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This article is written by nahm, 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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A R Rahman – The Musician of 21st Century – 6
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This is post number 06 in the series. As musicians go, ARR is a complete package. He is also much more than a musician, has proved to be media savvy as well as a successful businessperson. He is the first of Indian film music directors to own his music. Previously all film music was owned by films producers/distributors or the music companies, who released records/cassettes/discs etc. The same system prevails in the industry. Only ARR is one who is different. In this regard too ARR is a trend setter. Lata Mangeshkar could think of only royalty and here we have a 90’s kid on the block, who aimed to own the world, at least his portion of it.

hum mehnatkash iss duniya se
jab apna hissa mangenge
ik baag nahin, ek khet nahin
ham saari duniyaa maangenge

There may be others who are following the same path, I don’t know. His growth in all the above, has been exponential and blessed. Some of the singers introduced by ARR have also matured and achieved great heights in their singing career.

The song I am presenting this time is from the film ‘The Legend of Bhagat Singh’ (2002) which surfaced in the memory while doing the earlier post of the same song from the 1963 film ‘Shaheed Bhagat Singh’ – “Sarfaroshi Ki Tamanna Ab Hamaare Dil Mein Hai“.

In fact, I am a big fan of the other song of this film (already posted), sung by Sonu Nigam – “Mera Rang De Basanti Chola”. The song has the same famous shair and a another shair in the mukhda, with new stanza’s written by Samir. “Mera Rang De Basanti Chola” is a folk song now, but “Sarfaroshi Ki Tamanna Ab Hamaare Dil Mein Hai” is well on its way to becoming a folk tradition.

That rendition of the folk song is special, the century old Hindi film industry has used these two songs multiple times.The particular strength of folk song is that it intrinsically belongs to its people. The music unites communities, entertains them, and documents their loves, losses, and struggles. It’s a genre that has long been used to stir passions, swell pride, and resist injustice and oppression. Little wonder, then, that colonialists and dictators the world over have routinely sought to curtail, or even extinguish, the traditional music of the land. Folk music supply’s identity and hope, in the extraordinarily intimate tradition of singing and performing.

The following two songs from this film are already posted in the blog:

Desh mere desh mere meri jaan hai tu (The Legend of Bhagat Singh)
Mera rang de basanti chola (The Legend of Bhagat Singh)

The complete package, ARR is again creative with this composed and sung multiple times revolutionary ghazal, with the nationalistic flavour.   And he comes up trump, which has been almost ignored by the jurist while awarding. Poetry and music have great potential for rousing passions of a people. And if it is AR Rehman composing it, it takes the revolution in the inner or outer spheres, whichever way you want to look at it.

Its high time, 6 songs into the series, and I must look for a qawwaali to post next in this series.  Oh..… my favourite is “Daraarien Daraarien Hain Maathe Pe Maula” named “Arziyaan Saari Main Maathe Pe Like Ke Laaya Hoon” from Delhi – 6 is posted.  So what! there are many more, qawwali-fusion compositions by AR Rehman. Readers may like to suggest this genre songs which they want to see posted in the blog.  Another mention-able qawwaali fusion is “Kun Fayaa Kun”, which people tell me is the new “CULT SONG” of the millennium. I have not thought anything to be the “Cult song” beyond “Dum Maaro Dum“.  My son assures me that “Kun Fayaa Kun” is the cult song of the new generation, for all time and all occasions. This is a landmark achievement of AR Rehman, to top the traditional qawwaali that has ruled the field for centuries in the sub-continent. Not a mean achievement at all, to surpass the coke studio fusion of “Tajdaar-e-Haram” by Atif Aslam, in the 21st century. More on ARR fusion and fusion qawwaali in the next post.

Filhaal, let us hear, and appreciate the first non – Rafi , “Sarfaroshi Ki Tamanna” appearing in the blog, by Sonu Nigam and Hariharan.

Part 1

Part 2

Song – Sarfaroshi Ki Tamanna Ab Hamaare Dil Mein Hai (The Legend of Bhagat Singh) (2002) Singer – Sonu Nigam, Hariharan, Lyrics – Ram Prasad Bismil, Sameer, MD – AR Rahman
Chorus

Lyrics

Part 1

sarfaroshi ki tamanna aa
ab hama..are dil mein hai ea ea
dekhnaa hai zor kitna aa aa
baazu-e ea-qaatil mein hai ea

sarfaroshi ki tamanna aa
ab hamaare dil mein hai ea ea
dekhnaa hai zor kitna aa
baazu-e ea-qaatil mein hai ea ea

waqt aane pe bataa denge
tujhe ae aasmaan
kya bataaye ham junoon e ea ea
shauq kis manzil mein hai ea ea

sarfaroshi ki tamanna aa
ab hamaare dil mein hai ea ea
sarfaroshi ki ee tamanna aa

doriyaan ummeed ki na
aaj ham se chhoot jaayen
milke dekha hai jinhen woh
sapne bhi na roothh jaayen
hausle woh hausle kya
jo sitam se toot jaayen
hausle woh hausle kya
jo sitam se toot jaayen

sarfaroshi ki tamanna aa
ab hamaare dil mein hai ea ea
dekhnaa hai zor kitna aa
baazu-e ea-qaatil mein hai ea

tere sone roop ko ham
ik nayi bahaar denge
apne hi lahu se teraa
rang ham nikhaar denge
des mere des tujh pe
zindagi bhi waar denge
des mere des tujh pe
zindagi bhi waar denge

sarfaroshi ki tamanna aa
ab hamaare dil mein hai ea ea
dekhnaa hai zor kitna aa
baazu-e ea-qaatil mein hai ea

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khushboo ban ke mehka karenge
ham lehlahaati har faslon mein
saans ban ke ham gungunaayenge
aane waali har naslon mein
khushboo ban ke mehka karenge
ham lehlahaati har faslon mein
saans ban ke ham gungunaayenge
aane waali har naslon mein

aane waali aane waali
naslon mein ea ea
sarfaroshi ki tamanna aa
ab hamaare dil mein hai ea
dekhnaa hai zor kitna aa
baazu-e ea-qaatil mein hai ea

waqt aane pe bata denge
tujhe ae aasmaan
kya bataaye ham junoon e ea ea
shauq kis manzil mein hai ea ea

Part 2

sarfaroshi ki tamanna ab hamaare dil mein hai
dekhnaa hai zor kitna aa baazu-e-qaatil mein hai

sarfaroshi ki tamanna ab hamaare dil mein hai
dekhnaa hai zor kitna aa baazu-e-qaatil mein hai

dekh saktaa to tu bhi dekh le ae aasmaan
hausla yeh dekh ke qaatil badi mushkil mein hai

apne hi lahu se ham likhenge apni daastaan
zaalimon se chheen lenge yeh zameen yeh aasmaan aa aan
apne hi lahu se ham likhenge apni daastaan
zaalimon se chheen lenge yeh zameen yeh aasmaan aa

sar phire jawan ham to maut se bhi na daren
aanch aaye desh pe yeh kyun gawaara ham karen ea en
mulk pe qurbaan hon yeh aarzoo dil dil mein hai ea ea

sarfaroshi ki tamanna ab hamaare dil mein hai
sarfaroshi ki tamanna ab hamaare dil mein hai
dekhnaa hai zor kitna aa baazu-e-qaatil mein hai ea

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Hindi script lyrics (Provided by Sudhir)
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भाग १

सरफरोशी की तमन्ना॰ ॰ ॰
अब हमा॰॰आरे दिल में है ऐ ऐ
देखना है ज़ोर कितना॰॰आ॰॰आ
बाज़ू ए क़ातिल में है ऐ

सरफरोशी की तमन्ना॰ ॰ ॰
अब हमारे दिल में है ऐ ऐ
देखना है ज़ोर कितना॰॰आ॰॰आ
बाज़ू ए क़ातिल में है ऐ

वक़्त आने पे बता देंगे
तुझे ए आसमां
क्या बताएं हम जूनून ए ए
शौक किस मंज़िल में है ए

सरफरोशी की तमन्ना
अब हमारे दिल में है
सरफरोशी की तमन्ना

डोरियाँ उम्मीद की ना
आज हमसे छूट जाएँ
मिलके देखा है जिन्हें वो
सपनें भी ना रूठ जाएँ
हौसले वो हौसले क्या
जो सितम से टूट जाएँ
हौसले वो हौसले क्या
जो सितम से टूट जाएँ

वक़्त आने पे बता देंगे
तुझे ए आसमां
क्या बताएं हम जूनून ए ए
शौक किस मंज़िल में है ए

तेरे सोने रूप को हम
इक नई बहार देंगे
अपने ही लहू से तेरा
रंग हम निखार देंगे
देस मेरे देस तुझ पे
ज़िंदगी भी वार देंगे

सरफरोशी की तमन्ना॰ ॰ ॰
अब हमारे दिल में है ऐ ऐ
देखना है ज़ोर कितना॰॰आ॰॰आ
बाज़ू ए क़ातिल में है ऐ

आ आssss
आsss आsss
आsss आsss
आss आss
आssss आsss
आssssssss
आsssss आsssss
आssss

खुशबू बन के महका करेंगे
हम लहलहाती फसलों में
सांस बन के हम गुनगुनायेंगे
आने वाली हर नस्लों में
खुशबू बन के महका करेंगे
हम लहलहाती फसलों में
सांस बन के हम गुनगुनायेंगे
आने वाली हर नस्लों में

आने वाली आने वाली
नस्लों में ए ए
सरफरोशी की तमन्ना
अब हमारे दिल में है
देखना है ज़ोर कितना
बाज़ू ए क़ातिल में है

