Aisaa ho to kaisaa hogaa
Posted on: August 29, 2024
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This article is written by Avinash Scrapwala, 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.
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This article is his 900th post in the blog. This is also the 3200th song post of Asha Bhonsle as a singer in the blog.
#the Decade of Seventies – 1971 – 1980 #
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# Bhoole-Bisre Geet # (Pancham-Gulzar-Asha Bhonsle)
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In this post I am presenting a song from the ‘1979’ movie ‘Ratnadeep’. This is the final song from this movie to appear on the blog. With this song, the movie attains ‘Yippeeee’ status in the blog.
‘Ratnadeep-1979’ made its debut on the blog with its most well-known song Kabhi kabhi sapna lagta hai on 21.08.2012. The second song from this movie was posted on 11.05.2023 which is Saajan aaye ho sajni ke saajanwaa aangan aaye ho . The third song from this movie Man bahak raha hai baar baar shaam se was covered recently on the blog on 18.08.2024 to mark the Ninetieth birth anniversary of lyricist Gulzar who wrote all the songs of this movie.
‘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 a short story by Prabhat Kumar Mukhopadhyay. “Ratnadeep-1979” was passed by Censor Board on 12.12.1979.
I had little knowledge about this movie during my growing years which was till 1983 when I passed my standard Xth). Subsequently I came to know that this movie was directed by none other than Basu Chatterjee and that made me interested in watching it. But sadly this movie was not available on internet. For that matter this movie is not available on internet even now.
I had no inkling of the storyline of the storyline and its songs. Kabhi kabhi sapna lagta hai was one song that I was aware of but without knowing that it was from this movie.
I became aware of the storyline of this movie only in August 2012, when the first song from this movie , viz. Kabhi kabhi sapna lagta hai was covered on the blog on 21.08.2012. Its storyline was given not in the writeup, but in the comments !
Additional informations about this movie have come up in recent times as more song links and other details have become available online. Some visuals from this movie have been uploaded on internet. Its story was featured on ‘Cinemaazi’ and then on ‘Wikipedia’. One of the links on YouTube has given some details about this movie. On contacting this uploader, I found that he had the movie with him and he was prepared to share it on chargeable basis. I did not pursue the matter any further because I was not comfortable with the way this movie was going to be shared (viz on a social media app).
I am reproducing the story of this movie here as given in ‘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.
(After knowing the story of this movie in detail and finding out that a part of it involves railways as well, I have become curious to watch it on-screen whenever the movie becomes available.
Today I am presenting a ‘Gulzar-gem’ from this movie which I am sure is well known among Pancham-Gulzar fans and other HFM lovers too. This song is sung by Asha Bhonsle.
I came across an interesting observation about this song composed by Pancham in the book ‘R.D. Burman – The Man, The Music’ written by Anirudha Bhattacharjee & Balaji Vittal. This book mentions that if one tries to dissect this composition from Pancham ‘one might find the first four notes of this today’s song, corresponding to ‘I feel pretty’ (West Side Story). This is along with the notes of ‘Raga Manj Khamaj too!’
Pancham has been often criticized by critics for ‘lifting western tunes’ and using them in his songs in Hindi Films. But he used these as an ‘inspiration’ to create his variations of the ‘tunes’ so as to fit them to the ‘essence’ of ‘soul and culture’ of our songs i.e. Hindi Film Songs.
In this regard I would like to quote from the above book what the authors mention about ‘plagiarism and inspiration’- ‘Plagiarism and inspiration in music have been in vogue for quite some time. Previously, there was hardly any stigma attached to the same. A startling example would be the ‘Fandango’ in Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, which was in fact a note-by-note copy from a movement in C.W. Gluck’s ballet Don Juan. This surely does not make Mozart any less composer. There are many such instances of inspiration and pure plagiarism in all forms of music, including classical music.
Similarly here is what Shri Vishwas Nerurkar (Assisted by Shri Bishwanath Chatterjee) mentions in his book ‘Pancham- An Anthology of R.D. Burman’s Musical Works’ -‘And even in these so-called lifted tunes, one cannot help, but notice how the composer with great dexterity and skill had changed the ‘original inspiration’, only giving us a glimpse now and then of a western tune.’
