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शमा जलती गई रौशनी होती रही कम,
अंधियारे बढ़ते गए, हर तरफ नजर आने लगे ग़म।
सांसे फूली सी थी, धड़कने भारी हुई,
ऐसे लगता था जल्द ही निकल जाएगा दम ।
खामोशी और तन्हाई की बूंदे यूँ लटकी थी फिज़ा में,
जैसे यकायक वक़्त ही हो गया हो थम।
जुबान यूँ सूखी थी जैसे कहने को कुछ और न था,
एक आंख ही थी जो अक्सर रहती थी नम।
कौन जाने कब और कैसे यह फ़ासला दूर हो,
न हमने न तुमने उठाए हों जब कदम।
लगता है, रवि, कुछ और ही होंगे इसकी वजह,
न तुम रहे अब तुम, न हम रहे अब हम।
जन्मदिन मुबारक हो मेरी बहन Mona,
दिल आपका लगता है जैसे हो सोना;
कुछ भी हो जाए,
गर ग़म भी सताए,
इस मलकीयत को आप कभी ना खोना।
दुनिया भर की खुशियां चूमें आपके पैर,
आपके दुश्मनों की खुदा ही मनाए खैर;
गैर भी बनें अपने,
सच हों आपके सपने,
अपनों में कभी कोई ना बने गैर।
सलामत रहे हरदम आपका घर परिवार,
ज़िन्दगी में हमेशा हो बहार ही बहार;
फूल और कहकशां,
चांद और तितलियां,
रंग ओ नूर आपसे ही लें उधार।
आप में छिपी है हमारी मां की मूरत,
उतना ही सुन्दर रुखसार, उतनी ही प्यारी सूरत;
कहता नहीं मैं अपने लिए,
जलाता हूं आज घी के दीए,
सारे जहान को आपकी है बहुत ज़रूरत।
खुश नसीब हूं मैं हूं आपका भाई,
सारी कायनात जैसे मेरे दिल में समाई;
आप जैसी बहना,
के लिए क्या है कहना,
हमेशा आपकी राखी सजाए मेरी कलाई।
धीरे धीरे हम सबसे इस कदर जुदा हो बैठे,
जैसे सब में शामिल कोई गुमशुदा हो बैठे।
एक दरिया था जो मस्ती में बहता था,
वह बह गया और हम फक्त बुदबुदा हो बैठे।
बहुत चीखे चिलाए कोई तो कभी आएगा,
क्या गरज थी वह सब तो खुदा हो बैठे।
शोर ओ गुल था, वह भी क्या वक़्त था हुज़ूर,
न जाने क्यूं हम तन्हाई पे फिदा हो बैठे।
खुशियां थीं, ख्वाहिशें थीं, उम्मीदों का सहारा था,
रफ्ता रफ्ता उन सब से विदा हो बैठे।
यकीनन हमसे ही कोई खता हुई है, रवि,
वरना उंगलियों से क्यूं नाखून जुदा हो बैठे।
इस साल ने कुछ ऐसे हैं गुल खिलाए,
दुआ करते हैं ऐसा न फ़िर दोबारा आए।
चेहरे पे नकाब पहने लोग यूं घूमते हैं,
जैसे गुनहगार फिरते हों अपना मुंह छुपाए।
न दोस्तों को न रिश्तेदारों को मिलते हैं कभी,
अब तो अपने भी नज़र आने लगे हैं पराए।
ज़िन्दगी जिनकी जद्दोजहद में गुज़री हो सारी,
वह भी इस साल से नज़र आते हैं सताए।
इससे पहले कई चीजें लगती थी साइंस के इख्तियार में,
अब पता चला खुदा से बाहर कोई जा ना पाए।
एक पल में वह बदल दे करोड़ों की किस्मत,
रोते हुओं को हसा दे, हस्ते हुओं को रुलाए।
जब कोई शय हद्द से बढ़ जाती है कभी,
खुदा की दुरुस्ती हमारी नज़र के सामने आए।
अब इस से भी ना हमने सीखा खुदा का सबक,
तो खुदा ही हमें आने वाले अंजाम से बचाए।
तो अाइए आने वाले साल में पुराने से कुछ सीखते हैं,
ताकि नया साल हमारे पुराने तरीके और गम भूल जाए।
मुबारक हो आने वाला साल आप सबको दोस्तो,
वैक्सीन ही नहीं, नया साल नई खुशियां ले के आए।
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 #5 – Koi sagar dil ko behlata nahin in Zindagi or Jeevan Songs series. Let’s start with Song #6.
We lost him on this day in the year 2013. Having been born on the Labour Day in 1919 in Calcutta, he recorded his first playback song for the 1942 movie Tamanna, a duet with Suraiya that was composed by KC Dey: Jago aayee usha panchhi bole jago.He soon emerged the singer of choice for raaga based songs. He tried his hand at comical songs too with great success. Some of his duets in the movies are immortal. One of his unforgettable raaga based songs was in Raag Basant Bahar for the movie with the same name: Ketaki gulab juhi. Another unforgettable song of his is from Waqt: Aye meri zohrazabeen. Yet another is Aye mere pyare watan. Needless to say he made a name for himself as a quniqe playback singer.
He was the recipient of Padma Shri, Padma Bhushan and finally Padma Vibhushan and to top it all Dadasaheb Phalke Award.
I have taken the song from the 1955 Amiya Chakraborty movie Seema starring Nutan and Balraj Sahni.
Incidentally, both the movies won Nutan Best Actress Awards, as did three other movies: Sujata, Milan and Main Tulsi Tere Aangan Ki.
From Ashok (Balraj Sahni) being a kind-hearted Manager of an Orphanage, suddenly, in this hymn, Shailendra raises the level to God Himself.
They chose a dignified Raag Darbari Kanada, Tal Kaherava to compose it. It is not my intention to give you intricacies of this raag here. Suffice it to say that if you think of other songs in the same raag and tal (not all by S-J), you would get the feel: Hum tujhase muhabbat karke sanam, Hum tumase juda hoke, Mohabbat ki jhooti kahani pe roye, O duniya ke rakhwale, Teri duniya mein dil lagta nahin and Tora man darpan kehlaye.I hope you enjoyed my choice for Song #6 in the series.
Please await Song #7 – Dil aaj shayar hai.
I started this series on my Facebook group Yaad Kiya Dil Ne on 18 Aug 20. Since then, many other members have put up these songs. Here, I shall be giving you one of my own, per day.
This is the Song #6 in the series. I hope you liked Song #5 – Sab kuchh luta ke hosh mein aaye.
