Jag Ja Re.....

 

Song: Jag ja re gudiya, misri ki puriya (Movie: Omakara - Singer: Sudesh Wadekar) Simple flow of lyrics.. fluidility in the singing... with a under current of music that gels into the theme of the song but also the broader framework of the movie. Whats amazing is that the background score in the song ranges from light instrumental (indian) to westernern classical. Suresh Wadekar following an indian semi-classical vocal style brings alive the soft spectrum of colors of dawn, ranging from the morning mist to the orange of the rising sun to the bright yellow shades of early morning.

Well... kind of funny but I have been labelled as a hopeless believer of romanticist (and adviced to start living life the more mundane way) and at the sametime I have people calling me a cold no-responsive person ( nee-raas). Whats even worse is that I tend to agree to both points of veiw... incorrigible me

Song: Boodein (Group: Silk Route).... koi ho yaado mein, palko pe boodein liye... nagma ho bheega as, ya tum ho koi gazal har pal jise gungunata rahu.....

Last evening was a frustrating experience in helplessness. A moment when all is gone. Hope, strength, fate... abandoned by all. This is not the first time I had this kind of experience, but have been struck by acute pain and paranoia innumerable times. This time I tried something different, just flowed with the feeling for sometime and let it grow till it almost overshadowed.. then instead of feeling intimidated just gathered all my courage and did something that even set me back for a moment.. I smiled... every tribulation comes with a time stamp and an expiry date.

Gazal: Deer lagi aane tumko (Singer: Jagjit Singh) shafak, dhanuk, mehbaat, ghataye, taare, nagme, bijli, phool, us daman mein kya-kya kuch hai... wo daman haath mein aaye to...

Gazal: Duniya jise kehte hai (Singer: Jagjit-Chitra) barsat ka badal to diwana hai kya jaane, kis raah se bachnaa hai, kis chat ko bhigona hai....

 

Hum to yun apni zindagi se mile

Chance encounters with oneself are a good experience. Good experience in living and realizing about so many things that surrond us, but we barely pay any attention and just let them slip.

Tonight would also have been no different, except for the fact that in the dead of the night I realized that I had skipped a proper dinner while on the way back to the PG accomodation in which I shifted last friday early morning. Actually on the way back from college had hogged on some snacks and after reaching home was too tired to again go out to eat. So after completing my marketing assignment and sulking about life in general, realized that in am DAMN HUNGRY and have no way out of this situation.

So as a survival strategy, first started with consoling myself....... “music is a wonderful healing medium” was the adage that I put to test. Reminded me of the 15 odd gazals that I had downloaded in my last Eco lecture. And the first one that played on the radomized playlist was my dear old favourite “Jhuki jhuki si nazar”.

Usually gazals are either about greif and sorrow or based on the deeply romantic themes. Two ends of the continum of emotions displayed in a relationship. I have gradually come to realize that there so many shades of life which also there to be experienced and lived that even a life is short span. But rarely are the intermediate subtle shades explored as beautifully as -

Jhuki jhuki si nazar, bekarar hai ki nahi... daba daba sa sahi dil mein pyar hai ki nahi

Tu apne dil ki jawa dhadkano ko gin ke bata... meri tarah tera dil beqarar hai ki nahi..... daba daba sa sahi......

Wo pal ki jisme mohabbat jawan hote hai... us ek pal ka tujhe intezaar hai ki nahi... daba daba sa sahi.....

Teri ummed mein thukra raha hu duniya ko.... tujhe apne pe aaitbaar hai ki nahi.... daba daba as sahi.......

Well the temp diversion certainley helped. I am starting with reading a soft copy of “One Minute Manager” which was pending in my list of to-read for a long time.

Omkara - Music to Ear

Ever since landed in Mumbai, with a brand new laptop. And absolutely no music on the hard drive (only the Pink Floyd CDs burned as backup longtime ago came to rescue) was having a very listless life. Then started the process of begging and arbit dumping of whatever I could find in English/Hindi/Instru. I have to yet to do a lot of sorting and as always direct most of the stuff in the recycle bin, but by also at the same time found some good albums which can be classified for long term listening.

Amongst the Hindi mp3s had a real assortment bombarded on me. Of the latest movie releases decided to dump three albums, Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna, Pyar Ke Side Effect and Omkara.

KANK proved to the most disappointing, except for Mitwa hardly anything to listen to both lyrically and musically.

Pyar Ke Side Effect for the peppy "Paape Pyaar Ka Ke"  

Omakara was movie which had some amazing cinematography. I vivdly remember the scene where Ajay Devgan gets into a fight in a brick clan, which immediately followed the title track of the movie. It was such a amazing piece of mastery over the medium of narration. The entire sequence still echoes in my mind as I am once again listening to the full toned title track, the precussion sounding so much like the traditional  nagada still used in parts to rural Uttar Pradesh. And the kind to energy put by Sukhvinder makes a real treat to listen to.

The song (O Saathe Re) has a surreal feeling to it, the lyrics have been tenderly laid making it a multi layered song full of depth and tenderness. And being a duet, lends it a fair bit of romantic appeal.

Beedi is a song written and sung in a typical raunchy way making it a full blast nautanki song, so typically of the kind of sounds/songs you hear in a village mela. Which also by the way reminds me of similar experiences that I have had first hand when I use to visit the dusshera melas around our native village as a kid.

The last song "Namak" has catchiness, teasing and at the same time highly metaphorical lyrics sung in a semi classical way by Rekha. Having touches of qawalli and sufi style to it makes it a good choice to not only end but actually complete the album. 

:-)

Wow... just banged into the website of this amazing band

http://www.indianoceanmusic.com/

whats more.... one can listen to there albums online as well.... made my day

Logical Progression

PINK FLOYD .............

what else ;o)

after a long-long time.... in the mood to absorb gyan......

picked up "The Monk Who SoldHis Ferrari" - Robin Sharma..... written in a typical yankee style. gyan-o-tainment, which clubs so many things together, well..... seven to be precise.

was reading the first gyan.... deals with a wonderful concept "positive thinking" however in a not so great way.... was reminded of "The Power of Positive Thinking"- Norman Vincent Peale

Change your thoughts and you change your world. All that and things like that..........

Agni - The Band

Last night the lyrics of the song "Man hi ti hai" from there legendry album Mrityunjaya kept haunting me.... until finally I woke up (to my dreams) and listened to it..... the effect that it left was again beyond words.... still tried to pen down something.... will share that, as soon as i come to terms with that and understand..... in the meantime, here is something that i would like to share.... go thru the lyrics and if possible listen to that song as well... trust me u'll never be the same.....

http://www.indiasoft.co.in/agni/default.asp

http://www.rsjonline.com/

cheers... for what i am.... in the mean while.......

a few parting lines.... which is probably from where it all started for me.......

The station is ominous at midnight
Hope is a dead letter

No local trains now
Long since departed

No way of getting back
To where you started

soo long............