Laila Majnu - Song - Aaja Nachle

Release Date: 30 November 2007
Genre: Drama
Run Time: 147 Mins
Starring: Madhuri Dixit, Konkona Sen, Kunal Kapoor
Lyrics: Jaideep Sahni & Piyush Mishra
Music: Salim - Sulaiman
Producer: Aditya Chopra
Directed By: Anil Mehta

SYNOPSIS:

An unexpected phone call shakes Dia (Madhuri Dixit) out of her dance rehearsal in New York.

Her teacher, her guru, is dying and she must return to India. The town where she grew up, the town where she learnt to live and to dance. Also the town she left on an impulse, severing ties with her parents and her people.

It is a poignant and troubled return; not only has her guru passed away but the institution that he so lovingly nurtured is in decay and under threat of demolition. Ajanta theatre, the once vibrant hub of the community, the place where Dias fondest memories are embedded must now be brought down because the local political authorities feel it a waste of prime real estate.

Dia picks up the gauntlet to turn this ruin into a vibrant and bustling theatre that was once the soul of her little town, while fighting discrimination, resentfulness and her own demons.

That turns ash to fire, water to dry rusk

The love of loves, the headiest of musk

Presenting

for Shamli, by Shamli, of Shamli

Laila - Majnu!

This is a tale of every town, of every street up and down

But which town, which street, I'm not quite sure of that

But the one thing I am sure of is together they both would stay

Every night and every day

Now which day, how many nights, I'm not quite sure of that

But the one thing I am sure of is

When all the learned men would scream at them

To learn the word of god

Learn it now you fool!

Write Allah

And he would write Laila

I said Allah!

Laila, Laila, Laila

You'll be cursed to hell! What is this Laila Laila you spout?

She's mere flesh and blood.

You compare her to Allah, lout? your hand!

The other too!

Dont hurt him, it hurts me, please!

Comfort that little hand please

Dont hurt him, it hurts me, please

What nature is this, strange

or the work of the deranged?

I strike his hand, but bruises she

It's her blood but feels it he

He feels her pain?

A magic spell, incredible!

Don't bring her where he is!

Take them far apart!

It's the work of gremlin, ghoul!

Dark forces, evil, foul

Tie the Maulvi's amulets to their arms

Take them far apart

Childhood flew away like a kite

Hearts fluttered to horizons new

Youth was on them now

It fluttered inside them too

Is this youth starting to brew?

Every touch the sting of dew

Youth has come and brought some

Love with the wind

The body sways in sudden ways

The sky spills its color

We collide with breeze and tide

I'm your Romeo, you're my Juliet

I'm your Ranjha, you're my Heer

Meet me at the Carnival, this is the blush of youth

If i cannot be with you, what use is the flush of youth

No one's ever seen a flood

in the rush of youth

So they curse and sigh, deny us the crush of youth

Khurjan from Khurja

Peda from Madhura

Revdi from Meerut

Chaat from Dariba

If I order you, you'll bring

Juicy dates from arab kings

And in my courtyard you'll string them up for me

I will

In Benares, down the Ganges we'll float

To Kashmir for the fragrance of the snow

No matter how hard, I'll show you Baghdad

I swear

This Bikar Chunri's for you

earrings, kohl, mehndi too

All for you

So crash me at the carnival, this is the flush of youth

This is no laughing matter, it's the sly hush of youth

It gallops through me, o this gush of youth

No leash can contain the ripe raw rush of youth

the rush of youth

Am i here and are you too?

Or are we both not here at all

What who why, are you and I?

Can't we hear or say at all?

Am i here and are you too?

Or are we both not here at all

Ask and I shall get you a memory of yore

A mark of our love or a tale told evermore

Or should Iet this restless heart hear your call?

Me, Laila, You Quais whispered God in our ears

These words clung to every tongue will stay for many years

Am i here and are you too?

Or are we both not here at all?

Am i here?

You scum, you brute

I'll chop your hands off

Do you know who you taint with your touch?

She is mine

You are slime

Your caste your crime I'll bury you this time

And if I don't, my name isn't Tabrez

And she is not of my blood

I can't take this anymore

She is mine

Enough Enough

You dare to touch a stranger's skin?