वक़्त आने पे बता देंगे
तुझे ए आसमां
क्या बताएं हम जूनून ए
शौक किस मंज़िल में है

भाग २

सरफरोशी की तमन्ना अब हमारे दिल में है
देखना है ज़ोर कितना बाज़ू ए क़ातिल में है

सरफरोशी की तमन्ना अब हमारे दिल में है
देखना है ज़ोर कितना बाज़ू ए क़ातिल में है

देख सकता है तो तू भी देख ले ए आसमान
हौसला ये देख के क़ातिल बड़ी मुश्किल में है

अपने ही लहू से हम लिखेंगे अपने दास्तां
ज़ालिमों से छीन लेंगे ये ज़मीं ये आसमां
अपने ही लहू से हम लिखेंगे अपने दास्तां
ज़ालिमों से छीन लेंगे ये ज़मीं ये आसमां

सर फिरे जवान हम तो मौत से भी ना डरें
आंच आए देश पे ये क्यों गवारा हम करें
मुल्क पे क़ुरबान हों ये आरज़ू दिल दिल में है ए

सरफरोशी की तमन्ना अब हमारे दिल में है
सरफरोशी की तमन्ना अब हमारे दिल में है
देखना है ज़ोर कितना बाज़ू ए क़ातिल में 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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‘Saathiya’ (2002) was produced jointly by Yash Raj Films and Madras Talkies (of Mani Ratnam). It was a remake of Mani Ratnam’s super hit Tamil film,’Alai Payuthey’ (2000) with Madhavan and Shalini in lead roles. ‘Saathiya’ (2002) was directed by Shad Ali (son of the new wave film maker, Muzaffar Ali and his ex-wife Subhashini Ali), his first film as a director. Before getting the independent assignment as a director, Shad Ali had done apprenticeship under Mani Ratnam for 4 years. He was Assistant Director to Mani Ratnam in ‘Dil Se’ (1998) and the Associate Director for ‘Alai Payuthey’ (2000).

In an interview with rediff.com which appeared on December 17, 2002, Shad Ali had said that when Mani Ratnam offered him to direct ‘Saathiya’ (2002), it was a challenge for him as people were bound to compare the original Tamil film with Hindi remake. Hence, he changed the location of the story from Chennai to Mumbai and converted the story into Hindi culture. He asked Gulzar to write the new script for his dialogue writing, and write songs independent of the original film keeping the mood and essence of the original story intact. As per Box Office report, ‘Saathiya’ (2002) became a box office hit.

The film had Rani Mukherjee and Vivek Oberoi in lead roles with the supporting cast of Sandhya Mridul, Tanuja, Satish Shah, Swaroop Sampat, Sharat Saxena, Shamita Shetty etc. Shahrukh Khan and Taboo did cameo roles. The film is a romantic drama but there is some difference with usual Bollywood romantic films in which marriage is the culmination of falling in love after facing lots of obstacles. But in this film, the obstacles starts after the marriage – from parents, difficulties they face to adjust to each other, the cultural differences, tiffs etc. But at the end, the husband and wife feel that they love each other more than they did during their courtship. The gist of the story of the film is as under:

Aditya (Vivek Oberoi) and Suhani (Rani Mukherjee) meet at a marriage where he, after initial fun talks, starts following her. At first, she thinks that he is only flirting with her. But after some more meetings, both feels that they love each other. Suhani belongs to a middle-class family doing her medical while Aditya has been brought up in a luxurious lifestyle. So, parents of both are against their marriage. Nonetheless, Aditya and Suhani get married in in a temple in the presence of Marriage Registrar without the knowledge of their parents and continue to live in their respective home. Their marriage secret is out when Suhani’s elder sister’s marriage is being finalised. Aditya and Suhani leave their parents’ house and start leaving in a rented house together.

After the initial euphoria, the problems of adjustments between Aditya and Suhani arises leading to some tiffs and rifts in their married life. Some misunderstanding on the part of Suhani that Aditya is having an affair makes her life miserable. Worried about these developments, one day, while crossing the road on her way to hospital, Suhani is hit by a car driven by Savitri (Taboo) and injured. Suhani admitted to a hospital. Savitri runs away from the accident spot and telephones her husband, Yashwant (Shahrukh Khan) about the accident who visit the hospital and signs operations paper as her husband, only to hasten the surgery. In the hospital, to save Taboo, Shahrukh Khan takes the blame on himself for the accident. In the meanwhile, Aditya is waiting for Suhani to return home so that he can patch up with her.

After a lot of searches and enquiries, Aditya gets to know about the accident and visit the hospital where he finds that Suhani is in coma. Savitri with a guilty feeling, tells Aditya that it was she who was driving. When Suhani regains consciousness, the emotionally charged Aditya tells Suhani how much he felt her absence for few hours. Suhani also reciprocates the same. The film ends with Aditya hugging Suhani in the hospital.

‘Saathiya’ (2002) has nine songs written by Gulzar and set to music by A R Rahman. I am presenting the first song from the film to appear on the Blog. The song is ‘chupke se raat ki chaadar tale’ sung by Sadhana Sargam, Murtaza Khan and Qadir Khan. The refrains (first and third stanzas) are rendered jointly by Murtaza Khan and Qadir Khan. Murtaza and Qadir are the sons of Padma Vibhushan Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan of Rampur-Sahaswan Gharana.

The situation of the song is that Vivek Oberoi and Rani Mukherjee are married. But they are staying in their respective houses because they got married without disclosing it to their parents. This is a song about a separated couple longing for spending time together.

Two interesting observations about this song:

The line in the song, haule haule marwa ke raag mein Meer ki baat ho, Gulzar has used the metaphors of Raag Marwa and the Classical Urdu Poet, Meer Taqi Meer’s name. Raag Marwa in Hindustani classical music is an evening raag (dusk) which is generally used in composing songs of longing for reunion. There are many ‘bandishes’ on separation in raag Marwa. Meer Taqi Meer was known for his ghazals seeking reunion with his beloved but unsuccessful. One of his popular ghazals in this category is ‘faqeerana aaye sada kar chale’ in which there is a couplet, dikhaayi diye yoon ke bekhud kiya. When Gulzar talked about ‘Meer ki baat ho’, he did not mean to ‘talk about Meer’. I guess, he meant reciting Meer’s couplets with Raag Marwa playing in the background.

The second observation in this song is about the refrain sung by Murtuza Khan and Qadir Khan in the Sufi style of music. A R Rahman seems to be fond of this type of addition in the song as he again did in ‘tere bina beswaadi beswaadi ratiyaan’ in the film, ‘Guru’ (2007) by adding refrain ‘dum dara dum dara mast mast dara’. Incidentally, this is also a song of a separated couple longing for reunion, written by Gulzar and refrains rendered by Murtaza Khan and Qadir Khan.

The somber mood of the song under discussion is well captured in the Sarangi interlude by Ustad Sultan Khan. The orchestration has been kept on a low key throughout the song resulting in more emphasis on the melody.

Video Clip:

Audio Clip:

Song-Chupke se raat ki chaadar taley(Saathhiya)(2002) Singers-Murtaza Khan, Qadir Khan, Sadhana Sargam , Lyrics-Gulzar, MD-A R Rahman

Lyrics (Based on Audio Clip)

doston se jhoothi-moothi
doosron kaa naam leke
phir meri baaten karna
yaara
raat se din karna..aa
lambi judaai teri
bada mushkil hai
aahon se dil bharna
yaara
raat se din karna..aa
kab ye poori hogi
door ye doori hogi
kab ye poori hogi
door ye doori hogi
roz safar karna
yaara
raat se din karna

chupke se
chupke se
raat ki chaadar tale ae ae
chaand ki bhi aahat naa ho
baadal ke peechhe chalen
jale katra katra
gale katra katra
raat bhi naa hile aadhi aadhi
raat bhi naa hile aadhi aadhi ye
chupke se lag jaa gale
raat ki chaadar tale


farvari ki sardiyon ki dhoop mein
moondi moondi ankhiyon se dekhna
haath ki aad se ae
nimmi nimmi thhand aur aag mein
haule haule marwa ke raag mein
Meer ki baat ho..o o
din bhi naa doobe
raat naa aaye
shaam kabhi naa dhale..ae ae
shaam dhale to subah na aaye
raat hi raat chale..ae ae
chupke se
chupke se
raat ki chaadar tale
chaand ki bhi aahat naa ho
baadal ke peechhe chale

doston se jhoothi moothi
doosron kaa naam leke
phir meri baaten karna
yaara
raat se din karna..aa
lambi judaai teri bada mushkil hai
aahon se dil bharna
yaara
raat se din karna..aa
kab ye poori hogi
door ye doori hogi
kab ye poori hogi
door ye doori hogi
roz safar karna
yaara
raat se din karna

tujh bina pagli purwaai…..ee ee ee
tujh bina pagli ye purwaai
aake meri chunari mein bhar gayi
tu kabhi aise hi
gale lag jaise ye purwaai
aa gale lag jaise ye purwaai
saathiya sun tu…uu
kal jo mujhko neend naa aaye
paas bula lena..aa
god mein apni sar rakh lena
lori suna dena..aa
chupke se
lag jaa gale
raat ki chaadar tale
chaand ki bhi aahat naa ho
baadal ke peechhe chale
jale katra katra
gale katra katra
raat bhi naa hile aadhi aadhi
raat bhi naa hile aadhi aadhi ye
chupke se
lag jaa gale
raat ki chaadar tale
chaand ki bhi aahat naa ho
baadal ke peechhe chalen


This article is written by Sudhir, 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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4977 Post No. : 16855 Movie Count :

4586

Songs Repeated in Hindi Films – 25

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This discovery of a repeat song will have to be termed as Mother of All Repeat Songs. And just in case, before you start wondering whether poor dear me has decided to take a step off the deep end, let me explain.

