एक वादा करो अब हमसे ना बिछड़ोगे कभी,
नाज़ हम सारे उठा लेंगे, तुम आओ तो सही।
And I am like that unfaithful lover that returns, only when my mind is restless, down and out, looking for love and comfort.
Just now, as this ghazal plays in the background, it has again broken all the walls of my barriers that I use as a check-dam of my emotions. Now there is a deluge not only from my eyes but also inside the heart and rushing down the veins, I am drowning helplessly. Time will heal, not the pain, but the walls of the dam, and again I would be up and running, until the next deluge. The music of JS and CS does this often. I don't know what or why it is. Maybe it is a combination of memories, melody and melancholy. Maybe something it is something else. I don't know. I don't care now.
This particular gem from Chitra ji, is a superb rendition. Starting from her ulta-short alaap, the matla of the ghazal and to each of the three couplets. The interlude of the flute and the tabla is just awesome, and so is the santoor.
This is Mumtaz Mirza's ghazal. This ghazal is written in the meter "ramal musamman mahzuf", with the syllabic pattern, 2122-2122-2122-212. The तुम आओ तो सही is scanned as तु माओ तो सही (122 212).
There are other verses that are unsung in this recording.
यूँ तो जिस सिम्त नज़र उठती है तारीकी(darkeness) है,
प्यार के दीप जला लेंगे, तुम आओ तो सही।
इख़्तलाफ़ात(disagreement) भी मिट जाएँगे रफ़ता(slowly) रफ़ता,
जिस तरह होगा निभा लेंगे, तुम आओ तो सही।
दिल की वीरानी से घबराके ना मुँह को मोड़ो,
बज़्म ये फिर से सज़ा लेंगे, तुम आओ तो सही।
