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5585 Post No. : 18059

Hullo Atuldom

The roots of the Carnival in Goa date back to the introduction of Roman Catholic traditions during the Portuguese conquest of Goa, & is being celebrated since the XVIII century. After the end of Portuguese rule, the Brazilian version of the festival was imposed by Timoteo Fernandes in 1965, a Goan musician who modeled it after the famed Rio Carnival. This was done to attract more tourism. Today, the urban parade includes floats from local villages, commercial entities, and cultural groups. It is still organised in a very traditional manner, including staging of streetside local plays, in the coastal taluka of Salcete.

The Carnival usually starts off on Fat Saturday (known as Sabado Gordo) and concludes on Fat Tuesday (known as Shrove Tuesday), just before Ash Wednesday and the first day of the Catholic season of Lent. In Panjim, the capital of Goa, the festival is complemented by Grape Escapade, a local wine festival, and a dance at Samba Square in the centrally-located Garden of Garcia da Orta.

According to local tradition, during Carnival Goa is taken over by King Momo, usually a local resident who presides over the festival during the four-day span. King Momo traditionally proclaims the Konkani message Kha, piye aani majja kar (English: “Eat, drink and make merry”).

I am sure that the readers will have more information regarding this festival of Goa, & I expect our very own Sadanand Kamathji to enlighten us further.

Any idea why this sudden interest towards the Goan Carnival ? Well today’s song shows the parade that accompanies the Carnival.

The song was composed by Anu Malik (DOB 02/11/1960) & sung by Abhijeet Bhattacharya, Hema Sardesai & Jolly Mukherjee. Nitin Raikwar was the lyricist. We can see Puneet Vashisht (who mouths the opening lines of the song), Ali Asgar, Priya Gill (makes her entry dressed in Egyptian costume), Sushant Singh, Vivek Vaswani etc. dancing merrily alongside Aishwarya Rai. The song is shot outside the church in Panaji which has featured in numerous films. (I tried visiting it on my last trip to Goa, but it was closed for renovation).

The song happens at the beginning of the climax. Shahrukh Khan gets to know the truth about his father, mother etc. from Nadira.

During the course of looking up material for this post I discovered that Puneet Vashisht & Harsh Vashisht (who played a blink and miss role in ‘Baghban’) are the children of character actor Brahmachari whose birth name was Murari Lal. (I feel our in-house encyclopedia will be able to give us more on Brahmachari).

We are having this lively song to have a party like feeling as it is our Sudhirji’s birthday. Wishing you a very very very happy birthday Sudhirji. May you find time to revive all the series that you had begun.

We also wish Shahrukh Khan & Anu Malik on their birthday today. Plus Belated wishes to the Miss World 1994 Aishwarya Rai who turned 50 on 1st November.


Song-Zinda hain hum to tere hi love se(Josh)(2000) Singers-Abhijeet Bhattacharya, Hema Sardesai, Jolly Mukherjee, Lyrics-Nitin Raikwar, MD-Anu Malik

Lyrics

aah aah u aah
aah aah u aah
aah aah u aah
aah aah u aah
aah aah u aah
aah aah u aah

tere re re raa re ree
ree rar raa re raa raa re
aah
aah aah u aah
aah aah u aah

zinda hain ham to
tere hi love se
nahin to mar jaata
darling ham kab se
dil na todo
munh na modo
o maria
haan
o maria
zinda hain ham to
tere hi love se
nahin to mar jaata
darling ham kab se
dil na todo
munh na modo
o maria
haan
o maria

itna maska nakko maaro hamen
aisi baaton se dar lagta hamen
tum pyaar kaise bolo karega
darta hai kyun maria
aila saala hampe marta hai ye
lagta hai love hamko karta hai ye
kyu na karega
ham to kahega
tumsa nahin maria
zinda hain ham to
tere hi love se
nahin to mar jaata
darling ham kab se
dil na todo
munh na modo
o maria
haan
o maria

ru ru ru ru
ru ru ru ru
ru ru ru ru
ru ru ru ru
ru ru ru ru
ru ru ru ru
ru ru ru ru
ru ru ru ru

o saheba tum bhulaana nahin
dil mein aake door jaana nahin
dil jo liya hai
dil bhi diya hai
bevafa ham nahin
ho dil jo darega
ham kuchh kar jaayega
lagta hai ham to mar jaayega
tumse mohabbat hamko hai kitna
kaise kahen maria

aah aah u aah
aah aah u aah
aah aah u aah
aah aah u aah
aah aah u aah
re re re re re re re re re re
yeah
aah aah u aah
aah aah u aah
o maria
o maria


This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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5551 Post No. : 18016 Movie Count :

4827

Maqbool Fida Husain (17/09/1915 – 09/06/2011), better known as M F Husain, has been a celebrated painter not only of India but for world over. He has been also called as ‘Picasso of India’. He was the highest paid painter of India. It is said that the great artists have their own muse which motivate them to excel in their chosen form of arts. Madhuri Dixit was Husain’s first among his other Bollywood muses when he got hooked to her film, ‘Ham Aapke Hain Kaun’ (1994). He painted her umpteen times. In ‘Mohabbat’ (1997) in which Madhuri Dixit played the role of an artist, her paintings in the film were actually done by M F Husain.

M F Husain’s association with Hindi films was as old as mid 1930s when he undertook the work of painting cinema posters while he was studying at Sir J J School of Arts in Mumbai. In 1967, he made his first short film, ‘Through the Eyes of a Painter’ for Film Division. The film was screened at the Berlin International Film Festival and won a Golden Bear. In the fag-end of his career, Husain got interested in making feature films in Hindi with his first muse. At the age of 85, M F Husain directed his first feature film, ‘Gaja Gamini’ (2000) which I am discussing in this article.

The film was produced by M F Husain and Rakesh Nath (Madhuri Dixit’s secretary). Madhuri Dixit played the title role of Gaja Gamini supported by Shah Rukh Khan, Inder Kumar, Naseeruddin Shah, Shabana Azmi, Shilpa Shirodkar, Raisa Husain (M F Husain’s daughter), Mohan Agashe, Ashish Vidyarthi, Farida Jalal, Tej Sapru, Kalpana Pandit etc. The film was a disaster at the box office.

I had watched this film for the first time in 2014. I could not understand as to what the film intended to convey to the audience. It is interesting to note that Naseeruddin Shah, who had done the role of Leonardo Da Vinci in the film, had said that he could not comprehend the film and felt bewildered while doing it. He said he would not recommend watching the film. It was also reported in the newspapers that when the film was shown during the Mumbai International Film Festival before its release, most of the audience left the hall halfway. Most probably, the rest of the audience sat till last, out of respect for M F Husain.

Recently, I watched the film once more mainly for comparison purpose when I was working on an article on M F Hussain’s second film, ‘Meenaxi’ (2004). The article is already posted on the Blog. Now, I have broadly understood that M F Husain was trying to convey through the film that Gaja Gamini was a mysterious woman in her various avatars through centuries. But still I have not fully understood the film. Most of the symbolism used in the film appears abstract to me, barring a few like when Madhuri Dixit sings a song carrying on her head a heavy ‘gathri’ (load), symbolising the burden on the womanhood. I have a doubt whether the film was shot with any formal script/ screenplay.

It is interesting to note that Satyajit Ray was also a painter and graphic designer. I remember to have seen on the internet the manuscript of a ‘red book’ (Kheror Katha) of a film which is not the script or screenplay of the film but a complete document of a film in the making, encompassing screenplay, dialogues, scenes and costumes in sketches, music notations etc. Satyajit Ray’s writing of scenes for the films will have some perspectives of a painter and the graphic designer apart from cinematic requirements. Probably, M F Husain as a painter has visualised his scenes more from a painter’s perspective then the cinematic requirements. Just as a common man cannot interpret his painting, so is his film ‘Gaja Gamini’ (2000). This is the crux of the problem for the common cine audience to understand his film. To some extent, M F Husain had rectified this issue in ‘Meenaxi’ (2002).

Coming back to the film, ‘Gaja Gamini’ (2000), is the film for the adornment of womanhood. Madhuri Dixit as Gaja Gamini (English meaning: walking majestically like an elephant) is a mysterious woman who appears in the film in four main characters. She is Gaja Gamini/Sangita to Kamdev (Inder Kumar), Shakuntala to Kalidas (Mohan Agashe), Mona Lisa to Leonardo Da Vinci (Naseeruddin Shah) and Monica to a photojournalist (Shah Rukh Khan). She is a woman of different moods and intellects to man through different periods, the Monica being the characters of the current century. In the view of M F Husain, just as Shakespeare’s plays of 14th centuries are still staged in 21st century with different actors for the same characters, he has also taken liberty to show Kamdev, Leonardo Da Vinci and Kalidas meeting together at Banaras ghat crossing over from one century to another, discussing their common mystery woman, the muse, Gaja Gamini who is unseen.

The idea of M F Husain in making ‘Gaja Gamini’ (2000) is nicely set out in an article by Professor Preeti Oza which may be of interest to the readers of the Blog. Whether his idea has been properly conveyed through the cinematic form is a different issue. Some had called it after its release as a senseless film.

In the film, there are some more woman characters as counterparts of the of Gaja Gamini. They are Nirmala (Shabana Azmi), from Munshi Premchand’s novel, who is struck in tragedies, Phulvania (Raisa Husain), the flower girl whose husband has been murdered, Sindhu (Shilpa Shirodkar) and Noorbibi (Farida Jalal).

There is a couple of scenes of Kalidas (Mohan Agashe) with a Scientist (Ashish Vidyarthi) arguing on literature versus science. I like one dialogue which Kalidas says that scientist talks from brain while a laureate talks from brain as well as from the heart.

All the sets used in the film look like the colour paintings, the most predominant set being that of Banaras ghat. I will call ‘Gaja Gamini’ (2000) a film in which M F Husain plays a ‘lead actor’ through his paintings and paintings-like sets and Madhuri Dixit, the lead actress shuffles through these paintings-like sets. The actors in the film remind the viewers that it is a film and not a montage of painting.

The film has six songs written by Maya Govind (4), Javed Akhtar (1) and M F Husain (1) which are set to music by Bhupen Hazarika. In addition, there are two Sanskrit chants of Mahakavi Kalidas. I am presenting the first song, ‘do sadiyon ke sangam par milne aaye hain’ from the film to appear on the Blog. The song is written by Javed Akhtar and is rendered by Udit Narayan and Kavita Krishnamurthy.

