Channa Mereya...

Sometimes some songs just hit you so hard that you keep on thinking over it. 

Yesterday, Karan Johar released a new track "channa mereya" of his upcoming film Ae Dil Hai Mushkil. It is a song that gives words to the emotions of heartbreak and it's essentially a parting song. And the words just kept touched me deep inside as they meant so much. Ranbir as usual killed it with his beautiful expressions and acting, adding power in the song.

And today as i was walking back to my apartment, it caught my train of thoughts.. This is what i was unable to express when Radhs was getting married. I had not written much about the how i felt seeing Radhs getting married (in post below) and had summed it up in 3 lines (highlighted below).

http://koolthinktank.blogspot.in/2010/12/i-am-bad-very-badd.html

(After the marriage ceremony, i had left early to go home for some work. I was a li'l uncomfortable also with so many unknown faces around me. I had sms'd Radhs and Rakesh while leaving and they had replied me asking  me to come next day for lunch at Radhs place where they were going after the marriage)

And now i feel that this songs speaks what i could not write. May be that is why the writer of this song is writing for films while i post here :P 

A few lines of the song below - 

Accha chalta hoon

Duaaon mein yaad rakhna

Mere zikr ka zubaan pe swaad rakhna 

Dil ke sandookon mein

Mere acche kaam rakhna

Chitthi taaron mein bhi

Mera tu salaam rakhna

Andhera tera maine le liya

Mera ujla sitaara tere naam kiya

Channa mereya mereya 

Channa mereya mereya

[channa mereya = my beloved (my moon)]

Channa mereya mereya beliya

O piya.. 

Kabhi Kabhi...

Kabhi kabhi mere dil main khayal aata hain
Ki zindagi teri zulfon ki narm chhaon main guzarne pati
to shadab ho bhi sakti thi.

Yeh ranj-o-gham ki siyahi jo dil pe chhayi hain
Teri nazar ki shuaon main kho bhi sakti thi.

Magar yeh ho na saka aur ab ye aalam hain
Ki tu nahin, tera gham teri justjoo bhi nahin.

Guzar rahi hain kuchh iss tarah zindagi jaise,
isse kisi ke sahare ki aarzoo bhi nahin.

Na koi raah, na manzil, na roshni ka suraag
Bhatak rahin hai andheron main zindagi meri.

Inhi andheron main reh jaoonga kabhi kho kar
Main janta hoon meri hum-nafas...

Magar yoonhi, Kabhi kabhi mere dil main khayal aata hai.

Maybe It's Just Me...

Maybe it's just me, but you seem finally happy
I don't think I've seen your face just glow
Like a neon sign and maybe I should be alone for ever after,
Cause even though the nights are long
At least I'll make it another day...

Cause I can't live if you're not happy
I can't live if you cry, 
But I can live without you if it makes you smile

And maybe things got weird after all that went down
Things were oh so clear,
That I could never get the right
So tell me what your plans are
And tell me what you're doing
The only thing I'll hold against me is a picture of you tonight

Cause I can't live if you're not happy
I can't live if you cry, 
But I can live without you if it makes you smile
And I can't wait to see you rise 
And I can't wait for you to shine
But I can wait for you if all you need is...

Time for you to think things over
Time to talk the drama down
It's not a contest of who'll try harder
Or who'll cross the finish line

And I can't live if you're not happy
I can't live if you cry, 
But I can live without you if it makes you smile
And I can't wait to see you rise 
And I can't wait for you to shine
But I can wait for you if all you need is time

Maut Tu Ek Kavita Hai...

In 1971, when Indian Cinema was at verge of new dimension, a movie called Anand was released. A film about a man, who knows he is going to die, a man who knows that life had been unfair to him, but he then teaches the world how to live. I have always loved to sit and watch that movie again and again and always tried to live as per a dialogue in that movie "Zindagi lambi nahi, badi honi chahiye". We should not try to live longer but live life kingsize. 

