It’s amazing how many directors have shown Rabindra Sangeet being sung in plain voice, without any music- particularly true for Bengali directors who find it natural to show characters sing a few lines in their everyday surroundings. “Jibono Moroner Simana Charaye,” Shubho Mahurat (2003) What really changes the personality of the song is the vocals of Suraiya - one of the last of Hindi cinema’s singer-actor superstars - who infuses it with the kind of nasal crooning style that was synonymous with the sound of cinema music of 40s and 50s.Ĥ. This particular song from Afsar is based on one of the most popular Tagore songs - and a personal favourite - “Shedin Dujone.” The song evokes imagery of lovers in a moonlit forest, but when you listen to “Naina Deewane,” you get a completely different feeling, because the lyrics have been changed, and they mean something else, although it’s still a love song: a signature SD Burman number with a strong element of folk music and the tempo speeded up. Rabindra Sangeet came early to Hindi cinema, thanks to the number of Bengali composers working at the time like SD Burman, Pankaj Mullick, Hemant Kumar. More so than anything else, they’re subjective. The songs featured in this list range from the obvious to the not-so-obvious to the innovative. Naturally, the films have turned to it time and again, right from early Hindi cinema to a recent Bengali film (with the composers either playing by the rules or breaking them, largely depending on which side of 2001 copyright abolition they were made in). A synthesis of Hindustani and Carnatic classical, folk music, as well as Oriental and Western, the Tagore songbook is a gift that keeps giving. The point being that so all pervasive is Tagore’s music that it’s already a part of you, even though you may not know it.
National anthem aside, some of the most popular Hindi film songs - be it “Tere Mere Milan Ki Yeh Raina” or “Chhoo Kar Mere Mann Ko”- are straight up imitations of Rabindra Sangeet, intended as a tribute or otherwise. And guess what, he had warned us about it all along in his writings about the dangers of patriotism. We call it the National Anthem - of late a matter of contention for being forced down upon people, not because Tagore wanted it that way but due to some kind of warped, forced sense of nationalism imposed by others. Lest we need a gentle reminder, the song we have sung most number of times in our lives is a Rabindra Sangeet. Few genres have pervaded the music of the subcontinent as Rabindra Sangeet.
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