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0:04In our lives, there are some names
0:06of the few people whom we want to meet.
0:08At least once before dying.
0:11They were at the top of my list.
0:16But this could not happen.
0:24Hi Mumbai!
0:43My name is Laksh Maheshwari. Some of you may already know me.
0:47Because every show has a category of people whom I call the "tag-alongs."
0:52They don't know anything about me.
0:53If you were dragged here by someone, let me show you something.
0:57Those who have no idea, raise your hand.
1:01Shame on you!
1:05For those who don't know me, let's start with an introduction.
1:07My name is Laksh Maheshwari. I am a storyteller by profession.
1:11Do you like listening to stories?
1:14Over the next hour or hour and a quarter,
1:16I will ask many questions.
1:17Whenever I ask a question, you'll answer, "Yes."
1:22It's simple, but that "yes" has a specific tone.
1:24That's the tone you've got to maintain.
1:25It goes like this: "Yes."
1:28You're good, dear.
1:31Would you listen to the story?
1:32Yes.
1:34The story you're going to listen to today is called…
1:36Main Tenu Phir Milangi.
1:38Come on, you should know this.
1:41Whoever dragged you here, make sure you ask them where they're taking you.
1:46Do ask, "Where are you taking me?"
1:50Yet they came anyway.
1:52This is a story of some beautiful people.
1:53I will ask first,
1:55how many of you have heard of Sahir Ludhianvi?
1:59- Yes.
1:59- Sahir Ludhianvi
2:01is one of the finest lyricists this country has ever seen.
2:04He wrote more than 400 songs in his life.
2:06You may not know his name.
2:08First this name… do you know the meaning of the word 'Sahir'?"
2:11Sahir means the magician.
2:14A magician with words.
2:15The one who did magic with his words.
2:17He cast a spell over people's minds and hearts.
2:20You may not have heard his name
2:22but we have all heard songs written by him.
2:25-Should I give a song or two to sing?
2:26-Yes.
2:28I am a poet for only a moment or two.
2:33My life story is for a moment or two
2:37I am here for a moment or two,
2:41My youth is for a moment or two
2:45I keep embracing life all the way through.
2:50I blow the tensions in the smoke
2:55Any smokers in the house? Make some noise!
2:58Shit.
3:02When your hair flew in the air,
3:06When your hair flew in the air,
3:09The young girls' hearts start pounding.
3:12The young girls' heart start pounding, my dear.
3:16Sometimes, in my heart…
3:21A thought comes
3:25Do not leave now,
3:29My heart is still not satisfied.
3:33And one song for you, ma'am.
3:35On his behalf, okay?
3:37Oh, my beautiful darling.
3:40You do not know
3:42You are still beautiful and I'm young
3:47I can give up my life for you.
3:51The show's cancelled.
3:53We will sing for one hour now.
3:56We'll start a band with 250 people.
3:59Wedding season is coming.
4:01We also take bookings for wedding performances.
4:03Clap for yourself. You guys were wonderful.
4:10The writer of all these songs…
4:12Sahir Ludhianvi.
4:13Yes, no money will be given for guessing here.
4:16See, I think that. If you want to know the story of any person.
4:20Then first you need to know his upbringing.
4:23Whatever happens to you in your first fifteen years…
4:26It largely determines the kind of person you are going to become.
4:29There's a 10–15% chance of change;
4:31the rest is already embedded.
4:33As we are starting the story
4:35so let's start from Sahir Sahib's childhood.
4:38-Say what?
4:39-Yes.
4:41Sahir Sahib was born in 1921.
4:44In a city in Punjab.
4:45Can anyone guess the name of the city.
4:47Ludhiana.
4:49Sahir Ludhianvi was born in Ludhiana in 1921.
4:53His parents divorced in his childhood.
4:56Then his mother brought him to Lahore, then…
5:01All was ours.
5:04But it is said, when you're wounded like this in childhood.
5:07Then the artist within you grows by itself.
5:10The same thing happened to Sahir Sahib.
5:12He immersed himself so deeply in poetry,
5:14at the young age of 24…
5:16his first book had been released.
5:19It was announced in the whole country,
5:21that a new poet named Sahir Ludhianvi had emerged.
5:24The name of the book was 'Talkhiyan'.
5:27Everything was going well until partition changed everything.
5:31-Which bomb?
5:32-Partition.
5:33The bomb of 1947. After that, he was completely shattered.
5:35He came and lived in Delhi with his mother like a refugee.
5:40He lived in the hustle and bustle of Delhi for only one month.
5:43And went to Bombay, telling his friends,
5:46Bombay needs me.
5:49When he came to Bombay, the house in which he started living
5:52in the lower flat in the same building, a man shifted after some time.
5:57Some of you may know him.
5:59How many of you know Sampooran Singh Kalra?
6:01-Raise your hands. -Yes.
6:03Take a guess now and raise your hand.
6:07And how many of you do not know Sampooran Singh Kalra at all?
6:09Raise your hand.
6:12You know how much you need me?
6:16You may not know that person by this name.
6:19The name he used as a pen name,
6:22we all know him very well, and he is...
6:24Gulzar.
6:26How many of you write? How many of you write, even for yourselves?
6:30You will find that quite good.
6:32Someone had said quite beautiful for Gulzar Sahib,
6:35that writing well in a difficult language is quite easy.
6:39Listen to it very carefully, writing good in tough language
6:41is an easy task, but writing well in simple language…
6:46is quite difficult.
6:51And Gulzar Sahib is an expert at it,
6:53that he could say so much in a single line.
6:55I recently read a line "You smiled too much;
6:59try being a little happier too.
7:01What a thing!
7:08He wrote, "When you came to my home last time,
7:10you drew a plant on my cigarette box,
7:13come and see, it has bloomed into a beautiful flower."
7:18Saying 'If tears had any value,
7:20if tears had any value
7:23then last night's pillow would be worth millions.'
7:31I will do a full 2 hour show on Gulzar but not today.
7:35Today we are talking about his neighbour Sahir Sahib.
7:38Those who knew Sahir Sahib closely know that he hated two things very much.
7:44One, Isolation.
7:45He never liked living alone.
7:47Always looking for a companion.
7:49And I read in a book that he did not like his own face.
7:53He did not have a mirror in his home.
7:54A person like this would naturally immerse himself in poetry.
7:57Think about his first book 'Talkhian'.
8:00The meaning of 'Talkhian' is bitterness.
8:02That bitterness made a permanent home within him.
8:05And it is only a man like him who could have written.
8:07I cried sometimes on myself, sometimes on situation,
8:09when started talking, each talk made me cry
8:13Friend, who cry here for other,
8:15everyone cry on its own thoughts.
8:21Brother, don't play the rhythm, copyright issues!
8:24So who will sing those songs today?
8:27I am the poet of a moment or two
8:31My story is for a moment or two
8:35I am living for a moment or two
8:39My youth is for a moment or two
8:43This was one side of the coin.
8:45Now, since this is a love story, there must be a second part.
8:48Let's move to the other side of the coin.
8:51Let's move on to that person.
8:52According to me I think that person is really unlucky.
