Kuchh is tarah do dil miley
Posted on: February 21, 2024
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‘Bhairavi’ (1996) was produced by Mahesh Bhatt and Amit Khanna under the banner of Plus Films and it was directed by Arunaraje Patil. The cast included Ashwini Bhave and Sridhar in lead roles, supported by Manohar Singh, Anjana Mumtaz, Sulabha Deshpande, Dilip Raj, Umashri etc. It was a musical off-beat film which had a limited theatrical release as it was targeted at the niche audience. The film’s shooting was completed in 45 days and was majorly shot around Mysore.
The film’s lead actor, Sridhar is a well-known Kannada film actor with many awards to his credit. He has also acted in Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam films. ‘Bhairavi’ (1996) was his only Hindi film so far. Sridhar is also a trained Bharatanatyam dancer. He has performed at many dance shows with his wife, Anuradha Sridhar. He was also one of the choreographers for the this film.
The director of the film, Arunaraje Patil is an award-winning producer, director, writer and editor who is the alumni of the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII). She passed out in 1969 with a gold medal. She was the first woman film technician to pass from FTII and the first trained woman technician of the Hindi film industry. Recently, I have read her 238-page autobiography, ‘Freedom – My Story’ (2017) written by her which is a journey of her life. Most of her personal as well as professional journey discussed below is based on her autobiography.
Arunaraje Patil was born on October 17, 1946, in Pune. Her mother, Puttamma Patil was from royal family who stood for women empowerment. Her father, K F Patil was a freedom-fighter from Ranebennuru in Dharwad district (now in Haveri district). He was a member of Forward Block of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose. Later, he became the member of the Indian National Congress. The family shifted to Pune when her father was inprisoned in Yerwada Jail in Pune during 1942-46. He was disillusioned with the political system post-indepedence India despite holding ministrial posts both in then Bombay State and later in Karnataka. He turned Gandhian and lived an austere life serving for the upliftment of Harijans and for girls’ education in his village.
Arunaraje excelled in inter-collegiate plays and won awards for acting. A brilliant student in her school and college, Arunaraje was coerced into studying medicine and got admission in Grant Medical College, Mumbai. However, in the first year, she failed in Anatomy subject. It was a shocking news for her mother, who finally realised her interest in filmy career. So, she allowed her daughter to apply to FTII. In the interview, she got rejected for the Acting Course but was offered double diploma course in Direction and Editing which she accepted. In 1969, she completed her Diploma course in Direction and Editing with a gold medal. In FTII, she met Vikas Desai, nephew of music director, Vasant Desai (Vikas Desai’s father, Motiram Desai was a cousin of Vasant Desai) who was one year senior to her in FTII. Arunaraje fell in love with him in FTII. They got married just before her graduation ceremony in FTII.
‘Vamsha Vriksha’ (1971), a Kannada film was Arunaraje’s first feature film assignment as an editor as film’s directors, Girish Karnad and B V Karanth had watched her calibre in FTII. However, they were for a shock when she reached the editing room in a wheelchair with a masked on her face, having met with a major accident that resulted in her legs getting fractured and injuries over her face and nose. During the film’s editing work, she worked, ate and slept in the editing room as she was not in a position to climb on the staircase. She kept her commitment to the film’s directors despite her adverse physical conditions. She won Karnataka State Film Award for the Best Editor for the film.
Arunaraje and Vikas Desai were the first husband-wife director duo (named as Aruna-Vikas) in Hindi films, their first film being ‘Shaque’ (1976). Thereafter, the duo directed two more Hindi films, ‘Gehraayee’ (1980) and ‘Situm’ (1982). They also jointly edited Shekhar Kapoor’s ‘Maasoom’ (1983) and T S Ranga’s ‘Giddh’ (1984).
When Aruna-Vikas as director and editor duo were doing fine in their career, tragedy struck to Arunaraje. Gaagi, their elder daughter of 7 years was diagnosed with blood cancer. They tried their best to get her recover from the cancer but in vein. After two years of suffering, in 1983, Gaagi passed away one morning. There was another tragedy waiting for Arunaraje. The very next day of their daughter’s death, Vikas Desai, her husband of her two children shocked her by asking for divorce from her to marry one of Aruna’s closest friends. Apparently, her husband was having an affair with her closest friend even during the illness of her daughter. [Arunaraje’s closest friend whom her ex-husband finally married was Tejashree, daughter of V Shantaram and the sister of Rajshree]. Within 24 hours, Arunaraje had lost her daughter, her husband, and her closest friend. She tried to commit suicide but could not do so as she had a little boy, Hith to take care of. She suffered from acute depression and had to take a psychiatric’s help.
After recovering from the depression, she decided to divert her mind by engaging herself in what she had been trained to do, that is, filmmaking. She set up her film production company, ‘Gaahimedia’ and planned to make a bold woman-oriented film, ‘Rihaaee’ (1988) with her close friend, Smita Patil as a protagonist in the film. The tragedy struck to Arunaraje once again when Smita Patil passed away in 1986. This resulted in the relapse of her depression. She almost shelved the film. But wiser counsel prevailed on her when her friends pointed out that she had taken loan from NFDC which will lapse. So, she restarted the project with Hema Malini.
