Unforgettable love story of Sahir, Amrita Pritam & Imroz
The blog is about the unforgettable love story of Sahir, Amrita and Imroz. Love is the most powerful emotion. When this most powerful emotion rises above the intellect & reason and takes the imagination using the sanctity of its emotion to form poetry, it becomes divine. Who knows it better than the ‘Sahir Ludhianvi’
Sahir Ludhianvi was a temperamental poet, who was more concerned about the real issues than praising the beauty of women. He would rather highlight the plight of the woman rather than praise her lips and eyes. For example, he would not use the words like the contemporary poets’ Chhalkaye jaam aaiye aapki aankhon ke naam, hothon ke naam “ or Chho lene do Nazaq honton Ko , Kucch aur Nahi hai Jaam hai ye… But he would prefer highlighting their problem to be addressed. For instance
Aurat ne janam diya
mardo ko
Mardo ne use bazar diya
Jab ji chaha masla kuchla
Jab ji chaha dutkar diya
Aurat ne janam diya mardo ko
Tulati hai kahi dinaro me
Bikti hai kahi bazaro me
Nangi nachavai jati hai
Aiyyasho ke darbaro me
Ye vo beizzat chiz hai jo
Bat jati hai izzatdaro me
Aurat ne janam diya mardo ko
Mardo ke liye har
zulm ravaan
Aurat ke liye rona bhi khata
Mardo ke liye lakho seje
Aurat ke liye bas ek chita
Mardo ke liye har aish ka haq
Aurat ke liye jina bhi saza
Aurat ne janam diya mardo ko
Jin hotho ne inko pyar kiya
Un hotho ka vyapar kiya
Jis kokh me inka jism dhala
Us kokh ka karobar kiya
Jis tan se uge kopal ban kar
Us tan ko zalil-o-khar kiya
Aurat ne janam diya mardo ko
Mardo ne banayi jo
rasme
Unako haq ka farmaan kaha
Aurat ke zindaa jalne ko
Kurbani aur balidaan kaha
Kismat ke badle roti di
Usako bhi ehsaan kaha
Aurat ne janam diya mardo ko
Sansaar ki har ek besharmi
Gurbat ki god me palti hai
Chakalo me hi aa ke rukati hai
Faako se jo raah nikalati hai
Mardo ki havas hai jo aksar
Aurat ke paap me dhalti hai
Aurat ne janam diya mardo ko
Aurat sansaar ki
qismat hai
Fir bhi taqdir ki heti hai
Avatar payambar janati hai
Phir bhi shaitan ki beti hai
Ye vo badaqismat maa hai jo
Beto ki sez pe leti hai
Aurat ne janam diya mardo ko
Aurat ne janam diya mardo ko
Mardo ne use bazar diya
Jab ji chaha masla kuchla
Jab ji chaha dutkar diya
Aurat ne janam diya mardo ko.
His Concern for women was because he loved his mother
anything else as he was raised by a single mother as she got separated from her
drunkard husband and single-handedly managed Sahir’s upbringing. Sahir hated his father and loved his mother immensely.
Now Unmasking our political system, let us take more
meaningful words from his pen,” "Ye
kuche, ye nilaam ghar dilakashi ke, Ye lutate hue kaaravaa zindagi ke, Kahaan
hai, kahaan hai muhafiz khudi ke, Jinhe naaz hai hind par vo kahaan ha.. kahan
Hai kahan hai”
Sahir Loved too many women
in his life but never got seriously involved to form a relationship. It is like
borrowing a Kiss from too many women but never returning to any one of them. So
much has been written about his unusual love for Amrita Pritam. Even before
Amrita Pritam, an unknown girl came into his life and because of his temperamental
nature, he could not marry her. The girl got married to someone else. Sahir too
was invited to her marriage. Sahir not only accepted her invitation but produced
one of his best poetry instantly. Which was as follows
Chalo ek baar phir se, ajnabi ban
jaayen ham dono
na main tumse koi umiid rakhuun dilnavaazi
ki
na tum merii taraf dekho ghalat andaaz
nazaron se
na mere dil ki dhadkan ladkhadaaye meri
baaton mein
na zaahir ho tumhaari kashmkash ka
raaz nazaron se
Come, let us become strangers once again.
I shall no longer maintain hopes of compassion from you
Nor shall you gaze at me with your deceptive
glances.
Nor shall your glances reveal the secret of your torment.
The poetry was used later in the the1963 movie " Gumrah"
Amrita Pritam, the great Novelist had a sapiosexual crush
on Sahir. Both were intellectually inclined individuals who admired each
other’s creativity. Amrita was ready to leave her husband ’ Pritam’ but Sahir
could never gather the courage to accept her in her life as his mother had a
strong role in his life. Somewhere, Amrita knew that Sahir had a commitment
phobia and his love for her was not as intense. Elsewhere, she wrote to him, “Maine
toot ke Pyaar kiya tum se/Kya tumne bhi utna kiya mujh se? (I loved
you wholeheartedly." Did you also love me that much?"
Such was an intense love of Amrita for Sahir, that she would
collect the leftover cigarettes taken by Sahir and start smoking them for
having been touched by his lips and thus she got addicted to smoking and became
a chain smoker. Sahir too showed the
same sentiments for Amrita Pritam. Once Jaidev noticed a dirty and used cup
lying on the coffee table. He immediately suggested that it needed to be
cleaned. “Don’t you dare touch it,” Ludhianvi shot back. “Amrita drank tea out
of it the last time she was here.” Like his poetic words, Sahir gave a
beautiful turn to their unfinished love and start moving ahead.
The story of this love is depicted in her
autobiography, Rasidi Ticket (Revenue Stamp). When another woman, singer Sudha
Malhotra came into Sahir's life, Amrita found
solace in the companionship of the artist and writer Imroz. Imroz was 10 years
younger than her.
She
spent the last forty years of her life with Imroz as a live-in partner loving
Sahir, who also designed most of her book covers and made her the subject of
his several paintings. Their life together is also the subject of a book, Amrita Imroz: A Love Story.
Imroz wrote that he loved Amrita Pritam, but in
turn, she loved Sahir. When she was riding her scooter of Imroz, He felt that
she wrote on his back ‘ Sahir” but Imroz never asked any questions to Amrita as
if there were no conditions in their relationship. Amrita knew that it
was not good for Imroz to still love her when he knows that she loves Sahir more than anything else. She asked Imroz once, “Why have you met me so
late?’ Imroz said in reply “maybe, I come of age late and the money too came
late,” and both laughed together.
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