Dil kee tapish aaj hai aaftaab
Posted on: October 14, 2024
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About a decade ago, I had watched a Marathi film, ‘Katyaar Kaljat Ghusali’ (2015) in the very first week when it was released in a multiplex. The literal meaning of the film’s title in English is ‘a dagger speared the heart’. It was near houseful crowd with an overwhelming majority being senior citizens. Probably, most of them may have watched the play in the theatre during their younger days and they may be curious to watch in the cinematic form. The film still lingers in my mind, and I have watched all its songs umpteen times. It is one of the recent viewing of the songs from the film that has prompted me to write this article.
The film was an adaptation of a very popular Marathi musical play by the same name, written by Purshottam Darvekar who also directed it. The play was produced by Natyasampada founded by the producer-actor, Prabhakar Phansikar, which was first staged in December 1967. The main theme of the story is the clash of two of Hindustani classical Gharanas during the British rule in India in a princely state in Maharashtra. The lead role of Khansaheb Aaftaab Hussain Bareliwale was performed by Pandit (Dr) Vasantrao Deshpande and that of Bhanushankar Shastri by Pandit Jitendra Abhisheki who also composed all the songs for the musical play in Hindustani classical raagas and sang for himself in the play.
The musical play was one of the important landmarks in Marathi theatre. The play became very popular with over 1000 shows. Illustrious personalities such as Pandit Ravi Shankar, Pandit Bhimsen Joshi and music directors from Hindi films, S D Burman, Hemant Kumar, Madan Mohan, Director, Hrishikesh Mukherjee watched the live play. Actor Kanhaiyalal never missed a show when the play was staged anywhere in Mumbai, watching more than 100 shows for which he was felicitated by ‘Natyasampada’, the producer of the play. [As told by Prasad Sawkar, one of the actor-singers of the play in an interview published in ‘The Navhind Times’, May 14, 2017].
This musical play was revived from time to time. In 2010, Dr Vasantrao Deshpande Pratishthan group had relaunched the play with Subodh Bhave as the director of the play. He is a well-known actor-writer-producer-director in Marathi films, theater and TV serials. Rahul Deshpande, the grandson of Dr Vasantrao Deshpande, has performed the lead role of Khansaheb Aaftaab Hussain Bareliwale. The relaunched play has performed more than 100 shows which encouraged director, Subodh Bhave to make and direct a Marathi film based on this musical play sometime in 2012. Three film productions houses, Essel Vision, Ganesh Films and Nitin Keni Creations were roped in. The main star cast included Sachin Pilgaonkar in the main role of Khansaheb Aaftaab Hussain Bareliwale, Shankar Mahadevan, Subodh Bhave, Amruta Khanvilkar, Mrunmayi Deshpande, Pushkar Shrotri, Sakshi Tanwar etc. With this film, Subodh Bhave made his debut in Marathi film as a director while Shankar Mahadevan debuted as an actor-singer. The musical trio – Shankar-Ehsan-Loy also debuted in Marathi films as music director. The film was released on November 12, 2015.
The story of the film revolves around the clash of two Hindustani classical Gharanas led by Pandit Bhanushankar Shastri (Shankar Mahadevan) and Khansaheb Aaftaab Hussain Bareliwale (Sachin Pilgaonkar). Both are great vocalists of Hindustani classical music. While Shastri represents simplicity and innocence while Khansaheb represents jealousy and enmity and after attaining the status of the court singer, arrogance and egoism. At the end, it is the Hindustani classical music which unites the warring vocalists and brings Khansaheb to a normal sense by realising his misdeeds. The story in detail is as under:
In a princely state of Vishrampur, Pandit Bhanushankar Shastri (Shankar Mahadevan) is the Court Singer having the in-depth knowledge of Hindustani classical music. Once on a visit to Miraj for a vocal concert, he meets Khansaheb Aaftaab Hussain Bareliwale who was also present as a vocalist. Shastri is very much impressed with the mastery over Hindustani classical nuances of Khansaheb and invites him to shift to Vishrampur where people will appreciate his singing more than what he gets in Miraj. He provides him with a house. Their friendship grows so also friendship between Zarina (Amruta Khanvilkar), daughter of Khansaheb and Uma (Mrunmayi Deshpande), the daughter of Shastri.
