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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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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 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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6183 Post No. : 19094 Movie Count :

5081

Hullo Atuldom

June 22nd 1965, a young ‘approximately’ 18 year old girl, from a small town in Andhra Pradesh, got married and relocated to the metropolitan city called Bombay. After about 23 years, another young girl ‘approximately’ 22 years old, from Bombay got married & relocated to an ‘even more’ small (i.e. smaller than the Andhra Pradesh town mentioned in the opening sentence) town in Tamil Nadu. I mean a case of ‘ulti Ganga’. But we shall not talk of the second girl in this post, the subject of this post is the first girl.
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This article is the 18800th song post in the blog.

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6037 Post No. : 18800 Movie Count :

5044

Yesterday (26 January 2025) was 75th Republic day of India. It was a sunday and I wonder if some people who had to turn up for flag unfurling in their workplaces were unhappy that they had to come to office even on a sunday. 🙂 I also wonder if some school kids felt the same way. Back in my school days (which I am aghast to realise was half a century ago), school kids looked up to this day and 15th august because it meant every student got laddoos to eat. Many school kids even brought their younger siblings (who had not yet started going to school) with them because they too got laddoos on the occasion. 🙂 Perhaps some of these young kids were motivated to go to school later because of this fact.

I recall that one of my classmates had decided that he would become a member of school football team when he reached class nine. His reason was simple, players of the football team got jalebis after each practice session. 🙂 He actually became a member of the football team as he had planned. 🙂 I hope school kids of today have the same motivation alive in them to come to school, play in their school team etc. 🙂
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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 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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5550 Post No. : 18015 Movie Count :

4891

Hullo Atuldom

“meri awaaz hi pehchaan hai
gar yaad rahe”

So much truth in those words which were part of the lyrics that Gulzar wrote for a song in “Kinaara” (1977). There have been many similar sounding singers but this particular voice had a character of its own. I am speaking of our dear Lata Mangeshkar or Lata didi as she was fondly addressed.
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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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5359 Post No. : 17577 Movie Count :

4791

Hullo Atuldom

Born into the film industry. Married into another famous movie-making family. Debut film (in Hindi) with a star-son; a Khan at that. In fact, heroes in her first six films had KHAN as their last name.

I am speaking of Rani Mukherjee who was born into the Mukherjee-Samarth family. Her father Ram Mukherjee was the son of Ravindramohan Mukherjee who was Sashadhar Mukherjee’s (founder of Filmalaya studios) brother. Her mother is the playback singer Krishna Mukherjee. Additionally her brother is director Raja Mukherjee. So that is Rani’s maayka.
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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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5325 Post No. : 17455 Movie Count :

4762

In this article, I propose to explore two films – ‘Duvidha’ (1973) directed by Mani Kaul and ‘Paheli’ (2005) directed by Amol Palekar. Both these films are based on a short story, ‘Duvidha’ by the writer of Rajasthani literature and Sahitya Akademy Award winner, Vijaydan Detha (popularly known as ‘Bijji’). Bijji wrote the short story in 1958 by using a verbally transmitted Rajasthani folktale to convey a bride’s silent defiance of the prevailing patriarchal system by embracing a ghost as her husband when her real husband leaves for a faraway town on business for 5 years, two days after the marriage. The defiance came from the fact that her husband did not take into consideration his wife’s emotional needs while taking this decision. The author has used the metaphor of the ghost through which the wife’s silent revolt occurs.
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This article is written by Nahm, 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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4023 Post No. : 15136

[Ed Note: With sincere apologies to the author and the readers. This write up was delivered to the editors much in advance of the blog anniversary date. It is our oversight that we missed posting it on 19th July. The lapse is regretted.]

As the blog turns 11 today, we can celebrate the first step in the double digit age milestone.  Numerilogically, 11 means 1+1=2 . Does this mean second stage of second phase ?  Or 11 simply means gyarah number ki bus.  Mumbaikar’s know that gyarah number bus means ‘to walk on two feet’.  Walking walking we have reached the 15000 plus figuratively.

So. . . its “Chalte Chalte Mere Ye Geet Yaad Rrakhna. . .  Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna. . . Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna. . .
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