यह दुनिया अगर मिल भी
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Even if One Gains This World
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यह महलों , यह तख़्तों , यह ताजों की दुनिया
यह इन्सान के दुश्मन समाजों की दुनिया
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यह दौलत के भूखे रवाजों की दुनिया
यह दुनिया अगर मिल भी जाए तो क्या है
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This world of palaces, thrones, and crowns
This community of enemies of mankind
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This world of mores of thirst for wealth
Even if you gain this world, what of it?
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हर इक जिस्म घायल , हर इक रूह प्यासी
निगाहों में उलझन , दिलों में उदासी
यह दुनिया है या आलम-ए-बदहवासी
यह दुनिया अगर मिल भी जाए तो क्या है [ x2 ]
Each and every body stricken, each and every soul thirsty
Confusion in the glances, despondency in the hearts
Is this a world or a "world of confusion"?
Even if you gain this world, what of it? [x2]
यहाँ इक खिलौना है इन्सान की हस्ती
यह बस्ती है मुर्दा-परस्तों की बस्ती
यहाँ पर तो जीवन से है मौत सस्ती
यह दुनिया अगर मिल भी जाए तो क्या है [ x2 ]
Here, man's existence is a plaything,
it is a settlement of worshipers of the dead.
Because over here, death is cheaper than life.
Even if you gain this world, what of it? [x2]
जवानी भटकती है बद-कार बन कर
जवान जिस्म सजते हैं बाज़ार बन कर
यहाँ प्यार होता है ब्योपार बन कर
यह दुनिया अगर मिल भी जाए तो क्या है [ x2 ]
Youth becomes wicked and goes astray,
young bodies become a bazaar, embellished.
Here, love has been turned into a trade.
Even if you gain this world, what of it? [x2]
यह दुनिया जहाँ आदमी कुछ नहीं है
वफ़ा कुछ नहीं , दोस्ती कुछ नहीं है
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जहाँ प्यार की क़द्र ही कुछ नहीं है
यह दुनिया अगर मिल भी जाए तो क्या है [ x2 ]
This world where man is nothing
Faithfulness is nothing, friendship is nothing
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Where love's worth itself is nothing
Even if you gain this world, what of it? [x2]
जला दो इसे फूंक डालो यह दुनिया
जला दो , जला दो , जला दो
जला दो इसे फूंक डालो यह दुनिया
मेरे सामने से हटा लो यह दुनिया
तुम्हारी है तुम ही संभाली यह दुनिया
यह दुनिया अगर मिल भी जाए तो क्या है
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Torch it, set this world on fire,
Torch, torch it, torch it!
Torch it, set this world on fire,
remove this world from my sight (in front of me)!
This world is yours only, you fix it!
Even if you gain this world, what of it? [x2]
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About this song
- Singer
- Mohammed Rafi
- Lyrics
- Sahir Ludhianvi
- Music
- S.D. Burman
- On screen
- Guru Dutt, Waheeda Rehman, Rehman
- Film
- Pyaasa (1957)
ye duniyaa agar mil bhii (Hindi: यह दुनिया अगर मिल भी, Urdu: یہ دُنیا اگر مِل بھی) "Even if You Gain/Meet/Conform to This World", is a song featured in the 1957 Bollywood film Pyaasa.
The song's lyrics, written by Sahir Ludhianvi, are a plea and a renunciation against the materialistic character of the world.
In the movie, the song is played when the protagonist, a struggling poet called Vijay (Guru Dutt), breaks into an auditorium where the antagonist, the evil Mr. Ghosh (played by Rehman) is trying to take advantage of his poems.
The other protagonist, Gulabo (Waheeda Rehman), a kind-hearted prostitute who helps Vijay, is also in the audience.
As people start noticing Vijay, and recognizing him as the author of the poem, the poem gets more dramatic ("Burn the world, torch it!") and Mr. Ghosh, trying to conceal his embarrassment, has Vijay forcibly removed from the auditorium.
The music of this song, along with the others in the film, was composed by S.D. Burman.
The playback singer was Mohammed Rafi.