Song #6
Raat ne kya kya khwab dikhaye
This one has been sung by Talat Mehmood who perfected the tremor in his voice.
It is from the 1957 movie Ek Gaon Ki Kahani that starred Talat Mehmood, Mala Sinha and Abhi Bhattacharya.
To understand the song better here is the story-line:
Jaya (Mala Sinha) lives in a village called Chandangaon in India along with her widower dad, Gokul (IS Johar), who works for a living as a compounder, but calls himself a Homeopathic doctor and dispenses Arnica for all kinds of ailments, especially since there is no qualified doctor in the village. Since Jaya is or marriageable age, he has arranged her marriage with hard-of-hearing Shiv, the son of Dayashankar (Bipin Gupta), who is the President of the Gram Panchayat. Dayashankar is anxious to get Shiv married so that he can get some dowry from Gokul. The other suitor for Jaya is Ratan (Abhi Bhattacharya), whose mother would like her to re-marry her son as his wife, Maya (Nirupa Roy), is unable to conceive. Then a new doctor (Talat Mahmood as Talat) arrives in this village to look after the charitable dispensary. Things heat up when Dayashankar and Ratan’s mom (Lalita Pawar) find out that he may be Jaya’s new suitor. Hilarious chaos reigns when Maya assaults her cruel mother-in-law, and Ratan abducts Jaya from her marriage with Shiv.
Please enjoy: Raat ne kyaa kyaa khwab dikhaye….
रात ने क्या क्या ख्वाब दिखाये
रंग भरे सौ जाल बिछाये
आँखें खुली तो सपने टूटे
रह गये ग़म के काले साये
रात ने …
ओ … (हम ने तो चाहा भूल भी जायें
वो अफ़साना क्यों दोहोरायें ) – २
दिल रह रह के याद दिलाये
रात ने क्या क्या …
(दिल में दिल का ददर् छुपाये
चलो जहां क़िस्मत ले जाये ) – २
दुनिया परायी लोग पराये
रात ने क्या क्या …
I hope you liked my choice of Song #6 in Raat or Din series.
Please await Song #7 – Lag jaa gale ke phir.
I started this series on my Facebook group Yaad Kiya Dil Ne on 23 Aug 20. Since then, many other members have put up these songs. Here, I shall be giving you one of my own, per day.
On 05 Dec 20, I gave you Beautiful Duet #5 – Jhilmil sitaaron ka mausam hoga. So here, then, is the next one:
As seen by me this is the #1 romantic duet in the Hindi films and all of us deserve it to recall how it was decades ago when we fell in love: the muted (during those times) excitement, the magic, the awe of going into unknown journey (Hrishikesh Mukherjee in his debut directorial attempt has made them go in a boat rowed by him into unknown waters! Just imagine the excellence of his Direction!), and the overwhelming feeling that the celestial bodies: the sky and the moon are rejoicing in your love. Can’t think of a better and more beautiful duet.
Prelude is so beautifully enacted by Nutan that it leaves me totally stunned. She is a woman. Earlier, in another Chand song she had teased him for being Anari (Naive): समझने वाले समझ गये हैं, न समझे, न समझे वो अनाड़ी हैं I Elsewhere, I had already brought out that this song is an extension of those emotions. NOW, she has suddenly understood that he isn’t Anari anymore and that this is the love of her life. The prelude with the notes of accordion starts with joyous feeling but with shyness (of her being a woman; those were not the days when women could express love openly) and the fear of the unknown. These are mixed feelings depicted in the prelude though you feel that probably the joy is more in focus than other emotions. He too has his doubts which are in prominence in the second part of the prelude. His doubts are naturally about his being poor and she being a millionaire’s daughter. At this juncture, let me tell you how confidence builds up for him as the song progresses. So at the end of the second stanza when he says the following (hats off to Shailendra for having thought of that), it doesn’t sound as a ridiculous boast:
सब कुछ हमारा, अब है तुम्हाराI
Now for M1. The origin of this duet is: Seene se uthkar honthon pe aaya. Superb picturisation in words by Shailendra. The notes are indicating muted joy at the discovery of their love and at the next moment the awe of having moved into unknown (and as deep as the sea) territory.
And Shailendra’s lyrics seamlessly fit after M1:
क्यों बेखबर, यूँ खिंचीसी चली जा रही मैं (being physically also rowed by him)
ये कौनसे बन्धनों में बंधी जा रही मैं (deep and unknown territory; no earlier experience)
कुछ खो रहा है, कुछ मिल रहा है
ये बात क्या है, ये राज़ क्या है (the discovery of this secret)
कोई हमें बता दे, दिल की नज़र से
M2 is so typically S-J that if someone was to play this anywhere, without even knowing the song, you would say S-J. It is leading to second antara. It has to be magical; the sheer ecstasy of true love and perhaps a little intoxication too. The notes of M2 say it clearly. Listen to the entire song as an instrumental and you would know what I am saying. The words that follow have enormous meaning because of S-J’s M2 here. You are in another world even before he opens with:
हम खो चले, चाँद है या कोई जादूगर है
या, मदभरी, ये तुम्हारी नज़र का असर हैI
The third interlude or M3 is playful. I would hand it over to Hrishikesh Mukherjee more than to anyone else. Look at the words:
आकाश में, हो रहें हैं ये कैसे इशारे
क्या, देखकर, आज हैं इतने खुश चाँद-तारे
A lesser director would, at this stage, actually take you to the sky and the moon and the stars. Hrishikesh doesn’t let the focus shift from the lovers at all. You want to see the sky? Look into Raj Kapoor’s face. You want to see the moon? Look into Nutan’s eyes!
M3 superbly builds up to this excellent direction and cinematography (I had brought it up several times that S-J were the duo who took into account these aspects whilst composing and giving music to their songs.
Every which way you look at it, this is a perfect romantic duet.
Please enjoy: Dil ki nazar se..
I hope you liked my choice of Beautiful Duet #6.
Please await Beautiful Duet #7- Tasveer teri dil mein.
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 #4 – Hai duniya usi ki in Zindagi or Jeevan Songs series. Let’s start with Song #5.
