Dil mein kuchh ho raha hai
Posted on: January 9, 2024
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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‘Freaky Chakra’ (2003) was produced by V K Prakash who also directed the film jointly with Ziba Bhagwagar. The cast included Dipti Naval, Sachin Khedekar, Sunil Raoh, Ranveer Shorey (as narrator), Rajeev Ravindranathan, Pranam Janney etc. The film’s shooting was done from start to finish in 21 days in Bangaluru. Sunil Raoh has mainly acted in Kannada films, and this is his only Hindi film so far. He is the brother of playback singer, Sowmya Raoh.
Producer-director, V K Prakash is a Palakkad born adman who owns Trends Adfilm Makers Pvt Ltd., based in Bengaluru. He is an alumnus of School of Drama, Thrissur. He started his career as an advertising film maker. He is known to produce and direct feature films in Malayalam, Kannada and Hindi.
Unfortunately, I did not find the full film, ‘Freaky Chakra’ (2003) on video sharing platforms or on OTT platforms though a few tit bits of the film are available. From the promo materials, the film is stated to be a story on relationship between four individuals which makes it a rectangular love story. The film does not follow the usual story-telling structure in films. The story is set in the imagination of a writer (Ranveer Shorey) who is a narrator of the story. The characters, sometime veer away from what he has imagined. (Based on a report in the Times of India, February 4, 2003).
The gist of the story of the film gathered from the tits bits of the film available online and elsewhere is as under:
Ms Thomas (Dipti Naval) who was earlier a doctor, gives up her profession after she failed to save her husband. Now a widow, she works as a mortician (arrangements for funerals). At the age of 40, Ms Thomas has become an eccentric lady with irritating behaviour. She lives alone in her apartment. But some strange things are happening to her. She often gets phone calls from a cranky caller (Sachin Khedekar) who talks to her in a sexual overtone. He is none other than her neighbour who is in love with her. He often approaches her under the pretext of some sickness and gets insulted. Children ring the bells of her flat and run away. Water tapes often run dry when she is taking bath. The security guard of her apartment puts cotton buds in his ears when he sees her coming. She has arguments with everyone she comes across – with her vegetable vendors and with auto rickshaw drivers.
Things change for Ms Thomas when an uninvited teenager guest (Sunil Raoh) becomes her paying guest who is calm and have patient to face her irritating behaviour. Over a period of time, the two gel well with each other. They go for outing, watches movies and lunch at restaurants. She becomes trendy in her appearance. Her irritating character has disappeared. Now she enjoys children ringing her apartment bell. Eventually the guest and Ms Thomas get into an romantic affair and living like a couple. This is not liked by the writer (Ranveer Shorey) who feels jealous. He tries to introduce rifts between them so that they are separated. But they are shown together when the film ends.
I have not seen the film in full because it is not available online or even in VCD/DVD format. But prima-facie, I found the story interesting which is mainly concentrated in around Ms Thomas (Dipti Naval). She has got a challenging role to depict the contrasting moods and emotions. The box office report shows that the film was released on 7 screens and was a ‘disaster’ on the box office.
‘Freaky Chakra’ (2003) had 7 songs written by Shiven Surendranath, Shormishta Mukherjee, Roohi Dixit, Kavitha Paul. A couple of songs were written jointly by Shiven Surendranath-Roohi Dixit and Shiven Surendranath-Kavitha Paul. All the songs were set to music by Ouseppachan, a music director of Malayalam films. This is his first Hindi film as a music director so far.
I am presenting the first song from the film, ‘dil mein kuchh ho raha hai’ to appear on the Blog. The song is rendered by KK (Krishnakumar Kunnath) on the words jointly penned by Shiven Surendranath-Roohi Dixit. The song appears in the film as a background song when there is a complete change in the behaviour of Ms Thomas (Dipti Naval), from an irritating and snobbish lady to a well-behaved and a pleasant lady when the paying guest (Sunil Raoh) starts living in her apartments sharing their concerns for each other. The song is a prelude to their romantic sojourn.
I like the song for its simple lyrics and for the musical composition – both for melody and orchestration. The guitar interludes with drums and bass providing for rhythm with intermediate oral percussion syllables (e.g., tha tha kita…..) create a fusion of western and Carnatic music.
Incidentally, music director, Ouseppachan had originally used this tune in the song, ’maunam swaramayi’ in a Malayalam film, ‘Aayushkalam’ (1992) using mainly the Indian musical instruments for the orchestration. However, After the release of the Hindi song, he reused the tune in the song, ‘chittikuruvi’ in the Malayalam film, ‘Mullavalliyum Thenmavum’ (2003) using, more or less, same orchestration as used for the Hindi song.
