Song lines for joy, weddings and showing off a bit

Tenu leke main javanga

dil deke main javanga

Tenu Leke · Salaam-e-Ishq (2007) · Sonu Nigam, Mahalakshmi Iyer

I am taking you with me. I am leaving my heart behind.

The wedding line. For an engagement, a shaadi, or anyone about to be somebody’s: it is celebratory rather than tender.

Aaj nahi to kal hai tujhko

to bas meri honi re

Tenu Leke · Salaam-e-Ishq (2007) · Sonu Nigam, Mahalakshmi Iyer

If not today then tomorrow, you are going to be mine.

Cheerfully certain, and short of arrogant only because the tune is having so much fun. For a crush who already knows.

Soni cheez tere jaise na mujhko

na mujhko aisi khoni re

Tenu Leke · Salaam-e-Ishq (2007) · Sonu Nigam, Mahalakshmi Iyer

Something as lovely as you, I am not about to lose.

A compliment with a bit of swagger in it. Good for a bouquet that is meant to make someone laugh, not cry.

Maula tera maali

o haryali jangal waali

Patakha Guddi · Highway (2014) · Nooran Sisters

God himself is your gardener, wild green thing of the forest.

A blessing rather than a compliment, and it treats the person as something growing rather than something owned. Perfect on flowers.

Tu de har gaali pe taali

uske kadam kadam rakhwali

Patakha Guddi · Highway (2014) · Nooran Sisters

You answer every insult with applause, and He guards every step you take.

For the friend who refuses to be made small by anyone. Send it on a day people have been unkind to them.

Ainvaiye lok laaj ki soch soch ke

kyon hai aafar daali

Patakha Guddi · Highway (2014) · Nooran Sisters

Why have you tied yourself in knots worrying what people will say.

For anyone about to do the brave thing and hesitating over what the neighbours think. Reads as permission.