“ये मोह-मोह के धागे तेरी उँगलियों से जा उलझे”
About the song “Moh Moh Ke Dhaage”
The song “Moh Moh Ke Dhaage” from the film Dum Laga Ke Haisha, composed by Anu Malik, penned by lyricist Varun Grover, soulfully sung by Papon, and starring Ayushmann Khurrana, was released on Yash Raj Music and won the 2015 National Award for Best Lyrics.
The song is set where two unlikely souls are brought together by family, yet divided by their own inhibitions and insecurities. The melody emerges in moments of hushed longing and growing affection, as Prem and Sandhya navigate the awkward silences, unspoken apologies, and fragile new beginnings of their married life.
The song is a soft confession—threading together yearning, innocence, and hope. The lyrics speak of invisible, fated threads (dhaage), softly binding hearts in ways words cannot describe. Heartbreak is soothed by newfound trust, and ordinary lives are lit with the quiet magic of belonging.
The invisible red cords of fate!
These invisible red cords—
of fate, of love and longing—
spun in the soul, in silence,
are entangled in your playful fingers.
To cross these troubled tides,
no path shines clear;
it feels like an elusive dream,
untying this sacred knot.
All the light within me
has turned to gleaming stars,
floating weightless, wandering free,
sailing through silver clouds afar.
The invisible red cords of fate!
Some gentle, wondrous madness
surely must have led you on,
to choose this starry soul
and claim it as your own.
You are the warmth of day,
aglow with grace and hope.
While I am the promise of night—
let us meet in the arms of twilight.
The invisible red cords of fate!
My heart, once battered and aching,
now dances—hopeful and winged.
Like a letter long lost, resting at last
in your newly found address—now mine.
We wander the long, empty roads,
with eyelids resting against the dark.
We arrive where distance has no name—
together, aimless—but never alone.
The invisible red cords of fate!
“We led by silent wishes and dreams left untold.”
Caseta Caelum 