Saturday, March 5, 2022

Ab to hai tumse har khushi - song from Abhimaan 1973

 

Ab to hai tumase har khushi apani

Tumape marana hai jindagi apani


Jab ho gaya tumape ye dil diwaana

Fir chaahe jo bhi kahe hamako jmaana

Koi banaaye baaten chaahe ab jitani


Tere pyaar men badanaam dur dur ho ge

Tere saath ham bhi sanam mashahur ho ge

Dekho kahaan le jaaye bekhudi apani


Translation isn't exact, but I have tried to carry the meaning and spirit behind the words, while ensuring a poetic strain


Now rests with you all my happiness 

Your life's station is my sole address


Now that my heart is mad in your love

Doesn't matter whatever they say above

What effect then has any duress


My love for you has earned me notoriety 

Being with you has brought much infamy

Let's see it leads now to what mess


The lyrics are sweet and okay, but real steal for me is the music of S D Burman, it simply makes one feel nostalgic,  it pulls one to the past, to those sweet days gone by of innocent, maddening love. 

Just after Lataji beautifully sings the first stanza in high pitch straightaway tugging at our heart strings, then Burman Saab brings in some heavy, somber, deep stringed instrument  .... it's like train taking you inexorably back in time. There's some connection to Bengal or Assam in that stringed music. 

Then again a vocal interlude by Lataji before she sings the second stanza. It's so seamlessly melding from one to other and you have already embarked on the musical journey that Burman Saab and Lataji have planned for you. My only complaint is that this  beautiful nostalgic journey is so short, just 3 stanzas. I was in for a longer ride..

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