Summer of 1988.
It certainly brought a revolution in the Hindi Film Music...and it was brought by the famous duo of Anand-Milind in the movie called QSQT. That was a such a drastic and bold shift from the then current trend of playback music....and masses just liked this "shift" and rest is history.
It was indeed a trendsetter. The movie and its actors also did get a great lift from its popular soft and so different than usual music of late 80s for sure!
Well I think after around 20 years that is happening again...
This time it is brought by not just one or two music directors but rather a group of new and extremely talented and offbeat (singers composers alike). There are many but couple of them whom I would like to mention about are Kay Kay, Preetam Charobarty, Rabbi Shergill and so on....
Now what fun it is where I write more and more about these great trendsetters but without letting you judge what I mean.
So this post is about the songs which I am listening to now a days. (reminds me that I can certainly write about my IPOD which is slightly more than 6 months old now...but deserves
a good nice article).
The below link allows you to play the songs...I have two playlists in the upcoming beta version of website called "esnips.com". A nice and great way to share digital content.
Internet..Wao Internet!!!
So in my playlist of current top 16, you will see songs from Delhi heights (Shergill and Sonu Nigam with mind blowing base guitar), it has many songs from "yet to release" movie called "Life in a Metro", as well as Hits from Gangster and Woh Lamhe (all products from Preetam/KK)! Rememebr Remo....of Jalwa and Bombay fame (may be the only true "deshi" rock singer whene we were growing up) he has come back after long time in Life May...kabhi kabhi. the title of his song is "No Problem". Another very soft romantic number from Abhijeet from a never heard 2006 year release called "dil sey pooch kidhar jana hai!"
It also has two from the veteran A R Rahman (Guru) and Amitabh (Nishabd). Finally it ends with a Grammy 2007 nomination by snow-patrol (Chasing Cars), nice one with great lyrics!
The second playlist just got created as I was uploading some songs from my ipod most frequent playing list. The one I would like to mention specifically is from the movie Wardaat(1981) I had it in my ipod as part of Bappi-Da collection and I remember I liked it when I was in class 8 or so. And then one day suddenly Apple's random playlist algorithm decides "ok IG..it is time again"..and I get reintroduced to this nice number. Since then I am listening it quite often.
You know what I used to wonder about this song (Too Mujhey Jaan Sey bhee Pyarta Hai)..it is rendered by grand pa and grand ma of Indian Pop (ie Bappi Da and Usha Uthup) and it is a duet..but it is so hard to distinguish when Bappi da is singing or when Usha Di is
singing..except by the words like "karoonga" or "karoonge". There is no satire here...but just an interesting observation made in my early years and get reminded of everytime when I listen to it.
Enjoy My Playlists....I will try to keep it updated.
My esnips link
Monday, May 07, 2007
Thursday, May 03, 2007
Movie & Internet
Movie:
Last night watched a nice funny movie. Heard about it from some colleagues followed by a recent review in Rediff of a remake of this film in Bollywood. This is a french movie (1999) called "The Dinner Game". The remake is titled as "Bheja Fry" released last week and gets a very poor rating. But in that review itself it praises its original. So I ordered it from my recently opened BlockBuster account.
Found it a great hilarious one! Do sure see it. As it is close captioned plus mainly dialogue driven need to follow it attentively. But the story/characters/and the screenplay will make sure you remain cling to it till the end and it will for sure give you a good laugh!
My next in line is Blood Diamond (adventure/thriller) and Holiday (romantic flick), The Queen.
And recently seenover past few weeks are like "The Prestige", "Illusionist" (both on the theme of Magic), Babel (pretty dark..but Good), Borat (Horrible and Repulsive), Taladega Nights (very funny..but need to have my "mentality"), Brokebank Mountain (quite sentimental..hmmm).
Internet:
Since long I was looking or wondering why these Yahoo, MSN etc dont provide Messenger services in their web site itself. Its a pure co-incidence that today when I checked I do see yahoo has launched beta version of its messenger in their website. And then you start wondering why they are doing so now...after 8, or 9 years of launching the messenger.
Well..this is my take:
a) Google Talk. There is No Need to install any software.You can access it from anywhere in the web. But Google is always Google!
b) A startup type of website...Called "Meebo". In their website they do offer messenger for all AIM, Google, MSN, Yahoo..in all different languages too including Hindi and Bangla! Though it is awkward to see like "Password Bhool Gaye" "Sadasya Bano" "Mujhey Yaad Rakhey" and "Pravesh" but this is great having all IMs at a single place without installing their softwares.
Another good thing about is it being 3rd party..there are still many Work Place servers who probably dont know it and you can Yahoo IM from work too...Ssssshh.
Last night watched a nice funny movie. Heard about it from some colleagues followed by a recent review in Rediff of a remake of this film in Bollywood. This is a french movie (1999) called "The Dinner Game". The remake is titled as "Bheja Fry" released last week and gets a very poor rating. But in that review itself it praises its original. So I ordered it from my recently opened BlockBuster account.
Found it a great hilarious one! Do sure see it. As it is close captioned plus mainly dialogue driven need to follow it attentively. But the story/characters/and the screenplay will make sure you remain cling to it till the end and it will for sure give you a good laugh!
My next in line is Blood Diamond (adventure/thriller) and Holiday (romantic flick), The Queen.
And recently seenover past few weeks are like "The Prestige", "Illusionist" (both on the theme of Magic), Babel (pretty dark..but Good), Borat (Horrible and Repulsive), Taladega Nights (very funny..but need to have my "mentality"), Brokebank Mountain (quite sentimental..hmmm).