8:55Who has never heard this name before. And that name is,
8:59Amrita Pritam.
9:01Amrita Pritam.
9:02Amrita Ji is known as the first Punjabi poetess.
9:05Let's know a little about her upbringing too.
9:07She was born in Gujranwala, Punjab, in 1919.
9:10Amrita was born as Amrit.
9:12Her name was Amrit Kaur.
9:14Amrita was named later.
9:16Since childhood this sweet little girl,
9:18used to sing self-written bhajans in the gurdwara every day.
9:21She was fond of singing self written bhajans.
9:23People loved it so much that a sweet little girl came and,
9:26sing self written bhajans.
9:28But in her childhood her maternal aunt said to her that,
9:31that God heard the prayers of young children very soon.
9:36So, once when her mother got sick.
9:39So sick that the doctors gave up hope.
9:41Then Amrita went and sat in the gurdwara.
9:45That until you cure my mother,
9:47I will not get up from here.
9:49Her mother did not survive.
9:51God's wish was something else.
9:53But Amrita's faith in God faded forever that day.
9:57She straight said to her father,
9:59neither would I go to the gurdwara nor would I write bhajans ever.
10:04After some time her father also did not passed away.
10:07Moved on.
10:08The thing we called renunciation.
10:10Got up once and moved toward forests.
10:13Then nobody ever saw him again.
10:15Same night Amrita Pritam wrote two lines.
10:18She wrote
10:19that "My life was a night,
10:21I stay awake.
10:23But my luck slept".
10:26She was so alone.
10:28At the very young age of 16, she was married to
10:31Pritam Singh and she became,
10:34Amrita Pritam.
10:36But then there blasted a bomb.
10:39The same bomb.
10:40See, all of us sitting here are too young,
10:44to understand how horrific 1947 was.
10:47Amrita Ji, Sahir Sahib, and Gulzar Sahib all migrated from there to here.
10:50You will see that pain in their writing.
10:53I read in one of Gulzar Sahib's books that
10:55he wrote that he had seen bodies being hacked apart on the roads.
10:59I had seen their blood flow and then dry up.
11:02And I had seen people come months later and scrape that blood off the roads.
11:07If you see so much will it not be a permanent image in you.
11:11Those nightmares would stay with you for life. Nightmares will be there.
11:14There were so many atrocities against Sikh women
11:17Amrita Pritam wrote a poem for Sikh women.
11:20(ki Akhan Ajj Waris Shah Nu)
11:22Have you heard of Waris Shah?
11:24Waris Shah was a Punjabi poet. Who wrote the story of Heer-Ranjha.
11:28From Heer's point of view.
11:29because society often disregards a woman's perspective.
11:33So, when atrocities were being committed against Sikh women,
11:35Amrita pleaded with Waris Shah through her poetry.
11:38It is in typical Punjabi.
11:40If you'd like, I can recite four or six lines in Hindi.
11:43Yes.
11:45Since you're insisting so much, alright.
11:49Amrita is writing "I am telling Waris Shah,
11:52speak from your grave
11:54And open a new page of that book of love.
11:59When one daughter of Punjab cried, you wrote such a big saga.
12:03Today millions of daughters of Punjab are crying.
12:05All are saying to you that
12:07Oh, friend of grieving people see the situation of Punjab.
12:10The town squares are stuffed with dead bodies.
12:11Chenab is filled with blood.
12:13And someone mixed poison in 5 rivers.
12:16And now this poisonous water is irrigating the upcoming generations.
12:21Today I am calling out to Waris Shah.
12:23-That "Speak from your grave". -Speak
12:25It is said during that time this poem,
12:26was found in the pocket of every second person.
12:29In both countries, India and Pakistan,
12:31she received both love and hatred from both sides.
12:34was given to Amrita. When asked she said,
12:37the people who hate me,
12:40they have never met me.
12:42Amrita was very bold with the words.
12:45Pritam was never removed from her name.
12:47But her relationship with Pritam ended in 1960.
12:52The thing that now I am going to tell you.
12:54Your patriarchy might awaken after hearing this.
12:57So keep it asleep.
13:00Because we are just listening.
13:02All that had already happened.
13:04When Amrita left her husband,
13:06She'd had two children by then.
13:09Even after that she felt life want something else from her.
13:13She wasn't born just for this.
13:15And she stood up one time,
13:17and started walking her own path alone.
13:19Like the first independent woman.
13:21This is still difficult for present day woman.
13:24You know what I am saying. She had done it in 1960-65.
13:28"What will people say?" How much would she be judged?
13:31How much she would be criticized. She moved without caring for it.
13:34Because she had a voice in her heart.
13:38At a poetry gathering in Preet Nagar, she heard a poet recite a couplet.
13:41-To whom? -Sahir Ludhianvi,
13:43Friends, as soon as she listened to his voice,
13:46Amrita said that it seemed to me as though…
13:48I am bound with this person from past life.
13:52Was this magic of his words or silent eyes,
13:55I felt like spell bound like magic.
13:58I do not know anything else. But I can say this, that night
14:02someone sow the seed of love in soil of my heart.
14:09She was in extreme love.
14:11Slowly, Sahir began to fall in love with her too.
14:14Amrita told in her books.
14:15That during those days Sahir used to come to her home.
14:19and sit quietly in a chair.
14:22He said nothing.
14:24He would simply sit there quietly.
14:26It seemed like it was a piece from my own silence,
14:29sitting right in front of me.
14:35Like a piece of my silence sit right in front of me.
14:39He said nothing. but I don't know how many hours passed.
14:44Smoking cigarette after cigarette.
14:47Then put out half cigarette in ash tray.
14:49Got up and went out from there.
14:52Imagine two lovers sitting in a room.
14:54Neither of them said a word.
14:56Not a single word was spoken.
14:58But even after that there is no discomfort.
15:00There was peace. There was calmness.
15:03She said he got up and go.
15:05But I wanted to stop him.
15:06I wanted to hold his hand
15:08I wanted to say so much.
15:09But social norms never allowed those boundaries to be crossed.
15:13But yes, after he had gone,
15:15the pieces of cigarette that he had left
15:17I kept them very carefully.
15:20I hid them in an almirah.
15:21When I was alone and nobody was around,
15:26I took those cigarette pieces between my fingers
15:30I felt as though Sahir's fingers were touching mine.
15:33I lit those pieces,
15:34I saw Sahir's face in its smoke.
15:37In fact, Amrita Pritam wrote many poems on Sahir's cigarettes.
15:43Would you like to hear four lines?
15:44Yes.
15:45Amrita is writing about Sahir's cigarette
15:47She said, this is about the fire
15:50-Whose? -Fire
15:51This is about the fire that you had recited to me.
15:54This is that cigarette of life,
15:56That you once lit long ago.
15:58I no longer worry about life.
16:00Just take care of this fire.
16:02I only pray for your touch.
16:04that you light one more cigarette.
16:10Sahir kept on lighting that cigarette,
16:13-keep blowing all your worries away in... -Smoke.
16:16-I keep on -Embracing life.
16:21-Blowing off every tension -In the smoke.
16:22-It was useless -It was useless.
