TOTW #44: Strangers / Ajnabee/ Unknown people

Hello everyone!

Welcome to the TOWK #44!

This week’s theme is Strangers/ Ajnabee/ Unknown people

Maybe it was that one look from an encounter with a stranger, or a fleeting connection forged out of it (real or imagined one). Or maybe the bittersweet realisation that they look like someone you once knew.

Whether it's the excitement of a serendipitous meeting or the melancholy of unrequited love, such encounters tell the story of the unpredictable nature of life and the endless possibilities that lie within the enigmatic realm of the unknown.

WHAT SONGS TO POST

This theme evokes a myriad of emotions – loneliness, curiosity, longing, the thrill of the unknown, etc. The songs in this theme could be about a chance encounter with a stranger. Or fallling in love with a stranger. Or the songs may have the words stranger/ ajnabee (or similar words) in them. Or the songs should speak about unknown people in any line/paragraph even if the words stranger/ ajnabee (or similar words) are not explicitly used.

RULES

• Any language, any era, any genre is welcome and is, in fact, encouraged. The more diversity, the better.
• Mention the language the song is in and how it pertains to the theme. (if in a language other than Hindi or English).
• Post the part of the lyrics that talks about strangers/ ajnabee/ unknown people if it's not evident from the title.
• Please make sure you post credits to the songwriters and singers with every song you post.
• Do not repeat a song that has already been posted. Have a look at the songs list in the next post to see if your song has already been posted.
• When you quote a post, please remove the song link. It makes the page heavy
• Make sure you read the guidelines before posting.

Tag: DreamOfEndless

Page #1:

Ajnabi Mujhko Itna Bata (Asha Bhosle, Udit Narayan)

Galway Girl (Ed Sheeran)

The Stranger (Fastway)

Mere Khwabon mein jo aye (Lata Mangeskar)

Meri zindagi mein Ajnabee (Kumar Sanu, Sunidhi Chauhan)

Stranger in my Arms (The Beatles)

Someone New (Hozier)

The Galway Girl (Steve Earle)

Zindagi bhar nahi bhoolegi (Mohammad Rafi)

I’ve just seen a face (The Beatles)

Ajnabi Kaun Ho Tum (Lata Mangeskar)

Ek Ajnabee Haseena se (Kishore Kumar)

Ajnabee Tum Jane Pehchane (Lata Mangeskar)

Page #2:

Karū Deta Śṛṅgāra

Ae Ajnabi (Udit Narayan, Mahalaxmi Iyer, from Dil Se)

Woh Ajnabee (Mithoon, Shilpa Rao)

Āza Kuṇītarī Yāve

The Seventh Stranger - Duran Duran

Ajnabi (Amit Trivedi)

Rājahaṃsa Sāṅgato (Asha Bhosle)

Rang birange phoolon ki daaliya

O khuda lover stranger

Beautiful Stranger (Madonna)

Page #3

Strangers in the Night (Frank Sinatra)

Mama told me (Ek Ajnabee)

Chalo ek baar phir se ajnabi ban jayen ham dono (Mahendra Kapoor)

Zindagi ke safar mein akele the hum (Mohammad Rafi)

Ajnabi Sheher Hai (Sonu Nigam)

Ek ladki bheegi bhaagi si (Kishore Kumar)

Do Anjaane Ajnabi (Udit Narayan, Shreya Ghoshal)

Wayfaring Stranger (Rhiannon Giddens)

Stranger (Jhené Aiko)

Page #4

Strangers (Kenya Grace)

Hello Stranger (Barbara Lewis)

Strangers (Sigrid)

Stranger in Moscow (Michael Jackson)

Anjaan koi, Nadaan koi (Mohammad Rafi)

Yeh Anjaan Raahein (Mohammad Rafi)

Kahin Aisa Na ho Tum Ajnabi (Mohammad Rafi)

