Ye Sham Ki Tanhaiyan...

Ye Sham Ki Tanhaiyan- Lata Mangeshkar-Film Aah 1953-Lyrics Shailendra-Music Shankar Jaikishan

Aah, the fourth R.K.film, after Aag, Barsat and Awara was a romantic film with tragic end, in the tradition of Devdas. The story is about a young man who corresponds with the girl of his father’s choice, Chandra, and falls in love with because she seems a kindred spirit. What he doesn’t know is that her younger sister Neelu is writing to him in Chandra’s name. Neelu and Raj are deeply in love, but when he realizes he has tuberculosis, he goes all out to make Neelu hate him and forget him because, as he tells his doctor friend, he doesn’t want to leave her widowed untimely.

Later, when Raj, attempting to make Neelu despise him, comes courting Chandra, Neelu’s love-lorn behavior is overdone. Weeping nearly all the time—time means nothing throughout this picture–leaping up the steps to her room like a startled antelope, the character and the film lose much by these over-long sequences to establish her despair. After initial part of the film, when Raj and Nargis fall in love, entire movie is full of melancholy of Raj and sobbing of Nargis. Perhaps Raj Kapoor intend to make the movie in Devdas tradition. However when the end was changed from tragic to happy one, the whole theme of movie , it's picturization, the slow pace becomes ridiculous and irrelevant. That's why despite having popular songs in the film, it did not fare well at Box office.

Here in this song, when Raj is diagnosed Tuberculosis, he tries to avoid Nargis, and instead flirts with Chandra to make Nargis believe that he does not love her. It is such kind of childish and selfish behaviour of Raj's character that becomes the cause of loosing cine viewer's sympathy towards him. In the process , he nearly ruins the lives of Chandra, Kailash (Pran) and Nargis as well . Well, if the hero must die, he must, one supposes. But he doesn’t have to sing on his way to the grave! For a young man weighed down by a frustrated love-affair, two infected lungs and a sensitive, tortured poetical mind, he looks surprisingly well and plump. His coughing is equally unconvincing — artificial spasms, casually put over. On the other hand, Nargis overdoes the sobbing to show the grief stricken heart. The only redeeming factor of the film was SJ's music.

However, “Aah” doesn’t prove anything and “nothing attempted, nothing done” seems to be a fair summing up of what it amounts to. The unending journey of artificial sobs and coughing, with sorrowfulness omnipresent throughout the movie.

ये शाम की तन्हाइयाँ ऐसे में तेरा ग़म
पत्ते कहीं खड़के हवा आई तो चौंके हम
ये शाम की तन्हाइयाँ ...

जिस राह से तुम आने को थे
उस के निशाँ भी मिटने लगे
आये न तुम सौ सौ दफ़ा आये गये मौसम
ये शाम की तन्हाइयाँ ...
सीने से लगा तेरी याद को
रोती रही मैं रात को
हालत पे मेरी चाँद तारे रो गये शबनम
ये शाम की तन्हाइयाँ ...

                        

Aah 1953
Starcast: raj Kapoor, Nargis, Pran, Vijaylaxmi, Leela Mishra, Rashid Khan
Lyrics: Hasrat Jaipuri, Shailendra
Music: Shankar Jaikishan
Written by Inder Raj Anand.
Cinematography: Jaywant Pathare
Produced by Raj Kapoor.
Directed by Raja Nawathe
A R.K.Film