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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.

This article is his 800th post in the blog.

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‘Blue Mountains’ (2017) was produced by Rajesh Jain and was directed by debutant Suman Ganguli who also wrote story and screenplay for the film. The cast included Ranvir Shorey, Gracy Singh, Mahesh Thakur, Arif Zakeria, Rajpal Yadav, Vinod Nagpal, Amit Behl, Lisa-Marie Rettenbacher and Yatharth Ratnum (Debutant). The shooting of the film started in 2015 and was completed in two months. The major outdoor shooting of the film was done in Shimla and its outskirt. The film was first shown at the International Children’s Film Festival held in Hyderabad in November 2015 where it won the Golden Elephant Award for the best feature film in Asian Panorama. The film got theatrical release on April 7, 2017.

This was the last released film of Gracy Singh which means she has not worked in any Hindi film in the last 8 years. She had become a well-known face during the telecast of the TV serial, ‘Amaanat’ (1997) and her popularity had gone up after the release of ‘Lagaan (2001). Her first 3 Hindi films with her lead roles had won National Film Awards for the best films. Despite this, the acting career of Gracy Singh did not pick up as expected. What could be the reasons?

To analyse the reasons, I browsed through Gracy Singh’s filmography and went through her website. I also watched video clips of her spiritual speeches/dance performances/interviews available on video sharing platforms. At the outset, she had made it clear that she will work in only such films which can be watched by all the members of families. This must have become a limiting factor for her to get film offers. It also appears that she was also interested in other form of activities such as dance performances and spiritual activities by becoming a Brahma Kumari. She was pursuing the hobbies such as Reiki Healing, Rajyog Meditation, Chakra Balancing, Homeopathy, Paintings, Costume designing for her dance programmes, interior designing etc.

Gracy Singh was born on July 20, 1980, to a Sikh family based in Delhi. During her schooling, she got trained in Bharatnatyam dance which helped her to participate in the school dance competitions. After the completion of her schooling, she did her graduation in Arts. She wanted to pursue the classical dancing as a profession. During her college days, she joined a dance troupe, ‘The Planet’ through which she gave some dance performances in Delhi and other Indian cities.

Gracy Singh used to occasionally visit Mumbai for modelling, more as a hobby than the profession. During one of such visits, Sanjeev Bhattacharya, the director of TV serial, ‘Amaanat’ (1997) who was looking for a new face, offered her role in the serial. Although she had no interest in acting, she found the story of the serial appealing. She agreed to work in the serial and thus began her acting career. ‘Amaanat’ (1997) was a super hit TV Serial. I had watched many episodes of this serial when it was telecast during 1997-98.

With the exposure in TV serial, Gracy Singh got offers from Hindi films. ‘Hu Tu Tu’ (1999) was her debut film directed by Gulzar. This was followed by ‘Ham Aapke Dil Mein Rehte Hain’ (1999) directed by Satish Kaushik. In both these films, she had small roles. It was ‘Lagaan’ (2001) in which she was cast in lead role with Amir Khan. The film was a super hit and was nominated for Oscar. Two of her next three films, namely, ‘Munnabhai MBBS’ (2003) and ‘Gangajal’ (2003) also became hit films. Her next three films in 2004-5 did not fare well at the box office. She started accepting roles in films of the lesser-known banners. Her choosiness in accepting offers of films seems to be the reason that she almost stopped getting Hindi film offers from big banners. She started working in Punjabi, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Marathi, Gujarati and Bengali films.

Probably, not getting films of her choice, Gracy Singh started devoting her spare time on dance performances. She refreshed her Bharatanatyam dance with a new Guru, Deepak Mazumdar through Hema Malini and gave her ‘Arangetram’ performance. She also got trained in Odissi and Kathak dances and formed her own dance troupe. She also learnt the costume designing for dancers in her troupe.

In 2013, Gracy Singh started her spiritual journey by joining Brahma Kumari Foundation. She wanted to permanently shift to their headquarter at Mt. Abu by giving up her professional career. But the Administrative Head of Brahma Kumaris Foundation at that time advised her to continue her professional career and also work for Brahma Kumaris. It is her association with Brahma Kumaris that made her a multi-facet personality. She completed her courses in second degree Reiki Healing, Rajyog Meditation, Chakra Balancing etc. She also got interested in painting and interior designing. She says that in Brahmakumaris, she found peace, happiness, contentment, understating, acceptance and support from fellow Brahmakumaris. She formed a group among Brahma Kumaris to stage plays on mythological stories at various places.

With Gracy Singh becoming a spiritually inclined person, she got an offer to act in a TV Serial, ‘Santoshi Maa’ (2015) which she accepted. During this period, she accepted a few Hindi film offers which she liked. One of them was ‘Blue Mountains’ (2017) with an off-beat story in which she did the role of a supressed classical singer. The story of the film is as under:

Som (Yatharth Ratnum), a teenaged boy from a small town is accidentally selected during audition for a television reality show of talent hunt for singer. Her mother, Vaani (Gracy Singh) who was once a classical singer, had to give up her professional singing career on her husband’s (Ranvir Shorey) transfer to Shimla. She now sees in her son the fulfilment of her own supressed dream of becoming a celebrated singer. Som is put into a lot of pressure from her mother with his close friends propping him up that he is going to become a star celebrity. He dreams of attaining a high goal like that of the height of Blue Mountains in his region.

After participating in the reality show, Som returns to his hometown on failing to make to the final selection. He sinks in his low self-esteem. He gives up singing and stops going to school. Slowly, he goes into depression. Som’s parents, his schoolteachers, his close friends and others in his town try to help him to overcome his low self-esteem. His mother also goes into depression because she thinks that she is responsible for the state of her son. Gradually, Som realises that he must resume to practice singing and make his mother come out of depression. He starts practising singing and his mother is happy. He also starts going to school. One day, because of his earlier performance in TV Reality singing show, he gets an offer from a music company for recording songs in Mumbai for an album. The family is elated and so are his school friends.

The moral of the story is that the participation in the event is more important than winning and the defeat is the first stage of attaining winning streaks later.

Suman Ganguli, the film’s director, in an interview, had said that since the film is about a budding singer, he needed a teenaged boy who could actually sing. He selected Yatharth Ratnum (real name Yatharth Ratnum Rastogi) because he was the 1st runner up of a TV reality singing show, ‘Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Little Champs (2009). He was put on an acting workshop for six months of rigorous training before the shooting for the film commenced.

Yatharth Ratnum Rastogi was born on November 9, 1996, in Varanasi. His father was in Audio distribution business while his mother was a housewife. He had interest in singing since his childhood. He was trained in Hindustani classical music from the age of 7. He started performing in the inter-school competitions and other local competitions from the age of 9. He completed his CBSE from Sunbeam School, Varanasi.

In 2009, Yatharth got an opportunity to perform in a singing reality show, Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Little Champ Talent Hunt where was the first runner up. That gave him an opportunity to visit Los Angles (LA) in 2009 where he got trained by a vocal coach, Maxayn Lewis. During his stay in LA, he got interested in singing in English. He started writing lyrics for the English songs and sang himself. His stay in LA prevented him to continue his college education. Back in India, he participated in the first English reality show ‘The Stage’ (2015) in which he was declared winner. This enabled him to participate in the concerts at 8 cities all over India and launch his solo career as a singer with a contract from Universal Music.

The producer of ‘Blue Mountains’ (2017) had seen Yatharth’ performance in Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Little Champ Talent Hunt in 2009. He got an offer from the producer to play the main teenaged protagonist. He was unsure of his acting capability. However, the film’s director, Suman Ganguli had confidence in him. He was given a rigorous six-month training in acting.

Today, more than the film, it is his solo singing concerts all over India which will help Yatharth in reaching a great height in his singing career. (Note: Profile of Yatharth Ratnum is mainly based on his interview which appeared here.).

‘Blue Mountains’ (2017) has 6 songs which are written by Naveen Tyagi (2), Panchhi Jalonvi (2), Sunil Sirvaiya (1) and Ozil Dalal (1). Songs are set to music by Aadesh Shrivastava (2), Monty Sharma (2) and Sundeep-Surya (2). During the making of the film, Aadesh Shrivastava passed away. I am presenting the first song, ‘chitchor kaare badraa ghanghor matwaare badraa’ to appear on the Blog. The song is rendered by Shreya Ghoshal on the words of Sunil Sirvaiya which is set to music by Monty Sharma.

The song is partly lip synced and partly in the background after the milk vendor, Damodar (Rajpal Yadav) congratulates Vaani (Gracy Singh) for her son getting through the audition of a reality show. He reminds her of a popular song she used to sing because of which he became a fan of her. Vaani goes into the flashback mode of her singing and dancing days. Gracy Singh is graceful in her singing and dancing performances in this song. The song precedes with a somewhat longish sargam (I am not able to decipher them), ably rendered by Shreya Ghoshal in a fast-paced tempo.

Som (Yatharth Ratnum) sings in the film only the mukhda of the song in three different situations – first at the time of the audition for qualifying in the reality show, second, at the time of learning from his mother and third while participating in the first round of the reality show. However, only the audio clip of this mukhda part of the song rendered by Yatharth Ratnum is available with the prelude of a long sargam.

