littlemaster1982 Posted November 24, 2011 Posted November 24, 2011 A lot of them were stacked up with him so he needed to get rid of few of those Oh! Thanks :icflove:
Lurker Posted November 25, 2011 Posted November 25, 2011 Zihal e muskin, maikun baranjish bahaar e hejira, hamara dil hai Zihal = no idea what this means. muskin = means poor. Very rarely used. Only if someone wants to showoff his/her Urdu vocab. :D maikun= no idea. baranjish = ba ranjish. The prefix ba means 'with'. for eg baizzat means with honour. ba ranjish means with hate/anger. bahaar = spring hejira= journey/flight/emigration ( of Prophet Mohammad S.A.W from Mecca to Medina) The whole stanza doesn't make any sense together. What does it mean? bahaal-e-hijra as in pain of seperation. This is what I like about Gulzar, and other great Indian lyricist. If you listen to the wordings close enough it gives you a completely different understanding of the subject at play. I have long forgotten the story of the movie but listening at the wordings it suggests: The female protagnosist has lost her the limited footing she had in life(she is leaving her village in difficult circumstances) and is now going to a different village. The male protagonist is leaving his own identity (army) and is going to his own village to recreate himself. So basically what is being said is - This poor heart is broken by this travesty of seperation, dont judge it so quick. Sunaiye deti hai jiski dhadkan is what basically sets the mood for the two to come together, as you can perhaps see from wo aake pahloo mein aise baithe ke shaam rangeen ho gayi hai. By the way, dont be dismissive of Mithun. He was a great actor and made some good movies. It was a travesty that he got typcasted in weird and stupid movies and nobody has made more fun of him on that front that yours truly. However the man has 3 National awards and for the longest time in 70s and 80s was one of the self-made actors who did not belong to any camp, coterie and made a name for himself solely on his own. Thats one of the reasoning I have heard as well. However can you imagine Shakespeare being questioned because of grammar? Or any other literary greats for that matter? Considering Khusro composed poems, is credited with inventing/discovering qawwali, also possibly making tabla, sitaar, myriad of riddles etc...he should be as famous as any artist in world as such. Most countries cherish their 200 year old history, here we have (in Amir Khusro's case) a song worth 900 so years ago that still makes sense. Hows that for history?? By the by my thoughts on Amir Khusro being ignored, if thats the right word, is that as a civilization we burn our deads and move on. Indian subcontinent history is like that, has always been, and I am not sure if thats a bad thing..or good. xxx
Lurker Posted November 25, 2011 Posted November 25, 2011 R-cPPFqBsME Although this was much before my time, this song was played at all the marriage ceremonies. Hindu marriages would have the elderly ladies giving gaalis to the ladke waalon and then the young brigades would end up dancing to this, somehow Muslim families started with some fast paced songs (for the time) for the mehendi-sangeet and then come down to this song. Kinda miss those nok-jhonk songs.
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