Its been nearly three decades following return of the Border, Sandese Aate Hain as Ghar Kab Aaoge, reminding why one of Hindi cinema’s most enduring patriotic songs that still captures absence, longing, and the silent grief of soldiers and home.
The exceptional song ‘Ghar Kab Aaoge’ has been revamped for ‘Border 2’. The makers chose to relaunch one of Hindi cinema’s most emotionally indelible songs at a stark, symbolic location near the Tanot India-Pakistan border in Jaisalmer.
Titled Ghar Kab Aaoge in its new incarnation, the melody reworks “Sandese Aate Hain” the song that once gave a generation its emotional vocabulary for patriotism. The number has been reimagined with new lyrics and additional voices, and raises a larger, unavoidable question: what is it about this composition that still works, still wounds, still comforts, nearly three decades later?
News Edit KV Raman