Loved the song so immensely that couldn't resist to translate it in English.
But I think, the most difficult work in the world is to translate a Gulzar song
because he uses regional dialects which hardly have any synonym in English.
Here goes my translation and I will love to have a better translation from
somebody else.
Dum dara dum dara mast mast dara
Dum dara dum dara mast mast dara
Dum dara dum dum oh hum dum
Oh my love
Bin tere kya jeena
How to live without you
Tere bina beswadi beswadi ratiyann
Without you tasteless are the nights /* [ beswadi = tasteless ]
Oh sajna, rookhi re oh rookhi re
Oh my love, dry oh dry
Kaatore kate na
(nights) don't pass
Na jaa chaakri ke mare na ja
Don't go for the sake of work /* [ chaakri =work, job]
Sotan pukaare
the other woman calls /* [ here the job]
Saawan ayega toh puchhega, na ja re
When rain will come, ask for you, don't go
pheeki pheeki beswadi yeh ratiyaan
fade and tasteless are the nighs
Kaatore kate na
(nights) don't pass
Tere bina beswadi beswadi ratiyann
Without you tasteless are the nights
Oh sajna
Oh my love
Tere bina chand ka sona khota re
Without you the gold of the moon is fake
Peeli peeli dhool udawe jhoota re
yellow yellow dusts are all fake
Tere bina sona peetal
without you gold is peetal /* [ peetal= an alloy metal looking like gold]
Tere sang keekar peepal
with you the keekar is tamarind /* [ keekar = a bitter taste vegetable
available in Norh and west India]
Aaja katena ratiyan
Come, can't spend the night
Dum dara dum dara mast mast dara
Dum dara dum dara mast mast dara
Dum dara dum dum oh hum dum
Oh my love
Bin tere kya jeena
How to live without you
Durba
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