Zindagi khwab hai lyrics11/19/2022 ![]() ![]() Jaagte Raho – the call of the watchman, is to awaken our conscience and sense of responsibility towards the society. ![]() Jaagte Raho aesthetically breaks the myth and the disillusionment of the people. The hypocrisy remains the same, the mentality remains the same. Though the film is from 1956, the mentality of the people hasn’t changed. The film won the Grand Prix at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival and was also the last film of Nargis under the RK banner. ![]() A rustic, innocent villager chased by the eminent persons of the society for the crime which he hasn’t committed. A satire on so-called watchmen or the moral pillars of the society who themselves misconduct under the cloak of dark night. An apt symbolical use of the words meaning stay alert or be watchful. Salil Chowdhury has given music to both the films while the Bengali lyrics of the song are by Salil Chowdhury himself.Ī film which brings into light the misdeeds of the society through a tale of one night. Hence the Bengali version of this song has been picturised on Chhabi Biswas and rendered by Manna Dey. The Bengali version has Chhabi Biswas in place of Motilal. Directed by Amit Maitra and Shombhu Mitra, it is by far the best Raj Kapoor film, as an actor, which gets overshadowed by the rest of his extravagant ones. In Hindi as Jaagte Raho and in Bengali as Ek Din Raatre. Jaagte Raho (1956), based on the Bengali play Ek Din Raatre, was made in Hindi and Bengali simultaneously. The one which is on the go is called Gaadi (buried in the ground).Taking a cue from this very situation, Kaviraj Shailendra takes these paradoxes further to say – Cooked, sweetened milk is called khoya (lost). A fruit has a wonderful colour and man calls it na-rangi (colourless). Kabir describes the nature of man which makes him live in a world of paradoxes and oxymorons. Sant Kabir, in one of his dohas, has expressed this situation very interestingly – Though like a paradox, they are not logically contradictory. Contradicting what they think to what they do. ![]()
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