Naina Moray: The Prayer Hidden in a Love Song
A ghost's monologue from Haider. A 400-year-old Punjabi Sufi kafi. A Coke Studio thumri and a Bollywood needle-drop, decades apart, both circling the same words. This episode of Kavinaama follows "Naina Moray" — sung by Javed Bashir and Akbar Ali — back to its source in Shah Hussain's kafi "Man Atkeya Beparwah De Naal," the same phrase behind Shamur and Sachin-Jigar's "Dil La Leya Beparwah De Naal" from the film Roohi. Kshitij and Burair trace the legend of Heer and Ranjha, why Sufi poets reach for worldly love (ishq-e-majazi) to describe love of the Divine (ishq-e-haqiqi), and what makes…
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