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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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6358 Post No. : 19715

A R Rahman – The Musician of 21st Century – 9

This is a group song from the film ‘Saathiya” (2002), written by Gulzar. The singers are Richa Sharma, Mahalakshmi Iyer and Vaishali Shoma. Recently another song from this film is posted as post no. 7 of the series.

The lyrics of “Chhalka chhalka re” were waiting in drafts for some days now. But I thought will post the wedding songs later, exactly what is the reason for the other song going before this is the Sonu Nigam factor and the natural scenery plus the colourful. Also, once the words registered, they just had to be dissected for what they said and meant.

The star cast here is Rani Mukherji, Vivek Oberoi, Tanuja, Satish Shah, Sharat Saxena, Swaroop Sampat, Virendra Saxena, Sandhya Mridul etc. Most of these actors are visible in the song, except for Satish Shah. Rani Mukherji’s cousin is getting married, and Vivek Oberoi is part of the baraat as the groom’s friend.

This film was the Hindi remake of the hit Tamil film “Alaipayuthey” (2000), directed by Mani Ratnam. All A.R. Rahman compositions from the original film were reused in this film, except for “Naina Milaay Ke” and “Mainda Yaar Mila De Saaiyan”, which were new compositions.

The bride’s emotions in the tears flowing from her eyes, are stated as ‘Chhalka Chhalka re kalsi ka paani”. Different way of expression, as are some other terms in the song.

In the middle of the song, in between the playful antics between the bridal party and groom’s friends, Vivek Oberoi is trying to find out Rani Mukherji’s name. He bumps into the father and asks him for Rani’s name. The father says “Ladke, baaraat mein aaye ho warna tumko paraat mein daal ke goondh detaa”. I have never heard such threats.

Years ago, when my son was young, once he watched me making the dough. He was standing beside me watching with fascination. I still remember him saying “aata akela hogayaa”. I said “akelaa nahin ek ho gayaa”. Different way of seeing and understanding. The flour is, we don’t know comes from which wheat, from which field and here it comes to us in the flour form. We mix it with water, and it becomes one, several lakh different seeds. Only to get separated / divided and cooked in different chapatis.

Great, this Gulzariology is adversely affecting me, 😊.

It is another one of critically acclaimed songs by A. R. Rehman.

Audio :

Video :

Song-Chhalkaa chhalkaa re (Saathhiya)(2002) Singers-Richa Sharma, Mahalakshmi Iyer, Vaishali Samant, Shoma Bannerjee, Lyricist-Gulzar, MD-A R Rahman

Lyrics:

Dum dum dumak
Dam dam damak
Dum dum dumak dam dum
dum dum dumak
dam dam damak
dum dum dumak dam dum

ae dum dum dam dam
damak dum dum
dum dum dum dumak
dum dum dum
hey

dam dam dam dam dam
dam dam dam dam dam
damak dam dam damak
dam dam damak
dam dam damak
dam dam
dam dam dam dam dam
dam dam dam
dam dam dam dam dam
dam dam dam dam damak
dam dam damak
dam dam damak
dam dam damak
dam dam dam

Chhalka
chhalka re
kalsee ka paanee
chhalka
chhalka re
oo aankh na maanee
chhalka
chhalka re
kalsee ka paanee
chhalka
chhalka re
ho aankh na maanee
maiyya boley jaana naheen
bhaiyya kabhee maana Naheen
baabul boley
bas ek din kal kaa
chhalka
gudda boley jaana Naheen
guddee boley jaana naheen
sakhee boley
bas ik din kal kaa
chhalka
chhalka re
kalsee ka paanee
chhalka
chhalka re
oo aankh na maanee
chhalka
chhalkaa re
kalsee ka paanee
chhalka
chhalka re
ho aankh na maanee

bhole bhole pairon se chalee
chalee re
baabu teree chhotee thhee galee ee
ee eeee eeee
aaaa aa aaa aaa
beete mere peechhe reh gaye
reh gaye
paakhiyon ke neeche reh gaye
gaiyya meree pyaasee reh gayee
reh gayee eeeeee
reh gayee
reh gayee
reh gayee eeee
Tuslee waalee baatee reh gayee
reh gayee
chulha main jalaatee reh gayee
ee eeee
chhalka chhalka re
kalsee ka paanee
chhalka
chhalka re
ho aankh na maanee
maiyya bole jaana nahin
bhaiyya kabhee maana Nahin
baabul boley bas ek din kal kaa
chhalka
kaakaaa boley jaana nahin
jogee bole jaana Nahin
karta(?) bole
ik din aur kal kaa
chhalkaa aa aa aa

baabulaa
chhodaa tera angnaaraa aa aa
angnaaraa angnaaraa
ho chhodaa tera angnaaraa
chhoda tera andnaara
angnaaraa angnaaraa
ho chhodaa tera angnaaraa
chhodaa tera angnaaraa
angnaaraa angnaaraa
ho chhodaa tera angnaaraa
angnaaraa
angnaaraa
chhodaa tera angnaaraa
chhodaa tera angnaaraa

ab ke jo ghar aayegee
aayegee
heere walaa chhalla laayiyo
aa aa aa aa
aaaaa aaaaa
godee mein khilaaye sakhiyaan
godee mein khilaaye sakhiyaan
sakhiyaan
nanha munha lalla laiyyo
ab ke jo saawan aayegaa
ab ke ae ae ae
ab ke
ab ke
ab ke ae ae
doosree bidaayee dolegee
dolegee ee
piya kee judaayee bolegee eee
chhalka
chhalka re
kalsee ka paanee
chhalka re
kalsee ka paanee
chhalka
chhalka re
o aankh na maanee
chhalka
chhalka re
oo aankh na maanee
chhalka
chhalka re
kalsee ka paanee
chhalka
chhalka re
kalsee ka paanee
chhalka
chhalka re
oo aankh na maanee


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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6348 Post No. : 19674

A R Rahman – The Musician of 21st Century – 8

The film “Dil Se” released in 1998, and by this time A. R. Rehman, has revolutionized the Hindi film music. With the south Indian flavour to his compositions, with various talented singers from the region were flooding the hindi film music world. Mostly his films would be originally made in Tamil, Telegu or Malayalam, and later remade in hindi or sometimes just dubbed in hindi.

