Yahee to hai mere khwaabon ka jahaan
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“Jeena Yahaan” (1979) was produced by N P Ali and directed by Basu Chatterjee for Jamu Productions. The movie had Shekhar Kapoor, Shabana Azmi, Amol Palekar, Zarina Wahab, Dina Pathak, Kiran Vairale, Vidya Sinha, Devendra Khandelwal, Arvind Deshpande etc. in it. This movie, a low budget “art” movie was based on a short story written by a well-known Hindi writer, Mannu Bhandari.
Sadanand Kamath jee had given the story of this movie while covering the previous song from the movie. Here is the story :
Shekhar (Shekhar Kapoor) and Lekha (Shabana Azmi) are from small towns who had made Mumbai their work place. Both are in love with each other and wants to get married. But their families are against this marriage because both belong to different castes. One day, both of them get married under Special Marriage Act, without the knowledge of their respective parents and start living in a small rented tenement. In the evening they spend time with their theatre friends with Sushma (Zarina Wahab) and Dinesh (Amol Palekar) being part of their friend circle, among others.
Sushma and Dinesh love each other but Sushma’s father is against this marriage. The real cause for the opposition to the marriage is that Sushma is the only bread-winner for the family, her father being unemployed for months. Both of them are encouraged by Shekhar and Lekha to get registered marriage which they follow and a date is decided for the registered marriage. In the group, there is Sipra (Vidya Sinha) who has lost her husband at a very young age with a small kid to look after. Lekha encourages her to start a play school for the small children and arranges the students and a place to start the play school. She is helped by her theater friends. (I think, the characters of Sushma, Dinesh and Sipra have been introduced just to jextapose the problems which have been faced by Shekhar and Lekha).
In all these efforts and also due to change of climate from town to Mumbai, Lekha is not keeping good health. Shekhar advises her to visit his parent’s house in a small town for few days for a change which she reluctantly agrees. Earlier, she had visited the place with Shekhar after the marriage for a very short stay. This time, Lekha stays for a longer period and during the initial period, she is quite happy with open sky, greenery all around and more importantly, the easy life away from the hustle bustle of Mumbai.
Within a few days of her stay, Lekha realises that all is not well in the house. The house has been divided into two parts with one part being occupied by Shekhar’s uncle and his family. Shekhar’s house is run by his mother (Dina Pathak) and Lekha’s mother-in-law (here after I will call her as ‘matriarch’) who is the final decision-maker in the house. Her father-in-law (Arvind Deshpande) has no say in the running of the house.
Shekhar’s younger brother, Shanker who is studying for BA wants to change his spectacles as his number has changed and he is getting head-ache. But his mother is not prepared to spend money for a new spectacles. On the other hand, she is prepared to spend money for some rituals to be conducted by a swami. Lekha tries to convince the matriarch by saying that Shankar’s study will be affected but it is of no use as she thinks that Shanker wanted to change the spectacle for more fashionable frame. (This shows the misplaced priorities for spending money in a rural/semi-urban setting).
In the house, the elder daughter-in-law who has become widow is looked down by the mother-in-law. Her younger brother, Diwakar (Devendra Khandelwal) occasionally visit her widow sister in the pretext of enquiring her well-being. But the real reason for this visit is to meet Gauri (Kiran Vairale), the younger sister of Shekhar. Both like each other but the matriarch is against Gauri meeting him since he happens to be the brother of her elder daughter-in-law whom she hates. With all these problems, Lekha feels suffocated even under the vast open place and a leisure life. She thinks of returning to Mumbai.
The matriarch finally decides to get Gauri married to a widower who is almost double the age of Gauri. Lekha tries to convince the matriarch that Gauri should get married to Diwakar who not only loves Gauri, but is also educated. Again, the matriarch has her own way and fix the date for Gauri’s marriage with a widower. Lekha is frustrated. She has to stop this marriage. Since Lekha has already decided to return to Mumbai, she tells both Gauri and Diwakar to run away from the town and board the same train in which she is returning to Mumbai. While Gauri agrees, Diwakar develops cold feet and politely refuse to become the part of the escape to Mumbai with Gauri. Lekha has no option but to take Gauri with her to Mumbai to stop her forcible marriage to a aged widower. In this plan, she takes into confidence, the matriarch’s sister-in-law and her elder daughter-in-law.
In Mumbai, Sushma and Dinesh have got married and are staying in Shekhar’s house while Lekha was out of Mumbai. They are happy as their parent have reconciled to the marriage. Shekhar and Lekha offer Dinesh and Sushma to continue to stay in their house until they find a house for themselves. She consoles Gauri that they will look for a suitable bridegroom for her in Mumbai. The film ends with Lekha’s dialogues as under:
‘Hum log yahin achche hain.
