Nazron mein jaadoo bharaa
Posted on: January 23, 2024
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In the 1970s, Basu Chatterjee was one of those Hindi film directors who made films on the stories which a majority of the filmi audience could relate to their own every day life. Starting with ‘Saara Aakaash’ (1969), he made the classic films such as ‘Rajanigandha’ (1974), ‘Chhoti Si Baat’ (1975), ‘Chitchor’ (1976), ‘Khatta Meetha’ (1977), ‘Swaami’ (1977), ‘Baaton Baaton Mein’ (1979), ‘Shaukeen’ (1982) etc. But in 1990s and thereafter, Basu Chatterjee seems to have lost his magic touch to his ‘middle of the road’ cinemas.
‘Gudgudee’ (1997) was one of his such films which failed to attract the filmgoers and get critical appreciations. It was a romantic comedy inspired from the Hollywood film, ‘The Seven Year Itch’ (1955). The film was produced by Mahesh Bhatt under the banner of Plus Films and was directed by Basu Chatterjee. The cast included Anupam Kher and Pratibha Sinha in the lead roles, supported by Deb Mukherjee, Prateeksha Lonkar, Jugal Hansraj, Satish Kaushik, Naresh Suri, Mushtaq Ahmed, Jaya Bhattacharya etc. Shah Rukh Khan was the narrator at the beginning of the film.
The story of the film is as under:
Middle-aged Ajay Prasad (Anupam Kher) is a businessman based in Jaipur who stays with his wife, Sunita (Prateeksha Lonkar) and a school going son, Raja (Master Wajid). He is absent-minded and forgetful. Another problem with Ajay Prasad is that he imagines to be a charming person and women get attracted to him easily. He concocts many such stories about this to his friend, Shekhar (Deb Mukherjee) who has come to stay with him. Because of his imagination, any woman who comes to his contact , Ajay thinks that she has fallen for him, even with his own office secretary.
Ajay Singh receives an invitation from his close friend to attend a marriage in Mumbai with his family which is a three-day functions followed by a visit to Goa. His wife and son cannot accompany him to visit Mumbai as his son has to prepare for the school examinations. His wife, Sunita reminds him that as per the doctor’s advice, he is not to take alcoholic drinks and to control his imagination about women getting attracted towards him like a magnet. She also tells him to buy a teddy bear doll for Raja in Mumbai.
Ajay reaches Mumbai and he is received at the airport by Rabindranath (Satish Kaushik) who is going to be his attendant during his stay in Mumbai. An exclusive car and a fully furnished flat for his stay have been arranged. Ravi drops him at his rented flat. While taking the lift, Chandni (Pratibha Sinha), joins him in the lift. She stays in the adjoining flat on rental basis. She is a model who acts in advertising films. She is aspiring to be an actress to enjoy a luxurious living. She has a child-like behavior with some eccentricities.
Chandni often visits Ajay’s flat on some or other pretexts. Ajay starts imagining that even Chandni has fallen for his charm. The fact is that she is visiting his flat just to enjoy the air-conditioning in his flat whereas she has only a fan in her rented flat. But Ajay is reminded of his wife’s warning to avoid imagining about women. So, he behaves with Chandni just as a gentleman will behave with a lady. At the same time, he starts imagining that in his absence in Jaipur, Shekhar is flirting with his wife.
In the adjoining flat of Chandni, a budding singer (Jugal Hansraj) stays who likes her and dreams of marrying her. But Chandni is not interested in him though as a neighbor, she talks well with him.
During one of Chandni’s visit to his flat, Ajay nearly losses his gentlemanly behavior by trying to take her in his arms. But he loses balance and falls on her. He is terribly embarrassed as he has succumbed to his weak moment. However, Chandni is not perturbed as she consoles him by telling that such incidences often happen with her while shooting for advertising films. After this incidence, Ajay starts imagining, rather day-dreaming, that she has told her friends in TV channels about this incidence which is being telecast on news channels. He also imagines that his wife has seen the reporting of this incidence of TV and she would be coming to Mumbai. That evening, Ajay attends the marriage reception of his friend’s daughter where he meets a psychiatrist, Dr. Soormawala (Mushtaq Ahmed). He tells him that these type of the incidences often happen with middle-aged married persons. Without solving his problems, Dr. Soormawaala advises Ajay to read his book on this subject.
The next day, Chandni pays a visit to Ajay and tells him that for the last three nights, she did not have a proper sleep due to the fan in her flat not working. She has a shoot next day and she needs to have a sound sleep before the shoot. She requests Ajay to allow her to sleep in his flat on his sofa. Ajay agrees but he offers his bed room to her and he sleeps on the sofa in the living room. Next morning, Ajay finds his friend from Jaipur, Shekhar on his door. He says since he was on a personal visit to Mumbai, Sunita has told him to collect the teddy bear doll from him to take it back to Jaipur. Somehow, Ajay sends him out of his flat on some pretext as he does not want him to know that Chandni is in his flat which can create misunderstanding.
Fed up with the tension of imagining what the society would say about Chandni’s frequent visits to his flat and also spending a night in his flat, Ajay decides to leave for Jaipur, cutting short his stay in Mumbai and skipping his visit to Goa. When Chandni is about to leave his flat, Ajay informs her that he is returning to Jaipur by the earliest flight and she can stay in this flat for some more days for which he would speak to his host. Chandni thanks him for allowing her to stay in his flat. From the feedback, Ajay has given to her about his wife, she gives a piece of advice to Ajay that his wife has seen him to be a simple, shy, soft and of smiling nature and therefore, she does not need to keep a tag on him as to what he does when away from her. The film ends with Ajay giving a counter advice to Chandni that her singer friend has the same attributes worthy of her husband. If she agrees, she should get married to him and he would definitely attends the marriage.
