Tere bin tere bin
Posted on: August 18, 2025
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‘Wazeer’ (2016) was produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra under the banners of Vinod Chopra Films, Reliance Entertainment and Gateway Films and was directed by Bijoy Nambiar. The cast included Amitabh Bachchan, Farhan Akhtar, Aditi Rao Hydari, Manav Kaul, Anjum Sharma, Murli Sharma, Prakash Belawadi, Nasir Khan, Seema Pahwa, Nishigandha Wad, Vaidehi Parshurami, Sachi Tiwari, Avtar Gill, Mazel Vyas, Gargi Patel etc. Neil Nitin Mukesh and John Abraham made their guest appearances in the film.
The original story of the film was written by Vidhu Vinod Chopra as early as in 2000 when he was toying with an idea of making the film in Hollywood with title, ‘The Fifth Move’ which was to be directed by him with American cast. He had got an American producer and was negotiating with Hollywood actors, Dustin Hoffman and Anthony Hopkins for the main role. However, the producer suddenly passed away. The project was abandoned in 2003. Thereafter, it was decided to make the film in Hindi. While shooting for ‘Lakshya’ (2004), the script of the film was narrated to Farhan Akhtar who did not respond. Writer Abhijat Joshi was roped in to revise the script in an Indian setting. It underwent many changes. The revised script was narrated to Farhan Akhtar who accepted the main role of a police officer of the Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS). The other main role of the Chess enthusiast who was in a wheelchair throughout the film was done by Amitabh Bachchan. .
I have recently watched the film on one of the OTT platforms and liked it for its fast-paced narrative. It has a perfect casting and every actor, whether in main or subsidiary roles, gives their best performance. The film is of about 90 minutes’ duration which is its plus point as some details are left out for the imagination of the audience. Another plus point of the film is that the action sequences are superbly captured which is almost at par with Hollywood films. All the six songs in the film are background songs in tandem with the story and that too in abridged versions.
The story revolves around two men, Amitabh Bachchan, a chess enthusiast and Farhan Akhtar, a ATS police officer, who are deeply grieved by the loss of their daughters and try to find solace in a friendship. The film moves along with the use of chess metaphors whenever Amitabh Bachchan plays chess with Farhan Akhtar. Amitabh Bachchan is a ‘crippled pawn’ who has lost both his legs in a car accident. Just a year before, his adult daughter accidentally falls from a staircase in the Welfare Minister’s house and dies. However, Amitabh Bachchan suspects that it was a cold-blooded murder. For him, Farhan Akhtar is a valiant ‘rook’ (elephant) who will defeat the ‘King’, the former terrorist in the guise of the Welfare Minister and ‘Wazeer’ (queen), Neil Nitin Mukesh, a supposedly his hitman.
The story of the film is as under:
The film opens with video montages of Danish Ali’s (Farhan Akhtar) happy moments in his life beginning from his Nikah followed by the marriage with Roohana (Aditi Rao Hydari), the birth of a girl, Noorie (Sachi Tiwari), her 5th birthday celebrations etc. In this video montage, the audience also comes to know that Roohana is also a dancer. All these happy moments in his life show him as a loving husband and a doting father. Danish is a police officer in Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) and is always armed with a revolver and connected with his ATS team.
One day, while travelling with his family in his car in Delhi, Roohana gets down from the car to buy something in a nearby shop. While Danish has parked the car in a sideway, he spots a high profile terrorist, Rameez (Nasir Khan) who was supposed to have escaped out of the country. At once he follows him in his car. A shootout between the terrorist and Danish takes place during which his daughter Noorie gets hit with a bullet fired by the terrorist. Immediately, Danish drives the car to a nearby hospital where she succumbs to her injuries. Danish is devastated by the death of his daughter while his anguished wife, Roohana blames him for her death and leaves his house.
Danish decides to take revenge against Rameez and with his ATS team, locates his hideout. His boss in ATS orders Danish not to kill Rameez but capture him alive so that they would come to know as to which minister he was supposed to meet while in Delhi. However, a revengeful Danish kills Rameez and gets suspended from the ATS for exceeding his authority.
