Monday, September 8, 2008

Bollywood Music............"Kuch Bhi".



This word "Kuch bhi", came from one of our college days slangs. Actually me and my friends used to talk in codewords(slangs) made by us. We have slangs even for situations. This one is from our favourites. "kuch bhi" describes the situation when a person is saying like anything so irrelevant, so non-sense. This slang also applies to those situations when everything irrelevant is happening.

Last night i used this word for Bollywood Music these days. Bollywood is going very Hip-hop these days. Fast music, hard beats, they are giving you everything.

Basically for bollywood, music is like business. You just have to make catchy numbers to sell the music. With the days passing India is becoming very modern. People want to do hell lot of experiments. Also audience for movies, music are increasing. So it's natural bollywood people have to work very hard to satisfy todays knowledgable audience.

But what they are doing for this is just attract audience, even for the sake of quality. The basic funda is "make catchy numbers, people will get attracted, they'll dance for few days and when the song is out of their memory, make more catchy numbers.

Now most of the things in bollywood are based on fast changing beats. Lyrics of the songs are just preposterous. There is a culture in "HIP-HOP" genre that u create nice sounding beats composition then to support it you add nonsense lyrics.
Actually the philosphy behind this is sometimes you create such a good composition that the main part of the song is instrumental music. Now to make it a complete song you add some not so strong lyrics.

But in bollywood first music directors are creating nonsense dancing numbers (thinking they are as good as Michael Jackson, Boney M, Enriqe.......) and then to make it a song they add such bakwass lyrics. The lyrics are so irrelevant ( like songs from partener, tashan, de talli etc...... ) you can't just listen the song. Plus the music is a shit.

Experiments are missing, songs are now for weeding ceremonies, party spots.
First problem is variety is gone. Secondly even if the market is full of dancing numbers you are just giving bad quality dancing numers. I could remeber some great dancing numbers like in India given by A.R .Rehman.

Now bollywood music is left with no genre, no culture.

It seems as if music director says to everyone, "play any instrument in any tune, just take care music must be loud and catchy".

In a sense Bollywood music these days is very senseless, irrelevant simply it's just "KUCH BHI".


I hope future is bright.

Monday, September 1, 2008

LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT



Love at first sight.........does it happen. May be , may be not.
I start it with a beautiful quote
"Love at first sight, I absolutely believe in it, you have to just keep the faith. Who doesn't like the idea of meeting someone next day who would be love of your life".

I believe love at first sight happens. Anyone will definitely oppose it, it's natural.
"How can you love someone without knowing him/her?"
This is the first question everyone asks me.
So I design the answer in some simple ways.

First thing is love is not an entity, It's a feel. Only people who are in love can feel it.
So it's not necessary that everyone reading this blog can believe me fully until that person is in love( May also be possible others have different views).

Now I come to the question "How can you love someone without knowing him/her?"
I say do you have to know someone to love him/her.
hmmmmm....
I say there's no reason to love.

I ll explain.
let's say you love a girl. I ask you why you love her?. You start thinking for some reasons. You say she's very beautiful, I say she's not the most beautiful lady in the world there are many more better than her. You say I love her cause she's a nice human being and very understanding , I say there are many with these qualities buddy. You tell me any charaterstic, I ll show someone else with better charterstic.
I tell you why you love her, simple "You love her cause you are in love with her".

So if there's no reason to love someone, is it necessary to know someone to love.
(Ya the good nature, understanding qualities, caring nature these all are needed to sustain the relationship)

Now when you see someone first time and if this person is your love, something will happen inside you. This may be infatuation. Absolutely right. Many a times long term infatuation is considered as love. To figure it out you are in love takes a hell lot time, it's not easy at all, but im not going to teach you those tests(everyone has different set of rules). Now after some years when you realize that you are in love then you will definetly remeber the first day u saw him/her and say" Yes I had love at first sight".But not every true love is "love at first sight", so will not happen to everyone who is in love.


So to realize that you had love at first sight only two things required..........

1. Something must happen when you see him/her for the first time, I can't describe what's this something.
2. When you realize that I am in love (real difficult job), then think of the first step.


"Romance is a beautiful feel made by God, don't make it impure by desperation and running into the rat race"

REQUIEM FOR A DREAM


Some few days back one of my friends gave me an album named “Soundtracks- Requiem for a dream”. He considers them as suicidal soundtracks. So I thought why not give it a try.

When I listen to them I started getting a feel, “yes these soundtracks have some effect”.

But what happened one day I’ll explain to you.

One afternoon I went for a nap. Generally I used to take a nap of 1hour, and also I used to sleep with some music running on my PC. On that afternoon I played “Requiem for a dream” (beginning of the end for me………ha ha). Basically there are 32 tracks nearly about an hour. As the tracks go on the whole environment becomes very tense, plaintive and the last 6-7 tracks are of maximum intensity. I went into the dead sleep after first 6-7 tracks but with some sadness, discomfort in my mind due to those 6-7 tracks. Now I was very fortunate (fortunate…….u must say my luck went crazy that day), suddenly I got up after 50 minutes and what I heard was undefined. At that time those last 6 tracks were playing up on the system. Those 6 tracks you can say are best of worst.

The situation was like……..I went to sleep with a seed of discomfort growing in my mind and when I got up I found myself in the jungle of tension, horror, pain, sadness………very few words to describe.

Seriously the music was suicidal but the way the whole situation was created…………was terrible. It was like as if someone is saying, “How dare you to listen to these sound tracks……now experience the hell out of them.

Once the tracks started I entered into a world of pain, I was wandering in this world (in my sleep for 40 min) searching for life, and then someone took me out of this dreamy world into the real world (I awoke)……but the real world was more horrible.