Kaise kaise dhaagon se buni hai ye duniyaa
Posted on: October 12, 2023
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‘Tumhaari Sulu’ (2017) was produced under the banner of T-Series and Ellipsis Entertainment and was directed by Suresh Triveni. Vidya Balan and Manav Kaul were in the lead roles, supported by Neha Dhupia, Vijay Maurya, Uday Lagoo, Malishka Mendonsa, Mahesh Pillai, Seema Taneja etc. Anshuman Khurana made a special appearance as himself. The film’s music director, Santanu Ghatak also acted in the film as himself.
This was a debut film for its director, Suresh Triveni who has come with the background of making advertising films. Palakkad born, Suresh Triveni did his schooling in Ranchi and Chennai and post-graduation in marketing from Delhi. After making many advertising and some documentary films, Suresh Triveni had an obsession of doing his debut feature film in Hindi with Vidya Balan. He wrote the story of ‘Tumhaari Sulu’ (2017) keeping Vidya Balan in mind. After reading the script, she agreed to work in the film.
This is a feminist film of a house-wife’s muted aspiration to do something more than working in the kitchen, cleaning the house, watching the TV programmes and waiting for the conversation with her husband on his return from work. After getting a job as RJ, she becomes a housewife cum working woman, trying to work out a balance between her personal problems and her professional career. At the end, the woman is prepared to sacrifice her job to take care of her family. The husband leaves his job to help the wife in her new business of supplying tiffin to offices. Now husband is working from home, helping the wife in her business while she continues to work as RJ. The film gives a hope to those who had not done well in studies that there are alternative avenues available to be successful in life.
The story of the film is as under:
A nucleus middle class family consisting of Sulochana or Sulu (Vidya Balan), her husband, Ashok (Manav Kaul) and a school-going son lives in a distant suburb of Mumbai. Ashok works as a sales executive in readymade Garment making company. They are a happy and a loving family. Sulu always gets sarcastic comments from her well-to-do sisters, working in banks and from her father for not completing her 12th and thus not as successful as her sisters. Ashok encourages Sulu to take up a job so that she is not bored at home and also supplement the family income.
Sulu considers various options to start a business which remain only at the level of her ideas. She is passionate about participating in in Radio quiz and in one of the quiz programmes, she wins a prize of pressure cooker for which she visits the Radio Channel office to collect the prize. In the office she reads an advertisement for recruitment of a fresh Radio Jockey RJ). She meets RJ, Albeli Anjali (Malishka Mendonca) with whom she has been talking on the phone on her programme. Albeli takes Sulu to the channel head Maria (Neha Dhupia) who is impressed by her unconventional talks. Sulu is selected but there is no immediate job for her,
The pestering by Sulu day-in-day-out forces Maria to start a late-night show with Sulu as RJ with the name of the programme called ‘Tumhaari Sulu’. In this programme, Sulu gets calls from a number of lonely men facing personal problems for which she has to give some solutions or moral supports. And she does it in her husky voice while simultaneously peeling peas for the next day’s menu at home. Over a period of time, her radio programme becomes very popular giving stability in her job. Being a late-night radio programme, Ashok has to manage the house. When Sulu is successful in her newfound career, Ashok’s job in the Garment making company is at stake which put a lot of mental stress on him resulting in arguments with Sulu. However, this is only momentary and does not affect their loving relationship. Although Ashok would wish Sulu to quit the job, he would not say so.
Adding to the problem is that their son has been rusticated from the school when he is found in possession of porn material in the classroom. Ashamed, the son runs away from home. Although, he has been found and returned home, Sulu decides to quit her job as she feels that her family needs her more than her job. While she is returning after collecting her pay cheque, she watches a fight between tiffin supplier and the receptionist of the Radio Channel which gives her idea to start the business of delivering lunch tiffins to offices.
Ashok has left his job and works from home to carry on his business of delivering tiffins to offices in partnership with his wife, Sulu. She continues to work as RJ in her radio programme, ‘Tumhaari Sulu’, giving the callers a feel of a loving RJ caring about them in the same way she is taking care of her family.
