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Sajna
- Music Rank
- #1440
- YouTube Views
- 249.10K
- Category
- Single
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The Story Behind Sajna
Sajna is Sibtain Khalid's original song for Nescafé Basement Season 3, written and composed by Khalid and produced by Xulfi (Zulfiqar Jabbar Khan). The show's own video identifies it as an original, while Khalid's official upload supplies the writing and production credits. The Season 3 compilation lists the track under Khalid's name and dates the album release to September 2016. Khalid posted his own video in March 2017; the Nescafé Basement upload on this page followed in November 2018. That later date belongs to this video, not to the earlier album listing. The repeated address to "sajna" makes a single intimate word the song's refrain. At 6 minutes 32 seconds, this official video also runs longer than the 5 minute 33 second compilation track.
Meaning & Translation
"Sajna" is a Punjabi way to address a beloved. Here the tender word sharpens the hurt because the person being called close is the one who broke the speaker's trust. The song presents betrayal as an emotional death that leaves ordinary breathing feeling strange. Memories offer a way to keep going, yet they keep the separation close, especially through lonely nights. Images of poison and rain give that private grief a physical shape: sorrow must be swallowed, while tears seem to refill eyes that had gone dry. The central question is how someone can survive a love that still feels inseparable from pain.
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Artists & Credits
- Sibtain Khalid singer
- Sibtain Khalid composer
- Sibtain Khalid lyricist
- Xulfi producer