Video Clip (Female version):


Audio Clip (Female version):

Audio Clip (Male version):

Song-Chitchor kaare badraa ghanghor matwaare badraa (Blue Mountains)(2017) Singer-Shreya Ghoshal, Lyrics-Sunil Sirwaiya, MD-Monti Sharma

Lyrics (based on Video clip):

[sargam]

chitchor..
kaare badraa
ghanghor..
matwaare badraa
chitchor..
kaare badraa
ghanghor..
matwaare badraa
tohe dekh dekh phoolon kaa
mehke anchraa
tohe soch soch bahaaron kaa
behke kajraa
koi kheenche dor mujhe teri ore
teri oar
kaare kaare badraa
ho o o kaare kaare badraa
ho o ho o kaare kaare badraa
kaare kaare badraa

chhanan chhanan chhan paayal boley
sanan sanan jo purwaa doley
chhanan chhanan chhan paayal boley
sanan sanan jo purwaa doley
radha boley sakhiyaan boley
kanhaa ke sang hi
ho o o o o o khelenge hum
o bansuri bajaaye jab
wo jamuna ke chhor pe
koi kheenche dor mujhe teri oar
teri oar
ho o o ho kaare kaare badraa
kaare kaare badraa..aa


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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Ayushman Khurana and Bhumi Pednekar were paired together for the first time in ‘Dam Laga Ke Haisha’ (2014) which I have already discussed on the Blog. Their chemistry clicked from the very first film together which seems to have been liked by the audience as per the box office indicator. ‘Shubh Mangal Saavdhan’ (2017) is their second film together. Other supporting cast included Seema Bhargav, Neeraj Sood, Chittaranjan Tripathy, Brijendra Kala, Supriya Shukla, Sanjay Singh etc.

The film is a remake of Tamil film, ‘Kalyana Samayal Saadham’ (2013). Both Tamil film and its Hindi version are directed by R S Prasanna. The families in Hindi remake of the film are based in around Delhi. Naturally, Hitesh Kewalya, the writer has adapted for the film, the North Indian culture and idioms.

The film is about a man (Ayushman Khurana) who is in love with a girl (Bhumi Pednekar) but he is too shy to tell her about his feeling. The girl on the other hand is influenced by the Bollywood film types of marriage where she can defy the family to marry her choice of man by eloping with him. Finally, the man indirectly gives his hint to the girl through a marriage portal. After the talks between the two families involved through video conferencing, the marriage is finalised, and the engagement takes place. So, it is a love-cum-arrange marriage. Just a few days before the marriage, the man faces a sexual disorder. How both families react to the ‘gents’ problem’ constitute a major part of the comical situations. How the couple overcome the question mark on their marriage is the climax of this ‘romcom’ genre of film.

Generally, the sexual problem which has been termed as ‘gents’ problem’ is not openly discussed in the middle-class family. Keeping that yardstick in mind, the issue has been subtly handled in the film not to sound awkward to the audience. I guess, this may be reason that the film’s ending does not discuss as to how the problem got solved after the marriage has taken place. Instead, it is the narration by Bhumi Pednekar at the end which gives an indirect hint to the audience that all is well in their married life.

This is one of those films where the strong performances by almost all – main as well as supporting actors make the film watchable without taking a break.

The film has four songs, all written and set to music by Tanishk-Vayu (Tanishk Bhagchi and Vaibhav Srivastava). I am presenting the first song, ‘oonchi oonchi doriyon pe baandhun re gagar’ from the film to appear on the Blog. The song is rendered by Shashaa Tirupati, one of the upcoming playback singers. She has won the Screen Award for the best female playback singer for this song.

The song is a montage of the lovely moments of the budding romance between Mudit (Ayushman) and Sugandha (Bhumi), from their ‘nok-jhoks’ (banters) to the first kiss ahead of their engagement. The song has beautifully captured the moments of the couple in love. The song writers have taken the theme of Krishna Leela as metaphors for loving couple’s ‘nok-jhoks’. There are a few English words in the lyrics like ‘trick’, ‘quick, and ‘fit’. The song starts with a pleasant mix of santoor and flute prelude with interludes of violin, sarod and flute. The song also gives a mild flavour of the Carnatic music.

The singer, Shashaa Tirupati is a Canadian playback singer, songwriter, and voice-over artist of Indian origin, hailing from Jammu and Kashmir. She left her medical studies in Canada and shifted to India to become the playback singer sometime in 2010. After singing in a couple of Hindi films and a few regional films, she was noticed by A R Rahman for her performance in Coke Studio Session-3 in 2013. Thereafter, she was mentored by A R Rahman for whom she sang her first song for a Tamil film which won her the National Film Award in 2014 as the best singer. She has sung a good number of songs in Hindi, Tamil and Telugu films for A R Rahman. She has recorded over 200 songs in 12 languages including some private albums.

Normally, I do not include the video clip of the unplugged/reprise version of the song in the presentation of the songs as they are basically the music video based on the original soundtrack of the film. However, for this song, I have included here because the unplugged version has a different antara than the soundtrack song. Probably, it was a part of the originally planned song but might have been excluded later to be used for the promotion of the film. And I like the singing of Ayushman Khurana who has won the Filmfare award for the best male playback singer for ‘Vicky Donor’ (2012).

Video Clip:

Audio Clip:

Audio Clip (Unplugged version):

Song-Oonchi oonchi doriyon pe baadhoon re gagar (Shubh Mangal Saavdhaan)(2017) Singers-Shashaa Tirupati/ Ayushman Khurana, Lyrics- Tanishk Vayu, MD-Tanishk Vayu

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Lyrics (Based on audio clip of soundtrack version):
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oonchi oonchi doriyon pe baandhoon re gagar
par na maane na
kaanha maane na
oonchi oonchi doriyon pe baandhoon re gagar
par na maane na
kaanha maane na
jag jo bichhaaye har jaal kaat le
makkhan churaaye har maal chaant le
murli se kare aisi trick trick trick trick
panghat ki hai badi…
panghat ki hai badi kathin dagar
par na maane na
kaanha maane na

roke mohe…
toke mohe…
kaate re dagar mori Yamuna ke tat ki
laaj naahin
kaaj naahin
maare jo kankariya to phoote mori matki
vaak chatur bharmaaye
prem jaal arjhaaven
jo bhi kare kare sab quick quick quick
kahun mein piya ji thhoda kar lo sabar
par na maane na
kanha maane na
oonchi oonchi doriyon pe baandhoon re gagar
par na maane na
kaanha maane na

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Lyrics (Based on unplugged version):
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oonchi oonchi doriyon pe baandh le gagar
par na maane na
kaanha maane na
oonchi oonchi doriyon pe baandh le gagar
par na maane na
kaanha maane na
jag jo bichaaye har jaal kaat le
makkhan churaaye har maal chaat le
murli se kare aisi trick tick tick tick
panghat ki hai badi…
panghat ki hai badi kathin dagar
par na maane na
kaanha maane na

beech aawe
laaj kaahe
badra bulaawe kaahe dheer dhar sajni
surmayi
rut bhayi
aaja dono Yamuna ke teer chale sangini
mann main bhramar gungunaawe
kaahe sakhi tu ghabraawe
prem tera mera bada fit fit fit fit
aaj tu bahaane chaahe kitne bhi kar
par na maane na
kaanha maane na
jag jo bichhaaye har jaal kaat le
makkhan churaaye har maal chaat le
murli se kare aisi trick tick tick tick
panghat ki hai badi…
panghat ki hai badi kathhin dagar
par na maane na
kaanha maane na


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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‘Tumhaari Sulu’ (2017) was produced under the banner of T-Series and Ellipsis Entertainment and was directed by Suresh Triveni. Vidya Balan and Manav Kaul were in the lead roles, supported by Neha Dhupia, Vijay Maurya, Uday Lagoo, Malishka Mendonsa, Mahesh Pillai, Seema Taneja etc. Anshuman Khurana made a special appearance as himself. The film’s music director, Santanu Ghatak also acted in the film as himself.

This was a debut film for its director, Suresh Triveni who has come with the background of making advertising films. Palakkad born, Suresh Triveni did his schooling in Ranchi and Chennai and post-graduation in marketing from Delhi. After making many advertising and some documentary films, Suresh Triveni had an obsession of doing his debut feature film in Hindi with Vidya Balan. He wrote the story of ‘Tumhaari Sulu’ (2017) keeping Vidya Balan in mind. After reading the script, she agreed to work in the film.

This is a feminist film of a house-wife’s muted aspiration to do something more than working in the kitchen, cleaning the house, watching the TV programmes and waiting for the conversation with her husband on his return from work. After getting a job as RJ, she becomes a housewife cum working woman, trying to work out a balance between her personal problems and her professional career. At the end, the woman is prepared to sacrifice her job to take care of her family. The husband leaves his job to help the wife in her new business of supplying tiffin to offices. Now husband is working from home, helping the wife in her business while she continues to work as RJ. The film gives a hope to those who had not done well in studies that there are alternative avenues available to be successful in life.

The story of the film is as under:

A nucleus middle class family consisting of Sulochana or Sulu (Vidya Balan), her husband, Ashok (Manav Kaul) and a school-going son lives in a distant suburb of Mumbai. Ashok works as a sales executive in readymade Garment making company. They are a happy and a loving family. Sulu always gets sarcastic comments from her well-to-do sisters, working in banks and from her father for not completing her 12th and thus not as successful as her sisters. Ashok encourages Sulu to take up a job so that she is not bored at home and also supplement the family income.

