rang de basanti

the biggest the ironies of lives that come to me - the eminently watchable movie rang de basanti is released all over but not in pittsburgh. dard itna hai ki bayaan bhi nahi kar sakte!

khair, the music by arr is awesome. awesome lyrics by prasoon joshi too. learnt that he also wrote for hum tum. khalbali, roobaroo, luka chuppi, tu bin bataaye. the complete album is a treasure. and specially, there is mohit chauhan with khoon chala.
wanted to post lyrics.

like the ziddi ziddi part of khalbali a lot.

abhi ishq ke intehaan...

Complete coincidence that while watching katha, (too bad we don't see much of sai paranjape these days) I came upon this old n famous sher by iqbal. It was a resonating background score in dil se, for which I commended arr and sukhwinder singh (I guess) much. It was left to haunting memories until (again with all coincidence) some doode reminded me of its existence. Since then, till yesterday, kewal mukhde ke saath jeena pada. and finally, it struck me yesterday (inspiration being the sher-on-blackboard in the katha movie) that it had to be something bigger.
shud have guessed cos gulzar also tepo'ed extensively from ghalib in dil se.


sitaaron se aage jahaan aur bhi hain,
abhi ishq ke intehaan aur bhi hain.

.. (other paras are in deeper urdu)

tu shaahin hai, parwaaz hai kaam teraa,
tere saamne aasmaan aur bhi hain.


isi roz-o-shab mein ulajh kar na reh jaa,
ke tere zameen-o-makaan aur bhi hain.

gae din ki tanhaa tha main anjuman mein,
yahaan ab mere raazadaan aur bhi hain.

the new year commings

with many bangs n whistles, 2006 has entered the doors.

should be fun.