Warning: Apologies for going slightly off-track with this post but I guess it’s just one of those Mondays.
Since morning I must have heard the song “Tum Se Hi” from the film, Jab We Met just about a couple of hundred times. So obsessed have I got that I actually created a new playlist on my Zune with only this single number in it.
And yet, the obsession only seems to be growing (as a result of which, I am writing this post). What I find kind-off surprising is that when I saw the film, this particular song was nowhere in my favorite list; I was in fact hung up on the film’s peppier Bhangra number “Mauja Hi Mauja” sung by that ugly swine aka. Mika Singh.
Couple of days back while having an online conversation with my best friend (who will be in Mumbai very soon, yippee) I was re-introduced to this beautiful ballad, sung by the ever-impressive Mohit Chauhan (also known as the “Dooba Dooba” guy). She insisted that I pay more attention to the lyrics in order feel the real pulse, which I dutifully did and since then getting this song out-of-my-head has been practically impossible.
Na hai yeh pana
Na Khona hi hai
Tera Na hona jane
Kyun hona hi haiTum se hi din hota hai
Surmaiye shaam aati
Tumse hi tumse hiHar ghadi saans aati hai
Zindagi kehlati hai
Tumse hi tumse hiNa hai yeh pana
Na Khona hi hai
Tera Na hona jane
Kyun hona hi hai- Lyrics by Irshad Kamil
I guess what makes this song so effective is that it’s perfectly packaged – touching lyrics backed by surreal music (has a little bit of R&B artist Nelly’s smash hit “Dilemma” in it, so me thinks) and soothing vocals. It’s one of those compositions which make the entire experience of “falling in-love” sound so bloody attractive (even for cynical folks like myself) that you want to take a plunge in it, right this very minute. Ah! The power of Bollywood.
It’s weird no? You often hear people saying “It’s better to have been in-love once than to never have experienced it all” – even when it in-directly means heartaches, emotional dependence, separation, over-bearing mushiness and in some cases the dreaded ‘C’ word i.e. commitment. No wonder, the maximum number of chartbuster love songs are the ones that talk about its associated misery.
Anyway getting back to the song at hand – it’s a must on your MP3 list though I will admit it doesn’t help much in situations where you wake up one particularly chilly morning, feeling mushy-n-all but unfortunately there isn’t anyone insight ( or offsite) whose throat you could shove this all down in. Wokay…wokay! I realize that was crass but hey, you got the point na!
Chalo, I will end now hopefully you will have something interesting to add to my otherwise blah-blah thoughts.
And as they say “YouTube zindabad”, check out the video of “Tum Se Hi”.
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