Video Clip:
Audio Clip:
Song-Dil mein kuchh ho raha hai (Freaky Chakra)(2003) Singer-KK, Lyrics-Shiven Surendranath-Roohi Dixit, MD-Ouseppachan
Lyrics (based on the audio clip):
[Oral percussion syllables]
dil mein kuchh ho rahaa hai
kyaa pataa chal rahaa hai
dekho sab badal gayaa hai
ye dil ko pataa chalaa hai
maine….. jab se tumhen dekhaa
tumne….. jab se mujhe jaanaa
dil mein jo ho rahaa thhaa
wo samajh aayaa
dil mein kuchh ho rahaa hai
kyaa pataa chal rahaa hai
dekho sab badal gayaa hai
ye dil ko pataa chalaa hai
ta ra ta ra ta ra ra ra
ta ra ta ra
ta ra ra ra ra
ta ra ta ra
[Whistling]
tumhaari aankhon mein donon jahaan
kiranon ki narmi hai yahaan
tumhaari aankhon mein donon jahaan
kiranon ki narmi hai yahaan
tumhaare aane se dil bahal jaataa hai
tumhaare aane se dil bahal jaataa hai
aur ye saaraa jahaan khil jaataa hai
din din tha na din din tha na
na dir din din na tha
dil mein kuchh ho rahaa hai
kyaa pataa chal rahaa hai
dekho sab badal gayaa hai
ye dil ko pataa chalaa hai
hey ae ae ae ae ae
hey ae ae ae ae ae
tumhaari baaton se mehke samaa
jadoo bhari hai hawaa
tumhaari baaton se mehke samaa
jadoo bhari hai hawaa
tum jo kehte ho
dil mera suntaa hai
tum jo kehte ho
dil mera suntaa hai
aur ye saaraa jahaan khil jaataa hai
din din tha na din din tha na
na dir din din na tha
dil dil mein kuchh ho rahaa hai
kyaa pataa chal rahaa hai
dekho sab badal gayaa hai
ye dil ko pataa chalaa hai
maine….. jab se tumhen dekhaa
tumne….. jab se mujhe jaanaa
dil mein jo ho rahaa thhaa
wo samajh aayaa
dil mein kuchh hmm hmm hmm hmm
dil mein kuchh hmm hmm hmm
dil mein kuchh hmm hmm hmm hmm
hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm
6 Responses to "Dil mein kuchh ho raha hai"
January 9, 2024 at 4:49 pm
My God!!! Deepti Naval is looking so young & pretty and so agile & delicate. I am sure she may have been 50 around the time this film was being made. She has really kept herself well.
Thank you Sadanandji for introducing this film, never heard of it before today.
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January 9, 2024 at 9:38 pm
In 2002, a film released namley LEELA(starring Dimple Kapadia, Deepti Naval, Vinod Khanna),(this film has got very good musical compositions) ->In this film also the story revolves around Dimple kapadia-> an elderly married woman, who starts an affair with a much younger boy (who was Deepti Naval`s son in the film), I always get confused by this Leela and Freaky chakra.(Freaky chakra also stars Deepti Naval who was in relationship with a much younger boy ) ,
Thanks Sadanand ji
for introducing this film to the blog, (I have seen this film partially during its release time through some cable t v channel, But I did not know any songs from the film,)which has got a actor from Karnataka , Sunil Roah, he is the son of famous Karnataka state singer B.K. Sumitra,
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January 10, 2024 at 7:05 am
Prakashchandra ji,
There are some more Hindi films tackling the story of eldery women in relationship with much younger men. Two films which I had watched in theatres were ‘Dil Chaahta Hai’ (2001) and ‘Wake Up Sid’ (2009).
By the way, I have already discussed ‘Leela’ (2002) in my article, https://atulsongaday.me/2019/08/03/khumaar-e-gham-hai-mahakti-fiza-mein-jeete-hain/
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January 10, 2024 at 8:23 pm
Thanks Sadanand ji for writing back to me,Yes I forgot you have already covered that film in the blog,
There is one more film(Banned /controversial ???) by Shashilal Nair(Must be a song less film) Ek Chhoti si love story(2002) starring Manisha Koirala and Child artiste Aditya Seal(Now he became a hero in Hindi films)
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
January 9, 2024 at 12:23 pm
Sunil Raoh is the son of veteran Kannada playback singer B K Sumitra with hundreds of film songs and thousands of folk, devotional songs and bhavageethas to her credit. He was a child actor, singer and a hero. Also worked in TV serials.
On Tue, 9 Jan 2024, 05:01 Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi
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January 9, 2024 at 3:45 pm
Thanks for the additional information.
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