The latest version of Media Player Classic doesn't stop when it needs to and the song plays on and on and on....... endlessly, and it fills the air with a tender pain which slowly makes it too thick to breathe in.
The soulful rendition of this timeless melody by Geeta Dutt in 'Kaagaz ke Phool' figures high up in my list of all-time greatest sad-songs. (Many say the palpable despondency in her voice was because of the intense turmoil in her personal life at that time regarding the Guru Dutt-Waheeda Rahman affair.) There was a time when the first lines from the song used to be a standing joke amongst us, selectively employed to tease the living daylights out of the Devdas-types at school. Then it seemed almost funereal, a song which by its very tenor of abominable melancholy attracted our collective distaste and scorn. Later, with life and its little lessons in 'disappointment' (not of the Devdas genre though) those very lines have acquired a completely different meaning , its lyrics a profound resonance with the very feelings of love, truth and pain, all enmeshed together to melt into a heady concoction of unstated grief. Some may find the plangency in the song belonging to defeat and distress but let it play for a few times in solitude and the spirit of human helplessness will quietly seep into you and make you drink the bitter sorrow with a ironic smile of grudging acknowledgment. Then there is the breath-taking climax of a nascent love throttled and the mournful acceptance of it.
Amidst all the gloom and heartrending pathos there is this lesson- The lesson of Acceptance which is feeble yet redeeming - a sagacious resignation before one's own fate.
"Waqt ne kiya kya haseen sitam
Tum rahe na tum ham rahe na ham
Waqt ne kiya…
Beqaraar dil is tarha mile
jis tarha kabhi ham juda na the
Tum bhi kho gaye, ham bhi kho gaye
Ek raah par chalke do qadam
Waqt ne kiya…
Jaayenge kaha sujhta nahi
chal pade magar raasta nahi
Kya talaash hai kuchh pata nahi
Bun rahe hain dil khaab dam-ba-dam
Waqt ne kiya…"
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10 comments:
there are some songs that always have this strange effect on us no matter how many times we listen to them.
One of my faves. The first time I heard it, my heart skipped a beat. What a soulful voice. What a song. Someone said S.D. Burman did not compose music -- it was music he was composed of -- it was the other way.
So music helped get over blogger's block
In the world of "dance pe chance maar le"s and "oye lucky"s, we have to resort to the older ones to get some relief.
Nicely written, buddy :)
Hmm.. Old songs and movies remind me of sunday evenings which used to be spent in front of the TV. Some really old Dev Anand or Rajendra Kumar flick... Not to forget the packet of plain salted Uncle Chips that would be given equal attention, lest it is breathlessly gormandized by the junkie younger sibling... and a voice inside the head reminding the pending homework that would then be delayed for the fifteenth time in the day...
Actually, the first line's apt, given the current economic recession.. whatsay ;)
Cheers,
Ashen
there will always be the perfect music to complement your imperfect mood :)
i am glad the golden classics are still what we carelessly relate to!
# raaji - and we can go on n on n on about them.
# rhett - I think its all Geeta Dutt in this song. She had this liquid allure in her voice for this song, it seems.
# flotu - look who's seeking relief and WHERE !
# ashen - there was this cover-story on Brunch ( HT's Sunday supplement) on the DD days which reminded me of my childhood too.
and the first lines are apt for many many occasions. aren't they ?? :P
# Seher - Old is Gold is so true when it comes to hindi filmi songs.
# V.S - yaa, 'music rescues the blogger' it seems. :)
this is a lovely song-stirs, doesn't it?
# ahona - Stirs. That's the word. :)
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