The picturisation and the situation in the film appears like a typical song from the mainstream Hindi film. The reason is that Monica (Madhuri Dixit) is in her avatar of the current century who is in love with a photojournalist (Shah Rukh Khan). But there is a difference in shooting. The entire song of about 4 minutes is picturised on the same set which looks like a replica of M F Husain’s painting. There is a brick wall in the middle of the set, symbolising the division between two centuries. On the one side of the wall is the old cycle and in the other side of the wall is a vintage car symbolising the old and the new centuries.

Video Clip:
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Audio Clip:

Song-Do sadiyon ke sangam par milne aaye hain (Gaj Gamini)(2000) Singers-Udit Narayan, Kavita Krishnamurthy, Lyrics-Javed Akhtar, MD-Bhupen Hazarika
Both

Lyrics (based on audio clip)

do sadiyon ke sangam par
milne aaye hain

do sadiyon ke sangam par milne aaye hain
do sadiyon ke sangam par milne aaye hain
ek sadi kee shaam jahaan par
ek sadi ka wahin savera
samay na daale kahin bhi dera aa

ek samay lekin
do sadiyaan
do sadiyaan
ek samay lekin
do sadiyaan
do sadiyaan

do sadiyon ke beech uthhi…
do sadiyon ke beech uthhi
ehsaas kee ik deewaar
ehsaas kee ik deewaar
iss deewaar ke peechhe jaa ke ae
iss deewaar ke peechhe jaa ke
bhes badalta ye samay
bhes badalta ye samay

yaad karta hai shringaar
do sadiyon ke sangam par milne aaye hain
do sadiyon ke sangam par milne aaye hain
ek sadi kee shaam jahaan par
ek sadi ka wahin savera
samay na daale kahin bhi dera aa

ek samay lekin
do sadiyaan
do sadiyaan
ek samay lekin
do sadiyaan
do sadiyaan

neele rang ke iss daaman mein
kitne sukoon bhare lamhe hain
neele neele rang mein aen
rooh ke saare geet ghule hain

surkhi jaise garam lahu hai
chhalak sharaab hai surkhi
surkhi taaza zakhm jaise
khilta gulaab hai surkhi
ho jism mein behtee saari surkhi
rooh ke saare neele naghme ae

do sadiyon ke sangam par milne aaye hain
do sadiyon ke sangam par milne aaye hain
ek sadi kee shaam jahaan par
ek sadi ka wahin savera
samay na daale kahin bhi dera aa

ek samay lekin
do sadiyaan
do sadiyaan
ek samay lekin
do sadiyaan
do sadiyaan


This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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5548 Post No. : 18011 Movie Count :

4822

Recently, I came across an audio clip of a song from ‘Mil Gayee Manzil Mujhe’ (1998), a film directed by Lekh Tandon. Online resources shows that the film was completed in 1997 but remained unreleased. The audio album of the songs was released in January 1998. I got confused as there was another film in the same title with Mithun Chakraborty and Moon Moon Sen in lead roles which was released in 1989. Things got somewhat cleared when I came across an interview of Milind Gunaji, one of the main actors of the film, which appeared on rediff.com on January 9, 1998. He said that after the completion of about 70 percent of the shooting, Lekh Tandon left the film. However, after some time, he was persuaded to complete the film which he did in December 1997. Still the film did not get released.

Milind Gunaji also revealed that he was doing a role of a Veerappan type of a character and Meenakshi Seshadri as a TV journalist who gets opportunity to interview him. Her cameraman, Kanwaljeet Singh who is actually an undercover commando, deceitfully arranges his killing and Meenakshi Seshadri cries over his dead body. With this background, I tried to locate the video clip of the song as well as the full movie but could not find anywhere. Finally, I got the video clip of the song under the name of the film, ‘Do Raahen’ (1998). With this name, I searched for the video of the full movie, and I got it. I watched the film and got the information from its credit titles.

‘Do Raahen’ (2000) was certified by the Censor Board as such on 31/08/2000, even though the film was ready by the end of 1997 as per Milind Gunaji’s interview referred to above. The film was produced by Plus Films (which means the connection of Mahesh Bhatt and Amit Khanna) and was directed by Lekh Tandon. The star cast included Meenakshi Seshadri, Kanwaljeet Singh, Milind Gunaji, Deepak Qazir. Saleem Shah, Shiva Rindani, Masood Akhtar, Rana Jung Bahadur, Prabha Mishra, Madhumalati etc. I am not sure whether the film got a theatrical release. But the film was released on DVD by Ultra. The song album was released in January 1998 with the original name of the film, ‘Mil Gayee Manzil Mujhe’. Probably, at the time of submission of the film to Censor Board, the film’s title was changed to ‘Do Raahen’ (2000).

I am giving below the detailed story of the film as it is not available anywhere online.

Kannagi (Meenakshi Seshadri) a TV journalist with Channel 16, has been assigned to cover the tribal uprising under the leadership of Rajappa (Milind Gunaji) during fires on tribals, killing some of them. Kannagi reports in her TV programme that the police forces had no reason to brutally repulse the peaceful demonstration. As a revenge, the police officer who is responsible for the killing of some tribals is kidnapped by Rajappa’s men and is hacked to death. There is a uproar among the people of the State for law-and-order problems. The State’s Chief Minister (Deepak Qazir) calls a press conference in which he reveals that the State Government has taken a decision to form a Committee under the chairmanship of a retired judge to look into the problems of tribals. Kannagi questions Chief Minister as to why no tribal representatives have been included in the Committee to which he replies that they first need to give up the uprising against the state government.

Rajappa is very much impressed by the reporting of Kannagi as her presentations on the TV is favourable towards tribals. He is also infatuated with her. So, he sends a message to her that he is ready to give his first ever interview to her provided she comes alone. Kannagi is happy but at the same time she is apprehensive about visiting alone due to the risk involved. While she was a looking for a person who could shoot while taking interview, she gets a reference of Shubhankar (Kanwaljeet Singh) who is a wild-life photographer. She picks him as her cameraman telling him that she is taking him for shooting for a documentary film on the wildlife in a forest. Shubhankar is actually an undercover commando of the police force which Kannagi is unaware.

After a couple of days of surveillance of Shubhankar by the Rajappa’s men in the forest, they are allowed to meet Rajappa in his hideout. During this period, Kannagi and Shubhankar become close. But both of them do not explicitly express their love for each other. On the other hand, Rajappa because of his infatuation of Kannagi spends time with her in the guise of showing her the life of tribals in the forest. In the meanwhile, Shubhankar has arranged commando forces to be ready in the vicinity of the forest as cover.

In one of his meetings with Kannagi, Rajappa reveals his love for her. He says that just to prove his love, he is prepared to die for her. On the other hand, Shubhankar after getting exposed as an under-cover commando, gets a reprieve from Rajappa simply because Kannagi tells him to do so at the cost of her life. He is taken out of the forest by two guards of Rajappa. However, they are killed by Shubhankar on the way, and he returns to Kannagi’s tent to formally tell her that he loves her, and it is his duty to save her from Rajappa.

The chief of the commando force (Shiva Rindani) joins Shubhankar. Both of them decide to make Kannagi as a bait to lure Rajappa to meet them on the negotiating tables under the assurance that he will not be arrested or killed even if the negotiation fails. Since this offer has come from Kannagi, Rajappa agrees to meet them against the strong advice of his Baba, the brain behind the tribal uprising. When Rajappa comes near the white flag, he is killed instantaneously by the commando forces which makes Kannagi very sad. She strongly feels that commando forces have gone against their assurances both to her and Rajappa. The next day, she gives a live TV news from the Bandipore forest about the death of Rajappa. She tells that she is against any killings whether by Rajappa or the police forces. The collective will of the people should prevail as to who should govern them.

The story of the film appears to be partly based on the life of Veerappan. Milind Gunaji in the role of a rebel leader of the tribals is named as Rajappa and he is shown to operate in around Bandipore forest region. However, there is a love angle added to his character which becomes his obsession and eventually his end. On the other hand, there is also a love angle between Kannagi and Shubhankar which leads to his defying the order from his chief to abandon the plan once he is exposed and return to the base at once. And what a coincidence! There are some similarities in the death of Rajappa and Veerappan. Rajappa in the film is killed in deceit by the undercover commando in the guise of a TV cameraman while four years later, Veerappan was killed in deceit by the Tamil Nadu Police Task Force, by a member who was in the guise of a driver of an ambulance van.

‘Do Raahen’ (2000) has six songs, all written by Javed Akhtar and set to music by Bhupen Hazarika. I am presenting the first song from the film, “Shaam Dhai Ban Mein Mehki Hawa” to appear on the Blog. The song is rendered by Udit Narayan and Kavita Krishnamurthy and is picturised on Kanwaljeet Singh and Meenakshi Seshadri in the forest on their way to meet Rajappa (Milind Gunaji). In the song, some men of Rajappa are seen keeping a close surveillance on both of them.

The tune of the song sounds like that of a folk song. The santoor played in the prelude music gives an impression like a call of the valley. A search on the internet took me to an Assamese song, “O Bideshi Bondhu” written and sung by Bhupen Hazarika in the National Film Award winning Assamese film, ‘Chameli Memsaab’ (1975). The film was made with the same title in Bangla and Hindi in 1979 and the song with the same tune was also incorporated in these films.

I have also given below the audio clip of the Assamese original song for the comparison purpose. I find the rendition of Bhupen Hazarika in the Assamese film more emotional than in its counterpart in the film under discussion. The reason is that in the Assamese film, the song is for ‘missing the loved one’ while in the film under discussion, it is a love song.

