various jingles of life… :)

For a few years… listening to music was limited to just sundays or maybe a song here and there… but thanks to jogging and lovely instruments like the mp3, ipod, mobile players I now get my full doze of music every morning 1 hour of it in the morning really gears me up for the whole day… every day a new rhythm takes me over giving renewed energy in each step… its amazing how energetically I keep climbing each step of a building or each step in the day with a new jingle on my lips… ! It surely feels AWESOME !!!

For all those who know me I am a tansen… I am always singing all the time humming some tune or the other, some song or the other… and I generally love all types of songs… infact I can at times not lay my hands on what kind is my most favourite… but then its not really required is it ????

I easily enjoy songs of Teesri Manzil or even Tridev !!! I love songs of Kabhi Kabhi & SilSila and I love Manbo No-5 too… I love Elvis and am a die hard fan of Brian Adams… I love Micheal Bolton and so do I love S.P. Balasubramaniam… I absolutely love the voice of Shania twain and then I think Sadhna Sargam has an equally sexy voice… Geeta dutt was an Icon who was never recognised, but regardless I love her voice way too much… I love Micheal Jackson too and Mukesh is the guy my voice resembles… . R. D. Burman was (is) one of the finest musicians of all time and a man ahead of his times for sure… I love Kishore and Kumar Sanu too… ! Actually !!!

Mohit Chauhan’s voice stirs the inside of my best mate… where as I feel the same for Shreya Ghosal’s voice… ! I love listening to some lovely classic songs like this :

and I even enjoy listening to Brian Adam’s ‘I wanna be your underwear…’ I do and thats the face of it… !!!!

I love wild music and I love soft, I love rock and I love ghazals, I love ballads and I love typical hindi songs… !!!

I love Atif in “Tera Hone Laga Hoon” and I love Rafi when he sings, “Kar chale hum fida, jaano tan saathiyo… ab tumhare hawale vatan saanthiyo…” I cannot love enough the song, ‘Pal’ by Kay Kay nor can I ever sing ‘lukka chuppi’ from ‘Rang De Basanti’ without choking with emotions…

Various songs appeal to me at various times…. there are loads and loads of songs and impossible to list them down… absolutely impossible… so many wonderful singers and so many wonderful musicians who make our life so much more livable thanks to their creativity…

Is there anyway you cannot like “Yeh kahan aa gayen hum” from Silsila.. no matter if you dont like Lata as a person… or can you find one person who cannot like, “Ajeeb Daastan hai yeh…” ?????

Be it Rishi Kapoor songs from ‘Hum kisi se kum nahi’ or ‘karz’ or songs by Yesudas or songs from movies made my Hrishikesh Mukherjee… one of my most favourite movie makers… songs of his movies had a distinct simplistic appeal to the common man I felt… !!!! I am sure he had a role to play in the songs… !!!

Now I have been randomly rambling about some of the songs that are keeping me engaged these days… I must and I really must tell you that I absolutely adore this new limca ad, not just is it the probably the most refreshing commercial I have seen… the song… and I dont know who has sung this song… but aaaaaaah that voice… who is she… ??? Please tell me !!!!

I am absolutely in love with the voice in this advertisement… I need to find her name and than the address to go and meet her… !!!!!!! I am once again falling in love….. !!!!!

This wasnt a planned post but since I had written a bit I ended up editing it slightly and putting it up… dont know what khichdi has been cooked.. nor do I know what I am trying to get at…. but if anything I just want to say I love music and thanks to the jogging escapades I am absolutely loving going back to listening music for full one hour… my ear phones are quite neat and the music in my ear phones is crystal clear providing me great energy to jog that one round extra… those 25 yards more… !!! They egg me on …

bewakufo… baaki chodo… mazaa looto !

 

I am an ardent fan of cinema and when I love movies… I love watching them over and over again.

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While I dont like completely illogical and impractical movies that question my intelligence… I dont always go to movies for just logics … its a wonderful world in the 3 hours of the cinema hall… I get totally involved and can mostly feel the stories… yes… I m a sucker if you might call me one… !

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So when Soha Ali Khan in Rang De Basanti says “Maar dalo use.. (defence minister)” I am with her and I get goose flesh as I get ready to pull the trigger,

when in Swades Geeta tells the NRI SRK, “Atleast I am trying to make this a better place… !” I echo her sentiments completely and feel the pride of being here !!

When Thakur in Sholay snarls at Gabbar and says, ” Gabbar, yeh haath nahi … faansi ka phanda hai… !”  I am totally compelled to believe so… !

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My family and my friends now all at times ridicule me and at every emotional scene turn to see me weep away… and I really couldnt care less… I have over come the awkwardness I used to feel earlier… I get choked with emotions when I try to sing Yeh jo desh hai tera… or Meri Maa Mumma song from Dusvidaniya or Maula mere le le meri jaan from Chak De ! Tears simply roll out at every slightest display of emotion whether its by a bearded SRK in Chak de or a fat Vinay Pathak in Dusvidaniya or Hritik in Lakshya when the confused young man points towards peak 5179 and fails to utter even a single word but just huffs and puffs emotions everywhere… I just cant help it…

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Two days in a row I saw 3 idiots and am still not content… I simply loved the movie… and nope, sorry boss but I cant bother to delve in the silly fault finding critics do… I simply loved it way too much to go into that… ! A guy is telling a story and has to use certain make believe elements, its cinema not a science experiment is it ?? Although he uses the same cliched jokes and techniques we all have used all our lives seeing it on screen being spoken at the most apt of times gives an amazing feeling of familiarity… its the connect the story teller establises with his audience… more so with me… !!! Watching the college and hostel days come alive this sucker for nostalgia absolutely adored the movie and so many memories just flashed by I cannot tell you !!!!

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This is cinema at its emotional and hilarious best !!!! If you havent seen this movie 3 idiots you must right away… this guy Hirani makes some really good movies and this is one you dont want to miss… !!! 

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Here is the best song of the movie in my view… what a tune and what wordings…. remembering the old college days and the old friends for whom we used to feel so wonderfully … just listen to this…

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my music sense is ummmm… the best !! ;)

Yipeeee !!!!!!!!!

Thanks to all you folks who voted… !!

the below movies were being debated in our house hold as to which movie had the best music album… where not one or two songs were the criteria.. but the entire album and I mean each and every song was a super hit along with the background score :

dad’s pick – CID

mom’s pick – Teesri Manzil

wife’s pick – Karz / Anand (then she decided to pull out anand as she didnt want her votes splitting) trying to be smart.. he he.. but to no avail…

bro’s pick – Khamoshi

Sil’s pick – Aaradhna

and my picks  - Abhimaan & Rang De Basanti

and the results are below !!!!!!!!!

Thanks to your votes… the issue is settled… I am sure they will cry foul… but they all bought the idea of conducting a poll… !!!!!!!!! and now they must ACCEPT the public ka RESULT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

These were the other movies that were listed by you all… !!!!

You cannot imagine the torture the rest of the family is now going to go through !!!!! Heee Haawwwww…

HEE HAW !!!!