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Chup tum raho chup ham rahen
Posted on: February 7, 2023
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Sudhir Mishra has been known for making off-beat/parallel Hindi films. ‘Ye Wo Manzil To Nahin’ (1988) was his first off-beat film as a director. The film won the National Film Award for the best debut film of a director. Thereafter, he directed another 15 off- beat films, the last being ‘Afwaah’ (2022) which is awaiting release. Off-beat films, by their very nature, would attract only a select group of audiences. Hence, it is not likely that most of these films would qualify as box office hits. I have not heard of any of Sudhir Mishra’s films as box office success. Some of his films first got released in the international film festivals. Almost all of his films were critically acclaimed. Despite this, it was difficult to manage theatrical release for some of his films.
Sudhir Mishra is a member of the political family. His grandfather, Dwarka Prasad Mishra was a freedom fighter and a veteran in Congress Party. He was the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh for two terms. His uncle, Brajesh Mishra was in Indian Foreign Service (IFS) and thereafter the National Security Adviser to the Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Despite this, Sudhir Mishra and his younger brother, Sudhanshu Mishra chose career in Hindi films. They both moved to Pune from Lucknow and thereafter to Mumbai in 1980. Sudhir Mishra started his career as assistant director and scriptwriter in Kundan Shah’s ‘Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron’ (1983) and later worked with Saeed Akhtar Mirza in ‘Mohan Joshi Haazir Ho’ (1984) and with Vidhu Vinod Chopra in ‘Khamosh’ (1985). So, one can say that Sudhir Mishra’s foundation in Hindi film industry started with off-beat films.
With this brief introduction of Sudhir Mishra, today, I have taken for discussion, his 4th off-beat film, ‘Iss Raat Ki Subah Nahin’ (1996) which was produced by Plus Films of Mahesh Bhatt and Amit Khanna. According to Imtiaz Hussein, the dialogue writer, the film’s original title was ‘Nishachari’ which was changed just before the finalisation of the film’s credit titles. Sudhir Mishra has taken actors for the film mostly from theatres and TV industry. The cast included Nirmal Pandey, Tara Deshpande, Smriti Mishra, Ashish Vidyarthi, Virendra Saxena, Manoj Pahwa, Saurabh Shukla, Murad Ali, Deepak Qazir, Vijay Raaz etc. It is Nirmal Pandey’s first film in a lead role and the first film for Madhavan also who did the role of a club singer. I had watched this film on Youtube sometime back. To recapture my memory, I once again watched the film on OTT platform recently.
The story of the film was written by Sudhanshu Mishra which was based on an incidence happened with him in the night in Pune. During his night stroll, he caught hold of a man and slapped him for teasing a girl. The man was later identified as the brother of a local don. For the next one week, Sudhanshu Mishra confined himself in the campus of FTII where he was a student. [Source: Amar Ujaala, June 6, 2020]. Taking this incident as a base, he added other characters in the story in which during few hours of one night, things go wrong with an advertising executive, Aditya (Nirmal Pandey), his wife Pooja (Tara Deshpande), his lover, Malavika (Smriti Mishra), the Don, Ramanbhai (Ashish Vidyarthi) who is unintentionally slapped by Aditya and Vilas (Saurabh Shukla), till recently, a close confidant of the Don and now a suspect of colluding with Don’s rival.
The Don, having got shamed by an unintentional slap by Aditya and watched by his henchmen as also of his rivals in the hotel lobby is bent upon killing Aditya who is on the run. However, Don is unaware that Vilas, his one-time confidant, is after his life as Vilas suspects that his wife was shot dead by Don. Aditya faces marital problems as Pooja suspects that he is in relationship with Malavika. But Aditya is unable to explain his life threatening situation to his wife as he is on the run. Malavika is confused as to whether Aditya really loves her. Rajesh (Manoj Pahwa), Aditya’s close friend is helping him in running away from the Don. But there is a hidden agenda of Rajesh. Inspector Patankar who is in the pay packet of Don, has his agenda to get rid of him at opportune time as a part of an encounter killing. In short, one incident in the night reveals the hidden nature of the major characters in the film.
Sudhir Mishra presented the story very well as a director without creating any confusion in the minds of the audience despite many characters entangled in the plot. The crisp editing by the film’s editor and his wife, Renu Saluja has made the film a fast-paced thriller. There are some good dialogues as satires on the society. For instance, when the cronies of Don entered Aditya’s flat to search him, they are surprised by the extravagance style of living in the flat. One of the cronies says that they should talk to Don to get them a flat like this. The other says that he can forcefully occupy this flat. The third one says that there is something called law. The first one retorts ‘where is the law? Have we not made an unauthorized entry in the flat?’.
