कैसी पहेली ज़िन्दगानी

When you watch Aratrika Dey present this song on Sa Re Ga Ma Pa North America 2015 to become the winner, one of the thoughts you would get is to find out about the original track.

The original is a song sung by Sunidhi Chauhan, and pictured on Rekha, in the movie Parineeta. (Hyperlink for the original is with the button below).

For a teenager, Aratrika does an excellent job of presenting the song, very reminiscent of the original.

Bollywood certainly has a style of presenting life's philosophies in unexpected places: in a night club, in this case.

ज़िंदगी प्यार का गीत है, हर दिल को गाना पडेगा

Another weaving of a sad context with lilting music, Bollywood style. It is quite philosophical in every stanza, showing the two different sides of life, the good and the not so good.

आगे भी जाने न तू, पीछे भी जाने न तू

When you hear an instrumental of this song, as I did tonight, it seems to be more poignant in reaching you. It is true, isn't it, that you don't know what the future holds, and you don't quite know why certain things happened in the past? This song reminds you that all there really is, is the present. The song exhorts that listener "to seize the present to fulfill the wishes'.

A Bollywood version of Carpe diem.

कभी प्यासे को पानी पिलाया नहीं

This song is very philosophical how we go about life ... It is also very reminiscent of तुम अगर साथ देने का वादा करो by Mahendra Kapoor.

आदमी जो कहता है

My blogger friend Atul has a more detailed discussion of this song. Briefly, this is a simple song that packs philosophy in every day words and experience.

Whatever a man says and hears [in his life],
Those voices keep following him throughout his entire life
Whatever [blessings] a man gives or is given,
[Those blessings] stay with him for his entire life

ಏನಾಗಲೀ ಮುಂದೆ ಸಾಗು ನೀ

I have not seen this movie yet, but one of my friends has liked it. Sounds rather sentimental ... admonishes a certain philosophy of life, it seems like. I have reconstructed the lyrics by listening to the music videos: there is another piece in addition to the one in the video button.

इन दिनों, दिल मेरा, मुझसे है कह रहा

I don't know the complete story behind this song, but I liked it in a rendering in Sa Re Ga Ma Pa, 29 January 2010.

कल हो न हो

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).

 

जीना यहाँ मरना यहाँ

Another Mukesh stunner from मेरा नाम जोकर.

Sources:

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: