Baahon mein aasmaan le chala hai
Posted on: November 6, 2026
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‘Bahaar’ (1988) was produced by Narendra Kumar and was directed by Suraj Prakash. The cast included Raj Kiran, Komal Mahuvakar, Raza Murad, Ashalata Wabgaonkar, Deep Dhillon, Huma Khan, Shail Chaturvedi, Vikas Anand, Kavita Thakur, Baby Guddo, Dinesh Kaushik, Ramchandra Dhobale etc. The film’s audio album of the songs was released in 1986 but the film got theatrical released only in June 1988.
The story of the film is centered around a Goan village where the caste dynamics play an important role. The story centers around an unexpressed romance between the orphaned girl belonging to a lower caste and the son of her guardian. An open romance between them can create problem for them because of the intense societal pressure. The death of the orphaned girl’s guardian gives opening to the caste conscious antagonist to create the problem for the orphaned girl and the son of her guardian. Finally, the main antagonist, a priest is exposed in front of villagers for creating the caste segregation for his own supremacy and other benefits. The story in detail is given below:
In a Goan village, Rani Maa (Ashalata Wabgaonkar) from a noble family has been known to be benevolent to the villagers irrespective of caste – upper and lower despite belonging the affluent family. However, the villagers have been segregated on the basis of the upper and lower caste since the time immemorial and the present priest of the village temple strictly support this segregation though now the time has changed.
Rani Maa continues to support the lower caste villagers despite the objection by the Priest (Shail Chaturvedi). She has given a shelter to a orphan girl Savitri, belonging to the lower caste in the compound of her palatial bungalow after the death of her guardian. Rani Maa has a son, Ram who mixes with Savitri without any prejudice in his mind since she has settled in Rani’s Maa’s palace compound. Rani Maa’s liberal views and Ram giving company to Savitri is resented by upper caste villagers led by the Priest.
Both Ram (Raj Kiran) and Savitri (Komal Mahuvakar) grow up in their adulthood without any inhibition about their class and caste. Shibbu (Deep Dhillon) who is employed by Rani Maa as the horse keeper is wooing Savitri to marry him as she can only marry a person like him if going by the caste segregation. But she rejects his advances. When the Priest comes to know about this, he calls Shibbu and gives him some money to starts his own business after which Savitri will marry him. At the same time, he also gives him a delicate work to loosen the bolts of the wheel of the horse cart used by Rani Maa because she has given a loan to construct a well for the lower caste villagers. This is his first step to make Shibbu his right-hand man to implement the strict caste segregation in the village and opposing it would cost for those who have a liberal attitude towards equality of all caste.
Next day, Rani Maa takes the horse cart instead of car because it was to be taken to the airport to pick up Kirloskar (Raza Murad) who is visiting to see Rani Maa for initial talk on finalising the marriage of his daughter Vasanti with Ram. As instructed, Shibbu has loosen the bolts of the horse cart assuming that it would be used by Shashtri. But instead of Shashtri, Rani Maa becomes the victim of the horse cart accident in which Rani Maa dies from injuries.
For Priest, it is his first conspiracy to orchestrate Rani Maa’s death for being too liberal to the lower caste villagers. This is expected to socially isolate Savitri as she has lost her guardian Rani Maa. But instead, Savitri steps in to take care of Ram. Despite the objections from the other staff members of his palace, Ram allows Savitri to enter the palace for cooking food for his friends which includes Priest’s son (Dinesh Kaushik). Ram on his part also provide support whenever she needed like his drunk friend creating nuisance for Savitri and providing first-aid when her fingers get injured when closing the windows in a stormy night. He also forces her to use the bridal dress which his mother had bought from Mumbai for Ram’s prospective bride. Gradually, they like each other but remain restrained due to societal pressure.
But Ram is in dilemma – Savitri or Vasanti for his marriage. Before her death, Rani Maa had given assurance to Kirloskar after getting consent from Ram that he can visit her place to discuss the marriage of his daughter, Vasanti (Kavita Thakur) to Ram. Now his heart is moving towards Savitri. Before he loses control over him, he calls Shashtri to arrange the marriage of Savitri with a boy of her caste. He has also talked to Kirloskar to come with his daughter to see whether she will be comfortable in staying in the village after the marriage. The Priest creates misunderstanding between Ram and Savitri for breaking the societal rule when she had taken a holy bath in the temple’s pond. Shashtri, who is a well-wisher of Savitri tells her that Kirloskar with his daughter are arriving to finalise his daughter’s marriage with Ram. So, it is better for her to be away from the palace by getting married and settle in another village.
Kirloskar arrives with his daughter, Vasanti, and meets Ram. Ram shows Vasanti his palatial bungalow during which she visits his painting room where all the portraits of Savitri are placed. She also observes that Savitri is in complete control of the employees of the palace and the kitchen is run by her. Savitri finds Vasanti very liberal in her attitudes towards her. On the day of the visit to watch Goa Carnival, Vasanti insists that Savitri should accompany them. To avoid being recognised as a lower caste Savitri, Vasanti forces her to wear western dress and gives her a new name, Reeta while she is with her during the Carnival. Even the Priest is not able to recognise Savitri and he gives his blessing to her when he meets her at the Carnival.
After spending a couple of days in Ram’s house, Vasanti can guess that Savitri is in love with Ram, Without taking name, Savitri admits that she is in love with a person and her love for him is like Radha’s love for Lord Krishna. Ram hosts a party in his house to introduce his prospective bride, Vasanti.