She continued to make feature films in Hindi and Marathi which included ‘Bhairavi’ (1996), ‘Tum’ (2004), ‘Firebrand’ (2019, Marathi) etc. All of her films have strong women-oriented themes. She has also made advertising films, documentaries and TV Serials. She is the visiting lecturer in FTII and worked full time as the head of Direction in Subhash Ghai’s Whistling Woods International Film School teaching the subjects of Screenplay writing, Direction, Editing and Production. In 2020, she started her own film school, ‘Shift Focus – A School for Cinema and Life’. Presently, she had retired from her filmy career and taken up the assignment in the US-based Landmark Worldwide as a Forum Leader for India.
The gist of the story of ‘Bhairavi’ (1996) is as under:
Govind (Manohar Singh), his wife, Radha (Anjana Mumtaz) lives in a village with their daughter, Ragini (Ashwini Bhave) who is a visually impaired. Govind is a singer and also runs music classes for a living. Radha is worried as to how to get Ragini married because of her disability. With this kind of the tension, her health starts deteriorating and she dies of stroke. Govind, while travelling to another town for discussing with prospective groom for Ragini, he meets with an accident and dies. Now Ragini is living alone and her maternal aunt (Sulabha Deshpande) who is her neighbour, takes care of her. Her father has left her with house, jewelleries and some bank deposits for her sustenance.
Ragini has been trained by her father to be a singer and is also well-versed in household work. She starts teaching music to village children. During one of her singing lesson, Rajan Swamy (Sridhar) meets Ragini and introduces himself as a former student of her father who is now employed. They often meet and eventually fall in love. Soon they get married.
Post marriage, Ragini feels blessed as Rajan is very cooperative, taking care of her personal needs. She feels that Rajan has become her ‘eyesight’. She has been spending with a happy and blissful married life. One day, Rajan goes on a tour on office work and tells Ragini that he would return in a week’s time. Even after a week has been passed, Rajan has not returned, nor he has sent any intimation to Ragini. She consoles herself by assuming that there must be some genuine reason for his delay in return.
In the meanwhile, Ragini finds her jewellery missing from the house. She visits bank where she gets to know from the bank manager that all her deposit has been withdrawn and fixed deposits enchased by Rajan, leaving a paltry sum in her saving account. He has also committed fraud in his office. Still, Ragini believes that there may be some misunderstanding as she cannot believe of Rajan doing this to defraud her. It is only after his office and the bank file a police complaint, police get hold of Rajan and put him behind bar. Rajan tells the police officer very confidently that his wife would come and arrange his bail as she loves him. She does come to the police station to get him released on bail. In the police station, Ragini overhears this conversation which makes her very clear that Rajan does not love her. He is using her to get him out of jail. She tells Rajan that he cannot take her for granted because she is his wife. She leaves the police station by telling him that she has nothing to do with him anymore. While returning him, While returning home she crosses the River Kaveri by a coracle, takes out her manalsutra and immerses it in the river, signifying that her husband is as good as dead for her.
The film ends with Ragini continuing her life with singing in the temple and teaching music as hitherto.
‘Bhairavi’ (1996) had 7 songs written by Amit Khanna which were raag-based musical compositions by Laxmikant-Pyarelal. I am presenting the first song from the film. ‘kuchh iss tarah do dil miley’ to appear on the Blog. The song is rendered by Udit Narayan and Kavita Krishnamurthy. The song is picturised on Sridhar and Ashwini Bhave. The song is pictuirsed in around River Kaveri with the last scene of the song picturisation with the background of Gaganchukki Falls of the River Kaveri near Malvalli village.
This song fetched Amit Khanna the National Film Award for the best lyrics in 1996.
Video Clip:
Audio Clip:
Song-Kuchh is tarah do dil miley (Bhairavi)(1996) Singers-Udit Narayan, Kavita Krishnamurthy, Lyrics-Amit Khanna, MD-Laxmikant Pyarelal
Both
Lyrics
kuchh iss tarah
do dil miley
kuchh iss tarah
do dil miley
jaise miley ik raag mein
tere gaaye geet
mere gaaye geet
tere gaaye geet
kuchh iss tarah
do dil miley
kuchh iss tarah
do dil miley
jaise miley ik raag mein
tere gaaye geet
mere gaaye geet
tere gaaye geet
saanson ki pagdandiyon se gujarte huye
khwaabon ke jungle mein hum kho gaye
taaron ki waadiyon mein chalte huye
ajnabi raahgeer ik ho gaye
kuchh iss tarah
do dil miley
kuchh iss tarah
do dil miley
jaise khilen ik yaad mein
tera ateet
mera ateet
tera ateet
shabnam ke katron se naazuk ye pal
hathheli se apni girne naa do
mausamon se kaho
youn basant hi rahe
samay dhalne na do
isey badalne naa do
kuchh iss tarah
do dil miley
kuchh iss tarah
do dil miley
jaise miley sadiyon ke meet
sadiyon ke meet
sadiyon ke meet
sadiyon ke meet
aa aa aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa aa aa
aa aa aaa
khushbuyon ke baagh mein jhilmilaaten huye
jugnuyon kaa melaa lagaa
chaandni ki aag mein khilkhilaate huye
paani ke bulbulon kaa
relaa jagaa
kuchh iss tarah
do dil miley
kuchh iss tarah
do dil miley
jaise phale teri meri preet
meri teri preet
teri meri preet
meri teri preet
kuchh iss tarah
kuchh iss tarah
do dil miley
do dil miley
kuchh is tarah
kuchh iss tarah
do dil miley
do dil miley
jaise miley ik raag mein
tere gaaye geet
tere gaaye geet
mere gaaye geet
mere gaaye geet
tere gaaye geet
tere gaaye geet
mere gaaye geet
mere gaaye geet
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