Music: Tum Ko Dekha Toh Ye Khayal

Movie: Saath Saath (1982) Song: Tum Ko Dekha Toh Ye Khayal
Starcast: Farooq Shaikh, Deepti Naval, Rakesh Bedi and Neena Gupta
Singer: Jagjit Singh & Chitra Singh
Music Director: Kuldeep Singh
Lyricist: Javed Akhtar

I’ll share Gazals in this week.

The ghazal is a form of amatory poem or ode, originating in Arabic poetry. A ghazal may be understood as a poetic expression of both the pain of loss or separation and the beauty of love in spite of that pain.

The ghazal form is ancient, tracing its origins to 7th-century Arabic poetry. The ghazal spread into South Asia in the 12th century due to the influence of Sufi mystics and the courts of the new Islamic Sultanate and is now most prominently a form of poetry of many languages of the Indian subcontinent and Turkey.

A ghazal commonly consists of between five and fifteen couplets, which are independent, but are linked – abstractly, in their theme; and more strictly in their poetic form. The structural requirements of the ghazal are similar in stringency to those of the Petrarchan sonnet. In style and content, due to its highly elusive nature, the ghazal has proved capable of an extraordinary variety of expression around its central themes of love and separation.

The ghazal was initially composed to a purely religious theme”. Now in this era Ghazals are more likely to have romantic themes.

Source: Wiki.

Music: Ae Mohabbat Tere Anjaam Pe Rona Aya

Song: Ae Mohabbat Tere Anjaam Pe Rona Aya
Singer: Begum Akhtar
Music Director: Murli Manohar Swarup
Lyricist: Shakeel Badayuni

I heard this song in a kathak performance and fell in love with this beautiful Gazal.

It is a heart-touching Gazal and Begum Akhtar herself is a Genius, the lyrics by Shakeel Badayuni are raw, emotional, poetic and beautiful.

I found this version of This Gazal equally beautiful.

It is performed by Sithara.