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Song:
“Chod
ke Bhaiya Ka Des…”
Film:
BIndiya
Chamkegi (1983)
Producer:
Tarun Dutt, Arun Dutt
Director:
Tarun
Dutt
Lyrics:
Anjaan
Singers:
Lata
Mangeshkar
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Bidai
situations are not new in hindi films and one is used to
listening to the same type of dull and monotonous music for
this situation year after year. Nobody but Pancham could have
thought of creating something so different and beautiful for a
bidai song! This is one song and probably only one of its kind
which is strikingly different in treatment and yet preserves
the essence of a typical
bollywood bidai situation. One of the many rare gems
from Pancham, this number is from the film Bindiya Chamkegi.
The
most striking feature of the song is the way the rhythm
pattern has been used. The song uses the common 8 beat
tal ‘kaherwa’, but the tal has been played quite
differently here. ‘kaherwa’
has 8 beat cycle divided as 4-4
and the normal ‘bol’ goes something like
‘DhaGe NaTin NaKe
DhinNa, DhaGe NaTin NaGe
DhinNa’. Instead of this, the way it has been played goes something
like ‘Dhin Dhin Dha GeNa,
Tak Tak Ta DhinNa’. This coupled with beautiful use
of guitar chords on the first beat and percussions played on
the first and fourth beat and a brilliant base guitar pick up
on the 8th beat makes the rhythm pattern simply
amazing.
The
song starts with a full cycle of this rhythm pattern in M0
after which Lata Mangeshkar takes over in her heavenly voice.
The violins play beautifully in the background and the
accompanying flute during the mukhada is amazing. This flute
piece plays only during the mukhada keeping the listener
craving for more only to be repeated at the end.
As
with many of his songs, Pancham skips M1 here too. The song
has a very short two lines anatara which compliments well with
the long mukhada. Pancham creates a typical bidai situation
feel with shehnai and violins in the M1. second antara is
similar to the first one.
Till
the second stanza, the song moves in pretty much a similar way
with a continuous rhythm pattern and long and dominating
mukhada, at the end of the second stanza however, pancham
suddenly breaks the continuity of the rhythm pattern and
switches to the more traditional ‘Kaherwa’ rhythm , this
switch in the rhythm pattern gives an amazing feel of
completeness to the song, this switch to the more traditional
rhythm pattern is as beautiful as the initial intentional
incompleteness.
The
song ends with repetition of the mukhada. A simple song with a
very different treatment, another outstanding composition by
the great Rahul Dev Burman. Kudos!
Anand
Dhodapkar
Panchammagic.Org
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