Let the music play - Part 3

writing about music is taking me back to faiz and thank God someone who borrowed my entire urdu poetry collection returned it earlier in the week - nuskha hayay vafa which is concise faiz collection is back to its usual place

so i am relaxing reading faiz and i see a video by ahmed jahanzeb in which he has sporting a new hairstyle lending his crappy voice to one of my faiz favourites & i really do not understand the video for this one, he is riding at the back of limo singing this ghazal...what exactly has gone wrong with this guy, if you cannot carry a tune then your hair is surely not going to rescue you would it

he has covered "aap kee yaad aatee rahee raat bhar" which is faiz's tribute to makhdoom

so here is makhdoom's version first

aap kee yaad, aatee rahee raatabhar
chashme-nam muskuraatee rahee raatabhar

raatabhar dard kee shammaa jaltee rahee
gam kee lau tharatharaatee rahee raatabhar

baasuree kee sureelee suhaanee sadaa
yaad ban ban ke aatee rahee raatabhar

yaad ka chaand dil mein utarate rahe
chaandanee jagamagaatee rahee raatabhar

koee diwaanaa galiyon mein phirtaa rahaa
koee aawaaz aatee rahee raatabhar

Faiz's tribute to Makhdoom from his mairay dil mairay musafir is as follows

aap kee yaad aatee rahee raat bhar
chandini dil dukhaatee rahee raat bhar

gaah jaltee hoee gaah bukhtee hoee
sham-e-ghum jhilmilaatee rahee raat bhar

koee khushboo badaltee rahee pairahan
koee tasweer gaatee rahee rahee raat bhar

phir saba saayaa-ay shakh-e-gul kay talay
koee qisaa sunatee rahee raat bhar

jo naa aayaa ussaay koee zanjeer-ay dar
har sadaa par bulatee rahee raat bhar

aik umeed say dil behaltaa raha
aik tamanaa sataatee rahee raat bhar


to be continued