Audio Clip (Assamese original song):

Video Clip:


Audio Clip:

Song-Shaam dhalee ban mein mehkee hawaa (Do Raahen)(2000) Singers-Udit Narayan, Kavita Krishnamurthy, Lyrics-Javed Akhtar, MD-Bhupen Hazarika
Both

Lyrics (based on audio clip)

shaam dhali ban mein
mehki hawa
shaam dhali ban mein
mehki hawa
dheere se tum ne
kya hai kaha
sun ke ye mann jhoome
mera. . .
shaam dhali ban mein
mehki hawa
mehki hawa
mehki hawa

gun gun suron se goonjen basere
panchhi jab gaayen
soyi thhi mann mein kya jaane kab se
jaagi wo aashaayen
humko tum jo mil gaye
phool kitne khil gaye
mann ke aangan mein. . .
shaam dhali ban mein
mehki hawa
shaam dhali ban mein
mehki hawa
dheere se tum ne
kya hai kaha
sun ke ye mann jhoome
mera. . .
shaam dhali ban mein
mehki hawa
mehki hawa
mehki hawa

bal kha ke chalti ithlaati nadiyaan
khele kinaare se
paani pe jhukti phoolon ki daali
kare ishaare se
jaane tum ho kyun gumsum
paas aa ke hum ko tum
baandh lo bandhan mein aen
shaam dhali ban mein
mehki hawa
dheere se tum ne
kya hai kaha
sun ke ye mann jhoome
mera. . .
shaam dhali ban mein
mehki hawa

mehki hawa
mehki hawa

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Hindi script lyrics (Provided by Sudhir)
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शाम ढली बन में
महकी हवा
शाम ढली बन में
महकी हवा
धीरे से तुमने
क्या है कहा
सुन के ये मन झूमे
मेरा॰ ॰ ॰
शाम ढली बन में
महकी हवा
महकी हवा
महकी हवा

गुन गुन सुरों से गूँजें बसेरे
पंछी जब गायें
सोई थी मन में क्या जाने कब से
जागी वो आशाएँ
हमको तुम जो मिल गए
फूल कितने खिल गए
मन के आँगन में
शाम ढली बन में
महकी हवा
धीरे से तुमने
क्या है कहा
सुन के ये मन झूमे
मेरा॰ ॰ ॰
शाम ढली बन में
महकी हवा
महकी हवा
महकी हवा

बलखा के चलती इठलाती नदियां
खेले किनारे से
पानी पे झुकती फूलों की डाली
करे इशारे से
जाने तुम हो क्यों गुमसुम
पास आ के हम को तुम
बांध लो बंधन में
शाम ढली बन में
महकी हवा
धीरे से तुमने
क्या है कहा
सुन के ये मन झूमे
मेरा॰ ॰ ॰
शाम ढली बन में
महकी हवा
महकी हवा
महकी हवा


This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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4796

‘Astitva’ (2000) was simultaneously produced in Marathi and Hindi under the banner of Friends India and Satyashwami Entertainment. The film was directed by Mahesh Manjrekar who also wrote the story and the screenplay. The main cast consisted of Tabu, Sachin Khedekar, Mohnish Behl, Smita Jaykar, Ravindra Mankani, Sunil Barve, Resham Seth and Kishore Nandlaskar with a friendly appearance by Namrata Shirodkar. Most of the actors came from Marathi theatre background.

The preparatory work of the film was started about 5 years before the film’s release in 2000, that too only in Marathi. However, none of the Marathi speaking actresses who were approached, showed interest in the main role in the film. So, the film was kept on hold and Mahesh Manjrekar decided to take up and complete his two Hindi films, ‘Vaastav’ (1999) and ‘Nidaan’ (2000). It was only when Tabu was selected for the film who could speak Marathi, it was decided to make the film in Hindi also with the same cast. The film was majorly shot in around Lonavala and was completed in 18 days’ shooting at a stretch. (As told by film’s lead actor, Sachin Khedekar in an interview published in Rediff.com on October 9, 2000).

The male chauvinism and the wife’s identity (astitva) outside her married life constitute the main theme of the film’s story. It also dwells with gender inequality with ‘sins’ of wife and husband treated in a different standard. The story of the film, somewhat in detail, is set out below:

The film starts with Malhar Kamat (Mohnish Behl), a music teacher now aged, walking towards a bungalow, and joining his lawyer who reads out his Will after which he signs the Will. He has left his immovable property comprising his bungalow, some gold, and cash to Aditi Pandit (Tabu). The Will is to be delivered to Aditi after his death.

Malhar has died and on the decided date, the Will has to be delivered to Aditi who lives in Pune with her husband, Shrikant Pandit (Sachin Khedekar) and a son, Aniket (Sunil Barve). Pandit family has arranged a lunch party for Shrikant’s close friend, Dr Ravi Bapat (Ravindra Mankani) and his wife, Meghna (Smita Jaykar) who have arrived in Pune from Goa. In the midst of the lunch party, a closed cover addressed to Aditi is delivered. Much to the surprise of Meghna, it is Shrikant who opens the closed cover and reads the content of the Will. He is shocked to know that Malhar has bequeathed his all assets to Aditi. What could be the reason which made Malhar to do such an act. Shrikant goes through his diary notes in which he has jotted down the important events in his life. With this, the story goes in the flashback mode.

Shrikant is the owner of a firm which is doing good business. He stays in a lavish bungalow with swimming pool. For business purposes, he is quite often required to travel all over India and abroad. This leaves Aditi, his wife frustrated as she has to spend most of her time in loneliness. During his travels, Shrikant has short affairs with other women. The only time he loves Aditi is when he needs to satisfy his sexual urge. He does not allow her to seek employment to keep herself busy by saying that in his family, women do not work outside and there is no need for her to work for additional income. Instead, Shrikant suggests her to learn music to keep herself busy. Though, Aditi is not musical-minded, she still takes up learning music by employing a music teacher, Malhar Kamat.

Aditi still feels frustrated as what she really needs is the love and companionship of her husband. Adding fuel to her frustration is the visit of her sister Sudha (Resham Seth) with her newly wedded husband for spending few days with her. Their companionship creates a feeling of her neglect by her husband. In her weak point, Aditi is unwittingly drawn toward Malhar during one of their music learning sessions and Malhar reciprocates turning it into an impromptu affair. Aditi feels guilty of her action and asks Malhar not to come to her house again.

After few days, Aditi becomes pregnant. Knowing the nature of her husband, Sudha advises her to terminate her pregnancy. But Aditi is not ready as she cannot deceive Shrikant. Her guilt makes her to confess to Shrikant the truth about her pregnancy. But Shrikant, in his euphoria of the double successes – first, he has won a big contract for his firm and the second, Aditi’s pregnancy news, is in no mood to hear what Aditi has to say about it. Watching Shrikant in an elated mood on his impending fatherhood, Aditi has no guts to reveal the truth. (Flashback over).

After completing reading his diary, Shrikant comes to a shocking conclusion that his son, Aniket could have been born with his wife having extra-marital relationship with Malhar. When confronted, Aditi reveals the truth to Shrikant who is devastated. He requests his close friend, Ravi Bapat, and his wife Meghna to at once reach to his house. In their presence, Aditi is forced to come out with the truth about Aniket. Aditi confesses the truth which she wanted to tell Shrikant at the time of her pregnancy. The result of her confession is that Aniket disowns his mother. Shrikant decides to keep himself aloof from her. Revati (Namrata Shirodkar) breaks her engagement with Aniket not because of these developments but for his decision to severe relationship with his mother.

Film ends with a long monologue from Aditi in front of all those present when she feels that her divorce with Shrikant is inevitable. She brings out all her suppressed feelings about her married life, the loneliness, Shrikant’s extra-marital affairs and the loss of her identity (astitva). She walks out of the house with Revati searching for her new identity and a song is played in the background with the following mukhda:

na katoongi, na jaloongi, na mitooungi, na maroongi
main thhi, main hoon, main rahoongi

The film is very absorbing from start to finish. The highlight of the film is Tabu’s monologue of over six minutes towards the end of the film during which Tabu brings out in the open, the suppressed feelings of the 27 years of her married life.

All the actors in the film have performed very well. Despite Sachin Khedekar’s role having negative traits (he is a male chauvinist husband), he is not an unlikeable character. Tabu has done a very restrained performance in keeping with her role of the wife with a middle-class mindset. At the end, her role generates sympathy. The actors and the director who have been associated with this film, must be feeling proud after 23 years of the film’s release not only because of the handling of a sensitive story but also of their great performances.

The film has 5 songs written by Shrirang Godbole (4) and Sukhwinder Singh (1) which were set to music by Rahul Ranade (4) and Sukhwinder Singh (1). I am presenting the first song from the film, “Chal Chal Mere Sang Sang” to appear on the blog. The song is written and composed by Sukhwinder Singh who has also rendered the song. The song is picturised on Mohnish Behl during Aditi’s musical lesson, interspersed with some imageries.

The song is beautifully picturised. While Mohnish Behl gives his feelings through singing, Tabu’s expressions undergo from some hesitancy to succumbing to Mohnish Behl’s feelings. The chorus echoing ‘chal chal’ and ‘sang sang’ is a way of bringing out Tabu’s pent-up feelings and to come out of her hesitancy.

Sukhwinder Singh is known to sing the song with his high octave. This is one of his few songs in which he has rendered in slower pace and in somewhat lower than his usual octave to create a serene atmosphere. It is a difficult song to sing. The unusual tabla rhythm throughout the song may be reflective of the dilemma in the mind of Tabu whether to succumb to her desire or not .

Everything is perfect in this song – the picturisation, the performances by the actors, the lyrics, the musical composition, and the rendition.

Video Clip:

Audio Clip:

Song-Chal chal mere sang sang (Astitva)(2000) Singer-Sukhwinder Singh, Lyrics-Sukhwinder Singh, MD-Sukhwinder Singh
Chorus

Lyrics (Based on Video Clip):

sa……………aa aa aa aa
dha ni re…………ae ae ae ae
dha ni re sa………..aa aa aa re sa

ta na na dhiri
dhim ta na na
ta na na dhiri
dhim ta na na
ta na na dhiri
dhim ta na na

chal chal
(ta na na dhiri)
mere sang sang
(ta na na dhiri)
chal chal
(ta na na dhiri)
mere sang sang
(ta na na dhiri)
chal chal
mere sang sang
chal chal
mere sang sang
mere dil ki dhadkan mein
tu lamha
lamha
har pal..l
chal chal
(chal chal)
mere sang sang
(sang sang)
hai tere bina sab kuchh tanha
tanha har pal..l
chal chal
(chal chal)
meri jaan-e-ghazal
jaan-e-ghazal
jaan-e-ghazal
chal chal mere sang sang
(ta na na dhiri)

haaaaaaaaaaa
aaaaaaaaaaaa
aaaaaaaaaaaa

chal chal
sang sang
chal chal
sang sang

ek tamanna dil mein hai
dekhoon main tujhe jee bhar ke
sapnon mein tere kho jaaun
akhiyon main band kar ke…..ae
saat suron kaa jhoola jhoolen
sang sang nis din
har pal pal
meri jaan-e-ghazal
jaan-e-ghazal
jaan-e-ghazal
chal chal
(chal chal)
mere sang sang
(sang sang)
chal chal
(chal chal)
mere sang sang
(sang sang)

hmm hmm hmm hmm
hmm hmm hmm hmm
hmm…….
hmm…….
hmm…..
hmm…..