It is obvious that the director, Suresh Triveni has written the story with larger focus on Vidya Balan’s character. It is Vidya Balan all the way in the film. She is joyous throughout the film except towards the end of the film when she tells her intention to quit her job to Maria in her moist eyes. Manav Kaul in the role of Sulu’s husband has also done well in the film.
The film has 5 songs written one each by 5 lyricists. These songs were composed by as many as 8 music directors. One song was jointly composed by 4 music directors which may be a record. I am presenting the first song from the film, ‘kaise kaise dhaagon se buni hai ye duniya’ to appear on the Blog. This a debut song for the Hindustani classical vocalist, Ronkini Gupta as a playback singer and also the debut for Santanu Ghatak as a lyricist and the music director.
I personally feel that out of 5 songs in the film, the song under discussion is only one which fits well with the theme of the film. It is a philosophical song about the life and inter-personal relationship. The lyricist sees the world comprising of different threads. We have to sew some and darn (rafu) some. Sometime in our life, we have to face difficulties in the same way as we see a series of clouds in otherwise the sunny sky. We ‘sew’ relationship with our relatives and friends over a period of time. Sometime, strains in the ‘stiches’ of relationship develop which we should try to keep it intact by ‘darning’ them. In our entire life, we ‘sew’ miles of threads (story), some remains undarn despite many attempts. Let us enjoy the remainder (aadha-pauna) of our life with our ‘woven and darned’ thread of relationship. By the way, this is probably the first time, I have come across the word ‘rafoo’ (darn) in Hindi film songs.
This song is one of the best examples of how a song can be composed melodiously with simple renditions, minimum orchestration (I hear only piano and guitar notes) and with simple yet highly meaningful lyrics. Kudos to Santanu Ghatak who has written and composed the song and the singer, Ronkini Gupta.
Video Clip:
Audio Clip:
Song-Kaise kaise dhaagon se buni hai ye duniya (Tumhaari Sulu)(2017) Singer-Ronkini Gupta, Lyrics-Shantanu Ghatak, Md-Shantanu Ghatak
Lyrics (based on audio clip):
kaise kaise dhaagon se buni hai ye duniya..
o o
kaise kaise dhaagon se buni hai ye duniya..
kabhi dhoop kabhi baadalon ki ye ladiyaan…
kuchh toone see hai maine ki hai rafoo
ye doriyaan
kuchh toone see hai maine ki hai rafoo
ye doriyaan
kaise kaise dhaagon se buni hai ye duniya
kabhi dhoop kabhi baadalon ki ye ladiyaan
kuchh toone see hai maine ki hai rafoo
ye doriyaan..
kuchh toone see hai maine ki hai rafoo
ye doriyaan
hmm
teri bani raahen meri thhee deewaaren…
teri bani raahen meri thhee deewaaren…
un deewaaron pe hi maine likh lee bahaaren
shaam huyi tu jo aaya so gayi thhee kaliyaan
phir shaam huyi tu jo aaya so gayi thhee kaliyaan….
kuchh toone see hai maine ki hai rafoo
ye doriyaan
kuchh toone see hai maine ki hai rafoo
ye doriyaan
ga ma pa ni dha pa ma pa ga ma ri sa
ga ma ni dha pa ga ma ri sa ni re
hmm
ga ma pa dha ma pa ni re sa
youn seete seete meelon ki ban gayi kahaani….
youn seete seete meelon ki ban gayi kahaani….
kuchh tere haathon se kuchh meri zubaani….
ab jo bhi hai ye aadha pauna
hai to rangraliyaan…
ab jo bhi hai ye aadha pauna
hai to rangraliyaan….
kuchh toone see hai maine ki hai rafoo
ye doriyaan
kuchh toone see hai maine ki hai rafoo
ye doriyaan
ho o o
kaise kaise dhaagon se buni hai ye duniya…
kabhi dhoop kabhi baadalon ki ye ladiyaan..
kuchh toone see hai maine ki hai rafoo
ye doriyaan
kuchh toone see hai maine ki hai rafoo
ye doriyaan
hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm
hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm…
hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm
hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm…
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la la
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la la la la la la la
la la
la la la…
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