On a Dusshera day when the annual singing competition takes place in the princely state of Vishrampur for deciding the Court singer, Khansaheb is also invited to participate. The winner gets a cash prize, a haveli to stay besides a Katyaar (dagger) for his self defence with a provision of a royal pardon for the first killing. Shastri wins the competition against Khansaheb. And this trend continues for next 13 years. Khansaheb gets humiliated every year not only from his family but also from his villagers. This sows the seeds of hatred in the mind of Khansaheb against Shastri. He tries to commit suicide but fails in his attempt. Shastri visits his house to enquired about his health and during the talks, Khansaheb openly tells that he hates him and considers him as his enemy. Shocked by the utterance of Khansaheb, a perturbed Shastri returns home and their 12-year friendship is broken.
In the next year’s competition, Khansaheb is bent upon winning the competition to become the Court singer. On a visit to her house, Nabila (Sakshi Tanwar), wife of Khansaheb serves Shastri a drink mixed with vermillion without the knowledge of Khansaheb. This results in Shastri losing the ability to sing. In the singing competition, Khansaheb wins the competition and becomes the Court singer as Shastri walks out from the competition without singing. Shastri vacates his haveli and hands over the haveli and Katyaar(dagger) to Khansaheb. Shastri leaves Vishrampur to an unknown place without informing anyone.
In the meantime, Sadashiv (Subodh Bhave) visits his Guru, Shastri’s haveli and comes to know that his Guru has left the place and the haveli has been occupied by Khansaheb. Sadashiv meets Khansaheb but he throws him out of his house when he listens to his singing which gives him the hint of Shastri’s Gharana. Zarina is surprised by her father’s attitude towards Sadashiv, and she becomes sympathetic toward him. With the help of Zarina, Sadashiv gets to know the whereabouts of Shastri’s daughter, Uma and meets her. He comes to know from Uma the truth about Shastri abandoning the music and Nabila poisoning him to make Khansaheb win the competition. Sadashiv is furious and want to take revenge by killing Khansaheb. But Zarina makes him understand that instead he should challenge Khansaheb in music in the next annual singing competition.
Uma helps Sadashiv in learning and doing ‘riyaaz’ with the help of Shastri’s published book and his gramophone records. Uma locates her father, Shastri in a nearby village while on a visit to a temple and brings him back to her house. He, however, refuses to teach Sadashiv and instead asks him to become the disciple of Khansaheb who has already rejected him for his Shastri type gharana singing. Sadashiv starts learning from Khansaheb in disguise. He gets caught while listening to his rendering in a dargah. Khansaheb challenges him to outperform in the dargah upon which he would surrender his title of Court singer as also his haveli if Sadashiv wins. If not, Sadashiv would become his slave and relinquish singing in his life time. During working in Khansaheb’s house as a slave, Sadashiv secretly learns his style of singing whenever Khansaheb is doing his daily riyaaz.
Zarina strongly feels that her father Khansaheb has been very unfair to Sadashiv. One day, she blackmails her father by saying that she would divulge the secret to King as to how he won the singing competition. Afraid of his reputation, Khansaheb relents and gives back Sadashiv his right to sing.
In the next Dusshera annual competition, Sadashiv challenges Khansaheb who notices that Sadashiv has partly rendered the song in his Gharana style and accuses him of stealing his music. He also requests the King to allow him to use the dagger to kill him as Sadashiv is a threat to his music. The Maharaja agrees but Sadashiv requests Khansaheb to grant him his last wish to perform before he is killed. If his performance is liked by Khansaheb, he should accept him as his disciple. Khansaheb accepts and grant him his last wish. Sadashiv sings covering both Shastri’s and Khansaheb’s singing style. Khansaheb is overwhelmed by the singing performance of Sadashiv and forgives him. He, however, declines to accept him as his disciple as he feels that he does not deserve to be the Guru of Sadashiv because of his earlier misdeeds with him.
I was spellbound by the grand scale in which the film was made with excellent performances not only by the main actors but also actors in small roles. The core of the film was its music. Both Sachin Pilgaonkar and Subodh Bhave translated in their performances the great efforts made by Rahul Deshpande and Mahesh Kale as playback singers. The end result was that their performances on the screen gave me a feeling that the actors themselves were rendering the songs. This film is a musical masterpiece equally matched by the great performances by the main protagonists. It is a ‘must see’ film, even for non-Marathi audience and especially for those who are the fans of Hindustani classical music.
Despite the great efforts put by the director, actors, playback singers and the music director, I was apprehensive about the film’s success at the box office when I first watched the film in November 2015. How would the younger audience react to the film with all the 15 songs composed and rendered in Hindustani classical raagas? But the response to the films from the audience was so great that the film became a super hit at the box office. The film was made at a cost of around Rs. 8 crores which in the standard of Marathi films is regarded as a high budget film. The worldwide collections from the film crossed Rs.40 crores.
