RAAT AUR DIN SONG #52 – DIN DHAL JAAYE HAAY RAAT

I started this series on my Facebook group Yaad Kiya Dil Ne on 18 Aug 20. Since then, many other members have put up these songs. Here, I shall be giving you one of my own, per day.

This is the Song #52 in the series. I hope you liked Song #51 – Ajj din charya tere rang warga.

Song #52
Din dhal jaaye haay raat na jaaye
Theme-word: In the mukhada

Remembering Dev Anand on His Death Anniversary 03 Dec

Dev Anand died young on this day in 2011, at the age of 88 years. Before dying, he had wooed women who were not even born at the time when he had reached half his age.

Forever being young was, of course, his biggest achievement.

In the Common Room of Government College, Dharamsala (Himachal) whereat I studied in Pre-Engineering in the year 1969-1970, there was a group picture of his class with him being one of the standees. When I joined the Engineering College, Chandigarh after that, my roommate had pictures of Dev Anand all over his side of the room whereas I had pictures of gods on the walls (knowing that my dad could suddenly visit me on surprise) and kept Dev Anand’s pictures in my table drawer. Of course, my roommate even displayed his Dev Anand cut hair. I couldn’t match that because I was a turbaned Sardar at that time!

Guide – 1965

Seeing Dev Anand movies was a favourite pastime with all of us; eg, I haven’t come across any of my friends who hasn’t see the 1965 movie Guide. The three Anand brothers were in the movies: Chetan Anand, Vijay Anand and Dev Anand and in their own ways left marks. This movie was produced by Dev Anand’s Navketan Films and directed by Vijay Anand. It starred Waheeda Rehman having been married to Kishore Sahu an archaelogist who had more interest in ruins than in his wife. And hence, Waheeda fell for Raju Guide Dev Anand.

It would have been an ordinary story but for RK Narayan on whose book the movie was based. Suddenly, when he was running away from tinsel world and Waheeda (the successful dancer Nalini), greatness was accidentally thrust upon him. He was taken as a saint who would solve the famine problem of that area by keeping a Fast Unto Death for desperately needed rain. RK Narayan gave a new meaning to the title Guide.

Shailendra and SD Burman

They paired together from the days of 1951 movie Buzdil. It is in the 1963 Bimal Roy movie Bandini that they developed a rift and thus Sampooran Singh Kalra was brought in by SD Burman to write songs and we all gained from his lyrics (later to emerge as the most successful lyricist Gulzar).
Shailendra was very fond of the word Rimjhim and used it any number of times in his songs such as Rimjhim ke tarane leke aayi barsaat, Ab ke baras bhej bhaiya ko babul (Rimjhim padhengi phuharen), O sajana barkha bahaar aayi (Aise rimjhim mein O snama) and Aha rimjhim ke ye pyare pyare geet liye. When he made his house in Bombay, he called it Rimjhim. In this song, here is how he used Rimjhim:

दिन ढल जाये हाय, रात ना जाय
तू तो न आए तेरी, याद सताये, दिन ढल जाये

प्यार में जिनके, सब जग छोड़ा, और हुए बदनाम
उनके ही हाथों, हाल हुआ ये, बैठे हैं दिल को थाम
अपने कभी थे, अब हैं पराये
दिन ढल जाये हाय …

ऐसी ही रिम-झिम, ऐसी फ़ुवारें, ऐसी ही थी बरसात
खुद से जुदा और, जग से पराये, हम दोनों थे साथ
फिर से वो सावन, अब क्यूँ न आये
दिन ढल जाये हाय …

दिल के मेरे तुम, पास हो कितनी, फिर भी हो कितनी दूर
तुम मुझ से मैं, दिल से परेशाँ, दोनों हैं मजबूर
ऐसे में किसको, कौन मनाये
दिन ढल जाये हाये …

This Song

SD Burman never acknowledged the contribution of Mohammad Rafi to his own success and popularity. However, the fact is that like this song, Rafi sang many memorable songs for him. This is as much a classic as the movie.

My Own Poetry

Phir Barsaat Chali Aayi

आज फिर भीगने का दिल करता है बरसात में,
कुछ शोख़ हवा चली है सुहानी रात में I

यादों की बूंदे दिल के आँगन में गिर रही हैं,
और दस्तक दे रही हैं देहलीज़-ऐ-जज़्बात पे I

मेरे रूखे जहान पे सावन को भी तरस आ गया,
लगता है रो रहा है वह भी मेरे हालात पे I

घने धुएं में रौशनी की किरण जगमगाई है,
कुछ और लौ बची है शमा-ए-हयात में I

सावन क्या आया, बस यूँ लगता है,
हल चल सी मच गयी है कायनात में I

हवाएं उनकी बज़्म से लायी हैं खुशबू,
उधर उठ के देखता हूँ बात बात पे I

सोचता हूँ, रवि, यह कहीं सरआब तो नहीं,
कुछ हकीकत तो होगी ख्याल-ए-करामात में I

Ladies and gentlemen, please enjoy: Din dhal jaaye haay raat na jaaye…