Ostensibly searching for something else totally disconnected with repeat songs in Hindi films, I chanced to read this caption on a YouTube link. The face in the thumbnail image is neither Bharat Bhushan or Shashi Kapoor. And so, intrigued as I was, I clicked on the thumbnail with the face of R Madhavan, to play this song whose caption was sounding so very familiar. It turns out, yes, it is a repeat song – a repeat of the very endearing and a must-have favorite from the 1969 film ‘Pyaar Ka Mausam’. This signature track has been the theme of many an amorous message of love for the connoisseurs of the Hindi film music.

Ah, but the story of my discovery had just started. I checked out the name of the film. Turns out it is ‘Dil Vil Pyaaar Vyaar’ from 2002. I track down the Wikipedia page of this film. I had not heard of this film earlier. The story line weaves around the romance lives of young friends. Seemed like a run-of-the-mill rom-com tales that abound the landscape of the Hindi film world. An immediate analogy that came to mind, from the era familiar to me, was ‘Dekh Kabira Roya’ of 1957. Similar theme, romance tales of three young friends.

Ah but what wonderful and divine music that film has. I will not dwell on the delightful music created by the legendary Madan Mohan – I am sure all readers and friends are already very much taken in by the songs of that film from 1957.

Getting back to ‘DVPV’ (‘Dil Vil Pyaar Vyaar’), I was thinking – seems like the producer of this film did not have much imagination to engage song writers and MDs to create some fresh songs. So he chose to easy route to re-use this song.

But as I continued down the Wikipedia page, and reached the Soundtrack section, my eyes remained agape in wonder. The film has 13 songs listed. And (OK now, hold your breath) – ALL, I repeat ALL songs are repeats of earlier hit songs of the 60s to 80s time period. Looking closey at the list, the second realization, and a big one, hit home. ALL the thirteen tracks are creations of RD Burman. Now this discovery surely something great and different.

A little more research and I am able to locate more information online. The producer of this film is a diehard fan of RD Burman and the music created by him. And this film ‘DVPV’ has been created as a tribute for his favorite MD. So, a story and a screenplay was conjured and 13 of RDB’s famous hits have been woven into it.

The producer of this film is Vivek Vaswani. As it turns out, he himself is the author of the story line of this film. The screenplay has been adapted from the story by Sujit Sen.

Of course the credits for the song will remain with the original creators. But for this film, the music for the songs has been re-arranged and re-recorded by Babloo Chakravorty. So all songs in this film are recorded in different voices.

Ah yes, in case you are wondering – yes, I plan to bring on board all the thirteen songs of this film, in good time. Quite a bonanza here for this series.

This wonderful song from ‘Pyaar Ka Mausam’ has been re-recorded in the voice of Hariharan. On screen, it is performed by R Madhvan. I am sure all are familiar with this new name. My introduction to Madhavan has been through the 2009 hit film ‘3 Idiots’. I will try to say more about this film and its performers, in subsequent episodes, as I venture to cover all the songs of this film.

Other actors we see in this clip are Asrani and Namrata Shirodkar. The wonders that a song can do has not changed across the decades that Hindi films have been created, exhibited and watched. It has only become better, more imaginative and more incredulous. In the very early days of this blog itself, Atul ji had come to a conclusion, and he has so documented it in many a write up. That a situation in Hindi films takes about 3 minutes or so to be transformed. All it takes is a song. The song starts in a particular mood, with a particular expectation, and by the time the song ends, the desired mood and desired outcome is achieved and the expectations realized. In many earlier such discussions, we have seen quite wondrous and amazing things happen during the duration of a song.

With this song, things are no different. Rather, the stretch on the gullibility of comprehension is a bit too much. Madhavan is on a stage, participating in a music competition. Things to be noted about the setting. The stage where the performance happens is designed like a music CD. And the effect is complete with the singer handling a very old fashioned standing microphone. The antics Madhavan attempts with this mike takes us even further back to Elvis Presley performing live on stage, back in the 1950s.

His lady love, Namrata, is at the airport, already checked in for a flight that will take her thousands of miles away to another country, away from her beau. And voila. A ‘strategically’ placed TV screen within her view starts to telecast the music competition just as Madhavan is to present his song. The song starts. It is the replay of the famous aria – this one, from ‘Pyaar Ka Mausam’.

All it takes in one stanza for the lady love to make up her mind to abandon her plans to leave the country, and she decides to go back into the beckoning arms of her lover. The second stanza is even more wondrous. The lady exits from the airport, starts to drive to where the competition is in progress. And, another VOILA – this time in capital letters – she drives through the Bombay traffic, with all her memories about times spent with her lover replaying on the mind’s screen, reaches the location and is on stage with her lover, by the time the second stanza comes to a close. And yes, even has time for a change of attire. The applause by the audience is still in progress as she makes an entrance through a hazy and foggy doorway, with the director making utmost efforts to make it appear like a fairy descending through the clouds.

I remember having seen a cartoon long long back advising filmgoers to please leave their logic and reasoning outside the door, when entering a cinema hall to watch a Hindi film (or maybe any film for that matter).

So mission accomplished. In less than three minutes, from the verge of just starting to board her flight, the lady love makes it from the airport to the competition stage and into the arms of her lover.

Long be loved – the wondrous Hindi film song. Yes, all it takes is a song.

Song – Tum Bin, Jaaun Kahaan. . .  (Dil Vil Pyaar Vyaar) (2002) Singer – Hariharan, Lyrics – Majrooh Sultanpuri, MD – RD Burman
[Music rearranged by Babloo Chakravarty]

Lyricsa

tum bin jaaun kahan
tum bin jaaun kahaan
ke duniyaa mein aake
kuchh na phir chaahaa sanam
tumko chaah ke
tum bin jaaun kahaan
ke duniyaa mein aake
kuchh na phir chaahaa sanam
tumko chaah ke
tum bin

dekho mujhe sar se kadam tak
sirf pyaar hoon main
gale se lagaa lo ke tumhaara
bekaraar hoon main
tum kya jaano ke bhatakta fira
kis kis gali
tum ko chaah ke
tum bin jaaun kahaan
ke duniyaa mein aake
kuchh na phir chaahaa sanam
tumko chaah ke
tum bin

rah bhi sakoge tum kaise
ho ke mujhse judaa
hat jaayengi deewaaren
sun ke meri sadaa
aanaa hogaa tumhen mere liye
saathi meri
sooni raah ke
tum bin jaaun kahaan
ke duniyaa mein aake
kuchh na phir chaahaa kabhi
tumko chaah ke…
tum bin

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Hindi script lyrics (Provided by Sudhir Kapur)
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तुम बिन
जाऊँ कहाँ
तुम बिन
जाऊँ कहाँ
के दुनिया में आ के
कुछ ना फिर
चाहा सनम
तुमको चाह के
तुम बिन
जाऊँ कहाँ
के दुनिया में आ के
कुछ ना फिर
चाहा सनम
तुमको चाह के
तुम बिन

देखो मुझे सर से कदम तक
सिर्फ प्यार हूँ मैं
गले से लगा लो के तुम्हारा
बेक़रार हूँ मैं
तुम क्या जानो के भटकता फिरा
किस किस गली
तुमको चाह के
तुम बिन
जाऊँ कहाँ
के दुनिया में आ के
कुछ ना फिर
चाहा सनम
तुमको चाह के
तुम बिन

रह भी सकोगे तुम कैसे
हो के मुझ से जुदा
हट जाएंगी दीवारें
सुन के मेरी सदा
आना होगा तुम्हें मेरे लिए
साथी मेरी
सूनी राह के
तुम बिन
जाऊँ कहाँ
के दुनिया में आ के
कुछ ना फिर
चाहा सनम
तुमको चाह के
तुम बिन

 

 

 


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.

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Hullo Atuldom

We are into the last month of 2021. This is my first post for the month, and we have a few super-actors celebrating their birthdays this month. Also, there are a few actors, who are no longer amidst us, whose birth anniversaries are in December. Here is hoping that I get the inspiration to write for each of those dates.

But today’s birthday is not of any well known film star. It is our very own Ben Katie’s birthday. We wish her a very Happy and Musical day. May we see more of her on the blog-space.

This post sees the 2002 released, Rahul Dholakia directed, Neeraj Vora written (dialogues), Kishore Dadlaney- Lal Dadlaney produced romantic-comedy “Kehtaa Hai Dil Baar Baar” making its debut on the blog. It had songs written by Sameer which were tuned by Jatin-Lalit.

It had a cast headed by Paresh Rawal who played an egoistic, over possessive father to two lovely daughters. There is a lot of Mayhem when he discovers that one of his daughters (Kim Sharma, a doctor in the film) declares that she is in love with a man who is not a “Patel”. Further investigation by the father reveals that the prospective son-in-law (Jimmy Shergill) is neither a property-owner nor a professional. As if that was not enough to ruffle the fuming father’s feathers it turns out that the person is a mixed-blood Indian viz. part-Punjabi, part- South Indian (“Madrasi” as people who are unaware of the different states in south of India would like to say). This leads to a lot of hot-weather between Jimmy and Paresh Rawal which is definitely entertaining and I must say that it didn’t look ‘gross’.

I remember (vaguely) that there is a scene in the movie where Patel (Paresh Rawal) is shown to be organizing the catering for his other daughter’s (Namrata- played by Toral Mehta) wedding. That scene helps establish the kind of calculative mindset of ‘Roger Patel’ possesses. By the way, ‘Roger Patel’ is the Americanized version of Ranchod Rai Patel who likes to call himself ‘The Roger Patel’.