After watching this film, I also watched ‘The Seven Year Itch’ (1955). The Hindi film is almost scene by scene replica of the original English version. The mannerisms of Anupam Kher and Pratibha Sinha in the film are partially inspired from those of Tom Ewell and Marilyn Monroe, respectively. Even some of the costume used by Pratibha Sinha in the film almost resembles that of Marilyn Monroe, especially of her cream color dress. There are some minor differences, like instead of Evelyn Keyes (wife of Tom Ewell in the film) going on a picnic with her son and a friend, it is Anupam Kher in Hindi film who is on a visit to Mumbai. While opening the champagne bottle, Tom Ewell’s finger gets stuck in the bottle, while in Hindi film, Anupam Kher’s finger gets stuck in Coca Cola bottle. I did not find in the credit titles any acknowledgement of the original story of the film.
Despite good performances by Anupam Kher and Pratibha Sinha, ‘Gudgudee’ (1997) flopped at the box office and currently, it has become an obscure film. The main reason for audience’s lack of interest in the film is that not only the end of the film, but also each and every actions of the main characters in the film are predictable. Also, Basu Chatterjee seems to have succumbed to the formula of mainstream Bollywood films with a couple of long duration songs which give the impression of ‘item songs’. Nonetheless, the film is interesting enough for an one-time watch.
‘Gudgudee’ (1997) had six songs written by Yogesh Gaud (4) and Amit Khanna (2) which were set to music by Bhappi Lahiri. I am presenting the first song from the film, “Nazaron Mein Jaadoo Bhara” to appear on the Blog. The song is rendered by Shivaji Chattopadhyay on the words of Amit Khanna.
The tune of the song sounds familiar to me and the orchestration song sounds akin to that of RD Burman. I think, the tune of the song sounds close to “Dil Ki Umangen Hain Jawaan from ‘Munim ji’ (1954) under the music direction of SD Burman. Probably, Bappi Lahiri seems to have deliberately done this composition in the light of the background to the song in the film. The import of the first line of “Dil Ki Umangen Hain Jawaan” has the same as ‘nazron mein jaadoo bharaa’. The middle-aged Anupam Kher’s has the aspiration of a young heart.
Before the song gets played in the film, Pratibha Sinha enters the flat of Anupam Kher with soft drinks bottles to enjoy the drink in the air-conditioned atmosphere. She suggests to listen to a ghazal. Anupam Kher switches on the tape recorder and the this song starts playing. Anupam Kher has inclination to flirt with Pratibha Sinha but limits his flirtation to dancing with her. After the end of the song, momentarily, Anupam Kher losses his control and tries to take Pratibha Sinha in his arms when he slips and both fall on a food trolley.
Video Clip:
Audio Clip:
Song-Nazron mein jaadoo bharaa (Gudgudee)(1997) Singers-Shivaji Chattopadhyay, Lyrics-Amit Khanna, MD-Bappi Lahiri
Female Voice
Lyrics (based on audio clip):
nazron mein jaadoo bhara
chaahon mein kho jaa zara
tanhaa na ab hum rahen
baahon mein so ja zara…aa
pa pa paa
pa ra pa pa
pa pa
pa pa paa..
nazron mein jaadoo bhara
chaahon mein kho jaa zara
tanhaa na ab hum rahen
baahon mein so ja zara…aa
pa pa paa
pa ra pa pa
pa pa
pa pa paa…
akeli hai hansinee
rootha hai uska piya
akeli hai hansinee
rootha hai uska piya
mana legi usey pyaar se
khud se hai waada kiya
nazron mein jaadoo bhara
chaahon mein kho jaa zara
tanhaa na ab hum rahen
baahon mein so ja zara…aa
pa pa paa
pa ra pa pa
pa pa
pa pa paa
ik lay mein do sur sajen
geet aisa gunguna
ik lay mein do sur sajen
geet aisaa gunguna
saanson ke taaron pe tu
dhun milan ki suna
nazron mein jaadoo bhara
chaahon mein kho ja zara
tanhaa na ab hum rahen
baahon mein so jaa zara…aa
pa pa paa
pa ra pa pa
pa pa
pa pa paa…
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Hindi script lyrics (Provided by Sudhir)
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नज़रों में जादू भरा
चाहों में खो जा ज़रा
तन्हा ना अब हम रहें
बाहों में सो जा ज़रा॰॰आ
पा पा पाs
पा रा पा पा
पा पा
पा पा पाs
नज़रों में जादू भरा
चाहों में खो जा ज़रा
तन्हा ना अब हम रहें
बाहों में सो जा ज़रा॰॰आ
पा पा पाs
पा रा पा पा
पा पा
पा पा पाs
अकेली है हंसिनी
रूठा है उसका पिया
अकेली है हंसिनी
रूठा है उसका पिया
मना लेगी उसे प्यार से
खुद से है वादा किया
नज़रों में जादू भरा
चाहों में खो जा ज़रा
तन्हा ना अब हम रहें
बाहों में सो जा ज़रा॰॰आ
पा पा पाs
पा रा पा पा
पा पा
पा पा पाs
इक लय में दो सुर सजें
गीत ऐसा गुनगुना
इक लय में दो सुर सजें
गीत ऐसा गुनगुना
साँसों के तारों पे तू
धुन मिलन की सुना
नज़रों में जादू भरा
चाहों में खो जा ज़रा
तन्हा ना अब हम रहें
बाहों में सो जा ज़रा॰॰आ
पा पा पाs
पा रा पा पा
पा पा
पा पा पाs
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