Sulu considers various options to start a business which remain only at the level of her ideas. She is passionate about participating in in Radio quiz and in one of the quiz programmes, she wins a prize of pressure cooker for which she visits the Radio Channel office to collect the prize. In the office she reads an advertisement for recruitment of a fresh Radio Jockey RJ). She meets RJ, Albeli Anjali (Malishka Mendonca) with whom she has been talking on the phone on her programme. Albeli takes Sulu to the channel head Maria (Neha Dhupia) who is impressed by her unconventional talks. Sulu is selected but there is no immediate job for her,

The pestering by Sulu day-in-day-out forces Maria to start a late-night show with Sulu as RJ with the name of the programme called ‘Tumhaari Sulu’. In this programme, Sulu gets calls from a number of lonely men facing personal problems for which she has to give some solutions or moral supports. And she does it in her husky voice while simultaneously peeling peas for the next day’s menu at home. Over a period of time, her radio programme becomes very popular giving stability in her job. Being a late-night radio programme, Ashok has to manage the house. When Sulu is successful in her newfound career, Ashok’s job in the Garment making company is at stake which put a lot of mental stress on him resulting in arguments with Sulu. However, this is only momentary and does not affect their loving relationship. Although Ashok would wish Sulu to quit the job, he would not say so.

Adding to the problem is that their son has been rusticated from the school when he is found in possession of porn material in the classroom. Ashamed, the son runs away from home. Although, he has been found and returned home, Sulu decides to quit her job as she feels that her family needs her more than her job. While she is returning after collecting her pay cheque, she watches a fight between tiffin supplier and the receptionist of the Radio Channel which gives her idea to start the business of delivering lunch tiffins to offices.

Ashok has left his job and works from home to carry on his business of delivering tiffins to offices in partnership with his wife, Sulu. She continues to work as RJ in her radio programme, ‘Tumhaari Sulu’, giving the callers a feel of a loving RJ caring about them in the same way she is taking care of her family.

It is obvious that the director, Suresh Triveni has written the story with larger focus on Vidya Balan’s character. It is Vidya Balan all the way in the film. She is joyous throughout the film except towards the end of the film when she tells her intention to quit her job to Maria in her moist eyes. Manav Kaul in the role of Sulu’s husband has also done well in the film.

The film has 5 songs written one each by 5 lyricists. These songs were composed by as many as 8 music directors. One song was jointly composed by 4 music directors which may be a record. I am presenting the first song from the film, ‘kaise kaise dhaagon se buni hai ye duniya’ to appear on the Blog. This a debut song for the Hindustani classical vocalist, Ronkini Gupta as a playback singer and also the debut for Santanu Ghatak as a lyricist and the music director.

I personally feel that out of 5 songs in the film, the song under discussion is only one which fits well with the theme of the film. It is a philosophical song about the life and inter-personal relationship. The lyricist sees the world comprising of different threads. We have to sew some and darn (rafu) some. Sometime in our life, we have to face difficulties in the same way as we see a series of clouds in otherwise the sunny sky. We ‘sew’ relationship with our relatives and friends over a period of time. Sometime, strains in the ‘stiches’ of relationship develop which we should try to keep it intact by ‘darning’ them. In our entire life, we ‘sew’ miles of threads (story), some remains undarn despite many attempts. Let us enjoy the remainder (aadha-pauna) of our life with our ‘woven and darned’ thread of relationship. By the way, this is probably the first time, I have come across the word ‘rafoo’ (darn) in Hindi film songs.

This song is one of the best examples of how a song can be composed melodiously with simple renditions, minimum orchestration (I hear only piano and guitar notes) and with simple yet highly meaningful lyrics. Kudos to Santanu Ghatak who has written and composed the song and the singer, Ronkini Gupta.

Video Clip:

Audio Clip:

Song-Kaise kaise dhaagon se buni hai ye duniya (Tumhaari Sulu)(2017) Singer-Ronkini Gupta, Lyrics-Shantanu Ghatak, Md-Shantanu Ghatak

Lyrics (based on audio clip):

kaise kaise dhaagon se buni hai ye duniya..
o o
kaise kaise dhaagon se buni hai ye duniya..
kabhi dhoop kabhi baadalon ki ye ladiyaan…
kuchh toone see hai maine ki hai rafoo
ye doriyaan
kuchh toone see hai maine ki hai rafoo
ye doriyaan

kaise kaise dhaagon se buni hai ye duniya
kabhi dhoop kabhi baadalon ki ye ladiyaan
kuchh toone see hai maine ki hai rafoo
ye doriyaan..
kuchh toone see hai maine ki hai rafoo
ye doriyaan

hmm
teri bani raahen meri thhee deewaaren…
teri bani raahen meri thhee deewaaren…
un deewaaron pe hi maine likh lee bahaaren
shaam huyi tu jo aaya so gayi thhee kaliyaan
phir shaam huyi tu jo aaya so gayi thhee kaliyaan….
kuchh toone see hai maine ki hai rafoo
ye doriyaan
kuchh toone see hai maine ki hai rafoo
ye doriyaan

ga ma pa ni dha pa ma pa ga ma ri sa
ga ma ni dha pa ga ma ri sa ni re
hmm
ga ma pa dha ma pa ni re sa

youn seete seete meelon ki ban gayi kahaani….
youn seete seete meelon ki ban gayi kahaani….
kuchh tere haathon se kuchh meri zubaani….
ab jo bhi hai ye aadha pauna
hai to rangraliyaan…
ab jo bhi hai ye aadha pauna
hai to rangraliyaan….
kuchh toone see hai maine ki hai rafoo
ye doriyaan
kuchh toone see hai maine ki hai rafoo
ye doriyaan
ho o o
kaise kaise dhaagon se buni hai ye duniya…
kabhi dhoop kabhi baadalon ki ye ladiyaan..
kuchh toone see hai maine ki hai rafoo
ye doriyaan
kuchh toone see hai maine ki hai rafoo
ye doriyaan
hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm
hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm…
hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm
hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm…
la la la la la la la
la la
la la laa…
la la la la la la la
la la
la la la…


This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, 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, April 29, 2023, is the 3rd Remembrance Day of Irrfan Khan, the actor par excellence. After Guru Dutt, I think, he was the only actor whose eyes spoke more than his dialogues.

It was during the shooting of ‘Qarib Qarib Singlle’ (2017) that Irrfan Khan fell sick giving him a feeling that all was not well with his health. After the release of the film in November 2017, Irrfan Khan revealed through his twitter handle in March 2018 that he was diagnosed with neuroendocrine tumors. He was under treatment in the UK for a year. After recovering from his illness, he returned to India in early 2019 and commenced the shooting for ‘Angrezi Medium’ (2020). The bout of illness resurfaced which prevented him in participating in the promotion of ‘Angrezi Medium’ (2020). He was admitted in a hospital in Mumbai on April 28, 2020, and left for the heavenly abode on April 29, 2020, at the age of 53. By the way,  on the eve of Irrfan Khan’s 3rd Remembrance Day, Swiss-French Production’s Hindi (with Rajasthani dialect) film, ‘The Song of Scorpions’ (2023) in which he acted in the lead role, is scheduled to get a theatrical release in India on April 28, 2023.

Irrfan Khan (07/01/1967 – 20/04/2023) was born in Jaipur in a middle-class family, which once belonged to one of the noble families of Tonk in Rajasthan. His father had a business of tyres. From the childhood, he was an introvert person. Surprisingly, he was also an vegetarian from his childhood. His father used to make fun of him that mistakenly a brahmin has been born in his family. He completed his schooling and graduation in Arts from Jaipur. His mother wanted him to become a professor but his interest was to become an actor. During his teenage years, Irrfan Khan used to participate in amateur dramas in Jaipur. He was a fan of Hindi films and used to watch Hindi films regularly. From that time onwards, he had made up his mind to become an actor in Hindi films. He had decided to enroll for post-graduation in Theatre in the National School of Drama (NSD), Delhi. However, with his father’s death, it was not possible to leave Jaipur for Delhi. Being the eldest son, it became his responsibility to look after his mother and, a younger brother. That meant that he had to run his father’s tyre shop.  Later, it was his younger brother who took the responsibility of looking after his father’s tyre shop that made him possible to join NSD in 1986. His elder sister helped him in paying fees for the enrollment in NSD.

After completing his post-graduation in theatre from NSD, Irrfan Khan went through a very hard struggle to get the entry into Hindi films. On the advice of Tigmanshu Dhulia,  one of his batch-mate in NSD and also his close friend (now a producer-director-actor-writer), Irrfan Khan shifted to Mumbai in 1988. But it was very hard to get even a respectable role in Hindi films. Because of his introvert nature, he was not good at marketing himself as an actor.  For the livelihood,  he started working in TV Serials. Two of his prominent roles in TV serial which I saw was that of playing historian Badayuni in  ‘Bharat Ek Khoj’ (1988) and the Urdu Poet, Makhdoom Mohiuddin in ‘Kahkashan’ (1991). His first acting assignment in Meera Nair’s ‘Salaam Bombay’ (1989) was reduced to a cameo role in the final cut which made his moral low. [Note: The personal information about Irrfan Khan is based on a couple of his TV interviews].

Irrfan Khan got some small roles in Hindi films like ‘Kamala Ki Maut’ (1989), ‘Drishti’ (1990), ‘Ek Doctor Ki Maut’ (1991) and many more but these films did not made the audience to carry a lasting impression about his acting, probably due to small roles and sometime inconsequential roles. After a disappointing decade of 1990s for Irrfan Khan, a silver lining came in his filmy career when London-based director Asif Kapadia offered him the lead role in the movie, ‘The Warrior’ (2001). The film ran successfully and was a hit in international film festivals, making Irrfan Khan an internationally known actor.