Neena Kulkarni, Ranjeet, Johnny Lever were also part of the cast. Today’s song shows us Neena Kulkarni- the loving mother- leading a set that approves of the match between Kim and Jimmy. The lively song has Gujarati and Punjabi words and even the tune has flavour of both the states. We can see Paresh Rawal is unmoved (he is one versatile actor, isn’t he? 🙂

This song shows us what potential Jimmy Shergill had and could have been a success in commercial movies too considering the handsome looks and sense of rhythm as far as dance is concerned. He was very good in displaying his emotions too as could be seen in the characters he played in movies like the Gulzar directed “Maachis” (1996), Yash Chopra’s “Mohabbatein” (2000) and some more from the Yash Raj stable.

Recently I had seen him in movies like “Happy Bhag Jayegi” (2016) and its sequel “Happy Phirr Bhag Jaayegi” (2018) both of which showcased his comic timing. I must admit that I liked what little I have seen of him in movies.

Incidentally, 3rd December happens to be his 51st birthday -here is wishing him lots of luck and good movies that allow him to show his full talent. By the way, he belongs to a family of immense talent. His paternal great aunt was the famous Indian painter Amrita Sher-Gil.

This song is in the vocals of Udit Narayan and Shraddha Pandit (some sites have mentioned that Poornima is the female playback, need confirmation).

Let us also wish Udit Narayan (belated, he turned a year older on 1st December). He has been in the music industry since 1980. He has had opportunity to sing with the legends Mohd Rafi and Kishore Kumar. Success came his way after a long struggle, in 1988 to be exact, when ‘Papa Kehte Hain’ from ‘Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak’ ruled the air-waves and popularity charts.

He began his singing on Radio Nepal with Maithili and Nepali songs. He moved to Mumbai in the 80s and his debut was in the 1980 release ‘Unees Bees’ which had Rajesh Roshan wielding the baton, this was the song where he got to sing with Mohd Rafi. He has sung for even Dev Anand in ‘Swami Dada’. He is the recipient of 4 National Awards, 5 Filmfare Awards, and Padma Shri.

I am sure the followers of the blog will understand why I chose this song to go with this post. 🙂

Once again wishing our Ben Katie – naamkaran for Khyatiji done by our Sudhirji- a Very Happy Birthday.


Song-Dikri amaari Gujarat ni chhe sadda munda punjaabi(Kehta Hai Dil Baar Baar)(2002) Singers-Udit Narayan, Shraddha Pandit, Lyrics-Sameer, MD-Jatin Lalit
Female chorus
Male chorus
All chorus
Udit Narayan + Shraddha Pandit
Unknown male voice

Lyrics

turutu turutu
turututuru
turutu turutu
tuturutururu

hoy hoy
hoy hoy
hoy hoy

dikri amaari gujarat ni chhe
sadda munda punjabi
dikri amaari gujarat ni chhe
sadda munda punjabi
donon agar mil jaayen to kya ismein kharaabi
dikri amaari gujarat ni chhe
sadda munda punjabi

balle balle shaava shaava
balle balle shaava
hoy
balle balle shaava shaava
balle balle shaava
hoy

ditaana ditaana ditaa
apne sajan tame gamta(?)
apne sajan tame gamta(?)

hum jatt yamle punjab de
na ishq mein honge fail
hum dilwaali gujaratni chal ramiye prem no khel
haan rab ne karaaya hai yaaraa
tere mere dil ka ye mel haan
donon agar mil jaayen to kya ismein hai kharaabi
dikri amaari gujarat ni chhe
sadda munda punjabi

o boy
??
?? what his name ??
no check nothing
?? never been ??
I hate Indian
get out of here
I am saying now
?? is right
leaving now
??
run along

kahin bhool na jaana tu mujhe
sang le ke phere saat

chaubare se tum dekhna
le aaunga baaraat
aaa soche koi kuchh bhi soche
haathon mein le le tu haath haan

dikri amaari
hoy hoy
dikri amaari gujrat ni chhe
sadda munda punjabi
donon agar mil jaayen to kya ismein hai kharaabi
donon agar mil jaayen to kya ismein kharaabi
dikri amaari gujrat ni chhe
sadda munda punjabi

munda punjabi
ho sadda munda punjabi

hoy hoy
hoy hoy

chhik chham chham chhachham chham chham
chik chham chham chham chhachham chham chham
chik chham chham chham chhachham chham chham

hey ho
chik chham chham chham chhachham chham chham
chik chham chham chham chhachham chham chham
chik chham chham chhachham chham chham
hey ho


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Yearwise discussion of Lata Mangeshkar songs in HFM: Part LVI: Year 2002
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In this episode, the 56th episode, we discuss Lata Mangeshkar songs that she sang in Hindi movies released in 2002.

In 2002, 75 Hindi movies containing 539 songs were released. Lata Mangeshkar got to sing in 2 of these movies and she sang 8 songs in these movies. So Lata Mangeshkar’s voice was heard in 2.6 % of the movies released in 2002. Her voice was heard in 1.5 % of the songs appearing in the movies of 2002.

Here are the details of songs sung by Lata Mangeshkar in Hindi movies released in 2002 :-

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 Laal Salaam Hridaynath Mangeshkar 0 5 3/td> 2 0 0 Gulzar
2 Mujhse Dosti Karoge Rahul Sharma 0 3 0 3 0 0 Anand Bakshi
Total 2 movies 2 MDs 0 8 3 5 0 0 2 lyricists

Lata Mangeshkar worked with 2 music directors and 2 lyricists in these 2 movies released in 2002. Laxmikant Pyarelal were the most prolific music directors with Lata, with 664 songs in HFM with Lata Mangeshkar by the end of 2002. 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 5225 songs that Lata Mangeshkar had sung in Hindi movies till end of 2002. Anand Bakshi with 731 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 3252 songs sung by Lata Mangeshkar till that time.

Here is the summary of Lata Mangeshkar’s playback career in Hindi movies till end of 2002 :

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 190 211 131 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 62 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 60 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 4 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 3 5 1 2 0 2
2001 6 movies 2 12 6 5 0 1
2002 2 movies 0 8 3 5 0 0
Total upto 2002 1874 movies 3752 5225 3381 1508 213 123

It can be seen from the table of 2002 that Lata Mangeshkar sang 8 songs in 2 movies released in 2002.

No Lata song from 2002 are covered in the blog. That leaves us with all eight songs from two movies of 2002 for discusussion in the blog.

alphabetically, the first movie of 2002 that offers us a Lata Mangeshkar song to discuss is “Laal Salaam”(2002).

This movie was produced by Sanjiv Karambelkar and directed by Gaganvihari Borate for Manas Communications. The movie had Nandita Das, Sharad Kapoor, Makarand Deshpande, Vijay Raj, Rajpal Yadav, Anant Jog, Akhilendra Mishra, and Sayaji Shinde, Introducing Hemangini (Indroduction role), Vishwajeet Pradhan,Sushil Johri,Dwarika, Mahindra, Jyoti,Prithvi Singh,Sanjay Sonu, Ashraf, Ramayan, Nagesh Bhosle, Lallan Singh,Sanjay Shrivastav,Sivam,Anup, Subrow, Parveen Banu, Sumanth Chandramani, Uday Tikekar, Pramodini etc in it.

The movie had six songs in it. Five songs had the voice of Lata Mangeshkar in them.

Here is that song from “Laal Salaam”(2002). This song is sung by Lata Mangeshkar. Gulzar is the lyricist. Music is composed by Hridaynath Mangeshkar.

Only the audio of the song is available. It is almost certain that the song was picturised on Nandita Das.

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

With this song, “Laal Salaam”(2002) makes its debut in the blog.


Song-Ag chaand gufaa mein (Laal Salaam)(2002) Singer-Lata, Lyrics-Gulzar, MD-Hridaynath Mangeshkar

Lyrics

ag chaand gufaa mein
raain hamaari beeti gaaa aa aa aa
aga chaand gufaa mein
raain hamaari beeti gaaa aa aa aa
arrey hamko bhee ee ee ee ee ee ee
arrey hamko bhee daag lagaa gayi preeti gaa aa
baayi gaa aa aaa aa ahaa haa aa
baayi gaaa aa
baayi gaa aa aaa
hha aa baai gaa
aga chaand gufaa mein
raain hamaari beeti gaaa aa aa aa
baayi gaaa aa aa aa aa
hha aa baai gaa aa

arrey preet ka paudhaa dard bharaa kehlaaye aey ae aey ae
kaanch ke phool aankh se tapkaaye aey ae aey ae
arrey preet ka paudhaa dard bharaa kehlaaye aey ae aey ae
kaanch ke phool aankh se tapkaaye aey ae aey ae
jab neend udey sapney ae dikhaaye preeti gaa aa
baayi gaa aa aaa aa
baayi gaa aa aaa
baayi gaa aa aaa aa
baayi gaa aa aaa
ag chaand gufaa mein
raain hamaari beeti gaaa aa aa aa
baayi gaaa aa aa aa
baai gaa aa

arrey log kahen jab meh barsey bujh jaaye ae rey
preet ki aag saawan mein badh jaaye ae ae
arrey log kahen jab meh barsey bujh jaaye ae rey ae aey
preet ki aag saawan mein badh jaaye ae ae ae
ek aag bujhey ek aag lagaaye preeti gaa
baayi gaa aa aaa aa ahha aaaa
baayi gaa aa aaa
baayi gaa aa aaa aaa
baayi gaa aaa aaa
agga chaand gufaa mein rain hamaari beeti gaaa aa aa
arrey hamko bhee ee ee ee ee ee
arrey hamko bhee daag lagaa gayi preeti gaa aa
hahh baai gaa aa aaa aahhaa aa
baayi gaa aaa aa
baayi gaaa aa aaaa aaa
baayi gaaa aa aaaa aaa
baayi gaaa aa aaaa aaa ahaaha
baayigaa
baayi gaaa aa aaaa aaa ahaaha
baayigaa


This article is written by Avinash Scrapwala, 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.

