Every morning we wake up praying that the day should go on well and at the end of the day we pray thanking for the day that just passed by and hoping that we live to see the beautiful tomorrow. Prayer keeps us in peace and helps us maintain a balance in life. We pray almost the whole day for little things we come across in our day to day life. when i hear an ambulance howling on a busy road, i pray that whoever is inside it should be fine. When i hear a fireengine roaring, i pray that whereever the fire has broken out,the people should be safe. We pray that we should'nt miss the bus, we pray before an interview,before an exam, we pray that india should win the match,we pray that sachin should take the catch, we pray that the share prices of infosys should go up, we pray that the budget should be fair enough. we pray that people who we love should not let us down, i pray that soon i should be able to get back home, we say little prayers when we walk alone on a deserted street. We pray for little silly things. we all pray dont we and thats the only way to communicate to god. That is something that keeps us connected to the almighty. In this cruel and matrialistic world where brutal and inhumanly activities are prevalent,we search for peaceand harmony. Thats exactly what prayer gives us. Prayer need not be in form of chanting the mantras or slogas. It can be in the form of meditation,yoga,pranayama. In our busy and stressul life we manage to say quicky little prayers before we step out of our home or get the glimpse of the god in a temple,church,mosque or gurudwara on our way to work.
When we dont pray, we fail to communicate with God. We fail to thank him for the wonderful things he has given us, we fail to seek courage from him when we are faced with a tough situation. We fail to instill peace and hope in us. Its the prayers that keeps us going and its the prayer that makes the world go around.
Friday, March 09, 2007
Monday, March 05, 2007
GURU of Indian Music
Jaage ai dher tak hame..
Kuch dher sone do...
Dhodi si raat aur hai..
Subah tho hone do...
adhe adhure khwab jo puree na ho sake..
ek baar phir se neend mein woh khwab bhone dho..
The above song is one of the finest masterpiece of the maestro A.R.Rehman. A song very well composed and sung exceptionally well by rehman himself. Rehman has a voice that awakens the inner soul. Dont know about others but two of his songs 'Vandemataram' from his album titled the same and 'yeh jo desh hai mera' from Swades has that something which has definitely tickled the patrotic bone in us. Another beautiful song composed and sung by Rehman along with Latha Mangeshkar is 'Luka chuppi' from Rang De basanti is a 'mamtha bhari' number. Rehman alsways does justice to the lyrics. Some of the songs have such beautiful lyrics which sometimes gets lost in the music but his composition makes the lyrics stand out so well. A song like 'yeh jo desh' is meant to be an jingoistic number and for a number like that the lyrics is very important and his music has definitely done justice. I also see a lot of Indian classical touch in his music.
Another song of Rehman which i love listening to is 'Newyork nagaram' from silunu oru kadhal'. the songs about how the husband had to travel to newyork on work and howmuch he misses his wife right from the time he wakes up in the morning and goes to bed in the nite. Lyrics is the life of the song and hence it has to stand out and thats exactly what Rehman has done. He has sung the song so soulfully that you can experience the feeling of the husband himself. I loved the way he has composed and sung the following lines...
pechellam thaalatu pola.. ennai uranga vaika nee illai..
dinamum oru muttham thanthu kaalai coffee koduka nee illai..
Vizhyil vizhum thoosi thannai.. eduka neeingu illai
manathil ezhum kuzhappam thannai theerka neeingu illaiii.
Naan inge neeyum ange..intha thanimai nimishangal varusham aanatheno
Vaan inge neelam ange intha uvamaiku iruvarum vizhakamanthu eno..
There will be atleast one new artist introduced by rehman in his movies and thats something worth applauding. He gives opportunites to the young upcoming singers who are talented and whose talent may not be recognised otherwise. not just that this morning i saw NDTV and was proud to see that Rehman has invited the physically challenged people to sing for his composition and has given them awards recognising their talent. I can go on and on about him for pages and list out the songs that he has given us which has not failed to sit well right under our lips. A song for every occassion, for every generation thats A.R.Rehman. There can never be another Rehman and he definitely is a proud possession of India. So go on Guru, play on coz the show has just begun aur yeh dil maange more...
