Dilon mein tum apni Betaabiyan leke chal rahe ho Toh zinda ho tum Nazar mein khwabon ki Bijliyaan leke chal rahe ho Toh zinda ho tum Hawa ke jhokon ke jaise Aazad rehna seekho Tum ek dariya ke jaise Lehron mein behna seekho Har ek lamhe se tum milo Khole apni baahein Har ek pal ek naya sama Dekhen yeh nigahaein Jo apni aankhon mein Hairaniyan leke chal rahe ho Toh zinda ho tum Dilon mein tum apni Betaabiyan leke chal rahe ho Toh zinda ho tum
Kaifi Azmi stepped in for Kaagaz ke Phool as lyricist after fallout between Sahir Ludhianvi and SD Burman. He penned some of the most awesome lyrics in Guru Dutt saab's semi auto biographical magnum opus film where protagonist falls on bad times and forsaken by same industry that revered him once, He practically forecasted his suicide in the movie. Dekhi zamane ki yaari is a bitter and cynical look at the short life of fame and relationships in a world that values only what it can get. The whole movie was so much so that Dr. Rajendra Prasad(then President) walked out midway of the movie and it received negative response across the board. This had a huge impact on Guru Dutt and he never took the director cap after that. The Rafi's voice increases the sense of loss.
Are Dekhi Zamaane Ki Yaari
Matlab Ki Duniya Hai Saari
Bichhade Sabhee, Bichhade Sabhi Baari Baari
Kya le ke milen ab duniya se, Aansu ke siva kuch paas nahi
Ya phul hi phul the daaman men, Ya kaanton ki bhi aas nahi
Matalab Ki Duniya Hai Saari
Bichhade Sabhee, Bichhade Sabhi Baari Baari
Another marvelous song in same movie is waqt nai kiya kya haseen sitam, a philosophical view on lost love.
I have never been a hopeless romantic guy though i often like love stories sometimes wishful to make one myself. Are there really those candlelights and roses ones ? perhaps there are, perhaps there are others which are equally romantic without roses and candles. I like them but experience have made me more cynical than i ever was.
My friends keep pointing to me that i like too many of cynical songs. Though i find them romantic in a way. Does that make me a cynical romantic or romantic cynic.
So i thought i will list my favorites in cynicism.
Cheeno arab hamara.
Sahir Ludhianvi was the face of cynicism. He had a very cynical view of realities of life and of Nehru's idea of socialism. In 1904 in his Tarana a hindi (Saare jahan se achcha) Iqbal had written.
Mazhab nahi sikhata apas mai bair rakhna Hindi hai hum watan hai Hindostan hamara.
His trip to europe turned him into Islamic visionary and 6 years later he wrote Tarana a Milli.
Chino-arab hamara, Hindostan hamara, Muslim hai hum watan hai saara jahaan hamara
"...Baby I have been here before I know this room, I've walked this floor I use to live alone before i knew you I have seen your flag on marble arch Love is not a victory march It's cold and it's a broken hallelujah..."
Do I really look like a guy with a plan, Harvey? I don’t have a plan… The mob has plans, the cops have plans. … Maroni has plans. Gordon has plans. Schemers trying to control their worlds. I’m not a schemer, I show the schemers how pathetic their attempts to control things really are.
It’s the schemers who put you where you are. You were a schemer. You had plans. Look where it got you. … Nobody panics when the expected people get killed. Nobody panics when things go according to plan, even if the plan is horrifying. If I tell the press that tomorrow a gangbanger will get shot, or a truckload of soldiers will be blown up, nobody panics. Because it’s all part of the plan. But when I say that one little old mayor will die, everybody loses their minds! Introduce a little anarchy, you upset the established order and everything becomes chaos. I’m an agent of chaos. And you know the thing about chaos, Harvey? … It’s fair.