Among the main actors, Ashish Vidyarthi in the role of Don Ramanbhai gives an excellent performance. After the end of the film, I get an impression that Ashish Vidyarthi would get more sympathy from the audience than the hero, Nirmal Pandey though the latter has also given good performance. If I was to select the most outstanding scene in the film, it would be the one in which Nirmal Pandey unintentionally slaps Ashish Vidyarthi, the Don. The stunned reactions of Ashish Vidyarthi for a minute or so is marvelous. He is ashamed in front of his cronies as well as the cronies of his rival gang. His reputation as a Don is at stake especially if it becomes a front-page news in the newspapers, next morning. So, he has to kill Aditya before the dawn even if he knows that it was unintentional slap. This is the irony in the life of a Don.
The film got released in Mumbai in one theatre, Minerva that too in the pre-matinee slot of 10.00 a.m. I believe, similar was the fate of the film in about dozen theatres elsewhere in India. In short, the film did not get theatres for regular shows. The film was critically acclaimed but, as per the Box Office India report, the film could barely recover the cost of production over a period of time (probably with T V and OTT rights).
The film has six songs, barring a couple of songs, rest of the songs have been partially used in the film’s soundtrack though the mp3 clip versions have full songs. All the songs have been written by Nida Fazli which were set to music by M M Kreem (known as M M Keeravani in Telugu Films and Marakatha Mani in Tamil Films). This was his second independent Hindi film, the first being ‘Criminal’ (1995). Earlier, he was associated in Hindi dubbed films, mostly from Telugu original films.
I am presenting the first song from ‘Iss Raat Ki Subah Nahin’ (1996) to appear on the Blog. The song is ‘chup tum raho chup ham rahen’ sung by K S Chithra and M M Kreem who rendered his first Hindi song for this film, lip syncing for debutant Madhavan and for Nirmal Pandey in Flash-back scenes. The situation in the film is that the advertising agency in which Aditya (Nirmal Pandey) is an Executive, has hosted a party in a hotel lawn. In the same hotel, Don with his henchmen have gathered to question Vilas, once a close confidant of Don who is now suspected of working for a rival gang. In a way, through this club song, the director attempts to introduce all the main characters in the film with their activities. Nirmal Pandey as Aditya, the Advertising Executive, Tara Deshpande as Pooja, his wife, Smriti Mishra as Malvika, Aditya’s love interest, Ashish Vidyarthi, the Don, Murad Ali as Chotu, Don’s favourite henchman and other henchmen.
In this song, there is a couple of flashback scenes of Nirmal Pandey and Smriti Mishra to establish their extra-marital relationship. There is also a scene in which the waiter, while serving tea to Don, gives him the duplicate key of the hotel room (in which Saurabh Shukla in the role of Vilas is hiding with his wife). This song, therefore, subtly gives the audience how the story has evolved around Aditya and Malavika and how it is going to unfold for Ashish Vidyarthi and Saurabh Shukla.
The orchestration of the song and the rhythmic style reminds me of R D Burman.
Video Clip:
Audio Clip:
Song-Chup tum raho chup ham rahen (Iss Raat Ki Subah Nahin)(1996) Singers-K S Chithra, M M Kreem, Lyrics-Nida Fazli, MD-M M Kreem
Lyrics (Based on Audio Clip)
chup tum raho
chup ham rahen
chup tum raho
chup ham rahen
khaamoshi ko khaamoshi se..ae
zindagi ko zindagi se
baat karne do…o o o
chup tum raho
chup ham rahen…aen
chup tum raho
chup hum rahen
khaamoshi ko
khaamoshi se ae
zindagi ko
zindagi se
baat karne do…o o o o
chup tum raho
chup ham rahen
chup tum raho
aankhon mein kho jaayen aankhen
bole haath se haath
aankhon mein kho jaayen aankhen
bole haath se haath
baahon mein chhup kar
saanson se jaise dole raa….t
ungliyon ko
ungliyon se ae
mausamon ko shokhiyon se
baat karne do…o o o o
chup tum raho
chup ham rahen
khamoshi ko khamoshi se ae
zindagi ko zindagi se
baat karne do…o o o o
chup tum raho
chup ham rahen aen
chup tum raho
la la la la la
la la la
la la la la la
la la la
honthon par
honthon se likhen
bin shabdon ke geet
honthon par
honthon se likhen
bin shabdon ke geet
dharti se ambar tak goonje
jismon ka sang……eet
bekhudi ko o
bekhudi se ae
aashiqi ko o
aashiqi se
baat karne do…o o
chup tum raho
chup ham rahen
chup tum raho
chup ham rahen
chup tum raho chup
ham rahen
chup tum raho
chup ham rahen
chup tum raho
ham rahen
tum raho
tum raho
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