Kehna hi kya, yeh nain ek anjaan se Jo mile (Hindi, A. R. Rahman, K. S. Chithra)

Kannaule (Telugu, A. R. Rahman, K. S. Chithra)

Kannalanae (Tamil, A. R. Rahman, K. S. Chithra)

Taal se Taal (Alka Yagnik, Udit Narayan)

Main Rahi Anjan Rahon ka (Mohammad Rafi)

Ajnabee (Raaj, from movie Superstar)

Page #5

Gumnaam hai koyi (Lata Mangeshkar)

Anjana Anjani (Monali Thakur & Nikhil D'Souza)

Ajnabee Ban Jaye (Mohit Chauhan, Shreya Ghoshal)

Begana (Kishore Kumar)

Padosiyon se na ankhiya milana (Mohammad Rafi)

Ek ladki ko dekha toh aisa laga (Kumar Sanu)

Kabhi Ajnabee The (Suresh Wadker, Lata Mangeshkar)

Ajnabi se bun ke karo na kinara (Lata Mangeshkar)

Aaja re Pardesi (Lata Mangeshkar)

Purab disha se pardesi ayaa (Lata Mangeshkar)

Mera Pardesi Na Aya (Lata Mengeshkar)

Bad Habits (Ed Sheeran)

Bam chik chik chan chik chik (Kishore Kumar)

Page #6

Stranger Things (One Republic, Kygo)

The Stranger Song (Leonard Cohen)

Blank Space (Taylor Swift)

Aaj Unse Pehli Mulaqat Hogi (Kishore Kumar)

Ajnabee Tum Lagte Nahin (Babul Supriyo, Sunidhi Chauhan)

Bidesia the stranger (Ustad Rashid Khan)

Ajnabee (Bhuvan Bam)

Page #7

Mile kahi do ajnabi, ho gayi un- mein Dosti (Kishore Kumar)

Maru noor chehra nu udi gayu

Aksar is Duniya mein anjane milte hai (Alka Yagnik)

Ajnabi hun mein, is jahan mein (Lata Mangeshkar)

We don't Talk anymore (Charlie Puth, Selena Gomez)

People You Know (Selena Gomez)

Ek Pardesi Mera Dil Le Gaya (Asha Bhosle)

Page #8

Ajnabi (Zebunissa Bangash)

Pehli Nazar Mein (Atif Aslam)

Kaun Disa Mein Leke Chala Re Batohiya (Hemlata, Jaspal Singh)

Ajnabi Shaher Mein Ajnabi Raaste (Ashok Khosla)

Tere Mere Beech Mein, Kaisa hai ye bandhan Anjana (Lata Mangeshkar, S.P.Balasubrahmaniam)

Pardesia Ye Sach Hai Piya (Lata Mangeshkar, Kishore Kumar)

Chehra Hai Ya Chand Khila Hai (Kishore Kumar)

Andekhi Anjaani si (Lata Mangeshkar, Udit Narayan)

Ajeeb Dastaan Hai Ye (Lata Mangeshkar)

Koi Hota Jisko Apna (Kishore Kumar)

Page #9

Ajnabi Hawayein (Shreya Ghoshal)

Yehi toh hai mere khwaon ka jahan (Sabita Chawdhury)

Ajnabee Koyee Kabhie (Asha Bhosle)

Jane Na Nazar, Pehchane Jigar (Lata Mangeshkar, Mukesh)

Bichade Huye Pardesi (Lata Mangeshkar)

Do pardesi Anjane se (Kishore Kumar, Suman Kalyanpur)

Tum toh thehre Pardesi (Altaf Raja)

Hum bhi the Anjane se (Asha Bhosle, Sudha Malhotra)

Page #10

Stranger (Diljit Dosanjh, Simar Kaur)

Jibone Ki Pabona (Manna Dey)

Sunshine (OneRepublic)

Page #11

Stranger Things have happened (Foo Fighters)

Stranger (Riley Roth)

She’s Strange(Cameo)

O Ajnabi mere Ajnabi - Sad (K.S. Chitra, K.K.)

