हम भी गुज़र गए

Hum Bhi Guzar Gaye (हम भी गुज़र गए) is the fifth and concluding ghazal of Sufiscore's 'Lafz Bheege Hain' series, deliberately released on YouTube on 25 October 2023 — the death anniversary of poet-lyricist Sahir Ludhianvi, whom the video description credits as 'the inspiration behind this emotion-laden series'. Written by Ajay Sahaab, composed by Rajesh Singh, produced and arranged by Paras Nath, and sung by Pratibha Singh Baghel, the track brings the EP's fictionalized dramatization of the Amrita Pritam–Sahir Ludhianvi romance to its final phase, in which — per the official description — both figures have 'reconciled to the' passage of their unfulfilled love, looking back on it with acceptance rather than regret. The accompanying video, directed by Parasher Baruah, again stars Prachi Desai and Som Chattopadhyay. As the closing chapter of what the channel calls 'the much acclaimed and widely viewed' ghazal series, its official video has drawn over 10 million YouTube views.

Rajesh Singh's composition for the closing ghazal maintains the series' restrained, classically-rooted arrangement, letting Pratibha Singh Baghel's voice carry the extended, reflective couplets without dramatic escalation — fitting for a track meant to land as acceptance rather than climax. At over seven minutes, Paras Nath's production again favours space and pacing over pop-song compression, consistent across all five entries in the EP.

The ghazal's famous matla — 'hum bhi guzar gaye yahan kuchh pal guzaar ke, raatein thi qarz ki yahan din the udhaar ke' (we too passed through here, spending a few moments; the nights here were like debts, the days like loans) — frames existence itself, and by extension the poem's unfulfilled love, as something never fully owned, only ever borrowed and passed through. As the closing statement of the five-ghazal cycle, it resolves the earlier tracks' burning and self-questioning into a calmer, more accepting register — grief transmuted into a philosophical shrug at the transience of everything, love included.

As the final instalment of 'Lafz Bheege Hain', directed by Parasher Baruah and again starring Prachi Desai and Som Chattopadhyay as the fictionalized Amrita Pritam and Sahir Ludhianvi, Hum Bhi Guzar Gaye was deliberately timed to release on 25 October 2023 — Sahir Ludhianvi's death anniversary — closing the five-part video arc that had moved from the couple's initial intensity through heartbreak and self-questioning to this final stage of quiet reconciliation with the past.

Hum Bhi Guzar Gaye's official Sufiscore video has crossed 10 million YouTube views as the closing chapter of a ghazal series the channel itself describes as 'much acclaimed and widely viewed' — a strong result for an independent, non-film ghazal EP, and a fitting capstone given the song's deliberate release date tied to Sahir Ludhianvi's memory. Along with its companion tracks, it contributed to the wider critical attention 'Lafz Bheege Hain' received from Hindi and English-language music press.