Mile Sur Mera Tumhara

26th January just passed by- Lotsa things have changed but many golden memories from the past are hard to forget. Like running to school to grab the laddoos and chatting with friends sitting on pale green playground, giving the republic day speech in front of more than thousand students, watching that old Bengali version of netaji movie and listening to war stories from dad. Those moments are no longer in life but the memoirs are so fresh that it feels like these all happened just yesterday.One of the fondest memories about 26th jan and 15 aug was the broadcast of the video of “Mile Sur Mera Tumhara”. The old video starring some yesteryear actors, actresses,musicians and sportsstars is still a big hit and is like an iconic song.  It holds true to the fact that “Music brings out emotions”. In 1988 doordarshan created this song to instill and promote the sense and relation of unity and progressiveness among indians.

Just yesterday Zoom channel revealed the new video of that old hit and a full programme dedicated to the making of the song.The new song is 16 minutes 26 seconds long.It retains few people from the old video like Mr. Amitabh Bachchan but many are new. “New” is the word and shows the progressive india which still retains the “Old”. It starts with Mr. Amitabh Bachchan standing in front of Taj Palace hotel at gateway of india, singing the opening lines of the song in his rustic voice. Taj will always be on the minds of indians after 26/11. And i think there’s no better place in mumbai to shoot this song. so the opening of the song was really symbolic and touching.But as the song progresses it somewhere loses the shine. Rohit bal does a cameo for the kashmir part, which i think is really stupid. i don’t understand why he’s in the video. Has he done anything which earned him this place or it’s just another page 3 flick? Personally i liked the part which showcases bengal. It has nothing to do with my being a bengali but just to say the fact that it was well shot and composed. Prosenjit, Rituparna and shaan are all deserving and played their part really well.

The new video does “some” justice to the image of India in 21st century but somewhere it lacks the melody and adequate substance of it’s old avatar. So far youtube has received 1221 comments and mostly people are not happy about how the song and video has been treated. I think it’s highly unlikly that the new version will be able to come up to the same podium.Not a chance! But could have been better.

After reading many of the comments i think the video accomplished one thing..bring people together!!…;)

 

Here are some of the interesting comments posted by users on youtube. Makes an interesting read..

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Just because shilpa shetty has own rajasthan royals(IPL) that doesn't mean she can represent rajasthan everywhere ... she is not even rajasthani ... what a shame ... the director should be thrown in jail ... asshole ---- jasonsaps

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I really liked this comment

Could have been much better,if Personalitiies from other fields..like Sports.Politics,Corporates..we re included..rather than just a Bollywood Mix!!
They could have done one thing...made them stand at one place..and video was shooted..could have shown some Integrity!-----guptavudushi

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This gentleman is really angry..;)

 I want to physically RAPE the ones who made this video, be it man, woman or even JEWS.----vkitet

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This lady is so angry that she posted 3 big comments on youtube page…the most interesting of them is

Sab assholes, shahrukh, aamir, salmaan, the insufferable aishwarya plus abhishek, juhi, shankar ehsaan loy, shivamani, even the otherwise sensible amitabh bachchan, the film maker above all, times of india (the biggest asshole, bastards can trivilaise anything in life) - sabko india gate pe le jaake jute maarne chahiye. Bloody megalomaniacs - ache kapde pehan ke, garibon ke saath khade hoke bandar baja baja rahe hain. -----aanchalj77

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Here the peek at the video:

Part-1

 

Part- 2

About The Author

Iam a Lifestyle Photographer, SEO Consultant and Database expert.I studied Biological Engineering at Amity University.I grew up in India,Can't mention a single area here.. My family was like a japanese bagpacker. Roamed to many indian cities.I have several ideas of what I might do with myself in this lifeworld. Although I feel very much a part of this world, I spend a lot of time questioning it. That's the social scientist in me.People say i am full of attitude and i think that's good.I'm idealistic and maybe naive, but at this point in time I can't imagine living any other way.I have two business ventures- XpressoStill and OptSEO.Xpressostill is a lifestyle photography venture which i started in early 2010.Currently it has two portfolios for wedding photography and travel photography.OptSEO is a new idea, atleast for me. OptSEO is about managing e ventures. My main objective is to try to create,develop and execute a cost effective program to maximize the communication between enterprises and their customers and generate high quality sales inquiries. And if that is not enough..Iam also training to become a pro deep-sea diver. You Can write to me at rakesh.mahato@live.com

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