Song Details
- Album Release Date: 2012
- Genre: pop-film
Song Meaning of “Oye Boy Charlie” by Vishal Bhardwaj
Oye Boy Charlie is a song from the movie Matru Ki Bijlee Ka Mandola directed by Vishal Bhardwaj in 2013. The song speaks about an unrequited love of Matru, a farm hand, for Bijlee, the daughter of a rich landlord. Matru is filled with sorrow and regret as he fails to express his feelings to Bijlee and so pours out his heart in this song.
The song starts with a melancholic acoustic guitar and Matru singing about his sorrows with the hope that one day Bijlee will realize the depth of his love for her. He yearns for her attention and wishes that she could understand his feelings without him having to express it. Matru is completely enchanted by Bijlee and expresses this with ‘deethe hoyen mukh haan na’ (his face lit with your looks) and ‘lage dil di jaan na’ (his heart beating like life).
He is still hopeful that she will come around and admits that she is the one he has been waiting for all his life. He is desperate to reach out to her, so ‘Oye Boy Charlie’ is an emotional plea for her to look his way and understand his innermost feelings of love.
The song is a beautiful portrayal of unrequited love and touches a chord in the hearts of the listeners.