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Song of the Day # 931

From: bb on:  Fri Mar 14, 2008 5:35 am 

Song of the Day: Aji Root Kar from Arzoo.

http://www.dhool.com/sotd2/931.html

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- Govind writes:

Song: Aji Root Kar
Movie: Arzoo (1965)
Actors: Rajendra Kumar, Sadhana
Director: Ramanand Sagar
Music: Shankar Jaikishan
Lyrics: Hasrat Jaipuri
Singer: Lata Mangeshkar

You can find the video of the song here: http://youtube.com/watch?v=RS-oO12cqQk

The story is quite simple (as far as I remember). Rajendra Kumar goes to Kashmir on a holiday and meets Sadhana on the flight. They, as usual, get into an argument and then fall in love. Rajendra Kumar looses his leg, I think, in an accident and starts avoiding Sadhana. After a lot of unneccessary hearburn, at the end of the movie, the lovers unite. All the songs in the movie are excellent. The lyrics of the SOTD are particularly impressive, for a love song. The second stanza describes how the heroine (Sadhana) is unable to keep her love for the hero (Rajendra Kumar) under wraps even if she wanted to. She asks the hero to understand her love for him without her explicitly saying so.

Great song, one of Lata's best, IMHO.

You can find out about Shankar and Jaikishan here: http://www.downmelodylane.com/sj.html

lataa : ajii ruuTh kar ab kahaa.N jaaiyegaa
(rafii: ajii hamase bachakar kahaa.N jaaiyegaa)
jahaa.N jaaiyegaa hame.n paaiyegaa
nigaaho.n me.n chhupakar dikhaao to jaane.n
Kayaalo.n me.n bhii tum na aao to jaane.n
ajii laakh parade me.n chhup jaaiyegaa
nazar aaiyegaa nazar aaiyegaa
jo dil me.n hai.n hoTho.n pe laanaa bhii mushkila
magar usako dil me.n chhupaanaa bhii mushkila
nazar kii zubaa.N ko samajh jaaiyegaa
samajh kar zaraa gaur faramaaiyegaa
ye kaisaa nashaa hai.n ye kaisaa asar hai.n
na kaabuu me.n dil hai.n na bas me.n jigar hai.n
zaraa hosh aa le phir jaaiyegaa
Thahar jaaiyegaa Thahar jaaiyegaa(from Musicindiaonline.com)

Apart from the SOTD, the other songs are Bedardi Balma Tujhko, Aye Phoolon Ki Rani, Aye Nargise Mastana, Chalke Teri Aankhon Se and Jab Ishq Kahin ho jata hai.

Discussion Page in DhooL on this Song

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