Khwaabon mein apne tu ghul kar kho jaa re
Posted on: September 15, 2023
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
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‘Dhanak’ (alternate name: ‘Rainbow’ – 2016) was a children’s film, produced by Nagesh Kukunoor and his wife Elahe Hiptoola along with Manish Mundra and Pramila Mundra. The film was directed by Nagesh Kukunoor who also wrote the story. The main cast comprised of child actors, Hetal Gada and Krish Chhabria, supported by Gulfam Khan, Vipin Sharma, Vibha Chhibber, Suresh Menon, Ninad Kamat, Bharti Achrekar, Flora Saini, Sanjana Singh etc. After about two years in the International Film Festival circuit, the film was released in theatres in June 2016. The film was entirely shot in around Jodhpur and Jaisalmer.
On the eve of the release of the film, Nagesh Kukunoor said “the subtle message that comes across in the film is that the world is still a good place inhabited by good people whose lives are based on their trust in relationships and in the miraculous power of God in any manifestation”.
It is partly a road movie also. In children’s world, they thrive more on dreams and imaginations than realities because it is said that the children have ability to look at the world differently because the childhood gives them freedom to do so. The brother-sister in the film take a magical journey to meet Shah Rukh Khan. They believe that he would help in restoring the eyesight of the child protagonist. At the end of the film, the eyesight of the child protagonist is restored with the help of an unknown person. The film was converted into a children’s book by the award-winning author of many children’s books, Anushka Ravishankar at the time of the release of the film.
The broad story of the film is as under:
Pari (Hetal Gada), 10-year girl and her younger brother, Chhotu (Krish Chhabria), 8-year boy are orphans who stay with their uncle (Vipin Sharma) and aunty (Gulfam Khan) in a village in Rajasthan. While uncle is very fond of them, the aunty dislikes them. Chhotu is visually impaired. So, he is always with Pari who holds his hand to walk to their school. She has promised Chhotu that he will get his eyesight back when he turns 9 (again a child’s strong belief).
For Chhotu, Pari is not only his sister but also a friend and a guide. But they are ‘rival’ when it comes to their star idols. Pari is a fan of Shah Rukh Khan while Chhotu is the fan of Salman Khan. Every day while walking to their school, Chhotu tosses the coin as to who will tell the film’s story of their favourite actors. In the village, there is no newspapers, TV , telephones. The only source of entertainment for them is Hindi films shown in the tent in a neighbouring village.
During a visit to a neighbouring village with their uncle for watching a film, Pari sees a poster of Shah Rukh Khan encouraging eye donations. She believes that he would help her brother in getting his eyesight back. She writes umpteen letters to Shah Rukh Khan but without any response because they never get delivered. She comes to know from a villager that Shah Rukh Khan is shooting for a film near Jaisalmer. She makes up her mind to meet him in person. After her uncle refuses to take them to Jaisalmer, both Pari and Chhotu run away from home in the night, embarking 300 km odd journey through unknown terrains.
During their journey, they meet different strangers like a foreign wandering hippie, self-styled holy woman, a blind fortune teller, a mentally disturbed person with steering wheel in his hand as if he is driving a vehicle, etc. Almost everyone they come across, help them with a ride, food, shelter etc. When the journey was progressing satisfactorily, they suffer dehydration while crossing a desert in a scorching heat. They fall unconscious. An unknown Samaritan come to their rescue and get them admitted in a hospital where they recover. Their uncle also visits the hospital after learning from the hospital authorities of their presence.
In the same hospital, Chhotu undergoes eye operation funded by an unknown person. He regains his eyesight to see the cake for his 9th birthday. Pari believes that the unknown person who helped Chhotu to regain his eyesight was none other than Shah Rukh Khan.
Hats off to director Nagesh Kukunoor who could extract best performances from the child actors. Chhotu’s childlike innocent repartees to his sister, Pari, sometime his aggressive stance notwithstanding his handicap, bring out his cute child-like behaviour. Pari on the other hand, being elder, brings out her somewhat matured behaviour in the role of his guide and caretaker.
The most beautiful moment in the film is when the nurse, before removing Chhotu’s bandages on the eyes after surgery, ask him what he would like to see first. He says Salman Khan. At first, Pari’s reaction is a grumpy one on her face as she expected his answer would be to see his sister, Pari. But slowly her reaction turns into a cute smile. Pari is happy that Chhotu has regained his eyesight.
The only drawback of the film is that some of the characters the child protagonists meet during their journey could have been avoided, like the god-woman, gypsies, a hippie as their presence is superfluous. It also appears little exaggerated when most of the strangers they meet are also shown as the fans of Shah Rukh Khan. But these can be regarded as a minor hiccups to otherwise well made film.
