Rang Barse Song Story: Everyone eagerly waits for the festival of colours, Holi. Everyone has a lot of fun on this colorful festival by applying Abir-Gulal to each other and dancing and singing on Bollywood songs. But without playing a Bollywood song, the festival of Holi seems dull. This song is ‘Rang Barse’ song from Amitabh Bachchan’s iconic film ‘Silsila’. When this song is played on Holi, everyone’s feet automatically start tapping. The magic of this song has remained intact for years. But do you know what is the story behind this classic song? Today in this report we will tell you how the song ‘Rang Barse’ was made?
The song is ‘Rang Barse’ from the movie Silsila.
Yash Chopra’s brilliant romantic drama film ‘Silsila’ was released in 1981. The very popular song ‘Rang Barse’ of this film was filmed on Amitabh Bachchan, Rekha, Sanjeev Kumar and Jaya Bachchan. This 6 minutes 6 seconds iconic song was sung by Amitabh Bachchan himself and his father Harivansh Rai Bachchan wrote its lyrics. The music composers of this song directed by Yash Chopra were Shiv-Hari. There is an interesting story behind how ‘Rang Barse’ was made, which was told to BBC by film critic Jayprakash Chowksey.
How was the song ‘Rang Barse’ composed?
He had revealed that when there used to be a grand Holi party in RK Studios, all the stars of the film industry used to attend this party. During this time, these artists also presented their talent. Once the Shahenshah of Bollywood i.e. Amitabh Bachchan also attended Raj Kapoor’s famous Holi party. At that time Amitabh’s career graph was going very bad, 9 of his films had flopped. At the party, Raj Kapoor told Amitabh, “Today, show some of your talent and create a blast.” On this, Amitabh played the song Rang Barse, which he had heard from his father since childhood, in the party and then what was the magic of Amitabh’s voice, it worked on Yash Chopra. . After this, Yash Chopra cast Amitabh in ‘Silsila’ and got the lyrics of ‘Rang Barse’ written by the actor’s father Harivansh Rai. After this, Amitabh sang this iconic song in his own voice in the film. The film was a flop but this song became immortal.
‘Rang Barse’ song is based on Meera’s bhajan
Let us tell you that the song Rang Barse was based on a traditional bhajan of Meera in Real. Even though the lyrics were by poet Harivansh Rai Bachchan and the song was composed by Shiv-Hari. But the original bhajan, “Rang Barse O Meera, Bhavan Mein Rang Barse / Kun e Meera Tero Mandir Chinayo, Kun Chinayo Tero Devro / Rang Barse O Meera Bhawan Me Rang Barse.” In the film Thasilsila, this song was changed to fit the script. But the bhajan remained popular among people from generation to generation.
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