Song #5
Koi sagar dil ko behlata nahin
Theme-word: Zindagi ke aayine ko tod do, Is mein ab kuchh bhi nazar aata nahin
Everyone knows that I am very fond of Shakeel Badayuni. This blog www.sunbyanyname.com has more posts on him than on any other person. I have always felt that the most memorable songs in Hindi movies were made by Shakeel-Naushad-Mohammad Rafi-Dilip Kumar together. And in this 1966 Abdul Rashid Kardar (the one person who gave a break to so many: Majrooh and Shakeel being two) and Dilip Kumar (yes, he is credited as co-director of the movie) movie Dil Diya Dard Liya, the quartet has some of their best songs:
I have given four songs with theme-word Zindagi or Jeevan so far and each one was carefully selected to give a new meaning for the theme-word. The first one is a declaration of what Jeevan is: Yeh jeevan hai, Is jeevan ka, Yehi hai yehi hai rang roop; Thodi khushiyan hain thode gham hain. The second one describes how the Zindagi of a nation depends upon the sacrifice of a soldier: Watan ki raah mein watan ke naujawan shaheed hon. The third is something that tells you that Zindagi is just one Raat: Aaj jaane ki zidd na karo. The fourth one is to do with the fact that you haven’t lived if you haven’t loved: Ye duniya usi ki zamana usi ka, Mohabbat mein jo ho gaya ho kisi ka.
This fifth song has one of the most beautiful, though sad, expressions by Shakeel: Zindagi ke aayine ko tod do, Is mein ab kuchh bhi nazar aata nahin. Naturally, this song is sung at a time when Love has gone sour.
This 1966 AR Kardar movie was based upon Emily Brontë’s celebrated 1847 novel Wuthering Heights. As a boy Dilip Kumar is poor and hence Pran is forever ill treating him. However, Waheeda is in love with him. Later he grows up and the same situation continues. Once, he is thrown into the sea by Pran (so as to stop his and Waheeda’s love affair) after being beaten up and presumed dead. When he is rescued it is discovered that he is the prince of a kingdom. The dying king leaves everything to him.
He now returns to the place of his torture hoping for good news. However, by this time, Waheeda is betrothed to Rehman (she waited long for him) and that’s how he sings Songs #1, #3 and #4.
Ladies and gentlemen, please enjoy: Koi sagar dil ko behlata nahin…
कोई सागर दिल को बहलाता नहीं – २
बेखुदी में भी क़रार आता नहीं, कोई सागर …
मैं कोई पत्थर नहीं इनसान हूँ – २
कैसे कह दूँ ग़म से घबराता नहीं
कोई सागर …
कल तो सब थे कारवाँ के साथ साथ – २
आज कोई राह दिखलाता नहीं
कोई सागर …
ज़िंदगी के आइने को तोड़ दो – २
इसमें अब कुछ भी नज़र आता नहीं
कोई सागर …
I hope you enjoyed my choice for Song #5 in the series.
Please await Song #6 – Tu pyar ka sagar hai.
I started this series on my Facebook group Yaad Kiya Dil Ne on 18 Aug 20. Since then, many other members have put up these songs. Here, I shall be giving you one of my own, per day.
This is the fifth song in the series. I hope you liked Song #4 – Tumhare nain dekh ke.
Song #5
Sab kuchh luta ke hosh mein aaye to kya kiya?
Theme-word: Din mein agar chirag jalaye to ky kiya
There are, of course, very good and even great male playback singers. However, I noticed this with me, from the days when I was a boy, that if a song has been sung (not a duet) by a male and her, I would instinctively want to listen to her. On her birthday, my Songs group has this collage:
Take, for example, the Munim song sung separately by Kishore Kumar and her: Jeevan ke safar mein rahi milte hain bichhud jaane ko. There is no doubt about the quality of singing of Kishore Kumar singing a song having a word he was passionate about: Rahi. However, I have listened to Lata version more than his. It is the same with Na yeh chand hoga na taare rahenge and Ye chand ye chandni phir kahan.
Hence, please forgive me that since these songs I am posting from my heart, I shall give you the Lata Mangeshkar version and not Talat Mahmood’s. In any case, the song is most apt for her.
This was a movie directed by Devendra Goel and starring Ashok Kumar and Madhubala in lead roles (similar to Howrah Bridge). However, unlike Howrah Bridge, there was no Chinese angle to the story.
Ashok Kumar is a con man in the movie. He is appointed by Madhubala’s father to pretend to be in love with her to make her dying days (Ek Saal was what doctors gave her) more pleasant. She, of course, starts actually loving him and then she discovers that he is her father’s manager.
The Talat Mahmood version of the song was a favourite with my father. He often used to sing it (like me, as a bathroom singer). However, as soon as I discovered Lata’s version and the state in which Madhubala found herself, I used to listen to it often and cry.
It was penned by Prem Dhawan (Shaheed songs and the unforgettable patriotic number Aye mere pyare watan tujh pe dil kurban.
It was composed by Ravi who excelled in songs depicting abject misery and sadness (eg, Lo aa gayi unki yaad woh nahin aaye).
लता वर्शन
न पूछो प्यार की हमने वो हक़ीक़त देखी
वफ़ा के नाम पे बिकती हुई उल्फ़त देखी
किसी ने लूट लिया और हमें ख़बर न हुई
खुली जो आँख तो बर्बाद मुहब्बत देखी
सब कुछ लुटा के होश में आए तो क्या किया
दिन में अगर चराग़ जलाए तो क्या किया
(मैं वो कली हूँ जो न बहारों में खिल सकी) -२
वो दिल हूँ जिसको प्यार की मंज़िल न मिल सकी
मंज़िल न मिल सकी
पत्थर पे हमने फूल चढ़ाए तो क्या किया
(जो मिल न सका प्यार ग़म की शाम तो मिले)-२
इक बेवफ़ा से प्यार का अंजाम तो मिले
(ऐ मौत जळ आ) -२ ज़रा आराम तो मिले
दो दिन ख़ुशी के देख न पाए तो क्या किया
Lyrics, for me, are the main thing in a song. So, even though I am not putting up Talat Mahmood version, you may want to look at the excellent lyrics:
तलत वर्शन
करते रहे ख़िज़ाँ से हम सौदा बहार का
बदला दिया तो क्या ये दिया उनके प्यार का
सब कुछ लुटा के होश में आये तो क्या किया? -२
दिन में अगर चराग़ जलाये तो क्या किया?
सब कुछ लुटा के होश में आये तो क्या किया? -२
हम बदनसीब प्यार की रुसवाई बन गये -२
ख़ुद ही लगा के आग तमाशाई बन गये,
तमाशाई बन गये
दामन से अब ये शोले बुझाये तो क्या किया?
दिन में अगर चराग़ जलाये तो क्या किया?
सब कुछ लुटा के होश में आये तो क्या किया? -२
ले-ले के हार फूलों के आई तो थी बहार -२
नज़रें उठाके हमने ही देखा न एक बार
देखा न एक बार
आँखों से अब ये परदे हटाये तो क्या किया?
