'Rim jhim gire saawan' on streets of Bombay (Mumbai)

(Author: Alex Almeida)

The favorite season of India and most of Mumbaikar’s is back the lovely monsoon.The time when season arrives it’s a common thing for people to share a post on the classic song Rim jihm gire saawan.

The hit song from the film Manzil (1979) where we see a younger Amitabh Bachchan wearing a suit and beautiful Moushmi Chatterjee in chiffon saree enjoying the rains of the city at different locations in background of the song.

The making of the song has lot of interesting stories to tell. It was not the artificial rain as usually used in film shoots but was actually pouring in Mumbai when the song was shot and both the lead actors were totally drenched.

Amitabh Bachchan being taller than Mosuhmi Chatterjee had to match the steps while walking on the streets in the rain while he had to take smaller steps to match with his costar. But sometimes it would happen that Moushmi Chatterjee would feel she is left behind and would go further and camera would follow her leaving Amitabh Bachchan behind.

Those days there was no waterproof makeup and shooting the whole song in the torrential rains was not easy. Moushmi Chatterjee’s eye line would come down to her cheeks and get mix up with her blush make up.This would happened frequently and she would have to apply the make up every time firstly by drying up her wet face.

It was pouring so heavily in the city the day that both the actors could not here the song at all.Until the unit started directing then with a handkerchief for action and cut.

Upon completing the shoot while Moushmi Chatterjee was returning home she realized that due to the heavy rains the green color design of her saree got printed on her body.

Manzil was started it 1972 when both Amitabh Bachchan and Moushmi Chatterjee were newcomers and lesser known actors the song was short around that time.The film was in making for a longer period or else to shoot the song after their stardom post 1973 it would have been very difficult.

Rim Jhim Gire Saawan remains a chartbuster even today and will always remain.Recently a 60 plus couple in Mumbai were enjoying the Mumbai rains and created an exact replica of the song which set the social media on fire.This is a great tribute to the song.

(Writer of this article: Alex Almeida is a passionate Hindi cinema buff with a deep love for the art of storytelling.)

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