Man bahak raha hai baar baar shaam se
Posted on: August 18, 2024
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#the Decade of Seventies – 1971 – 1980 #
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# Bhoole-Bisre Geet # (Gulzar-R.D. Burman)
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(Gulzar Saab’s 90th birthday 18th August’2024)
In this post I am presenting a song from the ‘1979’ movie ‘Ratnadeep’. Lyrics for the songs in this movie were written by Gulzar Saab.
‘Ratnadeep-1979’ was directed by Basu Chatterjee for ‘Gayatri Movies, Bombay’. It was produced by R. Kannan and R. Jagannath. This movie has Hema Malini, Girish Karnad, Dheeraj, A.K. Hangal, Sulochana, Prema Narayan, Nandita Thakur, Yunus Parvez, Pinchoo Kapoor, Master Sagar, Poornima Jairam, R.S. Chopra, Gautam Sareen, Amal Sen, Aroop, Manmauji, Ranjeet Sood, Chandu, Vishnu Sharma, Mohammad Ali, Khoka Mukherjee, Kashinath and others. Basu Chatterjee who was director of this movie also wrote the screenplay and dialogues of this movie. This movie was based on short story by Prabhat Kumar Mukhopadhyay. “Ratnadeep-1979” was passed by Censor Board on 12.12.1979.
I do not remember to have read about this movie during my growing up years. I was above eleven years old when this movie was released. I was not much aware about the songs of this movie even later. Only exception may be the song I think ‘kabhi kabhi sapnaa lagtaa hai’ that I may have been heard without being aware of its details. However, I have come across some information about this movie after internet made it possible to search for such details online.
Story of this movie is available on ‘Wikipedia’. Here I am reproducing the story of this movie as taken from ‘Wikipedia’:-
Madan (played by Girish Karnad) works as a railways official in Tarapore, a remote village. He finds life in the village very monotonous and uninteresting. The daughter of Madan’s superior, the Railway Station Master, is in love with him and wishes to marry him. However, Madan is reluctant to marry her because he would then need to continue to live in Tarapore. Madan applies for leave of absence from work.
One day a train arrives in Tarapore with the corpse of a sadhu. Madan refuses to allow the offloading of the dead body, but the passengers refuse to travel further with a corpse in tow. Madan is forced into ordering railway workers to offload the corpse and its belongings. The workers mention that the dead man resembles him. He acknowledges that the dead body, albeit with a beard, does resemble him. But Madan is in no mood to dwell on this matter as he is eager to leave Tarapore. Soon the official supposed to replace for him at the railway station arrives. Madan declares to the new entrant that he would never return to such a boring existence. The Station Master’s daughter bids goodbye to him.Madan notices an unfamiliar package and opens it. It contains the dead sadhu’s identification papers. The sadhu belonged to a well-known zamindar family. His diary mentions the details of his family. Madan decides to visit the family but as he read on, he realises the Sadhu was a rich man. Madan’s mind begins to change. Now he begins to practise the dead man’s signature, practises his handwriting and gradually changes himself as he becomes the man in the picture. He informs the family that he is arriving. At the Raja’s house we are introduced to his young wife (played by Hema Malini).
His wife who has led a widow’s life for the past 7 years was two months pregnant when her husband left the palace. Her son is now 7 years old. The family is happy with the Raja’s return. Madan becomes Raja Hari Prasad. However Raja’s brother-in-law Dheeraj is the only one suspicious of Hari Prasad. He sets out to Haridwar to enquire about Raja Hari Prasad. Sadhus at Haridwar admit that the Sadhu has indeed stayed with them for years.
Madan as Hari Prasad is happy with the adulation and continues to cheat everybody. But somehow he does not cheat his wife. But his wife, longs for his company. She reminisces the good olden days. Madan tells her he is in some penance and cannot touch women, even his wife. She respects his commitment. She notices he is always making excuses to avoid her company. One day when Madan gets a chance to visit the city, he decides to escape. He collects all the cash from the safe and leaves on the pretext that he has some bank work. But his child accompanies him. However, his plan fails and Madan returns to the Palace. Madan realises that he is falling in love with the Rani.
On the fateful day- mother of the Raja (Sulochana) gives her daughter-in-law a Ratnadeep and asks the latter to perform the puja of her husband. Madan, unable to cheat her, reveals her that he was not her husband. Hearing that the man who is standing in front of her was an impostor not her husband Rani falls accidentally causing fire….
What happens next is to be watched in the movie. As mentioned above this movie is not available on internet or other channels.
Today I am presenting a ‘lesser-heard’for some and ‘never heard for most’ song from the movie ‘Ratnadeep-1979’. As mentioned above I have not watched this movie so can’t say much about the picturisation of this song. Also the video of this song is not available as of now. Let us now enjoy the third song from ‘Ratnadeep-1979’ which is sung by Asha Bhonsle.
Lyrics for the today’s song are by Gulzar Saab whose 91st birthday falls today. Music is composed by R.D. Burman. The magical association of Gulzar and R.D. Burman started with the movie ‘Parichay-1972’ and they went on to create some timeless classics for Hindi Cinema. Asha Bhonsle who is the singer for this song, has given some of her most memorable gems when working with Gulzar-Pancham collaboration. This song is one such song.
Let us listen to this wonderful song now…
Audio
Song-Man bahak raha hai baar baar shaam se (Ratnadeep)(1979) Singer-Asha Bhonsle, Lyrics-Gulzar, MD-R D Burman
Lyrics
man bahak rahaa hai baar baar shaam se
man bahak rahaa hai baar baar shaam se
shyam ka badan
mehak rahaa hai
shaam se ae
man bahak rahaa hai baar baar shaam se
shyam ka badan
mehak rahaa hai
shaam se ae
man bahak rahaa hai baar baar shaam se ae
thhodaa sa mehkaa badan
thhodaa sa mehkaa badan
thhodaa sa behkaa badan
thhodaa sa mehkaa badan
thhodaa sa behkaa badan
boley ye baansuri
?? tere naam se ae
man bahak rahaa hai baar baar shaam se
shyam ka badan
mehak rahaa hai
shaam se ae
man bahak rahaa hai baar baar shaam se ae
paas hai aaj koyee
paas hai aaj koyee
pher de laaj koyee
paas hai aaj koyee
pher de laaj koyee
ho gayee baawree si
tere naam se ae
man bahak rahaa hai baar baar shaam se
shyam ka badan
mehak rahaa hai
shaam se ae
man bahak rahaa hai baar baar shaam se ae
man bahak rahaa hai baar baar shaam se ae ae
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