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Bhaagan ke rekhan ki bahangiyaa
Posted on: January 29, 2024
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William Shakespeare’s plays such as ‘Othello’, ‘Macbeth’, ‘Hamlet’, ‘Romeo And Juliet’, ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, ’12th Night’, The Comedy of Errors’ etc have been adapted in Hindi films. These Shakespearian plays have romance, emotions, tragedy, melodrama, actions etc and Hindi mainstream filmmakers thrive on such ingredients in the film. The most popular Shakespeare’s play which have been adapted for Hindi films is ‘Romeo and Juliet’. There may be at least a dozen Hindi films adapted and inspired from this play. From the summary version of this play which I have read, two important aspects in the play emerge. First, the lovers are from two different feuding families who desperately try to separate them. Second, from the incipient stage of their love, there are strong indications that they are not going to be united and at the end, they die as doomed lovers. So, the adapted films need to have these two important aspects to qualify as a fair adaptation of Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’. The viewers must feel that it is tragic love story from start to end. Insofar as Hindi adapted films are concerned, I feel that Jaddan Bai’s ‘Romeo and Juliet (1947), directed by her son, Akhtar Hussain with her daughter, Nargis playing the role of Juliet, can be said to be the first version in Hindi film with an earnest degree of adaptation of Shakespeare’s play. In fact, this film has accredited William Shakespeare as the ‘story writer’. Films such as ‘Ek Duje Ke Liye’ (1981) and ‘Qayaamat Se Qayaamat Tak’ (1988), also fulfill this criteria.
Recently, I have watched the film, ‘Issaq’ (2013) which is also based on Shakespeare’s play, ‘Romeo and Juliet’ although there is no such acknowledgement in the film’s credit titles. In this film also, there are two warring families and son of one family is in love with the daughter of other family. The two warring families are determined to separate the lovers. At the end, both the lovers die.
‘Issaq’ (2013) was produced by Dhaval Gada and Sailesh Singh and was directed by Manish Tiwary. The cast included Prateik Babbar, Amyra Dastur, Ravi Kishan, Rajeshwari Sachdev, Neena Gupta, Makarand Deshpande, Amit Sial, Vineet Kumar Singh, Prashant Narayanan, Sudhir Pandey, Sandeep Bose, Evelin Sharma, Yuri Suri, Malini Awasthi, Akhilesh Jha etc. It was Amyra Dastur’s debut film. By the way the name of the film is a colloquial pronouncian of ‘Ishq’.
In the film, the story of ‘Romeo and Juliet’ has been transformed from Two feuding Italian families to two elite families of Varanasi who are loggerhead with each other. Their feud is over the control of sand mafia resulting in unleashing of violence between the gangs of two families. The state’s minister intervenes to bring a rapprochement between two families. But it is short-lived as the boy of one family loves the girl of other family and they secretly get married. Both these warring families once again become a sworn enemy on this issue leading to violence and deaths of near and dear ones. At the end, both the boy and the girl kill themselves. The story in some details is as under:
The patriarch of Kashyap family (Sudhir Pandey) and the patriarch of Mishra family (Sandeep Bose) are old rivals over the control of sand mafias in around Varanasi. There is also a Maoist group led by their leader (Prashant Narayanan) to reap the benefit from the illegal sand business for their own agenda. Because of the rivalries, often there are gang wars resulting in violence and sometime deaths. One of the state government’s minister (probably the indirect beneficiary of the sand business) intervenes to bring rapprochement between the two families. There is a temporary truce.
Kashyap has a teenage daughter, Bachchi (Amyra Dastur) from his first wife (Neena Gupta). His second wife is the young Paro (Rajeshwari Sachdev). Mishra has also a teenage boy, Rahul (Prateik Babbar) with interest in girls and the guns. He already had a short-lived love affairs with a foreign girl (Evelin Sharma). During a Holi festivity, Rahul meets Bachchi and both falls in love with each other. Despite knowing that their families have been in loggerhead for a long time, they go ahead with the dictate of their hearts rather than the consequences of their relations. They secretly marry in a temple run by a Baba (Makarand Deshpande) with the presence of Bachchi’s mother (Neena Gupta). This development shatters the truce between the two families and they are again on the warpath over the relation of Rahul and Bachchi.
Rahul is on the run as Bachchi’s maternal uncle, Teeta (Ravi Kishan) is determined to eliminate him. With the result, there is virtually a gang war between two families with a few of their close friends and family members getting killed including Rahul’s friend, Murari (Amit Sial) and Bachchi’s maternal uncle, Teeta. In the midst of violence, pain in separation and the oppressive families, the couple secretly meet. During one of such clandestine meetings, Bachchi’s step mother, Paro sees them. She starts scheming to separate them permanently. She informs Bachchi that soon she would be betrothed to a boy selected by the family.
Paro assigns Inspector, Preetam (Prashant Gupta) to arrange elimination of Rahul and as a reward, he would get married to Bachchi. Preetam gives the contract to Maoist leader to kill Rahul for which he would arrange to give him right to remove sand from a part of the river bed. Soon, there is a fierce gun fights between Maoists and Rahul and his men.
