Shaam dhhalee ban mein mehkee hawaa
Posted on: September 26, 2023
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Recently, I came across an audio clip of a song from ‘Mil Gayee Manzil Mujhe’ (1998), a film directed by Lekh Tandon. Online resources shows that the film was completed in 1997 but remained unreleased. The audio album of the songs was released in January 1998. I got confused as there was another film in the same title with Mithun Chakraborty and Moon Moon Sen in lead roles which was released in 1989. Things got somewhat cleared when I came across an interview of Milind Gunaji, one of the main actors of the film, which appeared on rediff.com on January 9, 1998. He said that after the completion of about 70 percent of the shooting, Lekh Tandon left the film. However, after some time, he was persuaded to complete the film which he did in December 1997. Still the film did not get released.
Milind Gunaji also revealed that he was doing a role of a Veerappan type of a character and Meenakshi Seshadri as a TV journalist who gets opportunity to interview him. Her cameraman, Kanwaljeet Singh who is actually an undercover commando, deceitfully arranges his killing and Meenakshi Seshadri cries over his dead body. With this background, I tried to locate the video clip of the song as well as the full movie but could not find anywhere. Finally, I got the video clip of the song under the name of the film, ‘Do Raahen’ (1998). With this name, I searched for the video of the full movie, and I got it. I watched the film and got the information from its credit titles.
‘Do Raahen’ (2000) was certified by the Censor Board as such on 31/08/2000, even though the film was ready by the end of 1997 as per Milind Gunaji’s interview referred to above. The film was produced by Plus Films (which means the connection of Mahesh Bhatt and Amit Khanna) and was directed by Lekh Tandon. The star cast included Meenakshi Seshadri, Kanwaljeet Singh, Milind Gunaji, Deepak Qazir. Saleem Shah, Shiva Rindani, Masood Akhtar, Rana Jung Bahadur, Prabha Mishra, Madhumalati etc. I am not sure whether the film got a theatrical release. But the film was released on DVD by Ultra. The song album was released in January 1998 with the original name of the film, ‘Mil Gayee Manzil Mujhe’. Probably, at the time of submission of the film to Censor Board, the film’s title was changed to ‘Do Raahen’ (2000).
I am giving below the detailed story of the film as it is not available anywhere online.
Kannagi (Meenakshi Seshadri) a TV journalist with Channel 16, has been assigned to cover the tribal uprising under the leadership of Rajappa (Milind Gunaji) during fires on tribals, killing some of them. Kannagi reports in her TV programme that the police forces had no reason to brutally repulse the peaceful demonstration. As a revenge, the police officer who is responsible for the killing of some tribals is kidnapped by Rajappa’s men and is hacked to death. There is a uproar among the people of the State for law-and-order problems. The State’s Chief Minister (Deepak Qazir) calls a press conference in which he reveals that the State Government has taken a decision to form a Committee under the chairmanship of a retired judge to look into the problems of tribals. Kannagi questions Chief Minister as to why no tribal representatives have been included in the Committee to which he replies that they first need to give up the uprising against the state government.
Rajappa is very much impressed by the reporting of Kannagi as her presentations on the TV is favourable towards tribals. He is also infatuated with her. So, he sends a message to her that he is ready to give his first ever interview to her provided she comes alone. Kannagi is happy but at the same time she is apprehensive about visiting alone due to the risk involved. While she was a looking for a person who could shoot while taking interview, she gets a reference of Shubhankar (Kanwaljeet Singh) who is a wild-life photographer. She picks him as her cameraman telling him that she is taking him for shooting for a documentary film on the wildlife in a forest. Shubhankar is actually an undercover commando of the police force which Kannagi is unaware.
After a couple of days of surveillance of Shubhankar by the Rajappa’s men in the forest, they are allowed to meet Rajappa in his hideout. During this period, Kannagi and Shubhankar become close. But both of them do not explicitly express their love for each other. On the other hand, Rajappa because of his infatuation of Kannagi spends time with her in the guise of showing her the life of tribals in the forest. In the meanwhile, Shubhankar has arranged commando forces to be ready in the vicinity of the forest as cover.