mahek uthhe hain phool chura kar
rang tere gaalon kaa
kaali ghata ne jaam piya hai
tere do adharon kaa..aa
ae meri haseen ghazal
mehka mehka
tera aanchal
meri jaan-e-ghazal
jaan-e-ghazal
jaan-e-ghazal
chal chal
(chal chal)
mere sang sang
(sang sang)
chal chal
(chal chal)
mere sang sang
(sang sang)
meri jaan-e-ghazal
jaan-e-ghazal
jaan-e-ghazal

ta na na
ta na na dhiri
ta na na
ta na na dhiri
ta na na
ta na na dhiri
ta na na
ta na na dhiri
ta na na
ta na na dhiri
ta na na
ta na na dhiri

aaaaaaaaaaaaa
aaaaaaaaaaaaa
aaaaaaaaaaaaa
aaaaaaaaaaaaa
aaaa aaaa aaaa
aaaa aaaa aaaa

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Hindi script lyrics (Provided by Sudhir)
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सा॰॰॰॰॰॰॰॰॰॰॰॰॰॰॰ आ आ आ आ आ
धा नी रे ॰॰॰॰॰॰॰॰॰॰॰॰ ए ए ए ए
धा नी रे सा॰॰॰॰॰॰॰॰ आ आ आ रे सा

ता ना ना धीरी
धिम ता ना ना
ता ना ना धीरी
धिम ता ना ना
ता ना ना धीरी
धिम ता ना ना

चल चल
(ता ना ना धीरी)
मेरे संग संग
(ता ना ना धीरी)
चल चल
(ता ना ना धीरी)
मेरे संग संग
(ता ना ना धीरी)
चल चल
मेरे संग संग
चल चल
मेरे संग संग
मेरे दिल की धड़कन में
तू लम्हा
लम्हा
हर पल॰॰ल
चल चल
(चल चल)
मेरे संग संग
(संग संग)
है तेरे बिना सब कुछ तन्हा
तन्हा हर पल॰॰ल
चल चल
(चल चल)
मेरी जान ए ग़ज़ल
जान ए ग़ज़ल
जान ए ग़ज़ल
चल चल
मेरे संग संग
(ता ना ना धीरी)

हा॰॰आ॰॰॰॰॰॰॰॰
आ॰॰॰॰॰॰॰
आ॰॰॰॰॰॰॰

चल चल
संग संग
चल चल
संग संग

एक तमन्ना दिल में है
देखूँ मैं तुझे जी भर के
सपनों में तेरे खो जाऊँ
अखियों में बंद कर के॰॰ए
सात सुरों का झूला झूलें
संग संग
निस दिन
हर पल पल
मेरी जान ए ग़ज़ल
जान ए ग़ज़ल
जान ए ग़ज़ल
चल चल
(चल चल)
मेरे संग संग
(संग संग)
चल चल
(चल चल)
मेरे संग संग
(संग संग)

हम्म हम्म हम्म हम्म
हम्म हम्म हम्म हम्म
हम्म॰॰॰॰॰
हम्म॰॰॰॰॰
हम्म॰॰॰॰॰
हम्म॰॰॰॰॰

महक उठे हैं फूल चुरा कर
रंग तेरे गालों का
काली घाटा ने जाम पिया है
तेरे दो अधरों का॰॰आ
ए मेरी हसीन ग़ज़ल
महका महका
तेरा आंचल
मेरी जान ए ग़ज़ल
जान ए ग़ज़ल
जान ए ग़ज़ल
चल चल
(चल चल)
मेरे संग संग
(संग संग)
चल चल
(चल चल)
मेरे संग संग
(संग संग)
मेरी जान ए ग़ज़ल
जान ए ग़ज़ल
जान ए ग़ज़ल

ता ना ना
ता ना ना धीरी
ता ना ना
ता ना ना धीरी
ता ना ना
ता ना ना धीरी
ता ना ना
ता ना ना धीरी
ता ना ना
ता ना ना धीरी
ता ना ना
ता ना ना धीरी

आ॰॰॰॰॰॰॰॰
आ॰॰॰॰॰॰॰॰
आ॰॰॰॰॰॰॰॰
आ॰॰॰॰॰॰॰॰
आsss आsss आsss
आsss आsss आsss


This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

Blog Day :

5450 Post No. : 17858 Movie Count :

4771

wo tere pyaar ka gham, ek bahaana thhaa sanam
apni kismat hi kuchh aisi thhi ke dil toot gaya

While recording this song for ‘My Love’ (1970), Mukesh had told Daan Singh that people will remember this song for long after they are no more in this world. Mukesh’s prophecy has become true.

Remembering Daan Singh (belatedly) on his 12th Remembrance Day on June 18, 2023. A talented music director, Daan Singh’s musical career did not take off as per his talent due to sheer bad luck. He had done music direction for only 7 films during early 1960 to 2000 out of which his first 4 films remained either incomplete or unreleased. His 3 released film did not fare well at the box office despite having popular songs.

Daan Singh came to Bombay (now Mumbai) in the late 1940s and assisted Khemchand Prakash beside becoming his disciple for about 2 years until the latter’s death. His first four assignments as a music director – ‘Ret Ki Ganga’ (UR), ‘Bhool Na Jaana’ (1965, UR), ‘Bahadur Shah Zafar’ (Unfinished), ‘Matlabi’ (Unfinished) either remained unfinished and did get released.

Daan Singh’s greatest setback in his musical career was when ‘Bhool Na Jaana’ (1965, UR) for which he put his best efforts to compose songs and was banking on the film’s success as according to him, the film was well conceived and made. The film’s story had a background of Indo-China war of 1962. Unfortunately, the film was not released presumably because the authorities did not wish to complicate the relations with China in the background of Indo-Pak war of 1965. Subsequently, Daan Singh’s two released film, ‘Toofaan’ (1969) and ‘My Love’ (1970) did not fare well on the box office despite their songs became popular.

Disillusioned with his musical career in Hindi films, in early 1970s, Daan Singh left Mumbai for his native city, Jaipur and joined AIR Jaipur as a music director. After a gap of nearly 3 decades, Daan Singh got an opportunity to compose songs for Jagmohan Mundra’s film ‘Bawandar’ (2000). But this film also got embroiled in controversies. As a result, the film got delayed in obtaining censor certificate for its release in India. Finally it got censor certificate in the later half of 2001 with ‘A’ Certificate. In the international circuit, the film was released in 2000 itself.

Daan Singh passed away on June 18, 2011, due to liver ailment at the age of 78.

‘Bawandar’ (2000) which was Daan Singh’s last Hindi film as a music director, was produced by Gaurang Doshi and Jagmohan Mundhra who also directed the film. The principal actors were Nandini Das, Raghuveer Yadav, Deepti Naval, Govind Namdeo, Laila Rouass, Rahul Khanna, Gulshan Grover, Yashpal Sharma, Lalit Tiwari, Ravi Jhankal, Lillete Dube, Mohan Bhandari, Anupam Shyam, Ashok Banthia, Shri Vallabh Vyas etc.

The film’s plot is based on a real story of Bhanwari Devi who was gang-raped by 2 men in Bhateri village near Jaipur. The details about this case are available on wikipedia. I have not been able to see the film fully as I found it distressing to watch. So, I have seen the film in snippets and that too skipping some portions. The name of the characters as well as the village where this incident happened was changed to avoid the legal issues. The film also took some cinematic liberties to make the plot dramatic.

The story of the film is introduced as a narration by a foreign journalist, Amy (Laila Rouass), who has read about Sanwari’s case in a newspaper. Amy with her friend-cum-interpreter Ravi (Rahul Khanna) visit Sanwari’s village to investigate the matter, five years after the gang-rape incident. Upon their arrival in Rajasthan, Amy and Ravi meet a rickshaw-puller named Sohan (Raghuvir Yadav) who happens to be Sanwari’s husband. He narrates the story to them. The story of the film is as under:

Sanwari (Nandita Das), a lower-caste woman lives with her husband, Sohan (Raghuvir Yadav), and two children in a village near Jaipur. One day, she sees a neighboring woman being mistreated by a man from the city’s upper caste. She speaks out in public about the incident. Shobha (Deepti Naval), a social worker, is impressed by Sanwari’s conviction and hires her as an assistant as the Indian government begins implementing a program to give greater rights and protection to Indian women.

Initially, Sanwari feels uncomfortable in her work as she is afraid of what the villagers would feel about her. However, she soon starts enjoying her work as a feminist activist. She becomes more outspoken against injustice done to women and against the caste system. This leads to enmity between her and many powerful men, mostly from the Gujjar caste. Sanwari and her family are boycotted by the local leaders. Sanwari persists with her efforts to educate the women folk in her village.

One day, Sanwari finds that a child marriage is taking place in her village in a Gujjar family. She opposes the marriage. Fed up with her constant feminist activities, the Gujjar family decides to take revenge against Sanwari. Five men from the family severely beat-up Sohan and gang-rape Sanwari. Devastated by the incident, Sanwari and Sohan decide to lodge FIR in the police station, But the police inspector refuses to lodge a FIR until he gets a medical report. The doctor will not issue a medical report until he gets Court Order. Sohan and Sanwari, with Shobha’s help go through these processes and their FIR is finally accepted. By this time, more than 24 hours have passed after the rape incidence which is crucial for the medical evidence. When the local leadership refuses to bring Sanwari’s attackers to justice, they bring the crime to the attention of the national media, leading people across the country to demand justice for Sanwari.

Despite huge hue and cry in the media, culprits are not arrested and continue to wander around in the village boasting about themselves. With Sanwari’s case getting nation-wide attention, the case is entrusted to CBI. The culprits are arrested and tried in Court. With the backing of a local MLA, Dhanraj Meena (Govind Namdeo), a lawyer is hired with the instructions that culprits are to be sheltered. At every date of hearing in the lower court, judges are transferred. The prosecuting lawyer who is from the upper caste is under pressure from the Gujjar community. Faced with a non-cooperative police force and maneuvered judicial system, Sanwari faces enormous obstacles in getting justice where the caste, influence, and money rather than the rule of law appears to have an upper hand.

Finally, after much delay, the lower court acquits all the rape accused due to lack of evidence. There is a feeling that the evidence have been deliberately tempered with as the medical checkup of Sanwari was not done within 24 hours from the happening of the rape incidence. The court judgement is resented by the women’s organisations from all over India. Under pressure, Rajasthan Government files an appeal against the judgement in the High Court. It is over 5 years, but High Court has yet to give a date for hearing.

The film ends with the acquitted accused being feted by local MLA, Dhanraj Meena and a huge crowd from the neighboring villages which include a large gathering of women. Sanwari and her husband Sohan continue to work towards the betterment of women in the village.

7 songs for the film were written by Hariram Acharya which were composed (set to tune) by Daan Singh with music arranged under the supervision of Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt.

