ಎಲ್ಲೋ ಮಳೆಯಾಗಿದೆ ಎಂದು ತಂಗಾಳಿಯು ಹೇಳುತಿದೆ

The man sings in effect that his love her is so great that even God might get angry or jealous ...

आवोगे जब तुम साजना

"When will you come, my lover?" And, the male goes on to sing about the various things that [can] happen during love season, etc.

जब कोई बात बिगड़ जाए

TBA

होंठों से छूलो तुम, मेरा गीत अमर कर दो

Good Jagjit Singh melody.

कल हो न हो

यह दूरियां ...

The poet sings that all distances [between people] be removed. Doesn't everybody like to be close to others?

ಯಮನೆಲ್ಲಿ ಕಾಣೆನೆಂದು ಹೇಳಬೇಡ

This song was sung by someone in a recent gathering marking someone else's death. Its beauty, as I see it, is its ability to point out God's eternal presence supporting the life-death continuum. God underlies both life and death. If you know the Hindu puranic character pairs of ಯಮ-ರಾಮ, ವಿಭೀಷಣ-ರಾವಣ, ಅರ್ಜುನ-ಕೌರವ, ಉಗ್ರಸೇನ-ಕಂಸ and ಪ್ರಹ್ಲಾದ-ಹಿರಣ್ಯಕ, it will help in appreciating the lyrics a bit better.

[Prelude added on 22 August 2020]

ಸದಾ ಎನ್ನ ಹೃದಯದಲ್ಲಿ ವಾಸಮಾಡೋ ಶ್ರೀಹರಿ

The poet wishes that God be with him, within his heart, always and elaborates on how he, the poet, would love to pray, and how he would not rest until God obliges or, equivalently, he is one with God.

The audio is presented by T N Gopalakrishnan.

तेरे मेरे सपने अब एक रंग है

प्यार का पहला ख़त लिखने में वक्त तो लगता है

The poet sings that achieving anything of significance in life takes time. Specifically, the song mentions:

1. Writing the first love letter
2. Baby birds' ability to fly [for the first time]
   
3. Reaching anyone's, i.e., lover's, heart
4. Completing long journeys
5. Resolving entanglements, be they of relationships or [even] strings
6. Healing deep wounds [of the heart]
   

यह दौलत भी ले लो, यह शोहरत भी ले लो

Another Jagjit Singh melody.

तमन्ना फिर मचल जाए, अगर तुम मिलने आ जाओ

Another Jagjit Singh melody.

तुझ में रब दिखता है

The use of the term 'God' in Bollywood lyrics is quite frequent. This song is from the film रब ने बना दी जोड़ी. Its use in this song appears unique in the sense that the lover claims to see 'God' in his or her mate. Makes you wonder whether the Bollywood lyricists routinely go through a Vedanta course.

ಎದೆ ತುಂಬಿ ಹಾಡಿದೆನು ಅಂದು ನಾನು

ಈ ಹಾಡನ್ನು ನಾನು ಮೊದಲ ಬಾರಿ Milpitas ನಲ್ಲಿ ಸುಮಾರು ೨೦೦೦ರಲ್ಲಿ ಕೇಳಿದೆ. ಅನಂತಸ್ವಾಮಿ ಅವರು ಅಲ್ಲಿಗೆ ಭೇಟಿ ಕೊಟ್ಟಿದ್ದರು. ಇದನ್ನು ಕೇಳಿ ಬಹಳಾ ಸಂತೋಷವಾಯಿತು. (ಯಾಕೆಂದರೆ, ಅಮೆರಿಕಾಗೆ ಬಂದಮೇಲೆ, ಕನ್ನಡ ಹಾಡುಗಳು infrequent ಆಗಿತ್ತು). ಈ ಹಾಡಿನ ಜ್ಞಾಪಕ ಈಗ ಸುಮಾರು ದಿವಸಗಳ ಹಿಂದೆ ಬಂತು. ಆದ್ದರಿಂದ ಇದರ ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯವನ್ನು ಇಲ್ಲಿ ಕೊಟ್ಟಿದ್ದೇನೆ. ಓದಿ, ಕೇಳಿ, ಸಂತೋಷಪಡಿ.

(ಇದೇ ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯವನ್ನು ಬೇರೆ ಜಾಗಗಳಲ್ಲೂ ನೋಡಬಹುದು; ಇದು ಒಂದು ಉದಾಹರಣೆ. ಇಲ್ಲಿ ಪುನಃ ಕೊಟ್ಟಿರುವ ಕಾರಣ: ನನಗೆ ಇಲ್ಲಿರುವುದನ್ನು ನೋಡಿಕೊಂಡು ಹಾಡುವುದು ಹೆಚ್ಚಿಗೆ ಸುಲಭ).

 

आनेवाला पल जानेवाला है

The brevity of time and hence the importance of 'living in the now' is elegantly expressed in this 1979 Kishore Kumar number from गोलमाल.

आप की नज़रों ने समझा ...

मेरे महबूब क़यामत होगी

बावरे नैना भरे रहे रात भर

This lilting song punctuates key points in the TV serial चोटी बहू - the younger daughter-in-law - that I have enjoyed watching. This song captures the turmoil in the lovers' minds as they go through various difficulties in finding each other.

तुम इतना जो मुस्कुरा रहे हो

"Why are you smiling (in an unusual manner)?
Are you covering your sorrow, dear?"

Sources:

होशवालों को ख़बर क्या बेहूदी क्या चीज़ है

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Sources:

तुमको देखा तो यह ख़याल आया ...