Irrfan Khan acted as a villain in ‘Haasil’ (2003), his close friend, Tigmanshu Dhulia’s first film as a director.  The film was critically acclaimed though it failed at the box office. However, Irrfan Khan’s villainous role was very much appreciated with his Allahabadi Hindi accent. His other critically acclaimed films included Vishal Bhardwaj’s ‘Maqbool’ (2004), Mira Nair’s ‘Namesake’ (2006), Anurag Basu’s ‘Life in Metro’ (2007), Danny Boyle’s ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ (2008). Tigmanshu Dhulia’s ‘Paan Singh Tomar’ (2012) brought a second boost in the acting career of Irrfan Khan making him as an accomplished actor. He won the National Award for the best actor in this film.  He justified his position as an actor par excellence in his subsequent Hindi films like ‘Lunch Box’ (2013), ‘Piku’ (2015), ‘Qarib Qarib Singlle’ (2017), ‘Hindi Medium’ (2017) and his last released film, ‘Angrezi Medium’ (2020). For the last two films, Irrfan Khan won Filmfare’s best actor awards.

During His active filmy career, Irrfan Khan acted in around 85 films. 18 films remained unreleased as of the date. I have watched most of his critically acclaimed films. Irrfan Khan does not have any particular mannerism in his acting like Raj Kapoor, Dilip Kumar, Dev Anand, Shammi Kapoor, Rajesh Khanna, Shahrukh Khan etc. These star-actors had huge fan following who would expect their favorite star-actors to repeat their mannerism in all films.  Irrfan Khan, on the other hand, has fan followers who seem to like his varied roles with an unconventional acting style.

On the occasion of the 3rd Remembrance Day of Irrfan Khan, I have selected one of the songs from his film, ‘Qarib Qarib Singlle’ (2017) in which he teamed up with Malayalam actress, Parvathy in lead roles. It is a romantic comedy, a genre in which Irrfan Khan has never done the role as a lead actor in his previous films.  The film is produced by Ajay Rai and Sutapa Sikdar (wife of Irrfan Khan) and is directed by Tanuja Chandra. Other supporting cast of the film included Neha Dhupia, Isha Sharvani, Pushti Shakti, Luke Kenny, Brijendra Kala, Navneet Nishan, Siddharth Menon, Bajrang Bali Singh, Avneet Kaur etc.

I have watched the film on OTT sometime last month. The film turned out to be beyond my expectation. I liked the unusual romantic story of single couple, Irrfan Khan and Parvathy during their journey from Rishikesh to Jaipur and finally to Gangtok. They are not usual hero and heroine of the mainstream Hindi films.  They travel to these places simply because Irrfan Khan’s three ex-girlfriends are well settled at these places and he would like Parvathy to know that despite his break-up with them, they still remember him and he is welcome at their respective houses. During the journey, both  Irrfan Khan and Parvathy appear pole apart in their temperaments. But towards the end of their journey, they realize that they love each other and their differences in temperaments complement each other as a couple.

The film was critically acclaimed. Performances of both Irrfan Khan and Parvathy were highly appreciated. But that did not reflect positively on film’s box office collections.  I found the film interesting to watch. The protagonist in the film is Parvathy and the very nature of her role, she has to be less talkative and to act like lacking in confidence which she does very well.  But it is Irrfan Khan who generates interest for the audience through his extroversion and witty presence.

‘Qarib Qarib Singlle’ has 4 songs written by Raj Shekhar (2) and Hussain Haidry (2). These songs were set to music by Vishal Mishra (2) and Rochak Kohli (2). All songs are apt to the situations. In addition, there was a Sufi Qawwali which was edited out at the final cut.

I am presenting the film’s first song “Wo Jo Tha Khwaab Sa” to appear on the Blog. The song is sung by Atif Aslam. Raj Shekhar has written the song which is set to music by Vishal Mishra. The song does not have the second antara in the film’s soundtrack while audio clip contains full song.  I like the song for its philosophical lyrics and the way Atif Aslam has brought the emotion in his rendering.

In the film, the song is played in the background as Jaya, while in Gangtok,  decides to meet her ex-boyfriend (Luke Kenny). On the other hand, Yogi (Irrfan Khan) after meeting his all three ex-girlfriends, gets looped into his past relationships. Note how Irrfan Khan’s eyes speak when he secretly watches the dance trainer, Isha Sharwani who was one of his ex-girlfriends. The lyrics by Raj Shekhar is philosophical. The substance of the song is why should one spoil the present enjoyable moments by recalling and conducting ‘post-mortem’ of the past break-ups? Whether one should be loath about the past break-ups and look for the reasons therefor as to what went wrong or to move on to enjoy whatever one has for the present. The frequent refrain ‘jaane de’ in the song is  emphasizing on these two options.

Video

Audio

Song – Wo Jo Tha Khwaab Sa (Qareeb Qareeb Singlle) (2017) Singer – Atif Aslam, Lyrics – Raj Shekhan, MD – Vishal Mishra

Lyrics
(Based on Audio Clip)

aaa aaa aaaa
aaa aaa aaaa aaaaa

aaa aaa aaaa
aaa aaa aaaa aaaaa

wo jo thha khwaab saa
kya kahen jaane de
ye jo hai kam se kam
ye rahe ke jaane dein
wo jo thha khwaab saa
kya kahen jaane de
ye jo hai kam se kam
ye rahe ke jaane dein
kyun na rok kar khud ko
ek mashwara kar len
magar jaane de
aadatan to sochenge
hota yun to kya hota
magar jaane de
wo jo thha khwaab saa
kya kahen jaane de
ye jo hai kam se kam
ye rahe ke jaane dein
 
beeta jo beete na haaye kyun
aaye yun aankhon mein
hum ne to bemann bhi socha na…aa
kyun aaye tum baaton mein
poochhte jo hamse tum
jaane kya kya hum kehte
magar jaane de
aadatan to sochenge
hota yun to kya hota
magar jaane de
wo jo thha khwaab saa
kya kahen jaane dein
ye jo hai kam se kam
ye rahe ke jaane dein

aasaan nahi hai magar
jaana nahi ab udhar
hmm hmm hmm hmm
hmm hmm hmm hmm
hmm hmm hmm hmm
hmm hmm hmm hmm
aasaan nahi hai magar
jaana nahi ab udhar
maaloom hai jahaan dard hai
wahin phir bhi kyun jaayen
wahi kashmakash wahi uljhane
wahi tees kyun laayen
behtar to ye hota
hum mile hi na hote
magar jaane de
aadatan to sochenge
hota yun to kya hota
magar jaane de
wo jo thha khwaab saa..aa
kya kahen jaane de
ye jo hai kam se kam
ye rahe ke jaane dein

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

आ आ आ
आ आ आ आ

वो जो था ख्वाब सा
क्या कहें जाने दे
ये जो है कम से कम
ये रहे के जाने दें
वो जो था ख्वाब सा
क्या कहें जाने दे
ये जो है कम से कम
ये रहे के जाने दें
क्यों ना रोक कर खुद को
एक मशवरा कर लें
मगर जाने दे
आदतन तो सोचेंगे
होता यूं तो क्या होता
मगर जाने दे
वो जो था ख्वाब सा
क्या कहें जाने दे
ये जो है कम से कम
ये रहे के जाने दें

बीता जो बीते ना हाए क्यों
आए यूं आँखों में
हमने तो बेमन भी सोचा ना॰॰आ
क्यों आए तुम बातों में
पूछते जो हमसे तुम
जाने क्या क्या हम कहते
मगर जाने दे
आदतन तो सोचेंगे
होता यूं तो क्या होता
मगर जाने दे
वो जो था ख्वाब सा
क्या कहें जाने दे
ये जो है कम से कम
ये रहे के जाने दें

आसां नहीं है मगर
जाना नहीं अब उधर
ह्म्म ह्म्म ह्म्म ह्म्म
ह्म्म ह्म्म ह्म्म ह्म्म
ह्म्म ह्म्म ह्म्म ह्म्म
ह्म्म ह्म्म ह्म्म ह्म्म
आसां नहीं है मगर
जाना नहीं अब उधर
मालूम है जहां दर्द है
वहीं फिर भी क्यों जाएँ
वही कशमकश वही उलझनें
वही टीस क्यों लाएँ
बेहतर तो ये होता
हम तुम मिले ही ना होते
मगर जाने दे
आदतन तो सोचेंगे
होता यूं तो क्या होता
मगर जाने दे
वो जो था ख्वाब सा
क्या कहें जाने दे
ये जो है कम से कम
ये रहे के जाने दें


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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Celebrating a wedding at Bangalore
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The wedding of my nephew (Elder sisters son) was solemnised at Bangalore in the last week of December. The groom is born in Mumbai, but has grown up studied and now working also in Bangalore, so he is a Bangaloria, through and through. I used to call him Bangaloria when he was a kid, for the way he would speak the local dialect. The engagement had taken place at Belgaum in August. The bride’s family are very traditional and conservative. They wanted the wedding to take place within 2-3 months. November was the month, they wanted to plan. Since we had our Turkey visit already planned for November end, and my brother had only few days leave in December, somehow, a date suiting all made final.

