Wednesday 22 June 2011

Dar na muhabbat kar le/do lafzoN kii hai

Majrooh Sultanpuri wrote the following song for Andaz (1949)

duniyaa faanii tuu bhii faanii
letaa jaa ulfat kii nishaanii
do lafazo.n kii ek kahaanii
ek mohabbat ek javaanii
yaad ise tuu kar le\- 2
Dar naa mohabbat kar le\- 2



In The Great Gambler (1979) thirty years later Anand Bakhshi used it as:
do lafzoN kii hai dil kii kahaanii
yaa hai muhabbat yaa hai jawaanii