jaa jaa re apne mandirvaa

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jaa jaa re apne mandirvaa

Go, go back to your home

jaa jaa re apne mandirvaa [ x4 ]

sun paavegii saas nandiyaa [ x2 ]

Go, go back to your home [x4]

My mother-in-law and sister-in-law will hear [x2]

jo baat hai , ye baNdhii huii ,

aaNkhoN se tuu , ise bol de

jo lihaaz meN , hai phaNsii huii

is gaaNTh ko , tuu khol de

Whatever the matter is, it's knotted up,

through your eyes, speak it out.

Whatever is entangled in modesty,

this bundle, you untie it.

sharam ko , xatm kar

le mere dil kii xabar

paas thoRaa tuu aa jaa

naa sataa re

End your shyness.

Take notice of what my heart feels.

Come a little closer to me.

Oh, don't torment me

sun ho sadaarang , tum ko chaahat hai [ x2 ]

[ alternative lyrics ]

kyaa tum ham ko Thag na diyaa

tum ham se kyaa chhal na kiyaa

Listen, O Sadarang, you are the one who longs [x2]

[alternative lyrics]

Haven't you beguiled me?

What deceit have you not worked on me?

jaa jaa haaN re

jaa jaa re apne mandirvaa

Go, go, yes

Go, go back to your home

About this song

jaa jaa re apne mandirvaa (Hindi: जा जा रे अपने मंदिरवा, Urdu: جا جا رے اپنے مندروا) "Go, go back to your home" is a traditional bandish, a short fixed composition in khayal, the main vocal genre of Hindustani classical music. The text is attributed to Sadarang, the pen name widely identified with Niyamat Khan, an 18th-century musician at the court of Muhammad Shah "Rangila" in Delhi and a key figure in the shaping of khayal. As in many bandish, his name appears within the verses as a signature. In the lyrics, a woman urges her lover to leave before her mother-in-law and sister-in-law hear them, then playfully reproaches him for having beguiled her. Here "mandir" means "home" or "dwelling" rather than "temple," and the suffix -vaa gives it the affectionate, rustic flavor typical of song language.

Although the speaker is a woman, it is not unusual for the song to be sung by men: in khayal the poetic voice of a bandish is conventionally that of a female lover, and male and female singers alike perform these compositions without changing the text.

Since a bandish is only a skeleton, singers build the performance through improvisation, most notably sargam, in which they sing the names of the notes (sa re ga ma pa dha ni). Each improvised passage drifts away from the refrain and resolves by landing back on "jaa jaa re apne mandirvaa" exactly on the first beat of the rhythmic cycle. Only the traditional verses come from Sadarang. The two middle stanzas were written by IP Singh for "Ja Ja Re," a 2021 arrangement by Salim-Sulaiman for their independent album Bhoomi 2021, sung by Vishal Dadlani, Sattar Khan and Langa folk musicians from Rajasthan.