दिन में अगर चराग़ जलाये तो क्या किया?
सब कुछ लुटा के होश में आये तो क्या किया? -२
I have given this to you a once or twice earlier. It is a favourite with me:
SULAGTE AANSU
वो लौटा रहें हैं मेरा सामान,
और जला रहे हैं सब कुछ,
मेरी आरज़ू है सितमगर
मेरे अश्क भी जला दें
ताके दिल के समुन्दर में
वो तूफ़ान फिर ना उभरे;
जो मरहले खड़े थे
उन्हें ठोकर से मिटा दें
काश हम ना होते वो ना होते,
और ये आरज़ू ना होती
तेरी आँखों में जो सरूर था
वो सरूर भी हटा दें
मैं भूल गया हूँ सब कुछ,
तेरे प्यार की नज़र में
मेरी कौन सी है मंजिल
मुझे कुछ तो अब पता दें
अब दिल न हो, प्यार ना हो,
और ना रहे उनकी यादें,
कोई उनसे जाके कह दे,
मेरी हस्ती ही मिटा दें
Please enjoy Lata Mangeshkar singing: Sab kuchh luta ke hosh mein aaye to kya kiya…
I hope you liked my choice of Song #5 in Raat or Din series.
Please await Song #6 – Raat ne kya kya khwab dikhaye.
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 #3 – Aaj jaane ki zidd na karo in Zindagi or Jeevan Songs series. Let’s start with Song #4.
Song #4
Hai duniya usi ki zamana usi ka
Theme-word: Usi ne hai loota maza zindagi ka and in the very last line! Satayega kya gham use zindagi ka.
Recently, I talked about the contribution of Kapoor family to Hindi cinema, which, thanks to their patronage was rid of the parochialism of Bengalis when the Hindi films industry was located in Calcutta. Indeed, Kapoors ensured that talent from all across the country was encouraged.
I told you about the three in the family: the doyen Prithviraj Kapoor and two out of three sons: Raj Kapoor and Shashi Kapoor who were awarded the highest in cinematic excellence: the Dadasaheb Phalke Award. And the third son who didn’t get the award was Shammi Kapoor, who really knew how to act!
He acted in all movies with bad names and yet he emerged as the paragon of gentlemanliness: Janwar, Budtameez, Junglee, Bluff Master and so on.
This 1964 Shakti Samanta movie was the debut film of Sharmila Tagore. There was tremendous chemistry between Sharmila and Sharmila and they both enacted their roles with passion: a poor flower girl in Srinagar and spoiled brat of a rich family respectively.
The movie owes its success not just to the romantic pair but also to the freshness of the songs created by SH Bihari, OP Nayyar, Mohammad Rafi and Asha Bhosle; indeed the freshness of the songs competed with the freshness of the songs and we had all kinds of songs too in the movie.
Mukesh became the singing voice of Raj Kapoor. Raj Kapoor gave some of his songs also to Manna Dey. However, Shammi Kapoor stuck with Mohammad Rafi. Hence, some of the best and most romantic songs of Mohammad Rafi are picturised on Shammi Kapoor.
Many lyricists have penned words in this theme and I shall be giving you many such songs. Zindagi is to be measured by the scale of Love and then you realise that Zindagi pyar ki do chaar ghadi hoti hai, Chahe thodi hi ho yeh umr badi hoti hai. SH Bihari immortalised this theme with lyrics that are, if I may say so, extraordinary:
है दुनिया उसी की, ज़माना उसी का
मोहब्बत में जो हो गया हो किसी का
(लुटा जो मुसाफ़िर दिल के सफ़र में
है जन्नत यह दुनिया उसकी नज़र में) – २
उसी ने है लूटा मज़ा ज़िंदगी का
मोहब्बत में …
(है सजदे के काबिल हर वो दीवाना
के जो बन गया हो तसवीर-ए-जाना) – २
करो एह्तराम उस की दीवानगी का
मोहब्बत में …
(बर्बाद होना जिसकी अदा (???) हो
दर्द-ए-मोहब्बत जिसकी दवा हो) – २
सताएगा क्या ग़म उसे ज़िंदगी का
मोहब्बत में …
It is not just the lyrics. The song was immortalised by its outstanding composition (including Manohri’s saxophone), extremely passionate singing by Mohammad Rafi and its enactment in the bar by Rajiv (Shammi Kapoor), the saxophonist and the mustachioed Colonel. The entire effect is as if the lyrics, composition, singing and enacting gelled into one compact performance. No one can ever have enough of this song; it is like eating peanuts; you can’t have one!
Zindagi Mil Jayegi Dobara
बारिश कभी रुक जाए,
यकायक बरसते बरसते।
ज़ुबान कभी हो जाए खुश्क,
एक बूंद को तरसते तरसते।
दिल कभी खामोश हो जाए,
ऐसे ही धड़कते धड़कते।
नजरें बन जाएं पथरीली,
दो पल बहकते बहकते।
बादल अचानक छंट जाएं,
चमक के गरजते गरजते।
शमा बुझने को हो तैयार,
सारी रात लरजते लरजते।
आंखों की नमी हो जाए खत्म,
आंसूओं को झटकते झटकते।
मेरे कदम हो जाएं साकिन,
तेरी गलियों में भटकते भटकते।
Ladies and gentlemen, on Shammi Kapoor’s birth anniversary today, lets enjoy a song beautifully enacted by him on the lyrics of SH Bihari, composition of OP Nayyar, voice of Mohammad Rafi in the 1964 Shakti Samanta movie Kashmir Ki Kali: Hai duniya usi ki zamana usi ka…
I hope you enjoyed my choice for Song #4 in the series.
Please await Song #5 – Koi sagar dil ko behlata nahin.
I started this series on my Facebook group Yaad Kiya Dil Ne on 18 Aug 20. Since then, many other members have put up these songs. Here, I shall be giving you one of my own, per day.
This is the fourth song in the series. I hope you liked Song #3 – Tere bina zindagi se koi.
Song #9
Tumhaare nain dekh ke suna hai log jogi ho gaye
Theme-word: In italics in the Lyrics
Today, after a long time, I am laying bare my soul in both Raat Or Din Songs Series and Beautiful Duets Series.
There are songs that are close to my heart. One is Shakeel – Naushad – Rafi ghazal Mere mehboob tujhe meri mohabbat ki kasam. The others are Hemant Kumar songs.
I have never put up Mere mehboob tujhe and I am very shy (reluctant) to put up Hemant Kumar songs. If you scan through my posts you’ll realise that I don’t easily put up Hemant Kumar.