By the grace of Almighty Allah, all went well with the wedding and all functions. All the guest from different places and overseas, reached on time. The weddings in Bangalore are more disciplined, and set time is adhered to unlike what happens in Mumbai. I applaud the people of Bangalore city, for ‘jhelofying’ the traffic conditions and keeping to the times. The 4 days I spent there; it was like half the life is spend in travel from place to place. Regulars of the blog, from Bangalore can testify, that if 5 km distance travel is involved, ½ an hour travel time is a given. The groom’s house and the bride’s houses are in the areas on opposite side of an arterial road, not very far from the location where the flyover for the airport starts. What all was looking good and convenient and accessible on paper, was not the same on ground. But eventually everyone reached their destinations safely and no one missed anything. Everyone blessed the couple, enjoyed the hearty feasts, and all went home to their own cities and houses and jobs, having made some new memories of the event.

The nikaah was in the morning so that same evening was free for those who wanted to roam around. So, we also did, roam around the city in the car amid heavy traffic on Christmas eve with my sister, cousins, children etc. We were on MG road for a good dining place. I remembered a scene in Aamir Khan’s “Raakh”, which was set in some year 2030 MG road in an Indian metro city. The movie released in 1989 but the story dated some 50 years after. This is what I recall, but not sure. Eventually we left MG road and went to another area where restaurants were open till 2.00 am. Bangalore has changed in this regard in last 11-12 years.

Weddings are special, in the way they bring people together to catch up, relive the old times. Meeting and greeting the close and far off relations, plus old friends, with whom we have lost touch is also a bonus. My sisters two close friends live in Mumbai, but do not get to meet each other often. They came to Bangalore to attend the wedding and found a rare opportunity to spend time with each other. They were regular visitors in our house till my sister was alive, and they know most of the extended family also because of this.

Many people who knew my sisters since she shifted to Bangalore in 1994, her neighbours in the earlier house and her business associated, were among the guests at reception by grooms’ side, to bless the new couple. One of the associate/friends at the wedding was actor Feroz Khan’s and singer Kanchan’s cousin, who was used to share film industry’s’ inside news with my sister. My sister was a film buff, like I am a film song buff. She used to pore over filmy gossip magazines.

Let us go back to the wedding. The bride is a sweet girl, who has studied in Belgaum, Shimla, Jaipur, and Ajmer. Due to her father’s posting in Belgaum some years ago and for the last few years, they were staying in Belgaum, where the engagement in August took place. Her family hails from ‘Madanapalle’ in Andhra Pradesh. This place is also known and important for when Rabindra Nath Tagore visited the Besant Theosophical College there. It is known that Rabindra Nath Tagore composed the tune of ‘Jana gana mana’ while staying in Madanapalle. As soon as I got to know that the girl is from a place called “madanapalle”, I googled and got the above trivia.

So here to the addition of new member in the family and to the value addition to the nephew s life, where he is now responsible for another person’s wellbeing and happiness. In the small intimate ceremony of family members at home, right after the wedding, the bride and the groom were asked to sing songs and say a poem where they must take each other’s names. When I suggested this song “aaj se teri saari galiyan meri ho gayin” for the groom to sing for his bride, he did not agree, saying this is very unfair, everything belongs to her and I get nothing, only ‘galiyan’ & ‘gham’! 😊.

But it is only fair that you give her everything that she has left behind in her parent’s house, to come to your place, she brings her destiny with her, joins it with you and makes your house, a home. Alhamdullillah.

So the song I am presenting is the same one, from the film ‘Pad Man”(2017). This is the trivia about the film:

• The film was a “cinematic adaptation” of the life story of Arunachalam Muruganantham, a social entrepreneur from Coimbatore. Arunachalam is known for developing low-cost sanitary pads and for increasing awareness about menstrual hygiene practices. The Government of India awarded him the Padma Shri in 2016.
• The film’s concept credited to Twinkle Khanna. While she produced the film, her husband Akshay Kumar played the lead role in it. Twinkle Khanna had written a short story titled “The Sanitary Man of Sacred Land” in 2016 which, like the film, was based on the life of Arunachalam Muruganantham. The story was part of a collection of stories written by her titled “The Legend of Lakshmi Prasad”.

The lead actors in the film were Akshay Kumar, Radhika Apte and Sonam Kapoor. The song is a written by Kausar Munir and composer is Amit Trivedi. Arjit Singh is the singer. Their tally in the blog so far is this:

Amit Trivedi 5
Kausar Munir 2
Arijit Singh 7

This is a celebratory song, with Akshay Kumar making all type of promises to Radhika Apte and in return only needing her to make ‘maalpue’ sometimes and ‘khul ke muskurana’ sometimes. Cute and generous to boot. ‘Bangaluria” bhanje, do take note.
For history of ‘maalpue’ in the blog, one may revisit this post.

Full audio:

Video:

Song-Aaj se teri saari galiyaan meri ho gayin (Pad Man)(2017) Singer-Arijit Singh, Lyrics-Kausar Munir, MD-Amit Trivedi

Lyrics (as per audio)

Aaj se teri
saari galiyaan
meri ho gayin
aaj se meraa
ghar teraa ho gayaa
Aaj se teri
saari galiyaan
meri ho gayin
aaj se meraa
ghar teraa ho gayaa
aaj se meri
saari khushiyaan
teri ho gayin
aaj se teraa
gham meraa ho gayaa
ho tere kaandhe ka jo til hai
ho tere seene mein jo dil hai
ho teri Bijli ka jo bill hai
aaj se meraa ho gayaa
ho mere khwaabon ka ambar
ho meri khushiyon ka samandar
ho mere pin code ka number
aaj se teraa ho gayaa

tere maathe ae ae ae ae ae ae ae ae
tere maathhe ke kumkum ko
main tilak lagaa ke ghoomoongaa
teri baali ki chhum chhum ko
main dil se lagaa ke jhoomoongaa
meri chhotti se bhoolon ko tu
nadiya mein bahaa denaa
tere joode ke phoolon ko
main apni shirt mein pehnoongaa
bas mere liye tu maalpuye
kabhi kabhi bana denaa
aaj se meri saari ratiyaan
teri ho gayin
aaj se tera
din meraa ho gayaa
ho tere kaandhe ka jo til hai
ho tere seene mein jo dil hai
ho teri Bijli ka jo bill hai
aaj se meraa ho gayaa
ho mere khwaabon ka ambar
ho meri khushiyon ka samandar
ho mere pin code ka number
aaj se teraa ho gayaa

tu maange sardi mein Amiya
jo maange garmi mein moongphaliyaan
tu baarish mein agar keh de
ja mere liye tu dhoop khilaa
to main sooraj a a a a a
to main sooraj ko jhatak doonga
to main saawan ko gatak loongaa
to saare taaron sang chanda
main teri goad mein rakh doongaa
bas mere liye tu khil ke kabhi
muskuraa denaa
aaj se meri
saari sadiyaan
teri ho gayin
aaj se teraa
pal meraa ho gayaa
ho tere kaandhe ka jo til hai
ho tere seene mein jo dil hai
ho teri Bijli ka jo bill hai
aaj se meraa ho gayaa
ho mere khwaabon ka ambar
ho meri khushiyon ka samandar
ho mere pin code ka number
aaj se
teraa ho gayaa
Aaj se teri
saari galiyaan
meri ho gayin
aaj se meraa
ghar teraa ho gayaa


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Hullo Atuldom

Today we are wishing the Apple of every cricket-loving-Indian’s eye A VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY. This pyaara sa bachcha of India turns 47.

He is the inspiration to many in the current Indian cricket squad but he himself was inspired by the likes of Sunny Gavaskar, Kapil Dev etc. He is one lucky guy to have been able to share the dressing room with his idols. He made his debut in the cricketing world as a lad of 16 years and 205 days in Test cricket and was a month older when he got his place in the Indian One-day team. I am not going to state that he is the highest run scorer of all time in international cricket nor am I going to mention that he is the only player to have scored 100 international centuries. I am not a statistician but I used to admire his style of playing. I had a silly feeling that I should be away from the TV whenever he was reaching a milestone like 50 or 100. I remember seeing an India Australia one-day match at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai and we were rooting for his milestone and he got out 4 or 5 runs short of it; my son and brother-in-law who were with me decided to walk out. That is the kind of sentiments he generated in cricket-lovers.

We have one song from a movie called “Sachin: A Billion Dreams” which was posted on this date two years ago. That was a movie dedicated to the Little Master (as Sunny Gavaskar addressed our birthday boy) also called the Master Blaster by his fans. That movie was a biopic which had the Little Master as he is in flesh and blood. It showed his journey from a lad to the time India lifted the cricket World Cup in 2011. In his journey of nearly 25 years he was ranked the second best test batsman of all time by Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack- first rank being Sir Don Bradman (but of course). He was also the second best ODI batsman of all time, coming second to Vivian Richards. These are not my thoughts about the Little Master but what the followers of cricket feel.

Other than numerous man-of-the-match awards he has been bestowed with the Padma Shri and Padma Vibhushan. He is the only sportsperson to receive the Bharat Ratna, India’s highest civilian award. Even if he has retired from the game which he lived for he is never too far from the public eye. We see him regularly on TV in ads and in these trying times, of the current situation the world is facing, we can see him, along with his teammates, urge his fans to “Stay Safe and Be Safe”.

Today’s song is sung and composed by A R Rehman and written by Irshad Kamil.