The film has 15 songs, 8 of which are composed by Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy. The film has retained the remaining 7 songs from the original play composed by Pandit Jitendra Abhisheki.
I am presenting one of the Hindustani classical songs, ‘dil ki tapish aaj hai aaftaab’ composed in Raag Keerwani. The song is written by Sameer Samant and rendered by Rahul Deshpande under the direction of Shankar-Ehsan-Loy. The song is picturised on Sachin Pilgaonkar in the role of Khansaheb Aaftaab Hussain Bareliwale who is participating for the first time in the singing competition in the court of Raja Vinshnuraj of the princely state of Vishrampur. Shankar Mahadevan, who has brought Khansaheb to participate in the Hindustani classical singing competition, is sitting next to him. One can also see Pushkar Shrotri in the role of Kaviraj Banke Bihari, Swapnil Rajshekar in the role of Raja Vishnuraj, Asmita Chinchalkar in the role of Rani of Vishrampur among others. This is the start of the enmity and jealousy Khansaheb develops towards Shastri as he loses the competition to Shastri.
There is also a duet version of some parts of the song rendered by Ankita Joshi and Mahesh Kale who give playback for Amruta Khanvilkar and Subodh Bhave, respectively. Both Ankita Joshi and Mahesh Kale are trained Hindustani classical singers. The background of this version of the song is that after losing the competition with Khansaheb in a dargah, Sadashiv (Subodh Bhave) is working as a slave in his haveli doing menial work when he suddenly sees Zarina (Amruta Khanvilkar) singing the song while rehearsing a Kathak dance step. He points out to her that she is singing in the wrong way. She retorts by saying that he should correct her by singing. But he is bound by the words given to Khansaheb that he would not sing. Zarina brings a flute and gives him to play the song on the flute to correct her. First, Sadashiv refuses but relents when she swears him in the name of music. While playing flute, he gets so carried away that he starts singing. He stops singing only when Khansaheb arrives with his disciples.
What an excellent solo rendition by Rahul Deshpande with almost all types of ornamentations used by him in aalaaps, sargams, taans and also in lyrics in a song of less than 3 minutes.
Solo Version
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Audio Clip:
Duet Version
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Video Clip:
Song-Dil kee tapish aaj hai aaftaab (Katyaar Kaljat Ghusli)((Marathi)(2015) Singers-Rahul Deshpande/ Ankita Joshi- Mahesh Kale, Lyrics-Sameer Samant, MD-Shankar Ehsan Loy
Lyrics
aa aa aa aaaaa
aa aa aaaaa
aa aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa aa
aaaa
dil ki tapish aaj hai aaftaab
aaftaab
jee morey dil ki tapish aaj hai aaftaab
aaftaab
dil ki tapish aaj hai aaftaab
bisre sagre
bisre sagre
bisre sagre sapne
kahin na laage mann ye aaj mora
dil ki tapish aaj hai aaftaab
saa re ga ma pa dha
pa ma ga re ga ma
ga re sa ni dha ni
saa re ga pa
re ga ma pa dha
ga ma pa dha ma
ma pa dha ni saa
dil ki tapish aaj hai aaftaab
aa aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa
geet lubhaawan youn mann bhaawan
geet lubhaawan youn mann bhaawan
jaise barse pehla saawan
jaise barse pehla saawan
mehke aanganiyaa aa
behke aaj jiya
hai sangeet ki jeet
ye geet sun kar iss dil ki
ye dhadkan
bisraaye har gham
goonje jab har pal har dam tan mann bharmaaye
dil ki tapish aaj hai aaftaab
hai aaftaab
hai aaftaab aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa aa
aa aa aaaaa
6 Responses to "Dil kee tapish aaj hai aaftaab"
October 15, 2024 at 5:25 pm
This is a fantastic song. Thank you Sadanand Ji for this post.
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October 16, 2024 at 12:18 pm
Thanks for your comments, Stayajit Rajurkar ji.
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October 15, 2024 at 11:04 pm
Thanks for sharing, sir. I had sometime back heard this song but didn’t know the details of the song or the movie. I had liked it very much.
your post revealed the history of the song/movie/play on which the movie is based.
Avadh Lal
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October 14, 2024 at 3:19 pm
Sadanand Ji
Thanks for the lovely post. I had some idea that there was an original Marathi play with this theme. But I got details only from your post.
As you have written, this is a must see film for any movie buff. I saw it in a theater and watched again on you tube, twice.
Almost all songs bring tears of joy to me.
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October 14, 2024 at 6:09 pm
Satish ji,
Thanks for your appreciation.
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