Ye Duniya Agar Mil Bhi Jaye: Translation
and Explanation
Meta Description: Ye Duniya Agar Mil Bhi Jaye is a Bollywood
classic song from Guru Dutt’s Pyaasa.
Enjoy the poetic translation of this Mohammed Rafi Sahir Ludhianvi
combine.
Setting the Background for Ye Duniya Agar Mil
Bhi Jaye
Vijay (Guru Dutt) is
an idealistic but unsuccessful poet who is befriended by Gulabo (Waheeda
Rehman), a prostitute. Meanwhile, Vijay’s former girlfriend, Meena (Mala Sinha),
has married Ghosh (Rehman), a wealthy publisher. Vijay is presumed dead after a
beggar to whom he had given his coat is found killed in a train accident. Vijay,
who was in the same train, has survived and is recovering in a hospital. Ghosh,
believing him dead, posthumously publishes Vijay’s poems and makes a
considerable profit. The supposedly “dead” Vijay appears at a memorial service
held in his honour. It is at this moment in the narrative of Pyaasa that
Vijay sings Ye Duniya Agar Mil Bhi Jaye.
About the Song
Vijay is already in a
state of despair at the beginning of the film, but by the end his frustration
has broken through every remaining barrier. The woman he loved has chosen money
over him. His only true friend is Gulabo, a prostitute living on the margins of
respectable society. His poetry finds no buyers while he is alive, yet after he
is presumed dead, the same poems become a commercial success, making a huge
profit for someone else. And when Vijay returns from the dead, he is not
welcomed with joy but treated as an inconvenient obstacle that must be removed
as quickly as possible.
Ye Duniya Agar Mil
Bhi Jaye is therefore a
profoundly nihilistic song. In Sahir’s masterful lyrics, Vijay’s personal
anguish expands into a sweeping indictment of a corrupt, materialistic and
hypocritical society. The song compresses disillusionment, anger, contempt,
despair and finally renunciation—into a series of hard-hitting lines.
In the song’s
climactic declaration, “Tumhari hai, tum hi sambhalo ye duniya” (“It is yours;
you take care of this world”), Vijay rejects the fame and wealth that should
have been his, leaving them to the manipulators and hypocrites. Turning his
back on the world he has come to despise; he walks away with Gulabo to begin a
new life.
The English Translation of the Lyrics of Yeh Duniya
Agar Mil Bhi Jaye To Kya Hai
Of palaces of crowns
Of gold thrones is
this world
The enemy of man
It’s known to all this
world
Of palaces of crowns
Of gold thrones is
this world
The enemy of man
It’s known to all this
world
Driven by greed and
greed
Alone is this world
If I should ever find
This world then what
of it
If I should ever find
This world then what
of it
Where each body’s decayed
Where each soul unsated
Every mind is confused
Every heart deflated
By fear that grips mankind
All are inundated
If I should ever find
This world then what
of it
If I should ever find
This world then what
of it
Here every human being
Is just like a puppet
Only after they’re dead
Do people get respect
Here death is acknowledged
But to life they object
If I should ever find
This world then what
of it
If I should ever find
This world then what
of it
Where youth is lost in lust
In fleeting, cheap desires
Where beauty graces brothels
Awaiting wanton buyers
Where love is bought and sold
By charlatans and liars
If I should ever find
This world then what of it
If I should ever find
This world then what of it
This world where human life
Means nothing, has no worth,
This world where human life
Means nothing, has no worth,
Where friendship has no value,
Loyalty’s lost on earth.
This world where human life
Means nothing, has no worth,
Where friendship has no value,
Loyalty’s lost on earth.
Where even love’s become
A matter just for mirth
If I should ever find
This world then what of it
If I should ever find
This world then what of it
Yes torch it and scorch it
Incinerate
this world
Yes torch it and scorch it
Yes torch it and scorch it
Incinerate
this world
Sweep it from my sight
Just terminate this world
This world belongs to you
So orchestrate this world
If I should ever find
This world then what
of it
If I should ever find
This world then what
of it
The Original Hindi Lyrics of Yeh Duniya Agar Mil Bhi Jaye
from Pyaasa
Ye mahalo ye takhto
Ye taajo ki duniya
Ye insaan ke dushman
Samaajo ki duniya
Ye mahalo ye takhto
Ye taajo ki duniya
Ye insaan ke dushman
Samaajo ki duniya
Ye daulat ke bhukhe
Rivaazo ki duniya
Ye duniya agar mil
Bhi jaaye to kya hai
Ye duniya agar mil
Bhi jaaye to kya hai
Har ek jism ghaayal
Har ek ruh pyaasi
Nigaaho me ulajhan
Dilo me udaasi
Ye duniya hai yaa
Aalam e badahavaasi
Ye duniya agar mil
Bhi jaaye to kya hai
Ye duniya agar mil
Bhi jaaye to kya hai
Yahaa ek khilaunaa
Hai insan ki hasti
Ye basti hai murdaa
Parasto ki basti
Yahaa per jivan
Se hai maut sasti
Ye duniya agar mil
Bhi jaaye to kya hai
Ye duniya agar mil
Bhi jaaye to kya hai
Jawani bhatakati
Hai badkaar banakar
Jawa jism sajate
Hai baazaar banakar
Jahaa pyaar hotaa
Hai vyaapaar banakar
Hai badkaar banakar
Jawa jism sajate
Hai baazaar banakar
Jahaa pyaar hotaa
Hai vyaapaar banakar
Ye duniya agar mil
Bhi jaaye to kya hai
Ye duniya agar mil
Bhi jaaye to kya hai
Ye duniya jahaa
Aadmi kuchh nahi hai
Vafaa kuchh nahi
Dosti kuchh nahi hai
Ye duniya jahaa
Aadmi kuchh nahi hai
Vafaa kuchh nahi
Dosti kuchh nahi hai
Jahaa pyaar ki kadr
Hi kuchh nahi hai
Ye duniya agar mil
Bhi jaaye to kya hai
Ye duniya agar mil
Bhi jaaye to kya hai
Jalaa do ise phunk
Daalo ye duniya
Jalaa do jalaa do
Jalaa do ise phuk
daalo ye duniya
Mere saamane se
Hataa lo ye duniya
Tumhaari hai tum hi
Sambhalo ye duniya
Ye duniya agar mil
Bhi jaaye to kya hai
Ye duniya agar mil
Bhi jaaye to kya hai.
Meanings of difficult Urdu words
Rivaazo = Customs
Ruh = Soul
Aalam e badahavaasi = Environment of fear
Murdaa parasto = Those who revere a human after his death
Badkaar = Sinner
The Literal English Translation of the Lyrics of Yeh Duniya Agar Mil Bhi Jaye
This world of these palaces,
of these thrones, of these crowns
This world of
societies that are enemies of humanity
This world of rituals
that are greedy for wealth
If this world is even
found then so what
Every body is wounded, every soul is thirsty
Confusion in the gazes, sadness in the hearts
Is this a world or an environment of fear
If this world is even
found then so what
Where human existence is like a toy
This community is one that respects people after they die
Here death is cheaper than life
If this world is even
found then so what
Adolescence roams
becoming sinful
Beautiful bodies adorn the brothels
Here love is engaged in as if its commerce
If this world is even
found then so what
This world where
a human is nothing
Loyalty is nothing, friendship
is nothing
Here there is no respect even for love
If this world is even found then so
what
Burn it, smoke this world
Remove this world from my presence
This is yours, you only take care of this world
If this world is even found then so
what
Yeh Duniya Agar Mil Bhi Jaye To Kya Hai Fact Sheet
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