From: Ashish Bokil Ek arse jo chupchaap thhee, aaj achanak sar-e-shaam se woh aawaaz bechain hai.. shaam ke dhundhalke main, sandhi-prakaash se roshan, jhilmilaati hui ek gili-si kahaani .... do boondon ki shakl mein ... palkon ke darwaaze par khadi hui, roshnee ke bujhne kaa intezaar kar rahi hai .. ki andheraa ho, aur binaa kisi ko nazar aaye, woh dabe paaon bhaag khadi ho ... kanheen, yahee to us bechaini ki vajah nahee? Kaun jaane? ... us kahaani ko shaayad dar thhaa ki woh jo jagah ghere hue hai, wahaan uskaa koi haq nahee .. binaa kisi ki ijaazat ke, binaa kisi ke bulaaye, is tarah palkon par kabzaa kar lenaa thheek baat naheen !! ...roshni mein us kahaani ki duvidhaa aur saaf nazar aa rahi thhee ... ruke ya nikale .. jaise jaise lamhe guzarte thhey, kahaani mein naye naye rang bharte thhey ... boonde majboor thheen ... roshni mein to har rang saf dikhaayi detaa thhaa ... par palkon ki bhee apni intehaa thhee ... aakhir kitani baDi kahaani us chhote se sansaar mein samaa sakti thheen? ... jab seemaayen toot jaati, to ek kahaani alvidaa kehkar pankhudiyon se machle hue gaalon par dhhulak jaati thhee aur ek nayi boond, naye rang lekar nayi kahaani kehnaa shuru kar deti thhee ... phir, roshni bhee khatm ho gayi ... jhilmilaahat band hui aur maine sochaa ki shaayad kahaani bhee khatm ho gayi .... bujhi hui palken jhuk kar boondon ke jaane ka dukh khaank rahi thhee ya aane waali neend ki rahon mein sajde kar rahi thhee, maaloom na thhaa ... magar palkon ke aaspaas phaili bheegi si chaadar apne aap mein barson ki tasveerein liye baithhi thhee ... woh tasveerein neend ko us paar na jaane deti thhee ... use baaton hi mein uljhaa rakhaa thhaa .. umra-bhar ki tasveerein ek raat ke liye kam na thhee ... har lamhe mein ek baras zindaa ho uthh-taa thhaa ek boond mein ek umra guzar jaati thhee ... kahaani kaise khatm hoti????? ... benoor boonde kaise khatm hoti??? aaj neend poori raat intezaar hi karti rahegi .. haan .. isiliye to aawaaz bhee bechain rahegi .... yes! a very simple thought! a very simple situation! but sensitive expression in the form of poetry, music, and singing. Has it ever happened with you that you have listened to a song million times, and are possibly addicted to the song and yet when someone asks you the exact lyrics, you can't come up with them, because you realized that the music and the tune and the singing has overpowered you so much that you never heard what was being sung? ... there are some songs that have had this effect on me for too long a time.... "badi sooni sooni hai ... " "aaye tum yaad mujhe ..."o maanjhee re ..." and the one i have devoted this "magic moments" to ..... I had been used to paying attention to lyrics from quite early .. but these songs have the effect of "bekhudi" .... being lost in the sound of them ... i think there could be no better tribute to the music director and the singer than this .... it was years later when i made deliberate efforts to listen to the lyrics when i think i finally discovered the song completely ... the lyrics match the superiority in tune and rendition! ... very simple but .... it has a way of penetrating the heart smooooothly without facing any resistance from the listener ... makes you want it more and more ... fills you with the same feelings that the song portrays ... and this feeling is what could be the best tribute to the poet .... Do nainon mein aansoo bhare hain .... nindiyaa kaise samaaye .... interlude begins with an instrument similar to saarangi .. but not quite .... ..continued by small sarod piece with piano keys pitched at the chord points finally .. tons of high pitch violins takes over ........ doobi doobi aankhon mein ... sapnon ke saaye ... raat bhar apne hain ... din mein paraaye ... kaise nainon mein nidiyaa samaaye .... do nainon mein ... aansoo bhare hain ... nindiyaa kaise samaaye .. a sensitive sitaar tune, taken over by gush of smooth high pitch violins, .... jhoothhe tere waadon pe baras bitaaye ... zindagi to kaati ye raat kat jaaye ... kaise nainon mein nindiyaa samaaye ... do nainon mein .. aansoo bhare hain .. nindiyaa kaise samaaye .... ..... just when you get over lata's ever sweet voice, that RD's music sweeps you away ... and while the music is about to settle in comfortably, the lyrics leave you melted .... and you slowwwwwly reach out to rewind the tape ...... ......kabhee kabhee ek raat itni bojhil ho jaaye ki tamaam umra se baDi mehsoos hone lage ... ...... "ke ek raat ki ye zindagi guzaar chale ..." alag alag alphaaz .... magar ek hi ehsaas ... jo andar kaheen kisi reshe ko halke se chheD kar aa jaaye ... us chot par halke se ungali rakh de jo mehsoos to bahut der se ho rahi thhee lekin kahaan thhee ye pataa nahee chal paa rahaa thhaa ... To put a strong emotion in words in such a manner as to not only make you feel it in its exact form but also to manifest it in a beautiful imagery is Gulzar's hall mark ... A simple thought that one can't sleep because he is sad is expressed delicately as "do nainon mein aansoo bhare hain ... nindiyaa kaise samaaye ..." ........ i think poetry is not only about expressing something very complex always, but also about expressing something ever so delicately with an imagination that we all normally don't perceive ...and makes us look at things from a different perspective .... This song can not be discussed without mentioning the "firat" in lataa's voice so conspicuously absent in almost all present day singers ....the sweetness that is nowhere to be heard now ... and the quality that we earlier remarked upon as something we took for granted - to put emotions in the song without overdoing it - when lata, asha, geeta dutt were singing but is just the foremost on the wishlist for today's music ... ashish