हवा के जैसा गुज़र गया वो

Hawa Ke Jaisa Guzar Gaya Wo (हवा के जैसा गुज़र गया वो) is the third ghazal in Sufiscore's acclaimed five-part 'Lafz Bheege Hain' series, released on YouTube on 29 September 2023. Written by celebrated Urdu poet Ajay Sahaab, composed by Rajesh Singh, produced and arranged by Paras Nath, and sung by classical-trained vocalist Pratibha Singh Baghel, the song forms part of a concept EP that dramatizes the real, unfulfilled love story between Progressive Writers' Movement figures Amrita Pritam and Sahir Ludhianvi, as Pritam recorded in her memoir 'Rasidi Ticket'. The accompanying video, directed by Parasher Baruah and starring Prachi Desai and Som Chattopadhyay in a 1950s–60s period setting, narrates 'the simmering aftermath of a broken relationship' — a stage where every moment still burns, yet the couple finds the courage to smile and carry on. The track has drawn a large audience for a niche ghazal release, with its official Sufiscore video crossing 17 million YouTube views.

Rajesh Singh's composition keeps the arrangement spare and classically rooted, giving Pratibha Singh Baghel's Hindustani-trained voice room to carry the ghazal's long, unhurried lines without ornamentation crowding the grief in the text. Paras Nath's production favours acoustic textures over contemporary sheen, consistent with the series' stated aim of presenting 'centuries-old ghazal tradition... with a modern, minimal twist' rather than a full pop reinvention — the track runs close to eight minutes, allowing the melody to breathe across multiple shers rather than compressing into a radio-length hook.

Ajay Sahaab's ghazal opens on a matla of fire and disappearance — the beloved sets the poet's heartbeat ablaze 'in the colour of a spark's dance' and, by turning him into a smouldering desert, passes through his world and is gone. The title's central image, borrowed from a later sher in the same ghazal, compares the lover's exit to the moment dawn breaks: like the night breeze that dies out with the first light, he simply extinguishes himself and disappears — a classical Urdu figure of speech (hawa ke jaisa guzar jaana) for a presence too fleeting to hold onto, reframed here as the emotional register of Sahir Ludhianvi's own restrained, distant love.

Lafz Bheege Hain is Sufiscore's five-ghazal video series imagining the tumultuous, unconsummated romance of Amrita Pritam and Sahir Ludhianvi, the poets whose real-life bond Pritam chronicled in her 1977 autobiography 'Rasidi Ticket'. Directed by Parasher Baruah and shot in a period 1950s–60s aesthetic across locations evoking colonial-era India, the series casts Prachi Desai and Som Chattopadhyay as the pair. As the third instalment, 'Hawa Ke Jaisa Guzar Gaya Wo' arrives after the opening title track and 'Duniya Ke Dar Se', marking the stage where the relationship has already fractured and the video's narrative dwells on its lingering aftershocks rather than its beginning.

For a modern ghazal release outside the mainstream film industry, Hawa Ke Jaisa Guzar Gaya Wo has performed exceptionally well, with its official Sufiscore YouTube video crossing 17 million views — a figure that places it among the most-watched entries in the independent ghazal-revival space of the 2020s and reflects the wider critical attention the 'Lafz Bheege Hain' series received from outlets covering Hindustani classical and ghazal music, including MusiCulture and Rolling Stone India.