Aa a tribute to Daan Singh, I have selected one of the 7 songs from ‘Bawandar’ (2000) which is a Rajasthani folk-based song. The song is ‘ab to jaagna hi hoga baheno hamko mil kar’ which is rendered by Mahalaxmi Iyer and Chorus. The song is written by Rajasthani poet, Hariram Acharya.
[Editor Note: Incidentally, Hariram Acharya also wrote four of the seven songs for the unreleased film ‘Bhool Na Jaana’ (c1965) three decades earlier.]

The song is picturised on Nandita Das and runs in the film towards the end when the closing credit titles are displayed. From the lyrics of the song, it appears to be picturised on Nandita Das with other women from the village, motivating the women to fight injustice to them unitedly. The song also advocates for an effective law to get timely justice to them. The song ends with the optimism that there may be delay in getting justice but ultimately truth will prevail. भगवान के घर देर है,अंधेर नहीं|

Audio Clip:

Song-Ab to jagna hi hoga behnon ham ko mil ke (Bawandar)(2000) Singer-Mahalaxmi Iyer, Lyrics-Hariram Acharya, MD-Daan Singh
Chorus
Mahalaxmi Iyer + Chorus

Lyrics

hmm hmm hmm
hmm hmm hmm
hmm hmm hmm hmm
hmm hmm hmm

ab to jagna hi hoga behnon hamko mil ke
ab to jagna hi hoga behnon hamko mil ke
hamko mil ke saathinon sabko mil ke haan
hamko mil ke saathinon sabko mil ke
aage badhna hi hoga behnon sabko mil ke
aage badhna hi hoga behnon sabko mil ke

doob maren wo laaj lutere
naari sar kyun jhukaaye
doob maren wo laaj lutere
(aa aa aa aa )
naari sar kyun jhukaaye
wo kaanoon banaaye jo behnon ko nyaay dilaaye ho…oo
wo kaanoon banaaye jo behnon ko nyaay dilaaye
ab to jagna hi hoga behnon hamko mil ke
ab to jagna hi hoga behnon hamko mil ke

der bhale andher nahin hai
ik din nyaay milega
der bhale andher nahin hai
(aa aa aa aa aa)
ik din nyaay milega
ghor zulm ki raat dhalegi
sach ka surya ugega
ghor zulm ki raat dhalegi
sach ka surya ugega

ab to jagna hi hoga behnon hamko mil ke
ab to jagna hi hoga behnon hamko mil ke
hamko mil ke saathinon sabko mil ke ho
hamko mil ke saathinon sabko mil ke
aage badhna hi hoga behnon sabko mil ke
ab to jagna hi hoga behnon hamko mil ke
aage badhna hi hoga behnon sabko mil ke


This article is written by Peevesie, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

Blog Day :

5439 Post No. : 17829

It’s been a while since I wrote an article for this blog (a long while – the last thing I wrote was “Ae Watan Ae Watan” in 2019). This week at Arunji’s home (2 June 2023), Sudhir ji encouraged me to write again, following in the footsteps of my mother who has been contributing for years. The conversations that day were incredibly stimulating, particularly the appreciation expressed for the blog among movie trivia enthusiasts. Eventually, I succumbed to the peer pressure. I returned home and embarked on a search for inspiration (aka a song) to write about. It was then that I realized Ameesha Patel’s birthday was approaching, and I immediately got to work.

I began researching the making of this song and discovered that the lyricist, Ibrahim Ashik, was a completely new name to me. I delved into a new rabbit hole to learn more about him. It turns out he is a prolific lyricist, having penned over 700 songs. My lack of knowledge about his work was due to my own unintentional diversion from my love for Bollywood trivia. Nevertheless, I’m here once again, attempting to reignite that passion and hoping that life allows me to indulge in it more frequently this time.

The year was 2000, a year that witnessed the debuts of several artists, including our birthday girl, Ameesha Patel. With her beauty and bubbling enthusiasm, she delivered a promising performance in her debut film, ‘Kaho Na Pyaar Hai’. This film marked the turn of the century and boasted the perfect blend of romance, comedy, action, and thrilling twists and turns. However, her career took a different trajectory in later years. It had its ups and downs, with forgettable performances like ‘Aap Mujhe Achhe Lagne Lage’ (2002), but also remarkable ones like ‘Gadar’ (2001) and ‘Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd.’ 92007). Ameesha always demonstrated a natural flair for humor and impeccable timing in every film she appeared in. Perhaps her career would have taken a different path if she had explored what I believe to be her true strength — comedy. I have always felt that her contributions to the film industry, her dedication to her craft, and the moments she created on screen have been unfairly overlooked.

Even in the scenes leading up to the song, we witness her impeccable comic timing as her character Sonia and Hrithik’s Rohit find themselves stranded on an island. While Rohit eagerly awaits rescue, Sonia couldn’t care less. Their fights on the island are incredibly amusing to the audience. Eventually, when they fall in love, it is Sonia who raises the rescue flag. When asked why, she replies that she wants to return to the world and declare her love for Rohit. The song begins, and its hook step becomes etched in our collective memories.

There is also a sad version which plays when Rohit dies. While the lyrics are below, today is a happy day and that’s the version I have focused on

Of course, this is not the only birthday we are celebrating today. Its also the birthday of one of our most dear members. He is probably the most knowledgeable among us regarding everything Bollywood music, but has the easiest time asking others for their opinions. Kind, sweet and full of humor, he hosted the meet which triggered the writing of this post. So its only apt that on his birthday, this post goes up. I am, of course, talking about Arun ji. I thought I would gift him a pretty song that he probably isn’t familiar with on this day.

This is the title song of the film ‘Kaho Na Pyaar Hai’, composed by Rajesh Roshan. The soulful voices of Alka Yagnik and Udit Narayan bring the song to life. Ibrahim Ashik’s lyrics beautifully capture the emotions of the moment. The film was directed by Rakesh Roshan. Enjoy the song and let’s all wish Ameesha Patel and our very own Arunkumar Deshmukh ji a very happy birthday.

Happy version (Audio)

Happy version (Video)

Song-Kaho na Pyaar hai (Kaho Na Pyaar Hai)(2000) Singers-Udit Narayanan, Alka Yagnik, Lyrics-Ibrahim Ashq, MD-Rajesh Roshan
Both
Chorus

Lyrics

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Happy version (Based on Audio)
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oh oh ho oh…
oh oh ho oh…

i love you

aah aah aaah…

dil mera
har baar ye
sun’ne ko beqarar hai ae
kaho na pyaar hai ae
kaho na pyaar hai ae
haan tumse pyaar hai ae
ke tumse pyaar hai ae

in pyaari
baaton mein
anjaana iqraar hai ae
kaho na pyaar hai ae
kaho na pyaar hai ae
kaha na pyaar hai ae
kaha naa pyaar hai ae

oooh oh…
oooh oh…
oooh oh…
oooh…

pyaar jahaan mein hota nahin
phir bolo kya hota
pyaar jahaan mein hota nahin
phir bolo kya hota
duniya mein dil koi
kabhi na dhadka hota
dhadka hai dil
aa yaar mil
ye pyaar ka izhaar hai ae
kaho na pyaar hai ae
kaho na pyaar hai
kaha na pyaar hai ae
kaha na pyaar hai ae

do premee
do paagal
kya karte hain bolo o
ra ri ra…
ra ri ra…
ra ri ra…
ra ri ra…
ra…
do premee
do paagal
kya karte hain bolo
mujhse kya poochhte ho
apne dil ko tatolo
maaloom hai
(ooh ho oh)
hum ko tumhe
(ooh ho oh)
kis baat ka intezaar hai ae
kaho na pyaar hai ae
kaho na pyaar hai
kaha na pyaar hai ae
kaha na pyaar hai

tu ru ru…
ru ru ru…
tu ru…

milte nahin hum tum to
phir bolo kya hota aa
milte nahin hum tum to
phir bolo kya hota
sach boloon phir apna
khwaab na poora hota
kehta hai mann
(ooh ho oh)
apna milan
(ooh ho oh)
duniya mein yaadgar hai ae
kaho na pyaar hai ae
kaho na pyaar hai
kaha na pyaar hai ae
kaha na pyaar hai

dil mera
har baar yeh
sun’ne ko beqaraar hai ae
kaho na pyaar hai ae
kaho na pyaar hai

in pyaari
baaton mein
anjaana iqraar hai ae
kaho na pyaar hai ae
kaho na pyaar hai
kaha na pyaar hai ae
kaha na pyaar hai
kaho na pyaar hai ae
kaho na pyaar hai
haan tumse pyaar hai ae
ke tumse pyaar hai

—————————-
Sad Version
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kehta hai mann
apna milan
duniya mein yaadgaar hai
kaho na pyaar hai
kaho na pyaar hai

 

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Hindi script lyrics (Provided by Sudhir)
————————————————

(खुशी का)

ओह ओह हो ओह॰॰॰
ओह ओह हो ओह॰॰॰

आई लव यू

आह आह आह॰॰॰

दिल मेरा
हर बार ये
सुनने को बेक़रार है
कहो ना प्यार है
कहो ना प्यार है
हाँ तुमसे प्यार है
के तुमसे प्यार है

इन प्यारी
बातों में
अंजाना इक़रार है
कहो ना प्यार है
कहो ना प्यार है
कहा ना प्यार है
कहा ना प्यार है

उह ओह॰॰॰
उह ओह॰॰॰
उह ओह॰॰॰
उह॰॰॰

प्यार जहां में होता नहीं
फिर बोलो क्या होता
प्यार जहां में होता नहीं
फिर बोलो क्या होता
दुनिया में दिल कोई
कभी ना धड़का होता
धड़का है दिल
आ यार मिल
ये प्यार का इज़हार है
कहो ना प्यार है
कहो ना प्यार है
कहा ना प्यार है
कहा ना प्यार है

दो प्रेमी
दो पागल
क्या करते हैं बोलो
रा री रा॰॰॰
रा री रा॰॰॰
रा री रा॰॰॰
रा री रा॰॰॰
रा॰॰॰
दो प्रेमी
दो पागल
क्या करते हैं बोलो
मुझसे क्या पूछते हो
अपने दिल को टटोलो
मालूम है
(उह हो ओह)
हमको तुम्हें
(उह हो ओह)
किस बात का इंतज़ार है
कहो ना प्यार है
कहो ना प्यार है
कहा ना प्यार है
कहा ना प्यार है

तू रु रु
रु रु रु
तू रु

मिलते नहीं हम तुम तो
फिर बोलो क्या होता
मिलते नहीं हम तुम तो
फिर बोलो क्या होता
सच बोलूँ फिर अपना
ख्वाब ना पूरा होता
कहता है मन
(उह हो ओह)
अपना मिलन
(उह हो ओह)
दुनिया में यादगार है
कहो ना प्यार है
कहो ना प्यार है
कहा ना प्यार है
कहा ना प्यार है

दिल मेरा
हर बार ये
सुनने को बेक़रार है
कहो ना प्यार है
कहो ना प्यार है

इन प्यारी
बातों में
अंजाना इक़रार है
कहो ना प्यार है
कहो ना प्यार है
कहा ना प्यार है
कहा ना प्यार है
कहो ना प्यार है
कहो ना प्यार है
हाँ तुमसे प्यार है
के तुमसे प्यार है

(दुख का)

कहता है मन
अपना मिलन
दुनिया में यादगार है
कहो ना प्यार है
कहो ना प्यार है

 


This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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4690

In this article, I will explore the song, ‘imtihaan ham pyaar ka de ke, raah dekhe kya hai nateeja’ from ‘Dil Hi Dil Mein’ (2000) which was remade in Hindi from the 1999 released Tamil film, ‘Kadhalan Dhinam’ (Valentine’s Day). The Hindi film was partly dubbed and partly reshot as two of the supporting actors – Anupam Kher and Johny Lever were not the part of the original Tamil film. The lead actors in both the versions were Sonali Bendre and Kunal Singh who debuted as the lead actor in both these films. I had heard the song under discussion long time back without knowing the name of the film. In fact, I was not aware of either of these films until recently.

