A thought-provoking clip

 

I wanted to share a clip which was supposedly shared a lot online some weeks ago, that featured an adorable little child face-to-face with her birth mother, who is seen holding the child and waiting in wonder, joy, and sheer love as her child is finally able to glimpse her face (with the aid of small eyeglasses). 

The scene can be viewed at this clip: पहली बार साफ नजर आई मां बच्ची हुई भावुक,छोटी सी मासूम बच्ची का वीडियो वायरल

I also found another clip (with the same child) as well (although I am not sure if its AI or not): Heartwarming moment small baby clearly recognizes mother face after wearing glasses for first time

            The reason I am posting about these clips in particular is that for some reason I kept on getting reminded of something else when I watched these clips, and first of all the lines of Surah Qaf from the holy Quran flashed before me, here they are:

"You were completely heedless of this day. We have removed the veil from your eyes, and your vision will now be sharp and strong"- Surah Qaf (Verse (50:22)

So, just as in the clips, the child is finally able to clearly see (and recognize) his earthly mother (albeit with the aid of an external veil- or eyeglasses), I was noticing the sheer similarity of that moment of being face-to-face with the Creator-God, the one whose love is equivalent to the love of seventy mothers, and how after death, on the day of judgment, the soul shall be face-to-face with the loving God and finally the veil will be lifted and eyesight made sharp (similar to the idea of putting something externally to sharpen the eyesight on earth vs. removing the earthly veil in hereafter that was clouding the eyesight of the human in the Dunya). Moreover, I was filled with awe and wondered that similar to the earthly mother who can be seen filled with immense joy at seeing her child see her own face clearly for the first time, wouldn't God who has far more love (Al-Wadud) than that, must be truly filled with love at seeing his own child whom he created. And perhaps, only then shall the human realize how he was caught up in the illusion of the Dunya and was neglecting the love of the only true one- the Loving God......

One of my urdu poems...

 

Sharing an Urdu poem, I wrote many years ago. This poem as it stands is deeply personal and has a specific code of sounds/ pattern I have used (based on my style). Anyways, I decided to post this one here on my blog:

 

"Maafi mein tu

Maaenon mein tu

Maahir mein tu

majboor mein tu

Maasoom mein tu

mazaak mein tu

Maazi mein tu,

malaal mein tu,

masroof mein tu

mayassar mein tu

marham mein tu

marhoom main tu

masjid mein tu,

rahMaan mein tu,

Urdu ke itne lafzon 

ki khanak mein tu,

par zindagi mein,

kyu nahin?

Ae Maa,

O ma..

Ikhattar se sattar ka safar 

faqat ek ginti kam hi to hona hai,

Phir bhi, dil hi jaanta hai,

vo safar-e-muhaal kitna hai...”

---Shilpi

A very beautiful and nostalgic song- from a popular Hindi movie Disco Dancer (1982)

 

Sharing a hauntingly beautiful song that is from a very old but popular Bollywood movie Disco Dancer (1982). Before I mention about the song, I should mention about this movie and the lead actor Mithun Chakraborthy. All the songs and the dance steps of the actor in this movie are so famous that his unique moves are attributed to him (akin to the moonwalk or other specific dance steps attributed to Michael Jackson). Moreover, this movie had a massive popularity in the Soviet Union (Russia) apart from India, and in an old interview when the actor was asked about the movie's success and his success in Russia, he replied that the success of the movie is only because it was destiny and comes from God. He also replied that he thinks he had a strong past life connection to Russia that's why he became an icon in Russia :)

The particular song I am sharing is so nostalgic as I had this song especially recorded in my cassette player in my childhood and used to hear it a lot. I liked its melody and its deep lyrics which reverberate in my heart till today. The song is:Disco Dancer - Yaad Aa Raha Hai Tera Pyar Kahan Hum Kahan - Bappi Lahiri

I am also sharing the specific movie clip (actually the whole movie in available on YouTube freely), where the teacher/ Guru/ Murshid (played by Rajesh Khanna) speaks to the actor to sing, urging him to sing for the sake of his mother's soul. 

(167) Disco Dancer - Mithun Chakraborty - Part 13 Of 13 | Bollywood Movie Scenes - YouTube

