Recently I watched the movie 'Umrao Jaan' (the old one featuring Rekha). It's a sensitive and well made movie, and provokes an interest in the medieval times and traditions of Lucknow. The nawaabi lifestyles of prostitutes, music, dances and shaayaries. And somewhere between all the 'ayaashi', the essential human emotions of love, jealousy, loneliness and failure persisting at large....

As always, I picked up a few shaayaries from the movie that I liked :) Here they are:

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Ab aap saamne hain to humein kuchh bhi naheen yaad
Varna kuchh aapse humein kehna zaroor tha...
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Tu mujhe chaahe na chaahe, ye tere bas mein to hai
Aur mein tujhko na chahoon, ye mere bas mein naheen
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Kis kis tarah se mujhko na ruswa kiya gayaa
Gairon ka naam mere lahoo se likha gayaa
Kyon aaj uska zikr mujhe khush na kar sakaa
Kyon aaj uska naam mera dil dukha gayaa
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