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Chupke se raat ki chaadar taley
Posted on: February 21, 2023
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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‘Saathiya’ (2002) was produced jointly by Yash Raj Films and Madras Talkies (of Mani Ratnam). It was a remake of Mani Ratnam’s super hit Tamil film,’Alai Payuthey’ (2000) with Madhavan and Shalini in lead roles. ‘Saathiya’ (2002) was directed by Shad Ali (son of the new wave film maker, Muzaffar Ali and his ex-wife Subhashini Ali), his first film as a director. Before getting the independent assignment as a director, Shad Ali had done apprenticeship under Mani Ratnam for 4 years. He was Assistant Director to Mani Ratnam in ‘Dil Se’ (1998) and the Associate Director for ‘Alai Payuthey’ (2000).
In an interview with rediff.com which appeared on December 17, 2002, Shad Ali had said that when Mani Ratnam offered him to direct ‘Saathiya’ (2002), it was a challenge for him as people were bound to compare the original Tamil film with Hindi remake. Hence, he changed the location of the story from Chennai to Mumbai and converted the story into Hindi culture. He asked Gulzar to write the new script for his dialogue writing, and write songs independent of the original film keeping the mood and essence of the original story intact. As per Box Office report, ‘Saathiya’ (2002) became a box office hit.
The film had Rani Mukherjee and Vivek Oberoi in lead roles with the supporting cast of Sandhya Mridul, Tanuja, Satish Shah, Swaroop Sampat, Sharat Saxena, Shamita Shetty etc. Shahrukh Khan and Taboo did cameo roles. The film is a romantic drama but there is some difference with usual Bollywood romantic films in which marriage is the culmination of falling in love after facing lots of obstacles. But in this film, the obstacles starts after the marriage – from parents, difficulties they face to adjust to each other, the cultural differences, tiffs etc. But at the end, the husband and wife feel that they love each other more than they did during their courtship. The gist of the story of the film is as under:
Aditya (Vivek Oberoi) and Suhani (Rani Mukherjee) meet at a marriage where he, after initial fun talks, starts following her. At first, she thinks that he is only flirting with her. But after some more meetings, both feels that they love each other. Suhani belongs to a middle-class family doing her medical while Aditya has been brought up in a luxurious lifestyle. So, parents of both are against their marriage. Nonetheless, Aditya and Suhani get married in in a temple in the presence of Marriage Registrar without the knowledge of their parents and continue to live in their respective home. Their marriage secret is out when Suhani’s elder sister’s marriage is being finalised. Aditya and Suhani leave their parents’ house and start leaving in a rented house together.
After the initial euphoria, the problems of adjustments between Aditya and Suhani arises leading to some tiffs and rifts in their married life. Some misunderstanding on the part of Suhani that Aditya is having an affair makes her life miserable. Worried about these developments, one day, while crossing the road on her way to hospital, Suhani is hit by a car driven by Savitri (Taboo) and injured. Suhani admitted to a hospital. Savitri runs away from the accident spot and telephones her husband, Yashwant (Shahrukh Khan) about the accident who visit the hospital and signs operations paper as her husband, only to hasten the surgery. In the hospital, to save Taboo, Shahrukh Khan takes the blame on himself for the accident. In the meanwhile, Aditya is waiting for Suhani to return home so that he can patch up with her.
After a lot of searches and enquiries, Aditya gets to know about the accident and visit the hospital where he finds that Suhani is in coma. Savitri with a guilty feeling, tells Aditya that it was she who was driving. When Suhani regains consciousness, the emotionally charged Aditya tells Suhani how much he felt her absence for few hours. Suhani also reciprocates the same. The film ends with Aditya hugging Suhani in the hospital.
‘Saathiya’ (2002) has nine songs written by Gulzar and set to music by A R Rahman. I am presenting the first song from the film to appear on the Blog. The song is ‘chupke se raat ki chaadar tale’ sung by Sadhana Sargam, Murtaza Khan and Qadir Khan. The refrains (first and third stanzas) are rendered jointly by Murtaza Khan and Qadir Khan. Murtaza and Qadir are the sons of Padma Vibhushan Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan of Rampur-Sahaswan Gharana.