In one of his meetings with Kannagi, Rajappa reveals his love for her. He says that just to prove his love, he is prepared to die for her. On the other hand, Shubhankar after getting exposed as an under-cover commando, gets a reprieve from Rajappa simply because Kannagi tells him to do so at the cost of her life. He is taken out of the forest by two guards of Rajappa. However, they are killed by Shubhankar on the way, and he returns to Kannagi’s tent to formally tell her that he loves her, and it is his duty to save her from Rajappa.
The chief of the commando force (Shiva Rindani) joins Shubhankar. Both of them decide to make Kannagi as a bait to lure Rajappa to meet them on the negotiating tables under the assurance that he will not be arrested or killed even if the negotiation fails. Since this offer has come from Kannagi, Rajappa agrees to meet them against the strong advice of his Baba, the brain behind the tribal uprising. When Rajappa comes near the white flag, he is killed instantaneously by the commando forces which makes Kannagi very sad. She strongly feels that commando forces have gone against their assurances both to her and Rajappa. The next day, she gives a live TV news from the Bandipore forest about the death of Rajappa. She tells that she is against any killings whether by Rajappa or the police forces. The collective will of the people should prevail as to who should govern them.
The story of the film appears to be partly based on the life of Veerappan. Milind Gunaji in the role of a rebel leader of the tribals is named as Rajappa and he is shown to operate in around Bandipore forest region. However, there is a love angle added to his character which becomes his obsession and eventually his end. On the other hand, there is also a love angle between Kannagi and Shubhankar which leads to his defying the order from his chief to abandon the plan once he is exposed and return to the base at once. And what a coincidence! There are some similarities in the death of Rajappa and Veerappan. Rajappa in the film is killed in deceit by the undercover commando in the guise of a TV cameraman while four years later, Veerappan was killed in deceit by the Tamil Nadu Police Task Force, by a member who was in the guise of a driver of an ambulance van.
‘Do Raahen’ (2000) has six songs, all written by Javed Akhtar and set to music by Bhupen Hazarika. I am presenting the first song from the film, “Shaam Dhai Ban Mein Mehki Hawa” to appear on the Blog. The song is rendered by Udit Narayan and Kavita Krishnamurthy and is picturised on Kanwaljeet Singh and Meenakshi Seshadri in the forest on their way to meet Rajappa (Milind Gunaji). In the song, some men of Rajappa are seen keeping a close surveillance on both of them.
The tune of the song sounds like that of a folk song. The santoor played in the prelude music gives an impression like a call of the valley. A search on the internet took me to an Assamese song, “O Bideshi Bondhu” written and sung by Bhupen Hazarika in the National Film Award winning Assamese film, ‘Chameli Memsaab’ (1975). The film was made with the same title in Bangla and Hindi in 1979 and the song with the same tune was also incorporated in these films.
I have also given below the audio clip of the Assamese original song for the comparison purpose. I find the rendition of Bhupen Hazarika in the Assamese film more emotional than in its counterpart in the film under discussion. The reason is that in the Assamese film, the song is for ‘missing the loved one’ while in the film under discussion, it is a love song.