16:26It was useless to cry over the damages
16:30Keep on moving celebrating the destruction.
16:35-Blowing off every tension -in the smoke.
16:39Everyone saw Dev Anand dancing.
16:42Clap for Dev Anand Sahib. Wow!
16:47Now, the love between them began to grow slowly.
16:52Amrita was living in Delhi.
16:53And Sahir had moved to Mumbai.
16:55When Amrita came to Sahir's city,
16:57Sahir through a very big party.
16:59He invited all his friends.
17:00And introduced her to everyone, saying...
17:06Is Amrita,
17:08When someone gave recognition like this. It felt very good.
17:11During that time Sahir Sahib wrote a poem.
17:13The name was Taj Mahal.
17:15People say that whole poem was about Amrita.
17:18In fact Sahir Sahib had framed that poem in a very big frame.
17:21And gifted it to Amrita.
17:23It remained hanging on Amrita's wall until her death.
17:27Has anyone read it?
17:30-Would you like to listen? -Yes.
17:33Sahir Sahib is writing,
17:34'Million of people have loved in this world.
17:36It's right we all did.
17:39One second, here's an important question.
17:41If you've ever truly loved someone in your life,
17:46Then raise your hand.
17:48If you're here with your partner, then raise your hand.
17:52Otherwise, things may get awkward later.
17:55I asked once a husband and wife sitting on right side,
17:58The wife raised her hand, but the husband didn't.
18:02Then I saw a flying elbow coming.
18:06Sahir is saying millions of people have loved in this world
18:09Who said that they were not serious for it,
18:12but for their love neither was there any award of Taj or Heer.
18:16Because they were broke like me.
18:18It just went above your head right? Wait, let me explain.
18:21He is saying everyone do love.
18:24but not every love find status like Shahjahan got.
18:29Do you know why? Because you're poor.
18:32I am not saying.
18:34Sahir said so.
18:36After all, compared to Shah Jahan,
18:38We are poor, aren't we?
18:39Then he turned towards the Taj Mahal.
18:41And said seeing it that this monument, Yamuna bank,
18:45this palace, door, walls, and seat
18:47an emperor with help of wealth,
18:50made fun of love of poor like us.
18:54Think for once Taj Mahal is a slap on the face of every lover.
18:58I had made you go and try.
19:02In a show there was an elderly couple in front row.
19:05They were easily over seventy.
19:06So I asked them. I asked sir,
19:08If you had the chance, would you build a Taj Mahal for ma'am?
19:11He came with the stick.
19:13First he stood up, then said, sure I will definitely make one.
19:16Let her die first.
19:24I did not see that uncle again.
19:28There on the other hand a poem written by Amrita
19:31Namely 'Sunehre' was awarded with Sahitya Award.
19:33When an interviewer came to interview her,
19:35You know how reporters like to tease people.
19:37So they asked her,
19:38did you write this poem for Sahir?
19:41Amrita said, it is not yet read by the one for whom it is written.
19:45It does not matter if the whole world read it.
19:48Reporters said that it is okay ma'am
19:49I need a photo of yours for tomorrow's newspaper.
19:51So, pretend you're writing something. We'll click your photo and leave.
19:57Amrita picked up a pen and paper and started writing.
20:01Photographers were long gone after clicking photo.
20:04She kept on writing, she filled 8 pages, front and back.
20:09On every page in every corner only one word was written.
20:13Sahir, Sahir, Sahir, Sahir, Sahir.
20:17They had fallen deeply in love with each other.
20:19-Every true love is struck by -Evil eye
20:25Same happened here.
20:26Whose?
20:28Sahir's mother's.
20:33This is all new, I have nothing in it.
20:37Let me rephrase.
20:40Here also evil eye struck.
20:41That is of Sahir's mother Sardar Begum.
20:45She did not like Amrita at all.
20:46Think how it will be.
20:48A divorcee and a mother of two children,
20:50She left her husband and now wants to marry Sahir.
20:52She said a plain no.
20:53Now you know the upbringing of Sahir Sahib
20:55Then understand this thing that he was unable to go against his mother.
20:59How she brought him up alone with great difficulty.
21:02A mother's order means carving in stone
21:05half-heartedly Sahir Sahib started parting his ways from Amrita.
21:11They both were heartbroken.
21:13When a relationship is forced to end, both people are heartbroken.
21:16It was during this time that Sahir Sahib wrote that couplet,
21:19Everyone has heard it, but now you'll understand its meaning.
21:22That was for Amrita.
21:25-If you say I will recite. -Yes.
21:27Sahir is saying the issue which is impossible to make to the end,
21:34Sahir is saying the issue which is impossible to make to the end,
21:38better to give it a beautiful turn and left.
21:42Let's become strangers again both of us.
21:46Wow! who have recalled their ex?
21:51At the end both of them were at that phase of their life,
21:55To which today's generation lovingly
21:58denotes as breakup.
22:00Took a pause in Bangalore.
22:02A lady was yelling situationship.
22:08When heart broke, you both part the way.
22:12It felt like very hard crying.
22:13It feel like someone squeez out the heart.
22:16Every time it felt like all is lots.
22:19Usually girls kept 1 or 2 friends for this time.
22:23Hey…
22:27They kept because, they might feel like calling him. so whatever happen but I will
22:32Not make call.
22:33Those who laugh at it are those who are kept for it.
22:38You sit here
22:41Unfortunately Amrita Pritam did not have any such kind of friend.
22:45She stopped for a few weeks.
22:47The comes that a crack in the armour.
22:49-Heart is saying like make a call -today.
22:52It was time of STD PCO,
22:54She went to PCO rushing in the evening.
22:56Pick the phone and start dialing the number.
22:59Before she dialed last number.
23:01She saw a magazine lying nearby.
23:05In which the news was printed,
23:07about the affair of Sahir Sahib.
23:10There was another woman in his life in those weeks.
23:14At that time there was a famous playback singer Sudha Malhotra.
23:18See, I did not see that magzine. But you know how the reporters are
23:20Something like this would have been written "Amrita out, Sudha in".
23:24Amrita was heart broken.
23:26She put the receiver down without making the call.
23:29And went back to home
23:31I thought some times.
23:32If that call would have been made in evening,
23:35Would the situation be something else.
23:37It is the situation of what if.
23:39Amrita said I have loved you whole heartedly.
23:43Did you love me the same?
23:45Because she thought Sahir have forgotten her.
23:47But Sahir was never able to forget her.
23:50He wrote if you have forgotten me its your right.
23:54He wrote If you have forgotten me, it's your right.
23:58Not applicable on me as I have truly loved.
24:06Sahir said during those days usually I stand on the pan shop near your house.
24:12And kept on staring towards your window for hours.
24:16A glass of soda and a cigarette in hand,
24:18I keep on standing there for hours.
24:20But never saw you.
24:22Most of us have done this one day or other.
24:24yes.
24:27I feel like you are currently doing so.
24:31What is the meaning of this. We are standing here.
24:34We need to go.
24:36Her house is there.
24:40All have done this. okay.
24:44Lets clap once for this.
24:49He said he kept on going for 6 months.