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Today 28th September, we remember Sardar Bhagat Singh (28th September 1907 – 23rd March 1931), on his 114th birth anniversary.

We on the blog pay our tributes to him by posting a song from the movies made on his life.

I have mentioned in my earlier posts that the year 2002 was a special year from the point of view of ‘movies made on Bhagat Singh’. That year three movies were released on the life of Bhagat Singh.

23rd March 1931 Shaheed

The Legend of Bhagat Singh

Shaheed-E-Azam

We have already introduced the movies ‘23rd March 1931 Shaheed’ and ‘The Legend of Bhagat Singh’ on the blog.
“23rd March 1931 Shaheed” and “The Legend of Bhagat Singh” were released on the same date, and the third movie “Shaheed-E-Azam” was delayed and was released later in the same year i.e.,2002.

All the movies covered the story of Bhagat Singh from his birth to death, including important incidences of Bhagat Singh’s life. All these were presented by interweaving of songs which too were based on same incidences and theme.

The movie ‘23rd March 1931 Shaheed’ was almost frame to frame copy of ‘Shaheed-1965’ of Manoj Kumar.

I have been fortunate to present a few songs from the movies made on Bhagat Singh earlier on the blog, they are –

Shaheed – 1965 ( pagdi sambhaal jatta on 28.09.2013)

Shaheed E Azam Sardar Bhagat Singh – 1974 ( vekho loko on 23.03.2016)

The Legend of Bhagat Singh – 2002 ( desh mere desh mere meri jaan hai tu on 28.09.2018)

23rd March 1931 – Shaheed ( saans hain jab talak naa rukenge kadam on 23.03.2021)

Today I am going to present a song from the movie ‘Shaheed E Azam-2002’. It was directed by Sukumar Nair for ‘Surjit Movies’.

This movie was produced by Iqbal Gill. Gurmail Singh Dhami and Harjinder Dhami were the co-producers of this movie.

This movie had Sonu Sood in the role of Bhagat Singh. The other star cast included Raj Zutshi, Binnu Dhillon, Manav Vij, Dev Gill, Rajendra Gupta, Shama Sikander, Abhijeet Lahiri, Sadhana Singh, Ron Sladczyk and others.

Dialogues of this movie were written by Harinder Gill while its editing was done by Omkar Bhakri.

This movie was passed by Censor Board on 23.05.2002.

Lyrics for the songs in this movie were written by Khwaja Parvez and S.M. Sadiq. This movie also included poetry of Baba Bule Shah and Sardar Bhagat Singh.

Music of this movie was composed by Maqbool Khan, Sabar Ali (Pakistan) and Sardool Sikender.

Today’s song is sung by Roop Kumar Rathod and Udit Narayan. On screen it is performed by Sonu Sood, Manav Vij, and Binnu Dhillon (I guess). This song happens to be in the jail premises as its picturisation shows.

Let us listen to today’s song now and pay our tributes to Bhagat Singh on his birth anniversary today.

(I have not been able to note correct words in Punjabi language, I would request knowledgeable readers to correct me wherever it is required.)

Audio

Video


Song-Aazaadai hai khwaab hamaara (Shaheed e Azam)(2002) Singers-Roop Kumar Rathod, Udit Narayan, Lyrics-Khwaza Parvez, MD-Maqbool Khan, Sabar Ali (Pakistan), Sardool Sikender

Lyrics

ab to khaa chuke hain
aen aen
chittor ke gadh ki qasmein
aen aen aen aen
sarfaroshi ki adaa hoti hai
yoon hi een een een rasmein

aazaadi hai khwaab hamaara
aazaadi imaan
aazaadi hai khwaab hamaara
aazaadi imaan
aazaadi ki khaatir denge
hans ke apni jaan
aazaadi hai ae ae
aazaadi hai khwaab hamaara
aazaadi imaan
inquilaab zindaabaad
inquilaab zindaabaad
inquilaab zindaabaad
zindaabaad
zindaabaad
zindaabaad
zindaabaad
inquilaab zindaabaad

marnaa to hai ek haqeeqat
marnaa to hai ek haqeeqat
is se kyun inkaar karen
haan haan
is se kyun inkaar karen
apni maut ki ungli pakadkar
apni maut ki ungli pakadkar
ham dushman par waar karein
haan haan
ham dushman par waar karein
marnaa to hai ek haqeeqat
is se kyun inkaar karen
apni maut ki ungli pakadkar
ham dushman par waar karein
desh ke khaatir mar jaana to
o o o o o o o o o o o o o o
oye desh ki khaatir mar jaana to
apnaa hai armaan
aazaadi hai ae
aazaadi hai khwaab hamaara
aazaadi imaan
aazaadi hai khwaab hamaara
aazaadi imaan
inquilaab zindaabaad
inquilaab zindaabaad
inquilaab zindaabaad
zindaabaad
zindaabaad
zindaabaad
zindaabaad
inquilaab zindaabaad

jinaa ishq namaazaan
padhiyaane
jinaa ishq namaazaan
padhiyaane
o thaan thaan sajde karde nahin
jede ek de hoke reh jaande
jede ek de hoke reh jaande
o mard jaan te marde nahin
jinaa ishq namaazaan
padhiyaane
jinaa ishq namaazaan
padhiyaa aa aa aa ne

ho jinaa ishq namaazaan
padhiyaan
jinaa ishq namaazaan
padhiyaan
jinaa ishq namaazaa
padhiyaan
thaan thaan nahin karde sajde
o mar bhi jaayen to mitraan nahin marde
nahin marde
o nahin marde ae ae ae

unke upar rang basanti
ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee
hoye
unke upar rang basanti
aape chadh de jaan
aazaadi hai
aazaadi hai khwaab hamaara
aazaadi imaan
aazaadi hai khwaab hamaara
aazaadi imaan
aazaadi ki khaatir denge
hans ke apni jaan
aazaadi hai
aazaadi hai khwaab hamaara
aazaadi imaan

inquilaab zindaabaad
inquilaab zindaabaad
inquilaab zindaabaad
zindaabaad
zindaabaad
zindaabaad
zindaabaad
inquilaab zindaabaad

khudgarzi ki oat mein baithhe
khudgarzi ki oat mein baithhe
bane nishaan ye ibhrat ka
haan haan haan
bane nishaan ye ibhrat ka
laalach ke andhon ne dekha
laalach ke andhon ne dekha
khoob tamaashaa gairat ka
haan haan
khoob tamaashaa gairat ka
baandh ke patti
besharmi ki ee ee
ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee
aga baandh ke patti besharmi ki
ban baithhe pardhan
aazaadi hai
aazaadi hai khwaab hamaara
aazaadi imaan
aazaadi hai khwaab hamaara
aazaadi imaan
aazaadi ki khaatir denge
hans ke apni jaan
aazaadi hai
aazaadi hai khwaab hamaara
aazaadi imaan
aazaadi hai khwaab hamaara
aazaadi imaan
inquilaab zindaabaad
inquilaab zindaabaad
inquilaab zindaabaad

vande maataram
vande maataram
vande maataram
vande
vande maataram
vande maataram
vande maataram
vande
inquilaab zindaabaad
inquilaab zindaabaad
inquilaab zindaabaad

vande maataram
vande maataram
vande maataram
vande

vande maataram
vande maataram
vande maataram
vande

inquilaab zindaabaad


This article is written by Avinash Scrapwala, 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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Today 23rd March 2021 is the ninetieth remembrance anniversary of martyr dome of Sardar Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru. They were hanged to death by the British regime on 23rd March 1931.

On this occasion as a tribute in remembrance of these great sons of this soil here is a song from the movie ‘23rd March 1931 Shaheed’ (2002).

As I had mentioned in my earlier post on the blog, in the year 2002 there were three movies released on the life of Bhagat Singh;

  • 23rd March 1931 Shaheed
  • The Legend of Bhagat Singh
  • Shaheed-E-Azam

I would like to reproduce here what Dharmendra expressed about this movie his home production, (as appearing on the blurb of the audio cassette);

It is not the first time in the history of Indian Cinema that a film has been inspired by India’s favorite revolutionary. And quite honestly, it might not even be the last. This Sikh youth of character so powerful and deep represents the meaning of true patriotism and fearlessness to one and all. It can be assured that every time a movie is made on Bhagat Singh, not one person leaves the cinema hall carrying the same heart with which he arrives. It is not just his sacrifice that moves you; his biggest revolutionary thought and his smallest patriotic action, stir your blood inside. Bhagat Singh cannot be imitated, no matter how impressed you might feel. And yet, the one reason he chose death over life was to create a thousand of his kind so that each one of them could bear the depth of the same patriotic fervor to serve their country.
– Dharmendra

I was staying at Bareilly when this movie was released in 2002 and I had watched both the movies simultaneously i.e. ‘The Legend of Bhagat Singh’ and ‘23rd March 1931-Shaheed’. I remember both the movie were welcomed by huge crowds in their first week of release and thereafter ‘The Legend of Bhagat Singh’ had a good run on the box office, better than the today’s movie.

‘23rd March 1931 Shaheed’ was directed by Guddu Dhanoa for ‘Sunny Super Sound Presentation’. It was produced by Dharmendra.

