The popularity of a song is not necessarily its legacy. While the popularity does help it reach the masses and may probably contribute to it going to places and the people that it is meant to touch. Yet, it is not a measure of its impact and cannot predict its longevity. Writing or composing often [...]
Kadalelle -The scene before the song
onhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jzbakGCEOQ Kadallele- The song of the blossoming of the first Love! Kya Yahi Pyaar Hai? There is something mystically earthy about the freshly blossomed love; love in its purest, silliest, most naive form. Unsullied by the intellectual corruption of the rational mind, dazed by its unannounced arrival, when love shows up for the first time, [...]
Main woh ghar hoon tera….
onhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVrQUkBmSOc Sometimes Ghar, Home is a person and not a place. Someone who makes you feel secured enough to be carefree, so that you be YOU, in a judgement free zone. Sometimes a person is your home. What makes a place of dwelling a Home, varies for every person. You can decorate and spruce up [...]
Kal Ki Hi Baat Hai- Sandeep
onWe all know people who are often standing on the side in group pictures, sometimes not even in them, often the ones taking those pictures, who are not quintessentially Party Ki Jaan, who quietly slip-in the high decibel get-togethers, hoping no one would notice them. They are simply happy to be in the shadows of [...]
Naina Thagg Lenge -Gulzar
onFursat ke raat din. Having already met Gulzar saab a few times I was aware of the protocol and the decorum around meeting him. I knew that I would be treated to a hot cup of Chai, a warm hug and a conversation around the latest discoveries by the Hubble space telescope. I noticed the [...]
Sunayana Kachroo in conversation with actor Atul Kulkarni
onOriginally published in Lokvani in 2016 http://www.lokvani.com/lokvani/article.php?article_id=12555 Alfred Hitchcock once told me, when I was analyzing a lot of things about his pictures, 'Clint, you must remember, it's only a movie.’- Clint Eastwood I fully comprehended what Alfred and Clint meant when I met the National Award winner, renowned Indian actor Atul Kulkarni earlier this [...]
Because Teju Can…….
onTeju with her hostel friends Nakamiyon ko dil se lagaya hee nahi Aisa jeena hame raas aaya hee nahi Meri raftaar ka andaza tumhe kya hoga Maine pairon ko zamin pe lagaya hee nahi From the balcony of the 2nd floor of my college hostel, I could clearly tell that she was fighting it out. [...]
The scene before the song-Aye Dil Hai Mushkil
onWhy do we like a song? There are a million reasons why we prefer a certain melancholic song over others, why a specific song connects with our emotions, why we give the space of our conscious memory to it, why we take the effort to memorize its lyrics? Why, is it that we play a [...]
Radha’s conversation with her husband Ayann
onRadha Sitting alone - Source Internet Ranjish hee sahi dil hee dukane ke liye aa… As Radha looked at the crescent moon the early morning breeze caressed her face. The dim moonlight reflecting on her face was making her look ethereal. Far away on the banks of Yamuna, she listened to what sounded like someone [...]
