"Dard-e-Disco" was a hit Hindi-Urdu song from the 2007

Bollywood films of 2007

Films produced by the Bollywood film industry based in Mumbai in 2007:-Highest grossing:The top ten grossing films at the Indian box office in 2007.-2007:-External links:* at the Internet Movie Database...

 Bollywood

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 musical film

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, Om Shanti Om. The refrain, Dard-e-Disco (pain of the disco

Disco

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), though essentially meaningless, was modeled after Persian

Persian language

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-derived terms traditionally used in song and poetry in the Indian subcontinent

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 such as Dard-e-Dil (pain of the heart) and Dard-e-Muhabbat (pain of love). The song was attacked for being "meaningless", "insane", and "odd", but also called "red-hot", "addictive" and "contagious".

Dard e Discos structure and lyrics are a blend of "old-school" Indian style with an "Arabic flavor". It was sung by Sukhwinder Singh

Sukhwinder Singh

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, written by Javed Akhtar

Javed Akhtar

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, composed by the Vishal-Shekhar

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 duo and picturized on Shah Rukh Khan. The song was reportedly triggered by a conversation between choreographer Farah Khan

Farah Khan

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 and producer Gulshan Kumar

Gulshan Kumar

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 in which Gulshan Kumar said that "only two types of songs sell - dard bhare gaane (songs of sadness) and disco", leading Farah Khan to demand a song that combined the two. Farah Khan later said that initial intent was to picturize the song on Shakira

Shakira

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.

Dard e Disco rapidly rose in popularity, despite it being ridiculed by many critics for including meaningless doggerel

Doggerel

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, and dominated radio station charts when it initially came out.

Each verse in the song ends with the refrain dard-e-disco. In this verse, chhabis ko (on the twenty-sixth) appeared to have been included simply because it rhymes with disco, an example of the approach that was called "audacious" for how it blatantly put seemingly random words together into a song.

Example verse

Each verse in the song ends with the refrain dard-e-disco. In this verse, chhabis ko (on the twenty-sixth) appeared to have been included simply because it rhymes with disco, an example of the approach that was called "audacious" for how it blatantly put seemingly-random words together into a song.

Hindi Hindi Standard Hindi, or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi, also known as Manak Hindi , High Hindi, Nagari Hindi, and Literary Hindi, is a standardized and sanskritized register of the Hindustani language derived from the Khariboli dialect of Delhi...	Transcription	English translation
लम्हा-लम्हा अरमानों की फ़रमाईश थी लम्हा-लम्हा जुर्रअत की आज़माईश थी अब्र-ए-करम घिर-घिर के मुझ पे बरसा था अब्र-ए-करम बरसा तो कब मैं तरसा था फ़िर तू न हुआ मंज़र मेरा वो मेरा सनम दिलबर मेरा दिल तोड़ गया मुझे छोड़ गया वो पिछले महीने की छब्बिस को दिल में मेरे है दर्द-ए-डिस्को	lamhā-lamhā armānon ki farmāish thi lamhā-lamhā jurrat ki azmāish thi abr-é-karam ghir-ghir ké mujh pé barsā thā abr-é-karam barsā to kab main tarsā thā phir tu nā huā, manzar mérā wo mérā sanam, dilbar mérā dil tor gayā, mujhé chhor gayā wo pichhlé mahiné ki chhabis ko dil mein méré hai dard-é-disco	Every second, desires presented their demands Every second, daring/courage was tested The rain of generosity surrounded and poured down on me And when that rain was falling, when did I ever pine? Then, you were no longer in my view Her, my darling, my sweetheart She broke my heart, she left me On the twenty-sixth of the last month In my heart is the pain/hurt of the disco