Monday, May 26, 2008

In Praise of a song...

I love the song .."awarapan banjarapan" in Jism. Love means reallly really really love. I mean the kind of love that makes u drink countless cup of stupid coffee at cafe cofee day just because they have a wonderfull bose system which does justice to this song.
The thing that strikes me hardest in the song is that its a bike song..I mean that its a song i wud love to hear when i am cruising on a long stretch of desolate highway. And hear it over and over again..coaxing the last drop of acoustic nirvana from this sonorous classic.
The soundscape it creates is that of vast expanse of mountains and clear skies with a smattering of dull sunlight ...with clear water flowing through and you reading the words as they float thru the empty sky.
Its a song thats a remorse and a beautiful remorse at that....I stand by the fact that there is nothing more beautifull than pain and nothing more touching than remorse. And wat can be more touching than simple and heartfelt remorse which is personal and does not cry for an audience. Sadness is a theatre whose tragedy is enhanced by lack of audience. And the sadness of a violin orchestra..crying out in symphony..ah ...who can resist it..Who wants to resist it.

This song rejects an audience. When I listen ,I listen it in the solitude of myself. The song is like a shadow...beautiful in its outline..fleeting but scared of light...
There is a kind of foolishness in that song which makes it a typical bachelor song ..its a song for those people who never allowed themselves to grow up ...never lost a reason to drink from cup of life. ... never felt afraid to admit that although they fought the hardest..they lost..
And its the loss that this song celebrates...mourns and wails ....
And also the fight that is lost..and the sheer desperation of the fight ... this is what gives it that heady taste....
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" Ye dunia hi jannat thi..ye dunia hi jannat hai...
Sab kuch kho kar..aaj ye hum par bhed khula hai seene main..."

"Khanjar pe haathon pe lakeere..koi bhala kya likh paaya..
Humne magar ek pagalpan mein ..khud ko chala hai seene mein.."
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