Song that signals the rise of dawn brightening the entire
world, with sunny striking rays sending splendor to its surrounds subtly
sounding us their soft and caring motherly touch. Doesn’t this remind us of
Mother Yashoda caring for Lord Krishna?
You may listen to the song here
What a tribute this… to mothers! Meena Kumari, going about
her usual early morning routine,
Amidst hectic morning schedule, Meena Kumari doesn’t miss exchanging sweet nothings with
the little one seated on the steps right alongside. Meenaji, your routine is
ditto ditto like my Ammaji! And me too, like the little one, would be towing my
mom and would sit exactly the way, the little boy sat on the steps, palms
clasped around cheeks, keenly observing all that my mom would be doing, all
ears to her humming. No change in me even now! For at this moment, even as I am
keying in this review, while I keep switching back to listen to this song,
hands move away from keyboard and are automatically clasped around my cheeks.
An auto posture that portrays all attention to the task in front!
I remember listening to this song frequently on the radio,
(Philips Brand to be precise!) along with my father who would promptly turn on
every day those days at the scheduled time. That was an era when neither I (nor
you) could watch visuals nor did I have an inkling of what those lyrics meant.
It’s just the tunes and their magical melody that got etched in my memory. They
faithfully stay with me to this day. So when I recently attended in my
neighbourhood, a local concert of a Sitarist friend of mine Smt. Jyothi Shyam
and she took a detour from the standard route of playing heavy classical
Hindustani songs and chose instead to play Light Devotionals and a few
Bollywood Retro Numbers in general plus this song in particular, I was tempted
to rush to her and plead with her, “Please Jo, can you sing this song too while
you play the sitar.” My memory cells have retained the tunes intact but lo!
lyrics have slithered out. Fortunately Jo played this song almost towards the
end of the concert. Once back home, I wasted no time in not just listening to
the lyrics but also viewed the song and googled for translation. Oh
technology….where were you way back then? Did I have to wait these many decades
to slurppp…swallow the sweet nectar overflowing from this music?
1/7 songs from the Film: Bhabhi Ki Chudiyan (1961)
Music Composer: Sudhir
Phadke Singer: Lata Mangeshkar
Director: Sadashiv J Row Kavi Cast: Meena Kumari, Balraj Sahni Lyricist: Pandit Narendra Sharma
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