है बस-कि हर इक उन के इशारे
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है बस-कि हर इक उन के इशारे
As in Every Single Gesture of Hers
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है बस-कि हर इक उन के इशारे में निशान और
करते हैं मोहब्बत तो गुज़रता है गुमान और
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As in every single gesture of hers, there are more signals
if she expresses love, then more suspicion occurs
या रब वो न समझे हैं न समझेंगे मिरी बात [ x2 ]
दे और दिल उन को जो न दे मुझ को ज़बान और [ x2 ]
Oh God! She has neither understood my words, nor she will [x2]
give her another heart, if you wouldn't give me another language! [x2]
तुम शहर में हो तो हमें क्या ग़म जब उठेंगे [ x2 ]
ले आएँगे बाज़ार से जा कर दिल-ओ-जान और [ x2 ]
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As long as you are in town, then, when my sorrow arises [x2]
I will ultimately bring from the bazaar another heart-and-soul [x2]
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हैं और भी दुनिया में सुख़न-वर बहुत अच्छे [ x2 ]
कहते हैं कि ग़ालिब का है अँदाज़-ए-बयान और [ x2 ]
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Even (though) there are in the world many other good versifiers
they say that Ghalib's is a different narration style
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About this song
- Singer
- Mohammed Rafi
- Lyrics
- Ghalib
- Music
- Ghulam Mohammed
- On screen
- Bharat Bhushan
hai bas-ki har ik un ke ishaare (Hindi: है बस-कि हर इक उन के इशारे, Urdu: ہے بَسْکہِ ہر اِک اُن کے اِشارے), "As Ever Single Gesture of Hers ... " are the opening words of a famous ghazal by the Urdu poet Ghalib.
Some couplets of this ghazal were musicalized by Ghulam Mohammed and used in a scene of the biographical 1954 Bollywood movie "Mirza Ghalib".
In the scene, the poet (interpreted by Bharat Bhushan) meets a blind beggar in the street, who is singing this poem of his recent creation.
When asked by Ghalib where he had learned it, the beggar answers that he got it from Moti Begum, Ghalib's most recent female admirer, who by then had adopted the nickname of "Chaudhvin" (Moon Faced) given by the poet to her.
The playback singer was Mohammed Rafi.
