Chahe Pandit Ho Chahe Kazi

Hey Ram

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Chahe pandit ho chahe kazi

चाहे पंडित हो चाहे काजी

Whether it is a Pandit or a Qazi

Rah ek hai dawar ek hai sun jara

राह एक है दवा एक है सुन जरा

The path is one, medicine is one, just listen

Ya pujari ho ya namaji ho

Ya pujari ho ya namaji ho

Ya pujari ho ya namaji ho

Koi bhi hai wo yaar yaar hai sun jara

कोई भी है वो यार है सुन जरा

Whoever it is, listen to it

Kar na gustakhiya akal se kam le

कर न गुस्ताखिया अकाल से कम ले

don't take it less than famine

Lena hai agar tujhe allah ka nam le

लेना है अगर तुझे अल्लाह का नाम ले

If you have to take the name of Allah

Badh ke baho me tu yaar ko tham le

बढ़ के बहो में तू यार को थम ले

You stop your friend

Dosti ke liye yaar ka jam le

दोस्ती के लिए यार का जाम ले

Take a friend's jam for friendship

Sab kuch bhulke chal hum

सब कुछ भुलके चल हम

let's forget everything

Masti me jhum le

मस्ती में झूम ले

kick in the fun

Wo diwana hai kisne jana hai

वो दीवाना है किसने जाना है

he is crazy who has to go

Jurm to nahi pyar karta hai bawra

जुर्म तो नहीं प्यार करता है बावरां

Bawran doesn't love crime

Kya khrabi hai wo sarabi hai

क्या बुरा है वो साराबी है

what is bad she is sarabi

Bad pine ke sach to kahta hai bawra

बुरा पाइन के सच तो कहता है बावरा

Bawra tells the truth about bad pine

Jo gunehgar hai sabse darte hai wo

जो गुणगर है सबसे डरते हैं वो

Those who are virtuous are most afraid

Apne karmo ka fal roke bharte hai wo

अपने कर्मो का फल रोके भारत है वो

India is the one who stops the fruits of his deeds.

Jisme sachayi hai haske marte hai wo

जिसमे सच्चा है उसके मरते हैं वो

Those who are true die

Atma jo kahe ham to karte hai wo

आत्म जो कहे हम तो करते हैं वो

We do what the self says

Sab kuch bhul ke kal hum masti me jhume

सब कुछ भूल के कल हम मस्ती में झूमे

forgetting everything tomorrow we danced in fun

Ye dosti hai bandagi ispe fida ye jindgi

ये दोस्ती है बंदगी इसपे फ़िदा ये ज़िंदगी

This is friendship

Karti nahi beimaniya ye chahat ki kurbaniya

कार्ति नहीं बेमानिया ये चाहत की कुर्बानिया

Karti nahi meaningless, Yeh Chahat ki Kurbaniya

Kya hai bhala kya hai bura

क्या है भला क्या है बुरा

what is good what is bad

Ye hai yaha kisko pata

ये है याह किसको पता

this is yah who knows

Mandir me ga mszid me ga

मंदिर में गा मसजिद में गा

Singing in the Temple Singing in the Masjid

Ishwar khuda koi bana

ईश्वर खुदा कोई बना

god made someone

(Chahe pandit ho chahe kazi ho

(चाहे पंडित हो चाहे काजी हो)

(whether a pandit or a qazi)

Rah ek hai dwar ek hai sun jara

राह एक है द्वार एक है सुन जरा:

The path is one, the door is one, just listen:

Ya pujari ho ya namaji ho

Ya pujari ho ya namaji ho

Ya pujari ho ya namaji ho

Koi bhi hai wo yar yar hai sun jara

कोई भी है वो यार है सुन जरा

Whoever it is, listen to it

Kar na gustakhiya akal se kam le

कर न गुस्ताखिया अकाल से कम ले

don't take it less than famine

Lena hai agar tujhe allah ka nam le

लेना है अगर तुझे अल्लाह का नाम ले

If you have to take the name of Allah

Badh ke baho me tu yar ko tham le

बढ़ के बहो में तू यार को थम ले

You stop your friend

Dosti ke liye yaar ka jam le

दोस्ती के लिए यार का जाम ले

Take a friend's jam for friendship

Sab kuch bhulke chal hum

सब कुछ भुलके चल हम

let's forget everything

Masti me jhum le) - (2)

मस्ती में झूम ले) - (2)

Take a swing in the fun) - (2)

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Summary

The film starts with Saketh Ram as a very old man and almost immediately goes into flashback. As a young man he is among his friends, in conviviality. He has taken a Bengali wife, Aparna, and everything is wonderful in his life, However the year is 1946, and the imminent independence of India from British suzerainty is complicated by religious antagonism between the Hindu majority and the large Muslim minority, who demand their own independent state. Saketh and Aparna visit Calcutta; rioting is reported, but Saketh goes out to get some food, and he soon encounters a Hindu woman being chased by Muslim rioters. He rescues her, but the rioters later come to his house, and brutally rape and then kill his wife. Saketh is devastated and takes to the streets, determined personally to kill as many Muslims as he can find. He meets up with Sriram Abhiyankar, who is leading a group of Hindu extremists, and Saketh becomes temporarily taken with the cause himself. At the same time, he is persuaded to take a new wife, Mythili, and life begins to stabilize for Saketh after all. However he then falls in with an eminent Maharajah who is leading an underground group with the intention of assassination. Travelling with the Maharajah, Saketh meets one of his old friends from younger days, who has fallen on hard times. Reminiscing, and getting his old friend back on his feet deflect the process of recruiting Saketh, but only temporarily, and soon he is manipulated into committing himself to renouncing his family and his new wife, in the interests of the cause which now is disclosed as the assassination of Gandhi. Although a fellow Hindu, Gandhi was felt by some to be too conciliatory to Muslims and in the logic of extremists, Gandhi became the prime target. Soon Saketh is informed that Gandhi will be in Delhi for some weeks, and that Saketh is to take the opportunity to do “his duty”. However, hiding from a snap search by the police, he has to hide his pistol on a delivery lorry, and it is driven away to a factory owned by Muslims. Going there hoping to retrieve the gun, he becomes engulfed in a shoot-out between some Hindu attackers and the Muslims, and finds that his loyalties are not so clear cut as he had imagined. Finally he escapes after the death of another of his old friends in the crossfire. The next day, January 30th 1948, he contrives to be near Gandhi in a public prayer ground, his appointment with destiny. But the film still has 20 minutes to run, and the ending is not what you expect.

  • Runtime186
  • Rating8/10
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