In the meanwhile, Bachchi’s marriage with Inspector, Preetam is fixed against the wishes of Bachchi. She goes to Baba to save her from the marriage. He gives her a bottle with liquid which, if consumed, will make her to sleep for 24 hours. By this way, she can get the marriage postponed for sometime. Bachchi returns and get ready for her pre-marriage ceremony in her room. She drinks the liquid and goes in her deep sleep. However, people around her think that she is dead. In the midst of his encounter with Maoists, Rahul gets the news that Bachchi is no more.
After killing Preetam and the Maoist leader, Rahul see the ‘dead’ body of Bachchi. He kills himself with his gun. With the sound of the gunfire, Bachchi is woken and find Rahul dead with the gun in his hand. With the dead body of Rahul on her lap, Bachchi kills herself with the same gun.
I found the film to be more of an action-oriented one with good doses of gunfights and violence than the romance. The uncertainty and fear looming large on the lovers because of the families’ pressures were lacking in the performances of Prateik Babbar and Amyra Dastur. Some of the supporting actors like Neena Gupta and Rajeshwari Sachdev were underutilised. Visually, the film is interesting to watch with Banaras Ghats, Holi celebrations in a former Raja’s palace and some of the action sequences.
The film had 7 songs including a double version song which were written by Anil Pandey (3), Mayur Puri (2), Raj Shekhar (1) and Neelesh Misra (1).The songs were set to music by Sachin-Jigar (3), Krsna (2) and Sachin Gupta (2). I am presenting the first song from the film, ‘Bhaagan ki rekhan ki bahangiyaa’ to appear on the Blog. The song is written by Anil Pandey and is rendered by Malini Awasthi and Raghubir Yadav on the music direction of Krsna (real name: Amitav Sarkar). It is a wedding song which is picturised when Bachchi (Amyra Dastur) is getting ready for her pre-wedding rituals. The song is written in Bhojpuri dialect as conversations between a daughter who is getting married and her father/mother. This type of song is also sung during Chhath pooja.
The sum and substance of the song is that the daughter, whose ‘bhaagan ki rekhan’ (lines of destiny on her palms) tell that it is time for her marriage, asks a few innocent questions to her father. In olden days, daughters used to get married when they were minors, hence the innocent questions.
Father, why are you sending me from maternal home (peehar)?
Why are you transforming me from a girl to a married woman?
Where is the destiny taking me?
Since childhood, you have taken care of me and made me happy.
You have swung me in your arms.
Then why is this happening in the midst of happiness?
Why have you called the wedding procession (baaraatis)?
Why have you made a shaamyaana and ordered palanquin?
Why is turmeric getting applied?
The wedding procession has turned crazy. Where should I run away?
The mother says to her daughter:
When you leave for your in-law’s house, we will be desolate.
Do not ask your father as to how he ordered palanquin and made shaamyaana.
The palanquin career would continue to walk.
Your mother’s tears would continue to flow.
Even you will not stop crying.
Video Clip:
Audio Clip:
Song-Bhaagan ke rekhan ki bahangiyaa bahangi lackat jaaye (Issaq)(2013) Singers-Malini Awasthi, Raghubir Yadav, Lyrics-Anil Pandey, MD-Krsna
Female chorus
Lyrics (based on audio clip):
bhaagan ke o o….
bhaagan ke rekhan ki bahangiyaa
bahangi lachkat jaaye
bahangi lachkat jaaye
bhaagan ke rekhan ki bahangiyaa
bahangi lachkat jaaye
bahangi lachkat jaaye
bhejo re kaahe baabaa hamkaa peehar se
bitiya se banni banke kahaan pahunchaaye
sahaa bhi naa jaaye
ho ka kare haaye
kahaan khaatir chale re kahariyaa
bahangi kahaan pahunchaaye
bahangi kahaan pahunchaaye
bachpan se paale aisan bitiyaa..
kaahe bahiyan ki jhulnaa jhulaaye
khusiyan ke ras man mein kaahe re..
baabaa tumne baratiyaa liyo bulwaaye
kaahe doli banwaaye amma mandwaa chhawaaye
chale silwaayan haldi kaa pis pis jaaye
bhaagan ke rekhan ki bahangiyaa
bahangi lachkat jaaye
bahangi lachkat jaa….ye
hmm hmm hmm hmm
sooraj saa chamkegaa mor mukut pehnega
raajaa banke chalegaa bannaa hamaaraa re
jeeja ko naa poochhegaa
arre phoophaa ko naa laayegaa
maamaa ko lootegaa
chaachaa khisiyaayegaa
behanon ko thumkaa lagaataa laayegaa
kaalaa peelaa tedhaa medhaa
bannaa baaraati aisaa laayaa re
ka kari haaye
kahaan chali jaaye
banno saram se mar mar jaaye
banno saram se mar mar jaaye
bhaagan ke rekhan ki bahangiyaa
bahangi lachkat jaaye
bahangi lachkat jaaye
tu ru ru ru
tu ru tu ru
tu ru ru
tu ru ru ru
tu ru tu ru
tu ru ru
sunwaa piyaar bitiyaa sun lo
tore nikharat hi nikhar naa jaaye
bitiyaa ke baabaa se naa poochhaa re
mandwa ke kaisan hola bihaan
chale chalenge kahaar
maiyyaa ansuwan ki dhaar
banni ro ro ke huyi jaaye hai taar taar
bhaagan ke rekhan ki bahangiyaa
bahangi lachkat jaaye
bahangi lachkat jaaye……ae
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