कह दो

तुम बिन कौन लेत खबर मोरी

An enjoyable rendering, and a powerful appeal to God, of a Shivranjani composition of only four lines of lyrics. Rough translation:

"Who else is concerned about me,
You are the lord — Swami — of everyone, in everyone.
My boat is stuck in a vortex
Please get me out to a shore, God."

नाम गुम जाएगा ... मेरी आवाज़ ही पहचान है — Lata Mangeshkar (1929-2022)

Bharat Ratna Lata Mangeshkar is no more. It is unfortunate that she succumbed to COVID-19. Of the several thousands of songs she sung in her career, this particular song stands out in my mind as a unique memory of Lata Mangeshkar. 

नाम गुम जाएगा ... मेरी आवाज़ ही पहचान है

Approximately translated: "Name will be forgotten ... my voice is the only identity". (This video is pictured on Jeetendra, Hema Malini and Dharmendra, but the meaning is applicable to Lata Mangeshkar's life as well, it seems to me).

She has provided the world with evergreen songs and singing ... May her soul rest in peace.

याद किया दिल ने कहाँ हो तुम

Very easy to understand lyrics:

याद किया दिल ने कहाँ हो तुम

...

प्यार से पुकार लो जहाँ हो तुम

Sentiment ordinary people can relate to.

ಸಗ್ಗದ ಸಿರಿ ಬಂತೊ ನಮ್ಮೂರಿಗೆ

A song welcoming the Spring.

तेरे बिना ज़िन्दगी से कोई शिकवा

A particular phrase in this song caught my attention as I listened to it recently (I first listened to it when the movie got released, in 1975, when my knowledge of Hindi was a lot more rudimentary than what it is today):

तुम गर साथ हो, मंज़िलों की, कमी तो नहीं

The lyrics describe how a human being can feel empowered in another's presence, a powerful sentiment: "If you are with me, there is no limit to where we can go".

Considerable background to this song is provided in a blog post on the Internet: TERE BINA ZINDAGI SE KOI SHIKWA LYRICS AND TRANSLATION: LET’S LEARN URDU-HINDI

फिर भी तुमको चाहूँगा

Bollywood lyricists are good at making use of metaphors and similes. Observe what male sings:

1. You are as important to me as air is to breath (life)
2. I look for you as the feet look for the ground (for stability)

If you take the meaning in a literal way, you can run into trouble!

ज़ालिमा

Good melody. If you catch on to the melody once, you feel like listening to it over and over again.

आज जाने की ज़िद न करो

A powerful, and deep, sentiment is expressed in this song. It appears that the female lover is pleading that the lover must not leave ... but, the pleading can be between any two human beings, particularly if the intensity of the sentiment is very strong and deep: ... हाय मर जाएंगे, हम तो लुट जाएंगे ... (I'll die if you leave, I'll be devastated ...)

Lyrics are rendered with almost every word getting its full import by the manner in which it is sung.

सनम रे

Nice lyrics through which the male lover describes his love. Arijit Singh's voice seems to add a special touch; equally pleasant is the tabla accompaniment.

ಕರುಣಾಕರ ನೀ

This is another composition by ಪುರಂದರದಾಸ that starts off with cynicism [about God], but ends up accepting God with surrender. (The other cynical composition is ಸತ್ಯವಂತರಿಗೆ ಇದು ಕಾಲವಲ್ಲ).

जलते दिये

Nice love song that has in it some irony: The girl wishes that she is with her lover; but, the boy seems to disagree. (As of this blog post, I have not seen the movie).

The lyricist has used the lamp's light metaphor to describe the female's love; the male uses the same metaphor to point out that the flames of a lamp can also burn, create stains, ...

Beautifully woven lyrics.

गेरुआ

This song portrays love with several metaphors, some of which are highlighted below:

1. "... wherever we met, time stood still." Time stood still is a sensation many poets have written about; the particular manner Deepak Chopra describes this feeling regarding love comes to mind.
2. "Forgetting the [rest of the] world, I have met you. This wish has come forth of my heart ... that you give me — i.e., my life — the gerua color ...". Color is how many people describe liveliness, equating colorlessness with lack of life.
3. "... I am the caravan, you are the destination to which every path leads." Bollywood lyricists equate the state of love to a desirable destination including, of course, the ultimate destination of reaching God.

Nice music, invites repeated listening.

ನನ್ನ ನಿನ್ನ ಉಸಿರೊಂದಾಗಿ ... ನಾನುಸಿರಾಡಿದೆ

This is a Kannada adaptation, by one of my friends, of the song साँस में तेरी साँस मिली तो from the Yash Chopra movie, जब तक है जान. 

Try singing the Kannada lyrics to the tune of the Hindi song.