The story and the review of the film which I read online did not push me to watch the film. It is beyond my imagination that Johny Lever acted in the film as a professor in the business management school and helped his student to write love letters. However, love affair of hero and heroine through internet was probably an innovative idea in 1999. I watched video clips of almost all the songs and selected a song for discussion as mentioned above which, in my view, was the best song from the film. I have also watched the original Tamil song, kaadhal ennum thervezhuthi penned by Tamil poet and lyricist, Valli (real name: T S Rangarajan). The song was picturised in around Sydney.

The love song under discussion which will be the first song from the film to appear on the Blog, was written by P K Mishra. While S P Balasubrahmanyam sang for Kunal Singh in Tamil version, Srinivas sang for him in Hindi version. Swarnalatha sang for Sonali Bendre in both the versions. It is said that this song is one of the favourites of A R Rahman and he includes this song during his concerts in India and abroad. This song (both Tamil and Hindi) is also remembered for two of the artists associated with this song – Kunal Singh and Swarnalatha – who passed away in their young age.

Kunal Singh (29/09/1976 – 07/02/2008) committed suicide in Mumbai when he was 32. At that time, he had shifted to Mumbai and turned producer with his under-production film, ‘Yogi’. It was speculated that he was depressed as his acting career did not take-off after the initial success of his 3 Tamil films. Subsequently, his 4 films failed at the box office in a row and about half-a-dozen Tamil films were either shelved or did not get released.

Kerala born Swarnalatha (29/04/1973 – 12/09/2010) had a phenomenal rise in her career as a playback singer. During her active years 1987-2006, she is said to have recorded over 1000 songs in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Hindi, Bengali, Punjabi, and Urdu with her immaculate pronunciation in each of these languages. At the peak of her playback singing career, she suffered from a rare lung disease for which there was no cure. After spending about 3 years in anonymity, Swarnalatha succumbed to lung disease on 12/09/2010 at the young age of 37. [Swarnalatha’s detailed biography is here ].

Coming back on the song under discussion, the singing voices of Srinivas and Swarnalatha sound fresh and pleasing to the ears. There is a magical exuberance in Swarnalatha’s voice when she sings ‘dola dola dola dola, man dola dola dola’ and in her humming at the end of the song in the audio clip. Both her renditions are mesmerising.

The melodical treatment of the song points to 1950s style. The prominent use of Flute in the prelude and Mandolin in the first interlude also give that impression. However, the rhythm is foot tapping throughout the song. The rhythmic patterns in this song remind me of the song, ‘achchi lagti ho’ from ‘Kuchh Na Kaho’ (2003) which have, more or less, similar rhythm though musical instruments may be different in use. The song ends with postlude of mukhda tune majorly played on violins, flute, mandolin and on the double bass. In audio clip, the song ends with humming by Swarnalatha of the mukhda tune.

A R Rahman has done the fusion again, this time between 50’s melody and 90s rhythm.

This is the last of my five articles on fusion songs.

Video Clip:

Audio Clip:

Song-Imtihaan hum pyaar ka de ke (Dil Hi Dil Mein)(2000) Singers-Srinivas, Swarnalatha, Lyrics-P K Mishra, MD-A R Rahman
Both

Lyrics (Based on Video Clip)

imtihaan ham pyaar ka de ke ae
raah dekhen kya hai nateeja
imtihaan ham pyaar ka de ke ae
raah dekhen kya hai nateeja

[Dialogues]

imtihaan ham pyaar ka de ke ae
raah dekhen kya hai nateeja
imtihaan ham pyaar ka de ke ae
raah dekhen kya hai nateeja
naa aaya yakeen dil ko
jab naam apna dekha
kaagaz pe wo tere dil ke
ye aankhen huyi hairaan
sach hai sach hai jo dekha hai
dilbar tan-man apna
hamne vaara tum pe
dola dola dola dola
man dola dola dola
dola dola dola dola
man dola dola dola

haa aa aa
gori gori ye kalaayi teri chhoo loon zara
teri choodiyon se dhun koi chhedoon zara
gori gori ye kalaayi teri chhoon loon zara
teri choodiyon se dhun koi chhedoon zara
jis pal tu ne chhuaa mujhe zara zara
mujhe haya bhi aayi dil ko aaya maza zara

tere roop ki sharaab
aankhon se peete hain
sachche maikash to aise hi hote hain
zindagi youn hi beet rahi thhi sanam
tere milne se jeene mein aaya hai dam

imtihaan ham pyaar ka de ke
raah dekhen kya hai nateeja
imtihaan ham pyaar ka de ke
raah dekhen kya hai nateeja
dola dola dola dola
man dola dola dola
dola dola dola dola
man dola dola dola

mera roop hai tum se khila khila
khushiyon ka hai tum se hi sila sila

maine rab se jo maangi dua dua
unhin duaaon ka tum hi to ho na sila sila
ab to pyaar ki barsaat honi hai din raat
chaahe kuchh ho haalaat
dena pyaar ka saath
youn hi apni mohabbat phoole phale
ye kaarwaan youn hi chala chale

imtihaan ham pyaar ka de ke ae
raah dekhen kya hai nateeja
imtihaan ham pyaar ka de ke ae
raah dekhen kya hai nateeja
dola dola dola dola
man dola dola dola
dola dola dola dola
man dola dola dola

imtihaan ham pyaar ka de ke ae
raah dekhen kya hai nateeja


This article is written by Peevesie’s Mom, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

Blog Day :

4950 Post No. : 16813

Hullo Atuldom

‘Pehli Baar’ (First Time) is a program that is aired on a channel of the DTH service that I am subscribed to. It gives background about how some celebrities met or got together for the first time ever. Of course the incidents, and content in that program is possibly stuff that many of us have read over the years over-and-over again, and also in all the Filmfares, Screen (the magazines of yesteryear), Star & Style, Stardust, Cine Blitz etc. that were available in all the circulating libraries of those times. Stories like how Nargis had batter in her hand when she opened the door for Raj Kapoor, how Balraj Sahni saw Johnny Walker mimicking actors as he sold tickets in Mumbai’s BEST buses etc.

When I write a post I try to bring songs from the first movie of the celebrity who I am focusing on. The ‘Pehli Baar’ of the artistes who have made a place in our hearts and minds. The Pehli Baar that I mentioned star-kid (now a grown-up man) Abhishek Bachchan in a post, must have been this song – “Happy Days Are Here Again“.

But that was not his debut in Hindi films, his debut was in JP Dutta’s ‘Refugee’ in 2000. The movie was also the first released film for Kareena Kapoor. Jackie Shroff, Suneil Shetty, Reena Roy, Anupam Kher, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Shadaab Khan (Amjad Khan’s son), Ashish Vidyarthi and a whole set of known faces forming the supporting cast were part of the film which was about a Muslim family from Bihar that had migrated to East Pakistan post the partition of India in 1947. But after the formation of Bangladesh in 1971 this family along with several such families are forced to relocate to West Pakistan. For this they choose the Dhaka-Guwahati-Delhi-Ajmer route. From Ajmer they go to Haji Peer in Pakistan through Bhuj in Rann of Kutch. In this endeavor they are assisted by an agent who is simply addressed as Refugee (Abhishek Bachchan). He normally is very impersonal when escorting people across the border and is unaware that he is assisting terrorists too. But he begins to like the daughter (Kareena Kapoor) of this family and keeps visiting her even after the family is settled into Pakistan. The rest of the movie talks about the hardships the lovers face due to involvement of the border security forces, terrorism in the region etc. And as in all JP Dutta movies there is exchange of fire, across the border, between the Indian and Pakistani forces and a thought provoking question at the close of the film when Kareena Kapoor delivers her baby in the no-man’s land area between the two nations.

‘Refugee’ was an average grosser at the box-office and both the debutantes got positive reviews too. Following its release Abhishek was seen in ‘Tera Jadoo Chal gaya’ and ‘Dhai Akshar Prem Ke’ in the same year. ‘Dhai Akshar Prem Ke’ was the Pehli Baar that we saw Aishwarya Rai with AB Jr. (as he is popular in the social media world). There were other 10-12 movies of AB Jr’s that released between 2000 and 2004, all of which were not-so-commercially successful. But most of them had the critics appreciating Abhishek. ‘Yuva’ (2004) by Mani Ratnam is a point in case. ‘Bunty Aur Babli’ (2005) and ‘Dhoom’ (2004 ) were his biggest successes in that period. He has been trolled (a term that is in vogue in this age and times) for being his parents’ son and wife’s husband for the past few years. But he is a person who has never responded to any of the negatives that are being thrown at him and has been quietly working with a movie of his releasing every year.

Let me clear my stand here:- I am his parents’ fan not his. But I really like his work and the sincerity with which he dances and emotes. I don’t think there is any harm in appreciating good work and Abhishek does have some good movies in his filmography. I have seen him switch between atrocious comedy and absolute serious scenes with ease in Rohit Shetty’s ‘Bol Bachchan’ (2012) and ‘Zameen’ (2003). He is definitely his parents’ son (and I am not mentioning it in a negative way here). He has been around for 22 years and nobody will invest money on a flop actor if he was not going to give good returns.

So let us wish him well on his birthday today.

