

He confessed to having been in tears while Mangeshkar was singing the song. Joshi wrote the lyrics about the mother and son playing hide-and-seek with the sad reality of the son being hidden forever. The award-winning lyrists, Prasoon Joshin who wrote the lyrics for this song said that the lyrics were developed while discussing with Rahman the scene about a mother losing her son. It makes the song more touching with the beautiful lyrics is the scene from the movie – where a mother loses her loving son and his friends losing a good friend and they know that he will not be back. I saw the movie Rang De Basanti starring Amir and the duo from the 3 Idiotssometime ago, liked this song (especially the fast guitarist music in the background which later transcends to haunting tabla music) and this song has been one of the must-have songs that I listen at least once in the morning especially when I am starting on my journey.Ī R Rahman is simply brilliant with his composition (the other compositions – Tu Bin Bataye and Roobaroo are brilliant as well) but equally brilliant is the lyrics (I don’t understand Hindi – it is not necessary though, music is a universal language – you can just sense the meaning without you realising it). (This song, Luka Chuppi was sung by the legendary Lata Mangeshkar and A R Rahman)
