Nargissi Nargissi...

So just another day i when i was taking my quick evening nap, Dad storms into my room to get me flowers.. but this time it was different.. coz the flower itself was different. And before giving them, he says a dialogue:

"हजारों  साल  नर्गिस  अपनी  बेनूरी  पे  रोती  है

बड़ी  मुश्किल  से  होता  है  चमन  में  दिदाह-ए-वर  पैदा!"

 In my semi-slumber state i confuse the dialogue to be from the movie Mughal-e-Azam.. but then I figure out it's none other than Pakeezah. ahh...well, both are dad's absolute favourites and we've watched them together over zillion times! Nevertheless i do eventually get the beautiful Nargis flowers... overpowered by its fragrance, i put them in my bedroom. So officially i declare it as my favourite flower: Nargis. 

The poetry is by Sir Dr. Allama Iqbal and the movie Pakeezah ends with this dialogue in Kamal Amrohi's voice... =)

"Hazaron Saal Nargis Apni Benoori Pe Roti Hai
Badi Mushkil Se Hota Hai Chaman Mein Didahwar Paida"

For a thousand years the narcissus has been lamenting its blindness;
With great difficulty the one with true vision is born in the garden.

In White and yellow: Nargis

 23.1.12

24.1.12: Oh My! revelation! :) =/ just discovered that the Nargis flower is nothing but a variant specie of the flower-Narcissus or more commonly called DAFFODILS!

For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils...

-William Wordsworth!

oh! aren't they just soo beautiful?! =) sigh.

source: Dr Allama Iqbal poetry
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