Page #12

Ladki badi Anjani hai (Kumar Sanu, Alka Yagnik)

Bulleya (Amit Mishra, Shilpa Rao)

O Ajnabi mere Ajnabi - Happy (K.S. Chitra, K.K.)

Khuda hafiz- Anjani Anjana (Sunitha Sarathy, Lucky Ali, Karthik)

Kaisa ye pyaar hai (Sony TV OST)

Girl on a bus (Cliff Richard and the Shadows)

Dil ki girah khol do (Lata Mangeshkar, Manna Dey)

Page #13

Hayye woh pardesi mann mein kaun disha se aa gaya (Lata Mangeshkar)

Koi pardesi aaya pardes mein (Anwar)

Aagey bhi jaane na tu (Asha Bhosle)

Perfect Strangers (Deep Blue)

Na tum hame jano, na hum tumhe janen (Hemant Kumar, Suman Kalyanpur)

Yahan Main Ajnabee Hoon (Mohammad Rafi)

Bin Tere (Shafqat Amanat Ali, Sunidhi Chauhan)

Page #14

Ae Dil Mujhe Bata De (Geeta Dutt)

Humne Suna Hai (from Mere Yaar Ki Shaadi Hai)

Kaun Ho Tum (Abhijeet, Kavita Krishnamurthy)

Stranger in a Strange Land (Iron Maiden)

Killing Strangers (Marilyn Manson)

Mai Pardesi seedha saadha (Kishore Kumar)

Page #15

Pardesia itna bata sajna (Udit Narayan, Anuradha Paudwal)

Pardesi se pooch pooch ke (Sadhna Sargam, Sukhwinder Singh)

Pardesiyan tere desh mein (Mohammad Rafi, Sulakshana Pandit)

Pardesi Pardesi jana nahi (Alka Yagnik, Sapna Awasthi, Udit Narayan)

Anjani Rahon mein (Lucky Ali)

Pardesi Piya O Pardesi (Mohammad Rafi, Asha Bhosle)

Sajna tere pyar mein hum pardesi ho gaye (Alka Yagnik, Himesh Reshammiya, Udit Narayan)

Pardesi pardesi Aaya, Chahat ka sandesha laya (Kumar Sanu, Alka Yagnik, Sapna Awasthi)

I Don’t Know Why (Imagine Dragons)

Page #16

This is me trying (Taylor Swift)

Karte Hain Hum Pyaar Mr. India Se (Kishore Kumar, Kavita Krishnamurthy)

Kai Din Se Mujhe Koi Sapnon Main (Hemlata, Shailendra Singh)

Ajnabi kon ho ye batado jara (Sanjivani Bhelande, Sonu Nigam)

Shayad yahi toh pyar hai (Adnan Sami, Lata Mangeshkar, Samir)

Mausam mastana, rasta anjana (Asha bhosle, dilraj kaur, annette pinto)

Anjana Dil Kya Jane (K.K.)

Unmistakable (Backstreet Boys)

Kaun Aaya Ke Nigahon Mein Chamak Jaag Uthi (Asha Bhosle)

Page #17

Samne yeh kaun aaya dil mein hui halchal (Kishore Kumar)

Heathens (Twenty One Pilots)

Kaun hoon mein kya naam (Lata Mangeshkar)

Kaho Na Pyaar Hai (Alka Yagnik, Udit Narayan)

Koi Aaya Dhadkan Kahti Hai (Asha Bhosle)

Wonderland (Taylor Swift)

Page #18

list to be updated

(Repeated songs not included in the list)

(songs in red not on theme)

Song: Ajnabi Mujhko Itna Bata

Singers: Asha Bhosle and Udit Narayan

अजनबी, मुझको इतना बता

दिल मेरा क्यूँ परेशान है?