I more than agree to that, since I have never ever, listened to a Pancham composition where he might have inspired by a western tune, that has given me a feeling of its being an alien soul of the composition. I always feel them coming from my surroundings and my soil, and true to my emotions which are the result of my upbringing on this land only.
(Interested readers can listen to the audio of the ‘music sitting’ of this song which is available on YouTube.)
As mentioned above lyrics for the song are by Gulzar Saab. Asha Bhonsle is the singer. The trio of Gulzar -R.D. Burman-Asha Bhonsle have given us may ‘timeless classics’ and unforgetteble songs in the history of HFM. The song under discussion surely belongs to that list.
It has been mentioned by me (while covering the previous song from this movie) that Asha Bhonsle has given some of her most versatile gems that bring forward the unknown dimensions of her voice, while singing songs of Gulzar-Pancham collaboration. Today’s song is one such song.
This song also marks the 3200th song of Asha Bhonsle on the blog. She has around 7874 songs in HFM. So we still have a long way to go vis a vis covering her songs in the blog.
Let us listen to this wonderful song now…and say ‘YIPPEEEE’ to ‘Ratnadeep-1979’.
Audio
Song-Aisaa ho to kaisa hoga (Ratnadeep)(1979) Singer-Asha Bhonsle, Lyrics-Gulzar, MD-R D Burman
Lyrics
aisaa ho to
kaisaa hogaa aa
aisaa ho to
kaisaa hogaa aa
aap hon paas to
din dhhale ae
paas ho aap to
din chaley
aisaa ho to
kaisaa hogaa aa
ho o
aap hon paas to
din dhhale ae
paas ho aap to
din chaley
aisaa ho to
kaisaa hogaa aa aa
kisee din aisaa bhee to ho o
raat kee subah hee naa ho
kisee din aisaa bhee to ho o
raat kee subah hee naa ho
raat ke ae baad bhee
raat ho
aap ho o
aap ho paas to
din dhhale ae
la la la la
kaisaa hogaa
bolo o
aisaa ho to
kaisaa hogaa
ho o
aap hon paas to
din dhhale ae
paas ho aap to
din chaley
aisaa ho to
kaisaa hogaa aa aa
kisee din honthhon se kaho o
phoolon se jo kahaa tumne ae
kisee din honthhon se kaho o o
phoolon se jo kahaa tumne ae
aaj to phoolon kee
raat ho
aap ho o
aap hon paas to
din dhhale ae
laa laa laa laa
kaisaa hogaa
bolo o
aisaa ho to
kaisaa hogaa
ho o
aap hon paas to
din dhhale ae
paas ho aap to
din chaley
aisaa ho to
kaisaa hogaa aa aa
aisaa ho to o
kaisaa hogaa aa aa aa
5 Responses to "Aisaa ho to kaisaa hogaa"
August 29, 2024 at 4:04 pm
Dear Avinash ji,
Heartiest Congratulations for touching a new milestone of reaching 900 posts here.
You are a very enthusiastic writer and I see that you are nowadays taking more efforts to make your posts more interesting.
I wish you all the best for many many more milestones and you attain a new height of your posts.
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August 29, 2024 at 6:55 pm
Thanks a lot Sir for your blessings and appreciation for my write-ups. Your best wishes and comments here made my day today. I feel very fortunate to be part of this ‘company’ and to have meet you and other team members of this blog in this ‘life’.
Thanks again and with best regards,
Avinash
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August 29, 2024 at 7:28 pm
congratulations Avinashji for touching 900 posts & YYIIPPEEEEing Ratnadeep
also great feeling to have 3200 of Asha Bhosle songs on the blog 👍🏻
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August 29, 2024 at 11:51 am
Thanks Atul jee for posting this one. My heartfelt thanks for giving me this opportunity to be here. I am also thankful to all senior members of our team and all associated with this blog.
Thanks Atul jee& Sudhir jee for editing my write-ups and giving your special ‘editing touch’ to all of them for posting here.
Regards,
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