Sayonara

Sayonara sayonara
Waada nibhaoongi sayonara
Ithlaati aur balkhaati
Kal phir aoongi sayonara
Sayonara sayonara
Waada nibhaoongi sayonara
Ithlaati aur balkhaati
Kal phir aoongi sayonara

Sayonara... sayonara

Chhod de meri baahon ko
Rok na meri raahon ko
Chod de meri baahon ko
Rok na meri raahon ko
Itni bhi betaabi kya
Samjha apni nigaahon ko
Sayonara sayonara
Waada nibhaoongi sayonara
Ithlaati aur balkhaati
Kal phir aoongi sayonara

Sayonara... sayonara

Chanchal shok bahaaron mein
Ras barsaate nazaaron mein
Chanchal shok bahaaron mein
Ras barsaate nazaaron mein
Tujhko bhool na paoongi
Hoga milan gulzaaron mein
Sayonara sayonara
Waada nibhaoongi sayonara
Ithlaati aur balkhaati
Kal phir aoongi sayonara

Sayonara... sayonara

Hongi roz mulaakatein
Apni din apni raatein
Hongi roz mulaakatein
Apni din apni raatein
Kaun hamein phir rokega
Jee bhar kar karna baatein
Sayonara sayonara
Waada nibhaoongi sayonara
Ithlaati aur balkhaati
Kal phir aoongi sayonara

Sayonara... sayonara
Sayonara... sayonara

Movie: Love In Tokyo (1966)

Director: Pramod Chakravorty

Singer: Lata Mangeshkar

Lyricist: Hasrat Jaipuri

Music Composer: Shankar Jaikishan

Choosing a song for this week’s post was hard. If you experience as many mood swings as I do, you will understand. In the end, I decided to go for a fun song. Then came the #thankyouMattDamon joke. The first thing that popped into my mind was this song, despite the Matt Damon thing being Chinese and this being Japanese! 

This is the first ever film song I learnt to play on the violin. I didn’t know what it was when my teacher played it. When I came home and started practising, my mother immediately recognised it and sang the song. I was elated because I was playing it with some degree of success, and she was happy that I was playing a film song, an old one at that.

I remember watching it on Doordarshan’s ‘Chitrageet’ much later and not liking the picturisation. However, kudos to Hasrat Jaipuri for writing the lyrics for a tune that must have been made to sound like Japanese music. ~ S