PIYA BOLE..

A late review of Parineeta coming up. Well haven't watched a lot of movies lately, so maybe I'm suffering from a bit of the Hindi movie scarcity syndrome..but this movie is really superb!

Vidya Balan is perfect in her role as Lolita-hoping to see more movies from this gorgeous actress!

As for the soundtrack, all the songs are superb, but I am partial to 'Piyu Bole' which is totally my kind of song! ;)

The first Hindi movie that I saw with English subtitles..the subtitles can be very enlightening, coz the way I understood the song 'Piyu Bole' in Hindi, is a little different from the English translation. Now the song makes more sense than it did when I first heard it and sang it in Hindi! I know its surprising, but there are always words and phrases (even in the languages we think we know very well), that we can still learn.

"Piyu bole, piya bole, kya ye bole jaanu na"

translates as: "the lass spoke, so did the lad, what they spoke, I don't know"

I wouldn't have known this was the meaning of the line if it weren't for the English subtitles!

Allow me to sing it! Listen to it here.

Piyu Bole..

You’re mine, say you’re mine

What do you think?
Piyu bole piya bole jaanu na

Jiya dole hole hole kyon yeh dole jaanu na
Not bad, ab yeh suno

Dil ki jo baatein hain, baatein jo dil ki hain
Dil hi mein rakhna piya
Lab to na kholoon main, kholoon na lab to par
Aakhon se sab keh diya

Piyu bole piya bole kya yeh bole jaanu na

Jiya dole hole hole kyon yeh dole jaanu na
Piyu bole piya bole kya yeh bole jaanu na

Jiya dole hole hole kyon yeh dole jaanu na

Ek nadi se maine poochha itla ke chaldi kahan

Door tere peekha ghar hai balkhaake chaldi kahan

Thoda woh ghabraayi thoda sa sharmaayi

Ujhli yahaan se wahaan

Saagar se milne ka uska jo sapna tha meri hi tarah piya

Jiya dole hole hole kyon yeh dole jaanu na

Piyu bole piya bole kya yeh bole jaanu na
Jiya dole hole hole kyon yeh dole jaanu na

Maine poocha ek ghata se itra ke chaldi kahan

Pyaas ki bari zameen hai barson bhi tarsao na

Thoda woh gurraayi thoda sa tharraayi

Garji yahaan se wahaan

Preet rootha thi phir cham cham woh barsi hi teri tarah piya
Piyu bole piya bole kya yeh bole jaanu na

Jiya dole hole hole kyon yeh dole jaanu na

Piyu bole piya bole kya yeh bole jaanu na

Jiya dole hole hole kyon yeh dole jaanu na

Piyu bole piya bole jaanu na

Hats off to Shreya Ghoshal and Sonu Nigam for this song!

(Lyrics courtesy musicindiaonline.com)