The situation of the song is that Vivek Oberoi and Rani Mukherjee are married. But they are staying in their respective houses because they got married without disclosing it to their parents. This is a song about a separated couple longing for spending time together.
Two interesting observations about this song:
The line in the song, haule haule marwa ke raag mein Meer ki baat ho, Gulzar has used the metaphors of Raag Marwa and the Classical Urdu Poet, Meer Taqi Meer’s name. Raag Marwa in Hindustani classical music is an evening raag (dusk) which is generally used in composing songs of longing for reunion. There are many ‘bandishes’ on separation in raag Marwa. Meer Taqi Meer was known for his ghazals seeking reunion with his beloved but unsuccessful. One of his popular ghazals in this category is ‘faqeerana aaye sada kar chale’ in which there is a couplet, dikhaayi diye yoon ke bekhud kiya. When Gulzar talked about ‘Meer ki baat ho’, he did not mean to ‘talk about Meer’. I guess, he meant reciting Meer’s couplets with Raag Marwa playing in the background.
The second observation in this song is about the refrain sung by Murtuza Khan and Qadir Khan in the Sufi style of music. A R Rahman seems to be fond of this type of addition in the song as he again did in ‘tere bina beswaadi beswaadi ratiyaan’ in the film, ‘Guru’ (2007) by adding refrain ‘dum dara dum dara mast mast dara’. Incidentally, this is also a song of a separated couple longing for reunion, written by Gulzar and refrains rendered by Murtaza Khan and Qadir Khan.
The somber mood of the song under discussion is well captured in the Sarangi interlude by Ustad Sultan Khan. The orchestration has been kept on a low key throughout the song resulting in more emphasis on the melody.
Video Clip:
Audio Clip:
Song-Chupke se raat ki chaadar taley(Saathhiya)(2002) Singers-Murtaza Khan, Qadir Khan, Sadhana Sargam , Lyrics-Gulzar, MD-A R Rahman
Lyrics (Based on Audio Clip)
doston se jhoothi-moothi
doosron kaa naam leke
phir meri baaten karna
yaara
raat se din karna..aa
lambi judaai teri
bada mushkil hai
aahon se dil bharna
yaara
raat se din karna..aa
kab ye poori hogi
door ye doori hogi
kab ye poori hogi
door ye doori hogi
roz safar karna
yaara
raat se din karna
chupke se
chupke se
raat ki chaadar tale ae ae
chaand ki bhi aahat naa ho
baadal ke peechhe chalen
jale katra katra
gale katra katra
raat bhi naa hile aadhi aadhi
raat bhi naa hile aadhi aadhi ye
chupke se lag jaa gale
raat ki chaadar tale
farvari ki sardiyon ki dhoop mein
moondi moondi ankhiyon se dekhna
haath ki aad se ae
nimmi nimmi thhand aur aag mein
haule haule marwa ke raag mein
Meer ki baat ho..o o
din bhi naa doobe
raat naa aaye
shaam kabhi naa dhale..ae ae
shaam dhale to subah na aaye
raat hi raat chale..ae ae
chupke se
chupke se
raat ki chaadar tale
chaand ki bhi aahat naa ho
baadal ke peechhe chale
doston se jhoothi moothi
doosron kaa naam leke
phir meri baaten karna
yaara
raat se din karna..aa
lambi judaai teri bada mushkil hai
aahon se dil bharna
yaara
raat se din karna..aa
kab ye poori hogi
door ye doori hogi
kab ye poori hogi
door ye doori hogi
roz safar karna
yaara
raat se din karna
tujh bina pagli purwaai…..ee ee ee
tujh bina pagli ye purwaai
aake meri chunari mein bhar gayi
tu kabhi aise hi
gale lag jaise ye purwaai
aa gale lag jaise ye purwaai
saathiya sun tu…uu
kal jo mujhko neend naa aaye
paas bula lena..aa
god mein apni sar rakh lena
lori suna dena..aa
chupke se
lag jaa gale
raat ki chaadar tale
chaand ki bhi aahat naa ho
baadal ke peechhe chale
jale katra katra
gale katra katra
raat bhi naa hile aadhi aadhi
raat bhi naa hile aadhi aadhi ye
chupke se
lag jaa gale
raat ki chaadar tale
chaand ki bhi aahat naa ho
baadal ke peechhe chalen
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