RRR Songs (Songs of Regret, Repentance and Ruefulness)
I started this new series on 17 Jan 21 on my Facebook Group Yaad Kiya Dil Ne. My efforts failed to involve people in writing their own stuff about songs and music rather than copying and pasting from here and there or worse, just sharing url of songs from YouTube. Hence, I had decided to give the group a burial that it deserved rather than making it like thousands of groups on Facebook about songs with nothing unique about them at all.
Hence this series shifted to my page Lyrical.
I hope you liked RRR Song #19: Tumhen zindagi ke ujaale mubarak. Here is the next song:
Song #20
Toote huye khwabon ne
Bimal Roy’s Madhumati
Many of Bimal Roy’s films had the female as the main protagonist and so was the 1958 film Madhumati that was produced and directed by him.
Bimal Roy received his Filmfare Award Nos. 5 and 6 (out of 11) for this movie: Best movie and Best Direction. He also got the President’s Silver Medal for the Best Feauture Film for it, at the National level.
Sujata, Bandini and Parineeta, also films with female protagonists won similar awards.
Madhumati had story and screenplay written by Ritwik Ghatak and Rajinder Singh Bedi. It won seven more Filmfare awards: Best Music Director (Salil Chowdhury), Best Female Singer (Lata Mangeshkar with her best song Aja re pardesi), Best Dialogue (Rajinder Singh Bedi), Best Art Direction (Sudhendu Roy), Best Cinematography ( Dilip Gupta), Best Editing (Hrishikesh Mukherjee), , Best Supporting Actor (Johnny Walker).
Dilip Kumar and Vyjayanthimala were nominated for Best Actor and Best Actress, Dilip Kumar lost to Dev Anand in Kala Pani and Vyjayanthimal lost to her own role in Sadhna.
All in all, it would be right to say that Madhumati is among the most iconic movies of Hindi cinema. It was also the first Indian film to be released abroad after its release in the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in Czechoslovakia.
The story dealt with reincarnation and it was one of the earliest films in India to deal with this subject (the story however didn’t figure in the awards). Another omission from the awards was the lyricist Shailendra for some of the most beautiful lyrics including Ajha re pardesi (viz, Main nadiya phir bhi main pyaaasi). Once again, like Vyjayanthimala, Shailendra lost to himself only with the Yahudi song: Ye mera deewanapan hai, making him the first recipient of Filmfare Award for a Lyricist.
Lyrics
This song is lip-synced by Dilip Kumar after the love of his life Vyjayanthimala, a tribe-woman in the neighbouring area of Shyamnagar Timber Estate, where Pran was the Raja Ugra Narain (and Dilip Kumar as his estate manager) was killed whilst being raped by the Raja.
Have a look at the lyrics:
टूटे हुए ख़्वाबों ने, हमको ये सिखाया है
दिल ने, दिल ने जिसे पाया था, आँखों ने गंवाया है
टूटे हुए ख़्वाबों ने
हम ढूँढते हैं उनको, जो मिलके नहीं मिलते
रुठे हैं न जाने क्यूँ, (मेहमान मेरे दिल के – २)
क्या अपनी तमन्ना थी, क्या सामने आया है
दिल ने, दिल ने …
टूटे हुए …
लौट आई सदा मेरी, टकरा के सितारों से
उजड़ी हुई दुनिया के, (सुनसान किनारों से – २)
पर अब ये तड़पना भी, कुछ काम न आया है
दिल ने, दिल ने …
टूटे हुए …
S
alil Chowdhury composed the song in Raag Darabari Kanada and it was sung by Mohammad Rafi.
My Own Poetry
KHWABON KA KYA BHAROSA?
उनको हाल-ए-दिल क्या सुना बैठे,
लगता है खुद को खुद से गंवा बैठे।
तब तक ज़िन्दगी में सब कुछ था मुझे याद,
अब तो ज़िन्दगी का सब कुछ भुला बैठे।
जान का सौदा किया था उनको पाने के लिए,
होश आया तो अपनी हस्ती मिटा बैठे।
कहा था सबने नज़रें बचा के रखना,
नज़रें मिलते ही क्या क्या लुटा बैठे।
मेरा दिल मुझसे ही दगा कर बैठा,
नाज़ुक लबों से जब वह मुस्करा बैठे।
थम गया समां बंद हो गयी दिल की धड़कन,
तसव्वुर में जब वह पास आ बैठे।
दिल्लगी उन्होंने की, हमें लगा सच ही होगा,
जागते सोते हज़ारों ख्वाब सजा बैठे।
उनके जाने का ग़म न होता मुझे, रवि,
ग़म तो यह है हम दिल पे लगा बैठे।
This Song
Ladies and gentlemen, please enjoy: Toote huye khwabon ne…
I hope you liked Song #20 in this series.
Please await Song #21: Dil ki tamanna thi masti mein.