It had Sunny Deol, Bobby Deol, Amrita Singh, Rahul Dev, Akshay Anand, Vicky Ahuja, Divya Dutta, Raja Bundela, Suresh Oberoi, Shakti Kapoor, Vivek Shauq, Samaresh Rautrai, Indal Singh, Sanjay Tripathi, Tej Sapru, Rajesh Khera, Deepak Sharma, Suresh Chatwal, Sachin Khedekar, Manoj Tiwari, Rana Jung Bahadur, Ishrat Ali, Imran Khan, Master Atit, Master Honey and Aishwarya Rai (in friendly appearance).

Screenplay of this movie is written by Sutanu Gupta and Dialogues of this movie are written by Sanjay S. Masoom Editing of this movie is done by Keshav Naidu. This movie was passed by Censor Board on 30.05.2002.

This movie has seven songs, written by Dev Kohli. The song “Sarfaroshi Ki Tamanna” by Ramprasad Bismil was included in the movie and with it the total number of songs makes it to eight. Songs in this film are sung by Udit Narayan, Alka Yagnik, Vinod Rathod, Hans Ran Hans (as per titles of the movie) and Bhupinder Singh, Mohd Salamat and Veer Rajendra (as mentioned in the blurb of the audio cassette of this movie and in addition to the names mentioned in the titles of the movie).

Today’s song is sung by Veer Rajinder and lyrics are by Dev Kohli. This song is in two parts (or may be three parts) in the movie as per video links available in the domain.

With the today’s song this movie ‘23rd March 1931 Shaheed’ (2002) makes its debut on the blog.

Let us now listen to the today’s song. . .

Video

Audio

Video (Part 2)

Audio (Part 2)

Song – Saans Hai Jab Talak, Naa Rukenge Kadam (23 March 1931 – Shaheed) (2002), Singer – Veer Rajinder, Lyrics – Dev Kohli, MD – Anand Raj Anand
Chorus
Lyrics

saans hai jab talak
naa rukenge kadam
chal pade hain to
manzil ko paa jaayenge
jaan pyaari nahin hai
watan se hamen
marte marte sabhi ko
bataa jaayenge
aye watan
aye watan
aye watan
aye watan

wo jawaani jo khoon ko
jalaati nahin
hmm hmm hmm hmm
wo watan ke liye
rang laati nahin
aa aa aa aa aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa aa aa
daagh lekar ghulaami ka
kyun ham jeeyen
haan kyun ham jeeyen
soch kar raaton ko
neend aati nahin
saans hai jab talak
naa rukenge kadam
chal pade hain to
manzil ko paa jaayenge
jaan pyaari nahin hai
watan se hamen
marte marte sabhi ko
bataa jaayenge
aye watan
aye watan
aye watan
aye watan

aa aa aa aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa

hamne tay kar liyaa
hamne le li qasam
khoon se apne seechenge
apnaa chaman
hmm hmm hmm hmm
hamne tay kar liyaa
hamne le li qasam
khoon se apne seecnhenge
apnaa chaman
jaan lekar hatheli pe
ham chal diye
haan ham chal diye
baandh kar sar pe nikle
hain ham ye qafan
saans hai jab talak
naa rukenge kadam
chal pade hain to
manzil ko paa jaayenge
jaan pyaari nahin hai
watan se hamen
marte marte sabhi ko
bataa jaayenge
aye watan
aye watan
aye watan
aye watan
aye watan
aye watan
aye watan
aye watan
———–
(part-2)
———–
naaz tujhko to hogaa
bhagatsingh ki maa
tera beta watan ke kaam aa gayaa
sar jhukaa kar nahin
sar uthha ke chalaa
desh ke waaste
jaan lootaa ke chalaa
jaane waaloon ko dekho
watan ke liye
aa aa aa aa
shamma aazaadi ki wo
jalaa jaayenge
saans hai jab talak
naa rukenge kadam
chal pade hain to
manzil ko paa jaayenge
jaan pyaari nahin hai
watan se inhen
marte marte sabhi ko
bataa jaayenge
inquilaab zindabaad
inquilaab zindabaad
inquilaab zindabaad

——————————————————–
Hindi script lyrics (Provided by Avinash Scrapwala)
——————————————————–

सांस है जब तलक
ना रुकेंगे कदम
चल पड़े हैं तो
मंजिल को पा जायेंगे
जान प्यारी नहीं है
वतन से हमें
मरते मरते सभी को
बता जायेंगे
ऐ वतन
ऐ वतन
ऐ वतन
ऐ वतन

वो जवानी जो खून को
जलाती नहीं
ह्म ह्म ह्म ह्म
वो वतन के लिए
रंग लाती नहीं
आ आ आ आ आ आ आ आ
आ आ आ आ आ आ
आ आ आ आ आ आ
दाग़ लेकर ग़ुलामी का
क्यूँ हम जीयें
हाँ क्यूँ हम जीयें
सोच कर रातों को
नींद आती नहीं
सांस है जब तलक
ना रुकेंगे कदम
चल पड़े हैं तो
मंजिल को पा जायेंगे
जान प्यारी नहीं है
वतन से हमें
मरते मरते सभी को
बता जायेंगे
ऐ वतन
ऐ वतन
ऐ वतन
ऐ वतन

आ आ आ आ आ आ आ
आ आ आ

हमने तय कर लिया
हमने ले ली क़सम
खून से अपने सींचेंगे
अपना चमन
ह्म ह्म ह्म ह्म
हमने तय कर लिया
हमने ले ली क़सम
खून से अपने सींचेंगे
अपना चमन
जान लेकर हथेली पे
हम चल दिए
हाँ हम चल दिए
बाँध कर सर पे निकले
हैं हम ये कफन
सांस है जब तलक
ना रुकेंगे कदम
चल पड़े हैं तो
मंजिल को पा जायेंगे
जान प्यारी नहीं है
वतन से हमें
मरते मरते सभी को
बता जायेंगे
ऐ वतन
ऐ वतन
ऐ वतन
ऐ वतन
ऐ वतन
ऐ वतन
ऐ वतन
ऐ वतन
————–
(भाग- २ )
————–

नाज़ तुझको तो होगा
भगतसिंह कि माँ
तेरा बेटा वतन के काम आ गया
सर झुका कर नहीं
सर उठा के चला
देश के वास्ते
जान लूटा के चला
जाने वालों को देखो
वतन के लिए
आ आ आ आ
शम्मा आज़ादी को वो
जला जायेंगे
सांस है जब तलक
ना रुकेंगे कदम
चल पड़े हैं तो
मंजिल को पा जायेंगे
जान प्यारी नहीं है
वतन से इन्हें
मरते मरते सभी को
बता जायेंगे
इन्किलाब जिंदाबाद
इन्किलाब जिंदाबाद
इन्किलाब जिंदाबाद


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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‘Vadh’ (2002) seems to have become an obscure film by now. Even though the film belongs to 21st century when the marketing through mass media has been the order of the day to promote the film, I do not recall having seen any such marketing blitzes for this film.

On-line searches revealed that it was a low budget film belonging to the genre of ‘suspense murder mystery’. A box office report suggests that the film was a ‘disaster’ as it earned about 50 per cent of the cost of production of the film. I guess, the absence of a well-conceived marketing of the film may have resulted in the prospective film audience not well-informed about the film. Otherwise, why should a film with Nana Patekar should get such a lukewarm reception at the box office? Probably, the low budget did not allow the makers of the film to indulge in high marketing blitzes.

‘Vadh’ (2002) was a maiden venture of Dilip Dhanwani who was in the film distribution business based in Mumbai. The star cast consisted of Nana Patekar, Anupama Verma, Puru Rajkumar, Meghna Kothari, Nakul Vaid, Sambhawana Seth, Arun Bakshi, Raju Mewani, Sweta Menon etc. The film was directed by N.S.R – the abbreviation for Nana Patekar, Rajesh Singh and Raj Bharath, respectively. Raj Bharath was entrusted with directing the film. However, due to alleged interferences by Nana Patekar, he left the film after which the Rajesh Singh was entrusted with the film’s direction. He also left the film on the same ground. Probably, producer thought it better to entrust the direction to Nana Patekar if he wants his film to be completed without any further delay.

The credit title of the film mentions that ‘it is a film by Nana Patekar for Dilip Dhanwani’. This shows as to how much Nana Patekar was involved in making of this film. This alone made me interested in watching the film, the DVD of which was available on one of the video sharing platforms. I watched this film in a single sitting as I found the film engrossing. The build-up of suspense till the last was superb. I could not guess as to who could be the murderer of three victims in the film which was attributed to a serial psychopath killer.

The gist of the story of the film is as under:

Dr, Arjun Singh (Nana Patekar) is a Psychiatrist who is attached to a mental hospital. He has a late marriage with Jyoti Singh (Anupama Verma) who is much younger than him. Dr. Arjun is very protective about his pregnant wife and loves her. His younger brother Vijay (Nakul Vaid) is a police inspector attached to Crime Branch who is in love with Meghna Kothari, the daughter of the Police Commissioner (Arun Bakshi).

In the mental hospital, there is a serial psychopath killer who has been kept in solitary confinement due to his violent behaviour. One day, the serial killer runs away from the hospital by breaking open the grilled door of his room. In this process, he kills three guards of the mental hospital by slicing the throats with ‘X’ slicing marks on the faces of the victims. This is his trade-mark killings. The police forces are looking out for the serial killer as this has created a panic among the residence.

Aryan (Puru Rajkumar) is a childhood friend of Dr. Arjun who is rich and a charming playboy. He spends much of his time in revelry and visits bars and clubs. He prefers casual relations with his girl-friends including the married ones and has no intention of marrying any of them. Dr. Arjun’s wife, Jyoti is also involved with extra marital relation with Aryan.

