बाँवरा मन्न देखने चला एक सपना

हज़ारों ख़्वाहीशें ऐसि के हर ख़्वाहीश पे दम निकले
बहुत निकले मेरे अर्माँ, लेकिन फिर भी कम निकले

You guessed right - I realized Hindi script looks way cooler than english on this blog so am trying it out! This winter went for an old friend's sangeet (a music-dance ceremony before the actual wedding). An unconventional man chose to sing an unconventional song for his own wedding... the song is from one of my favorite Hindi movies "Hazaaron Khwaishen Aisee" (got from Mirza Ghalib's couplet)

The song from the movie that invariably makes me cry (it's that "the moon is so beautiful it makes me want to cry kind of crying, not the "sob sob I am so sad" crying):

बाँवरा मन्न देखने चला एक सपना
(by the way if you are reading the title as ????? it's cos u dont have the hindi font downloaded .. sorry!)

There is no exact translation for the word baawra (बाँवरा) and I am no Silbil. But the best substitute word(s) i could come up with: madly gleefully carefree, or similar to a crazy romantic. Everytime I write crazy/mad/carefree in the lyrics below, I mean baawra. I know it's beauty gets lost in translation. So forgive me, Oh Lord Silbil for the lack of prose or style, it's just a crude translation of a really beautiful song which I identify with FULLY AND BAAWRA'LY

My ecstatic mind is dreaming again
Filled with crazy words and mad thoughts
Carefree heartbeats and careless breaths
Filled with these restless ideas
making my nights sleepless.
While my curious eyes
Want to just keep searching for crazy sights.

In these balmy times all I want is another mad companion
Holding my hand in this crowd of wise people.
Let there be a mad tune with mad lyrics
Because all my restless feet want
Is to dance to a mad mad song

I swear I will sing it better!