One noticeable thing is that the actor (Mithun) has formed a deep phobia of even touching his electric guitar, let alone hold it and play and sing to its tunes, which is happening as in his last performance, he was about to hold his electric guitar, but his mother reaches the stage hurriedly in time (as she was informed of a secret plot to kill her son by having the guitar under live electric voltage) and before her son could touch, she picks up the guitar and is sadly, electrocuted and dies in front of her son. That traumatic memory and scream of his mother remained imprinted in his soul memory, and he cannot seem to get over his grief, especially since his mother had suffered a lot in her earlier life as well and she unconditionally loved him and wanted him to sing and follow his heart, almost a huge sacrifice. Moreover, after that the villains also physically attack the actor breaking his legs (so he cannot dance on stage). Even though his lover (played by some actress) helps him rehabilitate his physical injury, the wound in his soul remains unhealed. At the time of a critical upcoming dance show, she urges the actor to sing (and there is a full song on that which is a very famous song by the name Jimmy Aaja Disco Dancer - Jimmi Jimmi Jimmi Aaja Aaja Aaja Aaja Re Mere - Parvati Khan) but her attempts fail. Until we see the entry of the actor's murshid (a teacher who had been there with the actor since his childhood watching him and teaching him music and singing with him songs). He then sings another beautiful song and speaks to him to listen to his soul, his specific dialogues (see below) help him finally take the leap to overcome the fear. Interestingly, as the healing occurs, we see the actor (Mithun) breaks apart the old personal guitar (which caused his mother's death) and takes the electric guitar thrown by his murshid in the auditorium. And the song which the actor then sings is in fact devoted to his mother and is remembering her love...

The dialogues spoken by the guru in Hindi and English are here:

Hindi:

"Gaa, apni maa ki aatma ki cheekh se apne sur ko mila de

main kehta hoon gaa!

agar aaj tune nahi gaaya

to hamesha hamesha ke liye 

teri maa mar jayegi...."

 

English:

"Sing, unite your melody with the scream of your mother's soul

I say to you sing!

If today you did not sing

Then forever and forever

your mother will die..."

I personally felt that moment was beautiful and very deep, as it showed that the source of trauma (the guitar) was broken to give space to a new version of that same object which then turned into a symbol of healing (through music). For some reason I was getting reminded of the story of Surah Yusuf from the holy Quran where the same shirt of Prophet Yusuf (A.S.) that caused trauma to his father Prophet Yaqub also later became the source of his healing. Basically, the same shirt which was not torn but had sheep blood spots was brought by his other sons to make-believe that Yusuf was killed by wolves, but 40 years later, Yusuf sent another shirt (but his personal shirt) that actually healed the sight of his father. 

The lyrics of the song are:

"Yaad aa raha hai, tera pyaar

Kahaan hum kahaan tum

Hue tum kahaan gum

Aa bhi jaa aa bhi, jaa ek baar

O, Yaad aa raha hai, tera pyaar

Yaaron, main to yahaan jeeta raha

Saare gham dil ke bhula ke

De ke tumhein, saari khushi

Maine, maine yahaan kuchh bhi to paaya nahi

Sab kuchh paa ke

Mujh ko mili, kya zindagi

O, Yaad aa raha hai, tera pyaar

Kahaan hum kahaan tum

Hue tum kahaan gum

Aa bhi jaa aa bhi, jaa ek baar

Ho, Yaad aa raha hai, tera pyaar

Ae dil, main wohi tu wohi

Wohi hain yeh duniya ke mele

Bichhde woh din, jaane kahaan

Roothe, sab yahaan jaane kahaan

Reh gaye hum to akele

Aawaaz dein, kis ko yahaan

O, Yaad aa raha hai, tera pyaar

Kahaan hum kahaan tum

Hue tum kahaan gum

Aa bhi jaa aa bhi, jaa ek baar

Ho, Yaad aa raha hai, tera pyaar

Waada, waada raha saathi mere

Tere liye gaata chala jaaun

Tu mera dil, tu meri jaan

Jeena, jeena mera jeena yahin

Tere liye zindagi lutaoon

Tu jo nahi, kya hai yahaan

O, Yaad aa raha hai, tera pyaar

Kahaan hum kahaan tum

Hue tum kahaan gum

Aa bhi jaa aa bhi, jaa ek baar"

Yaad Aa Raha Hai Lyrics in Hindi, Indian Michel Jackson-Mithun Chakraborty Yaad Aa Raha Hai Song Lyrics

A thoughtful scene from the Hindi movie Border 2

 

I had watched the Bollywood movie: Border 2 released in 2026 (based on the 1971 India-Pakistan war) very recently and had to share some of the depthful moments I noted in this movie. This movie is a sequel of the original movie (Border, 1997) that I had watched in childhood, hence I was curious to watch its sequel, especially due to the haunting music score. Anyhow, I still liked the original movie (Border) more as the sequel movie felt somewhat long and boring to me, except the parts which show the role of one of the actors (and a well-known singer in real life) Diljit Dosanjh playing the role of a Fighter pilot (Flying Officer Nirmal Jit Singh Sekhon) which fascinated me. 

