5 October
2019
Deep thoughts
Last night, I was listening to Ataullah Khan’s rendition of “Idhar Zindagi Ka Janaza Uthega”. It is a beautiful poem written from the point of view of the man who realizes that the lady he loves is getting married to somebody else that night.
And I realized that most of the ghazals and qawwalis (or a large fraction of them at least) are about unrequited love.
In the Western world, it happens differently:
Man loves woman.
Woman does not return the love.
Man moves on to next woman.
But from the subcontinent I come from, it is like:
Man loves woman.
Woman does not return the love.
Man sits down to write a poem!!
🙂
Or an entire book ( Dewane-Ghalib)
sounds like American Country & &western music… lonesome in my saddle since my horse ran away blues….
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Man writes poem.
Another man reads poem.
Man writes a story.
Another man reads story.
Man writes a script.
Another man reads the script.
Man makes a movie.
Man who wrote the poem,
Regrets writing the poem.
It doesnt end with a poem. It is just the beginning. He then takes to alcohok and becomes an alcoholic to the point that there is no return. Later he dies.