ZINDAGI OR JEEVAN SONG #7 – DIL AAJ SHAYAR HAI

Zindagi or Jeevan Songs Series

I started this series on my Facebook group Yaad Kiya Dil Ne on 18 Oct 20. Since then, many other members have put up these songs. Here, I shall be giving you one of my own, per day.

I hope you liked my choice for Song #6 – Tu pyar ja sagar hai in Zindagi or Jeevan Songs series. Let’s start with Song #7.

Song #7
Dil aaj shayar hai gham aaj naghma hai
Theme-word: Second last stanza: Meri tarah zindagi bhar tadap lo, Phir aana iske kareeb

One of the Songs with Best Expressions

We’ve actually had a Fest on the theme of Best Expressions. Let me give you a few:

Let me start with this song: Aansu ke dhaage se seete rahe ham jo zakhm tune diye. You would agree with me that Neeraj has given full rein to his imagination. Extraordinary indeed.

Yaad-e-mehboob idhar aa main tujhe pyar karun,
Tu agar jaan bhi maange to na inkaar karun;
Ek deewane se tu kyun pyar jataane aayi?
Phir teri yaad naye geet sunane aayi,
Dil ki duniya mein naye deep jalane aayi.

Here, what Raja Mehdi Ali Khan has done is to personify Yaad. After listening to the song you can imagine Yaad walking into his house and claiming him!

Here is Rajinder Krishan for you:

Hava mein zulf lehraayi, nazar pe bekhudi chhaai
Khule the dil ke darvaaze, muhabbat bhi chali aai
Tamannaao ki duniya par javaani chha gayi
Vo bhuli daastaa lo phir yaad aa gayi

Rajinder Krishan personified Muhabbat itself!

Here is Rajinder Krishan again:

Ghar se chale the ham to khushi ki talaash mein,
Gham raah mein khade the wahin saath ho liye.

Here he has personified Gham!

Here is Shakeel Badayuni. I have dubbed him the King of Irony:

Tumhi ne gham ki daulat di
Bada ehsaan farmaaya
Zamaane bhar ke aage
Haath failaane kahan jaate
Na miltaa gham to
Barbaadi ke afsaane kahaan jaate

Here is Hasrat Jaipuri:

Muhabbat aisi dhadakan hai
Jo samajhayi nahin jaati
Zubaan par dil ki bechaini kabhi laai nahi jaati

SH Bihari stole a leaf from Hasrat’s Book of Love when he wrote:

Muhabbat jo karate hai vo muhabbat jatate nahin
Dhadakane apane dil ki kabhi kisi ko sunate nahin
Kisi ko sunate nahin
Maza kya raha jab ki khud kar liya ho
Muhabbat ka izahar apani zuban se

The fact of the matter is that songs tug at your emotions much because of the expressions in the lyrics.

Lyrics of Dil Aaj Shayar Hai

With this introduction lets have a look at Neeraj’s lyrics for this song in the 1971 movie Gambler addressed by Dev Anand to Zaheeda in the voice of Kishore Kumar. SD Burman composed them in Raag Bhairavi, Tal Dadra:

दिल आज शायर है, ग़म आज नग़मा है
शब ये गज़ल है, सनम
गैरों के शेरों को, ओ सुनने वाले
हो इस तरफ़ भी करम

आके ज़रा देख तो तेरी खातिर हम किस तरह से जिये
आँसू के धागे से सीते रहे हम, जो ज़ख्म तूने दिये
चाहत की महफ़िल में ग़म तेरा लेकर किस्मत से खेला जुआ
दुनिया से जीते, पर तुझसे हारे, यूँ खेल अपना हुआ

है प्यार हमने किया जिस तरह से उसका ना कोई जवाब
ज़र्रात हैं, लेकिन तेरी लौ में जल कर हम बन गए आफ़ताब
हमसे है ज़िंदा वफ़ा और हम ही से है तेरी महफिल जवाँ
हम जब ना होंगे, तो रो-रो के दुनिया ढूँढेगी मेरे निशाँ

रे, प्यार कोई खिलौना नहीं है, हर कोई ले जो खरीद
मेरी तरह ज़िन्दगी-भर तड़प लो, फिर आना उसके करीब
हम तो मुसाफिर हैं, कोई सफ़र हो, हम तो गुज़र जाएँगे ही
लेकिन लगाया है जो दाव हमने वो जीत कर आएँगे ही
वो जीत कर आएँगे ही, वो जीत कर आएँगे ही

My Own Poetry

It is not my style to be challenging others with my claim. However, I too retrieve things from lost situations and hence haven’t lost everything in a gamble of life:

KUCHH TO HAI

कुछ नहीं भूला
कुछ नहीं खोया
कुछ था भी नहीं
कुछ है भी नहीं
ओस की बूँद थी क्या
या उड़ता हुआ गुबार?
हवा के झोंके की
अपनी कोई हस्ती है क्या?
ख्वाब था
ख्वाब है

हमें अपनी खबर न थी
उन्हें मेरी खबर न थी
तिनकों के आशियाँ में
बस्ते थे हम, और अब
यादों के धुंदले साये में
और ठिकाना ढूँढ़ते हैं

ये धुएं के महल
ये गहरे अँधेरे
ये वीरान मरहले
ये हैं मेरे हमसफ़र
मेरे हमदर्द, मेरे अपने
कौन छीनेगा इन्हे मुझसे?
शुक्र है तेरी मुहब्बत में
कुछ तो मिला है
कुछ तो बचा है

The Song

Ladies and gentlemen, please enjoy: Dil aaj shayar hai…

I hope you enjoyed my choice for Song #7 in the series.

Please await Song #8 –  Mujhe tumse kuchh bhi na chahiye

Author: Sunbyanyname

I have done a long stint in the Indian Navy that lasted for nearly thirty seven years; I rose as far as my somewhat rebellious and irreverent nature allowed me to. On retirement, in Feb 2010, the first thing that occurred to me, and those around me, was that I Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (you will find an article with this title in this blog) and hadn't lost all my noodles and hence thought of a blog titled 'This 'n That'. I later realised that every third blog is called 'This 'n That' and changed the name to 'Sunbyanyname'. I detest treading the beaten track. This blog offers me to air 'another way' of looking at things. The idea is not just to entertain but also to bring about a change. Should you feel differently, you are free to leave your comments. You can leave comments even when you agree and want to share your own experience about the topic of the blog post. Impudent or otherwise, I have never been insousciant and I am always concerned about the betterment of community, nation and the world. I hope the visitors of this blog would be able to discern it.

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