RAAT OR DIN SONG #6 – RAAT NE KYA KYA KHWAB DIKHAYE

Of course, Shailendra made the maximum number of his songs, a little more than 350, with Shankar Jaikishan. His next largest number of songs were with Salil Chowdhury including O sajana barkha bahar aayi for the movie Parakh whose story too was penned by Salil da.

There are many who feel that Shailendra penned his best songs for Raj Kapoor movies and hence composed by Shankar Jaikishan. I am included in such people. However, his songs for Salil da are memorable indeed. This is one of them. At random I can think of their songs for 1958 Bimal Roy movie Madhumati and 1960 Bimal Roy movie Parakh, such as Aaja re pardesi, Dil tadap tadap ke keh raha hai, Toote huye khwabon ne, and O sajana barkha bahaar aayi.

This one has been sung by Talat Mehmood who perfected the tremor in his voice.

It is from the 1957 movie Ek Gaon Ki Kahani that starred Talat Mehmood, Mala Sinha and Abhi Bhattacharya.

To understand the song better here is the story-line:

Jaya (Mala Sinha) lives in a village called Chandangaon in India along with her widower dad, Gokul (IS Johar), who works for a living as a compounder, but calls himself a Homeopathic doctor and dispenses Arnica for all kinds of ailments, especially since there is no qualified doctor in the village. Since Jaya is or marriageable age, he has arranged her marriage with hard-of-hearing Shiv, the son of Dayashankar (Bipin Gupta), who is the President of the Gram Panchayat. Dayashankar is anxious to get Shiv married so that he can get some dowry from Gokul. The other suitor for Jaya is Ratan (Abhi Bhattacharya), whose mother would like her to re-marry her son as his wife, Maya (Nirupa Roy), is unable to conceive. Then a new doctor (Talat Mahmood as Talat) arrives in this village to look after the charitable dispensary. Things heat up when Dayashankar and Ratan’s mom (Lalita Pawar) find out that he may be Jaya’s new suitor. Hilarious chaos reigns when Maya assaults her cruel mother-in-law, and Ratan abducts Jaya from her marriage with Shiv.

My Own Poetry

Please enjoy: Raat ne kyaa kyaa khwab dikhaye….

रात ने क्या क्या ख्वाब दिखाये
रंग भरे सौ जाल बिछाये
आँखें खुली तो सपने टूटे
रह गये ग़म के काले साये
रात ने …

ओ … (हम ने तो चाहा भूल भी जायें
वो अफ़साना क्यों दोहोरायें ) – २
दिल रह रह के याद दिलाये
रात ने क्या क्या …

(दिल में दिल का ददर् छुपाये
चलो जहां क़िस्मत ले जाये ) – २
दुनिया परायी लोग पराये
रात ने क्या क्या …

I hope you liked my choice of Song #6 in Raat or Din series.

Please await Song #7 – Lag jaa gale ke phir.