On
a Ganesh Visarjan day, let me just fast forward the time line to this
song centered around Ganapati Visarjan. Movie: Sunil Dutt's Dard Ka
Rishta - made in 1982 which focussed on Lukaemia disease. The movie was
close to Sunil Dutt's heart due to his personal tragedy of having lost
Nargis Dutt to this dreaded disease, just a year ago.
Unlike
most of the other Ganapati songs from Hindi movies, this song, hence had
a different purpose - bring out an impending tragedy & the sense of
looming loss that the hero is facing, and yet keeping alive that hope
& faith, which carries most of us through such personal
tribulations.
RD chose Hariharan, then relatively a newcomer
and mixed the popular beats of Ganapati immersion festival with the
sound that was infused with poignancy, thus matching the mood of verse
penned by Anand Bakshi portraying the emotions of all the bhakts taking
their idol for the immersion:
Kitani ummidein bandh jaati hai tumase tum jab aate ho
Ab ke baras dekhen kya de jaate ho, kya le jaate ho
Apne sab bhakton ka tumako dhyaan rahe
Mere dukh se tum kaise anjaan rahe
The song has remained timeless as I can even now hear some of the bands
playing this song, as the processions to the immersion ghats move
outside.
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