With the loss of his daughter, his wife leaving him and now suspended from the service, a guilt stricken Danish decides to kill himself with his service revolver in one night near a cemetery. A strong headlights from an approaching car stops him from triggering his revolver. He shouts at the car to switch off the headlights. The driver follows his instructions. But now Danish is in no mood to kill himself. He walks towards the car and finds a wallet fallen outside the car. After finding no one in the car, a search in the wallet leads him to Pandit Omkarnath Dhar (Amitabh Bachchan) house to whom he hands over his wallet. Panditji had lost both his legs in a car accident and he is confined to an electrically operated wheelchair.
From his wallet, Panditji shows Danish a photograph which is of his adult daughter, Neena (Vaidehi Parshurami) who died last year in an accidental fall from the staircase of the house of the Welfare Minister, Qureshi (Manav Kaul). Panditji suspects that it was not an accidental fall but she was killed. He suspects Qureshi in his daughter’s death. Panditji is also aware that Danish’s daughter, Noorie also got accidentally killed while he was chasing a terrorist. Panditji knows Noorie because she had come to him a couple of times to learn chess which he has been teaching to many children over the years. Panditji invites Danish to play a game of chess during his next visit. With this, an unusual friendship develops between Panditji and Danish on the chess board.
Danish visits Panditji’s house and they converse while playing chess. Initially, Danish gets defeated in the chess game played by Panditji’s students. But slowly, Danish gets a grip of the chess game as he now regularly plays chess with Panditji who explains nuances of each piece on the chess board. In fact, Panditji has a motive in developing friendship with Danish because he is a ‘crippled pawn’ and Danish, as a courageous and a friendly ‘rook’ (elephant) can checkmate the ‘King’ Qureshi whom Panditji suspects to be the killer of his daughter, Neena. Before that, he has to take care of ‘Wazeer’ (Neil Nitin Mukesh) who is supposedly a hitman of ‘King’ Qureshi.
Panditji also runs dance classes for the children and Roohana is one of the visiting dance teachers. Panditji is aware of Danish’s pain of separation by losing his only daughter and now his wife having left him. By his shrewd diplomacy, Panditji unites Danish with his wife, Roohana.
Soon Wazeer comes to know about Panditji’s scheme of using Danish to expose Welfare Minister Qureshi who is on a visit to Kashmir to get the award for bringing the peace in the valley. As a first warning to Panditji, Wazeer barges into his house and injures him by stabs and symbolically sets his wheelchair and the chessboard on fire. Thereafter, he sends a warning by E-Mail to Danish that next time, he would blast Panditji’s house. He sarcastically tells Danish that instead of wasting his time in search of him, he should devote his time to save Panditji.
With the threat of blasting his house, Danish shifts Panditji in a safe house which is that of Roohana. So, after many days, Danish is staying with his wife. Panditji is bent upon traveling to Srinagar when he comes to know that the Welfare Minister, Qureshi is visiting Srinagar. However, Danish does not allow him to travel because of the danger to his life. Soon Danish gets a phone call from Panditji that he is on the way to the airport to catch a Srinagar flight. In panic, Danish searches for Panditji’s car to stop him from travelling. In the midst of the heavy traffic in Delhi, Danish is able to stop his car in the middle of the road. However, Panditji’s car explodes to the charred remains killing Panditji. Danish thinks that the explosion was the handiwork of Wazeer.
With one more grief added to his life, Danish takes a flight to Srinagar and meets his friend, the Superintendent of Police (John Abraham) and seeks his help in locating Wazeer. The Welfare Minister, Qureshi is giving a speech when SP sets out some light firecrackers to create chaos at the meeting. The Minister’s bodyguards safely take him back to his hotel room when Danish rushes to his hotel immobilising his bodyguards. He enters his hotel room and grabs Qureshi asking him of the whereabouts of Wazeer. Qureshi screams and tells him that he does not know who Wazeer is. Danish starts torturing him to get the whereabouts of Wazeer.
At that moment, Danish gets some sound and finds a little girl behind a cupboard. She is Roohi (Mazel Vyas), the fake daughter of Qureshi who calls her to come near her. But she refuses by telling him that he is not her father. Danish is surprised. It is at that point the little girl reveals that some years back, she saw Qureshi massacring the whole village. He pulled her from the hiding when an army team came. He presented her as his daughter who survived the massacre in the village. So, Welfare Minister Qureshi is actually the perpetrator of the massacre who has forced his fake daughter to keep the secret for many years. Danish kills Qureshi and brings Roohi back to Delhi to stay with him.