24:52You were never seen.
24:53Tired he stopped going.
24:57See, reason for a relationship not working is the communication
25:01You're unable to express yourself properly.
25:05But they have the profession for the same.
25:07Writing your thoughts expressing them.
25:10Amrita said there are 2 big walls between us.
25:14One was silence, that did not left till death.
25:18And the second was language.
25:21Because I write in Punjabi,
25:23And Sahir wrote in Urdu. So the heartiest thoughts of both of us,
25:27never reached each other.
25:30Not every love story is destined to be fulfilled.
25:33And on the same time with same mentality Sahir Sahib wrote that song,
25:38which was breakup anthem for people at that time.
25:41-Would you listen? -Yes.
25:44-Would you sing? -Yes.
25:46-Don't know -who were those people who
25:52got love for love.
25:57When we seek buds,
26:02got the garland of thorns.
26:09-Don't know -who were those people who
26:13Who got love for love.
26:18What a rhythm!
26:21Too good.
26:26The broken pieces of Amrita ji's heart scattered everywhere.
26:29It felt so lonely when heart broke.
26:32But then,
26:35to gather the broken pieces of her heart came,
26:38the real hero of our story.
26:40This is not the story of Sahir Sahib. This story is not even of Amrita.
26:44The story is of this third person, whom I am going to make you meet.
26:48You love to love, you have slight affection for love
26:52if you have slight love for love,
26:53then in next 15 minute this person will become your role model.
27:01According to me in last whole century,
27:04in whole century,
27:06no other person had loved more compassionately than this person.
27:10-Let's say the name together. -Yes.
27:12Inderjit Singh Imroz
27:15Inderjit Singh Imroz.
27:15Inderjit Singh Imroz.
27:15Inderjit Singh Imroz.
27:18Imroz, painter by profession.
27:21And loved Amrita whole heartedly.
27:24And year younger to her in age.
27:26Never have met till now. Not even stood face to face,
27:29Even then love her. Ask how?
27:32How?
27:33It was that time when you loved people by their writings.
27:37He read Amrita's poetry, books,
27:39articles so much that he had already loved her.
27:43In 1960 when Amrita divorced her husband.
27:45she mentioned a fictional character in a book.
27:49Doctor Dev. Speak up.
27:51Doctor Dev.
27:52She wrote if someone would be my ideal partner,
27:55It would be like Doctor Dev.
27:59Imroz had read it.
28:04Managed Amrita's landline number with great difficulty.
28:07Dialed the phone
28:09When the phone call was picked Yes, who is speaking.
28:13Doctor Dev.
28:16Who?
28:19Amrita was also standing in front of the person like him.
28:21Saying this that my next book is coming. It's cover is to be designed.
28:25Would you design it?
28:26See, I was not there.
28:28But Imroz's situation would be like…
28:31He must have been trembling from head to toe.
28:34Imroz designed the cover.
28:36The color of the cover were beautiful,
28:38but the heart of its designer was much more beautiful than it.
28:43Imroz was living in East Patel Nagar in Delhi,
28:44and in West Patel Nagar Amrita.
28:47Daily Amrita came to the bus stop, waited for the bus,
28:50she needed to go All India Radio for job,
28:53And everyday a little far from bus stop
28:56Imroz watched her from behind a pole.
29:00Do not laugh. This is called stalking.
29:04And never to do it.
29:08Imroz did not like it that Amrita needed to travel by bus daily.
29:11Think you love somebody and
29:13that person moved daily in bus. would you like that?
29:17So, a total of 6 months by collecting every single penny.
29:20Imroz bought a scooter.
29:24And reached you know.
29:26You know.
29:28Reached out saying come let me drop you somewhere.
29:31That's how their friendship began.
29:32Everyday he picked Amrita dropped her to All India Radio
29:35picked again her from there and dropped her to home.
29:38There's was going on smoothly.
29:39You know a few days ago,
29:41I was making a small video of this whole incident,
29:43shared it on Instagram.
29:45Every third comment was
29:46Brother, even if I started saving every penny for six months,
29:48it will become 180 rupees.
29:52Is there any logic to it.
29:57In fact you won't believe, Imroz said he pick her everyday,
30:00and did drop her everyday.
30:02Amrita who knows that the person who is driving this scooter,
30:05how much he loves her.
30:06Sitting right at the rear of his scooter.
30:08Wrote something on his back with her own fingers.
30:12"SAHIR LUDHIANVI".
30:13Amrita with her own fingers
30:15was writing Sahir on Imroz's back.
30:18And Imroz had no jealousy toward all that.
30:22Not even a hint of jealousy.
30:24Friend, there is no place for jealousy in true love.
30:28There is a poetry of Shah Sahib
30:29If you drink poison by seeing it.
30:31What's fun in drinking that.
30:32If you drink poison by seeing it. What's fun in drinking that.
30:35If you love by giving it a thought. What's fun in that love.
30:38Expecting love after giving love
30:40Listen to it very carefully. Expecting love after giving love
30:45Oh, man you also loved with greed.
30:48Then what's fun in doing that.
30:55If by loving someone,
30:57you asked back or expect love in return would that be even considered love.
31:01It is then like a transaction, a deal.
31:04And here we are talking about Imroz, The epitome of love.
31:07Amrita did start liking Imroz's company. But once bitten
31:12Shy twice.
31:13Her point was, see,
31:15there was no love where she married,
31:17and there was no marriage where she loved.
31:19So she told him straight that marriage is not my cup of tea.
31:23Imroz was like…
31:25Okay.
31:27Then it all started in the end.
31:30One of the first live-in relationships in independent India.
31:34Live-in relationship.
31:42See unfortunately even today in India live-in is seen as an obscene concept.
31:47I am talking about 1960–65.
31:48They both started living together without being married, under one roof.
31:51What will people say? How many rumors will spread.
31:53How much criticism will be there, they were living without caring about it.
31:57To tell you the truth 'they were living happily'.
31:59Those who knew them told that they had separate rooms.
32:03But the doors to both their rooms always stayed open.
32:06It is just symbolic that you are always available for each other.
32:11Their life was going on smoothly when
32:15Sahir Sahib called Amrita ji.
32:20Amrita picked the call.
32:21Yes, tell me.
32:23Sahir said
32:25I have come to your city.
32:27Would you come and meet me?
32:29Just imagine your ex for a moment.
32:33See, no matter how bad the relationship was
32:36If he is in your city or you are in his.
32:38The heart longs to meet once, just for old times' sake.
32:41Amrita said, "Yes, I will surely come." Amrita did go there.
32:45She did take Imroz with her,
32:49Think of it, there would have been a proper table.
32:51All three of them sitting there. Sahir, Amrita, Imroz
32:55-Like a perfect -Triangle.
32:59It was during this that Sahir Sahib grabbed a bottle of whisky from under.
33:02Made a peg for all three of them.
33:05Amrita, Imroz did not even touch their drink.
33:09Got up after some time and moved from there.
33:13Sahir wanted to stop her, did not want her to go.
33:15He wanted to say so much. But could not do anything because
33:18sat quietly with Imroz and let her go.
33:20Kept on drinking whole night.
