RRR Songs (Songs of Regret, Repentance and Ruefulness)
I started this new series on 17 Jan 21 on my Facebook Group Yaad Kiya Dil Ne. My efforts failed to involve people in writing their own stuff about songs and music rather than copying and pasting from here and there or worse, just sharing url of songs from YouTube. Hence, I had decided to give the group a burial that it deserved rather than making it like thousands of groups on Facebook about songs with nothing unique about them at all.
Hence this series shifted to my page Lyrical.
I hope you liked RRR Song #20: Toote huye khwabon ne. Here is the next song:
Song #21
Dil ki tamanna thi masti mein
RRR Songs (Songs of Regret, Repentance and Ruefulness)
Song #21
Dil ki tamanna thi masti mein (Sad version)
Already 21st RRR Song
It is like a gun salute being the 21st. However, rarely Sunbyanyname thinks of the sad part of life and hence it is as if a funereal gun salute. Sadnesses, in life, transform themselves into happinesses. However, until they do, excellent lyrics are born.
Majrooh Sultanpuri
For quite some time he was the only Lyricist winner of Dadasaheb Phalke Award and see how much he deserved it.
He made this song in two versions. One was the happy version sung by Mohammad Rafi and Asha Bhosle for Bharat Bhushan and Mala Sinha respectively. The sad version was sung by Rafi for Bharat Bhushan on the same stage as the happy one. Have a look at the poignant lyrics:
दिल की तमन्ना थी मस्ती में मंज़िल से भी दूर निकलते
अपना भी कोई साथी होता, हम भी बहकते चलते-चलते
साथी मिला, यूँ तो मगर, रस्ते में था चाँदी का नगर -२
चाँदी की नगरी भाई उसे हम, रह गए आँखें मलते-मलते
यादों की धूल आँखों में है, दामन की हसरत हाथों में है -२
ख्वाबों के वीराने में तन्हा, थक गया राही चलते-चलते
The middle stanza is missing and it is missing in all sites that I have seen (because they just copy-paste from one another). I have reconstructed this stanza by listening to the song:
उसने यह दिल ठुकरा दिया, शीशा ही था वो मय तो ना था – 2
सिक्कों की झनकार में खो गए, गीत वफा के ढलते ढलते
Composition – N Dutta
N Dutta composed it as a waltzing number; the happy duet version and then made Rafi’s solo into a slower waltz. Rafi has kept his voice subdued as if impressing on the regret and rpentance. It has been superbly done.
Gyarah Hazaar Ladakiyan
Yes, that was the name of this 1962 movie directed by KA Abbas and starring Bharat Bhushan as the lawyer Puran who defends Mala Sinha as Asha, facing a murder trial. Why was this name given to the movie? I have no idea. However, as Bharat Bhushan lip-syncs this beautiful RRR song and Mala Sinha in the hall looks uncomfortable, you will see the hall is full of girls only.
My Own Poetry
CHALO INTEZAAR KARTE HAIN
तू भी देखना एक ऐसा भी दिन आएगा,
आंसुओं से मेरे तेरा दिल पिघल जाएगा
मेरी ना श से तुझे कोई शिक्वा ना होगा
तेरे दिन तो क्या जहान संवर जाएगा
प्यार और इश्क़ मुझे करना ही ना था
घुट घुट रोज़ मुझे मरना ही ना था
अब सोचता हूँ क्यों चला गया वहां
तेरी राहों से मुझे गुज़रना ही ना था
सोचा था ज़िन्दगी का हमसफ़र मिला है
मेरी तनहा रातों का सहर मिला है
हम जिसे पीते रहे दवा जान के, ऐ दिल,
अब पता चला के ज़हर मिला है
खैर ग़म- ऐ-इश्क़ की कोई तो होगी मंज़िल
यह बेवफा निकली, यह हर वक़्त रही संगदिल
यह ज़िन्दगी तो रो रोके गुज़ार दी हमने
आने वाली ज़िन्दगी शायद ना हो मुश्किल
चलो इंतजार करते है! चलो इंतज़ार करते हैं!
ठोकर खा चुके हैं फिर भी प्यार करते हैं
तेरे वादे पे तो तमाम उम्र गुज़र गयी लेकिन
हम अब मौत की वफ़ा का ऐतबार करते हैं|
The Song
Ladies and gentlemen, please enjoy: Dil ki tamanna thi masti mein…
I hope you liked Song #21 in this series.
Please await Song #22: Phir thes lagi dil ko.
