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The Story Behind Laage Re Nain
Coke Studio Pakistan handed Ayesha Omar, known to the country mainly as a television actor, a raag to sing. Laage Re Nain arrived in Episode 2 of Season 6 in November 2013, produced by Rohail Hyatt in what turned out to be his last season running the show. The melody sits in Bhopali, an early evening raag, and the verses are Poorbi, the old eastern tongue of thumri and classical love poetry. Hyatt built the arrangement outward from there: Kaw Dialy Madi Sissoko's kora from Senegal, Anil Gandharba's sarangi and Rubin Kumar Shrestha's flute from Nepal, a Serbian rhythm section holding the floor underneath. Nothing hurries. The Express Tribune's review of the episode ran under the verdict that Omar had eclipsed two maestros.
Meaning & Translation
Laage Re Nain means, near enough, that the eyes have caught: they have fastened on someone and will not let go. Poorbi poetry has leaned on that image for centuries, the gaze as the place where love gives itself away first. The verses belong to a woman waiting out a separation, restless through sleepless nights, feeling every mile of the distance and still unwilling to wish the feeling gone. What lifts the song clear of plain longing is its temperature. Bhopali is a warm, open raag, and Omar sings the yearning as something nearer to delight than grief, a woman quite happy to have been caught.
Details
- Artist
- Ayesha Omar
- Category
- Coke Studio
- Collection
- Coke Studio Season 6
- Released
- 2013
- Language
- Poorbi
- Mood
- Romantic
- YouTube Views
- 7.63M
Artists & Credits
- Ayesha Omar singer
- Kaw Dialy Madi Sissoko musician
- Anil Gandharba musician
- Rubin Kumar Shrestha musician
- Siddharta Maharjan musician
- Rohail Hyatt producer