| a ghazal composed by Shahryar for the film, and sung by Asha Bhosle | meter: #32 in the *meter
list*| *on youtube* |
| what place is this, friends, which land is
this where as far as the eye can see there's only dust and more dust? |
yih
kyaa jagah hai dosto yih kaun saa diyaar hai ;had-e nigaah tak jahaa;N ;Gubaar hii ;Gubaar hai |
| what place is this to which life has brought
me where there is neither control over happiness nor power over grief? |
yih
kis muqaam par ;hayaat mujh ko le ke aa ga))ii nah bas ;xvushii pah hai jahaa;N nah ;Gam pah i;xtiyaar hai |
| life demands an account of a whole lifetime what would my heart say, since it is ashamed before its own self? |
tamaam
((umr kaa ;hisaab maa;Ngtii hai zindagii yih meraa dil kahe to kyaa kih ;xvud se sharm-saar hai |
| who is calling me from that side of the screens? is someone sad and restless for me too? |
bulaa
rahaa hai kaun mujh ko chilmano;N ke us :taraf mire li))e bhii kyaa ko))ii udaas be-qaraar hai |
| Here's the form of the ghazal that Shahryar published in his own name, as serious Urdu poetry: | |
| what place is this, friends, which land is this where as far as the eye can see there's only dust and more dust? |
yih
kyaa jagah hai dosto yih kaun saa diyaar hai ;had-e nigaah tak jahaa;N ;Gubaar hii ;Gubaar hai |
| every single body is deformed by the torment of the spirit every single eye is dew-wet, every single heart is wounded |
har
ek jism ruu;h ke ((a;zaab se ni;Dhaal hai har ek aa;Nkh shabnamii har ek dil figaar hai |
we don't believe even in the beats of our own heart |
hame;N
to apne dil kii dha;Rkano;N pah bhii yaqii;N nahii;N ;xvushaa vuh log jin ko duusro;N pah ((itibaar hai |
| one that has no name, one that has no form-- why have we waited from eternity for such a thing? |
nah
jis kaa naam hai ko))ii nah jis kii shakl hai ko))ii ik aisii shai kaa kyuu;N hame;N azal se inti:zaar hai |
| Source: ((ism-e ((a:zam (Aligarh: Indian Book House, 1965), p. 90 | |
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