Luck By Chance - Sapnon se bhare naina

I got to hear the music of Luck by Chance and watch the film only fairly recently. But since then I’ve been hooked to the songs and it has been playing repeatedly. Within the Akhtar family of Javed, Farhan, and Zoya, they have every part of intellectual filmmaking convincingly covered. For the one missing piece that the family doesn’t have, they have a very close dial-a-trio friend in musicians Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy. And they deliver home as consistently as the dhabawallahs.

This song is at a poignant situation in the movie. The male protagonist, a wannabe actor, has arrived to happily announce a call to audition for a film. The female protagonist (played with subdued and realistic elan by the talented Konkona Sen), meanwhile, has just seen her dream of many years of working in a film crushed by a crafty producer who lead her along.

“
What happened?
Chaudhary’s film …
It’s not being made …?
It is being made … but I’m not in it. Maybe it is not in my fate.
It is not written in your fate? What is this ‘fate’? That is for those people who don’t have the courage to create their own life.
I haven’t shown courage!? After three years he declares that I’ll never amount to anything.
He is a scoundrel! And will you allow a scoundrel to decide your future?
Tell me, did you come here to make Chaudhary’s film or to become an actor?
All these days you believed in somebody else. Now begin to believe in yourself.
Walk your path … tirelessly … determinantly … slowly the entire world will follow you.
“
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bagiya bagiya bhaalak bhaage, titali phir bhi haath na laage

the child chases around in many a garden, but the butterfly refuses to be caught

iss pagale ko kaun bataaye, dhund raha hai jo tu jag mein

who is going to tell this mad man, that which you seek in this world

koi jo paaye toh mann mein hi paaye

if one is to ever find it, it will only be found in oneself

sapano se bhare naina, tu nind hai na chaina - (2)

these eyes filled with dreams, it gives neither rest nor peace

aisee dagar koi agar to apnaaye, har raah ke o ant pe rasta hi paaye

when one travels a path, at the end of it he will find another path

dhup ka rasta jo pair jalaaye, mod toh aaye chaanv na aaye

the heat of the road will burn your feet, there will be turns on the road but hardly some shade

raahi jo chalata hai, chalata hi jaaye

the traveler will forever journey

koi nahi hai jo kahi use samjhaaye

and there is nobody anywhere who could convince him (that he has reached a final destination)

sapano se bhare naina, tu nind hai na chaina - (2)

these eyes filled with dreams, it gives neither rest nor peace

naina re naina re naina re.... naina aa aa re

(these eyes ... these eyes ...)

dur hi se saagar jise har koi maane, paani hai woh ya ret hai ye kaun jaane

he who believe he sees a sea from a distance, is it really water or a mirage over sand

jaise ke din se rain alag hai, sukh hai alag aur chain alag hai

like the night is independent of the day, happiness and peace are independent

par jo yeh dekhe woh nain alag hai, chain toh hai apana sukh hai paraaye

he who sees this will have a vision of his own, peace is ours and happiness somebody else's

sapano se bhare naina, tu nind hai na chaina - (2)

naina re naina re naina re.... naina aa aa re