Soon after the running away of serial killer, one of the girl friends of Aryan is found murdered in her house. While the Crime Branch and Dr. Arjun think that the murder is a handywork of the serial killer with his trade-mark style of killing, Inspector Vijay has a doubt on Aryan as his visiting card is found in his murdered girl-friend’s house. After few days, another girl-friend of Aryan is found murdered in the same style which come to the light when Aryan visits her house. The presence of Aryan in the house makes Vijay confident that it is Aryan who has killed his girl friends in the same style as that of the serial killer so as to wood-wink the police in thinking that it is the work of the serial killer. Inspector Vijay arrests Aryan but due to lack of evidence against him, Aryan gets bail.

In the meanwhile, both Dr Arjun and his wife Jyoti are under threat from the serial killer. as they find ‘X’ mark in blood has been put on faces in their photo-frame. As a precautionary measure, Police Commissioner shifts them to a more secured place with a Commando attached to their new residence. Inspector Vijay ensures that he is present in the house when his brother, Dr. Arjun is on hospital duties.

Despite the security, one day, Jyoti finds that their personal Commando has been murdered in the same fashion as those killed by the serial killer. She gets the panic attack thinking that she and her husband would be the next target of the serial killers. A police team headed by the Police Commissioner visit to scene of the crime. To his horror, Inspector Vijay finds that his brother, Dr Arjun’s dead body is floating in a swimming pool with Jyoti murdered in her room with the same trade mark killing style as that of the serial killer.

The film ends with Police Commissioner taking a vow that he would not leave that mad serial killer and he would find him.

At the outset, the end of the film appears tame. This is because, I have not revealed the suspense part of the film just in case those who had not watched the film and are interested in doing so. The murder mystery has been solved as far as the film’s audience is concerned but for the police in the film, the case of the serial murders is yet to be solved.

The USP of the film is that the director has been successful in keeping the suspense in the film till the last. In fact, he has build-up the suspense as the film story progresses. However, this USP was not sufficient to make the film successful at the box office.

This film belongs to Nana Patekar from start to finish. There is no long and high-pitched dialogues for him as we are used to see him doing so in most of his films. He has a normal dialogue delivery and a restrained performance. Anupama Verma has done a conventional role of a house-wife which she has performed better than what she has been performing in her pop song videos. The suspense effects of the film have been well supported by the background music of Sanjay Chaudhary.

The weakness of the film is that it is too long for a suspense thriller. The film could have been easily condensed within the duration of say, 1 hour 45 minutes instead of 2 hours and 10 minutes to make it sleek for viewers. For example, there was not need to have two club songs of about 5 minutes durations just to support the playboy image of Puru Rajkumar. Such type of songs become distraction in a film which is trying to build-up the suspense. Probably, these two songs were included as a part of box office attractions. But the way these songs were conceived and presented, it would not have been a surprise if even front-benchers had taken a break by walking out of the theatre hall when these two songs were shown on the screen.

I also felt that there was no need for a romantic sub-plot of Inspector Vijay (Nakul Vaid) and his fiancée, Meghana Kothari. In fact, the role of Meghna Kothari is redundant in the film. On top of it, the pair have one song of about 5 minutes duration which appears to be forced upon the film.

And lastly, I missed the presence of N A Ansari type of a character in the film which would have added some aura around him, enhancing the suspense to the murder mystery.

‘Vadh’ (2002) has 6 songs, a high number for a suspense thriller. Except one, none of the song has pleased my ears. I am presenting the only song out of six which I liked and the song is ‘bahut khubsoorat hai aankhen tumhaari’ rendered by Jagjit Singh. The song is written by Nida Fazli which is set to music by Vishal-Shekhar. The song is picturised on Nana Patekar and Anupama Verma.

With this song, ‘Vadh’ (2002) makes its debut in the Blog.

Video Clip:

Audio Clip:

Song-Bahut khoobsoorat hain aankhen tumhaari (Vadh)(2002) Singer-Jagjit Singh, Lyrics-Nida Faazli, MD-Vishal Shekhar
Nana Patekar

Lyrics

hmm hmm hmm hmm
hmm hmm hmm hmm

bahut khubsoorat hain
aankhen tumhaari
bahut khubsoorat hain
aankhen tumhaari
agar ho inaayat
ae jaan-e-mohabbat
bana deejiye inko
kismat hamaari
bahut khubsoorat hain
aankhen tumhaari

tum in aankhon se duniya ko dekhti ho
aur main zindagi ko

jo sab se juda hai
wo andaaz ho tum
chhupa thha jo dil mein ae
wohi raaz ho tum
jo sab se juda hai ae
wo andaaz ho tum
chhupa thha jo dil mein ae
wohi raaz ho tum
tumhaari nazaakat a a
bani jab se chaahat
sukoon ban gayi hai
har ek bekaraari
bahut khubsoorat hain
aankhen tumhaari

na thhe jab talak tum
hamaari nazar mein
na thha chaand shab mein ae
na sooraj sahar mein
na the jab talak tum
hamaari nazar mein
na thha chaand shab mein ae
na sooraj sahar mein
tumhaari ijaajat
tumhaari hukoomat
ye saara gagan hai ae
ye dharti hai saari
bahut khubsoorat hain
aankhen tumhaari
bahut khubsoorat hain
aankhen tumhaari
agar ho inaayat
ae jaan-e-mohabbat
bana deejiye ae inko
kismat hamaari
bahut khubsoorat hain
aankhen tumhaari
bahut khubsoorat hain
aankhen tumhaari
bahut khubsoorat hain
aankhen tumhaari


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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4412 Post No. : 15809

Today, August 16, 2020 is the 2nd Remembrance Day of Atal Bihari Vajpayee (25/12/1924 – 16/08/2018), the former prime minister, one of the greatest statesmen, a nationalist, a good orator and a poet.

The political career of Atal Bihari Vajpayee has been an open book and it does not require an elaborate discussion. Suffice to say in brief that at the age of 18, Atal Bihari Vajpayee became politically active by participating in Quit India Movement of 1942 and was imprisoned for one month. In 1957, He became the member of Lok Sabha for the first time at the age of 33. From 1967 to 1984, he continued as a member of Lok Sabha without any interruption. Again from 1991 to 2009, he became the member of Lok Sabha. With nearly 5 decades of experience – both from the opposition and ruling parrties’ sides, one can gauge the vast political knowledge he had gathered to be rightly called as ‘Bhishma Pitamah’ of Indian politics who was admired by both the ruling and opposition parties.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee was known for his hard-hitting speech as a member of the opposition. But his speeches always remained within the boundary of political rivalry on ideological platforms and did not spill into personal enimity. It is because of this quality that Atal Bihari Vajpayee commanded the respect of all the prime ministers he faced in the Lok Sabha and of members of the opposition when he was the prime minister. In his very first terms in Lok Sabha during 1957-62 as a member of the opposition parties, Pandit Nehru, the then prime minister, was very much impressed by his debating skills. Once, he introduced Atal Bihari Vajpayee to a visiting foreign dignitary as a young and dynamic member of the opposition and he predicted him to be India’s future prime minister. His prediction came true after 40 years.

Let us recall a couple of examples in support of what has been stated above. During the Vote of Confidence motion in 1996 in Lok Sabha, Atal Bihari Vajpayee as a prime minister had quoted an instance that happened in the Rajya Sabha in November 1962 during the discussion on Chinese aggression in October 1962 :

It is not that I did not have disagreements with Nehru ji. These disagreements came out strongly during debates. In one of such debates I called Nehru’s personality and character as a mixture of Churchill and Chamberlain. (Neville Chamberlain, the Prime Minister of the UK from 1937-40 was highly criticised for his appeasement policy with Adolf Hitler. Winston Churchill was the prime minister who led the English to victory against Nazi Germany in the Second World War). Despite the comparison to two of the most controversial and critiqued world leaders, Nehru did not get angry. Later that evening, I ran into Nehru ji at a banquet in honour of a visiting foreign dignitary. He called and congratulated me for giving a rousing speech in the Rajya Sabha and he left smiling.

In 1994, when United Nations Human Right Commission at Geneva was to discuss a Pakistani resolution to label India as human right violator in Jammu & Kashmir, the then Prime Minister, P V Narsimha Rao chose the leader of the opposition, Atal Bihari Vajpayee as the leader of the Indian delegation to defend India. The Pakistani resolution was defeated. The fact that Narsimha Rao selected Atal Bihari Vajpayee as the leader of the delegation rather than other senior leaders from his party like Salman Khurshid who were part of the delegation, speaks volume about the calibre of and confidence reposed on Atal Bihari Vajpayee by then prime minister.

