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ANALYSIS OF A BOLLYWOOD HINDI SONG "SHEESHE KA SAMANDAR"


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I have made an effort to analyse a Bollywood song. I hope you all will enjoy reading this blog




SONG: Sheeshe Ka Samundar
SINGER: AnkitTiwari
MUSIC: HimeshReshammiya
LYRICS: Sameer Anjaan
MUSIC ON: T-Series

SheesheKaSamundar Lyrics

Sheeshe ka samandar
Pani ki diwaarein
Maya hai bharam hai
Mohabbat ki duniya
Is duniya mein jo bhi gaya
Wo to gaya

Barf ki reton pe can there be
Shararon ka thikaana
Gam sehraon mein
Narmiyon ka fasana
Yaadon ka aina
Uthta hai jahan
Sach ki parchaiyaan
Har jagah aati hai nazar
Sone ke hain baadal
Patharon ki barish
Maya hai bharam hai
Mohabbat k iduniya
Is duniya mein jo bhi gaya
Wo to gaya

Shishe ka samundar
Pani ki deewarein……….

Analysis 

As per I.A.Richards Figurative Language, the song is analysed

Sheeshe ka samandar
Pani k idiwaarein
Maya hai bharam hai
Mohabbat ki duniya
Is duniya mein jo bhi gaya
Wo to gaya
In the above lines we find a kind of exaggeration. How is it possible to have a sea of mirrors and walls of water? It can be an illusion. The other lines shows comparison that ‘’Sheeshe ka samandar,Pani ki diwaarein” is an illusion  same way the world of love or it can be said that to be in love is a kind of illusion.
‘’Sheeshe ka samandar’’,’’Pani ki diwaarein’’ are used as metaphors to compare the state of being in love.

Barf k ireton pe
Shararon ka thikaana
Garm sehraon mein
Narmiyon ka fasana
Yaadon ka aina
Uthta hai jahan
Sach k iparchaiyaan
Ha rjagah aati hai nazar
In this stanza again a lot of exaggeratin is seen. Different kinds of metaphors are used for comparison with the world or feeling of love. Words like “Barf” and “Shararon” gives the song paradoxical elements. Truth is personified as having shadow.
Sone ke hain baadal
Patharon ki barish
Maya hai bharam hai
Mohabbat k iduniya
Is duniya mein jo bhi gaya
Wo to gaya
In these lines the words “Sone ke hain baadal” , “Patharon ki barish” describes a kind of artificiality and these words works as a metaphor.

Problems in understanding the lyrics

1.) How can there be sea of mirrors and walls of water? This is something almost impossible.
2.) What does the line ‘barf ki reton mein’ tries to tell us? Does it mean snow? Because where there is ice how can sand found there?
3.) We can see shadow of a person but how can we see shadow of truth everywhere? We wonder that how truth’s shadow can be seen everywhere.
4.) Again in the last lines we see how the words give us an impossible image of could of gold and rain of stones.

According to I.A.Richards, language can be studied in two ways
1.) Scientific use
2.) Emotive use  
Here in this song words are used to create emotion of a person who has suffered a lot. As this words gives us an illusionary image, same way the world of love; the feeling of love takes people in an illusionary world. A poet has a liberty to go beyond the reality and present his imagination in his own way.                               

Visual image
The first reading of this song gives an image of a person who is in state of love. The words give a beautiful picture of a person in love.

Intention of the poet
When we study the words carefully, we get an idea of poet’s intention. He gives an image of the pain one gets when he/she is in an illusion of love. Everything seems to be very beautiful but in reality it’s an illusion. A lot of pain is there behind this illusion. People often get cheated by this world of illusion.


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