The Music Tag !

The reason for not writing this post so long…………………First time in the ten years of using computers, last Monday the hard disk of my three years old dear laptop crashed down. Apart from my valuable data of accounts, mails, contacts, documents, files, precious photographs and my effortful collections of around 10GB music data was vanished without any traces of smoke. And there was not at all back up by yours truly. So you can imagine, even the idea of music was sending shivering waves inside me.

The reason of writing this post now………………. One of not at all old friend Rajinder voluntarily offered a helping hand to make try retrieving data from the damaged disk and kept trying for so many days, keeping me dangling in between hope and disappointment. On the other hand, the entirely empty and formatted new hard disk in my laptop was giving feelings like mocking me until yesterday when Rajinder called and informed me cheerfully that he has not only retrieved the whole data but made the disk working like new again. So now when I have found my precious belongings back and a sharp lesson to keep back up of valuable data, after creating a back up, writing this post was my immediate second action.

Juneli rightly wrote while tagging me that I love ‘senti’ songs. Simply cause I am senti person. I love music, good music I mean. My philosophy of music is that the sound should reach your heart and not feet. Though different moods would differentiate my favorite list but in general I like classical, Sufi, slow and easy listening. Surly I love to sing loudly some fast numbers too when in juvenile mood.

Being Gemini, a sign of versatility, I wanted to have mastery in endless fields, (but always end up with the apt proverb ‘jack of all, master of none’) music is one of them. My liking or disliking of songs came from mind and heart mostly. It could be good wording, good music by any known or unknown singing artist. That’s why sometimes I love to mumble even TV commercials, no matter even if they are single lined. The one these days I like very much is ad of Reliance mobile phone’s "Baatton baatton main rang aa gaye hain, jab se baatton main rang chaa gaye hain." There are many other ads I love to sing along since my childhood.

Here I wanna frankly accept that mostly I can’t keep exact and accurate track of songs by their lyrists or composers but by their singers. I adore classical or Sufi singers and always try to sing along those songs. As I wrote in my profile, it is very very difficult for my to list down a few numbers or singers I like most or I could classify. The list keeps on shuffling and adding. But still I am trying my best to complete this post.

Your favorite lyricist and lyrics you remember the most.


Again a difficult question, there are endless those people who have written marvelous poems. To name a few:

Gulzar,
Pardeep
Shailander
Sahir Ludhianvi
Indeevar
Neeraj
Majrooh Sultanpuri
Kamal Amrohi
Kafi Azami

Shakeel Badayuni
And many many more

Your favorite song on friendship

Diye Jalte Hain..... by Kishore Kumar in NamakHaraam

Best song(s) portraying life’s emotions:

O Manjhi Re.......Kishore in Khooshbau
Tujh Se Naraz Nahin Zindgi.......Lata in Masoom

Which song you are humming today:

Not only today but since past some days.

In Dino.......from Movie ‘Life in a metro’ sung by Soham and music by Pritam.

Also playing at my page.

One song which bring tears to your eyes:

There are many.

Wahan Kon Hai Tera Musafir.......SD Burman in Guide
Jane Woh Kaise Log The Jin Ke.......Manna Dey in Pyassa
Main Shayar Badnaam.......by Kishore Kumar in Namak Haraam
Jab Dard Nahin Tha Seene Main.......Kishore Kumar in Anurodh
Koi Hota Jis Ko Apna.......Kishore , Gulzar and Salil Da in Mere Apne
Kasme Wade Pyar Wafa Sab........Manna De In Upkar
Chamkte Chand ko.......Ghulam Ali in Aawargi

A song which gives you hope, a reason to try again and again, a reason to say that life is beautiful:

Chala Jata Hoon........by Kisore Kumar
Khoya Khoya Chand......by Mohd Rafi

When you want to be with yourself, silent and content with music, which song would that be ?

Jalte Hain Jis Ke Liye......by Talat Mahmood in Sujata
Chord Aaye Hum Woh Galiyaan......from Maachis by Gulzar
Na Hum Tumhe Jaane........Hemant Kumar by SD Burman in Baat Ek Raat Ki
Hum Bekudi Main Tum.........Mohd Rafi , SD Burman in Kaala Pani
Badi Suni Suni Hai.........by Kishore Da in Mili


If you have to express love to someone with a song, which would that be?

Palken Jhokao Na........by Adnan Sami in Sehar
Jiya Dhadak Dhadak Jaye.........by Rahat Fateh Ali Khan from Kalyug
Tu Aashqui Hai............ from Jhankar Beats

Five songs you listen to most:

Koi Sagar Dil Ko..........Mohd Rafi in Dil Diya Dard Liya
Ya Rabba.........Kailash Khair
Rafta Rafta Woh Meri........Gulam Ali
Chandan Sa Badan........Mukesh from Saraswati Chandra
Hazur Is Kadar Bhi Na........Bhupinder Singh / Suresh Wadekar in Masoom


A song for the person who tagged you… Juneli

Aao Twist Karen Ga Utha Mausam.......By Manna Dey in Bhoot Bangla


Still there could be many more numbers I think but it is really tough.

Weird Dreams

As Sudipta tagged Alka for the weird dreams and she tagged Manish, who on his turn tagged me, so here I am to perform my part of duty.

Though I don’t see much of dreams and if I do, I mostly can’t keep them saved in my memory even for the same day. So after reading Manish’s weird dreams I was wondering what to write. I tried to track past some of the dreams of mine but could not find much of them worth mentioning here. (As some of them are too weird to narrate here and are part of my private embarrassment).

But luckily today early morning I saw a strange dream which gave me word to publish this post.

1> Scene one: I got a call from one of the big bosses (He hardly calls me usually) of the company I deal in (I am into business of lighting products and not connected with media or journalism at all), asking me to get interviews of some giant Indian business tycoons. I also saw a faded face of Rattan Tata.
Scene two: I was playing some games with friends in the ground when the boss came to me in a white Maruti 800 (he would never step in any car less than Honda Civic in reality) with a Microphone and a box related to recording system for these interviews. (He only believes in taking and never in giving)
Scene three: I came out bathing from a place where so many other people were also taking shower and realize that I have lost that recording system and was worried how to get interview recorded. Then the other part of my brain suggested that I can use my I pod or should buy a new mobile which could record the long conversation. Before I could fetch my I pod or get any interview, the alarm rang to wake me for my daily workout.

2> This one I saw years back (96) and don’t know how I kept it remember so long. This one is not a very dramatic or very long dream but I still can feel the scare and thumping of my heartbeat in that dream. Years long relationship was forced to shatter and I was in the state of shock when I saw that dream (may be that’s why I saw that dream). I can’t call the dream weird but it was scary very scary.

Dream went like this, Me and she was traveling in a bus in very jovial mood. Bus was fully packed and all the passengers were talking so loudly. She too had to shout in my ear because of the talking noises of passengers and engine of the bus. I was smiling at her extreme effort to convey her words. And suddenly entire people including her vanished in the air like magic. I stood shocked in the bus all alone. Not a single person was visible and bus was running itself without any driver. I felt bloodless and frightened to death that where she has gone leaving me alone. My heart was bouncing so loud and fast and I was thinking of my remaining life in the same state forever. I woke up with shaken soul but was not lucky like other people who saw their dear ones in danger in dreams and on waking up feel relieved watching them sleeping safely next to them. I knew she had gone forever in reality also. I drank some water and went to sleep again with heavy heart only to see the same dream all over again, now in a train. Whew!

I don’t remember any other dream and would apologies to Sudipta for breaking his chain as I don’t have another five names to further tag on.