Some of you have speculated about the reasons for my reluctance. Even I don’t know fully. Perhaps I feel that if I have to put up these songs close to my heart, the realm that I have built around them in my imagination would be shattered. Incidentally, it used to happen with seeing even videos of the songs close to my heart.
When I was in my late teens, I used to get this feeling in sleep that my soul is flying out of my body and visiting places, providing me aerial view of strange and unknown places. It was such a strong and real feeling that there were times when I tried to hold on to bed in the hope that somehow the soul won’t leave me alone in bed. However, it was beyond me and once I got used to being rid of my fears, I enjoyed the aerial journeys at night.
Our nearest neighbour in Dharamsala was the Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) and his family. Once, I disclosed about my nocturnal aerial journeys to his wife. She mentioned that this phenomenon with some people had been recorded in books and is related to the Astral. She, however, mentioned that the more people I shared it with, it would go away shortly. It lasted until a few years after I joined the Navy. So, it is perhaps registered in my mind that telling people about matters of my heart make their effect go away.
Some of you may like to comment on it.
Rahgir literally means passer-by. Some of you may recall how Rahi is what Kishore Kumar depicted in his movies, trying to find the Meaning of Life. To give him due credit he made movies like Door Ka Rahi to satisfy an inner quest and not for commercial purposes.
It is perhaps a Bengali thing; this movie too was first made in Bengali (the 1963 Bengali movie Palatak). Rahgir too was about finding the Meaning of Life. It was a 1969 movie directed by Tarun Majumdar and starring his wife Sandhya Roy (presently a Trinamool Congress pillar) opposite Biswajeet Roy. Biswajeet Roy received critical acclaim for the movie and it is talked about that it is the finest role that he enacted.
It was penned by Gulzar and sung by Hemant Kumar on his own composition. I rate his rendition here as one of his finest. The song echoes in my mind all the way from my teenager days of having my soul taking nocturnal journeys.
तुम्हारे नैन देख के
सुना है लोग जोगी हो गए
तुम्हारे नैन देख के
किसी की आँखे गयी
किसी की प्यास गयी
किसी को जान मिली
हमारी साँस गयी
तुम्हारे नैन देख के
सुना है लोग जोगी हो गए
तुम्हारे नैन देख के
दो नीली आँखे
दो नीली आँखे नीली आँखे
जैसे सपनों में खोई हुई है
यह नीली आँखे
यह नीली आंखे नीली आँखे
जैसे राते दो सोयी हुयी है
किसी को साथ मिला
किसी की बात चला
किसी का दिन बिता
हमारी रात चली
तुम्हारे नैन देख के
सुना है लोग जोगी हो गए
तुम्हारे नैन देख के
लोग कहते है कहते है
इन आँखों से साहिल बहते है
लोग लोग कहते है
इन झीलों में शायद
प्यासे दिल रहते है
तुम्हारी आँख लगे
तो रात सोती है
तुम्हारे जागते ही सावेर होती है
तुम्हारे नैन देख के
सुना है लोग जोगी हो गए
तुम्हारे नैन देख के.
MERI ZINDAGI AAPKI AANKHON TALE
आपकी आँखों में मुझे वह झलक मिल जाती है,
ज़िन्दगी दफ़अतन और हसीन हो जाती है I
लोग देखते हैं प्यार दिलरुबा की आँखों में,
मुझे तो सारी कायनात नज़र आ जाती है I
ये आँखें नहीं हैं मेरी ज़िन्दगी की रहनुमा हैं,
ज़िन्दगी के मायने यकीनी मुझे समझाती हैं I
कई बार सोचता हूँ कह दूँ इनसे मैं दिल की बात,
क्या कहूं हया मेरी आंखों में छलक जाती है I
सबेरे का सूरज इनकी पलकें खुलने का इशारा है,
रात का अँधेरा पलक झुकने पे ले आती हैं I
ज़िन्दगी में लाखों ग़म इधर उधर बिखरे हों तो क्या,
ज़िन्दगी के सारे ग़म इनकी लौ भुलाती हैं I
मुझे अब इनके सिवा कुछ और न चाहिए, रवि,
जन्नत – ऐ – खुदा खुद बा खुद मिल जाती है I
Please enjoy: Tumhare nain dekh ke suna hai log jogi ho gaye…
I hope you liked my choice of Song #4 in Raat or Din series.
Please await Song #5 – Sab khuchh luta ke hosh mein aaye.
I started this series on my Facebook group Yaad Kiya Dil Ne on 23 Aug 20. Since then, many other members have put up these songs. Here, I shall be giving you one of my own, per day.
On 04 Dec 20, I gave you Beautiful Duet #4 – O neend na mujhako aaye. So here, then, is the next one:
Song #5
Jhilmil sitaron ka aangan hoga
I have already explained that one of the biggest neglected areas in songs in this group has been Duets. One reason for it is that when we pay tribute to singers on their birthdays and anniversaries, we normally put up solos by them.
Yes, anyone can put it up too: just one song per day after checking with me for next day’s slot.
They are my all time favourites, We can talk about this pair and that pair but some of Hindi films’ best duets have been sung by them. I have very precious memories of these duets.
Take this one, for example. There is enormous wistfulness that surrounds new lovers; everything looks so beautiful, everything appears heavenly. Everything appears possible!
A boy and girl, in love, were lying on the beach and he was reading Byron’s poetry to her: Roll on thou dark blue ocean….She touched his arm and in a trance said, “Just look, John, the ocean is doing what you are asking it to do”!
That, ladies and gentlemen, is the power of Love; that also is the trust in the power of Love.
They were the most versatile pair of Lyricist with Music Director; they made songs of approximately 300 movies. No other pair is even close to their halfway mark. And yet, they maintained quality all throughout.
Take this song, for example. A song depicting this belief in Love was to be made and in the movie she would sing it again at crucial juncture. It had to have lyrics that would be so extraordinary that you too would believe in their Love. Anand Bakshi provided just those:
झिलमिल सितारों का आँगन होगा
रिमझिम बरसता सावन होगा
प्रेम की गली में एक
छोटा सा घर बनाएंगे
कलियाँ ना मिले ना सही
काँटों से सजाएंगे
बगियाँ से सुंदर वो बन होगा
रिमझिम बरसता सावन होगा
झिलमिल सितारों का आँगन होगा
रिमझिम बरसता सावन होगा
तेरी आँखों से सारा
संसार मैं देखूँगी
देखूँगी इस पार या
उस पार मैं देखूँगी
नैनों को तेरा ही दर्शन होगा
रिमझिम बरसता सावन होगा
झिलमिल सितारों का आँगन होगा
रिमझिम बरसता सावन होगा
फिर तो मस्त हवाओं के
हम झोके बन जाएंगे
नैना सुन्दर सपनों के
झरोखे बन जाएंगे
मन आशाओं का दर्पण होगा
रिमझिम बरसता सावन होगा
ऐसा सुंदर सपना अपना जीवन होगा
झिलमिल सितारों का आँगन होगा
रिमझिम बरसता सावन होगा
And then, Laxmikant Pyarelal composed it in a tune that appears to be in sync with their heartbeats. Beautiful.
