रुण झुण रुण झुण — सुरेश भट
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run jhun run jhun
paaus padat ahe
tujhi aaathavan
mann mhanat ahe
ye re ye re paavsa
tula deto paisa
paisa zaala khari
paaus aala bhari
कडवे १ #
पाऊस पडत आहे
तुझी आठवण
मन म्हणत आहे
| Word | Roman | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| रुण झुण | run jhun | the sound of rain — onomatopoeia, the light patter of raindrops |
| पाऊस | paaus | rain |
| पडत आहे | padat aahe | is falling |
| तुझी | tuzhi | your, of you |
| आठवण | aathavan | memory, remembrance (aathav = to remember) |
| मन | man | the mind, the heart — both meanings coexist in Marathi |
| म्हणत आहे | mhanat aahe | is saying |
What Bhat is saying: Run jhun run jhun — rain is falling. Your memory: the heart keeps saying it.
The opening is one of the most recognizable phrases in Marathi poetry — run jhun run jhun, the onomatopoeic rendering of light rain that every Marathi speaker carries from childhood. Suresh Bhat uses it not as description alone but as a trigger: the sound of rain brings the memory. Man mhanat aahe — the heart keeps saying it — captures how memory is not chosen but involuntary: the rain begins and the heart begins its own sentence, one the speaker did not ask it to start. The memory is not yet named; it is simply present, as the rain is present.
कडवे २ #
तू आलेली होतीस
त्या एका पावसात
निघून गेलेली होतीस
| Word | Roman | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| त्या | tya | that, in that |
| एका | eka | one, a particular |
| पावसात | paavsaat | in the rain, during the monsoon |
| तू | tu | you |
| आलेली होतीस | aalelI hotIs | had come (feminine past perfect) |
| निघून गेलेली होतीस | nighoon gelelI hotIs | had left, had gone away (feminine past perfect) |
What Bhat is saying: In that one monsoon, you had come. In that one monsoon, you had left.
The verse is structurally a mirror — the same line beginning (tya eka paavsaat) opening first an arrival and then a departure. The symmetry is exact and devastating. One monsoon contains both the coming and the going: the same rain that brought her took her away. Or perhaps the going happened in a later year but is remembered now as the same rain, because rain is rain and memory compresses what it cannot bear to keep separate. Bhat’s genius is the economy: two lines for the whole story of a love that came and went within a single season.
कडवे ३ #
तूच दिसत राहतेस
रुण झुण रुण झुण
तूच म्हणत राहतेस
| Word | Roman | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| आता | aata | now |
| प्रत्येक | pratyek | every, each |
| पावसात | paavsaat | in the rain |
| तूच | tuch | you only, it is you who |
| दिसत राहतेस | disat raahates | keep appearing, are seen again and again |
| म्हणत राहतेस | mhanat raahates | keep saying, keep repeating |
What Bhat is saying: Now in every monsoon, you keep appearing. Run jhun run jhun — it is you who keep saying it.
The final verse completes the transformation: the rain has become her. Not just a reminder of her, but her presence itself — tuch disat raahates, it is you who keep appearing in every rain. And then the return of the opening sound: run jhun run jhun — but now it is not the poem speaking it, it is her voice. The rain speaks in her voice. Every monsoon from now on will be her coming back, the same arrival that also contained the departure. Bhat ends not with grief but with a kind of haunted constancy: she is here in every rain, and every rain will bring her, and this is both the loss and the consolation.