Lately there was a phase when i wanted to live longer but then again I was not liking it, and then something happened in my life. Some losses teaches you many things and reminds you some forgotten lesson. And then i recall this poem of the same movie 

Maut tu ek kavita hai .. 
mujhse ek kavita ka vaadaa hai milegi mujhko .. 

doobti nabzon mein jab dard ko neend aane lage 
zard saa cheharaa liye chaand ufak tak pahunche 
din abhi paani mein ho, raat kinaare ke kareeb 
na abhi andheraa ho, na ujaalaa ho, na raat na din 
jism jab khatam ho aur rooh ko saans aaye . 

mujhse ek kavita ka vaadaa hai milegii mujhko .. 

Translation

Death you are a poem.. 
a poem has made pact with me that I shall meet her .. 

when drowning pulse will bring on painful sleep 
when Moon carrying her yellow face will reach horizon 
when days still in water and night close to shore 
there is not yet darkness, neither light, not night not day 
when body is gone and soul still breaths. 

a poem has made pact with me that I shall meet her ..


It reminds me that Death is something that will come. So instead of trying to live longer in the way I want, I am accepting what is coming and going to live the way I used to. And will wait for my poem to end. ;-)

Tu Haaiiiiiiii Meriiiiiiiiiii Kiiiran.... ;-)

Title itself reminds every indian about a song which was a chartbuster for a long long time... For others, these are lyrics of a famous hindi song...

Coming back to the topic, well on my way back to my appartment today, this track came up on the radio and while listening to it, my train of thoughts began to whistle... :-p. Yeah, me thinking is quite unnatural but sometimes i do think... hehe...

And my train of thoughts took me back to 1993 september (yeah its train of thoughts, not a time machine, but i went to 1993 because that is when this song came out) it was on lips of every second person. Specially with the vella bandas (busy widout wrk ppl.. :P) who sit near girls colleges for an eye soother moment.

And if any girls name was Kiran, thats it, they were supposedly being called everywhere... :P Infact every girl was kiran during that period.... just to tease a girl, u just sing Tu hai meri kiran... (You are my kiran).

Now that is not i was thinking.... I was thinking is that what made Anand Bakshi ji (with all due respect to him) choose kiran. We know, in India films is like a religion and with this song, any girl name kiran was going to have fun trouble. Eve teasing and all... Why didn't he go for any other name.  So many names and only Kiran... Who was kiran...? did she ever ditch him...? even his wife's name was not kiran, so that probability is also gone...? this question remains a secret....

But with this act actually he brought all kirans to extinction... After this song coming out i think, i haven't heard people keeping Kiran name for their daughters. May be 2-3 people. like kiran rao, (wife of aamir khan) are the few species left with this name. Now, I blame Mr. bakshi for this. He initiated a nuclear reaction because of which Kiran is extinct now. Becoz of his enemity or hatred to the name (which is still a secret) now we can only hear about them in his song or we have to watch whole movie to see K K k k kiran... :P

Well it was a very useless train of thought (who won't be expecting that) but i thought i will share it with you...

Tu hai meri kiran... tu hai merii kiran....

Dreams

Sometimes, when a song is being played we try to njoi the music which is goin....

nd very rarely we concentrate on the lyrics.... No reasons that these days many songs come which have very abstract lyrics... means nothing.....

I was listening this hindi song from a new released movie... not so promoted but a song which tells you whats happening.... Read the lyrics....

Jo tujhe jagaaye
Neendein teri udaaye...Khwab hai Saccha wahi

(this is the song... this won't say anything... but the lines in between tells us something... Read on...)

Manzilon pe tyohaar hai
Lekin woh haar hai
Kya khushi apno ke bin

Hai adhoori har jeet bhi
Sargam sangeet bhiAdhoora hai apno ke bin
Khwabon pe badal Chaney do lekin
Rishton ki lok bacha ke barasna

Today when everyone is concentrating on their jobs and goals, we forget why we are doing this... When we were studying, we want to grow up, be successful and earn for our happiness and our family... But do we do this....?

Today people are so busy with profession and their targets that the sole purpose was to bring happiness to your family.... You buy million dollar gifts for your family, if you are not there to share the smiles when they see those gifts, it is worthless...

When you are running to top, remember that once you reach there you shouldn't be alone...