देख के तुझको ऐसा लगे

जैसे बरसों की पहचान है

कितनी भोली है तू, कितनी नादान है

दिल की बातों से अनजान है

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GbzslPe8X8

***

Song: Galway Girl

Singer: Ed Sheeran

I met her on Grafton street right outside of the bar

She shared a cigarette with me while her brother played the guitar

She asked me what does it mean, the Gaelic ink on your arm?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87gWaABqGYs

(the song’s about a chance encounter)

***

Song: The Stranger

Rock band: Fastway

Someone's knocking, on my door

Is a stranger, who said that she had been here before

But I never, never seen the look in such lies

The cold, story That never cry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKuDgUr6Ls8

Join in the party, folks

Song: Mere khwaon mein jo aye

Artists: Jatin-Lalit and Lata Mangeshkar

मेरे ख़्वाबों में जो आए

आके मुझे छेड़ जाए

मेरे ख़्वाबों में जो आए

आके मुझे छेड़ जाए

उससे कहो कभी सामने तो आए

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zxgvob1Ew0c

(dreaming about a stranger, although word is not used)

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Song: Meri Zindagi Mein Ajnabee

Singers: Kumar Sanu, Sunidhi Chauhan

वो अजनबी जाना पहचाना

सपनो मे उसका है आना जाना

आ अजनबी तेरे लिए, दिल यह मेरा बेकरार है

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yr4tT3OqOuo

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Song: Stranger in my Arms

Band: The Beatles

You're a stranger in my arms

When i saw you standing there

Without a wooly ho i hair

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CCyA90ZZJw

Join in the party, folks

https://youtu.be/bPJSsAr2iu0?si=0HAsxJ9FDcT95zgd

Someone New (Hozier)

Don't take this the wrong way,

You knew who I was with every step that I ran to you,

Only blue or black days,

Electing strange perfections in any stranger I choose.

...

I fall in love just a little, oh a little bit every day

Love with every stranger, the stranger the better

Song: Galway Girl

Singer: Steve Earle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Lcnvd8BNFE

Well, I took a stroll on the old long walk

Of a day-i-ay-i-ay

I met a little girl and we stopped to talk

Of a fine soft day-i-ay

And I ask you, friend, what's a fella to do?
Because her hair was black and her eyes were blue

And I knew right then, I'd be taking a whirl
Around the Salthill prom with a Galway girl

Lovely theme, T!

Are we allowed to post songs of love at first sight? Falling for a stranger so to speak?

Zindagi bhar nahi bhoolegi woh barsaat ki raat

Ek anjaan haseena se mulaaqaat ki raat

Film: Barsaat ki raat (1960)

Music: Roshan

Lyrics: Sahir Ludhianvi

Singer: Mohammad Rafi

https://youtu.be/Hw3Cy3wVg0I?si=GV1S-pxc5YEPvzDz

Originally posted by: LizzieBennet

Lovely theme, T!

Are we allowed to post songs of love at first sight? Falling for a stranger so to speak?

Thanks Liz! Yup, most definitely

I’ve just seen a face- The Beatles

Album: Help (1965) songwriters: Lennon/McCartney

https://youtu.be/m8LbJfC0SYM?si=lxQCqSH2Zj1TVD4l

Film : Swikar kiya meine

Lyrics: Nida Fazli

Music : Usha Khanna ji

Singer : lata m

https://youtu.be/qABW2aEj5mI?si=wkRv1vwQlHM204RX

Film: Ajnabi

Singer : Kishore

Music : Rahul dev b

Lyrics: Anand Bakshi

https://youtu.be/MlCeGfgPSvQ?si=oxy6yqOy-GgQmoiS

Ek Ajnabee...h... Mulakat...

Film : Hum Sab Ustaad hai

Lyrics: Asad Bhipali

Music : Laxmikant pyarelal

Singer : Lata ji version

https://youtu.be/Kxk21D1PNNk?si=DYilwZ6sRgIk4jrh