Dil muskuraa rahaa hai
Posted on: December 1, 2024
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Hindi Songs in Bangla Films – 37
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The last article which I wrote under this series, Hindi Songs in Bangla Films’ was on July 21, 2021. Some days back, Shri Arunkumar Deshmukh sent me a list of Bangla films with Hindi songs. On checking, I found that barring one song, all Hindi songs in the list were already covered under this series. In this article, I have taken up the only Hindi song from Bangla film, ‘Sandhya Deeper Sikha’ (1964) from the list which is not covered on the Blog.
‘Sandhya Deeper Shikha’ (1964) was produced by Dilip Mukherjee and was directed by Haridas Bhattacharya (husband of Kanan Devi). The main cast included Suchitra Sen, Anil Chatterjee, Bikas Roy, Dilip Mukherjee (producer of the film) with supporting cast of Anul Bag, Sukumar Banerjee, Kamal Mitra, Rama Mishra, Geeta Pradhan, Robin Mukherjee, Nirmal Ghosh etc. The film appears to have been extensively shot in north India – especially in around Delhi and Agra. Anil Chatterjee in the role of Major Aftaab has dialogues in Bengali as well as in Hindi. I believe that Anil Chatterjee has delivered his Hindi dialogues himself having spent his school days in Delhi.
I have watched the film with English sub-titles. However, I find that the film’s Bengali dialogues have not been well coordinated with English sub-titles at many places. With these limitations, I have attempted to set out the film’s story as under:
The film starts with a restaurant bar in Delhi where a bartender refuses to serve any more drinks to Jayanti (Suchitra Sen) because she is already high, and it is the closing time for the restaurant. She takes a taxi and get herself dropped at the house of one of her acquaintances, Tarun Mukherjee (Dilip Mukherjee) who is a journalist in a prominent newspapers in Delhi. Tarun is surprised to see her in an ungodly hours and that too drunk, because he had observed during the parties that Jayanti had a strong dislike for alcoholic drinks.
During the conversation, Jayanti tells Tarun that she is struggling to come in terms with the death of her husband, Major Anupam Bannerjee (Bikash Roy), who has been killed during Indo-China war of 1962 in less than one year of their marriage. She has lost all interest in life. She has been indulging in heavy drinking as a means of self-harm. When Tarun enquires as to when she met Anupam and how she got married to him, Jayanti tells her story, and the films goes into a flash-back mode.
Jayanti had married Anupam Banerjee (Bikash Roy), a Major in Indian Army against the wishes of his father. The couple stayed in the army quarters in Delhi where the wives of army officers ran an army canteen. There was a strong bond of friendship between Major Anupam, Journalist Tarun who covered defence related news and Major Aftaab (Anil Chatterjee). They often met in the army canteen. It was during one of such gatherings, Major Anupam revealed to Jayanti that he has to report to army’s forward position in Ladakh. He assured her that he would definitely come back for a day on their first wedding anniversary. He had entrusted Tarun the responsibility of taking care of Jayanti during his absence.
Major Anupam never returned as he was killed in action while saving an Indian army platoon from the Chinese onslaught. Jayanti was deprived of even the last glimpse of her husband as he was buried by Chinese army near the battle field. It was a terrible shock to Jayanti who was emotionally attached to her husband. After her husband’s death, her father-in-law expelled her from his house. So, she was living like a nomad travelling from one place to another. In this way, she has come to Tarun’s house in Delhi.
Next day, Jayanti leaves Tarun’s house without informing him and boards a train at Delhi. She finds a military trunk in the compartment with the name of Major Aftaab. In a huff, she tries to jump out of a running train to avoid Major Aftaab only to be saved by him in nick of the time. During their conversations, Jayanti asks him whether she can visit the place where her husband was killed and buried. Major Aftaab warns her that it is impossible for her to visit as it is now under Chinese occupation. At Agra, she gets down from the train and Major Aftaab follows her. She stays in an army officer’s quarters.
