Kehta hai kabootar
Posted on: November 14, 2026
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‘Bewafaa’ (2005) was produced by Sridevi Kapoor and was directed by Dharmesh Darshan. The cast included Anil Kapoor, Akshya Kumar, Kareena Kapoor, Shamita Shetty, Manoj Bajpai, Kabir Bedi, Nafisa Ali, Navneet Nishan, Supriya Karnik etc. Sushmita Sen made a special appearance in the film. A major part of the first half of the film has been shot around Montreal in Canada.
When the film was released in February 2005, some newspapers carried the reports that ‘Bewafaa’ (2005) was a rehashed version of ‘Gumraah’ (1963). The common in the stories of both the films were the forced marriage of the younger sister with the husband of her elder sister after her sudden death leaving behind two young children. In both the films, after marrying the younger sister, the workaholic husband neglect his second wife. In both the films, the younger sister had fallen in love with the singer/musician before the forced marriage. They re-entered in her life The younger sister as a wife is caught between the lingering passion for the lover and the moral duties as a wife of the late elder sister’s husband and his children. In both films, the husband gives the wife to choose the option and the wife chooses the husband and the children over their former lovers.
As per ‘Bollywood Hangama’ of February 09, 2003, the film’s director, Dharmesh Darshan has clarified at the time of film’s launch as under:
“As a filmmaker, I have been inspired by several great works. At the same time, even if a great film inspires you, every filmmaker has his way of interpreting those stories. Since our seniors have attempted every possible genre, we’re just borrowing those ideas and interpreting them in our individualistic style. That’s not plagiarism. BEWAFA is not a copy, as is being made out. The setting is different, the characters are different and the ambience is different…” .
The story of the film is as under:
Anjali (Kareena Kapoor) is the daughter of a Canadian mother (Nafisa Ali) and Indian father (Kabir Bedi) who stays in Montreal, Canada. Her father values the Indian culture and has also ensured that both her Canadian mother and his daughter speak in Hindi at home. Anjali is in love with a young upcoming musician Raja (Akshay Kumar) but she has kept her relationship secret from the family as her father is strict about Indian values and she cannot share with her mother as she strictly follows her husband.
Aarti Sahani (Sushmita Sen), the elder sister of Anjali has married the Delhi based businessman, Aditya (Anil Kapoor). She arrives in Montreal on a short visit to be with her parents. She gives good news to the family that she is pregnant. All are in very happy mood. Anjali reveals to Aarti that she has been in love with Raja but she is afraid to reveal to her father who would compare Raja with Aditya, his son-in-law who is a businessman. Aarti tells her that she will manage to convince the father and mother at appropriate time and that time will be when they will hold their grandchild on their hands. Anjali introduces Raja to Aarti in a restaurant and thereafter on a picnic on another day. Aarti is impressed with Raja and she awaits her delivery after which she will break this news to her parents about Anjali and Raja.
Aarti is admitted in a nursing home for delivery but unfortunately dies after giving birth to twin daughters. After finishing all the rituals, Anjali’s father asks her to consider marrying Aarti’s husband, Aditya with freedom to her to decide in either way which he will respect her decision. Anjali is already concerned about her sister’s twin daughters as to how they will be looked after. After giving a deep thought on the proposal, Anjali consents to marry Aditya and a simple marriage ceremony takes place. Thereafter, Anjali goes with Aditya to their Delhi residence with twin daughters.
Aditya is busy with his business even in the nights mainly to divert his attention from his late wife, a void which Anjali cannot fill in his life despite making every attempt to be a good wife and a good mother to the twin daughters. She even attempts to appear to look like Aarti to please Aditya. But nothing moves Aditya to forget Aarti and to divert his attention to Anjali. Aditya, on his part, never refuses anything Anjali asks for. Even he says that whatever things once belonged to Aarti now belongs to her. The only thing Anjali is missing from Aditya is the companionship.
