Jab Jab Dard Ka Baadal Chaaya

Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara was indeed a wonderful movie released last summer. One of the underrated parts of the movie was the amazing poetry penned by Javed Akhtar and recited by Farhan Akthar over the course of the film. The scenes where poems are recited in Farhans head in the midst of total silence (sitting on a boat after going diving, admiring the surroundings, driving away from the love of your life, around a campfire in the middle of the night) are the kind of scenes which we can all relate to in our lives, via different, often simple and unexpected experiences, and all have special significance for us for our own personal reasons.

My favorite poem from the movie was when Farhan is coming to terms with how cruel, and irresponsible his father was after meeting him for the first time. The poem is as follows:

Jab jab dard ka baadal chaya
Jab ghum ka saya lehraya
Jab aansoo palkon tak aya
Jab yeh tanha dil ghabraya

Humne dil ko yeh samjhaya
…Dil aakhir tu kyun rota hai
Duniya mein yunhi hota hai

Yeh jo gehre sannate hain
Waqt ne sabko hi baante hain
Thoda ghum hai sabka qissa
Thodi dhoop hai sabka hissa
Aankh teri bekaar hi nam hai
Har pal ek naya mausam hai
Kyun tu aise pal khota hai
Dil aakhir tu kyun rota hai

These days, I often listen to these words and try to tell myself that everything will be alright. Thank you Javedsaab for putting into words what I often think about, but fail to emote.