jaag dard-e-ishq jaag

Hafeez Jalandhari wrote:
jaag soz-e-ishq jaag, jaag soz-e-ishq jaag
toone aaNkh band kee, kaa_enaat so gayee
husn KHudpasand kee din se raat ho gayee
zard paR gayaa suhaag, jaag soz-e-ishq jaag

Here it is in Malka Pukhraj's voice.


Rajinder Krishen changed the word "soz" to "dard" and wrote the mukhRaa for Anarkali (1953) as "Jaag dard-e-ishq jaag"

mai.n terii nazar kaa suroor hoo.N / woh jo ham me.n tum me.n qaraar thaa

The Ghazal bearing the following opening couplet can be said to be The Best Known Ghazal from Momin Khan Momin's deewaan:

woh jo ham me.n tum me.n qaraar thaa, tumhe.n yaad ho ke na yaad ho
wahii yaa'ni waa'da nibaah kaa, tumhe.n yaad ho ke na yaad ho

In fact, the rhyme-anchor (a.k.a radeef) 'tumhe.n yaad ho ke na yaad ho' is arguably one of the two Most Famous radeef in the entire history of Urdu poetry, the other being 'aahista aahista'.

In the film Jahan Ara (1964), lyricist Rajinder Krishan used a radeef that is almost identical to Momin's:

mai.n terii nazar kaa suroor hoo.N, tujhe yaad ho ke na yaad ho
tere paas rahake bhii door hoo.N, tujhe yaad ho ke na yaad ho

The song was beautifully composed by Madan Mohan and sung by Talat Mahmood



There is also a lesser known tandem version of the same lyric with a different tune sung by Lata Mangeshkar, which appears at the beginning of the song "jab jab tumhe.n bhulaayaa, tum aur yaad aaye" (Lata + Asha duet):



If you were able to endure that entire mujra song, allow us to reward you with a fantastic rendition of Momin's Ghazal by the Pakistani singer Nayyara Noor; it's a pure joy to behold:

ham aur tum aur ye samaaN

So, what are the chances that the beginning of a song sung by the same singer and picturised on the same actor would be the same?

In 1959 Usha Khanna debuted as an Music Director for Dil Deke Dekho. The shooting was nearly complete when Shammi Kapoor heard Usha humming a tune. He liked it so much that asked it to be included in the film. The result was "ham aur tum aur ye samaa.n kyaa nashaa nashaa sa hai" by Majrooh.




The next year Shankar Jaikishen looked beyond Shailendra and Hasrat Jaipuri for the first time and got Rajinder Krishen to write for College Girl. Perhaps Rajinder Krishen too liked the 1959 song as much as Shammi Kapoor, for he added "lovely lovely lovely" to ham aur tum aur ye samaa.n!



Of course both Shailendra and Hasrat were livid with SJ for going to another lyricist. A miffed Shailendra wrote "chhoTii sii ye duniyaa pahchaane raaste hain tum kahee.n to miloge, kabhii to miloge, to puuchhe.nge haal." Which was later tuned by SJ for Rangoli!

dekhaa na haay re sochaa na

ab to ghabraa ke ye kahte haiN k mar jaa_eNge
mar k bhii chain na paayaa to kidhar jaa_eNge

Wrote the Poet Laureate of the last Mughal, Bahadur Shah Zafar - Ibrahim Zauq

Now hear an antara of "dekhaa na haay re sochaa na" in Bombay To Goa (1972), written by Rajinder Krishan:

"miT jaa_eNge mar jaayeNge, kaam koii kar jaa_eNge
mar ke bhii chain na mile, to jaa_eNge yaaro kahaaN"