is mod se jaate hain

How I love this song! I'm listening to this song after long time... and it's playing on and on and on.

The movie 'Aandhi' has another famous song 'Tere bina zindagi se', but this one is my favorite. Gulzaar's lyrics are simply awesome. I love the line 'Ye sochke baithi hun ik raah to woh hogi tum tak jo pahunchti hai'.

Listen to the song here.

Movie Name: Aandhi (1975)
Singer: Kishore Kumar, Lata Mangeshkar
Music Director: Burman R D
Lyrics: Gulzar

Is mod se jaate hain
kuch sust kadam raste kuchh tez kadam raahen
patthar ki haveli ko shishe ke gharaundon mein
tinkon ke nasheman tak is mod se jaate hain

Aandhi ki tarah udkar ik raah guzarti hai
sharmaati hui koi kadamon se utarti hai
in reshami raahon mein ik raah to woh hogi
tum tak jo pahunchti hai is mod se jaate hain
is mod se jaate hain

Ik dur se aati hai paas aake palaTti hai
ik raah akeli si rukti hai na chalti hai
ye sochke baithi hun ik raah to woh hogi
tum tak jo pahunchti hai is mod se jaate hain

Is mod se jaate hain
kuchh sust kadam raste kuchh tez kadam raahen
patthar ki haveli ko shishe ke gharaundon mein
tinkon ke nasheman tak is mod se jaate hain

Is mod se jaate hain

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Wow.. what a treat!!

woh kagaz ki kashti

"Yeh daulat bhi lelo,
yeh shoharat bhi lelo,
Bhale cheen lo mujhse meri jawani
Magar mujhko lautado bachpan ka saawan
Woh kagaz ki kashti, woh baarish ka paani."

I heard this ghazal by Jagjit Singh in the radio just now.

And this is my current mood too.

kurai onrum illai

I don't know much about Carnatic music. But I love music, in any form of it. That way I enjoy Carnatic music too; just the thing is that I don't know rather-boring technical info about it. I don't know why on earth there is this belief that Carnatic music is a 'class' thingy and one should have raaga-taaLa knowledge to enjoy it.

Now that the cynicism part is done, here is the story. I love this song called 'kurai onrum illai' by MS Subbulakshmi. It has got superb lyrics by Rajaji. Singer is telling Lord Vishnu that she doesn't have any kurai (korathe in Kannada, I don't know the English term for this, someone pls tell me), but then going on telling Him that he's not seen in front of her eyes.

I don't remember how I came to know about this song, many be thru one of my tamilian friends. I'd heard that MS' biography is titled 'kurai onrum illai', after this song. I also know that the term 'marai' in this song means 'veda'.

Listen to the song here.

Oh well, the song is in Raagamaalika, n Aadi taaLa. See, even I've become expert.

Add on: while you are the there, you might want to listen to JagadOddharana by Purandaradasaru. Usually classical singers are accused of tampering the lyrics to fit into the aalaapas n stuff, but MS does this Kannada song properly. Check out the way she pronounces '...uddhaarana' after long 'jagadO...'. Well, that's why she is a legend.

tunes, n thoughts

Typical working day. Me listening to music as usual. But gave a thought to the songs I was/am listening to, so here they are.

1. AdONa neenu naanu - PBS, Kasthurinivasa, & Rajkumar. Good combination. I like PBS. I feel he is better voice for Rajkumar even more than Rajkumar himself. I like Nee baMdu niMthaaga.. too.

2. Do pal - nice song from Veer Zaara, very melodious. Madan Mohan's old unused tunes were used in this movie. Sonu Nigam is good as ever in this song, but I am not too happy with Lata Mangeshkar. I know she's great singer and all that. But in Veer Zaara she sounds tired, it's time for her to get retired. I feel she doesn't do full justice to this romantic song. There are so many good singers on the block - Shreya, Kavitha, Sunidhi, Alka, n more. Even the great experienced lady needs some break.

3. Konja nEram konja nEram- this one is from Rajani's latest movie, Chandramukhi (i dunno whether the new movie 'Shivaaji' is released yet). It's good. I like Asha Bhonsle, she sounds flirtateous, romantic, n sensual in this song. (almost like Janaki, but no one can beat Janaki with her oomph songs.) Asha - Madhu Balakrishan pair has got this one right. It reminds me of those old duets of Jesudas n Janaki.

That's all. Now I'll go write that boring technical document, well not quite boring when the headphones are on. :-)

the song on friday morning

Another Friday morning here in Tehran (now don't think that morning means 8 am, no.. for me morning is 11.30 am on holidays). Sipping hot cup of coffee while admiring my own coffee-making skills, I was getting mentally prepared for the extensive cleaning job I was about to do. The house was dirty n needed some labour & attention.

As I started my work, it struck to me that I need some entertainment. I can't rely on TV for entertainment here, I can only watch BBC news in TV. So I plugged in my laptop thinking that I cud play some songs. Feeling lazy to take the cable off the telephone n connect it to laptop to connect to the net, I thought of managing without Kavitha, my favorite singer. So I searched for music in my hard-disk. One of my colleagues had copied some songs in my hard-disk, but I had never bothered to play those songs all these days.

I pressed Ctrl+A and clicked play button, increased the volume to max (so that I cud listen to the music in all the rooms) and went ahead with the cleaning work.

The first song started.. and I was... I don't know what i felt at that very moment. It was Rajkumar chanting "Poojyaaya Raghavendraaya". Rajkumar, who had been laid to rest just the previous evening back in Bangalore.

Whoever said he died? He was fully alive in my flat with that Raghavendra Bhakthigeethe that morning. In fact, artists worth remembering never die.

If only 'abhimaani devarugaLu' in Bangalore who turned the whole situation so violent the previous evening knew this truth...

the poem, the song, the melody

Yes, I am talking about my favorite singer Kavitha Krishnamurthy Subramaniam...

I was listening to her live in an interview on radio. And am feeling great about that! This lady rocks!! Even when she speaks it's like honey dripping out from her voice!!

I have these strange strong fanatic emotions for Kavitha. Her songs work as medicine for me when my mood is not upto the mark (for that matter any good music does that to you, but I told u, I am an ardent kavitha fan). She brings a smile on my face even in my worst-of-the-worst mood..

Right now I listened to my singer for full 3 hours and it was a feast!!!

Thank you Kavitha, you made my day.. and I know you will continue making many more of my days with your super, fantabulous, sweet (running out of adjectives here) voice :-)