Jeevan Mrityu was the name of this 1970 movie that was produced by Tarachand Barjatya (Hum Aapke Hain Kaun and other such feel-good movies). The movie was directed by Satyen Bose. What memorable movies he made: both Jagriti and Dosti directed by him won Filmfare Best Movie awards. Raat Aur Din and Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi were unforgettable too.
I have already given you this a few times:
HUM EK, HAMARI EK…
हम एक, हमारी एक……….. ज़िन्दगी,
कभी एक दूजे की, कभी खुदा की बंदगी I
पैंतीस साल पहले जो मांगी थी दुआ,
उसी का तो अब तक है सिलसिला,
नज़रों का एक होना तो सुनते आये थे,
पर यहाँ तो दिल, ख्वाब, सब एक हुआ I
हम एक, हमारी एक ………….पहचान,
एक दूसरे में बस्ती है अपनी जान I
गरीब थे हम, पर बने रहे अमीर,
हम ही तो थे कल के राँझा और हीर,
दोस्तों ने जिन्हे हमें धनि बनाया,
कहा: “यही तो हैं प्यार की तस्वीर” I
हम एक, हमारी एक ……….. कोशिश,
क्या खूब बनी प्यार की बन्दिश I
ज़िन्दगी में आये कई चढ़ाव उतार,
हम एक संग पहुंचे उनके पार,
ऐसे ही बनी रहे हमारी छोटी सी ज़िन्दगी,
ऐसे ही बना रहे हमारा छोटा सा परिवार I
हम एक, हमारी एक ………. दास्तान,
तू मेरा जहान, मैं तेरा जहान I
कई बरस बाद, हम हवा में समा जाएंगे,
किसी को फिर नज़र नहीं आएंगे,
पर फिर भी देखना लोग भूलेंगे नहीं,
जब प्यार का ज़िक्र हो, हम याद आएंगे I
हम एक, हमारी एक ……… फ़रियाद,
प्यार हमारा बना रहे, मरने के भी बाद I
Please enjoy: Jhilmil sitaron ka aangan hoga…
I hope you liked my choice of Beautiful Duet #5.
Please await Beautiful Duet #6 – Dil ki nazar se.
I started this series on my Facebook group Yaad Kiya Dil Ne on 23 Aug 20. Since then, many other members have put up these songs. Here, I shall be giving you one of my own, per day.
On 02 Dec 20, I gave you Beautiful Duet #3 – Milte hi aankhen dil hua. So here, then, is the next one:
Song #4
O neend na mujhako aaye
Some of the most memorable duets in Hindi movies have been sung by Hemant Kumar and Lata Mangeshkar. A few that come to your mind are: Aa neele gagan tale and Chhupa lo yun dil mein pyar mera.
There is an attribute of Hemant Kumar that is not to be seen (easily) in other singers: his singing (especially on his own compositions) immediately transports you to the world of the song.
Let me give you an example. Take Jaal song sung by him on SD Burman’s composition: Ye raat ye chandini phir kahan (loosely based on Raag Kafi). By the time Hemant da sings…
पेड़ों की शाखों पे सोई सोई चाँदनी
तेरे खयालों में खोई खोई चाँदनी
और थोड़ी देर में थक के लौट जाएगी
रात ये बहार की फिर कभी न आएगी
दो एक पल और है ये समा, सुन जा.
…you are already there! You want to hold on to the world of the song!
Lata, in any case, always has matching rendition.
The movie by this fascinating name was released on 01 Jul 1958. It was a Ravindra Dave movie (two of his movies that you’d easily recall are Satta Bazaar (with that beautiful Hemant – Lata song: Tumhen yaad hoga kabhi hum mile the) and Dulha Dulhan (with another memorable song: Hamne tujhako pyar kiya hai jitna, Kaun karega itna).
If you recall, both the above movies that I picked up at random had songs composed by Kalyani Anandji and so was this song that I am posting now. It looks like KA were the MD of choice for Ravindra Dave.
This song was penned by PL Santoshi or Pyarelal Santoshi, composed by Kalyanji Anandji and sung by Hemant Kumar for Sunil Dutt and Lata Mangeshkar for Shakila.
PL Santoshi has been more famous as a Producer and Director than for his lyrics.
Look at the Lyrics:
हे: ओ नींद न मुझ को आए,
दिल मेर घबराए
चुप के चुप के, कोई आ के,
सोया प्यार जगाए
ल: ओ नींद …
हे: सोया हुआ सँसार है,
सोया हुआ सँसार
मैं जागूँ यहाँ,
तू जागे वहाँ,
एक दिल में दर्द दबाए
दो: ओ नींद …
ल: एक बीच में दीवार है,
एक बीच में दीवार
मैं तड़पूँ यहाँ,
तू तड़पे वहाँ,
हाय चैन जिया को नहीं आए
दो: ओ नींद …
हे: मैं हूँ यहाँ बेक़रार
तू है वहाँ बेक़रार
मैं गाऊँ यहाँ
तू गाये वहाँ
दिल को दिल बहलाए
दो: ओ नींद …
HUSN WAALON KO NA DIL DENA
नींद में आती हो तो नींद हो जाती है दूर,
ख्वाब बन के उठते हैं और हो जाते हैं चूर.
आज तक भूला नहीं है तेरी नज़रों का सरूर,
मैं मदहोश अब भी हूँ, मेरा ही है यह जुनून ओ फितूर.
मुन्तजिर हूँ आज रात मेरे घर आना ज़रूर,
रोशनी के लिए काफी है तेरे चेहरे का नूर.
तेरे इश्क से पहले ना थे हम यूं मजबूर,
तेरे इश्क के बाद हुए हैं अब बेहद्द मश्हूर.
माना हमारा घुट घुट के मरना भी नहीं मन्जूर,
यहाँ हम सज्दे में हैं वहाँ तुम हो मग्रूर.
या खुदा समझ गए तेरी दुनिया का दस्तूर,
कत्ल वह करते गए, ये भी मेरा ही था कसूर.
Please enjoy: O neend na mujhako aaye..
