Monday, June 25, 2007

Swades..


'Yeh Jo Des Hai… ', this song brings a special feeling, hard to express in words, it reminds me of Home very much. I love this song, I have listened to it numerous times, and in fact, I watched that movie more than dozen times. Probably AR’s one of the best compositions so far. I hope he still has lot to offer. Listening to the song itself was inspiring but watching it on the silver screen was heartening, moving. The platform set for the song in the movie was perfect. I am sure; most of us must have pictured our selves in place of protagonist, Shahrukh.

Not only this song, but the entire album is a gem of its kind. Every song brings the feeling of accomplishment, every song is refreshing, inspirational, invigorating. Background music beats the best of bests. It is smooth, slick and scintillating. There are few situations where BGM brings life to the scenes, like when SRK peeps out through the window of flight to get a glimpse of land, land of India, and when SRK first time drives his caravan into Charanpur following the directions of chikku, when SRK visits a old, poor farmer to collect the rent, absolutely stunning, and many more. Music tells the story; music reflects the mood, agony, or joys the person going through.

I believe this was the one of the dazzling efforts from all the artists. Direction was a balanced one. The only problem was people found it difficult to understand the pain suffered by Indians living outside India. Not only that, it was lacking all the bollywood masala and the length of the movie was a bit more. But I don’t mind watching another dozen times; after all it depicts people like me.

I don’t really care about its commercial success. I think, movie is one the best in recent times. The biggest asset of the movie was music provided by, none other than, ARR. He is the best.
yeh jo des hai tera
swades hai tera
tujhe hai pukara
yeh woh bandhan haijo
kabhi toot nahin sakta
mitti ki hai jo khushbhoo
tu kaise bhoolayega
tu chaahe kahin jaaye
tu laut ke aayega
nayi nayi raahon mein
dabbi dabbi aahon mein
khoye khoye dil se tere
koi yeh kahega
tujhse zindagi hai yeh kahe rahi
sabh to paa liya abh hai kya kami
yunh to saare sukh hai barse
par door tu hai apne ghar se
aa laut chal tu abh deewanae
jahan koi to tujhe apna maane
awaaz de tujhe bulaane wahi des
yeh pal hai wahi
jis mein hai chuupi
koi ek saadi, saari zindagi
tu na pooch raaste mein kaahe
aaye hain is tarha do raahein
tu hi to hai raah jo sujhaye
tu hi to hai abh to jo yeh bataye
chaahe to kis disha mein jaaye wahi des

1 comment:

Shumani said...

Hi Nishant after reading u'r Swades topic, i went ahead & searched for this song & downloaded finally. I truely liked this song & it even perked my brain with some new thoughts which will appear in my blog in the near future with title "Swades ya Pardes"