Let us wish our Sachin 10dulkar (10 was his jersey number too) A VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Audio (Full)

Video (partial)

Song-Hind mere jind (Sachin a billion dreams)(2017) Singer-A R Rahman, Lyrics-Irshad Kaamil, MD-A R Rahman

Lyrics

ooo ooo ooo o o o
ooo ooo ooo o o o

o o o beli
o beliya
o mere yaara
duniya ke taaraa
lo jaaga hai ae neendon se ae
lo jaaga hai ummeedon se
jeetegi raushni ee ee ee ee

hind mere jind
hind mere jind
o hind mere jind
hind mere jind
hind mere jind
hind mere jind
o hind mere jind ki pakki jeet
hind mere jind
hind mere jind
o hind mere jind,
hind mere jind
hind mere jind,
hind mere jind
o hind mere jind ki pakki jeet
ooo oooo oooo
oooo ooo oooo
oooo
oooo ooo o o o
o o o o o o o

hmmm hmmmmmm hmmm
hmmmm hmmmm hmmmm
hmmm hmmmmmm hmmm
hmmmm hmmmm hmmmm
hmmm hmmmmmm hmmm
hmmmm hmmmm hmmmm

hind mere jind, hind mere jind
o hind mere jind, hind mere jind
hind mere jind, hind mere jind
o hind mere jind ki pakki jeet
jeet jeet jeet jeet

ab sabhi maan lo baat yeh pyaar se
maante ho bhala kyun sada haar se
jo shikhar ke liye hai bana hind hai
woh meri jaan thha
woh meri jind hai
aa rahi hai sada
dil ke aataal(?) se
ab sabhi maan lo baat yeh
pyaar se

hind mere jind, hind mere jind
o hind mere jind, hind mere jind
hind mere jind
hind mere jind
o hind mere jind ki pakki jeet
hind mere jind, hind mere jind
o hind mere jind
hind mere jind
hind mere jind
hind mere jind
o hind mere jind ki pakki jeet
jeet jeet jeet jeet

ooooo oooooo ooooo
ooooo oooooo ooooo
ooooo oooooo ooooo


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 sites like lyricstrans.com and ibollywoodsongs.com etc then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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na tu zameen ke liye hai na aasmaan ke liye
tera wajood hai sirf dastaan ke liye
 

palat ke su-e-chaman dekhne se kya hogaa
wo shaakh hi na rahi jo thhi aashiyaan ke liye

garaz paarast jahaan mein wafaa talaash na kar
ye shai bani hai kisi dusre jahan ke liye

Thus wrote Sahir Ludhianvi for the film ‘Daastaan’ (1972). Here he takes a cue from Allama Iqbal who said ….

na tu zameen ke liye hai na aasmaan ke liye
jahaan hai tere liye tu nahin jahaan ke liye

Ever the cynic….

Whereas Iqbal was always motivational, Sahir had an inverted view of things.  Maybe this solitude and despair was because of ‘Pyasaa” or vice versa.  Take the instance of “Wo Sub’ha Kabhi To Aayegi“ in the film ‘Phir Subah hogi’ (1958). These verses are said to have inspired his contemporary Jaan Nisaar Akhtar to write the song “Gham Ki Andheri Raat Mein” in ‘Susheela’ (1966), with the lines,

gham ki andheri raat mein dil ko na beqaraar kar
sub’ha zaroor aayegi, sub’ha ka intezaar kar

Just last week, I was thinking about the Hindi poem I had written in 2016. It was published in my office magazine. This poem has some heavy references of Sahir’s songs.  And that I should write a post about Sahir Ludhianvi on his anniversary. But for some reason I had the impression that his death anniversary falls in June or July. I thought I will look up on the blog for the birth anniversary and if it is anytime soon I will write a post.

As it happened my office computer was out of order last week and it returned to work only on Friday and there is no lap-top currently in my use at home, I missed the opportunity to write this article on time. It was Raja ji’s article which alerted me to the fact of Sahir Ludhianvi’s death anniversary on 25th October.

Before I get to the song in hand, let’s take a look at my poem.  This is rather long and I am told it lacks something.  But this is the finished product:

कोशिश करने वालों की कभी हार नहीं होती ?

सुना मैंने के कोशिश करने वालों की कभी हार नहीं होती
सोचा के अपनी सी कुछ कोशिश मैं भी कर देखूं
कोशिश एक जद्द-ओ-जहद हालात को बेहतर करने की
कोशिश जो हर एक करे खुद को बेहतर इंसान बनाने की
कोशिश वो जो अपने परिवार की, सम्मान की रक्षा की
कोशिश के ऐसे जीऐं अपना स्तर उँचा हो नजर में खुदा की
कोशिश वो जो हो इज्जत से जीने की और इज्जतदार मरने की
फिर कहें
कि कोशिश करने वालों की कभी हार नहीं होती ।

फिर कहा किसी ने कि मरने की बात क्यू करें
मौत में कैसी इज्जत कैसी आबरू
क्यूं जब मर कर बाबुल से नजरें मिलाना है
तो जीना और मरना ऐसे रहे के अपना सर उँचा हो
ये ना हो कि बहू और बेटी को बाजार में खड़ा करे
और कहें कि
कोशिश करने वालों की कभी हार नहीं होती ।

शायद ये साहिर नें 1957 में लिखा हो के
“संसार की हरेक बेशर्मी
गुरबत की गोद में पलती है”
सोचने लगी के क्या ये आज भी सच है
कोई सोचे या नहीं, बात काबिले गौर है
क्यूं की
कोशिश करने वालों की कभी हार नहीं होती ।

और कहा साहिर ने के
“अवतार पयंबर जनती है,
फिर भी शैतान की बेटी है”
मुझे लगा जैसे आज मैं ही बैठी हूं
किसी टेलीविजन के ‘टॉक शो’ पर
और दुहार लगाई हूं “फ्रीडम ऑफ एक्सप्रेशन” की
वहां तक,
कोशिश करने वालों की कभी हार नहीं होती ।

आज का दौर हम सब ‘अय्याश’!
माडर्न और सैवी होने का हमें फक्र है

‘अय्याश’ इतना ‘ओल्ड फैशन्ड’ शब्द है,
की ‘हम अय्याश’ सुन कर सब चौंके,
अय्याश वो है जो ऐश में डूबा हुआ है
जिंदगी के मजे लेने में, जानों और पहचानों
“औरत ने जन्म दिया मर्दों को, मर्दों ने उसे बाजार दिया”
और तो
कोशिश करने वालों की कभी हार नहीं होती ।

मेरी बहनों और बेटियों, अपनी इज्जत अपने हाथ
जब खुद अपनी इज्जत करना सीख जाओ
के औरों को तुम्हारी इस्मत पर नजर डालते शरम आये
संघर्ष का सब से बड़ा मैदान यहीं है के
कोख में अपनी बेटी का कत्ल ना होने देना हरगिज
और ना खुद को शैतान की बेटी बनने दो,
बात बहुत बड़ी मेरी तुच्छ कलम कह गयी
सच है,
कोशिश करने वालों की कभी हार नहीं होती ।

ओ बाबुल प्यारे, मुझे नाज से लाड से पालने वाले
कल तू मुझे संजोता, संवारता था और ससुराल भेजता
कल मैं तेरी आँखों की चमक और पगड़ी का फक्र थी
आज ये हाल है, कि हम अपनी बेटियों को परदेसी कर देते हैं
ताकि वो अपनी पोजिशन बनाये दुनियाँ में
जाओ,
के कोशिश करने वालों की कभी हार नहीं होती ।

नतीजा ये की आज दुनियाँ की कोई गैर-जरूरी चीज नहीं
जिसे बेचने में मेरा इस्तेमाल नहीं होता
आज मैं हर अखबार में हर फिल्मी पोस्टर में
हर पल हर वक्त बेची और खरीदी जाती हूं
मजे की बात तो ये हुई के मुझे एहसास तक नहीं
की मैं हर लम्हे कितनी “निर्भय” हो गई इस बाजार में
पता है, कोशिश करने वालों की कभी हार नहीं होती
अगर ये मेरी और तुम्हारी हार नहीं है
तो कोई मुझे बताये कि ये क्या है?

ये कैसी कोशिश है
कि हर तरह से मेरी हार होती है ।

Sounds rather like a long story.  But the story is original and sort of a parody of the original ‘Koshish Karnewaalon Ki Kabhi Haar Nahin Hoti” by Harivansh Rai Bachchan.

Now moving to the song in hand, from the film ‘Begum Jaan’ (2017).  This is an adaptation of the original song in “Phir Subah Hogi”(1958) written by Sahir Ludhianvi.   Only a word in the mukhda is changed and the whole song in re-rendered by Arjit Singh and Shreya Ghoshal. Credit for the lyrics and composition is given to Sahir Ludhianvi and Khayyam.
(As per myswar.com  http://myswar.co/song_details/begum-jaan-2017-woh-subah-hami-se-aayegi-7 )

A big fan of Arjit Singh I am not and this particular rendition has not endeared him to me.  I believe singing has to be of words and uttering words in a loose manner somehow dilutes the impact.  I don’t know if the singing here was required this way due to the situation, as I haven’t seen the movie.   The background music is a haunting fall back on “Tadap Tadap Ke Iss Dil Se” (‘Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam’, 1999). While listening to this and the original by Khaiyyam I was reminded of “Dekh Lo Aaj Hum Ko Ji Bhar Ke” (‘Baazaar’, 1982) as well as “Najariyaa Ki Maari” (“Pakeezah”, 1971).

