Wednesday, September 16, 2009

The Music of Rain..

I tend to get caught with a topic while blogging (i.e. when I do blog!!!) ... when I write about coffee I am drowned in it, when I write about travels, I am lost in it and now that I just wrote about Rain.... looks like I am going to get drenched in it.

On a lighter note this time, with an attempt not to write the part 2 of the previous tale....is about this song...which I consider as one of the best songs written and picturized describing 'Rain'...It goes Rhim Jhim gire saawan .. sulag sulag jaaye mann...bhige aaj is mausam mein, lagi kaisi ye agan....

.......Many years ago, I heard this song from my room while my mother was playing this on her favourite stereo in her room... I loved it instantly. It was the Kishor Kumar version of the song (which I thought was the only one), I remember playing it over and over again to learn the lyrics.....it was a simple song.... no heavy lyrics, not the greatest tune yet had an ease about it, seems like he has sung it so effortlessly....it definitely has a feel good factor...It used to take me back to a rainy day and my own imagination of having a good time.

However, I saw the video of the song much much later and well! It was a female voice, that of Lata Mangeshkar, but the video bowled me over.....I loved it all over again.
Today, I love both versions of the song and the videos, however the one which is picturized in the streets of Mumbai with the Rain is the closest to my heart and remains as one of my most favourite videos... it makes me feel happy and doesn't fail making me smile.

4 comments:

  1. nice very nice,felt real good reading your blog,keep going.

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  2. Wow!!!! It is a heart touching thought. It is really appreciative article. Keep it up guys........
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  3. Your article on rain is soul-stirring. Took me down the memory lane. Many thanks. I'd love to share with your readers a poem inspired by rain:

    The Music of Rain

    It's only when I'm enclosed
    in my walls that I can hear
    the music of rain
    pattering upon my window
    and my eyes keep track
    of the water drops
    making and unmaking
    patterns of streams
    and in my soul I see
    a slender ash
    dripping.

    CR Mittal, 'Aches of Heart',
    Calcutta: Writers Workshop, 1988.

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  4. I recently saw the movie... I like that song... Its very soothing

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