I hope you liked my choice of song for the Beautiful Duet #4.
Please await Beautiful Duet #5- Jhilmil sitaaron ka mausam hoga.
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 #2 – Watan ki raah mein watan ke naujawan in Zindagi or Jeevan Songs series. Let’s start with Song #3.
Song #3
Aaj jaane ki zid na karo
Theme-word: Waqat ki qaid mein Zindagi hai magar, Chand ghadiyan yahi hain jo azaad hain.
This was always the favourite ghazal of my sister Mona Maharaj. She is really very talented. In addition to her singing skills, she has been endowed with extraordinary presentation skills. When my brother in law was in active service of the Indian Army, Mona was often in demand for organising memorable evenings of entertainment. And these would start with her hand crafted invitations that would be delivered to you as if you were selected to receive a present.
I have, to my great luck, listened to her rendition of this ghazal and I do recall the atmosphere she’d build up whilst and before singing it.
Everything favourite of Mona Maharaj eventually becomes my favourite too (she has that effect on me). Everytime I listen to Farida Khanum singing it, I think of Mona Maharaj making the ghazal come alive to me.
She was born in Amritsar in the year 1939. Unlike Raja Mehdi Ali Khan, she moved to Lahore from Amritsar in the year 1957. In the 1960s, she was invited by the President of Pakistan Ayub Khan to sing in public and she achieved the kind of stardom she wouldn’t have dreamt about.
She is known by this ghazal penned by Fayyaz Hashmi in the same manner as Begum Akhtar was known for Aye mohabbat tere anjam pe rona aaya penned by Shakeel and Noorjehan for singing Faiz’s nazam: Mujhase pehli si mohabbat mere mehboob na maang.
Just like Ghulam Ali, she is classical singer of Patiala Gharana.
Fayyaz Hashmi was born in Calcutta in 1920. His father, Muhammad Hussain Hashmi adopted the takhallus of Dilgeer as a poet and for writing plays. Coincidentally, my own uncle Harbans Singh also had the takhallus Dilgir (that’s how he spelt it) and has written hundreds of books on poetry and plays. Dilgir uncle started the first academy of performing arts in Chandigarh called Kala Darpan.
Fayyaz Hashmi worked as a poet and screenwriter for both Hindi and Pakistani films. One of his songs sung by Talat Mahmood (in 1941) became very popular: Tasveer teri dil mera behla na sakegi.
This ghazal, thanks to Farida Khanum, is the most popular ghazal that he wrote.
I cannot have this great ghazal introduced to you without writing something about it. Here is what I wrote about it last night:
गुफ्तगू रहने दो रात गुज़र जाएगी,
चन्द घड़ियों की मुलाकात गुज़र जाएगी।
ज़िन्दगी बख्शी है खुदा ने प्यार के लिए,
फजूल बातों में यह खैरात गुज़र जाएगी।
रेत के ज़र्रे हाथों में अभी आए तो हैं लेकिन,
देखते देखते यह सौगात गुज़र जाएगी।
How to stop Zindagi at a place of your liking and not to let it slip through your fingers like the grains of the sand is the crux of this ghazal. I hope this introduction helps you to dive deep and discover the meaning that is dying to be found out.
Ladies and gentlemen, you are bound to tell me that I did right by putting it up as Zindagi ghazal and not Raat or Din Song.
Please enjoy: Aaj jaane ki zid na karo…
आज जाने की ज़िद ना करो
आज जाने की ज़िद ना करो
यूँ ही पहलु में बैठे रहो
आज जाने की ज़िद न करो
हाय मर जाएंगे
हम तो लुट जाएंगे
ऐसी बातें किया ना करो
आज जाने की ज़िद ना करो
तुम ही सोचो ज़रा क्यूँ ना रोकें तुम्हें
जान जाती है जब उठ के जाते हो तुम
जान जाती है जब उठ के जाते हो तुम
तुमको अपनी क़सम जानेजां
बात इतनी मेरी मान लो
आज जाने की ज़िद ना करो
वक़्त की कैद में ज़िन्दगी है मगर
चंद घड़ियां यही हैं जो आज़ाद है
इनको खो कर मेरी जानेजाँ
उम्र भर ना तरसते रहो
आज जाने की ज़िद ना करो
कितना मासूम रंगीन है ये समां
हुस्न और इश्क़ की आज बैराज है
कल की किसको ख़बर जानेजाँ
रोक लो आज की रात को
आज जाने की ज़िद ना करो
I hope you enjoyed my choice for Song #3 in the series.
Please await Song #4 – Hai duniya usi ki zamana usi ka.
I started this series on my Facebook group Yaad Kiya Dil Ne on 18 Aug 20. Since then, many other members have put up these songs. Here, I shall be giving you one of my own, per day.
This is the third song in the series. I hope you liked Song #2 – Jab raat hai aisi matwali.
Song #3
Tere bina zindagi se koi shikwa to nahin
Theme-word: Raat ki baat hai aur zindagi baaki to nahin.
This is my dedication to two geniuses: RD Burman (Pancham) (with three Filmfare awards for Best MD) and Gulzar (the producer (along with J Om Prakash) and director of the 1975 (the year of Sholay) movie Aandhi, the writer of the movie (along with Bhushan Banmali) and finally the lyricist with highest number of Best Lyricist awards (11) amongst his total awards of 20 (another record)).
Gulzar and RD Burman came together in 1972 Parichay with such lovely songs as Beete na bitayi raina and Musafir hoon yaaro. In 1973 and 1974 thereafter, they did one movie each: Namak Haraam (Diye jalte hain phool khilte hain, Nadiya se dariya dariya se sagar and Main shayar badnam) and Doosri Sita (Tu jahan mile mujhe).
In 1975, both the movies together of Gulzar and RD Burman had lovely songs: Aandhi (Tere bina, Tum aa gaye ho, Is mod se jaate hain, and Salaam kijiye) and Khushboo (Do nainon mein aansu bhare hain, O majhi re apna kinara, and Bechara dil kya kare).
It would be right to say that Gulzar got to emphasize the serious side of Pancham that was seen in his first song ever with Lata Mangeshkar: Ghar aaja ghir aaye (In Raag Malgunji for the Mehboob Ameeta starrer Chhote Nawab).
Take this song, for example. We routinely use the phrases: Unforgettable song, Immortal song, and Great song for all kinds of songs. This song, as seen by some, is at #2 in the Best songs of 1970s (the #1 happens to be RD Burman’s father’s song!)