This is a tribute to the poet of such inimitable songs such as:

Tum Mujhe Bhool Bhi Jaao To Ye Haqq Hai Tum Ko

Tum Agar Mujh Ko Na Chaaho To Koi Baat Nahi

Chalo Ek Baar Phir Se Ajnabi Ban Jaayen Ham Donon

Jaane Wo Kaise Log Thhe Jin Ke Pyar Ko Pyar Mila

Mann Re Tu Kaahe Na Dheer Dhare

And many more such songs.

[Editor’s Note: The delay in publication is an oversight of the editors, the author had sent in this contribution just in time.]


Song – Wo Sub’ha Ham Hi Se Aayegi (Begum Jaan) (2017) Singer – Arijit Singh, Shreya Ghoshal, Lyrics – Sahir Ludhianvi, MD – Khayyaam
Arijit Singh + Shreya Ghoshal
Chorus

Lyrics

in kaali sadiyon ke sar se
jab raat ka aanchal dhhalkega aa
aaaa aaaaa aaaaaaaaa
jab dukh ke baadal pighlenge
jab sukh ka saagar chhalkega aa
aaa aaa aaa aaa
jab ambar jhhoom ke naachega
jab dharti naghme gaayegi
woh sub’ha hameen se aayegi
woh sub’ha hameen se aayegi
woh sub’ha hameen se aayegi
woh sub’ha hameen se aayegi

jis sub’ha ki khaatir jug jug se
ham sab mar mar ke jeete hain

aaa aaa aaa
jis subah ki amrit ki dhun mein
ham zehar ke pyaale peete hain
in bhooki pyaasi roohon per
ek din to karam farmaayegi
woh sub’ha hameen se aayegi
woh sub’ha hameen se aayegi

maana ke abhi tere mere
armaanon ki qeemat kuch bhi nahin

hmm hmm hmm
mitti ka bhi hai kuchh mol magar
insaanon ki qeemat kuchh bhi nahin
aa aa aa
insaanon ki izzat jab jhoothhe
sikko mein na toli jaayegi
woh sub’ha hameen se aayegi
woh sub’ha hameen se aayegi
woh sub’ha hameen se aayegi
woh sub’ha hameen se aayegi
woh sub’ha hameen se aayegi
woh sub’ha hameen se aayegi

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Hindi Script Lyrics (Provided by Sudhir)
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इन काली सदियों के सर से
जब रात का आँचल ढलकेगा
आssss आssss आssssssss 
जब दुख के बादल पिघलेंगे
जब सुख का सागर छलकेगा
आss आss आss आss
जब अम्बर झूम के नाचेगा
जब धरती नग़मे गाएगी
वो सुबहा हमीं से आएगी
वो सुबहा हमीं से आएगी
वो सुबहा हमीं से आएगी
वो सुबहा हमीं से आएगी

जिस सुबहा की खातिर जुग जुग से
हम सब मर मर के जीते हैं
आss आss आss
जिस सुबहा के अमृत की धुन में
हम ज़हर के प्याले पीते हैं
इन भूखी प्यासी रूहों पर
एक दिन तो करम फरमाएगी
वो सुबहा हमीं से आएगी
वो सुबहा हमीं से आएगी

माना के अभी तेरे मेरे
अरमानों की क़ीमत कुछ भी नहीं
हम्ममम हम्ममम हम्ममम
मिट्टी का भी है कुछ मोल मगर
इन्सानों की क़ीमत कुछ भी नहीं
आs आs आs
इन्सानों की इज्ज़त जब झूठे
सिक्कों में ना तोली जाएगी
वो सुबहा हमीं से आएगी
वो सुबहा हमीं से आएगी
वो सुबहा हमीं से आएगी
वो सुबहा हमीं से आएगी
वो सुबहा हमीं से आएगी
वो सुबहा हमीं से आएगी


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 sites like lyricstrans.com and ibollywoodsongs.com etc then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

Blog Day : 3609 Post No. : 14395

Today 5th June 2018 is World Environment Day. This year’s theme is ‘Beat Plastic Pollution’!! And this year our own country India is the host for celebration of this day world-wide.

Last year I presented a post here on the blog celebrating this day, with a relevant couplet paying tribute to mother nature and mentioning some songs from Hindi movies which have used nature as a symbol/metaphor and direct reference. For this year’s theme, I don’t think any song relevant to this or either relevant to pollution, is available in our Hindi Movies. There is one song which I can relate to my favourite subject – scrap and its disposal – can be cited. It is penned by none other than Sahir Saab, the song being “Khaali Dabba Khaali Botal Le Le Mere Yaar“.

Few years back I had penned a poem – a ‘self-narrative’ by a ‘polybag (Panni) ’ and if our editors allow it can be reproduced here. The poem is in Hindi and for today’s presentation I have got its translation into English done by my daughter Ashwini.

मैं एक पन्नी हूँ और भटक रही हूँ यहाँ से वहाँ,
वैसे ही जैसे मेरे ‘प्लास्टिक’ परिवार के बाकी सदस्य,
फ़ैल रहे है  डगर-डगर और भटक रहे हैं नगर-नगर,
सह रहीं हूँ  मैं लोगों कि बेदर्दी जो मुझे देखके मुंह फेर लेते हैं,
कोई आए, उठाये मुझे, और ले जाए मुझे मेरे सही मक़ाम तक,
मुझे भी कोई गले से लगाये और प्यार से पूछे के ‘तेरा हाल क्या है’
मेरे और भी भाई-बहन हैं जो मेरी तरह ही दर दर कि ठोकरें खा रहें हैं,
कल ‘पीवीसी’(PVC) सुना रहा था अपनी दर्द भरी दास्तान,
क्यूं नहीं बचाते लोग मुझसे अपनी जान,
क्या अपने बच्चों की और भविष्य कि भी चिंता नहीं हैं इंसान को,
जो हमें सहेज कर, कर दे अलग, और रखे साफ़ अपने घर-परिसर,
कितनी निर्दयता से लोग हमें मिला देते हैं एक दूसरे के साथ,
कभी मैं काँटों में फस जाऊं , कभी किसी पेड़ कि टहनी से लिपट जाऊं,
कभी नालों में बह जाऊं और अटक जाऊं किसी ‘डिब्बे’ या ‘पीपे’ के मुहाने पे,
कभी पानी पे तैरती रहूँ यूँही और बन जाऊं कारण गन्दगी का,
या फिर सडती रहूँ नदी-ताल-तलैया की सतह पर और प्रदूषित कर दूं सब जल,
आज कल तो आप जहां भी देखोगे मुझे हर जगह पर पाओगे ,
खेत-खालिहनोंमें-अपने आसपास के परिसर में, अत्र-तत्र-सर्वत्र- मैं ही मैं हूँ,
यूँही उड़ते-फिरते, गिरते-पड़ते कट रहा हैं सफर – मंजिल कि नहीं खबर,
मुझे अपना लो, मुझे चाहो – मुझे समझो, मुझसे प्यार करो,
पहुंचा कर मुझे मेरे ‘मोक्ष’ तक, बचालो अपनी ‘वसुंधरा’ को,
कर रक्षण ‘पर्यावरण’ का, निभाओ ‘फ़र्ज़’ अपने ‘इंसान’ होने का !

(Translation in English provided by Ashwini Scrapwala)

I am a ‘polybag’ wandering places,
Wandering just like the other members of my species are,
Spreading throughout and travelling into the unknown,
Getting ignored with no hopes of getting cared and cured
Yet I keep wishing, for someone to pick me up in their loving arms,
I wish someone would take me to my rightful ‘disposal’, the place where I belong.
I wonder where my siblings are,
Maybe they’re wretched just like me,
Maybe they too have a gruesome story to tell
Like PVC had to tell this other day;
“Oh! the ignorant Humans!
Why aren’t you saving yourselves from me?
Don’t you care about your future?
The future of you and your progeny…”
I wish you would have kept us away from your surroundings
Instead of letting I and my specie get all messed up with each other.
I myself have been through a lot,
Be it getting trapped in cluster of spikes
Or being wrapped up around the branch of a tree!
I’ve floated in the drains, muffled over cans and ducts
Just to become the culprit of everything filthy!
I am that tramp, who keeps wandering constantly,
Rotting through rivers and pools,
Ending up spreading pollution everywhere,
You ask me where I’ll be found,
I am Omnipresent I say!
Flying, crashing through nowhere
Hoping for some day ‘someone’ will come,
And take me to my ‘appropriate disposal’
Please embrace me, love me, care me
Help me to reach – ‘my final destination’
Take me where I belong and save your Habitat,
Save your mother, Oh human,
Save your nature, Save ‘mother earth’

I wish our movie makers make more films on subjects like sustainable living, pollution and other environmental issues. In 2014, I had attempted to write a meaningful poem using Hindi movie titles on the occasion of World Environment Day in 2014. I am sharing herewith the link for this post.

Dharti Kahe Pukaar Ke… Jiyo Aur Jeene Do

For today’s occasion, again I have very small poem/song from a very recent movie “Kalpvriksh” (कल्पवृक्ष) aka “The Wishing Tree” from 2017. This song is penned by Gulzar Saab. I came across this movie during my air journey from Mumbai to Ethiopia while travelling to Kenya. I always find such movies very close to my heart and I like them very much. “Kalpvriksh” is presented by Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change for Rhombus Films Production. It is produced by Raajaysh Chetwal and Directed by Manika Sharma, who also wrote the screenplay and dialogues for this movie.