33:23Completely drunk on 11 or 11:30 at night called Amrita's landline.
33:28It was a drunk dial.
33:31The phone rang and the call was picked up.
33:34by Imroz
33:36Yes. Over to her.
33:40How heartbroken he must have been that night.
33:44Amrita came on the call and said, "Yes."
33:46Sahir said, "I wrote a poem after you were gone."
33:50Would you listen to it? I'm asking you.
33:52Yes.
33:54Sahir wrote that Those who leave the party.
33:58She had just left the party.
33:59Those who leave the party what to blame on you.
34:03You are a resident of a living house
34:05I am a stray and ill-fated with me,
34:08with me was this empty glass of whisky.
34:13Later on, this same poem was used in film Dooj Ka Chand but
34:17The reason I narrated this whole drinking incident to you is
34:19listen to me very carefully on it.
34:22I think personally it's just my belief
34:25on that night, Sahir Sahib must have written one more poem.
34:29My heart denied to believe that
34:31the poem would have been written apart from that night
34:34No proof was found for it.
34:35It's just a belief.
34:37You know which one?
34:39Do not go now leaving me,
34:44As my heart is still not satisfied
34:49You have just come
34:53Blossomed like spring
34:58Let the air be fragrant a bit
35:02Let my sight be a bit drunk
35:07Let this evening go down a bit
35:14Let this evening go down a bit
35:19Let this heart be steady a bit
35:23Let me live a bit
35:28Let me drink a bit
35:32Let me drink a bit
35:37I have not said anything yet
35:41I have not listened to anything
35:46Do not mind the words
35:50This is love not a complaint
35:55Do not go now leaving me,
36:00As my heart is not still satisfied
36:09Don't you feel that this song might have been written that very night?
36:12Yes.
36:13By the way
36:13I have ruined this song for all of you.
36:16Whoever you must be remembering while listening to this until now.
36:20But now, you’ll always visualise that table
36:23with the three of them seated around it
36:25Even Gujurati’s will imagine those glasses.
36:31Now, a few days ago
36:33I found a beautiful incident in a book.
36:37-Would you listen to it? -Yes.
36:38It is really very lovely. You'll enjoy it.
36:40Imroz was a painter.
36:42Along with painting, he also did calligraphy.
36:44-We all know what calligraphy is writing. -Yes
36:48So, one of Imroz's friends
36:49came to meet him from Lahore.
36:51By then, Amrita and Imroz had started living together.
36:54By then, Receipt Tickets by Amrita ji had been released.
36:56So she had told them about her relationship with Sahir.
36:59To all of them.
37:00It was clearly announced to the world.
37:02So when his friend came,
37:03Imroz was showing all his paintings to him.
37:05These are paintings.
37:08When it came to the calligraphy,
37:09on the very last canvas,
37:11Imroz had written "Sahir" with his own hands.
37:15As soon as Amrita moved away, his friend said, "Are you mad or what?"
37:20Don't you know him?
37:22And you are writing "Sahir."
37:24Imroz said, "It was just a canvas, dear.
37:26Sahir's name is written on my back."
37:32It was during this that reporters gathered around Amrita ji once again.
37:35And said, "See ma'am, you said you love Sahir,
37:39but you are living with Imroz.
37:41What is all this?"
37:43The answer that Amrita had given, I became a big fan of hers.
37:46Amrita said, "Listen, to me Sahir is the open sky."
37:51To me, Sahir is the open sky. And Imroz is the roof of my home.
38:02The roof stays below the sky, and below that roof is me.
38:06Reporters quit and got back.
38:09At the other end, for many months Sahir drowned himself in alcohol.
38:14Once there was an incident. His friend Jaideep,
38:16who was also a lyricist, went to meet him,
38:17But Sahir Sahib was all drunk.
38:20He went inside. The whole house was a mess.
38:22A cup on a table was surrounded by dust.
38:26Then Jaideep reached for it,
38:28saying, "Let me wash it, clean it."
38:30He reached for it, and Sahir yelled, "Do not touch it."
38:34Last time when Amrita came to my house, she drank tea from the same cup.
38:38It is kept exactly where it was.
38:41In fact, people say that during those days, if you went to Sahir
38:44for getting a song written,
38:46he would ask at the door,
38:48"What is the situation?"
38:50"If you need a happy song", then go.
38:54For some days, only sad songs will be written here."
38:57It was during this that Sahir wrote that poem,
39:01which later became a song,
39:03which you all have listened to, read, and written about.
39:04But you will understand now that it was for Amrita.
39:08-Sometimes a feeling -emerges.
39:12Would have been under the delicate shadow of your hair.
39:16Would have been under the delicate shadow of your hair.
39:20It would have been flourishing.
39:23This ink of grief and sadness on my heart
39:26would have been lost in the depth of your eyes
39:29But this did not happen.
39:32But it could not happen. And now the situation is like
39:35that neither are you here nor your sorrow. I do not even search for you anymore.
39:39Life is going on like this, not expecting support from anyone
39:45There is no way, no destination. There is no clue of light.
39:49I am wandering in the dark.
39:51I am afraid I may remain in the dark, my dear one.
39:53But just… try to say it. But just…
39:57sometimes the thought emerges
40:00-sometimes the thought -emerges
40:07Sometimes in my heart
40:12a thought emerges
40:17that you have been
40:21created for me.
40:27Until now, you were
40:30dwelling somewhere in the stars.
40:37And you were summoned down
40:41to earth for me.
40:46Sometimes a thought emerges
40:51in my heart
40:58Do you know? Between Amrita and Imroz, this was the most beautiful thing.
41:03Silence. They also did not talk much.
41:07People said that Amrita was fond of writing during the night
41:10and Imroz was fond of painting early in the morning.
41:13So when Amrita was writing during the night, then during the night,
41:15Imroz would wake up to an alarm in his room and go to the kitchen.
41:19He made a cup of tea,
41:21and without making noise, slowly placed it in Amrita's room.
41:25He came back from there. He did not say a word.
41:29On the other hand, in the morning, Amrita did not go to sleep.
41:33She would sit in the garden and watch Imroz painting.
41:38But the time does come when time plays its own game,
41:41when we do not have anything in our hands. A situation like this emerges.
41:44Imroz got a call from Bombay.
41:46An offer to work in movies.
41:49Not a small offer.
41:50The call was from Guru Dutt.
41:53Guru Dutt fans in the house, make some noise for me.
41:57So Guru Dutt sent an invitation to Imroz to work in the movies.
42:00Imroz did not want to go.
42:02Imroz did not want to go anywhere leaving Amrita.
42:05But Amrita pushed him a lot.
42:08Life does not give chances like these again. You should go.
42:11In the end, with a heavy heart, Imroz went.
42:15Now answer my question.
42:17Two people under the same roof, living together for so many years.
42:20So used to each other, then suddenly they have to part ways.
42:23Both physically and mentally got affected.
42:27They do. The very next day, Amrita got sick.
42:31But when Imroz's trunk call came from Bombay,
42:33then Amrita would not let him know from her voice that she was sick.
42:37But if you are attached to someone so much,
42:40whether one says anything or not,
42:43everything is understood. One knows automatically.