Internet:
Since long I was looking or wondering why these Yahoo, MSN etc dont provide Messenger services in their web site itself. Its a pure co-incidence that today when I checked I do see yahoo has launched beta version of its messenger in their website. And then you start wondering why they are doing so now...after 8, or 9 years of launching the messenger.
Well..this is my take:
a) Google Talk. There is No Need to install any software.You can access it from anywhere in the web. But Google is always Google!
b) A startup type of website...Called "Meebo". In their website they do offer messenger for all AIM, Google, MSN, Yahoo..in all different languages too including Hindi and Bangla! Though it is awkward to see like "Password Bhool Gaye" "Sadasya Bano" "Mujhey Yaad Rakhey" and "Pravesh" but this is great having all IMs at a single place without installing their softwares.
Another good thing about is it being 3rd party..there are still many Work Place servers who probably dont know it and you can Yahoo IM from work too...Ssssshh.
Tuesday, May 01, 2007
Christina Rosenthal
Well...I am trying once again to regain the lost hobby of Reading. It is not a sudden decision but maybe some influence from few friends and particularly some recent blog updates by mpcnb and talks with him.
So the other other day I hit to local library and pick up two books.One was already read by mine 12 years back..the other was new.They were from two master story tellers Jeff Archer and Frederick Forsyth.At least I didnt think that I can go for this trial run with some heavy philosophical type or thick novels...so this choice of collection of short stories. Maybe once I get the flow and become a veteran (thats the story book collection I got of Forsynth) I will move to heavy stuffs.
My today's post is about one of that short story "Christina Rosenthal". Somehow when I read it first time (12 years back)..I found it one of the best love story I had ever read..it touched me thoroughly. I dont want to be a spoiler..but it is about a son mentioning his dad through a letter expressing his love and the woman he loved. Maybe it is a very typical story...but that time I found it just awesome and could not take my mind out of it!
Now I decided to take this book again and see if I can relive those feelings/moments I had felt so long time back. At the same time I was apprehensive about that the feeling/thoughts which I had "maintained" it for so long...just does not get shattered, if I dont find it that appealing
anymore. Which would simply reflect that not the story rather it was my "age" and "then thinking" probably which mesmerized it at that time...somehow I didnt want that to happen and rather still give full credit to Mr Archer a known crime/suspense thriller author for this
masterpiece love story.
It is the last story in his collection called "A Twist in The Tale".
(careful..Spoiler ahead)
So Last night I read that again.....and I wont lie...It still gave me the same exact feeling I got a dozen year back. True love is very rare....but those rare fortunate who get it (like Benjamin and Christina in this case) couldn't enjoy for long as Love and Pain go certainly Hand in Hand. Maybe Love cant be enjoyed if there is No pain associated with that..or for that matter probably they complete each other.
Part of that vicious circle when one generates the other and it keeps on going only their magnitude increasing each time!
They say it (the pain part of love) makes them powerful....Strong and Better.
Unfortunately Benjamin never got the opportunity to get STRONGER and BETTER again!
Here is a link to some other blogs discussing Christina Rosenthal.
Link
If you have not read it yet...read it and you will either like it a lot (like me) or laugh it off a lot thinking how such a typical and melancholic love story can appeal anyone! If latter is the case I can only say maybe the glass you and me are looking it through is so different!
So the other other day I hit to local library and pick up two books.One was already read by mine 12 years back..the other was new.They were from two master story tellers Jeff Archer and Frederick Forsyth.At least I didnt think that I can go for this trial run with some heavy philosophical type or thick novels...so this choice of collection of short stories. Maybe once I get the flow and become a veteran (thats the story book collection I got of Forsynth) I will move to heavy stuffs.
My today's post is about one of that short story "Christina Rosenthal". Somehow when I read it first time (12 years back)..I found it one of the best love story I had ever read..it touched me thoroughly. I dont want to be a spoiler..but it is about a son mentioning his dad through a letter expressing his love and the woman he loved. Maybe it is a very typical story...but that time I found it just awesome and could not take my mind out of it!
Now I decided to take this book again and see if I can relive those feelings/moments I had felt so long time back. At the same time I was apprehensive about that the feeling/thoughts which I had "maintained" it for so long...just does not get shattered, if I dont find it that appealing
anymore. Which would simply reflect that not the story rather it was my "age" and "then thinking" probably which mesmerized it at that time...somehow I didnt want that to happen and rather still give full credit to Mr Archer a known crime/suspense thriller author for this
masterpiece love story.
It is the last story in his collection called "A Twist in The Tale".
(careful..Spoiler ahead)
So Last night I read that again.....and I wont lie...It still gave me the same exact feeling I got a dozen year back. True love is very rare....but those rare fortunate who get it (like Benjamin and Christina in this case) couldn't enjoy for long as Love and Pain go certainly Hand in Hand. Maybe Love cant be enjoyed if there is No pain associated with that..or for that matter probably they complete each other.
Part of that vicious circle when one generates the other and it keeps on going only their magnitude increasing each time!
They say it (the pain part of love) makes them powerful....Strong and Better.
Unfortunately Benjamin never got the opportunity to get STRONGER and BETTER again!
Here is a link to some other blogs discussing Christina Rosenthal.
Link
If you have not read it yet...read it and you will either like it a lot (like me) or laugh it off a lot thinking how such a typical and melancholic love story can appeal anyone! If latter is the case I can only say maybe the glass you and me are looking it through is so different!
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