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?"

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होशवालों को ख़बर क्या बेहूदी क्या चीज़ है

TBA

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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.

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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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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.

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चाँद सितारे, फूल और खुशबू ...

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

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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.

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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.