Again, on the next day, Jayanti leaves Agra with a note to Major Aftaab that she is leaving for an unknown destination, and he should not bother to find her. Major Aftaab is sure that she is headed to Leh with her determination to reach the burial place of her husband. Since she has the international red cross card, she may even cross LAC to the Chinese side.
After some hard trekking through glacier, Jayanti is close to reaching her husband’s burial site when a Chinese soldier challenges her to stop. She, however, continues to walk towards the burial site when the Chinese soldier fires, seriously injuring her. Finally, she reaches the burial site of her husband in a badly injured condition and dies.
Given the story line, the film presents a grim scenes most of the time. Despite the poignant and emotionally charged scenes, the film is not a tear jerker. I found the progression of the story quiet interesting because there was no hint as to how the film is going to end. In fact, at one point of time, I thought that Jayanti may get married to either the journalist, Tarun Mukherjee to whom her husband has given the responsibility of taking care of her during his absence or Major Aftaab who had some light flirtation with her by praising her while rendering a song in the party. But after the death of her husband, Tarun and Major Aftaab go all out in helping Jayanti as their Bhabhi (sister-in-law). In the event, the film’s ending was unexpected. Hats off to director Haridas Bhattacharya for beautifully handling the grim story of the film and to Suchitra Sen for her excellent performance.
I am presenting the only Hindi song from the film, ‘har phool hans rahaa hai’ rendered by Manna Dey. The song is written by Pandit Bhushan and is set to music by Pabitra Chatterjee. The song is picturised on Anil Chatterjee. Dilip Mukherjee and Suchitra Sen are also seen during the picturisation of the song.
The background to the song is that in anticipation of Major Anupam coming back from the front for one day to celebrate his first wedding anniversary, Jayanti (Suchitra Sen) is hosting a party during which Major Aftaab who has interest in Shayari and singing, is requested to sing a song for the occasion. So, he sings a ‘khushnumaa’ (pleasant feelings) song in which he also praises the host for her beauty.
Video Clip:
Audio Clip:
Song-Dil muskura raha hai (Sandhya Deeper Shikha)(Bangla)(1964) Singer-Manna Dey, MD-Pandit Bhushan, MD-Pabitra Chatterjee
Lyrics (Based on Video Clip):
har phool hans rahaa hai
har phool hans rahaa hai
jee ko lubhaa rahaa hai
ae ae ae ae ae ae
kaliyaan chatak raheen hain
dil muskuraa rahaa hai
dil muskuraa rahaa hai
dil muskuraa rahaa hai
chhaayee huyee hai kaisee
har cheez par jawaanee
chhaayee huyee hai kaisee
har cheez par jawaanee
har dil mein bas rahee hai
ye madbharee kahaanee
har dil mein bas rahee hai
ye madbharee kahaanee
har ek chupke chupke
kuchh gungunaa rahaa hai
har ek chupke chupke
kuchh gungunaa rahaa hai
dil muskuraa rahaa hai
dil muskuraa rahaa hai
dil muskuraa rahaa hai
aa aa aa aa aa aaa
aa aa aa aa aaaa
tujh saa haseen koi
dekhaa naheen jahaan mein
taareef teree kar de
himmat hai kis zubaan mein aen aen
tu wo hai jiskaa jalwaa
tu wo hai jiskaa jalwaa
sab kuchh bhulaa rahaa hai
sab kuchh bhulaa rahaa hai
dil muskuraa rahaa hai
dil muskuraa rahaa hai
bhaa jaaye ik nazar mein aen
teraa kamaal ye hai
tu kaun hai
kahaan hai
sab kaa sawaal ye hai
bhaa jaaye ik nazar mein
teraa kamaal ye hai
tu kaun hai
kahaan hai
sab kaa sawaal ye hai
pahloo mein dard teraa
halchal machaa rahaa hai
dil muskuraa rahaa hai
dil muskuraa rahaa hai
dil muskuraa rahaa hai
har phool hans rahaa hai
kaliyaan chatak raheen hain
dil muskuraa rahaa hai
dil musukura rahaa hai
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