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Chandaa re chandaa re
Posted on: March 18, 2024
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‘Eklavya’ (2007) was produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra under his banner, Vinod Chopra Productions and was directed by him. The cast included Amitabh Bachchan, Saif Ali Khan, Sanjay Dutt, Vidya Balan, Jackie Shroff, Boman Irani, Jimmy Shergill, Sharmila Tagore, Raima Sen, Parikshit Sahni, Mitha Vashisht etc. The film is an action costume drama with a background of a Royal family in a contemporary setting. The film was majorly shot in Rajasthan.
The title of the film, ‘Eklavya’ has nothing to do with Eklavya of Mahabharat. In the film, the mother of the royal guard tells her son that he should be like Eklavya in following the dharma which is his duties towards the Royal family. Just to avoid some confusion, the official name of the film is ‘Eklavya – The Royal Guard’.
The story of the film is as under:
Eklavya (Amitabh Bachchan) is a loyal bodyguard of an aging Rana Jaywardhan (Boman Irani), the present king of Devigarh. Now aged, Eklavya is nearly blind. Rana Jaywardhan is sitting besides his dying wife, Queen Suhasini Devi (Sharmila Tagore) when she faintly utters ‘Eklavya’ a number of times. Rana gets mad and the queen gets killed by the hands of Rana. Her mentally challenged daughter, Nandini (Raima Sen) is present during the death of the queen. Somehow, Rana starts believing that Eklavya knows a secret about the Royal couple. He orders his younger brother, Jyotiwardhan (Jackie Shroff) to execute Eklavya. Actually, Jyotiwardhan and his son, Udaywardhan (Jimmy Shergill) are conspiring to get rid of Rana.
Meanwhile, Prince Harshwardhan (Saif Ali Khan) returns from London to perform the last rites of His mother queen. Of many persons come to receive him, he is happy to see his driver (Parikshit Sahni) and his daughter, Rajjo (Vidya Balan) besides Eklavya. Rajjo meets Prince Harshwardhan and hands over a closed letter written by the queen and addressed to Harshwardhan. He reads the letter with a shocking expression because she has revealed in the letter that Eklavya is the real father of Harshwardhan and his sister, Nandini.
The other development is that there is a death threat to Rana due to rising unrest among the farmers as their lands have been seized by the royals. Inwardly, there is a prevalence of uneasy relationship between Rana’s family and his younger brother, Jyotiwardhan’s family. So, DSP, Pannalal (Sanjay Dutt) meets Rana to assure him of police protection. But before it is being implemented, there is an assassination attempt on Rana who is now angry. He instructs his brother, Jyotiwardhan to kill Eklavya. Instead, Jyotiwardhan kills Rana during which his driver also gets killed.
Now it becomes free for alls in Royal family. Eklavya gets some clue to conclude that it was Jyotiwardhan and his son, Udaywardhan to be responsible in killing Rana. Eklavya kills Udaywardhan and takes his father Jyotiwardhan to his dead body with the intention of killing him also. Before that, Jyotiwardhan reveals to Eklavya that it was the Prince Harshwardhan who ordered killing of Rana. In a fit of anger, Eklavya kills Jyotiwardhan.
Prince Harshwardhan reveals to Rajjo that it was he who managed to get Rana killed. Rajjo leaves the Prince since he was indirectly responsible for her father, Omkar Singh getting killed. Now it is the turn of Eklavya to kill the Prince, his biological son as per his dharma. However, before that, Eklavya wants to know from him as to why he ordered killing Rana. Prince Harshwardhan explains the reason for killing Rana because his sister, Nandini who was the witness at the time of the death of her mother, saw Rana smothering the semi-conscious mother to death because she uttered Eklavya’s name. Prince Harshwardhan tells Eklavya to kill him to adhere to his dharma. But Eklavya’s hand trembles. Prince Harshwardhan decides to commit suicide by his revolver. But before that, Eklavya throws his dagger to dislodge the revolver from his hand thus saves Prince Harshwardhan and hugs him.
After Harshwardhan take charge of the royal duties, he calls all the villagers who have lost their lands and distributes the legal documents making them owners of the land. He also announces publicly that from now onwards, he regards Eklavya as his father. DSP, Pannalal visits the palace showing a suicide note which says that Jyotiwardhan and his son Udaywardhan, afraid of being caught by the police for killing Rana, committed suicide in front of a speeding train. Rajjo reconciles with Prince Harshwardhan when she comes to know the real reason for Rana getting killed.
I am happy that I watched this beautifully crafted film with technical excellence, a few days before writing this article. It has a shade of Shakespearean tragedy. All the main actors have given excellent performances. The dramatic verbal duel between Amitabh Bachchan and Saif Ali Khan, especially of about 10 minutes duration towards the end of the film are of high calibre. Some of the close-up photography of the main actors speaks much more than the dialogues. There are some excellent shots of night photography. The visuals are appealing. The costumes look authentic and why not. They have been designed by Raghavendra Rathod who is from the royal family of Jaipur. This film is mainly meant for the niche audience. For the general audience, the film may be too slow to enjoy.
The film had three songs written by Swanand Kirkire and set to music by Shantanu Moitra. I am presenting the first song from the film, ‘chandaa re chandaa re dheere se muskaa’ to appear on the Blog. The song is rendered by Hansika Iyer who sings for Vidya Balan. Saif Ali Khan and Raima Sen are also in the picturisation frames of the song.
The song is composed like a lullaby, but the lyrics of the song give the impression that Vidya Balan who is in love with Saif is coaxing him to shade his pride and smile. The reason is that a small part of the song is also used in a different scene as a lullaby in the background when Saif is putting his mentally challenged sister (Raima Sen) to sleep.
It is a lovely song with the soft orchestration.
Video Clip:
Audio Clip:
Song-Chanda re chanda re (Eklavya)(2007) Singer-Hansika Iyer, Lyrics-Swanand Kirkire, MD-Shantanu Moitra
Chorus
Lyrics (Based on Audio Clip):
hmm hmm hmm
hmm hmm hmm
hmm hmm hmm
hmm hmm hmm
chandaa re chandaa re
dheere se muskaa
haule se haule se
palkon mein chhup jaa
chandaa re chandaa re
dheere se muskaa
haule se haule se ae
palkon mein chhup jaa
haule se haule se
chhan chhan chhan chhan chhan chhan chhana
baadal ke jhoole pe
khhan khhan khhan khhan khhan khhan khhana
haule se haule se
baadal ke jhoole pe
muskaa
chandaa re chandaa re
dheere se muskaa
haule se haule se
palkon mein chhup jaa
hmm hmm hmm la la laa
dheere se muskaa
hmm hmm hmm la la laa
palkon mein chhup jaa
arre lukka chhipi khele
chandaa taaron ke sang
kaun thhaame dori
tu hai kis kee patang
chandaa o re chandaa
tera kaisa guroor
hans de zaraa saa
barsaa de tu noor
chhan chhan chhan chhan chhan chhan chhana
khhan khhan khhan khhana khhan khhan khhana
(ho ooooooooooo)
chandaa re chandaa re
dheere se muskaa
haule se haule se
palkon mein chhup jaa
hmm hmm hmm la la laa
dheere se muskaa
hmm hmm hmm la la laa
palkon mein chhup jaa
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