Dil main ek leher si uthi hai abhi...Koi taja hawa chali hai abhi..
Dil main ek leher si uthi hai abhi...
Late Nazir Kazmi, wrote this and it was imortalised by the legend of ghazal, Ghulam Ali...by taking it to thousands of Mehfils all over the world.
Nazir a noted journalist as well, was the mentor and one of the Ustads of Ali..who helped him to understand the secret of rendering musical touch to shers without lossing the emotional trivia.
For me the ghazal is some thing precious. Whenever I hum this or listen to this in Ali's voice..it brings a lot of pain and happyness to me. I loved this sher eversince I heard it for the first time before three years.
And when I started playing Harmonium, the first thing I tried was this song, and it's humming..which is partly sung and partly palyed in harmonium!!! I failed to play it initially but of late, I learned it and I enjoy singing it by playing harmonium.
And I used to sing it for my friends..in our Mehfils. I also I intensly longed to sing it for my father who was very fond of songs..of this kind. I dreamed about playing harmonium and singing Dil main ek leher si uthi hai abhi...for my father in a quiet evening at my nice-calm village house at Poyya, Kerala.
My dream never came true..as my father passed away in July 2007. I feel guilty for not giving him the opportunity to hear the ghazal.
I remember my father had sung many many precious bits of good music and shayari for me in my child hood, now I am able to search and understand Nazir's sad and sweet shers because of culture of music imbibed during my childhood. As Nazir wrote..music is leher..the un ending current..which make life bearable in earth...let the leher go on...
Dil main ek leher si uthi hai abhi...Koi taja hawa chali hai abhi..Dil main ek leher si uthi hai abhi...
