लिखे जो खत तुझे, वो तेरी याद में – नीरज

लिखे जो खत तुझे, वो तेरी याद में
हज़ारो रंग के नज़ारे बन गये
सवेरा जब हुआ, तो फूल बन गये
जो रात आई तो सितारें बन गये

कोई नग्मा कहीं गूंजा, कहा दिल ने ये तू आई
कहीं चटकी कली कोई, मैं ये समझा तू शरमाई
कोई खुशबू कहीं बिखरी, लगा ये जुल्फ लहराई
लिखे जो खत तुझे, वो तेरी याद में…

फ़िज़ा रंगीन, अदा रंगीन ये इठलाना, ये शरमाना
ये अंगड़ाई, ये तनहाई, ये तरसाकर चले जाना
बना देगा नहीं किस को, जवां जादू ये दीवाना
लिखे जो खत तुझे, वो तेरी याद में…

जहाँ तू है, वहाँ मैं हूँ, मेरे दिल की तू धड़कन है
मुसाफिर मैं तू मंज़िल है, मैं प्यासा हूँ तू सावन है
मेरी दुनिया ये नज़रें हैं, मेरी जन्नत ये दामन है
लिखे जो खत तुझे, वो तेरी याद में…

∼ नीरज

चित्रपट : कन्यादान (१९६९)
निर्माता : राजेंद्र भाटिया
निर्देशक : मोहन सेगल
लेखक : भाकरी
गीतकार : नीरज
संगीतकार : शंकर जयकिशन
गायक : मोहम्मद रफ़ी
सितारे : शशि कपूर, आशा पारेख, ओम प्रकाश

Synopsis

The film starts with a hockey match between the girls’ team Bulbuls, and the boys’ team Heroes. The girls win by 2 goals to one. Amar (Dileep Raj) from the boys’ team and Lata (Sayeeda Khan) from the Bulbul team are attracted to each other and get married. Kumar (Shashi Kapoor) a poet, and Amar are good friends. Kumar decides to go to a village and his car has a break-down where he meets Rekha (Asha Parekh), a village girl. They both fall in love and decide to get married. But when Rekha’s mother (Achala Sachdev) is approached with the proposal she refuses the marriage stating that Rekha was already married in childhood to a boy called Amar. When Kumar returns to the city he realises that Amar, who is now married to Lata, is the childhood groom involved in Rekha’s life. Rekha comes to the city and finds out about Amar when she unwittingly falls in front of his car. But seeing he’s married, she keeps silent about their childhood marriage, and starts working in their house as a maid. Kumar tries to convince Rekha that a marriage taking place when they were children does not legally constitute as one. Rekha disagrees, but over time and several tense scenes later, things are sorted out when Rekha’s mother declares that a marriage performed in childhood is illegal and not binding. Rekha and Kumar get married.