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K L SAIGAL
MOVIE : STREET SINGER 1938
SINGER: K L SAIGAL
MUSIC : R C BORAL
LYRICS : NAWAB WAJAD SHAH BAHADUR
4) BAABUL MORAA NAIHAR CHOOTO HI JAAYE
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(Babul moraa naihar chooto hi jaaye)2
baabul moraa moraa naihar chooto jaaye
(baabul mora naihar chooto hi jaaye)2
chaar kahaar mile mori doliya sajaawen
mora apna begaana chooto jaaye
baabul mora naihar aa chooto hi jaaye
angana to parbat bhaya aur dehri bhayi bidesh
ye ghar baabul aapno main chali piya ke desh
baabul mora naihar chooto jaaye
baabul mora naihar chooto hi jaaye
The poem, a thumri
When Wajid Ali Shah Bahadur was expelled from Lucknow to Calcutta by Britishers, he wrote the parting poem Babul Mora, picturing the mind of a heart broken man. Although his takhalus (pen-name) was Qaisar, he used the pseudonym "Akhtarpiya" for his numerous compositions. Under this pen name, he wrote over forty works - poems, prose and Thumris. "Diwan-i-Akhtar", "Husn-i-Akhtar" contain his Ghazals. He is said to have composed many new ragasand named them Jogi, Juhi, Shah-Pasand, etc.He expressed his pain of parting in the lyrics of ‘Babul mora naihar chhuto jaye’
The lyrics mean roughly - The rough translation (the song can be a metaphor for a wedding as well as funeral procession)
My father! I'm leaving home.
The four bearers lift my doli (palanquin)
(here it can also mean the four coffin bearers).
I'm leaving those who were my own.
Your courtyard is now like a mountain,
and the threshold, a foreign country.