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Category: Music

  • Long Weekend

    Tomorrow I would be taking a day off while being in Gurgaon after almost 1 year. Last time I did so was around December last year. Rahul is coming to Gurgaon and tomorrow also happens to be his birthday, so I plan on spending the day with him doing nothing in particular.

    Day after we (me, Rahul and Bansal, TK might join) head to Jaipur to attend the marriage of a close friend, Abhijeet “Joy” Choudhury. Though sometimes irritating he is a genuinely nice chap and has been a great friend through and after my BITSian life.

    Meanwhile, high on my list of songs now is Def Leppard – Long, Long Way To Go. This is one melodious song. Also playing a lot nowadays is Coldplay – Clocks. A beautiful, though haunting at times, song it is right on the top of my list of songs from Coldplay along with Trouble, Scientist, Yellow and Speed of Sound.

  • Kamal Hai!

    Quillpad is an online transliterator (complete with AJAX and the works, with a very Web2.0 feel) which I have started liking immensely. An Indian startup, it does a pretty decent job and provides you a very very clean and simple interface. It also supports Kannad, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi and Malayalam. Below is a sample, lyrics of the song Tere Bin from Bas Ek Pal. Since my Hindi is not great I do not know if the spellings are alright but they seem decent.

    तेर बीन मैं यूँ कैसे जीया
    कैसे जीया तेरे बीन
    तेरे बीन मैं यूँ कैसे जीया
    कैसे जीया तेरे बीन
    लेकर यादें तेरी रातें मेरी कटी – 2
    मुझसे बातें तेरी करती है चाँदनी
    तन्हा है तुझ बीन रातें मेरी
    दीन मेरे दीन के जैसे नही
    तन्हा बदन तन्हा है रूह नाम मेरी आँखें रहे
    आजा मेरे अब रूबरू
    जीना नही बीन तेरे
    तेरे बीन मैं यूँ कैसे जीया
    कैसे जीया तेरे बीन
    तेरे बीन मैं यूँ कैसे जीया
    कैसे जीया तेरे बीन

    क़ब्से आँखें मेरी राह में तेरे बिच्छी – 2
    भूले से ही कही तू मील जाए कभी
    भूले ना मुझसे बातें तेरी
    भीगी है हैर पल आँखें मेरी
    क्यूं साँस लूं क्यूं मैं ज़ीयू
    जीना बुरा सा लगे
    क्यूं हो गया तू बेवाफ़ाा मुझको बता दे वजह
    तेरे बीन मैं यूँ कैसे जीया
    कैसे जिया तेरे बीन …
    तेरे बीन मैं यूँ कैसे जिया
    कैसे जीया तेरे बीन …

  • The Day The Music Died

    A quiz, sent by Sandeepan (ex-BITSian) yesterday, had a connect for Don McLean with American Pie and Vincent Van Gogh. While I figured outthe Vincent connect, Ojas knew the American Pie one.

    But February made me shiver,
    With every paper I’d deliver,
    Bad news on the doorstep…
    I couldn’t take one more step.
    I can’t remember if I cried
    When I read about his widowed bride
    But something touched me deep inside,
    The day the music died.

    McLean was a paperboy in his youth, and the incident is about the death of Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and The Big Bopper in a plane crash on February 3, 1959. Since all three were so prominent at the time, the day came to be known as “The Day The Music Died“. Holly’s recent (widowed) bride, Maria Elena, was pregnant when the crash took place; she had a miscarriage shortly afterward.

    The lines were also used by Time in December 1980, on the death of John Lennon. The song has many more references to both political and musical events during the life of Don McLean. You can read more about it here.

    Also came across two new songs yesterday. Linger – Cranberries and I Can’t Tell You Why – Eagles. The latter has beautiful lyrics and below are my favourite lines from the song.

    Nothing’s wrong as far as I can see
    We make it harder than it has to be
    and I can’t tell you why

  • Rock On!

    There is something about U2 that I just love and also believe that most other do. I mean there are very few people who like music and do not like U2.

    They have been one of my favourite bands and their songs amongst my top 10 always. With  or without you, City of blinding lights, Sometimes you can’t make it alone, Elevation, Mothers of the disappeared, and so on and so forth. The latest addition to the list of U2 songs I adore is “Walk On“.

    And love is not the easy thing
    The only baggage that you can bring
    Love is not the easy thing
    The only baggage you can bring
    Is all that you can’t leave behind…

  • Tera-Tera-Tera

    I was watching MTV yesterday (after ages) and happened to watch a nonsensical 5 minute long promo. The first thing to strike me was the title of the movie “Aap Kaa Surroor – The Moviee – The Real Luv Story” (at this point I was trying hard not to fall off my seat, laughing as hard as I was).

    Indian movies and soap operas have for long murdered Hindi and English going overboard in the usage of extra alphabets in their titles and names to conform to some numerology shit!! The first one I remember is Suniel Shetty. I am pretty hazy however, when it comes to remembering what effect it had on his career or acting skills. Since then a huge number of actors have tried changing their names to varying degrees of success. KEkta Kapoor brought the practice to the silver screen and set another height by naming a Star TV soap as “Kkusum”.

    But this is breaking ground stuff!! I mean Moviee. The lengths they would go to ensure the sucess of a movie, other than ensuring a decent cast. Did I happen to mention that the lead actor here is none other than Himesh Reshammaiya and the entire promo is shot like a pop video rather than a movie!!

    Next thought in my mind was, what will happen if they need a comic scene? Himesh baba, as far as I know, can barely manage a smile, let alone a laugh (I think he should start using Close Up, the ad jingle matches his voice). Also, I was thinking of a probable climax scene. Himesh slowly (the camera zooms in from different directions at this moment) lifting up his cap and revealing “What lies beneath“.

    A must read here. An article on IndiaGlitz. Sample the lines below:

    The rock star is back.

    …

    One of the best shots of the promo come a few seconds later as freeze frames of traffic moving down the road are shown with Reshammiya looking at it from the top in his usual pensive mood.

    …..

    One of the best shot sequences for a video arrives when he walks down the stairs of a monumental building that appears to be a historic site or an educational institute from the West.

    Disclaimer:

    This post is not a rant against the Himesh baba. This post is not a rant against his pathetic voice. This post is not a rant against his cap, pensive look or the now overgrown beard. This post is not a rant against a mindless 5 minute long promo for his upcoming debut movie. This post is not a rant against him being the protagonist in what is being touted as the most expensive Hindi movie ever made.