The film has 5 songs written by Mir Ali Hussain (2), Tapas Relia (1), Manoj Yadav (1) apart from one traditional song. All the songs have been set to music by Tapas Relia whose compositions have shades of Rajasthani folk music. In fact, two of the songs have been rendered by Rajasthani folk singers. I am presenting the first song from the film, ‘khwaabon mein apne tu ghul kar kho jaa re’ to appear on the Blog. The song is rendered by Monali Thakur on the lyrics of Mir Ali Hussain.
In the film, only the mukhda part of the song is picturised. The audio clip of the song has full lyrics which give an impression of a lullaby.
Video Clip (Partial):
Audio Clip:
Song-Khwaabon mein apne tu ghulkar kho jaa re (Dhanak)(2016) Singer-Monali Thakur, Lyrics-Mir Ali Hussain, MD-Tapas Relia
Lyrics (Based on audio clip):
khwaabon mein apne tu
ghul kar kho jaa re
khwaabon mein apne tu
ghul kar kho jaa re
palkon pe sapne
mal kar so jaa re
hogi phir mehak tere haathon mein
aur dekhega tu dhanak
raaton mein
khwaabon mein apne tu
ghul kar kho jaa re
palkon pe sapne
mal kar so jaa re
neela neela dekho to aasmaan hai
peela peela chaand hai yahaan
chaand se dekho lipti ek kiran hai
jagmagaaye saara ye jahaan
satrangi ye jahaan mein tu kho jaa
phool bhare gulsitaan mein tu so jaa
hogi phir mehak tere haathon mein
aur dekhega tu dhanak
raaton mein
khwaabon mein apne tu
ghul kar kho jaa re
palkon pe sapne
mal kar so jaa re
jhilmil jhilmil taare chamke
apna daaman phailaaye
nanhe munhe pyaari pyaari pariyaan
tera maatha sehlaaye
inke meethee bol mein tu kho jaa
iss sheeri mahalon mein so jaa
hogi phir mehak tere haathon mein
aur dekhega tu dhanak
raaton mein
khwaabon mein apne tu
ghul kar kho jaa re
palkon pe sapne
mal kar so jaa re
hogi phir mehak tere haathon mein
aur dekhega tu dhanak
raaton mein
khwaabon mein apne tu
ghul kar kho jaa re
palkon pe sapne
mal kar so jaa re……..ae ae
so jaa re
8 Responses to "Khwaabon mein apne tu ghul kar kho jaa re"
September 15, 2023 at 2:38 pm
Thanks Sadanand ji, for the song and the informative post,
and Haan Shenoy Sir ji ke comments about your selection of songs is 200% is correct, Thank you & Atul ji again for that…..
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September 15, 2023 at 5:45 pm
I haven’t heard of this film before. Sounds interesting. The story that you have provided reminds me of two films.
“During their journey, they meet different strangers like a foreign wandering hippie, self-styled holy woman, a blind fortune teller, a mentally disturbed person with steering wheel in his hand as if he is driving a vehicle, etc. Almost everyone they come across, help them with a ride, food, shelter etc. When the journey was progressing satisfactorily, they suffer dehydration while crossing a desert in a scorching heat.”
The above reminds me of the Daisy Irani- Honey Irani starrer “Zameen Ke Tare” (1960) made by Chandulal Shah.
The part of “Dhanak” about the kids being fans of Shahrukh Khan & Salman Khan reminds me of “Nanhe Jaisalmer” (2007; dir. Samir Karnik) where the tiny protagonist was shown to be a fan of Bobby Deol. We see that the little fellow keeps interacting with his idol through the movie and eventually gets him to meet him too.
The movies with kids as protagonists and not making them spout adult-like dialogues make for good viewing
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September 15, 2023 at 7:50 pm
Peevesie’s Mom,
Thanks for bringing out some similarities in the film with that of ‘Zameen Ke Taare’ (1960) and ‘Nanhe Jaisalmer’ (2007). I have not watched both these films.
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September 15, 2023 at 11:38 pm
both films that I mentioned are worth one viewing at least
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
September 15, 2023 at 9:21 am
Sadanand Ji,
Thanks for the post. I must appreciate you have a knack of picking up good (but not popular with masses, or financially successful, or much discussed in popular or social media) films and gem of songs, not much played in the public domain.
I have seen this movie and liked it very much. Sometimes in the flow of watching, songs like this gets forgotten ,though it might have enhanced your viewing experience. Nice song .
I did not know Ms Elahe Heptula was Nagesh’s wife.
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September 15, 2023 at 11:26 am
Satish ji,
Thanks for your appreciative acknowledgement of my selection of films and the songs. I feel that these songs are not less than the popular songs of the golden period of Hindi film music in terms of lyrics and melodies.
You may have forgotten this song because it is played in the background for about a minute. The lyrics of the full song in the audio clip give me an impression that Nagesh Kukunoor, in his screenplay, planned to use the two antaras in two different scenes but may have given up at the shooting stage or deleted the scenes at the editing stage.
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September 16, 2023 at 7:28 am
Surely.
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