सुन रहा है न तू? (Female voice)

I have not seen the movie आशिकी 2, but the adaptation of this song by a TV serial — पवित्र रिश्ता — is impressive.

साँस में तेरी साँस मिली तो

Yash Chopra breathed his last on week ago today. This post is to recall his contribution to romance cinema.

तेरी ख़याल में डूब के अक्सर अच्छी लगी तन्हाई

To be able to be comfortable with oneself is a valuable trait. The poet notes here, through the female lover, that being in love is capable of turning even 'being alone' into a comfortable state.

तेरी मेरी मेरी तेरी प्रेम कहानी है मुश्किल

"When we are made for each other, we got separated from each other" — each lover sings to the other in sadness and desperation. And, then each goes on to elaborate on that one theme.

You can see intense collusion between Bollywood's storywriters and lyricists. It almost seems that each feeds the other inexorably in creating the final product, the movie.

आहिस्ता, आहिस्ता

This song has excellent rhythm, and you cannot help but tap your feet to it. In addition, it also has a rare description how one can feel when experiencing romance. The male lover sings:

... Either the Moon has come down or it is your — i.e., his lover's — brightness,
And, it just feels like the Earth is flying, [ever so] slowly ...

And, the female lover sings:

... Let us get lost in our dreams ... in a bed of flowers ...

ये इश्क, हाये, ...

A female expresses her love to her lover. She starts:

"There must be a reason why, just like that, living has become fun [& pleasant]" and goes on:
"This love ... has shown me heaven."

साथिया ... साथिया ... पगले से दिल ने ये क्या किया

The female lover sings how her [miscreant] heart has chosen its lover without her knowledge ... 

The poet has chosen to refer to the heart in third person, as though the real she is different from her heart. Such separation helps in understanding when the heart does good things and bad, a clear ingredient in making the head rule the heart. That all of this woven to memorable music is, of course, the beauty of this creation.

ये ज़िन्दगी उसीकी है, जो किसी का हो गया

"The world is that person's, who belongs to someone else, gets 'lost' in love." In other words, if you are not loved for any reason, it can be very lonely and can give rise to all sorts of desperation.

Ultimately, while union with a lover and, by implication, with God is what is desired by everyone, it takes a skillful poet to bring that about in words, and a beautiful voice like what Lata Mangeshkar and Shreya Ghoshal have, to impart melody.

ನಿನ್ನ ನೋಡಲೆಂತೋ, ಮಾತನಾಡಲೆಂತೋ

The lovers sing to each other [in their imagination] about their inability to profess their love to each other. A melodious song number is a mechanism Indian directors use rather well to make their point. Shreya Ghoshal is superb in this number.

दिल खो गया, हो गया किसीका ... तेरी ओर

Katrina's dance is rather attractive.

नूर-ऐ-खुदा

The poet brings out a recall of unhappy events, and a plea to God to produce justice, by the character in the film.

Other singers of this song are Shankar Mahadevan & Adnan Sami. (I could not fit these names in the Labels field). That Shankar Mahadevan has brought out a musical piece that sounds like an original Arabic singer's rendering, is a testament to the universal nature of music and, of course, to Shankar's musical abilities.

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.

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