मय्या मय्या
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तू नील समंदर है [ x2 ]
मैं रेत का साहिल हूँ [ x2 ]
आग़ोश में ले ले
मैं देर से प्यासी हूँ
You are the blue ocean [x2]
I am a coast of sand [x2]
Take me in your embrace
I am thirsty, lately
एक सौदा रात का ,
एक कौड़ी चाँद की
चाहे तो चूम ले ,
तू थोड़ी चाँद की
[ last 4 lines x2 ]
एक चाँद की कश्ती में ,
चल पार उतरना है
तू हलके-हलके खेना ,
दरिया न छलके
It is a one-night trade
for a small portion of the moon
should you want to kiss
a little of the moon
[last 4 lines x2]
In a moon's boat
you must go across
You must row softly,
without stirring the waters
मय्या मय्या /
गुलाबी तारे चुन ले ,
सारे चुन
मय्या मय्या /
कि जिस्मों की परतों में
दर्दों के मारे चुन ले
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Water … water …
gather the rosy stars,
select all
Water … water …
So that you gather all folds
of the body stricken by pains
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जब नील समंदर जागे ,
आग़ोश में ले कर साहिल
लहराता है और मस्ती में
महताब का चेहरा चूमता है
When the blue sea awakes
embracing the coast
It undulates, and, in passion,
kisses the face of the moon
मैं सीने में
तेरी साँसें भर लेती हूँ
करवट-करवट , मैं तुझ से लिपट कर ,
रात बसर कर लेती हूँ
मय्या मय्या मय्या मय्या
I, in my chest,
am still filled with your breath
Rolling from side to side, embracing you,
I spend the entirety of the night
Water … water … water … water
सीने से मेरे , उठता है धुआँ /
मय्या मय्या मय्या मय्या
दीवार पे क्या लिखता है धुआँ /
धीमा धीमा धीमा धुआँ
हर बार यह क्या कहता है धुआँ
मय्या मय्या …
[ repeated several times ]
[ mixed with folk tunes ]
From my chest, smoke is rising
Water … water … water … water
What is the smoke writing on the wall?
Slow … slow … slow, the smoke …
the smoke is saying this every time:
Water … water …
[repeated several times]
[mixed with folk tunes]
About this song
- Singers
- Chinmayi, Maryem Tollar, Keerthi Sagathia
- Lyrics
- Gulzar
- Music
- A.R. Rahman
- On screen
- Abishek Bachchan, Mallika Sherawat
- Film
- Guru (movie) (2017)
mayyaa mayyaa (Hindi: मय्या मय्या, Urdu: معيا معيا), in dialectal Arabic; "Water, Water", is a son performed in the 2007 Bollywood biographical drama "Guru".
In the movie, the song is played during a visit of the main character, Guru ( Abishek Bachchan) to Turkey, while he is watching the sensual performance of the dancer Jhumpa (Mallika Sherawat doing an "item number").
The song's composer was A.R. Rahman and the lyricst was Gulzar.
According to the song's Wikipedia page, Rahman claims to have heard the Arabic words "mayya, mayya" during his pilgrimage to Mecca, and then to have asked Gulzar to include those words in the lyrics.
The female playback singers were the Tamil singer Chinmayi, along with the Canada-based Egyptian singer Maryem Tollar for the folk/Arabic-sounding humming parts.
Some small parts in a male voice are sung by Keerthi Sagathia.
