Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Agle Baras Tu Jaldi Aa..

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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