Audio Clip (Assamese original song):
Video Clip:
Audio Clip:
Song-Shaam dhalee ban mein mehkee hawaa (Do Raahen)(2000) Singers-Udit Narayan, Kavita Krishnamurthy, Lyrics-Javed Akhtar, MD-Bhupen Hazarika
Both
Lyrics (based on audio clip)
shaam dhali ban mein
mehki hawa
shaam dhali ban mein
mehki hawa
dheere se tum ne
kya hai kaha
sun ke ye mann jhoome
mera. . .
shaam dhali ban mein
mehki hawa
mehki hawa
mehki hawa
gun gun suron se goonjen basere
panchhi jab gaayen
soyi thhi mann mein kya jaane kab se
jaagi wo aashaayen
humko tum jo mil gaye
phool kitne khil gaye
mann ke aangan mein. . .
shaam dhali ban mein
mehki hawa
shaam dhali ban mein
mehki hawa
dheere se tum ne
kya hai kaha
sun ke ye mann jhoome
mera. . .
shaam dhali ban mein
mehki hawa
mehki hawa
mehki hawa
bal kha ke chalti ithlaati nadiyaan
khele kinaare se
paani pe jhukti phoolon ki daali
kare ishaare se
jaane tum ho kyun gumsum
paas aa ke hum ko tum
baandh lo bandhan mein aen
shaam dhali ban mein
mehki hawa
dheere se tum ne
kya hai kaha
sun ke ye mann jhoome
mera. . .
shaam dhali ban mein
mehki hawa
mehki hawa
mehki hawa
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Hindi script lyrics (Provided by Sudhir)
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शाम ढली बन में
महकी हवा
शाम ढली बन में
महकी हवा
धीरे से तुमने
क्या है कहा
सुन के ये मन झूमे
मेरा॰ ॰ ॰
शाम ढली बन में
महकी हवा
महकी हवा
महकी हवा
गुन गुन सुरों से गूँजें बसेरे
पंछी जब गायें
सोई थी मन में क्या जाने कब से
जागी वो आशाएँ
हमको तुम जो मिल गए
फूल कितने खिल गए
मन के आँगन में
शाम ढली बन में
महकी हवा
धीरे से तुमने
क्या है कहा
सुन के ये मन झूमे
मेरा॰ ॰ ॰
शाम ढली बन में
महकी हवा
महकी हवा
महकी हवा
बलखा के चलती इठलाती नदियां
खेले किनारे से
पानी पे झुकती फूलों की डाली
करे इशारे से
जाने तुम हो क्यों गुमसुम
पास आ के हम को तुम
बांध लो बंधन में
शाम ढली बन में
महकी हवा
धीरे से तुमने
क्या है कहा
सुन के ये मन झूमे
मेरा॰ ॰ ॰
शाम ढली बन में
महकी हवा
महकी हवा
महकी हवा
5 Responses to "Shaam dhhalee ban mein mehkee hawaa"
September 28, 2023 at 5:46 pm
Sadanand Ji,
Thanks for the post. I appreciate your inquisitiveness, perseverance, Sherlock Homes like ability to unravel puzzles :))
Thoroughly devoured the contents.
Rightly or wrongly, as I was listening, I was reminded of two songs.
1. Chand phir nikhala…( Paying guest)
2.Sayonara Sayonara…( Love in Tokyo)
:))
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September 28, 2023 at 6:06 pm
Shenoy Sir
Aapne mere bhi vichaaron ko(Sadanand ji ke post ke baare mein) sentence ke roop mein prasthuth kiyaa hai, Thanks for that
and
Thanks Sadanand ji again for the post
Regards
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September 28, 2023 at 6:15 pm
Satish ji,
Thanks for your appreciation.
You are right about the two songs you mentioned. Both these songs are Hindustani classical raaga-based songs, identified as Raag Shuddh Kalyan and Raag Bhupali, respectively. The song under discussion is probably based on an Assamese folk song, Bhupen Hazarika may have improvised the song mixing with these raagas.
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September 26, 2023 at 5:30 pm
Enjoyed very much reading the post and the excellent information, I remember Mithun`s film Mil gayee manzil mujhe which has got Pancham`s compostion, and I am also confused with the same name confusion ……
Thanks for the whole lot of information about the film and the other things ,
Sadanand ji As usual aapke writing man moh lethi hai, Thanks and regards
prakash
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September 26, 2023 at 7:38 pm
Prakashchandra ji,
I am happy that you liked the post.
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