Beautiful element of appreciation in this song for a man's love. Only an imaginative [poet's] mind can compare life to hot sun, and the spouse to a soothing shade.

Sources:

तुम को पाया है तो जैसे खोया हूँ ... मैं अगर कहूं ...

Expression of love has endless possibilities as in this Om Shanti Om number with Shah Rukh Khan and दीपिका पडुकोणे.

Sources:

दिल ऐसा किसीने मेरा तोडा ...

It appears very easy to create stirring emotions when there is sadness involved, and इन्दीवर has done a wonderful job in describing the sadness in a man's failure.

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जीना यहाँ मरना यहाँ

Another Mukesh stunner from मेरा नाम जोकर.

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ಮಾಯವಾಗಿದೆ ಮನಸು ಹಾಗೇ ಸುಮ್ಮನೇ

There is a certain simplicity I see in Kannada music that I don't always see in Hindi music; that may be because I am a native Kannada speaker. Example:

ಮೋಹದಲ್ಲಿ ಬೀಳುವಾ, ಮಧುರವಾದ ಭಾವನೇ ...
ಈಗ ತಾನೆ ಬಂದಿದೇ, ನೀಡದೇ ಸೂಚನೇ.

Simple, yet rhythmic. ನೀಡದೇ ಸೂಚನೇ, translated "without advance notice", is the interesting part. Perhaps the rhythm creation is a joint work of Mano Murthy, the music director, and Jayant Kaikini, the lyricist.

Sources:

चाँद सितारे, फूल और खुशबू ...

There is no end to the variety in Bollywood music in expressing romantic love.

The sources for this blog entry are given below:

चाँद सी मेहबूबा हो मेरी

Nice way to describe how a lover appeals to a man. The sources for this blog entry are given below:

खुदा जाने ...

The use of the word 'God' to refer to a lover is a powerful one. At once, it shows respect for the other person and seems to obliquely refer to the God in one and all.

In this song from the movie बचना ये हसीनो, lyricist अन्विता दत्त गुप्तन seems to have done well in weaving the word 'God' into the song; of course, रणबीर कपूर and दीपिका पादुकोण have complemented in their rendering of the music video too, and the voices are given by singers KK and Shilpa Rao.

The sources for this blog entry are mentioned below:

कहता है बाबुल

I don't remember the circumstances of this song, but I do recall that a sincere-sounding voice sang this song in the background as if the dad's character in the movie meant it.

मेरा जीवन, कोरा कागज़

Another superb rendering by Kishore Kumar on the elusive nature of love.

पहला पहला प्यार हैं, पहली पहली बार हैं

Artful description of first love.

आंसू भरी हैं यह जीवन की राहें

Mukesh has no match when rendering sad songs.



This song is based on the raag ♫यमन कल्याण.

... ♫ ♫ ♫ ♫ ...
आंसू भरी हैं, ये जीवन की राहें
कोई उनसे कह दे, हमें भूल जायें
आंसू भरी हैं, ये जीवन की राहें
कोई उनसे कह दे, हमें भूल जायें
आंसू भरी हैं ...

... ♫ ♫ ♫ ♫ ...
वादे भुला दे, कसम तोड़ दे वो
... ♫ ♫ ...
वादे भुला दे, कसम तोड़ दे वो
हालत पे अपनी, हमें छोड़ दे वो
ऐसे जहाँ से क्यों हम दिल लगायें
कोई उनसे कह दे, हमें भूल जायें
आंसू भरी हैं ...

... ♫ ♫ ♫ ♫ ...
बरबादियों की अजब दासताँ हूँ
... ♫ ♫ ...
बरबादियों की अजब दासताँ हूँ
शब्नम भी रोये, में वो आसमान हूँ
तुम्हे घर मुबारक, हमें अपनी आहें
कोई उनसे कह दे, हमें भूल जायें
आंसू भरी हैं, ये जीवन की राहें
कोई उनसे कह दे, हमें भूल जायें
आंसू भरी हैं ...

हम को मन की शक्ति देन

There are not too many simple songs that teach the essence of good living like this one. I got the lyrics from the web and have created a Hindi version. There are a couple of translations on the web too:

1. By Plano Balagokulam
2. By Vanarsena Pathshala

And, of course, there is the YouYube video for you to get started:

कभी कभी मेरे दिल में ...

There is a very valuable translation, and summary, of this song on the web and most of what is presented here is based on that: http://indiansongtranslations.blogspot.com/2008/07/english-translation-of-kabhi-kabhi-mere.html.

तुम आ गए हो, नूर आ गया हैं ...

In this song, the man sings about the importance of the new find, his lover, for his life. Without someone like her, life was proceeding aimlessly, etc. Although perhaps this is not always the case in real life, there is some truth to it: A marriage seems to provide proper structure to fulfil many - all? - aspects of life.

Translation is inspired by http://www.hindilyrics.net/translation-Aandhi/Tum-Aa-Gaye-Ho.html. I have changed some translations with the belief that the changes are for the better. You can also enjoy a YouTube video below.



नूर = light

... हैं गुज़ारिश ...

[Note. Notation for humming needs to be added.]
You have to see the movie to appreciate the context for the song, but suffice it to say that the lyricist, Prasoon Joshi, has deftly described the tumult in a man's heart as he awaits a 'yes' from his lover.
The meanings presented here are based on those provided by another blogger, The Bollywood Fan. (Netizens are welcome to comment on the meanings and, in fact, on the lyrics too). There are several music videos on YouTube, and one is here.
Another rendering by Soumen Nandi of Sa Re Ga Ma Pa 2009.
Google Hindi-to-English Translator translates गुज़ारिश as 'request'.