish to paint Neera in the nude. After some hesitation, she agrees to give a nude pose. Slowly, Neera’s friendship with Ashwin turns into an affair between them. Ashwin justifies their affair as a means of settling the scores against her husband. Neera does not like Ashwin’s comments and breaks their relationship. On the other hand, the nude painting of a lady impresses Sakhi, Ashwin’s wife, very much and she encourages him to paint more and to hold exhibitions of his paintings.
One day, Neera and Karan walk by the painting exhibitions of Ashwin and Karan recognises the nude painting of his wife, Neera. Both walked inside the exhibition hall and find Sakhi standing by the side of Neera’s nude painting. Sakhi recognises Neera and gets the hint of Ashwin’s affairs with Neera. Karan and Sakhi also get shocked to see each other at the exhibition. The film ends with Ashwin and his wife Sakhi continue to live together while Neera moves out of Karan’s house.
The film has a very unusual story if not bizarre one. The normal response from the two persons who have come to know of their spouses’ extra-marital affair would generally be to confront the spouses rather than indulge themselves in affair to settle the score. Somehow, the screenplay has not sufficiently tackled the responses from the affected spouses. The film appears disjointed at some places. Probably, the Censor Board may have directed to delete certain scenes at least for the prints to be shown in India. The nude scene (blurred for Indian viewers) appears more of an item number rather than the absolute need of the situation.
The film story moves in a slow face and that too with dull moments. The performances of the main actors except Prashant Narayanan is average. The dialogue deliveries of both the female actresses are not up to the mark, probably because of their Indo-British background. The songs and the background music in the film are the plus points. Being a classical musician and vocalist, Ustad Shujaat Hussain Khan has used the semiclassical base for the compositions of the songs as well as for the background music. I liked the semiclassical tunes played mainly on sitar and flute as a background music.
The film has 6 songs including a second version song. All the songs have been written by Amitabh Verma and set to music by Ustad Shujaat Hussain Khan, the son, and the disciple of the great sitarist, Ustad Vilayat Khan of Etawah (Imdad Khani) Gharana. Music directors, Hafiz Khan Mastana and Aziz Khan were the first cousins of Ustad Vilayat Khan. Ustad Shujaat Hussain Khan has been known for his unique style of presentation in his concert, his sitar recital with own singing.
I am presenting the first song, ‘baarhaan dil mein ek sawaal aaya’ from the film to appear on the Blog. The song has two versions, both the solo renditions by KK (Krishnakumar Kunnath) and Shreya Ghoshal. While mukhda lyrics for both the versions are the same, the antaras are different. The music composition of the song is ghazal-based but the lyrics do not conform to the parameters set for the ghazal.
KK version of the song gets played in the background when both Neera and Ashwin realise that their affairs are more or less a replica of what their spouses have indulged without any scope of turning into the real companions. Shreya Ghoshal version of the song is played in the background towards the end of the film when Sakhi and her husband, Ashwin renew their love for each other and decided to stay together while Neera decides to move out of her husband, Karan’s house.
By the way, ‘baarhaan’ means ‘बार बार’ in Hindi, ‘often’ in English.
Video Clip (Male version)
Audio Clip (Male version)
Video Clip (Female version)
Audio Clip (Female version)
Song-Baarhaan dil mein ik sawaal aaya (Mr Singh/Mrs Mehta)(2010) Singer-KK/Shreya Ghoshal, Lyrics-Amitabh Verma, MD-Ustaad Shujat Hussain Khan
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Lyrics (Male Version):
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baarhaan dil mein ik sawaal aaya
baarhaan dil mein ik sawaal aaya
aaj socha to ye khayaal aaya
baarhaan dil mein ik sawaal aaya
aaj socha to ye khayaal aaya
do kadam saath bas chale tum hum
humsafar to na thhe kabhi tum hum
baarhaan dil mein ik sawaal aaya
teri baaton pe muskuraayen aankhen
teri khushbu se gungunaayen saansen
mere iss dil ko hai bas ek hi gham
humsafar to na thhe kabhi tum hum
baarhaan dil mein ik sawaal aaya
aaj socha to ye khayaal aaya
do kadam saath bas chale tum hum
humsafar to na thhe kabhi tum hum
baarhaan dil mein ik sawaal aaya
aaj phir teri yaad aayi hai
paas mere meri tanhaai hai
chalo achcha hai toote saare bharam
humsafar to na thhe kabhi tum hum
baarhaan dil mein ik sawaal aaya
aaj socha to ye khayaal aaya
do kadam saath bas chale tum hum
humsafar to na thhe kabhi tum hum
baarhaan dil mein ik sawaal aaya
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Lyrics (Female Version)
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baarhaan dil mein ik sawaal aaya
baarhaan dil mein ik sawaal aaya
aaj socha to ye khayaal aaya
baarhaan dil mein ik sawaal aaya
aaj socha to ye khayaal aaya
do kadam saath bas chale tum hum
humsafar to na thhe kabhi tum hum
baarhaan dil mein ik sawaal aaya
kisne socha thha din ye aayenge
apne saaye bhi chhoot jaayenge
main na jaanoon mujhe khushi hai ya gham
humsafar to na thhe kabhi tum hum
baarhaan dil mein ik sawaal aaya
aaj socha to ye khayaal aaya
do kadam saath bas chale tum hum
humsafar to na thhe kabhi tum hum
baarhaan dil mein ik sawaal aaya
dil hai bejaar
jism bejaan hai
koi ehsaas hi nahin baaki
na ye aankhen ye soch ke huyin nam
humsafar to na thhe kabhi tum hum
baarhaan dil mein ik sawaal aaya
aaj socha to ye khayaal aaya
do kadam saath bas chale tum hum
humsafar to na thhe kabhi tum hum
baarhaan dil mein ik sawaal aaya
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September 9, 2023 at 6:28 pm
Superb informative post Kamath Sir ,
Aaj kal ke aapke sabhi post ko padhkar appreciation mein kyaa likhoon sochke, words ke liye dhoodh rahaa hoon, (Really I am short of words)aur comments kar hee nahin paa rahaa hoon,
they are treasurehouse for me, Thanks Sir for taking such unknown,obscure films and rare songs for your discussion,Thanks again
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September 10, 2023 at 9:24 am
Prakashchandra ji,
Thanks for your comments. I am delighted to know that you appreciate such posts. Few more such posts are in the offing.
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