Instantly fell in love with this composition, and the strange thing about this one is that every person I shared it with also loved it. It’s not just the lyrics, or the music with the earthy tones and superbly picked Raag Yaman Kalyan by composer Anu Malik or extremely well-chosen Papon‘s voice for his unique texture, but as a whole, the piece is so much more than a sum of talent behind it, it has almost reached a state of magic.
Translation:
These threads full of enchantment,
have entangled in your caress…
No clue or hint I can fathom,
how this knot could be unravelled…
Each shred hums in my body,
like a stream from the heaven…
You must be little deranged,
That I got to be your chosen…
How you did listen so rightly,
All unsaid that I kept within…
You are like day,
I’m a night, let’s merge
into one another
For hues of the evening…
These threads full of enchantment,
have entangled in your caress…
No clue or hint I can fathom,
how this knot could be unravelled…
Never was it ever carefree,
way now heart is becoming…
As in all letters of love did find
a new destination for blooming…
On empty streets,
let’s stroll blindly…
and reach some place without
any planning…
These threads full of enchantment,
have entangled in your caress…
No clue or hint I can fathom,
how this knot could be unravelled…
Original Lyrics:
Yeh moh moh ke dhaage
Teri ungliyon se ja uljheYeh moh moh ke dhaage
Teri ungliyon se ja uljhe
Koi toh toh na laage
Kis tarah girah ye suljhe
Hai rom rom iktaara
Hai rom rom iktaara
Jo baadalon mein se guzreYeh moh moh ke dhaage
Teri ungliyon se ja uljhe
Koi toh toh na laage
Kis tarah girah ye suljheTu hoga zara paagal, tune mujhko hai chuna
Tu hoga zara paagal, tune mujhko hai chuna
Kaise tune ankahaa, tune ankahaa sab sunaa
Tu hoga zara paagal, tune mujhko hai chunaTu din sa hai, main raat
Aa na dono mill jaayein shaamon ki tarahYeh moh moh ke dhaage
Teri ungliyon se ja uljhe
Koi toh toh na laage
Kis tarah girah ye suljheKi aisa beparwah mann pehle toh na tha
Ki aisa beparwah mann pehle toh na tha
Chitthiyon ko jaise mill gaya
Jaise ik naya sa pataa
Ki aisa beparwah mann pehle toh na thaKhaali raahein, hum aankh moonde jaayein
Pahunche kahin toh bewajahYeh moh moh ke dhaage
– Original lyrics by a screenwriter and lyricist (with a great passion for story-telling): Varun Grover. Quite deservingly this piece brought him India’s prestigious National Filmfare Award of Best Lyrics for the year 2015-2016.
Teri ungliyon se ja uljhe
Koi toh toh na laage
Kis tarah girah ye suljhe
Watch out here the struggle that talent behind went through to get this masterpiece composed with such perfection…
Serenades of a dreamer... 
Love this song!!!
🙂 I too fell in love with it, the moment I listened to it the very first time.
The texture of voice, the poetry and the music… everything is unique and rare.
I had a firm belief that it must have cast the very similar spell onto others as well…
Love this song!
Hey, I just listened to this song today and I am blown away. Wanted to understand the song better, I researched on it’s explanation and then deep meaning but only found literal translation. Then I came across your page and I got relieved that finally someone’s explaining.. but it was only English translation (which I must say was beautiful). I really thought you might give a more detailed explanation. If you have any more thoughts on this, since I want to understand it better, then please do. Couldn’t find your email anywhere. Hope you respond to this. Thankyou!
Thank you for your kind words, Taha. I hope I deserve even half of them…
About your request for explanation… There are few things in the world like art and poetry – that least explained better they are, perhaps they’re formed for a primary reason so that people can relate to it bringing theirs on context – no art is complete without it.
Still, on your request, I can try and share with you what the poem means in the shortest of words…
This is a serenade of a lover who quite unintentionally has started to drift for the beloved in an inexplicable and inescapable manner. The more the lover slides into a labyrinthian entanglement, the more control one loses of the self.
Yet more one finds self losing control, more one finds self free of pretenses as now ride is governed by someone else.
Make no mistake it’s an infliction unwanted, as it comes with uncertainties and pain, and like everyone, a lover wants to keep the good parts only and not those that hurt the loving. Yet with each move that the lover makes, the lover finds itself further indulged into the web. A sort of prison it’s for the lover, yet nothing has ever felt like home before this. The lover has never felt before so closer to their true self before encountering the beloved’s magic.
Hence amazed is the lover, to notice it as a sign of web not tightening but actually embracing the beloved… The lover finally chooses to give everything away – all his smartness and his desires, in order to be fully embraced by the beloved the way the beloved sees it fit. The lover knows that only by surrendering he will be able to win the love of the beloved, only by losing a desire of destination, he will be able to find the lover’s way.