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Category: Music

  • Kuch Is Tarah – Lyrics

    Brilliant song.

    कुछ इस तरह तेरी पलकें मेरी पलकों से मिला दे
    आँसू तेरे सारे मेरी पलकों पे सज़ा दे

    तू हर घड़ी हर वक़्त मेरे साथ रहा है
    हाँ ये जिस्म कभी दूर कभी पास रहा है
    जो भी ग़म हैं ये तेरे उन्हें तू मेरा पता दे

    कुछ इस तरह तेरी पलकें मेरी पलकों से मिला दे
    आँसू तेरे सारे मेरी पलकों पे सज़ा दे

    मुझको तोह तेरे चेहरे पे एह ग़म नहीं जंचता
    जायज़ नहीं लगता मुझे ग़म से तेरा रिश्ता
    सुन मेरी गुज़ारिश इसे चेहरे से हटा से

    कुछ इस तरह तेरी पलकें मेरी पलकों से मिला दे
    आँसू तेरे सारे मेरी पलकों पे सज़ा दे

    ~ Kuch Is Tarah – Atif Aslam ~

    You can also listen to the song here.

  • Black Friday

    I saw this movie quite a while back, but the scenes are still fresh in my memory. The gory scene just after the blast and the deformed bodies. The police torture scene and the man shooting himself and his family. The exploitation of angry Muslim youth by Tiger Memon and many more. Its hard to believe that the same director has actually directed Shaka Laka Boom Boom.

    The movie has been adapted by Anurag Kashyap from a book by Hussain Zaidi. The movie is fast paced and moves effortlessly form the past to the present and various scenes. The movie uses original names, from Tiger Memon to Dawood Ibrahim. No one has been spared, not the Muslims, not the Hindus, not the Police and not even Balasaheb Thakare. For once a hindi movie has called a spade a spade. The movie even manages to humanize the terrorists without actually pardoning them. As Ojas puts it here, “And that graffiti on the police station cell wall and that chase sequence… they have managed to catch even the minutest details.”

    The brilliant Kay Kay Menon, as Inspector Mario, speaks more from his eyes than his actions. The scenes with his dipping his head in a bucket of water, and giving the lady her spectacles back are just awesome. However, the movie’s best act goes to Pavan Malhotra as Tiger Memon. He has played his part exceptionally well. Tiger’s histerical shouting after his office is burnt down and his manipulation of the angry Muslim youth is spell binding. Also worth mention is a splendid performance by Aditya Srivastava as Badsah Khan. His potrayl of Badsah’s journey and the troubles during it make you sit up and take notice. His tussle scene with Yeda Yakub for his passport gets you to the edge of your seat. Overall the movie gets a 4.5/5 from me. A def must watch!!

    One complain with the movie. I think at points it has under used the music by Indian Ocean. The song Bandeh comes at the end, and is a masterpiece. I wish I hear them play it live once.

    अरे मंदीर ये चुप है, अरे मस्जिद है गुमसूम, इबादत थक पड़ेगी हो
    समय की लाल आँधी, कब्रिस्तान ये रास्ते, अरे लतपट् चलेगी हो

    अरे नींदें है ज़ख़्मी, अरे सपने है भूखे, की करवत फट पड़ेगी हो
    एह आंधी चोट तेरी, कभी की सुख जाती, मगर अब पाक चलेगी

    PS: What is it with guys and water. I personally feel so much better after a shower when I am depressed and also how sweet the rain feels at times.

  • Subtle lyrics be damned

    Sample these from “Leaving Beirut” – Roger Waters. By the way it is an awesome song!!

    Oh George! Oh George!
    That Texas education must have fucked you up when you were very small

    But now an Englishman abroad is just a US stooge
    The bulldog is a poodle snapping round the scoundrel’s last refuge

    Is gentleness too much for us
    Should gentleness be filed along with empathy
    We feel for someone else’s child
    Every time a smart bomb does its sums and gets it wrong
    Someone else’s child dies and equities in defence rise
    America, America, please hear us when we call
    You got hip-hop, be-bop, hustle and bustle
    You got Atticus Finch
    You got Jane Russell
    You got freedom of speech
    You got great beaches, wildernesses and malls
    Don’t let the might, the Christian right, fuck it all up
    For you and the rest of the world

  • Look at the stars

    I have been listening to Coldplay ever since I have returned from office today. Here are the songs that are playing in a loop.

    1. Trouble – “… I never meant to cause you trouble”

    2. Scientist – “Nobody said it was easy, No one ever said it would be this hard”

    3. Fix You – “When you get what you want but not what you need, When you feel so tired but you can’t sleep”

    4. Clocks – “Confusion never stops, Closing walls and ticking clocks
    Gonna, come back and take you home, I could not stop that you now know    ”

    5. Yellow – As Rahul says, “… making an ordinary colour seem so romantic“

    And I love how they refused to sell their songs to promote Coke and stuff. And I love them for being so U2ish.

  • DRM – Is it dead??

    Steve Jobs, for one, thinks that it is or at least thinks that it should. Sometimes I wished he blogged. Maybe like Jonathan Schwartz. But he does a pretty commendable job here.

    The third alternative is to abolish DRMs entirely. Imagine a world where every online store sells DRM-free music encoded in open licensable formats. In such a world, any player can play music purchased from any store, and any store can sell music which is playable on all players. This is clearly the best alternative for consumers, and Apple would embrace it in a heartbeat.

    Why would the big four music companies agree to let Apple and others distribute their music without using DRM systems to protect it? The simplest answer is because DRMs haven’t worked, and may never work, to halt music piracy.