I have a whole set of possible songs to go with this post, but I shall stick to AB Jr’s first screen appearance. ‘Refugee’ had six songs of which the following two are on the blog – “Aisa Lagta Hai Jo Na Hua Hone Ko Hai” and “Raat Ki Hathlei Par Chaand Jagmagaata Hai“.

The first song appeared almost 10 years ago. Here is the next. It is sung by Sonu Nigam and Alka Yagnik, written by Javed Akhtar and Anu Malik is the music director. The song shows the young lovers building their future home.

Song – Taal Pe Jab Ye Zindgani Chali (Refugee) (2000) Singer – Alka Yagnik, Sonu Nigam, Lyrics – Javed Akhtar, MD – Anu Malik
Chorus

Lyrics (Provided by Sudhir)

aaaa aaaaa aaaaaa
aaaa aaaa
haa..aaye
ho  oo

taal pe jab ye zindgani chali
taal pe jab ye zindgani chali
hum hain deewaane
hum hain deewaane
ye kahaani chali
oo oo oo oo oo
aaa aaa aaa aaa aaa

taal pe jab ye zindgani chali
taal pe jab ye zindgani chali
hum hain deewaane
hum hain deewaane
ye kahaani chali
oo oo oo oo oo
aaa aaa aaa aaa aaa

[sargam]

oo oo oo oo oo oo
aaa aaa aaa aaa aaa aaa

teri nazar ki dhoop hai jis ne mujh ko roop diya hai
nikhar gai hoon
sanwar gai hoon
jab se pyaar kiya hai
teri nazar ki dhoop hai jis ne mujh ko roop diya hai
nikhar gai hoon
sanwar gai hoon
jab se pyaar kiya hai
sach to ye hai sanam
hai ye tera karam
hosh saara ganvaa ke deewaani chali
taal pe jab ye zindgani chali
taal pe jab ye zindgani chali
hum hain deewaane
ye kahaani chali
oo oo oo oo oo
aaa aaa aaa aaa aaa

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Hindi script lyrics (Provided by Sudhir)
————————————————
आ॰॰आ आ॰॰आ आ॰॰आ
आ॰॰आ आ॰॰आ
हा॰॰ये
हो ओ

ताल पे जब ये ज़िंदगानी चली
ताल पे जब ये ज़िंदगानी चली
हम हैं दीवाने
हम हैं दीवाने
ये कहानी चली
ओ ओ ओ ओ ओ
आ आ आ आ आ

ताल पे जब ये ज़िंदगानी चली
ताल पे जब ये ज़िंदगानी चली
हम हैं दीवाने
हम हैं दीवाने
ये कहानी चली
ओ ओ ओ ओ ओ
आ आ आ आ आ

[सरगम]

ओ ओ ओ ओ ओ ओ
आ आ आ आ आ आ

तेरी नज़र की धूप है जिसने मुझको रूप दिया है
निखर गई हूँ
संवर गई हूँ
जबसे प्यार किया है
तेरी नज़र की धूप है जिसने मुझको रूप दिया है
निखर गई हूँ
संवर गई हूँ
जबसे प्यार किया है
सच तो ये है सनम
है ये तेरा करम
होश सारा गंवा के दीवानी चली
ताल पे जब ये ज़िंदगानी चली
ताल पे जब ये ज़िंदगानी चली
हम हैं दीवाने
ये कहानी चली
ओ ओ ओ ओ ओ
आ आ आ आ आ


This article is written by Peevesie’s mom, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

Blog Day :

4832 Post No. : 16613 Movie Count :

4524

Hullo Atuldom

10th October is the birth date of the ageless Bollywood Diva Bhanurekha Ganesan.

I don’t remember which was my first post on the blog on her birthday, but over the last few years I have been trying to write out a song and present her with an actor who was not one of her regular heroes; meaning someone except Amitabh Bachchan, Dharmendra, Jeeetendra, Rajesh Khanna, Vinod Mehra etc. Today’s song is also one such song.

This song is from the 2000 release “Bulandi” which was directed by T. Rama Rao. It had a cast of Rajnikanth (special appearance), Anil Kapoor, Harish (from South Indian films), and Rekha, Raveena Tandon, Aruna Irani along with Shakti Kapoor, Ranjeet, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Paresh Rawal, Sadashiv Amrapurkar in supporting cast. Songs of the movie were penned by Anand Bakshi and tuned by Viju Shah. The playback singers used were Udit Narayan, Kavita Krishnamurthy, Kumar Sanu, Anuradha Paudwal, Jaspinder Narula, Sukhwinder Singh, Abhijeet and Alka Yagnik -in short all the popular singers of the 90s.

The movie was the tale of a family of Zamindars which is headed by Rajnikanth who has a sister -Aruna Irani and three sons Anil Kapoor (double role plays two brothers) and Harish Kumar. Rekha plays the zamindar’s elder daughter-in-law who is the bhabhi-maa to her devars. And here I would like to mention that the two Anil Kapoors are not twins. Today’s song happens at the girl’s family meeting the boy’s family ritual and the older Anil Kapoor is the groom-to be. Aruna Irani the would-be atyaa (paternal aunt) starts the song as cue to the coy Bride-to-be who then begins singing and also fantasizing about her hubsand married life etc
There have been many instances when big a star/ actor accepts a role in a film because the main actor/ character is being enacted by a senior star/actor of whom the junior is a fan. Like for example, Amitabh Bachchan played Dilip Kumar’s son in Ramesh Sippy’s “Shakti”. Similarly Rekha played miniscule role in one of Dev Anand’s final movie, “Censor” and also one of Manoj Kumar’s last directorial.

Anil Kapoor did a second rung character in this film as he was sharing screen space with a senior (workwise)-Rekha. And the dance that accompanies sees Rekha and Anil Kapoor matching each other decently well. It is only recently I found out that there is just two year age gap between these two actors but one began working in 1966 (age 12) when the other might have been in school and not even given a thought to what career to pursue. That must be one of the reason why the viewer may feel that Anil Kapoor was acting with a much senior actress, she was a senior only because she was already in the entertainment business for 14 years before Anil made his debut.

The singers for this song are Kavitha Krishnamurthy and Udit Narayan.

Happy birthday to Rekha. May we keep seeing her on the silver screen.

Audio

Video

Song-Teri ankhiyon mein jeena hamen marna (Bulandi)(2000) Singers-Kavita Krishnamurthy, Udit Narayan, Lyrics-Anand Bakshi, MD-Viju Shah
Both

Lyrics

aa aa aa aaaa
aa aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa aa
aa aa aaaa
aa aa aa

chhedo naa mujhko chhedo
aise naa mujhko dekho
jo dekhna hai kuch tumko hai
to phir mere dil ko dekho
hum pyaar ke hain raahi
dil pyaar ki hai manzil
kis kaam ki yeh mehfil
dil se na mila jo dil
hoga milna hamaara mushkil
hoga milna hamaara mushkil
hoga milna hamaara mushkil

dekho dekho dekho
aise mujhko naa chhedo
kya kahega yeh zamaana
ban jaayega fasaana
badi hogi badnaami
hamen hogi pareshaani
hum pyaar ke hain raahi
dil pyaar ki hai manzil
kis kaam ki yeh mehfil
dil se na mila jo dil
hoga milna hamaara mushkil
hoga milna hamaara mushkil
hoga milna hamara mushkil/em>

teri ankhiyon mein jeena mujhe marna
bas aur nahin hai kuchh karna
teri ankhiyon mein jeena mujhe marna
bas aur nahin hai kuchh karna
teri marzi tu jaane
meri marzi main jaanoon
maine kar liya faislaa aa aa aa

ho
teri ankhiyon mein jeena mujhe marna
bas aur nahin hai kuchh karna
teri ankhiyon mein jeena mujhe marna
bas aur nahin hai kuch karna
teri marzi tu jaane
meri marzi main jaanoon
maine kar liya faislaa aa aa aa
ho teri ankhiyon mein jeena mujhe marna
bas aur nahin hai kuchh karna

vaadon ka hai aaj mausam
hum koi vaada karen
arre yeh jaan bhi tumko de di
ab kya zyaada karen

tera naam liya
tujhe yaad kiya
sab kuchh main bhool gayi
o teri marzi tu jaane
meri marzi main jaanoon
maine kar liya faislaa aa aa a

o teri ankhiyon mein jeena mujhe marna
bas aur nahin hai kuchh karna
o teri ankhiyon mein jeena mujhe marna
bas aur nahin hai kuchh karna

maange agar tu sitaare
main tod laaoon sanam

ho karne hain kya yeh sitaare
tu chaand se kya hai kam
haaye deewaana hua mastaana hua
dil aise jhoom gaya

teri marzi tu jaane
meri marzi main jaanoon
maine kar liya faislaa aa aa aa
ho teri ankhiyon mein jeena mujhe marna
bas aur nahin hai kuchh karna
ho teri ankhiyon mein jeena mujhe marna
bas aur nahin hai kuchh karna

dekho dekho dekho
aise mujhko naa chhedo
kya kahega yeh zamaana
ban jaayega fasaana
badi hogi badnaami
hamen hogi pareshaani
hum pyaar ke hain rahi
dil pyaar ki hai manzil
kis kaam ki yeh mehfil
dil se na mila jo dil
hoga milna hamara mushkil
hoga milna hamara mushkil
hoga milna hamara mushkil

 


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Yearwise discussion of Lata Mangeshkar songs in HFM: Part LIV: Year 2000
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In this episode, the 54rd episode, we discuss Lata Mangeshkar songs that she sang in Hindi movies released in 2000.

In 2000, 80 Hindi movies containing 391 songs were released. Lata Mangeshkar got to sing in 2 of these movies and she sang 5 songs in these movies. So Lata Mangeshkar’s voice was heard in 2.5 % of the movies released in 2000. Her voice was heard in 1 % of the songs appearing in the movies of 2000.