It is not known when Atal Bihari Vajpayee turned a poet. Whether it was the poet in him that pushed him to the politics or vice versa. He had said once that ‘he was poet by instinct and the politician by accident’. He had a literary bend of mind if we go by his association with magazines such as ‘Rashtradharma’, ‘Panchjanya’ and the newspapers like ‘Swadesh’ etc, during his younger days. Probably, he may have started writing poems during the the Quit India Movement of 1942. On August 15, 1947 when India got indepedence and people were celebrating the freedom from British Rule, Atal Bihari Vajpayee wrote the poem in a sombre mood:

पंद्रह अगस्त का दिन कहता
आज़ादी अभी अधूरी है।
सपने सच होने बाकी है,
रावी की शपथ न पूरी है॥

जिनकी लाशों पर पग धर कर
आज़ादी भारत में आई,
वे अब तक हैं खानाबदोश
ग़म की काली बदली छाई॥

The people of India at large came to know Atal Bihari Vajpayee also as a poet after his release from the Bengaluru Central Jail in 1977 following emergency. In his one year of life in the jail, Atal Bihari Vajpayee had written many poems in the pseudo name ‘Kaidi Kavirai’, some of which used to be smuggled out of the jail, translated in Kannada and pasted on the walls of colleges in Hubbali and Dharwad. ‘Kaidi Kavirai Ki Kundalian’, the collections of poems written by him while in the jail has been published. These poems belong to satirical and inspirational genres. An example of one of his satirical poems which he wrote while when he was ill in the jail:

डॉक्टरान दे रहे दवाई, पुलिस दे रही पहरा।
बिना ब्लेड के हुआ खुरदुरा, चिकना-चुपड़ा चेहरा।
चिकना-चुपड़ा चेहरा, साबुन, तेल नदारत।
मिले नहीं अखबार, पढ़ेंगे नई इबारत।
कह कैदी कविराय, कहां से लाएं कपड़े।
अस्पताल की चादर छुपा रही सब लफड़े।

But post-emergency years, Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s poems have become more visible than before. In some of his political rallies, he had started reciting his poems probably realising that poems of 6-8 lines have more impact on his audience to draw his point of view than a longer speech.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s most popular and an inspiring poem, kadam milaakar chalna hoga has been included in class-8 textbook along with the poems of Hazari Prasad Dwivedi, Ramdhari Singh Dinkar, Surykant Tripathi Nirala, Ismat Chugtai, Harishankar Parsai etc for 2019-20 onwards.

When Atal Bihari Vajpayee was admitted in a hospital in New York in 1988 for his kidney check-up, doctors had suggested kidney operations. That whole night, he could not sleep. During that night, the poem, maut se than gahi was born.

Another poem of Atal Bihari Vajpayee which I like is hari hari doob par. The last six lines sums up the philosophy of life which say that the sun will rise again and there will be sunshine. But I will not get to see the dew drop on the green carpet of grass of my garden in all the seasons:

सूर्य तो फिर भी उगेगा,
धूप तो फिर भी खिलेगी,
लेकिन मेरी बगीची की
हरी-हरी दूब पर,
ओस की बूंद
हर मौसम में नहीं मिलेगी।

To quote Bhagwat Goyal who has translated Vajpayee’s poems in to English, Atal Bihari Vajpayee believed that “politics and literature cannot belong to separate compartments. Rather they enrich and refine each other. When a litterateur gets involved in politics, his politics gets more refined. Similarly, if a politician has a literary background, he cannot ignore human feelings and emotions.” I have watched some of the important proceedings of the Lok Sabha in which I saw his speeches both as a Prime Minister and as a member of the opposition. To me, his speech sounded like a mix of statesmanship and literature like the one below.

The game of power would continue. Governments would come and go. Political parties would be formed and dissolved. But the country should survive and democracy should remain there forever. The debate (on Vote of Confidence Motion) would come to an end but the chapter which would start from the next day needed to be pondered over. The bitterness should not increase.

On the occasion of Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s 2nd Remembrance Day, I present one of his poems, ‘apne hi mann se kuchh bolen’ (2002) which has been turned into a non-film song composed and sung by Jagjeet Singh. The video of the song featuring Shahrukh Khan and Atal Bihari Vajpayee was produced by Saregama which was directed by Yash Chopra. The song is preceded by a preface read by Amitabh Bachchan, which was written by Javed Akhtar. This song is a part of an album, ‘Samvedna’ (Sensitivity) containing six poems written by Atal Bihari Vajpayee which have been turned into songs composed and sung by Jagjeet Singh.

The poem is philosophical one. It says that let the heart speak. Let it measure what has been gained and what has been lost. In one of the antaras, the poet says that earth is millions of years old and life is eternal. Elders may give a blessing of 100 years of life (sau sharadon ki vaani) but body has its limit. So, one should be ready to open the doors on the last knock.

Video Clip :

Audio Clip:

Song-Kya khoya kya paaya jag mein (Jagjeet Singh NFS)(2002) Singer-Jagjeet Singh, Lyrics-Atal Bihari Vajpayee, MD-Jagjeet Singh

Lyrics

kya khoya kya paaya jag mein
milte aur bichhadte mag mein
kya khoya kya paaya jag mein
milte aur bichhadte mag mein
mujhe kisi se nahin shikaayat
yadhyapi chhala gaya pag pag mein
ek drishti beeti par daalen
yaadon ki potali tatolen
ek drishti beeti par daalen
yaadon ki potali tatolen
apne hi mann se kuchh bolen
apne hi mann se kuchh bolen

prithhvi laakhon varsh puraani
jeevan ek anant kahaani
prithhvi laakhon varsh puraani
jeevan ek anant kahaani
par tan ki apni seemaayen
yadyapi sau sharadon ki vaani
itna kaafi hai antim dastak
par khud darwaaza kholen
itna kaafi hai antim dastak
par khud darwaaza kholen
apne hi mann se kuchh bolen
apne hi mann se kuchh bolen

janm maran kaa avirat phera
jeewan banjaaron kaa deraa
janm maran kaa avirat phera
jeewan banjaaron kaa deraa
aaj yahaan kal kahaan kooch hai
kaun jaanta kidhar savera
andhiyaara aakaash aseemit
praanon ke pankhon ko taulen
andhiyaara aakaash aseemit
praanon ke pankhon ko taulen
apne hi mann se kuchh bolen
apne hi mann se kuchh bolen
apne hi mann se kuchh bolen
apne hi mann se …. kuchh bolen


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Happy Children’s Day to Atuldom

“Makdee” means spider. This was also the title of a movie in 2002 which was directed by Vishal Bharadwaj who was also the music director. This was one of the movies in recent times that portrayed children the way they actually should be – as bright, intelligent, naughty and playful. I am put-off when children are portrayed as miniature adults and made to mouth huge sentimental dialogues which I am 100% sure kids from normal upbringing would not even dream of. My definition of kids from a normal upbringing is where the only thing that a child has to do is finish their school, come home -play in the ground or backyard, do their studies for the next day, help around the family as per necessity, play mischief and be active through the day so that they sleep peacefully and wake up fresh to have their routines all over again. In between all this they should have time to read comics, novels, have memorable time with their grandparents and friends which will stay with them for their life as pleasant memories. ‘Makdee’ was one such movie.

It had Shweta Prasad play 10-year-old twin sisters – Chunni and Munni. Chunni who was a prankster and Munni the timid, studious kind. Chunni keeps fooling around the village and constantly gets into trouble with the local butcher Kallu along with her friend ‘Mughal-e-azam’ and on one occasion Kallu chases them around the village and in the melee Munni runs into a mansion which is famous around the village as to being haunted. Then what follows is Chunni’s struggle to find her sister, save her from the clutches of the witch who resides in the haunted mansion, and in the process solve the case of all the persons from the village, who went missing, when they ventured into the mansion. She also is felicitated by the collector of the district as she finds the reason for the witch (Shabana Azmi) making the mansion her home- a hidden treasure.

‘Makdee’ had all the elements that would was needed in a children’s film- fun/ fantasy and a moral – which is the essential of any story telling session with kids. The moral being that “you cannot cry wolf always, as a time will come when people will stop believing you.”

14th November is celebrated as children’s day in India in memory of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. He was fondly called chacha Nehru and it is said that he was fond of children. I remember my father used to tell me about his school trip to Delhi when he was in class 8 or 9 and they were fortunate to have an audience with the then Prime Minister Pandit Nehru and what an experience it was – today’s youngsters would use the word AWESOME. My father was also proud about nearly sharing birth dates- his birthdate was 15th November. In fact, he used to say that it was not difficult to remember chacha Nehru’s death anniversary as that was the date he landed in Mumbai from Ahmedabad for his job and found all available forms of transport had stopped as a mark of respect to the departed leader. But that is not the purpose of this post.

Let us move on and enjoy this lively song which shows the exact emotion a child will have when it is a holiday from school or vacation or there is an unexpected holiday declared due to rains, bharat bandh, or death of some trustee or anyone remotely important. Here I will confess that I see myself as Chunni, Munni, Mughal-e-azam and all the kids in this movie. I identified with them.

Audio

Video

Song-Kukdoo koon chhutti hai (Makdee)(2002) Singer-Upagna Pandya, Lyrics-Gulzar, MD-Vishal Bhardwaj
Chorus

Lyrics

kukdu koon oo
kukdu koon oo
chhutti hai
he chhutti hai
he chhutti hai
kukdu koon oo

ghanti bajaao paape
ghanti bajaao re
bastaa uthhaao paape
bastaa uthhaao bhaago re
hai kitaabon se kutti
chhutti hai
arre chhutti hai chhutti
chhutti hai
hai kitaabon se kutti
kutti hai
arre chhutti hai chhutti
chhutti hai
he chhutti hai
he chhutti hai
kukdu koon oo

jhum tanakum tanakum
jhum tanakum tanakum
tara tara tara
la la la lala

somwaar susti mein katataa hai
mangal ko mood kahaan banta hai
arre somwaar susti mein katataa hai
mangal ko mood kahaan banta hai

budh ki chintaa mein veer ki fikar
shukkar ka tambu shani ke ghar
monday ko sunday ki chhutti hai
hai kitaabon se kutti
chhutti hai
are chhutti hai chhutti
chhutti hai

arre monday ko sunday ki
arre chhutti hai chhutti
chhutti hai
he chhutti hai
kukdu koon oo

ghanti bajaao paape
ghanti bajaao re (he he he he)
bastaa uthaao paape
bastaa uthaao bhaago re
da da daa da da
pom pom pom
da da daa da da
pom pom pom
da da daa da da
pom pom pom
da da daa da da
pom pom pom
master jee
bhaago


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