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The Story Behind Jind Mahiya
Jind Mahiya closed the eleventh season of Coke Studio Pakistan in October 2018, arriving in the seventh and final episode. Shuja Haider wrote it, composed it and sang it himself, capping a Coke Studio run that had begun for him back in Season 6 with Tera Wo Pyar.
Season producers Zohaib Kazi and Ali Hamza kept the arrangement lean and forward leaning, building a Middle Eastern inspired groove on Babar Khanna's dholak and Kami Paul's drums. The detail that fixes the song in memory is Haniya Aslam's baglama, the long necked Turkish lute whose bright, reedy timbre supplies most of that color. Shahab Hussain, Wajiha Naqvi and Mehr Qadir sing the backing vocals that open the chorus out.
Meaning & Translation
Jind Mahiya is Punjabi, and it stacks two of the language's warmest words for a lover. Jind means life, the breath or the soul itself, the sense carried in the everyday phrase jind jaan. Mahiya is the beloved, an endearment worn smooth by centuries of Punjabi folk poetry. Together the title lands closer to my life, my love than any single English word manages.
Shuja Haider builds the whole song around that address. Coke Studio framed the track around a delight in trying new things, and the writing carries that restlessness: the verses keep moving outward while the chorus keeps coming home to the same two words. The beloved is the destination.
Details
- Artist
- Shuja Haider
- Category
- Coke Studio
- Collection
- Coke Studio Season 11
- Released
- 2018
- Genre
- Pop
- Mood
- Romantic, Upbeat
- YouTube Views
- 3.58M
Artists & Credits
- Shuja Haider singer
- Shuja Haider composer
- Shuja Haider lyricist
- Babar Khanna musician
- Kami Paul musician
- Kamran “Mannu” Zafar musician
- Omran Shafique musician
- Rufus Shahzad musician
- Haniya Aslam musician
- Zohaib Kazi producer
- Ali Hamza producer