Haqeeqat - Chetan Anand 1964

Exquisite poetry, simple and subtle, pain of a lifetime of heartbreak in one word deceptively simple and hiding in the simple description of events leading to the devastating separation  - set to such beautifully simple, elegant melody, and filmed on a backdrop of lofty Himaalayan ranges with a desert at those heights in the forefront that matches the loneliness of life of the soldiers, alone together in guarding the borders of nation while their hearts are just as much of a desert on the backdrop of the lofty role they play in protection of their nation.

Who else but this team, Chetan Anand, Roshan and Kaifi Azmi! 

It wasn't until much, much later that we realised this film wasn't hyperbole, however much well deserved, but plain and simple real story of the defence of Rezang La pass by a handful of Indian soldiers who defended it against a Chinese onslaught of a couple of thousand, or was it three, killing most of them and dying to the last man themselves - the tough conditions and the then not readiness of equipment of military of india, chiefly due to naively blinkered political philosophy of a gandhian aversion to military, had trapped this company into this circumstance,  and they had come through with such daunting valour!


गाना / Title: .....................मैं ये सोचकर उसके दर से उठा था -
चित्रपट / Film: Haqeeqat
संगीतकार / Music Director: मदन मोहन-(Madan Mohan)
गीतकार / Lyricist: Kaifi Azmi
गायक / Singer(s): मोहम्मद रफ़ी-(Mohammad Rafi)

मैं ये सोचकर उसके दर से उठा था
के वो रोक लेगी मना लेगी मुझको

हवाओं में लहराता आता था दामन
के दामन पकड़कर बिठा लेगी मुझको

कदम ऐसे अंदाज़ से उठ रहे थे
के आवाज़ देकर बुला लेगी मुझको

मगर उसने रोका
न उसने मनाया
न दामन ही पकड़ा
न मुझको बिठाया
न आवाज़ ही दी
न वापस बुलाया

मैं आहिस्ता आहिस्ता बढ़ता ही आया
यहाँ तक के उससे जुदा हो गया मैं ...


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tWLYEZ2uIrM