the new movie ae dil hai mushkil that purports to be the authority on life after heartbreak definitely has some amazing numbers.. while the most famous song of the movie seems to the song named after the movie itself - I don't find the lyrics interesting. It is too direct and lacks subtlety.. a key feature of unrequited love - everything is intense and everything is subtle. but this song here, captures it beautifully... and apparently is the favorite of the director - so guessing he probably does know a thing or two about broken hearts :)
achchha chalta hoon
duaaon mein yaad rakhna
mere zikr ka
zubaan pe swaad rakhna
okay, I'll leave now.
remember me in your prayers,
keep the taste of my mention
on your tongue...
dil ke sandookon mein
mere achchhe kaam rakhna
chiTThi taaron mein bhi
mera tu salaam rakhna
keep my good deeds
in the boxes of the heart,
and keep my salutations
even in letters and telegrams.
andhera tera maine le liya
mera ujla sitaara tere naam kiya
channa mereya mereya
channa merya mereeya
channa mereya mereya beliya
o piya..
I have taken your darkness,
and my bright shining star is yours now.
O my moon,
O my, my moon,
O my beloved moon..
O beloved.
mehfil mein teri
hum na rahein jo
gham to nahi hai
gham to nahi hai
kisse hamaare, nazdeekiyon ke
kam to nahi hain
kam to nahi hain.
kitni dafa subah ko meri
tere aangan mein baithe maine shaam kiya
if I am not there in your gathering,
there is no sadness,
there is no sadness..
stories of ours, of our closenesses,
aren't less,
they are plenty.
so many times I have turned
my mornings into evenings sitting in your courtyard.
[that is I have so many times passed my time there.]
tere rukh se apna raasta moR ke chala..
chandan hoon mainapni khushboo chhoR ke chala..
mann ki maaya rakh ke tere takiye tale
bairagi bairaagi ka sooti chola oRh ke chala
I turn my path from your face,
I am sandal, leaving my frangrance (with you)...
keeping the worldly illusions under your pillow,
this ascetic wraps the cotton cloth of an ascetic and leaves..
