as i write this post on a chilly, breezy, cloudy...in short a typical winter evening...the 1st thing that comes to my mind is to extend to you, my reader, a very warm and a cosy welcome...
hello again...
it has been a real long time since i created this blog of mine but unfortunately couldn't write anything substantial...
so breaking all shackles, here i am...opening a tiny window of my humongous world, exclusively for you...
honestly, i haven't yet decided what i'm going to write about - but let's see...
accha, let me share with you one incident that happened exactly 3 hours ago...
i was sitting in my Effective Pubic Speaking class when all of a sudden my cell-phone rang...i had apparently forgotten to put the stupid thing in the silent-mode...those of you who know me well might have caught the story...
well my ring-tone isn't any other tune...its a song...you might wonder what's so damn special about it? many people have a sing-tone...to clear your doubts mams and sirs...
my sing-tone isn't any 'ordinary' song...
its one of the biggest hits of 2009...
great!!!
Kambakht Ishq?? Dhan-te-naan??? Tera Hone Laga Hoon???
NO
it goes like 'Mann ka Radio...'
did you laugh just now? or did you just flinch in disgust??
no no, don't get me wrong...i'm not making up any situation but merely restating what happened today in the class...
man that was embarrassing...
however this is not the only incident...in-fact such incidents have happened umpteen number of times...
whenever my phone rings people around me react as if i abused them in the most crude-uncivilized-blatant way...
why do you think it happens? is it the song?? is it really bad? miserable to such an extent that listening to it once makes you feel as if you sinned???
or going the other way round, is the brand that's associated with it is the cause of trouble??
whatever the case is...the fact remains that its sad...
receiving such extreme reactions for a song that's so beautiful in melody, so meaningful lyrically is actually sad...
my dear friend, as i write this post, let me raise a question, one small question...
does following Himesh Reshammiya make me any inferior to what i am had i followed AR Rahman??
or does admiring Himesh Reshammiya taint your 'classy-metropolitan-urban' personality??
well if that's the case, i sympathize with you! i pity your narrow mind! my condolences to your 'classy-urban' living!
living with a bias is certainly not my way of living- even if it makes me any 'less superior' to you...but honestly you can't deny the fact that you do miss on to some of the really beautiful things in life- music for example...
i was always biased against Western-Music till a few months back, when some-one introduced me to the 'real' western music...and i must admit that today i really appreciate the acoustics and the metal and the funk that it has...
i know many people around me, laugh at me when they hear that this bloke actually idol-worships Himesh Reshammiya...
i know that none of my friends actually like Himesh Reshammiya...not even one...
i know how many times i've argued with them to prove that Himesh Reshammiya songs are not a piece of crap, that he remains the only Indian to have performed at the Wembley(though some music 'buffs' don't even know what Wembley is!) in front of CAPACITY crowd, how he remains the only Indian composer after Rahman to have sold more than 15 million tapes, how he remains the only Indian composer to have given 36 chartbusters in a span of 6 months(which remains the unfulfilled dream of any other composer, even Rahman for that matter) and how after all of these and many other virtues Himesh Reshammiya is not a bad artist...
i do feel bad when people around me laugh at me, but not for long...because it is my choice after all...and i'm proud of my choice...i've not done anything wrong...and as long as i'm happy, no one in this big-bad world can make me feel bad or feel low...
Mann ka radio- Bajne de zara!!!
this is perhaps the first article written by me, which is going to be christened after its over
Let it be called 'Being Myself"
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Thank you for being with me...
I won't request you to post in a comment, but would sincerely appreciate if you do that...
Take Care,
Godric...
