Paav chhoo lene do phoolon ko (Taj Mahal)
Suresh Menon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mdzgekpNNs
Song: Paav chhoo lene do
Movie: Taj Mahal (1963)
Singers: Mohd. Rafi & Lata Mangeshkar
Lyrics: Sahir Ludhianvi
Music: Roshan
Ra: Paav chhoo lene do phoolon ko inaayat hogi, inaayat hogi
Varna hum ko nahi, inko bhi shikaayat hogi, shikaayat hogi
La: Aap jo phool bichhaaye unhe hum thukraaye
Hum ko dar hain...
Hum ko dar hain ke yeh tauheen-e-muhabbat hogi,
Muhabbat hogi
Ra: Dil ki bechayn umangon pe karam farmaao
Itna ruk ruk...
Itna ruk ruk ke chalogi to qayaamat hogi, qayaamat hogi
Qayamat hogi
La: Sharm roke hain idhar, shauk udhar kheenche hain
Kya khabhar thhi...
Kya khabar thhi is dil ki yeh haalat hogi
Yeh haalat hogi
Ra: Sharm gairon se hua karti hain apnon se nahi
Sharm hum se....
Sharm hum se bhi karoge to museebat hogi
Museebat hogi
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Rafi:
Let your feet touch these flowers,
So that they know the acceptance of love
Else, not me, they will have complaints against you
Lata:
I rejected the flowers you spread all over the place
I fear that it would be a gross affront to your love
Rafi:
Please have mercy on the craving emotions of the heart
If you walk in such a slow enticing manner,
It'll be a day of judgement
Lata:
On one hand my coyness stops me, on the other,
I get pulled over by passion
Who knew that this would be the state of the heart!
Rafi:
Shyness is normally with strangers, but not with your own ones
If you express bashfulness before me, it'll be terrible
Jayashree (Bhoomiputhri)
I think you've done a quite decent job Suresh.
After you started this translation series,listening/viewing these songs have taken me to another level of appreciation.
Variath Kutty
Suresh Menon
I rejected the flowers you spread all over the place
I fear that it would be a gross affront to your love
That's Sahir Ludhianvi for you. The extremely popular song "Kabhi kabhi mere dil mein khayaal aata hain" was penned by him.
There's another song of his which I adore a lot: Chalo ik baar phir se ajnabi ban jaaye hum dono (come on, let's be strangers once again)
Variath Kutty
Variath Kutty
Suresh Menon
Suresh Menon
Sahir Ludhianvi remained a bachelor all his life, he had two failed love affairs with journalist Amrita Preetam and singer/actress Sudha Malhotra. These relationships had left him an embittered man. He took to drinking heavily and drank himself deep into alcoholism. The tragedies and pathos of his personal life most truly reflected in his poignant poetry.
His relationship with Amrita Pritam was so passionate that at one time, while attending a press conference, Amrita wrote his name hundreds of times on a sheet of paper. The two of them would meet without saying a word and Sahir would puff away with his cigarettes, and after he left, Amrita would smoke the cigarette butts left by him. After his death, she hoped the smoke from her cigarettes would meet him in the other world.
It is said that when Sahir was courting Amrita Pritam, he built a taller house in front of Amrita Pritam's residence in Ludhiana to show her father that he could afford a house. This statement is a fallacy derived from the Hindi film Tere Ghar Ke Samne. Sahir's economic position at the time was pitiful, so 'building a house' would be out of the question; and secondly, Amrita Pritam does not belong to Ludhiana but to Amritsar; and the "love of her life" was another Urdu shayar, Imroz, as detailed extensively in her autobiography, written in Punjabi for which she got a Sahitya Academy Award.
