Ya Khuda!

It was some obscure night in the summer preceding my third semester and I was home on a long vacation. Tuning in to Red FM at around 2 am and then trying to sleep was part of my daily routine then. That was when I first heard this song – Bandya ho…The tune was awesome and I was totally mesmerized by the beat. Halfway through the song, I realized that I wasn’t able to make out a single word of it, let alone the meaning. That seriously jeopardized my chances of downloading the track and listening to it again.  I thought I should record the piece on another cell phone and then play it for my friends back in college. Someone of them might recognize the song and end my search right there! My dyslexic brain took a lot of time to figure this out and in the end all I could record were some ten seconds of undecipherable words.

Still, being the optimist that I declare myself to be, I asked one of the many ‘Bollywood encyclopedias’ here if they had heard this song. The disappointed look on their face said it all and I gave up hope of ever listening to that masterpiece again. Soon I forgot about the song and to quote an overused cliche again…life moved on. That was sometime in the month of July. And then yesterday, I sat down to watch a much acclaimed film called Khuda Kay Liye. Halfway through the movie, came ‘THE SONG’! Call it a miracle or whatever you want…I now didn’t care about how awesome or aweful the movie would turn out to be…I had somehow struck gold! These are times when the agnostic in me starts to believe.

To add to it all, the movie turned out to be great. I bow before Shoaib Mansoor who’s made this movie one of the very best I have ever watched. It takes a place at the top,the very top. Maybe this is what cinema is all about. I don’t want this post to turn into a movie review, but yeah…if there is one movie I recommend watching, this has to be it. Only a genius can create such magic.MUST WATCH.

Of course, needless to say, the music’s wonderful and fits wonderfully into the film.

Here are the lyrics with the translation:

Bundeya hoo Bundeya

Bundeya hoo..oo…ooo

Bundeya hoo Bundeya

Bundeya hoo..oo…ooo

{Banda means person…. Bandeya Means ‘Man/Mankind’….}

Bullay Noun Samjhawan Ayaan

Bheynaan Tay Bherjaiyaan

Man Lay Bulleya Sada Kena

Chad Day Pala Rayaan

{Bulleh’s sisters and bhabhiaan (sister in laws) came to convince him. Bulleh, Please do as we tell you and leave araain’s (a caste) company}

Aal Nabi Ullad Nabi Noun

Tu Kyoun Leekaan Layaan

“Jeyra Saanoun Syed Saday

Dozukh Milan Sazaiyaan”

{Why do you want to insult Prophet’s and Ali’s decendant (by having lower caste in your company)? The one who address us as syed will go to hell. But the one who addresses us as Araain will enjoy comforts of heaven}

Bundeya hoo Bundeya

Bundeya hoo..oo…ooo

Bundeya hoo Bundeya

Bundeya hoo..oo…ooo

Face the world with a smile

No one knows what hid inside

They see only happiness

they cant see the tears i have cried

Raain, Saain, Sabhan Thaain

Rab Deyaan Bay Parwaaiyaan

Sohniyaan Paray Hatayaan Tay

Khoojiyaan Lay Gall Laiyaan

{Arain and masters are born at every place, God doesn’t discriminate against anyone. Beautiful people (at heart) doesn’t care for such differences, only ugly ones do}

Jay To Loorain Baagh Baharaan

Chaakar Hoo Ja Raiyaan

Bulley Shah Dee Zaat Kee Puchni

Shakar Ho Razayaan

{If you need gardens of heaven, be servant to araains. Why do you ask caste of Bulleh Shah? Instead be grateful to God.}

Bundeya hoo Bundeya

Bundeya hoo..oo…ooo

Bundeya hoo Bundeya

Bundeya hoo..oo…ooo