42:45Imroz ran. He left his work on the fourth day,
42:49caught a train and came back to Delhi.
42:51He held Amrita's hand and said, "Enough.
42:55Now I will not leave you till death."
42:58Take a deep breath. Take a deep breath.
43:02Aren't all of you trying to find the same person in life,
43:04who says this while holding our hand?
43:07"Now I will not leave you till I die."
43:12Amrita had found that person, Imroz.
43:15Her life would have been good.
43:17Then there came a call in 1980. She was getting so many calls by then.
43:24There was a call in 1980. Amrita picked up that call.
43:27She came to know a sad piece of news.
43:30That Sahir Sahib was no more.
43:36Amrita said, "As soon as I heard that news,
43:37it felt like a big part of me died."
43:41And she shut herself in a room and wrote a small incident.
43:45Amrita wrote, "Sahir, do you remember? Once you and I went to a poetic gathering
43:51where, by mistake, your name tag,
43:54was given to me, and you got my name tag.
44:00Maybe the same thing happened when death came.
44:06It came to take me,
44:08but took you by deceiving it."
44:10The skill of expressing things so precisely was rare.
44:17Writer of more than 400 songs, writer of many books and poems,
44:22the favourite lyricist of this country, Sahir Ludhianvi, was no more.
44:26But…
44:28But Sahir gave the right to mourn his death.
44:32Or perhaps he did not.
44:34-Ask me how. -How?
44:37How many poets before me
44:41came and went
44:46Some gone back sadly
44:50Some gone after singing songs
44:55He was also a part of a moment
45:00I am also a part of a moment
45:03will part from you tomorrow
45:07which is your part today
45:11Because…
45:12I am a poet of a moment or two
45:17My story is for a moment or two
45:21I am for a moment or two
45:24My youth is for a moment or two.
45:34As we are talking about Sahir's death, recently
45:38I found one more incident.
45:40If you want to listen, say it loudly.
45:41Yes.
45:43This incident was previously only assumed. People assumed that this had happened.
45:47Recently I met a person. Do you know Jadu?
45:51Thank you very much. When I asked in Hyderabad, they said, "Koi Mil Gaya."
45:57Here's what happened. Jadu, that is, Javed Akhtar,
45:59who was struggling at that time.
46:01He had lived in Sahir's house during that time.
46:03Sahir Sahib was like a mentor to him, like a father figure to him.
46:06He learned a lot from Sahir Sahib.
46:08It was like this. Once Javed Sahib was sleeping in the morning,
46:11and Sahir Sahib, before leaving for work,
46:13put 200 rupees near his pillow.
46:18200 rupees was quite a lot at that time.
46:20It meant one month was covered for Javed Ji.
46:22He got up and understood who did that.
46:24He used 200 rupees.
46:26Now luck took a turn. Then came the legendary Mr. Javed Akhtar.
46:31But whenever they met at parties,
46:34Sahir would usually ask, pulling his leg,
46:37"When will you give me my 200 rupees?"
46:39Javed said, "I will not give it."
46:41Sahir would say, "I will definitely take back".
46:43You know, 200 rupees is not much for anyone nowadays.
46:45But it was just a happy banter.
46:47Cut to 1980.
46:51Sahir Sahib left his body
46:53Then the very first call went to Javed Sahib.
46:57Javed Sahib came in taxi.
46:59With the help of the taxi driver,
47:01he put Sahir Sahib's body in the taxi and brought it to his house.
47:04He performed all the last rites and buried him in the cemetery.
47:08After everything was over, when Javed Sahib was going back home,
47:11the taxi driver asked for the fare. He asked, "How much?"
47:14He said, "It's 200 rupees."
47:16Not 199, not 201. It was 200 rupees.
47:21"I will not give it." "I will definitely take it."
47:24He took those 200 rupees on his last ride.
47:27To the biggest storyteller, there is time, give it applause.
47:36But now Amrita and Imroz stepped into a new century.
47:41It was around 2000, just recently.
47:43Amrita's companionship with Imroz stayed fresh every day.
47:47But the body started to grow old.
47:49Diseases surrounded Amrita from all sides.
47:51Amrita became very fragile. Once, Amrita felt the same guilt.
47:55Her point was that this person was seven years younger than her.
47:58I never named him, never told him what he is to me, never married him.
48:02Living with me and living as a partner. And love me dearly.
48:07So once when Amrita called him then she said Imroz you are still young
48:11Many experiences are waiting for you.
48:14Go and wander around the world.
48:17Imroz stood up at the same time.
48:19And wandered around Amrita four times.
48:22See, roam around the world 4 times.
48:25What can be done with such a person.
48:28In around 2005, Amrita called him again. And the same guilt was in her.
48:33Amrita told him that Imroz,
48:35why you met me in the evening.
48:39Why you met me in the evening. Now the track of life is about to end
48:44If you were to meet, you should have met in the noon of life.
48:48See, I was not there.
48:50But I guess Imroz might have said right away to her
48:53Oh my lovely darling
48:55You do not know
48:58You are still beautiful
48:59And I am young
49:02I will sacrifice myself for you
49:07Wow beautiful
49:13Unfortunately, in 2005,
49:16Amrita Pritam also,
49:18passed away.
49:20According to his promise, holding her hand through her last breath,
49:23Imroz was sitting right there.
49:25-The promise you made. -You must fulfill
49:28Ironically Sahir this song, also written by Sahir.
49:31There is also a photo on the internet. Amrita Ji was lying in a red gown,
49:34And Imroz sitting there wearing white Kurta Payjama holding her hand.
49:38In fact, one year before passing away,
49:41she may have written the last poem of her life.
49:44Wrote for Imroz.
49:46It is considered one of her most famous works.
49:49Even today, most people in the world remember her most for this poem.
49:53And fortunately our show have same name.
49:56I will meet you again.
49:58Would you listen to it? Even if you deny, I will still narrate.
50:01The whole story that I narrated to you in the last 45 minutes,
50:05I narrated it to you so I could recite this poem to you.
50:09Now you will understand it was written for Imroz.
50:13It is all the same.
50:15If it has pain of what is not completed.
50:19That is why Amrita is saying before dying my companion my partner
50:22I will meet you again
50:25Where, how do not know.
50:28Maybe I will become a spark of your imagination
50:31Maybe I will become a spark of your imagination
50:34Maybe I will become a spark of your imagination
50:37I will come on your canvas. He was a painter right?
50:41Maybe I will become a spark of your imagination
50:43I will come on your canvas I will be a mysterious line on your canvas
50:49And will stare at you silently.
50:52Or maybe I become a ray of sunlight and melt into your colours
50:57And sitting in the arms of the colours,
51:00and spin your canvas.
51:02I don't know how.
51:05But I will definitely meet you again.
51:08Or maybe I will become a fountain.
51:10And just like the water of a waterfall, I will fly
51:12I will rub the drops of water on your face.
51:17And like a cool breeze
51:19I will touch your chest
51:22I don't know anything else, but I do know this
51:25that whatever the time does
51:27One life will walk with me
51:36I do not know anything else, but I do know this.