Still the whereabouts of Wazeer is not known. Danish visits Panditji’s house and asks his maid servant whether she has actually seen Wazeer visiting and setting fire to his wheelchair and chess board. She says that she did not see anyone entering the house. However, she gives a chess piece with a pen drive which Panditji had asked her to be given to him when he visits the house.
Danish goes back to his house and puts the pen drive on his TV screen. It is Panditji on a wheelchair who is explaining his plot. Panditji wanted someone to investigate the death of his daughter, Neena and he found out from the newspaper reports that Danish, the ATS police officer, had lost his daughter in anti-terror operations. He found Danish to be the perfect person to handle the investigation. So, he visited the cemetery in his car and deliberately threw his wallet on the ground which was picked by Danish after he gave up killing himself. Rest of the development is known by which he made Danish to visit him regularly to play chess. He invented the fake character of Wazeer by himself setting on fire his wheelchair and chessboard. He also inflicted knife injuries on himself and lied that it was done by Wazeer. Panditji also used voice changing recordings and tapes to pretend that it was Wazeer who was making the threatening calls to Danish. Finally, he sacrificed his life by self-detonating his car when Danish had stopped his car on his way to the airport to give a strong motivation to Danish, the courageous ‘rook’, and to take revenge against Qureshi for killing his daughter who is also indirectly responsible for the killing of Danish’s daughter because Rameez, the terrorist was on his way to meet Qureshi as they were partners in the terrorist activities.
The film ends with Danish, Roohana and the adopted daughter, Roohi sitting in their house.
The film had six songs written by seven lyricists which were set to music by six music directors. I present the first song, ‘tere bin tere bin’ written by Vidhu Vinod Chopra and rendered by Sonu Nigam and Shreya Ghoshal under the music direction of Shantanu Moitra. It is a background song which appears at the beginning of the film with video montages of the Nikah ceremony followed by the marriage of Farhan Akhtar with Aditi Rao Hydari, the birth of their newborn girl and her 5th birthday celebration. The song also establishes for the audience that Aditi Rao Hydari is a dancer and Farhan Akhtar, a police officer. With a 3-minute background song, the film has taken a forward leap by more than 5 years in the story, projecting Farhan Akhtar as a loving husband and a doting father.
A unique feature of the song is that the lyrics of the second antara are the repeat of the first antara but the verses are interchanged between Shreya Ghoshal and Sonu Nigam when they sing.
What a melodious song and what a melodious sargam singing in the interludes! Even the prelude of flute and piano recital sounds pleasing to the ears. The song gives me a flavour of Rabindra Sangeet.
Audio Clip:
Video Clip:
Song-Tere bin tere bin (Wazeer)(2016) singers-Sonu Nigam, Shreya Ghoshal, Lyrics-Vidu Vinod Chopra, MD-Shantanu Moitra
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Lyrics (Based on Audio Clip):
tere bin
tere bin
tere bin
tere bin
tere binaa marnaa naheen
jeenaa naheen tere bin
tere bin
tere bin
tere bin
tere bin
tere binaa marnaa naheen
jeena nahee tere bin
tere bin
tere bin
[sargam]
baawre piyaa..
laage naa jiyaa..
dekho meraa mann
jaltaa diyaa
jaltaa diyaa
bujhe naa piyaa aa
bujhe naa piyaa aa
jaltaa diyaa
hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm
hmm hmm hmm
hmm hmm hmm
tere binaa marnaa naheen
jeenaa naheen tere bin
tere bin
tere bin
[sargam]
baawre piyaa aa
laage naa jiyaa
dekho meraa mann n n
jaltaa diyaa
jaltaa diyaa aa
bujhe naa piyaa aa
bujhe naa piyaa aa
jaltaa diyaa aa aa
hmm hmm hmm
hmm hmm hmm
hmm hmm hmm
hmm hm hmm
tere binaa marna naheen
jeena naheen tere bin
tere bin
tere bin
tere bin
tere bin
tere binaa marna naheen
jeena naheen tere bin
tere bin
tere bin
[sargam]
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