(A small anecdote of why I have a fascination for AirForce in particular. Since childhood, I always had a t-shirt (dark blue) that actually had a logo which was the Airforce pilot logo (exactly like the one in photo of the actor as shown below) and I would just adore wearing it. Moreover, after my school, all I wanted was to become a pilot or join Airforce or something, however, that was not possible due to my eye number, hence left with no option, I ended up enrolling in metallurgical engineering (although I desired to study aerospace engineering). However, as I grew up, I realized I was not cut out for the air and actually had phobia of flying and of fire and explosion of fuselage. Much later in my life, I did find the answer to all that (reincarnation stuffs :)). In all this, little did I realize that music/ singing was silently whirling in my soul hinting at my true calling, although I was never able to actually memorize music although I had got a guitar in childhood and also a tutor to teach me, but something in my soul did not let me pick it up or have the peace to learn notations (mostly due to the hostile environments of the born family) and I dropped learning to play music, but listening and singing was one thing that never left me. I would just start to sing from very small age.)  Anyhow, back to the movie sequence I wish to blog about:)

    First let me talk of a specific dialogue sequence (from the movie as the dialogues are not available online) between the actor (Diljit) and his mother, before he leaves for the war as he is called to report at the Air Force base.

The dialogues in Hindi are:

Actor: "o meri sauteli maa, chalta hoon, asli maa ka bulawaa aa gaya hai"

Mother: "jeeta reh, meri umr bhi tenu laa de"

Actor: "ley, teri umr leke mein kya karunga, mere paas apni bahut hai.agar ashirwaad dena hai to yeh de ke saare dushmano ko maar giraun"

Mother:"vo bhi to apni maaon se lambi umr ki duayein leke aaye honge. Janam dene wali maa jeene ka aashirwaad de sakti hai, marne-maarne ka nahi"

Actor: "Tere kehne ka matlab hai ki main na ladun?"

Mother: "Nahi, tu lad, tera farz hai, bahaduri se lad aur fateh kar ke aa. Main bhi lad lungi apni mamta se...."

And the same dialogues after I did the English translation are:

Actor: "O my stepmother, I am leaving, my real mother has called me"

Mother: "live long, may you also get my life span"

Actor: "why, what will I do by taking your life span? I have mine which is enough for me. If you want to give me blessings, bless me that I kill all the enemies"

Mother: "Even they would have taken blessings from their own mothers for a long life. The mother who gives birth can only give blessings of life and not of dying or killing."

Actor: "Do you mean to say that I should not fight?"

Mother: "No, you fight, that's your duty. Fight with bravery and attain victory. I will also fight with my motherly love"

So, basically in the conversation, the actor refers to his own mother as stepmother while he refers to India (his motherland) as his real mother- typical of a patriotic man. What I found words of deep wisdom in were the responses of his mother when he claimed that he wanted to kill all the enemies and attain victory for his motherland, and she replied with a wisdom that one is forced to stop and ponder: does war in fact solve the real problem? Truly, the enemies he refers to are also sons and daughters of another mother from a different country, and they share the same fervor. Finally, the mother replies by saying that her son should perform his duty while she will find the courage to fight her emotions coming from a mother's heart.

https://www.wionews.com/entertainment/bollywood/border-2-diljit-dosanjh-reveals-his-first-look-from-varun-dhawan-and-sunny-deol-starrer-1764591340333

 In the air combat sequence of the two fighter jets (India/Pakistan), ultimately the actor manages to win over the other aircraft, although he is fatally injured, but his pride remains intact, and he is martyred (with that sequence portrayed very beautifully). However, even the other pilot from the other side is also killed. So, one is left to wonder whether the war truly ended. In my view, not, simply because although the war on the outer level was ended and won, the war on the inner side started in the hearts of both mothers (struggling with losses of their respective sons) and perhaps may take a long time to end.

Interestingly, in the movie, a similar pathos is reflected in the actor Sunny Deol, who is playing role of some Indian Major on the Border who had also lost his son in the war but always had guilt that he was not there to receive his son's last phone call made only to him while he was on his deathbed. The guilt was that he was at that time praying in the Gurudwara (Temple of Sikhs) and so in the movie we see that he continues to struggle internally and stops going to the temple altogether since his son's martyrdom. Even his wife urges him to achieve victory not only in the external war but also in the internal struggle he faces within himself. Ultimately, towards the end of the movie, we see that he comes to terms with his internal battle and visits the temple, showing that he truly mastered the battle and accepted the will of God.

 

    Interestingly, one of the songs of this movie that is primarily featured and also sung by the actor Diljit (with other singers also) has beautiful Punjabi lyrics (especially the stanza lines below:)

"Ho tujh mein koi daag nahi hai

Chaand tainu yaara ve kaise kahun

Ishq da chehra tera hubahu

Sari zindagi tainu takda rahun

Ishq da chehra tera hubahu

Sari zindagi tainu takda rahun"

https://lyricsmint.com/diljit-dosanjh/ishq-da-chehra

The song link:

BORDER 2: Ishq Da Chehra (Full Video) | Sunny D, Varun D, Diljit, Ahan | Sachet-Parampara, Kausar