Kuch dher sone do...
Dhodi si raat aur hai..
Subah tho hone do...
adhe adhure khwab jo puree na ho sake..
ek baar phir se neend mein woh khwab bhone dho..
The above song is one of the finest masterpiece of the maestro A.R.Rehman. A song very well composed and sung exceptionally well by rehman himself. Rehman has a voice that awakens the inner soul. Dont know about others but two of his songs 'Vandemataram' from his album titled the same and 'yeh jo desh hai mera' from Swades has that something which has definitely tickled the patrotic bone in us. Another beautiful song composed and sung by Rehman along with Latha Mangeshkar is 'Luka chuppi' from Rang De basanti is a 'mamtha bhari' number. Rehman alsways does justice to the lyrics. Some of the songs have such beautiful lyrics which sometimes gets lost in the music but his composition makes the lyrics stand out so well. A song like 'yeh jo desh' is meant to be an jingoistic number and for a number like that the lyrics is very important and his music has definitely done justice. I also see a lot of Indian classical touch in his music.
Another song of Rehman which i love listening to is 'Newyork nagaram' from silunu oru kadhal'. the songs about how the husband had to travel to newyork on work and howmuch he misses his wife right from the time he wakes up in the morning and goes to bed in the nite. Lyrics is the life of the song and hence it has to stand out and thats exactly what Rehman has done. He has sung the song so soulfully that you can experience the feeling of the husband himself. I loved the way he has composed and sung the following lines...
pechellam thaalatu pola.. ennai uranga vaika nee illai..
dinamum oru muttham thanthu kaalai coffee koduka nee illai..
Vizhyil vizhum thoosi thannai.. eduka neeingu illai
manathil ezhum kuzhappam thannai theerka neeingu illaiii.
Naan inge neeyum ange..intha thanimai nimishangal varusham aanatheno
Vaan inge neelam ange intha uvamaiku iruvarum vizhakamanthu eno..
There will be atleast one new artist introduced by rehman in his movies and thats something worth applauding. He gives opportunites to the young upcoming singers who are talented and whose talent may not be recognised otherwise. not just that this morning i saw NDTV and was proud to see that Rehman has invited the physically challenged people to sing for his composition and has given them awards recognising their talent. I can go on and on about him for pages and list out the songs that he has given us which has not failed to sit well right under our lips. A song for every occassion, for every generation thats A.R.Rehman. There can never be another Rehman and he definitely is a proud possession of India. So go on Guru, play on coz the show has just begun aur yeh dil maange more...
Mama Mia here i go again....
Winter is over and spring is almost here. Spring is definitely a beautiful season but i miss winter for a lot of reasons. I like dressing up for winter. I miss that smoke that comes out of our mouth when we talk of even breathe. I miss it because i know summer is going to be here soon and i hate summers. How many of us do? we hate the heat,sweat, the tan. While we indians do all possible stuff to avoid the sun, here in london people eat their lunch under sun. They apply cream to get tanned and they have special tanning treatments here in the parlours. Talking about indians and brits i remembered the much talked and publicised Hurley-Arun wedding. I thought Arun Nayyar is a malayalee ('nayyar' sounds like 'nair' and i thought he has cngd the spelling due to some numerology reasons) and wondered why the hell is he marrying in punjabi style in Jodhpur. Then i came to know that its not the mallu 'nair' but punjabi 'nayyar'. Hurley-Arun's wedding rights is said to be sold to the hello magazine for $100 million dollars. Now that what i call 'a million dollar wedding' and they call it 'a big not so fat indian wedding' and not just that her wedding trousseau is supposed to be designed by Tarun tehlani and Rohit Bhal. Well with so much hype and hoopla , iam sure the bachan wedding is goin to be as grand and pompous as this one.
Talking about Bachans i heard that Shweta Nanda Bachan is hosting a show on NDTV where she will be interviewing young indian achievers and guess who the first one she is goin to interview the Krazy not so Kool 'Karan Johar' Applause applause. That takes us to one hyped tv show Koffee with Karan. The rule of the show is
# the first guest of the show has to be shah rukh,kajol and rani.
#he has every right to ask any god damn question to his guests and his guests never get offended in his show which they would generally if otherwise.
