Sarfaroshi ki tamanna

Got a chance to see Rang de Basanti yesterday...very nice movie.
My only complaint was that they took the initial comic scenes way overboard...they cudve cut that crap a wee bit and made the movie short and sweet. Not that the comedy or comic timing was bad...but it essentially split the movie between intermissions as "A comedy caper" and "The Awakening". What was really striking about the movie was the parallels that the director took between the five freedom fighters and the bunch of frnds set in contemporary India. Another really moving part was te rendition of that eternal poem....which goes like this:

sarfaroshi ki tamana ab hamare dil main hai
dekhna hai zor kitna bazu-e-qatil main hai

karta nahi kyon dusara kuch bat-chit
dekhata hun main jise vo chup teri mahfil main hai

ai shahid-e-mulk-o-millat main tere upar nisar
ab teri himat ka charcha gair ki mahfil main hai

vaqt ane de bata denge tujhe ai asman
ham abhi se kya batayen kya hamare dil main hai

khinch kar lai hain sab ko qatl hone ki ummid
ashiqon ka aj jamghat kucha-e-qatil main hai

sarfaroshi ki tamana ab hamare dil main hai
dekhna hai zor kitna bazu-e-qatil main hai