51:39That whatever time does, one life will continue to walk with me.
51:42When this body ends, then everything will end.
51:45When this body ends, then everything ends.
51:47When this body ends Then everything ends
51:50But the threads of the memories were of the cosmic particles
51:55Amrita is saying that your memories are woven into the fabric of the universe.
51:58which we all called reality.
52:00If there are no memories there is no world.
52:02But the threads of the memories were of the cosmic particles.
52:05I will choose those particles,
52:08and spin the threads.
52:11Where, how, I don't know.
52:15But I will meet you again.
52:30Usually when I move to this time of show, I tell people Sahir was gone in 1980.
52:34Amrita Ji in 2005.
52:37Imroz is still with us.
52:39One who loved another so dearly is still living among us.
52:45Was. He just recently, on 23 December 2023,
52:5198-year-old Inderjit Singh Imroz passed away.
52:56He stayed alone after 2005.
52:58People usually asked him, "How are you living without Amrita?"
53:00He said, "Amrita left this world, but she never left me."
53:05She is still here with me.
53:07In fact I saw a documentary.
53:09The house at Houz Khas, where they both lived.
53:11Even today not even a single inch of any wall of the house.
53:15There is no corner without Amrita's picture on it.
53:18This is how dearly this person loved.
53:20For me after the whole story,
53:21Imroz has become a definition of unconditional love.
53:24What else is unconditional love,
53:26but knowing only how to give.
53:27Do not expect or demand in return. This is who Imroz was.
53:30He kept on giving his whole life.
53:32Never expected, never demanded anything.
53:34This is true love.
53:36Rest all is a lie.
53:43In our life There is an invisible list
53:46of the names of the few people whom we want to meet.
53:49At least once before dying. Does any of the names come to mind?
53:54Imroz was at the top of the list for me.
54:00-But this -could not happen.
54:03Now I will tell you why his story is so personal and important to me.
54:09I was going to organize the biggest show on 23 December 2023.
54:15In Bombay. In the auditorium and telling this same story.
54:19And a day before, the news came that Imroz Sahib had passed away.
54:24People sent me DMs. "You got the opportunity to pay tribute."
54:28From my heart I am saying I have done more than 450 shows
54:31But I had never cried on stage.
54:35Except that night.
54:37I couldn't, yaar. I just couldn't control myself.
54:40I saw the table in the clouds,
54:43where Amrita was sitting.
54:44Now Imroz had joined her.
54:47There is no Sahir.
54:50He might be stalking with cigarette in hand from behind the pole.
54:54But in the end, they became one.
54:57Nobody loves like Imroz now.
55:01I made the whole show only because of three questions,
55:04that I am going to ask you. Please give the truthful answer,
55:07what will you do with the lie.
55:10First question. I know everyone's answer to it.
55:13If you do not answer it is okay.
55:14How many of you in your life want a lover like Imroz?
55:19I know.
55:21All raise hand 3 to 4 times I know.
55:25Second question. The most important one.
55:28How many of you have lover like Imroz in life?
55:331, 2, 3, 4, 5. You are very lucky.
55:38Having a lover like him is not easy.
55:43Third question.
55:45How many of you are Imroz for someone else?
55:51Very good there are at least 4 to 6 to 8 people.
55:54If it is really true.
55:55Then you are very lovely people.
55:57Let's clap for them once.
56:01Now, do you see this irony? Isn't it true?
56:04If we head on with the first question everyone needs an Imroz
56:08but nobody wants to be Imroz.
56:12Now think for yourself. If no one becomes Imroz,
56:14how will people have an Imroz?
56:16Do not take anything else from this story. But take this only that.
56:19Whether you get your Imroz or not, be somebody's Imroz.
56:29My work is beautifying the story. But not the truth.
56:33But the truth was left somewhere behind.
56:37So for all of you guys, some time ago, I had added a small story to it.
56:41Which is the real truth behind the story.
56:45It should not be overlooked. If you say end or I narrate?
56:49Yes.
56:51The reason behind adding all this is behind the second question.
56:55Those whom I have asked that.
56:57Do you have someone like Imroz in your life?
56:59only 8 to 20 hands were raised.
57:00Sorry for the language but rest all
57:02Are you blind?
57:05You have lovers like Imroz, not one but more than one,
57:11Sitting at your home.
57:13But our attention never goes towards them.
57:15For us the love is only like husband and wife.
57:17One like that of a girlfriend and boyfriend.
57:19Imroz is one who only knew how to give.
57:21He never wanted anything or demanded anything.
57:27The people who love like Imroz are waiting at home for you.
57:32And are more than 1 or 2.
57:35Leave it, why am I telling all this? My job is to tell the story.
57:38So would you listen to a story?
57:39Yes.
57:41For this story, I want to take you to a jungle.
57:44Many years ago there was a jungle right in the middle of that jungle
57:47There stood a huge tree.
57:49You understand the word tree.
57:51It was an enormous tree.
57:52Its branches were scattered around in the sky.
57:54as if it were the emperor of the forest.
57:56It bore fruits, birds came. It bore flowers, butterflies came.
58:00It was a quite beautiful tree.
58:02Under that tree daily a small child came to play.
58:09That big tree fell in love with that kid.
58:14Love, obsession, attachment, devotion. What is the opposite of love?
58:20Think about it. Can hate ever be opposite of love
58:23Can hate be the opposite of love?
58:25Better word is indifference.
58:28Either you love someone.
58:30Or you don't care whether he lives or dies.
58:33Now the story that I am going to narrate to you.
58:35that story brought me one step ahead of it.
58:37That story tells that the opposite of love can only be one thing.
58:44Ego.
58:46Where there is love, there cannot be ego.
58:49And where there is ego there is no place for love.
58:53So what is opposite to love? Ego.
58:56Now, let's move on to the story.
58:58That big tree fell in love with that kid.
59:05That big tree fell in love with that kid.
59:06The condition is they should not know they are elders.
59:08The tree did not know it was big and the kid was small.
59:10It is love. It just happens.
59:12On the other hand, ego.
59:14Ego always wants to love the bigger.
59:18Good in looks, high in post having more money. We will love him.
59:22But true love is where your heart feels.
59:26The tree fell in love with the kid. The kid climbed up the tree daily.
59:29Swinging on its branches plucked and ate its fruit
59:33some raw fruits got plucked,
59:34some branches broke. Did the tree feel sorrow?
59:38The tree was dancing with happiness.
59:40That at least he came. He is with me that is enough
59:44But the time kept on moving.
59:46The kid kept on growing.
59:49Now he got desires.
59:51He needed to clear the examinations. He needed to win the friends.
59:54So sometimes he came, sometimes not.
59:56When he could not come the tree became very sad.
1:00:00See, love has this sadness only.
1:00:03That when it cannot share, it becomes sad.
1:00:07If it finds someone with whom it can share all its love.
1:00:11Once that kid grew up a bit, passing from there.
1:00:14The tree called him by making noise with its leaves.
1:00:16Come, I am looking for you.
1:00:20He went and asked, "Why should I come to you?"
1:00:24What you have to give to me?