His music and rerecording the songs in hindi required, rewriting the lyrics in hindi/urdu to mean and sound the same in hindi films. It was a difficult task for lyricists like Mehboob and later on Gulzar to retain the meaning and spirit of the earlier songs, while converting them for the larger hindi film audience.
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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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6345 Post No. : 19663

A R Rahman – The Musician of 21st Century – 7

The revival of the series on A. R. Rehman is beginning with this post. The last post in the series was this song.

I apologise for my tardiness in leaving the series like this for 2.5 years. None but myself to be blamed for not taking the targets/tasks seriously. Maybe that is the reason none of my series appear in the list of series posted in the blog.

Koyi nai, I plough on doggedly. Not that it is a hard task to find ARR gems, sometimes forgotten in decades old fog. Take the songs of “Saathiya” for instance.
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, 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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6130 Post No. : 18958

Today’s song is from the film Zubeida-2001.

Firstly, this is a post that I am doing today, is for a film of 2001, and NOT an old film, as I usually do.
Secondly, this will be my 30th post in the month of April 2025. I have written 30 posts, one each from the 1st April to 30th April, everyday ! For this Blog, this must be a Record ! A guest Contributor writing 30 posts continuously for 30 days, without a gap, must be the First instance in this Blog’s History !
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This article is written by Peevesie’s mom, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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5950 Post No. : 18594 Movie Count :

5000

Hullo Atuldom

“Jeans” (1998) was a Tamil Film that was produced by Ashok Amritraj (the Indian-American athlete & film producer) in collaboration with Murli Manohar & others. It was directed by S. Shankar who usually works in the Tamil film industry beginning as an actor but turning a filmmaker initially as an assistant director & then full-fledged director with “GentleMan” (in Tamil 1993). He has made many successful movies since and some have been either dubbed or remade in Hindi too. He himself remade “Mudhalvan” (1999) into “Nayak-The Real Hero” with Anil Kapoor & Rani Mukherjee in the lead in 2001.
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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.

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5690 Post No. : 18207 Movie Count :

4954

‘Nayak’ (2001) was produced by A M Rathnam under the banner of Surya Movies and was directed by S Shankar. The cast included Anil Kapoor, Rani Mukerjee, Amrish Puri, Paresh Rawal, Johny Lever, Pooja Batra, Raja Krishnamurthy, Neena Kulkarni, Shivaji Satam, Saurabh Shukla, Anupam Shyam etc. This was a remake of Tamil film, “Mudhalvan’ (1998). This was S Shankar’s first Hindi film as a director.
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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.

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5419 Post No. : 17773 Movie Count :

4822

‘Yuva’ (2004) was produced by Mani Ratnam and G Srinivasan under the banner of Madras Talkies and was directed by Mani Ratnam. The film was simultaneously shot in Tamil as ‘Aaytha Ezhuthu’ (2004) with a different cast. The film was loosely based on the life story of George Reddy, a student leader who was a gold medalist in his post-graduation in Nuclear Physics from Osmania University, Hyderabad. He died young at the age of 25 by a stab wound in his college campus.
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This article is written by Peevesie’s mom, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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5402 Post No. : 17726 Movie Count :

4814

Hullo Atuldom

Back after a gap of around one & half months.

Have been so active, doing various other activities, that for the first time, since 2009 (when I discovered the blog) and 2012 (when my first post appeared on the blog), I missed a few milestones (the 17,700th post) on the day it was posted. Also missed a post by Sudhir ji, which featured a song which I simply love to see “Wo Ladki Hai Kahaan“.
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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.

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5393 Post No. : 17689 Movie Count :

4812

In this article, I propose to explore the film ‘Mimi’ (2021) which was a remake of a Marathi film, ‘Mala Aai Vhhaychy!’ (2011) [meaning, I want to be a mother]. The film is about surrogacy. The Marathi film was produced by Samruoddhi Porey, a lawyer in Bombay High Court. The story was based on one of the surrogacy cases she handled in the High Court. The film won the National Film Award for the best feature film in Marathi. While the Marathi film was a complete melodrama, ‘Mimi’ (2021) added some situational comedy elements to reduce the impact of melodrama.
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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.

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5342 Post No. : 17516 Movie Count :

4779

‘Raanjhanaa’ (2013) is a love story which was produced by Krishika Lulla and was directed by Aanand L Rai. Dhanush (of Kolaveri fame) made his debut in Hindi film as a lead actor along with Sonam Kapoor. Other actors in the film were Mohammed Zeeshan Ayub, Swara Bhaskar, Abhay Deol (special appearance), Kumud Mishra, Deepika Amin, Shilpi Marwah, etc in supporting roles. The film was dubbed in Tamil as ‘Ambikapathy’ (2013).
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