Ye muthi bhar aasmaan, ye chhoti si jagah
Lekin yahaan din mein hosla to hai’[We are happy here (in Mumbai).
A fistful of sky, a small room.
But here there is an encouragement to survive].
“Jeena Yahaan”(1979) had three songs in it. Two songs have been covered so far.
Here are the details of the songs covered so far:-
| SNo in Blog | Song Title | Singer/s | Lyrics | Posted On | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12917 | Ham nahin dukh se ghabraayenge | Lata Mangeshkar, Yesudas | Yogesh | 12 February 2017 | Lyrics by Prakashchandra. Picturised on Zarina Wahab and Amol Palekar |
| 16072 | Ho o shaam aayi rangon mein rangi huyi | Lata Mangeshkar | Yogesh | 29 November 2020 | Post by Sadanand Kamath. Picturised on Kiran Vairaale |
Here is the third and final song from “Jeena Yahaan”(1979). This song is sung by Sabita Chaudhary, wife of music director. Yogesh is the lyricist. Music is composed by Salil Chaudhary.
The song is a background song. It is picturised in the movie twice. The first (longer) part shows Shabana Azmi travelling by train her her sasuraal while this song gets pkayed in the background. After getting down at the small roadside station, she comes out of station and finds one tonga that takes her to the destination village.
Part II of the song takes place in the village. This background song gets played while Shabana Azmi is savouring village life. Kiran Vairale (her sister in law) is also visible in the picturisation.
This is a movie that Sadanand Kamath jee enjoyed watching. I too would have enjoyed watching it when it was first released. But I think the movie story has got dated by now and there may not be too many takers for movies with such story line.
Prakashchandra is another regular who enjoyed watching this movie. He had sent the lyrics of all the songs of thgis movie. It was he who had pointed out that the picturised version of the song was longer than the audio version and it was picturised twice in the movie. The video link sent by him had become dead, but I managed to find video of this movie from where I obtained the video of this song.
This song, like the first song from the movie uses the word “Jeena Yahaan” in the lyrics. So this song , like the first song can be considered title song cum theme song of the movie.
With this song, all the three songs of “Jeena Yahaan”(1979) have been covered in the blog. The movie thus joins the list of movies that have been YIPPEED in the blog.
Audio (part I)(partial)
Video part one
Video part two
Song-Yahi to hai mere khwaabon ka jahaan (Jeena Yahaan)(1979) Singer- Sabita Chaudhary, Lyrics-Yogesh, MD-Salil Chaudhary
Lyrics(Provided by Prakashchandra)
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Part I
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yahi to hai mere khwaabon ka jahaan
yahi to hai mere khwaabon ka jahaan
ye saji dharti
ye khula khula aasmaan
saji dharti
ye khula khula aasmaan
kitna madhur lage jeena yahaan
yahi to hai mere khwaabon ka jahaan
tan mera chhoo gayi mehki hawa
man mera lehraa ke gaane laga
tan mera chhoo gayi mehki hawa
man mera lehraa ke gaane laga
bahak gaye mahak gaye mere armaan
bahak gaye mahak gaye mere armaan
yahi to hai mere khwaabon ka jahaan
kitna madhur lage jeena yahaan
ghane ghane pedon ke chhane yahaan dhoop
mausam kaa salona yahaan
lagtaa hai roop
ghane ghane pedon ke chhane yahaan dhoop
mausam kaa salona yahaan
lagtaa hai roop
pehle kahin dekhaa hi nahin
aankhon ne samaa
yehi toh hai mere khwaabon ka jahaan
kitnaa madhur lage jeenaa yahaan
mere liye raahon mein hain bikhre
khiley khiley phoolon ke ye gajre
mere liye raahon mein hain bikhre
khiley khiley phoolon ke ye gajre
dil ye mera samajh gaya phoolon ki jubaan
dil ye mera samajh gaya phoolon ki jubaan
yahi to hai mere khwaabon ka jahaan
yahi to hai mere khwaabon ka jahaan
ye saji dharti
ye khula khula aasmaan
saji dharti
ye khula khula aasmaan
kitna madhur lage jeena yahaan
jeena yahaan
jeena yahaan
jeena yahaaan
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Part II
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tann meraa chhoo gayee mehki hawaa
tann meraa chhoo gayee mehki hawaa
mann meraa lehraake gaane lagaa
behak gaye mehak gaye
mere armaan
behak gaye mehak gaye
mere armaan
yehi toh hai mere khwaabon kaa jahaan
yehi toh hai mere khwaabon kaa jahaan
ye sajee dharati
ye khulaa khulaa aasmaan
sajee dhararti
ye khulaa khulaa aasmaan
kitnaa madhur lage jeenaa yahaan
jeenaa yahaan
jeenaa yahaan
jeenaa yahaan
jeenaa yahaan
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