On the inaugural days of new well which was constructed by the late Rani Maa for the lower-caste villagers, the Priest conspires to make its water poisonous. But Ram catches him red-handed when he reaches to inaugurate it. The Priest is handed over to the police by villagers. During Ram also comes to know that it was Priest’s conspiracy to kill Rani Maa by loosening the bolts of the wheel of her horse cart.
Savitri is persuaded by Vasanti to join the party for which she once again makes a complete changeover from Savitri to Reeta as her friend. After the party, Vasanti takes a sudden decision to return to her city. She tells her father that she feels that Savitri and Ram likes each other but the societal pressure of the caste dynamic prevents them from openly expressing it. Vasanti further says that she is leaving just to give them space to decide how to cope up with the societal pressure. If not, she will return to meet Ram.
But the pressure from the upper-caste villagers are such that Ram arranges Savitri’s marriage with a boy from her caste with a gift of small agricultural land and Rs.10000/-. On the very first night of the marriage, her husband fully drunk leaves her by saying that she had an illicit relationship with Ram as told to him by Shibbu who was earlier interested in marrying her. Later when Savitri comes to know that her husband got drowned in the sea, she tries to commit suicide. She is admitted to the hospital where doctor gives a slim chance of her survival.
Shashtri informs Ram about Savitri’ s condition. Ram rushes to the hospital and pleads with her to come out of her coma. He would gladly accept her as his wife breaking all the societal pressures. Savitri comes out of coma. Ram takes her to his house where Vasanti who has come back after knowing that Savitri has got married. She is not surprised as she has been already briefed about what has happened. The film ends with Vasanti giving Ram a vermillion box to Ram who applies vermilion to Savitri’s forehead signifying her marital status with Ram.
The film had five songs written by Naqsh Lyallpuri (4) and Chander Oberoi (1) which were set to music by Manoj-Gyan, who are the music director duo Manoj Bhatnagar and Gyan Verma from UP and Punjab, respectively. The film makes a debut on the Blog with its 1st song, ‘baahon mein aasmaan le chalaa hai’ written by Naqsh Lyallpuri. The song is rendered by Asha Bhosle who sings for Komal Mahuvakar. She is a trained classical dancer under the tutelage of Lachhu Maharaj and Gopikrishna. She has worked in Hindi films during 1980-86. Later, she shifted her base to Chennai to work in South’s films during 1987-95 under a new screen name, Rupini. In 1995, Komal got married to Mohan Kumar after which she quit films and shifted back to Mumbai.
The context of the song is that Savitri (Komal Mahuvakar) who belongs to lower caste, has been allowed by Ram (Raj Kiran) to enter his palace for preparing meals for his friends despite objection from higher caste employees of his palace. Secondly, he has been very protective of her when one of his friends tries to misbehave with her. She has also seen Ram painting her colour sketch. And most importantly, Ram has told her that he considers her as a part of the palace and as such she should use dresses befitting a palace resident. He forces her to use some of the dresses Rani Maa had bought from Mumbai for Ram’s prospective bride in anticipation of his marriage with the daughter of Kirloskar (Raza Murad) which got postponed due to sudden death of Rani Maa. So, Savitri has become aware that Ram loves her and his intentions are very clear.
The song captures joie de vivre moment for Savitri when she feels liberated from remembering that she belongs to a lower caste which her upper caste villager have been constantly reminding. With Ram’s support, Savitri feels that she is moving with the entire sky in her grip from where her world of caste discrimination looks far off.
Video Clip:
Audio Clip:
Song-Baahon mein aasmaan le chala hai (Bahaar)(1988) Singer-Asha Bhonsle, Lyricist-Naqsh Llayalpuri, MD-Manoj Gyan
Lyrics:
baahon meinaasmaan le chalaa hai ae
dil kahaan le chalaa hai ae
main ye jaanu naa
ho ho ho ho
baahon mein
aasmaan le chalaa hai ae
dil kahaan le chalaa hai ae
main ye jaanu naa
ho ho ho ho
baahon mein aen aen
yoon mere seene se aanchal
le udee paagal pawan
chupke chupke jaise koi
chhoo gayaa meraa badan
ho o o o
yoon mere seene se aanchal
le udee paagal pawan
chupke chupke jaise koi
chhoo gayaa meraa badan
baahon mein aen
aasmaan le chalaa hai
dil kahaan le chalaa hai
main ye jaanu naa
ho ho ho ho
baahon mein….en
ho ho ho
o o o o
ho ho ho
o o o o
jab se koi pyaar ban ke
zindagee par chhaa gayaa aa
main to itnaa jaantee hoon
mujhko jeenaa aa gayaa
ho o o o
jab se koi pyaar ban ke
zindagee par chhaa gayaa aa
main to itnaa jaantee hoon
mujhko jeenaa aa gayaa
baahon mein…aen aen aen aen
aasmaan le chalaa hai
dil kahaan le chalaa hai ae
main ye jaanu naa
ho ho ho ho
baahon mein
meree aankhon mein hain saajan
door hai duniyaa kaheen een
muhjko mudke dekhne kee
aaj fursat hee naheen
ho o o
meree aankhon mein hain saajan
door hai duniyaa kaheen
muhjko mudke dekhne kee
aaj fursat hee naheen
baahon mein…aen aen aen
aasmaan le chalaa hai ae
dil kahaan le chalaa hai ae
main ye jaanu naa
ho ho ho ho
baahon mein
dil kahaan le chalaa hai ae
main ye jaanu naa
ho ho ho ho
la la laa
la la la la la la
la la la la la
la la la laa aa aa
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