1:00:27Ego asks, "What do you have that would make me come to you?"
1:00:30But tell me, is there any purpose to love?
1:00:32Is there any reason for love?
1:00:34It is totally purposeless without reason.
1:00:37He said, "I do not have time for this. I need to earn money and wealth."
1:00:41Can you give me money?
1:00:43The tree said Money?
1:00:46This is the thing made by you humans.
1:00:48The day we trees started making money you will find us doing Ram Ram in temples.
1:00:52But you need only money Right? Do one thing
1:00:59Pluck all my fruits sell them into the market,
1:01:03you will get pretty good money.
1:01:05The child found the idea good, brought a big basket and pluck all fruits.
1:01:09put them in basket and started moving.
1:01:11He did not stop even to say thank you.
1:01:13Was the tree sad?
1:01:15He was very happy. That at least he came.
1:01:19The tree is still just waiting. Waiting, now when will he come.
1:01:24Love is the wait of eternity.
1:01:27But the ego needs everything here right now.
1:01:32The kid now grew up to be a man.
1:01:35Once he crossed that path. The tree again waved its leaves.
1:01:37Calling him to come. "I am waiting for you."
1:01:40He went and said leave those childish things.
1:01:44Useless things.
1:01:45As much as we grew in age, the ability to stay close to love
1:01:50reduced by the same.
1:01:53He said leave those nonsense things I do not have enough time.
1:01:56I still need to build a house. Can you give me a house?
1:02:00The tree said house? We live under open sky.
1:02:05If you need a house, do one thing.
1:02:10Cut all my branches and take the wood.
1:02:14and make a house for yourself.
1:02:16The child found the idea good. He went and brought a big saw
1:02:20and cut all its branches in no time.
1:02:22Now only a small portion of the tree was left.
1:02:24Nothing else.
1:02:25It did not even have leaves. How would it call him by making noise?
1:02:29The child took all the wood and never even thanked.
1:02:32No. But was the tree sad?
1:02:35He was damn happy.
1:02:37Love is happy even when broken.
1:02:41But the ego is only happy by breaking.
1:02:44He just went away this much was only left.
1:02:47A lot of time had passed. That child was now an aged person.
1:02:51Once he went to tree by himself. Went by himself and the tree asked
1:02:55"Come, what else can I do for you?"
1:02:58It knew that he would not come without a motive.
1:03:01But was there any sarcasm or taunt in the tree's question?
1:03:04Only love. Tell me what else can I do for you?
1:03:07The older fellow said I need to move to a faraway country.
1:03:09I need to earn. I need a boat. Can you give me a boat?
1:03:15Cut me more.
1:03:18He brought the saw. Only a small part of the stump was left.
1:03:21He made a boat of wood When he was about to move in that boat
1:03:24The tree shouted, "Listen!
1:03:27If possible come back soon.
1:03:30My heart feels uncomfortable when you are not around.
1:03:33It feels sad.
1:03:35Okay. Saying this he sat in the boat and left.
1:03:39It was only this much of the stump alone in the jungle.
1:03:43Old near to its death.
1:03:45Only hoping someone bring the news that he is fine.
1:03:49It knew that he would not come back.
1:03:51Just if someone can bring the news that he is okay.
1:03:53If his boat had turned upside down, if something had happened to him,
1:03:56If someone tell only this to me I will die happily.
1:04:00Story ended.
1:04:03Every person sitting here is that child.
1:04:06And that tree is our Imroz.
1:04:09Only giving us throughout our whole life
1:04:11Never seeking or demanding anything in return.
1:04:15But how ill-mannered we become in anger.
1:04:20Said such things to the Imroz. Which are even a sin to think of.
1:04:24You understand about whom I am talking.
1:04:27We forget the upbringing of years.
1:04:30The one who taught us how to speak, we are silencing that same person.
1:04:34How lovingly they taught us counting.
1:04:38Now we count their mistakes to them.
1:04:42They had not slept until we slept.
1:04:44Today again, because of us, they are unable to sleep.
1:04:49In childhood we embrace them as we wish to
1:04:52Do you remember childhood?
1:04:54We embraced them whenever we wished to. Now they wish to, and we deny them.
1:05:00And the wounds given by us they carry them in their heart
1:05:03But tell our good deeds they speak to everyone proudly.
1:05:09It is still not late.
1:05:13Let us change.
1:05:15No matter who is wrong, let us ask them to forgive us.
1:05:18Wear them as a crown, keep them close to your heart.
1:05:20The love that Imroz gives you,
1:05:22I promise, I challenge you,
1:05:24nobody else can love you that much in your whole life.
1:05:29It is a fact.
1:05:33I know…
1:05:35The story is of that tree. It was not good right?
1:05:39I know. It was not good. Ending was not good.
1:05:43No need to worry. It is our story.
1:05:47Let us change the end.
1:05:50That old man came back with the boat.
1:05:53He sat right on that stump and said, "Please forgive me."
1:05:56I never understood your love.
1:05:59It is said that old man died on that same stump.
1:06:03And he was cremated from the wood of that same stump.
1:06:06Is it fine now?
1:06:10This is my ending. This is the ending of my story.
1:06:15What will be the ending of your story? You will decide it today
1:06:20When you go from here.
1:06:23If even one or two embrace their Imrozes after leaving here, then the job is done.
1:06:28But even today, when they ask, expect, or demand something, the answer is
1:06:32"What? We do not have time."
1:06:36Take a deep breath.
1:06:39Every person sitting here
1:06:41had lived more than half of his life on an average.
1:06:44And honestly, after COVID, trust issues are there.
1:06:47So speaking honestly we do not have time.
1:06:52So spare time from this chaotic life of yours.
1:06:56Spare time like this and sit.
1:06:59Spare time to immerse to flow.
1:07:04Spare time for the moon, for mornings, for home, for every if and but.
1:07:10Spare time to close your eyes. To feel.
1:07:14To laugh wholeheartedly and to cry with an open heart.
1:07:18Spare time to agree,
1:07:20to commit, for the same love happening again and again.
1:07:25To disagree, agree, and build a home together.
1:07:30Spare time, spare time for your childhood dream.
1:07:34You are looking for years for that one answer spare time.
1:07:38spare time, spare time for your childhood dream.
1:07:43For yourself.
1:07:46If nothing else smile like this one day.
1:07:51Try it. It feels good. Everyone.
1:07:55Spare time for your childhood dream. For yourself.
1:07:58If nothing else smile one day like this.
1:08:02Spare time for your parents.
1:08:12-Spare time or time will -Pass
1:08:16Time will pass. And we will remain sitting there.
1:08:19All of you have spared time today to listen to me.
1:08:23I wish whole heartedly for all of you that may you find your Imroz.
1:08:27You understand your Imroz. Embrace your Imroz close to your heart.
1:08:31And do tell them you love them every day.
1:08:34But be careful. If by mistake,
1:08:36that regret comes in between, you will be like what Amrita kept saying.
1:08:40-My companion my friend... -I will meet you again.
1:08:44-I will... -Meet you again!
1:08:46-I will... -Meet you again!
1:08:48Thank you ladies and gentlemen.

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