#The hamper he gives away is equivalent to oscar award (damn the oscar i can give my life to win the hamper)
#His rapid fire questions can be as ridiculous as hell, and every question has to have somethng about his movie KANK,SRK,Kajol and Rani. If you havent noticed it then start doing it right away.
I hope he doesn come up with season 3 where he will probably get SRK's son and Kajol's daugter talk abt their parents.By then iam sure ash-abhi ke bhi baache ho jaayenge aur hopefully karan ki shaadi ho jayegi..Kafi hai karan...please....
last weekend i punished myself and my husband by watching 'Honeymoon Travels Pvt Ltd'. Never seen a movie as bizarre and rot like this one. While salaam-e-ishq tries to wove the 6 couples stories together i dont understand what this is trying to do. One of the actress (name not used intentionally) who always failed to give one hit movie (well almost all the heroines in the movie have only given flops so u actualy wont identify which one iam talking about). she says that this movie is very original and has a lot of sensibility in it. Ya right one couple turns out to be super hero-super lady while two heros are gays. Now is that what u meant by sensibility. If that is sense of humor then for gods sake you all need a class on humor. Honeymoon travles makes no sense to me and its the worst movie of the year.
I throughly enjoy watching SRK host KBC. His humor and class has taken KBC to a different dimension all together. big B was good no doubt but SRK's KBC has a new color,youthness attached to it. Its really funny when he says 'aap mujse haath milake,ya mujse ghale lagake ya mera ghala dhabhake jaa sakthe hai.' SRK you truly rock KBC.
This years Budget has been another disappointment and hopefully world cup doesn turn out to be one either.
Thats all from me here and i will be back with more reviews and more news from this part of the worldand from our very own hindustan. Until then jai Hind...
Talking about Bachans i heard that Shweta Nanda Bachan is hosting a show on NDTV where she will be interviewing young indian achievers and guess who the first one she is goin to interview the Krazy not so Kool 'Karan Johar' Applause applause. That takes us to one hyped tv show Koffee with Karan. The rule of the show is
# the first guest of the show has to be shah rukh,kajol and rani.
#he has every right to ask any god damn question to his guests and his guests never get offended in his show which they would generally if otherwise.
#The hamper he gives away is equivalent to oscar award (damn the oscar i can give my life to win the hamper)
#His rapid fire questions can be as ridiculous as hell, and every question has to have somethng about his movie KANK,SRK,Kajol and Rani. If you havent noticed it then start doing it right away.
I hope he doesn come up with season 3 where he will probably get SRK's son and Kajol's daugter talk abt their parents.By then iam sure ash-abhi ke bhi baache ho jaayenge aur hopefully karan ki shaadi ho jayegi..Kafi hai karan...please....
last weekend i punished myself and my husband by watching 'Honeymoon Travels Pvt Ltd'. Never seen a movie as bizarre and rot like this one. While salaam-e-ishq tries to wove the 6 couples stories together i dont understand what this is trying to do. One of the actress (name not used intentionally) who always failed to give one hit movie (well almost all the heroines in the movie have only given flops so u actualy wont identify which one iam talking about). she says that this movie is very original and has a lot of sensibility in it. Ya right one couple turns out to be super hero-super lady while two heros are gays. Now is that what u meant by sensibility. If that is sense of humor then for gods sake you all need a class on humor. Honeymoon travles makes no sense to me and its the worst movie of the year.
I throughly enjoy watching SRK host KBC. His humor and class has taken KBC to a different dimension all together. big B was good no doubt but SRK's KBC has a new color,youthness attached to it. Its really funny when he says 'aap mujse haath milake,ya mujse ghale lagake ya mera ghala dhabhake jaa sakthe hai.' SRK you truly rock KBC.
This years Budget has been another disappointment and hopefully world cup doesn turn out to be one either.
Thats all from me here and i will be back with more reviews and more news from this part of the worldand from our very own hindustan. Until then jai Hind...
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