The star cast includes Shabana Azmi, Prithvi Zutshi, Saurabh Shukla, Rajat Kapoor, and many other child artists and other artists. The credits in the beginning of the movie does not mention the names. Lyrics (for other songs) are written by Anil Pandey and Kausar Munir. Music is composed by Sandesh Shandilya. Amitabh Bachchan has lent his voice in the beginning of the movie and Gulzar Saab’s name is mentioned with Special Thanks in the titles. Editing of this movie was done by Kaushik Das.

A brief about this movie copies from the YT link of the trailer of the movie is given below;

‘THE WISHING TREE’ is a magical, inspirational and an extremely entertaining story of five children in a hill-station who come together to save their ‘wishing tree’ from being cut by vested interests. The film is extremely lively, entertaining, endearing and engrossing so that the underlying message to protect trees and environment is seamlessly driven home.

Let us now listen and enjoy the beautiful, poignant and thoughtful verses by none other than Gulzaar Saab!!!
Other songs of this movie are also very good and I like them very much 😊.

[Auth Note : An interesting aside – since its inception in 1974 the ‘World Environment Day’ never had ‘Save Trees’ as its theme except in 1986 when the theme was ‘A Tree for Peace’ 😊.]

 


Song – Darakht Jab Sochte Hain (Kalpvriksh) (2017) Singer – Gulzar, Lyrics – Gulzar, MD – Sandesh Shandilya

Lyrics

darakht sochte hain jab
to phool aate hain
wo dhoop mein dubo ke ungliyaan
khayaal likhte hai
lachakti shaakhon par
to rang rang labz chunte hain
khushboo’on se bolte hain
aur bulaate hain

hamaara shauq dekhiye
ke gardanein hi kaat lete hain
jahaan kahin mehakta hai koyi

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Hindi script lyrics (Provided by Avinash Scrapwala)
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दरख़्त सोचते हैं जब
तो फूल आते हैं
वो धुप में डूबो के उंगलियाँ
ख़याल लिखते हैं
लचकती शाखों पर
तो रंग रंग लब्ज़ चुनते हैं
खुशबूओं से बोलते हैं
और बुलाते हैं

हमारा शौक़ देखिये
के गर्दनें ही काट लेते हैं
जहां कहीं महकता हैं कोई


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 sites like lyricstrans.com and ibollywoodsongs.com etc then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

Blog Day : 3567 Post No. : 14298

Hullo Atuldom

This is the ideal time for this post as a cricket- crazy nation is enjoying the 10th season of Indian Premier League or IPL as it is called.

It is also the time to celebrate the 45th birthday of’ ‘the god of cricket’. But he himself is rather humble and human enough to say that ‘God of Cricket’ is someone else. He is also called the ‘Master Blaster’. He is a pint-sized tornado that burst on the Indian cricketing scene in 1989 following his awesome performances in the local tournaments of Ranji Trophy, Irani Trophy and Deodhar Trophy. His inclusion into the Mumbai Ranji team happened in 1987 but that year he narrowly missed playing alongside his idol -Sunil Gavaskar who had retired from all forms of cricket after the 1987 Cricket World Cup. But he was used mostly as a substitute fielder. At the age of 15 years and 232 days, in 1988, he was picked to play for Mumbai against Gujarat and scored a century on debut, in fact he has scored centuries on debut in the Irani and Deodhar Trophies too. His brilliance was the talk among cricket followers of Maidan-cricket, in Mumbai, in that period and he was coached by the able master Ramakant Achrekar. At age 14 he attended the MRF Pace Foundation to train as a fast bowler under Dennis Lillee who asked him to concentrate on his batting. He holds a record along with fellow school-mate and India Teammate Vinod Kambli for an unbroken partnership of 664 in a Harris Shield Inter-school tournament. Oh, he has numerous records to his name – youngest player to debut in International games for India being one of them. He was 16 years 205 days at the time of his test debut and 16 years 238 days when made his ODI debut.

If the readers have not yet guessed, I am talking of Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar, named after his father Ramesh Tendulkar’s favourite music composer- Sachin Dev Burman. (See the cricket to movie connection here, we simply cannot escape the two going parallel). So, like every normal youngster of the late 70s and early 80s cricket was Sachin’s addiction and he was lucky that his parents saw his talent early on and provided facilities to nurture his talent unlike other parents back then who used to feel – “playing all the time meant studies would suffer then what would one do for bread and butter?” It can be safely said that Sachin’s parents, more importantly his mother, must have been inspiration for parents of later cricketers specially from smaller towns and cities of India – hope that explains the emergence of players like the Pathan brothers, Dhoni, Sehwag etc.

These days there is a trend of biopics among filmmakers in Bollywood. I think ‘Bhaag Milka Bhaag’ (2013) was the inspiration for this new set of films. What followed was a movie on Azharuddin (2016), MS Dhoni (2016), wrestler Mary Kom (2014) etc. There was a movie even on the match fixing scandal that rocked cricketing circles and got bans of various durations for the players involved virtually finishing their playing careers.

But I don’t want to talk of sad occurrences like scandal or bans in this post. Let us focus on our birthday boy who played cricket for close to 25 years without a break? No there was a small break when he had an injured elbow and the world learnt what is a tennis-elbow 😉. There was a film in 2017 which was more of a docu-drama where Sachin himself faced the camera as the narrator of the movie; unlike the movie on Dhoni where Shushant Singh Rajput enacted the part and Emraan Hashmi played Azhar. “Sachin: A Billion Dreams” is directed by James Erskine and released world- wide in the month of May just as the IPL season was coming to a close. The movie shows Sachin as he is in real life. It has music by AR Rehman, and the songs are written by Irshad Kaamil. The song with this post is sung by Sukhvinder Singh and an unknown female voice towards the end, also in the English words. It begins on Sachin’s home ground – Mumbai’s Wankhede Stadium where there are stands named after Vijay Merchant, Sunil Gavaskar, Sachin Tendulkar- all of whom have played a major role in making cricket a national craze. It shows the back of a Sachin fan who was a permanent at all the venues where India has played cricket since 2008. The song with the mantra – chant “Sachin Sachin” that used to be heard everywhere whenever Sachin stepped on the field; be it for batting, bowling or plain fielding. He was a darling of the public. Wishing him all the best in his retired life and lots of good times with his family and friends.

[Ed Note: As per information from other online sources, the rap portion of this song is written and sung by Kaly.]

Song – Raat Chaahe Ho Ghaneri Hai Ujaala Tere Haathon Mein (Sachin: A Billion Dreams) (2017) Singer – Sukhwinder Singh, Unidentified Female Voice, Kaly, Lyrics – Irshad Kaamin, Kaly, MD – AR Rehman
Chorus

Lyrics

sachin. . .  sachin
sachin. . .  sachin
sachin. . .  sachin
sachin. . .  sachin

raat chaahe
ho ghaneri
hai ujaala tere haathon mein
ho adhoora
khwaab to phir
neend kaise aaye raaton mein
abhi aadhi kheli tu ne baazi
abhi choten dil ki taazi taazi
abhi dil ko hai karna raazi
tere hauslon ne paa leni hain manzilen

sachin. . .  sachin
sachin. . .  sachin
sachin. . .  sachin
sachin. . .  sachin

tu hawaaon
ki dishaayen
mod dena chaahe jo bhi ho
aur baaki
waqt pe hi
chhod dena tera saathi wo
le ke jaayega wo aage aage
nai subah tere liye jaage
naye kal se baandhe hai tune dhaage
tere hauslon ne paa leni hain manzilen

sachin. . .  sachin
sachin. . .  sachin
sachin. . .  sachin
sachin. . .  sachin

i was born with the game
you were born the same
i do this for my people
i don’t do this for the fame
i was born with the game
you were born the same
i do this for my people
i don’t do this for the fame
you keep chains
keep the change
just give me my reign
and leave me my lane
and just remember my name

sachin. . .  sachin
sachin. . .  sachin
sachin. . .  sachin
sachin. . .  sachin

aaaaa
aaaaaaa

jeeve
jeeve
jeeve jaanbaaz
jee se ye
aave aawaaz…
jeeve
jeeve
jeeve jaanbaaz

sachin. . .  sachin
sachin. . .  sachin
sachin. . .  sachin
sachin. . .  sachin
sachin. . .  sachin
sachin. . .  sachin
sachin. . .  sachin
sachin. . .  sachin

jeeve
jeeve
jeeve jaanbaaz
jee se
aave aawaaz…

jeeve jeeve
jeeve
jeeve
jeeve jaanbaaz
jee se
aave aawaaz…

sachin. . .  sachin
sachin. . .  sachin
sachin. . .  sachin
sachin. . .  sachin
sachin. . .  sachin
sachin. . .  sachin
sachin. . .  sachin
sachin. . .  sachin
sachin. . .  sachin

 



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“Baahubali” part I was a movie that I had watched in 2015 in a city in Eastern UP. I had landed up there while I was transferred from my previous place of posting in Chattisgarh and I was awaiting my next posting.

The people of that town were quite laid back and they took nearly two weeks to get my posting order issued. That gave me enough time to watch a few movies, something I rarely do. In fact, I watched “Baahubali” part I twice !
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