{"id":8522,"date":"2024-04-13T05:00:32","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T23:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/?p=8522"},"modified":"2024-05-25T20:37:47","modified_gmt":"2024-05-25T15:07:47","slug":"yeh-jeevan-hai-songs-on-life-and-its-myriad-hues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/yeh-jeevan-hai-songs-on-life-and-its-myriad-hues\/","title":{"rendered":"Yeh Jeevan Hai: Songs on Life and Its Myriad Hues"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An abstract representation of the journey of life (Pic created via Bing Co-pilot)<\/p><\/div>\n

Can anyone actually define ‘life’?<\/p>\n

A story goes that a Russian, not completely at home with his English,\u00a0getting off\u00a0a train in\u00a0London accosts a senior gentleman passing by on the platform and asks him, “What is time?”\u00a0The venerable man looks seriously at the Russian, and says, “My friend. You have posed an imponderable question,” and walks on.<\/p>\n

Life too is like that; undefinable but imbued with countless hues and with as many varied descriptions of it as those narrating the course it takes. Somewhat like the parable of the six blind men and an elephant. Or like the Akira Kurosawa film Rashomon<\/em>, where various characters provide subjective, alternative and contradictory versions of the same incident.\u00a0 Everyone experiences it but few can come to grips with it and express it for what it truly is.<\/p>\n

Is life, then, merely a fleeting and unfathomable, not to say perplexing,\u00a0panorama of our own individual emotions, experiences and expressions?\u00a0Lyricist Anand Bakshi\u00a0wrote: “Aadmi theek se dekh paata nahin.\u00a0 Aur parde pe manzar badal jaata hai<\/em>” (Aap ki Kasam<\/em>\/ RD Burman\/ Kishore).\u00a0 Life is a constant flow, and one needs to keep running just to stand still at one place.<\/p>\n

Our brilliant wordsmiths of the Hindi film industry, endowed with a\u00a0 rich and diverse array of shaayari <\/em>and kavita<\/em>, going under the title of ‘Lyricists’, have compiled thousands of songs to suit every conceivable situation in films and in ‘Life’.\u00a0 \u00a0From moments as diverse as heart breaking tragedy to hilarious comedy, with varying emotional situations between, our song writers have written\u00a0on every aspect of\u00a0 ‘Life’\u00a0 with elan and flair. Often, these songs appeal to us more than their tunes and the music, or even the action on screen. One can make several compilations of songs from our films on themes covering every facet in our jeevan <\/em>and how we choose to live it with equanimity, or just keep lamenting and despair at it.<\/p>\n

In the songs that follow, an attempt has been made to study how diversely our film lyricists have treated the subject of jeevan<\/em> in all its moods and expressions.<\/p>\n

Savour the words in these songs. Such mellifluent poetry and lyrics that mesmerised us ended with the golden era of Hindi film music, and is now history. Fortunately for lovers of that music, there is a huge army of followers of such songs and the cult remains alive.<\/p>\n

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Yeh jeevan hai<\/em><\/strong>
\nis jeevan ka<\/em>
\nyahi hai, yahi hai, yahi hai rang roop<\/em><\/p>\n

Piya ka Ghar<\/em><\/strong> (1972) Laxmikant\/ Pyarelal \/ Anand Bakshi \/ Kishore Kumar<\/p>\n