There are times when you wonder whether you are right or someone is wrong. These are not the same. Your rightness does not denote another's wrongness.
Anyway, I recall a qawwali we heard often when we were young, "Bhar do jholi meri Ya Mohamed, laut kar main na jaaonga khali..." There was challenge in that 'prayer'. I liked that aspect. When I came across this other version, an almost complete departure, I did not know how to react. It was like the child in me was left to roam, lost in the woods even while sitting under the shade of a tree.
I am growing to like it, forming my own visuals. Filling the emptiness..."Khat'm kar de khaalipan"
Bhar de jholi - Rahat Fateh Ali Khan
it's a good one. I had not heard the original.
ReplyDeletethese ghazals can be quite depressive sometimes ESP on a rainy (cloudy) day but if you are in mood, check out reshma's
aashiyane ki baat karte ho
dekh hamare maathe par ye
they are both on
old.musicindiaonline.com under ghazals artist reshma, album lumbi judai.
Love the song. Can't quite understand the lyrics, but that had never stopped me from loving songs before.
ReplyDeletehere is the link to reshma's songs:
ReplyDeletehttp://old.musicindiaonline.com/music/ghazals/s/album.2952/artist.1259/
http://old.musicindiaonline.com/music/ghazals/s/album.2952/artist.1259/
ReplyDeleteHitesh:
ReplyDeleteThanks for the links...love Reshma.
I won;t call it the original, but the one I referred to is by the Sabri Brothers and pure qawwali with religious overtones.
The Rahat one is way different and although I like it I found the instrumentals too modernistic and intrusive; some silence might have worked better.
Especially if you are listening to it in the rains...
Al:
Yes. It's like you don;t have to understand women... :)
FV:"Yes. It's like you don;t have to understand women... :)"
ReplyDeleteI can still love a song forever without knowing the lyrics. My gut instinct and past experience tells me if I tried that same technique on women, I will be signing up for a world of trouble. :)
It is not for nothing that men with well-honed survival skills and a keen will to live refer to their wives as "GHQ or SHQ" (General/Supreme Head Quarters) and generally accept SHQ/GHQ as being in charge of all tactical and strategic command decisions for the family.
Oh, yeah, I know about the GHQ kind of situation. Make no mistake the honorific is a great way to get out of sticky situations for men...like wanting to skip a boring get-together. "I'll have to ask the boss." It is another matter that the boss finds all parties boring...how very convenient.
ReplyDeleteSo, you see, the lyrics can get all mucked up in the head.
FV:"So, you see, the lyrics can get all mucked up in the head."
ReplyDeleteI knew there was a reason why I prefer instrumental music to music with lyrics :) -- the complete lack of requiring to make sense of the lyrics is liberating in other ways.
FV:"Make no mistake the honorific is a great way to get out of sticky situations for men...like wanting to skip a boring get-together."
ReplyDeleteSo you mean to say abject capitulation can only result in further humiliation? Hmm..makes sense actually :)