% ISB File: Pardesi_1957.txt, dated: May 27, 2005

\startsong
\stitle{naa dir diim ... naa jaa naa jaa balam balam mere naa}%
\film{Pardesi}%
\year{1957}%
\starring{Nargis, Oleg, Balraj Sahni, Padmini}%
\singer{Lata, Balraj Sahni, female voice}%
\music{Anil Biswas}%
\lyrics{Sardar Jafri, Prem Dhawan}%

% Contributor: Ashok Dhareshwar, Surajit Bose, Malini Kanth
% Transliterator: Malini Kanth
% Date: 31 Jul 2004
% Series: GEETanjali
% Song courtesy: Ashok Dhareshwar

\printtitle
#indian

% The film is about a Russian traveler who visited India around
% the 15th century and set up a trading post. It featured a
% Russian actor, Oleg Strizhenov, as hero and Nargis, an
% innocent village belle, as the heroine. Other key actors are
% Balraj Sahni, a street singer who befriends him, and Padmini,
% a dancer at the court of the sultan of Bidar (now the northern-
% most tip of Karnataka).

% The traveller, accompanied by Balraj Sahni, chances upon Padmini
% at Ellora, where she has come to study the dance poses. She is
% dancing to the lovely strains of a tillaana by a Karnatak music
% singer (whose identity I couldn't determine). Toward the end
% of the dance, Padmini notices the traveler and conveys a message
% to him through dance _mudras_ and Balraj Sahni translates.

tillaanaa : taa taa diim, taa naa dhii taa naa,
 nii dhii taa nii tuum taa dhaa nii,
 taa naa dhii taa naa

% tillaanaa repeats two more times and after the third time
% Balraj Sahni (b) starts narrating, as tillaana
% completes and continues fourth time in the background

b: ye hai lakShmii, biidar kii raajanartakii,
 in praachiin chitro.n se nRRityakalaa siikhane aa_ii hai

% tillaana continues 5th to 11th time, Balraj Sahni starts narrating
% again as tillaana starts for 12th and last time

b: ye tum se kah rahii hai

% tillaana completes for the last time and slow flute starts playing
% in the background

b: lo praNaam meraa paradesii, kaun des se aaye tum
 ra.ng tumhaaraa aisaa goraa, jaise ho.n ha.nsan ke pa.Nkh
 nain tumhaare aise niile, jyuu.N gahare saagar kaa ra.ng

%chuckles and pauses for a second

 jab aa_o nagar hamaare, rakhanaa yaad, rakhanaa yaad
 mere ghar ke dar aur dvaar, khule rahe.nge terii Kaatir
 jaise su.ndar nain birahan ke, dekhe.n sadaa piyaa kii baaT

% The foreigner does show up at Bidar eventually, but not before
% falling in love with the charming village girl, a love that
% will have to remain unrequited, as he realizes that the course
% of her life is bound to be different.

% The court dancer makes a pitch for him, but he is indifferent.
% She makes a final try with this song.

sajan sakaare jaaye.nge, nain mare.nge roy
o vidhanaa aisii karo, ke bhor kabahu.N na hoy

% beautiful sitar interlude

naa dir diim, taa naa dere naa \-2
naa jaa naa jaa balam, balam mere naa,
naa dir diim, taa naa dere naa \-2

(terii aag lagaa lii, tan me.n piyaa
terii sej sajaa lii, mai.nne man me.n piyaa) \-2
tere nain base nainan me.n piyaa
kahii.n tuu hii mujhe nayan phere naa
naa dir diim, taa naa dere naa \-2

(tiikhii kajare kii dhaar piyaa tere liye
mere solah si.ngaar piyaa tere liye) \-2
baaje man kaa sitaar % small sitar piece
baaje man kaa sitaar piyaa tere liye
hu_e phir bhii to ham, balam tere naa
naa dir diim, taa naa dere naa \-2
naa jaa naa jaa balam, balam mere naa,
naa dir diim, taa naa dere naa \-2

% But he does walk away. His heart is elsewhere.

#endindian
\endsong

% _End_of_Lyrics

\startsong
\stitle{rasiyaa re man basiyaa re}%
\film{Pardesi}%
\year{1957}%
\starring{Nargis, Oleg, Balraj Sahni}%
\singer{Meena Kapoor}%
\music{Anil Biswas}%
\lyrics{Sardar Jafri, Prem Dhawan}%

% Contributor:Srinivas Ganti
% Transliterator:Srinivas Ganti
% Date:March 17, 2002

\printtitle
#indian

(rasiyaa re man basiyaa re
tere binaa jiyaa moraa laage naa)\-2
laage naa re jiyaa laage naa
tere binaa jiyaa moraa laage naa
rasiyaa re man basiyaa re
tere binaa jiyaa moraa laage naa

(sun sun muralii kii dhun matavaarii
rah jaaye raadhaa torii thaarii kii thaarii)\-2
laakh jatan karuu.N, laaj kii maarii
paa.Nv chhat par aaye naa
tere binaa jiyaa moraa laage naa
rasiyaa re man basiyaa re
tere binaa jiyaa moraa laage naa

(sa.ng sa.ng chaluu.N tore man to ye chaahe re
lok laaj roke piyaa kaa karuu.N haay re)\-2
raam kare haay kisii ke man me.n bairii ? jaage naa
tere binaa jiyaa moraa laage naa
rasiyaa re man basiyaa re
tere binaa jiyaa moraa laage naa

#endindian
\endsong

% _End_of_Lyrics

% _End_of_File
