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Nextwe savour the silken vocals of Talat Mehmood in a song, the lyrics and tune of which create a feeling of wistfulness and poignancy. The character in the song, played by Talat himself, seems to have resigned himself to his fate.

Hindi film lyricists have often drawn parallels between the illusory and evanescent nature of dreams on one hand and the ambiguities of right and wrong, and the impermanence of all things in life, including relationships, on the other. The following two all-time classics are perhaps the best examples of this. In the second song, the reference to dreams takes the form of Janam maran ka mel hai sapna, yeh sapna bisra de in the second antara.

The overwhelming majority of Indian films are stories of romantic relationships and since shared dreams are an integral part of such relationships, it follows that there ought to be songs about them in Hindi films. Here are two very well-known ones, both from the magic baton of SD Burman and from films starring Dev Anand, who seems to have become a mascot of sorts for this article.

My first exemplar in this category is an iconic song in which the hero serenades the heroine, who is travelling on the Toy Train of Darjeeling, and calls her the queen of his dreams. The song is so evergreen that it is difficult to believe that more than half-a-century has passed since it hit the screen!

This category abounds with songs and my Lata-bias resulted in my picking the following two songs with contrasting sentiments. Both songs have been picturised on Madhubala. In the first one, the nayika eagerly anticipates the arrival of her lover whereas in the second song, she is wistful and recalls the bitter-sweet moments of her encounters with her beloved. Unfortunately, I was not able to find the video for the second song, so we will have to make do with just the sound track.

Next, we have this Tamil film song considered to be a classic. It uses the Raga Chandrakauns and its sharp (shuddha) nishaad to great effect to convey the poignancy of the sentiments in the lyrics which contrast the unrealistic promises of dreams with the harsh realities of life. It seems Ilaiyaraja has cited this song as a major influence on his career.

We now sample a couple of bandishes on the topic of dreams from the world of Hindustani Classical Music. We begin with a rendition of the early morning raga Lalit recorded by the great Bhimsen Joshi for HMV. The lyrics of the vilambit bandish are as follows:

In Giripai Nelakonna, which is believed to have been the last song that he composed, Thyagaraja sings about having a dream in which he saw the Lord standing on a hill and in which He promised Thyagaraja moksha. Thyagaraja attained samadhi a few days later. Let us listen to an instrumental rendition of this kriti. The artiste is the legendary violinist, Lalgudi Jayaraman.

The Nacchiyar Thirumozhi has been set to tune by the renowned senior musician, scholar and Sangeeta Kalanidhi, R Vedavalli, and the 6th set of verses can be heard from 40:51 to 45:34 in the recording below.

Disclaimer:

The song videos have been embedded from the YouTube only for the listening pleasure of the music lovers. This blog does not claim any copyright over these songs which vests in the respective owners, such as Saregama India Limited and others.

Good post with off-beat sub-plot topics.

The post comes with open floodgates for Dr. Shetty.

Inception (2010) was one kind of a movie on subconsciousness and dreams.

Let me add a song from an unreleased movie Ramu tho Deewana Hai

I think more songs from this film qualify here.

Nice topic with lot of scope for dreaming! I wish to add two beautiful songs here: Sapne hai sapne from NAI ROSHNI (1967) which is not so much heard and the other Humne jo dekhe sapne a lovely duet from PARIVAR (again 1967) which is very popular even today.

Thanks Ashwin for a very comprehensive and well-written post. I was thinking of a few dream songs but found all of them in your post. I like the way you have approached the subject from different points of view.

1. Khayalon mein kisi ke from BAWRE NAIN

2. Maine sapna jo dekha from HANSTE AANSOO

3. Sapno mein aana from SHISHAM

4. Nain dwar se maan mein aa ke from SAWAN

5. Kahin karti hogi woh mera from from PHIR KAM MILOGI

6. Woh subah kabhi tho aayegi

7. Zindagi khwab tha from CHHOTI CHHOTI BAATEIN

8. Tum hi ho jiska sapna from ROMEO IN SIKKIM

9. Kabhi tho pure honge yeh sapne from SAPNE SUHANE

10. Kahin door jab din dhal jaaye from ANAND

Freud would have been proud! What an exposition. You have covered every facet of a phenomenon quite beholden to our movie makers. And what a selection of songs. This is another centurion post in the making, I am sure. So, let me get started with a few runs before Bhatiaji pads up.

Thanks for the compliments. Trust the mentions that I made of you and the Kannada song that I included in the post did not escape your attention and trust that I have earned the brownie points that I am aiming for ?

