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{{short description|1991 Indian Hindi song}}<br />
{{Distinguish|text=[[Yaara Silly Silly]], 2015 Indian film}}<br />
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{{Infobox song<br />
| name = Yaara Seeli Seeli<br />
| cover = Gulzar at Tera Bayaan Ghalib.jpg<br />
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| caption = Gulzar, the lyricist of the song<br />
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| artist = [[Lata Mangeshkar]]<br />
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| language = [[Hindi]]<br />
| released = 1990<br />
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| composer = [[Hridaynath Mangeshkar]] <br />
| lyricist = [[Gulzar]]<br />
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"'''Yaara Seeli Seeli'''" ({{Translation|This smouldering night of separation}}) is an Indian [[Hindi]] song from the Bollywood film ''[[Lekin...]]'' (1990). The lyrics of the song was written by [[Gulzar]]. the music was composed by [[Hridaynath Mangeshkar]] and [[Lata Mangeshkar]] was the playback singer.<ref name="Beaster-Jones2014">{{cite book |author=Jayson Beaster-Jones |title=Bollywood Sounds: The Cosmopolitan Mediations of Hindi Film Song |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gf1zBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA186 |date=9 October 2014 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-999347-5 |pages=186–}}</ref> The song fetched [[Lata Mangeshkar]] a national award (best female playback singer) and [[Gulzar]] a Filmfare award (best lyrics).<br />
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== Theme ==<br />
The song remembers the loved one. Neeraj Sharma in his book ''Gulzariyat - Gulzar's Songs: Discover What’s Beneath'' translated the first two lines of this song as: "The night of separation burns slowly like wet wood, neither complete ablaze nor wholly extinguished. It is more painful because this is neither complete death nor complete life, just hung in between."<ref name="Sharma2019">{{cite book |author=Neeraj Sharma |title=Gulzariyat – Gulzar's Songs: Discover What's Beneath |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MTqoDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT150 |date=8 August 2019 |publisher=BecomeShakespeare.com |isbn=978-93-88930-86-4 |pages=150–}}</ref><br />
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== Awards ==<br />
The song brought several national awards. Lata Mangeshkar won her third [[National Film Award for Best Female Playback Singer]] in 1990 for this song.<ref name="1991award">{{cite web |url=http://iffi.nic.in/Dff2011/Frm38thNFAAward.aspx |title=38th National Awards For Films (1991) |publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals |format=PDF|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131105174944/http://iffi.nic.in/Dff2011/Frm38thNFAAward.aspx |archive-date=5 November 2013}}</ref> Gulzar won a [[Filmfare Award for Best Lyricist]] (1992).<ref name="Filmfare Award Winners 1992">{{cite web |title=Filmfare Award Winners 1992 – 37th (Thirty Seventh) Filmfare Popular Awards |url=http://www.awardsandshows.com/features/filmfare-awards-1992-192.html |website=www.awardsandshows.com |access-date=26 December 2019}}</ref><ref name="Anantharaman2008">{{cite book |author=Ganesh Anantharaman |title=Bollywood Melodies: A History of the Hindi Film Song |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lmrSLuBwbKkC&pg=PA124 |year=2008 |publisher=Penguin Books India |isbn=978-0-14-306340-7 |pages=124–}}</ref><br />
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== References ==<br />
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== External links ==<br />
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{{Lata Mangeshkar}}<br />
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[[Category:Songs in Hindi]]<br />
[[Category:1991 songs]]<br />
[[Category:Songs written for Hindi-language films]]<br />
[[Category:Lata Mangeshkar songs]]<br />
[[Category:Songs with lyrics by Gulzar]]<br />
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