Here are the details of songs sung by Lata Mangeshkar in Hindi movies released in 2000 :-

S N Movie Music director Lata song in the blog Lata HFM songs recorded in the year Lata solo songs Male duet Female duet Other songs Lyricists
1 Mohabbatein Jatin Lalit 0 4 0 2 0 2 Anand Bakshi
2 Pukaar A R Rahman 1 1 1 0 0 0 Majrooh Sultanpuri
Total 2 movies 2 MDs 1 5 1 2 0 2 2 lyricists

Lata Mangeshkar worked with 2 music directors and 2 lyricists in these 2 movies released in 2000. Laxmikant Pyarelal were the most prolific music directors with Lata, with 664 songs in HFM with Lata Mangeshkar by the end of 2000. Shankar Jaikishan with 457 songs in the voice of Lata Mangeshkar were in the second position. R D Burman with 332 Lata Mangeshkar and Kalyanji Anandji with 307 songs were next ahead of C Ramchandra with 275 songs. Other top music directors for Lata Mangeshkar were Chitragupta (239), Madan Mohan (195), S D Burman (179),Naushad (146), Roshan (144), Hemant Kumar (127), Anil Biswas (120), Bappi Lahiri (112), Rajesh Roshan (111), Salil Chaudhary (109), Husnlal Bhagatram (108), and Vasant Desai (104). Together these seventeen music directors composed 3733 songs out of 5205 songs that Lata Mangeshkar had sung in Hindi movies till end of 2000. Anand Bakshi with 728 songs was the top lyricist with Lata Mangeshkar. Other leading lyricists with Lata Mangeshkar were Rajinder Krishan (555), Majrooh Sultanpuri (407), Shailendra (361), Hasrat Jaipuri (301), Prem Dhawan (201), Bharat Vyas (193), Shakeel Badayuni (189), Sahir Ludhianvi (161) and Indeewar (156). These ten lyricists had penned 3249 songs sung by Lata Mangeshkar till that time.

Here is the summary of Lata Mangeshkar’s playback career in Hindi movies till end of 2000 :

Year Movie count Lata song in the blog Lata HFM songs recorded in the year Lata solo songs Male duet Female duet Other songs Remarks
1946 3 movies 4 4 4 0 0 0
1947 3 movies 5 5 3 1 0 1
1948 17 movies 51 57 42 8 4 3
1949 40 movies 141 160 105 35 13 7
1950 36 movies 116 143 93 32 14 4
1951 49 movies 190 223 158 52 10 3
1952 43 movies 150 177 138 31 4 4
1953 45 movies 170 195 149 35 5 6
1954 43 movies 142 172 144 23 4 1
1955 50 movies 172 218 177 30 10 1
1956 49 movies 174 204 153 35 13 3
1957 47 movies 132 160 110 38 7 5
1958 35 movies 104 132 95 25 10 1
1959 58 movies 189 211 131 68 12 1
1960 48 movies 142 166 102 50 9 5
1961 44 movies 128 152 88 55 5 4
1962 40 movies 119 129 84 40 5 0
1963 37 movies 105 111 62 38 8 3
1964 46 movies 123 133 91 31 8 3
1965 42 movies 84 91 71 17 1 2
1966 49 movies 105 133 110 14 8 1
1967 44 movies 94 106 67 38 8 3
1968 33 movies 84 84 59 19 5 1
1969 43 movies 78 97 67 27 2 1
1970 54 movies 91 130 84 39 3 4
1971 52 movies 107 126 71 52 3 0
1972 62 movies 99 151 86 60 3 2
1973 60 movies 93 138 94 37 3 4
1974 55 movies 71 104 66 33 0 5
1975 45 movies 61 90 50 35 3 2
1976 41 movies 58 97 53 39 1 4
1977 50 movies 50 96 59 27 8 2
1978 46 movies 59 90 48 34 3 5
1979 42 movies 38 66 37 25 2 3
1980 43 movies 28 71 43 21 3 4
1981 46 movies 40 88 48 34 2 4
1982 45 movies 28 82 41 37 1 3
1983 33 movies 29 73 36 37 0 0
1984 39 movies 11 70 32 33 4 1
1985 40 movies 21 72 39 31 0 2
1986 27 movies 3 41 22 17 0 2
1987 12 movies 4 21 13 8 0 0
1988 21 movies 9 43 24 17 1 1
1989 19 movies 10 38 20 16 1 1
1990 9 movies 4 12 3 9 0 0
1991 16 movies 6 57 35 20 1 1
1992 12 movies 3 25 12 13 0 0
1993 14 movies 3 49 22 23 2 2
1994 12 movies 5 39 9 28 0 2
1995 4 movies 2 8 3 4 0 1
1996 5 movies 2 14 7 7 0 0
1997 5 movies 1 21 2 14 4 1
1998 3 movies 4 11 3 7 0 1
1999 7 movies 3 14 6 7 0 1
2000 2 movies 1 5 1 2 0 2
Total upto 2000 1866 movies 3744 5205 3372 1498 213 122

It can be seen from the table of 2000 that Lata Mangeshkar sang 5 songs in 2 movies released in 2000.

One song sung by Lata Mangeshkar in movies of 2000 has been covered in the blog. That song was from one of the two movies of 2000 where she got to sing songs. With that song, all the Lata songs of that one movie (viz one song) has been covered. That leaves us with one movie of 2000 that offers us Lata Mangeshkar sons for discusussion.

This movie is “Mohabbatein”(2000). This movie was produced by Yash Chopra and directed by Aditya Chopra for Yashraj Films, Mumbai. The movie had Amitabh Bachchan, Shahrukh Khan, Aishwarya Rai, Uday Chopra, Shamita Shetty,Jimmy Shergill, Priti Jhangiani, Jugal Hansraj, Kim Sharma, Archana Puran Singh, Anupam Kher, Raman Lamba, Ram Mohan, Helen, Saurabh Shukla, Amrish Puri, Shefali Shah, Prazan Dastur, Rushad Rana, Mehul Nisar, Geri Andrade,Navneet nishan, Priya Gill ,Manjit Kular,Harpal Singh Pali, Sitaram,Meghna Patel, Palash Dutta etc in it.

The movie had seven songs in it. Four songs from the movie had the voice of Lata Mangeshkar in them.

Here is a song from “Mohabbatein”(2000). This song is sung by Lata Mangeshkar and Udit Narayan. Anand Bakshi is the lyricist. Music is composed by Jatin Lalit.

The song is picturised on Aishwarya Rai and Shahrukh Khan. The song has a second part too that gets played towards the end of the song, where others, including Amitabh Bachchan is also visible.

So this song can be considered as a two part song.

Lyrics of this song and other details were sent to me by Prakashchandra.

With this song, “Mohabbatein”(2000) makes its debut in the blog.

Audio link (Part I)

video link (Part I)

audio link(Part II)

video link(Part II)

Song-Hamko hamin se churaa lo (Mohabbatein)(2000) Singers-Lata Mangeshkar, Udit Narayan, Lyrics-Anand Bakshi, MD-Jatin Lalit
Female chorus
All chorus

Lyrics(Provided by Prakashchandra)
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Part I
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aa aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa

aa aa aa aa

hamko hum hi se churaa lo o (hmm hmm hmmm)
dil mein kaheen tum chhupaa lo o (hmmm mmm mmm)
hamko hum hi se churaa lo o (hmmm mmm mmm)
dil mein kaheen tum chhupaa lo o o
hum akeley (aaaa aaa aaa)
kho na jaayein (aaaa…..aaaaaa)
door tum se aey ae ho na jaaye (aaa aaa aaa)
paas aao galey se lagaa lo o
hamko hum hi se churaa lo o (hmmm mmm mmm)
dil mein kaheen tum chhupaa lo o
hum akeley
(aaa aaa aaaa)
kho na jaayen (aaa aaa aaa)
door tum se aey ae ho na jaayen (aaa aaa aaa)
paas aao galey se lagaa lo o
hamko hum hi se churaa lo o o o
dil mein kaheen tum chhupaa lo o o

aaa aaa aaa aa aaa
aa aa aa aa aa aa aa

aaa aaa aaaaaaa aaa
laaa laa laa laaa laaaa aaa

ye dil dhadkaa do o
zulfein bikhraa do o o o
sharmaa ke apnaaa aa aa aa
aanchal lehraa do o o

hum zulfein to bikhraa dein
din mein raat na ho jaaye
hum aanchal to lehraa dein
par barsaat na ho jaaye
hone do o o o o
barsaatein
karni hain aen aen aen
kuchch baatein

paas aao galey se lagaa lo
hamko hum hi se churaa lo o
dil mein kaheen tum chhupaa lo o

hum akeley (aaa aaaaa aaa)
kho na jaayen (aaa aaa aaaa aaaa)
door tum se aey ae ho na jaaye (aaaaa aaaa aaa..aaa )
paas aao galey se lagaa lo o o
hamko hum hi se churaa lo o o
dil mein kaheen tum chhupaa lo o o

aaa aaaa aaa aa aaa
aaa aaaa aaa aa aaa

aaa aaaa aaa aa aaa
aaa aaaa aaa aa aaa

aaa aaaa aaa aa aaa
aaa aaaaaa aaa aaa aaaa
laaa laa laa laaa laaaa aaa

tumpe marte hain aen aen
hum mar jaayengey aey
ye sab kehte hain aen aen
hum kar jaayenge ae ae

chutki bhar sindoor se tum
ab ye maang zaraa bhar do
kal kyaa ho kisne dekhaa
sab kuchch aaj abhee kar do o
ho na ho o o o
sab raazi eee
dil raazi ee ee
rab raazi ee eee ee

paas aao galey se lagaa lo o
hamko hum hi se churaa lo o (hmmm mmm mmm mmm)
dil mein kaheen tum chhupaa lo o
oo o o oo
hamko hum hi se churaa lo o (hmmm mmm mmm mm)
dil mein kaheen tum chhupaa lo o
hum akeley (aaaa aaa aaaa aaa)
kho na jaayein (aaa aaaa aaaa aaaa aa)
door tum se aey ae ho na jaayein (aaa aaa aaa aaa aaa aaa)
paas aao galey se lagaa lo o
paas aao galey se lagaa lo o

aa aa aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa aa aa

laaa laa laa laaa laaa laaa laaaa laaaa aaa
hmm mmm hmmm mmm mmm mmm hmm mmm

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Part II
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duniya mein kitni hain nafratein (aa aa aa aa)
phir bhi dilon mein hain chaahatein (aaa aa aaa)
duniya mein kitni hain nafratein (aaa aaa aaa)
phir bhi dilon mein hain chaahatein
mar bhi jaayein (aaa aaa aaa)
pyaar waaley (aaa aaa aaa)
mitt bhi jaayein aen (aa aaa aaa)
yaar waaley (aaa . aaa aaa)
zindaa rehti hain unn ki mohabbatein
zindaa rehti hain unn ki mohabbatein aen

aa aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa aa

aa aa aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa aa aa

mar bhi jaayein (aaa aaa aaa aaa)
pyaar waaley (aa aaa aaa aaaa)
mitt bhi jaayein aen (aaa aaa aa)
yaar waaley (aaa aaa aaaa aaaa)
zindaa rehti hain unn ki mohabbatein (aaa aaa aaa aaaa)
zindaa rehti hain unn ki mohabbatein(aaa aaa aaa aaaa)

aa aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa aa aa


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