I see that the floodgates that Maheshji referred to @ 4 have already opened and that the songs are pouring in. Keep them coming! Of the songs that you have listed so far, I had wanted to include the ones from Seeta aur Geeta, Buddha Mil Gaya, Khel Khel Mein, Love Story, Gol Maal,Silsila and House No:44 but dropped them either because I already had a song in the category that I would have fitted them into or because I could not find a suitable category that would fit in the flow of the post. Looks like you have missed my inclusion of the song from Ek Gaaon ki Kahani, though.

Of the 10 you have listed, I had thought of including the one from Anand but I dropped it eventually. Thanks for the list. It would be nice (and this request is made to Dr.Shetty as well) if you could include the YouTube links of the songs in your comments so that it makes it that much easier for SoYers to access the songs.

Akka kelavva is another childhood favorite. I had the good fortune of sitting on the laps of Ambikathanayadutta, Bhimsen Joshi, Gangubai Hangal, Mallikarjun Mansoor, Basavaraj Rajguru etc. More on that some other day.

Thanks for going through my post and for all the compliments that you have showered on me. Thanks for the validation of the Andal story. It was reviewed by your fellow-Ayyangar, Sushruti Santhanam, a top-notch Pune-based musician who is also very erudite and articulate, all of which is not surprising considering that she is the daughter of Smt.Vedavalli :). The inclusion of Giripai nelukona was thanks to a suggestion from historian, heritage activist, author and Music Academy Secretary. Sriram V.

Thanks for sharing the information on Eradu Kanasu and for granting me the brownie points that I was craving for :). It will be a pleasure to chat with you in Aamchigelle ? Also, I envy your good fortune at having had the opportunity to interact so closely with my idols!

Ashwinji

I could just read only the introduction & first 2 categories & Marathi songs category because of other engagements. This is surely going to be all time block buster and Venkataraman ji will have to rewrite quite a few records.

Will come back once free.

But before that I will add this marathi song ( without the link for which I regret)

& Leave it to you to determine its category

Swapnat nahi ale satyat yeu ka ( for our non Marathi readers

I could not come in your dream

Should I come in reality

Not a very good translation)

Mr Muli @41,

You can reserve a topic by placing your handkerchief because I am the conductor with the reservation chart. But comments get into an unreserved bogey which is simply first come first serve. You have to board a train from New Delhi station to understand what getting into an unreserved compartment means. In your part you have nothing like that.

@43,

Very smart. Have you given a thought that the entire Bollywood is a dream merchant and any movie we watch is a dream sold by the merchant? Within that meta set you have dreams which are non-tradable, they come by themselves. Sapnon ka saudagar anya is an exceptional song because this seems to be the only one about a tradable dream. One challenge is to get more songs of this type.

Ashwinji,

Listened upto the Bhavgeets (#18). It requires more than one and half hours of undivided attention, to do justice to the author, who have spend time in selecting, listening and posting the songs and in adding appropriate narrations therein. I know it may take only a few minutes to relate each song with theme and move one. Yet, preferred to listen to the songs in whole.

The field conditions are perfect for Dr. Shetty to bat on. By the time I look for songs I find he already crossed the boundries. Now I am looking for songs where Sapna / Sapne are not appearing in Mukhdas but find a comfortable in stanzas . Hope they fit the bills.

It is hard to believe that the JUNGLEE, JANWAR, BADTAMEEZ, DAAKU, MUJRIM, BLUFF MASTER, BUNDLEBAZ ,PAGLA KAHIN KA who went on to become BRAHMACHARI, BOY FRIEND, PROFESSOR, CHOTE SARKAR, MAMA (of a BHANJA), LAAT SAHEB, PRINCE, RAJKUMAR would have been a Majnu or a Mirza!

But, he has been those and more. In his debut year, 1953, he was the hero in LAILA MAJNU and GUL SANOBAR. In later years, SHAMA PARWANA, MIRZA SAHIBAN.

Ashwinji

You used almost every color from HFM to karnataki classical in this beautiful rainbow of songs. I wish to add one more thatv of Urdu gazal .

& Who else than the king himself to paint that color

Abke ham bichade to shayad kabhi khwabomein mile

Should that go in to distant dream category ?

One can easily discern that the marathi song

Malvun tak deep is based on the same bandish

Your repertoire of strokes knows no bounds. And, of course, recalling words from the antaraas is more difficult as well as more satisfying. Taking cue from you, let me score a single. It is a twin song, but I do not expect double credit!

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