تُمْہیں دِل لگی

tumheN dillgii

tumheN dillgii

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تُمْہیں دِل لگی

Your Jokes

تُمْہیں دِل لگی بھول جانی پڑے گی

کَبھی دِل کِسی سے لگا کَر تو دیکھو

[ several repetitions ]

تُمْہارے خیالوں کی دُنیا یہی ہے

ذرا میری بانہوں میں آ کَر تو دیکھو

See how, suddenly, you will forget about jokes

the day you fall in love with someone

[several repetitions]

Sew how the world of your imagination is right here

once you come a little into my arms

دیکھ کے مُجھے کیوں تُم دیکھتے نَہِیں

یارا ایسی بے رُخی ، ہاں ، سہی تو نَہِیں

رات دِن جِسے مانگا تھا دُعاؤں میں

دیکھو غَور سے کہیں مَیں وَہی تو نَہِیں

Why, having seen me, aren't you seeing me?

Comrade, let such ruthlessness not exist!

He whom you asked for in (your) prayers, day and night,

look carefully, perchance I might be precisely him

مَیں وہ رنگ ہوُں جو چڑھ کے

کَبھی چُھوٹے نَہ

[ both lines x2 ]

I'm that dye/color which, once set,

shall never fade

[x2]

تُمْہیں پیار سے پیار ہونے لگے گا [ x2 ]

میرے ساتھ شامیں بِتا کَر تو دیکھو

تُمْہیں دِل لگی بھول جانی پڑے گی

مُحَبَّت کی راہوں میں آ کَر تو دیکھو

See how you spend nights with me

and you will start falling in love with love itself [x2]

See how, suddenly, you will forget about jokes

once you come to the roads of affection

تُمْہیں دِل لگی بھول جانی پڑے گی [ x2 ]

کَبھی دِل کِسی سے لگا کَر تو دیکھو

تُمْہارے خیالوں کی دُنیا یہی ہے

ذرا میری بانہوں میں آ کَر تو دیکھو

See how, suddenly, you will forget about jokes

the day you fall in love with someone [x2]

Sew how the world of your imagination is right here

once you come a little into my arms

تُمْہیں دِل لگی بھول جانی پڑے گی

مُحَبَّت کی راہوں میں آ کَر تو دیکھو [ x2 ]

See how, suddenly, you will forget about jokes

once you come to the roads of affection [x2]

تیرے لِئے مَیں جیوں

تجھ پہ ہی مَیں جان دوں

دِل کی کہوں

دِل کی سُنوں

عِشْق ہے دِل لگی نَہِیں [ x2 ]

I live for you

I give my life for you

What I tell to the heart,

what I hear from heart,

is love, not jokes [x2]

تُمْہیں دِل لگی بھول جانی پڑے گی

مُحَبَّت کی راہوں میں آ کَر تو دیکھو [ x2 ]

See how, suddenly, you will forget about jokes

once you come to the roads of affection [x2]

About this song

Singer: Rahat Fateh Ali Khan
Lyrics: Purnam Allahabadi
Music: Salim-Sulaiman

tumheN dillgii (Hindi: तुम्हें दिल्लगी, Urdu: تُمھیں دِل لگی) is the title of several related artistic works:

the original ghazal written by the Indo-Pakistani Urdu poet Purnam Allahabadi a qawwali sung by the famous Pakistani singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, which adds several stanzas to the original a simplified version, re-written by the Indian lyricist Manoj Muntashir, and made into its own video clip

The lyrics and video clip shown in this page belong to the 3rd version.

The video clip's music was arranged by the singer/composer duo Salim-Sulaiman, and the singer is Rahat Fateh Ali Khan.

The Hindustani word dillagī used all across the song deserves some analysis.

It has the following translations: amusement, jest, joke, non-seriousness, and in the field of human relations: casual friendship, infatuation, lower inclination.

In general, it means an activity that is taken light-heartedly and without real commitment or sacrifice.

All those meanings of dillagii are more or less present in the song, but I traduce it as "amusement" for simplicity.

Similarly, the song's title tumhēṁ dillagī (literally: "you/to you - amusement"), would be an incomplete concept in Hindustani language. I just translate it as "Your Amusement" for simplicity.

The song speaks about a lover who claims that, once his beloved commits to a relationship with him, she will forget all lesser forms of love/amusement/infatuation/jest that she might have experienced before.

The phrase used for committing or falling in love with someone is another expression: dil kisii se lagaa or dil lagaanaa, which literally means "engaging one's heart with someone else".

The video clip is acted by the Indian actors Huma Qureshi and Vidyut Jamwal.

In the video, they represent a couple who has a quarrel because of one of them having to move to another city due to a job opportunity.

During the time they are estranged because of this disagreement, both of them remember the playful times when they met and then got together.

Rahat Fateh Ali Khan makes a cameo appearance as himself, or as a qawwali singer, performing the song before them at some social event.