Stay that hand allay thy stand

Forget not, insolent rot, you dared to touch her

She's my frenzy in a flood, she's in my veins, my blood

For her I pray

Nature's own plea, the savior's decree

A gift from God, a balm for every pain

Her tears are precious, rare, her smile's without compare

I, Quais, now do declare to say that Laila's mine

Take her name again and I'll turn your lips to dust

Those lips will claim Laila's

You're a puppet, that's all

Before you I wont fall!

I'll dig his grave right now

I warn you one last time

There will be two corpses, you'll get twice the crime

I swear I'll end this tale today

Majnu, I'll tear you into a thousand bits

Let her bleed - Stay!

Let her die - Stay!

Your blood - Stay!

I want it now - Stay!

My sword pierces your flesh and

You're ready for your grave

Laila forgive me now, the thought of you turned me into a helpless knave

Majnu's gone insane, a brother he has slain

The decree is death

The law does not condone, they'll

strike him with stones

until his last breath

Majnu hangs by ever breath Laila exhales

He has no sense left, his logic fails

Let him be, for if the poor thing awakes

The dreams he sees of his love Laila breaks

Dont stone

My beloved madman

my beloved

Stock these stones with care

There will be a day when

of these stones homes will be built

They will speak in tongues that jilt

of the legend of Laila - Majnu

Everyone will sing it then

This stack of stones today

Will be a Taj Mahal someday

And you'll have no time

To regret this then

Dont stone

My beloved

'Enough' Laila thundered

'Stop this all' Laila surrendered

If this is how you want it, wed me off without delay

If this is how you want it, wed me off without delay

But promise me, set Majnu free

in quiet exile today

The stones of this city

Lay tired on the ground

They though they struck you

But hit me instead, unsound

Jawan - Bakht may have my body

But my heart is yours

Keep it safe and sound, Quais

I'm now a lost cause

But i swear any man that touches me

Will find cold dust instead

Soon this world will tremble

With fear and flee

When from heaven he descends

To see our graves

This palanquin bears a corpse bedecked

I'll warn the carriers to make no haste

No palanquin, no celebratory vow

But like Radha Meera she took her marriage vows

love love this love, love love this love, this love

But like Radha Meera she took her marriage vows

Ghalib Moumin didnt proclaim

neither was this a human claim

This was the word of God

love love, this love, love love, this love, this love

This was the word of God

I'm Jawan Bakht the king

my women have luxuries at their beck and call

But you're nothing like I've ever seen

Of my harem you're the queen

Here silver flows unseen

Can I bathe you in some?

I cant wait another chime

I'll say this one last time

Let me touch you, come

Stay this body's gray, gut it now

No blaze, its in a daze, cut it now

It's ashen, douse your passion, rebut it now

It's rust, grind it to dust, shut it now

Careful, it burns inside, you might catch fire

I may just be ashes but I'm your funeral pyre

I'm not your lover or your friend, I'm your spouse

I may be your wife, but my heart's in Majnu's house

Alert my soldiers, prepare to leave

Let's see what love these two weave

Our love will scare you, look here

These wounds are his, his blood flows here

Bulleh-shah, Khusrau, or who burnt in flames without ado

When they stoked this fire

love love, this love, love love this love, this love

Jaawan Bakht now rides out to see

who is mightier, Majnu or he

Laila's yours yet you shout?

You dont know what love's about!

She's god's bewitching smile

She's the shadow of love fertile

She shied from every battle, found fight futile

In sin man wondered what evil turns this tide?

When in truth he didn't have Laila by his side

And now she's there but you don't care

Remember this date, it may be your last

Wipe the slate, erase it all, when all's stolen curtains fall

And we beg before the Lord

love love this love, love love this love, this love

And we beg before the Lord

That's your grave

It's the honor i crave

That's your death

That's my last breath

I'll cut you at the stake

It'll be for her sake

I'll slice you up with glee

Laila will go with me!

I'll watch her like a hungry hawk

In the darkest dungeon I'll have her locked

Dig her the darkest dungeon, she'll never give in to you

If I fly away, she'll spread her wings and take off too

Here, kill me

I draw my knife

Kill me!

It could be rife

Kill Me

love love this love, love love this love, this love

Believe in Brahma's word or what the Gita holds

In the Bible, the Koran, or Guru Granth's divine folds

But faith without love could wear out your soul

Believe in love and mankind before the last bell tolls