Shruti Shankar Srivastava on Thursday, November 27, 2014
bas ek chup si lagi hai, nahin udaas nahin
kahin pe saans ruki hai, nahin udaas nahin
it is Just the silence
That the mind favours
For now
No, it is not sadness
it is Just a pause in breathing
No, it is not sadness, I assure

.koi anokhi nahin, aisi zindagi lekin khoob na ho
mili jo, khoob mili hai, nahin udaas nahin
This life (bestowed by the lord)
Well, it is not so strange(Is it?)
But pray-- it not be too much (to bear)
Ah but still, it seems
This life, is an excess
No, it is not sadness, I assure

sehar bhi ye raat bhi, dupehar bhi mili lekin
hamee ne sham chuni, nahin udaas nahin

I could have selected
The dawn, the night
Or even the high noon of midday
Yet i myself picked /chose the dusk
No, it is not sadness, I assure

wo daastaan jo, hum ne kahi bhi, hum ne likhi
aaj wo khud se suni hai, nahin udaas nahin
Ah, that tale
That overbearing tale of life
That was once narrated by me
I had written it, myself
But today
I am hearing it, once again
\ myself
No, it is not sadness, I assure
Surely, it is not sadness, I assure


----by atul

crazyoldsongs on Thursday, March 24, 2011
@BharatGul sir , how right you are ! i too heard this lata ji version for
the first time on yt last year and yes , on ajauv's amazing channel of rare
classic songs ! was amazed to find this song and wondered how i missed it
all these years . aren't we lucky to have this channel which lights up our
lives and never ceases to amaze us ,the way lata ji never ceases to amaze
us with her honey sweet renditions !

Bharat Gul on Saturday, March 12, 2011
The yin complement to Hemant Kumar's yang. Glad to have found this Lata
song here. Sounds even sweeter than the HK version. But then, for Lata
devotees like me it always turns out like this ,doesn't it? Thanks,ajayuv.

crazyoldsongs on Thursday, March 24, 2011
i feel sorry that most of our current generation is addicted to noisy music
and has no tast e for these precious songs . the no .of these viewers
should be in thousands !

thatpausedsilence on Friday, December 16, 2011
I have got a beautiful one...
no, not [a] gloomy or a sad one,
it's just [that] one closed-lips sort of quietness has set in.

the fresh early morning [breeze], too, [and] this [or the] night, too,
the afternoon, too, [I] have got, but...
the fresh early morning [breeze], too, [and] this [or the] night, too,
the afternoon, too, [I] have got, but...
I myself...
have chosen the evening...
no, not [a] gloomy [or a sad one],
[it's] just [that] one [closed-lips] sort of quietness has set in.