तुम जो कह दो तो आजकी रात, चांद डूबेगा नहीं,
रात को रोक लो
रात कि बात है, और ज़िंदगी बाकी तो नहीं
Great meaning in those words. It is better to have loved and lost than not to have loved at all! In the end if you just get a Raat, that’s better than the entire Zindagi! And can you control the Chand? I have already said in my very first article in my blog on Chand: Lovers feel that the celestial bodies respond to their call of love:
तुम जो कह दो तो आजकी रात, चांद डूबेगा नहीं
This is a totally different style of aansu. Firstly, the ordinary ones: जी में आता है, तेरे दामन में, सर छुपा के हम, रोते रहें, रोते रहें; which separated lovers meeting after a long time would do. But, the next line is extraordinary: तेरी भी आँखों में, आँसुओं की नमी तो नहीं! This is indeed acknowledgement of the fact that even you have gone beyond shedding tears and by now all the tears have dried! If ever there was a more beautiful expression on tears (after आँसू के धागे से सीते रहे हम जो ज़ख्म तूने दिये) than the Gambler song by Neeraj.
The year 1975 was a watershed year for India and Indian movies. Firstly, we went through Emergency entirely called by Indira Gandhi who felt that the country had to pay for her seat being challenged and upheld in the court. Secondly, the movie Sholay was released that year and we, forever, changed the way we looked at movies. Thirdly, Aandhi was released after Indira Gandhi tried to stop the release of the movie. The movie was allegedly on a love affair of an Indian politician (role tailored on Indira Gandhi, played by Suchitra Sen with resemblance to her) had during a chance encounter with a hotelier (Sanjeev Kumar).
Just like Sholay, the movie owed a lot to its songs composed by RD Burman who had mastered different genre’s of songs including classical, sad, western and comical. Whereas Sholay’s songs were penned by Anand Bakshi, Aandhi had Gulzar to write the most memorable songs ever. Gulzar directed the movie too.
This song happens to be the most popular of the movie and is full of regret and ruefulness at not letting love bloom whilst being over busy with politics.
Its popularity can be made out from the fact that whilst the viewership of Hindi songs on YouTube is in thousands and sometimes may be lakh or so, this song has been viewed by more than 8.5 Crore times!
What about my own poetic introduction to the song? Well, here is one though I wish I could give several! It is a totally different style. It is called:
ZINDAGI AB BHI HAI LEKIN…..
ज़िन्दगी तब भी थी
ज़िन्दगी अब भी है
तब नया सूरज उगा था
तब जलते चिरागों की लौ में
अँधेरे दूर भागते थे
अब रौशनी को तरसते रात के साये
बढ़ते ही जा रहे हैं
सबेरा दूर है, बहुत दूर
ज़िन्दगी तब भी थी
ज़िन्दगी अब भी है
ज़िन्दगी तब भी थी
ज़िन्दगी अब भी है
चमन में फूलों की खुशबु से
फ़िज़ाएं मदहोश थी तब
अब मुरझाये फूल गिरते हैं मज़ार पे
सूखे पत्तों के संग
लहर आई थी चले गयी
हम साहिल पे अब भी खड़े हैं इंतेज़्ज़ार में
ज़िन्दगी तब भी थी
ज़िन्दगी अब भी है
ज़िन्दगी तब भी थी
ज़िन्दगी अब भी है
तेरे क़दमों की आहट से
बंधे थे मेरे दिल के तार
तेरी साँसों में तब था
मेरे ही प्यार का खुमार
अब खाली पैमानों की बज़्म में
हम प्यासे खड़े हैं
ज़िन्दगी तब भी थी
ज़िन्दगी अब भी है
ज़िन्दगी तब भी थी
ज़िन्दगी अब भी है
तब हम मुन्तज़िर थे
तेरे अहद-ओ-पैमान से
अब नींद से जागी हमारी आँख
मौत का नज़ारा ढूंडती है
काश उस ज़िन्दगी को रोक लेते वहीँ
जो अब हर कहीं जिन्दगी का सहारा ढूंडती है
ज़िन्दगी तब भी थी
ज़िन्दगी अब भी है
ज़िन्दगी तब भी थी
ज़िन्दगी अब भी है
फरक सिर्फ इतना है:
तब सब कुछ हमारे आगे था
अब सब कुछ हमारे पीछे है
तब हम कहते थे, “यही है ज़िन्दगी”
और अब? अब सवाल ही सवाल है:”बस यही है ज़िन्दगी, क्या?”
ज़िन्दगी तब भी थी
ज़िन्दगी अब भी है
As far as returns of Love are concerned, here is another great lyricist telling you how you are lucky to even get Gham in Love:
दर्द ज़माने में कम नहीं मिलते
सब को मोहब्बत से ग़म नहीं मिलते
टूटने वाले दिल होते हैं कुछ खास
दूर से दिल की बुझती रहे प्यास….
Kaash is the word for this song sung by Lata Mangeshkar and Kishore Kumar.
Please enjoy: Tere bina zindagi se koi shikwa to nahin….
लता: तेरे बिना ज़िंदगी से कोई, शिकवा, तो नहीं,
शिकवा नहीं
शिकवा नहीं, शिकवा नहीं
तेरे बिना ज़िंदगी भी लेकिन, ज़िंदगी, तो नहीं,
ज़िंदगी नहीं
ज़िंदगी नहीं, ज़िंदगी नहीं
(काश ऐसा हो तेरे कदमों से, चुन के मंज़िल चले
और कहीं दूर कहीं ) – २
तुम गर साथ हो, मंज़िलों की कमी तो नहीं
तेरे बिना ज़िंदगी से कोई, शिकवा, तो नहीं, शिकवा नहीं
(जी में आता है, तेरे दामन में, सर छुपा के हम
रोते रहें, रोते रहें ) – २
तेरी भी आँखों में, आँसुओं की नमी तो नहीं
किशोर: तेरे बिना ज़िंदगी से कोई, शिकवा, तो नहीं,
शिकवा नहीं
तेरे बिना ज़िंदगी भी लेकिन, ज़िंदगी, तो नहीं,
ज़िंदगी नहीं
तुम जो कह दो तो आजकी रात, चांद डूबेगा नहीं,
रात को रोक लो
रात कि बात है, और ज़िंदगी बाकी तो नहीं
तेरे बिना ज़िंदगी से कोई, शिकवा, तो नहीं, शिकवा नहीं
तेरे बिना ज़िंदगी भी लेकिन, ज़िंदगी, तो नहीं,
ज़िंदगी नहीं
I hope you liked my choice of Song #3 in Raat or Din series.
Please await Song #4 – Tumhare nain dekh ke suna hai log jogi ho gaye.