One day, Aditya tells Anjali not to try herself to become Aarti as she cannot replace Aarti from his life. For the first time, Anjali retorts by saying that she has nothing in common with Aarti except that Aarti was lonely till her death as he had no time to spend with her. Currently, she has been spending her last three years in loneliness. This triggers Aditya to rethink about giving his wife and the children a priority over his business work. As he flies to Germany, he plans to give a surprise to Anjali and his twin daughters by taking them on a world tour after he returns from Germany.
Anjali, after seeing off Aditya at the airport sees Raja arriving at the same airport. Anjali tries to avoid him but Raja has already seen her. Raja has become a big international musician and he is India for his shows in Delhi. They meet and Raja complaints about not informing him as to why she left him in cold. She leaves without responding to his questions.
Anjali’s old feelings towards Raja comes back. She meets Raja and tells her about spending her life in loneliness. Raja suggests her to leave everything and come back to him. But she is unable to take any firm decision either way. She has a commitment to take care of Aarti’s twin daughters. At the same time, her passion for Raja has been re-ignited. Aditya, on his return from Germany is a changed man. He gives more times to Anjali and his twin daughters. He even gives a surprise to her that he has told his secretary to book a world tour of 80 days with his family. All these sudden developments put Anjali in quandary.
On the next day, Anjali decides to meet Raja on Sahadra Metro station so that no one will know about their meeting. Coincidentally, Aditya also travels in the same Metro and meets Anjali. During the train journey, Aditya meets his close friend, Dil Arora (Manoj Bajpai) and his wife, Pallavi (Shamita Shetty). They are like page-3 celebrities. On the same day, Pallavi coincidentally meets Anjali in a restaurant and divulges to her that she is aware of her secret meetings with Raja. But they do not divulge this to their close friend Aditya as of now.
Dil and Pallavi has hosted a party of all big wigs of Delhi and they have also invited Raja being his fan. Raja attends the party mainly with a view to meeting Anjali to get the feedback as to when she is going to leave Aditya to join him back to Canada. After the party, Raja secretly meets Anjali and tells her that she is always indecisive and this time, he will take the decision. After his last show in Delhi, he will leave India for Canada and at time, she should be ready to leave India with him for Canada.
Anjali, still confused as to which way she should take a decision, returns home to find that her parents from Canada has made a surprise visit to their house before going for a pilgrimage to Golden Temple, Amritsar. They had taken a vow that after everything about Anjali, Aditya and his twin daughters works out smoothly, they will pay their obstinance to the Golden Temple. Things have worked out very well for the family. Her parents give all credit to Anjali which she has managed to fulfill. This surprise developments put a break on Anjali’s planned escape to Canada with Raja.
On the day of Raja’s last show in Delhi, Aditya, Anjali, Dil and Pallavi attend the show. It transpires after the show that Aditya was already aware of Anjali’s secret meetings with Raja and he has shared the information with his friend Dil and his wife, Pallavi. After the show, Raja thinks that it is Dil who has leaked his clandestine meetings with Anjali to Aditya. He beats Dil only to be separated by Aditya who tells him that it is not Dil but he has shared this information about secret meetings of Anjali with him. He takes all the four of them to his residence and gives the option to Anjali to decide what she wants to do – to go with Raja or stay with him. Anjali decides to continue as the wife of Aditya and to take care of his twin daughters. Raja has also observed the way the twin daughters adore Anjali and the way she reciprocates.
The film ends with Raja seconding Anjali’s decision by saying that what she had done after the death of her sister was right and what she has taken the decision to stay with Aditya is also right given the circumstances in both the cases. The film ends with Aditya, Anjali, Dil and Pallavi accompanying Raja to the airport to see him off
The film had eight songs written by Sameer which were set to music by Nadeem-Shravan. One song has been covered on the Blog. I present the second song, ‘kehtaa hai kabootar koi to hai chakkar’ rendered by Shaan and Asha Bhosle who sing for Manoj Bajpai and Shamita Shetty, respectively. Anil Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor, Akshya Kumar, Navneet Nishan, Supriya Karnik etc are also seen during the picturisation of the song.
