The song Aami Chini go is a playful ode to a beautiful stranger, the mood of the song vacillating sometimes between a longing moan to sometimes a mischievous banter. The movie based on Rabindranath's story called “The Broken Nest” deals with an urban matured relationship sneakingly born out of loneliness and admiration.
Translator’s Note:
1. My Bengali is not as strong as I wish it to be and some of the words are translated after battering the brains of few of my Bengali friends.
2.I have changed the last lines of the song from the film to the original as composed by Rabindranath.
The last lines of the movie had the words:
"Aami chini go chini tomare
O bou thakuraani"
Which can be translated as:
“ I know you, know you lady
O my lovely sister in law.”
Film: Charulata
Director: Satyajit Ray
Music Director: Rabindranath Tagore (Satyajit Ray)
Singer: Kishore Kumar
Actors: Madhavi Mukherjee & Soumitra Chaterjee
Song:
Aami chini go chini tomare o go videshini
Tumi thaako shindhu paare o go videshini
O go videshini
Dekhechhi sharodo prateh tomay
Dekhechhi madhobi raate tomay
Dekhechhi hridi majhare
O go videshini
Aami aakashe paatia kaan
Sunechhi sunechhi tomari gaan
Aami tomarey sopechhi praan
O go videshini
Bhubono bhramia sheshe
Aami eshechhi nutono deshe
Aami atithi tomari daare
O go videshini
Aami chini go chini tomare
O go videshini
Translation:
I know you ma'am, lady from a land so very far
You live across the sea, o fair stranger from afar.
Have seen you on those dewy autumn mornings
Seen you in the honeyed moonlit evenings
Have seen you in the middle of my heart
O sweet stranger from afar.
I did turn my ears to the sky
And heard you sing, so sweet, so coy
Am offering my soul to you
O sweet stranger from afar.
After wandering around the lonesome earth
Have arrived haggard at a strange new hearth
I am but a guest at your feet
O sweet stranger from afar.
I know you, know you lady
O the sweet stranger.
To view the wondrous clip, Please click to view Aami Chini go from Charulata
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