The recent Madhuri Dixit film Aaja Naachle has an impressive concluding number that retells the story of Layla and Majnu (or Leila and Medjloom, in Sayat Nova’s poetry), the romance of the lovers Layla and Qays.  Watch the whole thing.  Here is my translation of Shat mart kose from earlier in the year, in which Sayat Nova drew […]