The context of the song is that Dil Arora (Manoj Bajpai) and his wife Pallavi (Shamita Shetty) has hosted a grand party in which all big wigs of Delhi attends. Dil being a great fan of musician Raja (Akshya Kumar), has also invited him for the party which he attends mainly for his personal reason of meeting Anjali (Kareena Kapoor). During the party, the host Dil and Pallavi sing and dance. The lyrics of the song is a pointer to Anjali’s clandestine relationship with Raja which is on the verge of being exposed. The reason is that Dil and Pallavi are aware of ‘koi to hai chakkar’ between Anjali and Raja. Throughout the song, Anjali look tense for the obvious reason.
Video Clip:
Audio Clip:
Song-Kehta hai kabootar (Bewafa)(2005) Singers-Shaan, Asha Bhosle, Lyricist-Sameer, MD-Nadeem ShrawanBoth
Lyrics:
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hu hu hu hu hu hu
hu hu hu
kehtaa hai kabootar
kyaa
koi to hai chakkar
haan
udd udd ke khabar har kisee ko bhej rahaa hai
yeah
kehtaa hai kabootar
koi to hai chakkar
hmmm
kehtaa hai kabootar
koi to hai chakkar
udd udd ke khabar har kisee ko bhej rahaa hai
ye ishq kee duniyaa
kamaal hai mister
ye ishq kee duniyaa
kamaal hai mister
is mein to koi paas koi fail rahaa hai
kehtaa hai kabootar
koi to hai chakkar
udd udd ke khabar har kisee ko bhej rahaa hai
ye ishq kee duniyaa
kamaal hai mister
is mein to koi paas koi fail rahaa hai
haan piyaa miyaan miyaan piyaa
too much confusion darling
ye rishton kee confusion to society hai darling
haan
that’s society
high society
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
teree saadee kaa ye pallaa
sarak naa jaaye kaheen
badaa diwaanaa hai ye dil
bhadak na jaaye kaheen
meree saadee kaa ye pallaa
sarak naa jaaye kaheen
badaa deewaana hai ye dil
bhadak naa jaaye kaheen
palat ke dekh meree jaan
hai teraa dhyaan kidhar
zaraa bach bachke bachaake
koi dhokaa hai idhar
ik chehraa lagaa hai
har chehre ke upar
haan
o ik chehraa lagaa hai
har chehre ke upar
hey
chhup chhup ke yahaan
har kisee kaa mel rahaa hai
kehtaa hai kabootar
koi to hai chakkar
udd udd ke khabar
har kisee ko bhej rahaa hai
kaheen pe nighaahen
kaheen pe nishaanaa
kyun samjhe har aashiq
duniyaa ko deewaanaa
hahahaha ye to waqt hee bataayegaa kabootaree
achchaa
ke kaun sayaanaa
aur kise hogaa pachhtaanaa
hahahahaha yeah
kisee ne jeet lee baazi to koi haar gayaa
mili jo aankh to aankhon se
koi maar gayaa
haan maine bhee dekh lee baazi
koi to haar gayaa
milee jo aankh se aankhon
kisee ko maar gayaa
badee kaatil hai ye raaten
meraa jaltaa hai jiyaa
kaheen khul jaaye naa apnee raaz kee baat piyaa
bedard hai duniyaa
badnaamee kaa hai darr
haaye
bedard hai duniyaa
badnaamee kaa hai darr
ghut ghut ke koi har kisee ko jhel rahaa hai
kehtaa hai kabootar
koi to hai chakkar
kehtaa hai kabootar
koi to hai chakkar
udd udd ke khabar har kisee ko bhej rahaa hai
ye ishq kee duniyaa kamaal hai mister
ye ishq kee duniyaa kamaal hai mister
is mein to koi paas koi fail rahaa hai
yaahoo yaahoo yaahoo yaahoo
yaahoo yaahoo yaahoo yaahoo
yaahoo yaahoo yaahoo yaahoo
yaahoo yaahoo yaaaaaa
u u u u
u u u u
u u u u u u u u yaahoo
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