Jeene ke ishaare mil gaye
Posted on: February 5, 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.
|
Blog Day : |
5680 | Post No. : | 18193 | Movie Count : |
4952 |
‘Phir Milenge’ (2004) was produced by Shailendra Singh under the banner of Percept Picture Company and was directed by Revathy. The cast included Salman Khan, Shilpa Shetty, Abhishek Bachchan, Nasser, Revathy, Mita Vashisht, Somayajulu, Raja Krishnamurthy, Kamalinee Mukherjee, etc. The film was released on August 13, 2004. Revathy has acted opposite Salman Khan in her first Hindi film, ‘Love’ (1991). After about 12 years, she is working with Salman Khan but this time also as a director. In one of her interviews which appeared on Rediff.com, Revathy revealed that when she informed Salman Khan about this film which she will be directing, he volunteered to be part of the film. And he did the role for free.
The film’s story is about the romantic relationship between girl working in an advertising agency and a boy which had developed during their college days. The boy turns out to be HIV positive. The girl also contracts HIV because of which she loses her job. She also faces social ostracisation. When she is going through her most troubled time in her life, she meets a young lawyer who gives her a ray of hope. The lawyer fights her case of wrongful dismissal by an advertising company in the court. The film also talks about stigma, discrimination and ignorance about HIV/AIDS. The story in detail is as under:
Tamanna (Shilpa Shetty), who is employed in an advertising company as an executive, has immensely contributed to the growth of the company. She has won many awards for her advertising works. She stays with her younger sister, Tanya (Kamalinee Mukherjee) who works as a Radio Jockey in a radio station. With no elder person in the family, both sisters support each other in times of need.
Rohit (Salman Khan), Tamanna’s sweetheart of their college days who works abroad, visits India after a long time for a college reunion. Both of them meet and recall their college days. Their love for each other is reignited. Rohit shares some intimate time with Tamanna before he leaves for abroad. Tamanna also gets busy with her advertising job.
One day, Tanya is met with an accident and is admitted to a hospital. She needs blood transfusion for which Tamanna goes to the hospital for blood donation. Dr. (Revathy) finds from her blood sample that Tamanna is HIV positive. She is shocked. She remembers that she had one intimate relations with Rohit. But she is not able to contact him as she has lost his contact number.
Both Tamanna and her sister, Tanya are facing an upheaval task as to how to tackle this ordeal. The news of Tamanna being HIV positive becomes known to her boss who always appreciated her good performances for the company. But he takes a dispassionate decision to terminate her services on the guise of her incompetency in work though Tamanna thinks that she has been dismissed from the job ostensibly for her being HIV positive. Tamanna decides to fight her case in the court on the ground of discrimination.
On the recommendation of her friend, Tamanna meets a young lawyer, Tarun (Abhishek Bachchan) who initially refuses to take her case under the pretext that he is a corporate lawyer, and he has no experience in handling HIV cases. However, when he observes her at the session court that no lawyer is willing to take up her case, Tarun agrees to be her lawyer and he would take guidance from his mentor (Nasser) under whom he has completed his apprenticeship. Once he accepts to represent Tamanna and get to know the details of the disease, Tarun becomes very serious in pursuing this case.
On the other side of the case, the advertising company hires Kalyani (Mita Vashisht) as lawyer to represent the company. However, Tarun loses the case in the session court on the ground that the management has got the power to terminate the services with compensation. Tarun tells Tamanna that they can appeal against the judgement of session court in the High Court as the session court has never said in the judgement that she was incompetent, and her boss has said that he knew about her being HIV positive before she was sacked.
However, Tamanna does not want to pursue the case further. The reason is that Rohit after returning to USA gets ill and he comes to know at that time that he is HIV positive. Now, he has come back to India and counting his last days in the hospital. Tamanna has met him and seen him in serious conditon. She is depressed that one day, she would be in the same situation.
Tarun meets his mentor who directs him to fight the case in the High Court Since the Indian laws on such cases are not clear, it would give him an opportunity to present the case in such a manner that High court judges are impressed with the arguments, and they give a favourable judgement which would become a reference point for the future such cases. Tarun makes a forceful and emotional presentation about the plight of HIV/AIDS affected persons. At the same time, Tamanna is in the hospital by the side of Rohim who passes away. The film ends with a caption ‘after two years’ showing Tamanna celebrating the birthday of Tanya when Tarun walks in and shows a copy of a business magazine on which the picture of Tamanna appears on its cover page.
The film was critically acclaimed but failed miserably at the box office. This was a film which did not fit into the mainstream Hindi films. Probably, Salman Khan fans did not like to see him ill and die at the end. Hats off to Revathy for handlining such a rarely discussed subject in Hindi films with sensitivity and simplicity without giving a feel of a documentary film. All the three main actors of the film, Shilpa, Salman and Abhishek had their unusual types of roles which they have admirably performed.
The film is a piece of a well-researched story in regard to the legal issues and HIV/AIDs as a disease. I have read that the film is inspired from Hollywood film, ‘Philadelphia’ (1993). I have not seen this Hollywood film. But I can say that the medico-legal issues that are covered in USA may not be applicable in India. The Hindi film may have been inspired from the Hollywood film, but the writer had to do good research covering the medico-legal issues in the Indian context which constitute a considerable part of the film. Both the producer and director of the film deserve applause for making a film on a taboo disease. I think, after ‘Nidaan’ (2000), the film under discussion is the second Hindi film on HIV/AIDs.
‘Phir Milenge’ (2004) had 8 songs including a double version song which were written by Prasoon Joshi (5) and Sameer (3) and set to music by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy (4), Bhavatha Raja (2) and Nikhil-Vinay (2). I am presenting the first song from the film, ‘jeene ke ishaare mil gaye’ to appear on the Blog. The song is written by Prasoon Joshi and is set to music by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy who has also rendered the song.
The song is partly lip synced by Salman Khan in the role of a singer and muscian and partly in the background with Shilpa Shetty giving him the company. The occasion is their college reunion when they meet after a long time. The video clip has only two stanzas while audio clip contains full song.
Video Clip:
Audio Clip:
Song-Jeene ke ishaare mil gaye (Phir Milenge)(2004) Singer-Shankar Mahadevan, Lyrics-Prasoon Joshi, MD-Shankar Ehsan Loy
Chorus
Lyrics
kuchh khushbooyen
yaadon ke jungal se beh chalin
kuchh khidkiyaan
lamhon ke dastak se khul gayi
kuchh geet puraane
rakhe thhe sirhaane
kuchh sur kahin khoye thhe
bandish mil gayi
jeene ke ishaare mil gaye
bichade thhe kinaare mil gaye
jeene ke ishaare mil gaye
bichade thhe kinaare mil gaye
jeene ke ishaare mil gaye
bichade thhe kinaare mil gaye
meri zindagi mein teri baarish kyaa huyi
mere raaste dariyaa bane behne lage
meri karwaton ko
toone aa ke kyaa chhuaa
kayi khwaab neendon ki gali rehne lage
jeene ke ishaare mil gaye
bichhde thhe kinaare mil gaye
jeene ke ishaare mil gaye
bichhde thhe kinaare mil gaye
meri lau hawaaon se jhagad ker jee uthhi
mere har andhere ko ujaale pi gaye
toone hanske mujhse muskuraane ko kahaa
mere mann ke mausam gulmohar se ho gaye
jeene ke ishaare mil gaye
bichhde thhe kinaare mil gaye
jeene ke ishaare mil gaye
bichhde thhe kinaare mil gaye
kuchh khushbuyen
saanson se saanson mein ghul gayin
kuchh khidkyaan
aankhon hi aankhon mein khul gayin
kuchh pyaas adhoori
kucha shyam sindoori
kuchh reshmi gunaahon mein raaten dhal gayin
jeene ke ishaare mil gaye
bichhde thhe kinaare mil gaye
o o o o
jeene ke ishaare mil gaye
bichhde thhe kinaare mil gaye
bichhde thhe kinaare mil gaye
jeene ke ishaare mil gaye
bichhde thhe kinaare mil gaye
jeene ke ishaare mil gaye
bichhde thhe kinaare mil gaye
jeene ke ishaare mil gaye
bichhde thhe kinaare mil gaye
jeene ke ishaare mil gaye
bichhde thhe kinaare mil gaye
Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
February 5, 2024 at 8:29 am
Thank you Sadanandji for bringing this film on to the blog. This is one film I have seen every time it comes on TV. I really liked its subject, the deglamourised look of the stars. Acting may not have been A-grade, but Revathy made them look like normal day-to-day humans. And the film was set in post-IT boom Bangalore
LikeLike
February 5, 2024 at 10:30 am
Peevesie’s Mom,
All the three main actors not only appear in their deglamourised avatars, they gave ‘out of box;’ performances in the film,
By the way, Shankar Mahadevan and Zakir Hussain’s fusion band ‘Shakti’ took home the 66th Grammy Award for the Best Global Music Album on Sunday, February 4, 2024.
LikeLiked by 1 person