SS Music...!!!!!

There’s a TV channel in my colony or “para” or area, whatever you may say (to be more specific-where I stay if you can understand) named Southern Spice Music or SS Music... As you can (or may) already get some idea from the name of the TV channel that this channel airs only South-Indian songs... South Indian means songs from the 4 Dravidan states viz Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Tamil Nadu. But since the head-office of the channel is in Chennai, so they air mostly Tamil songs. So one fine day, maybe it was when I was in my graduation 2^nd year or end of my 1^st year, I suddenly heard my mother listening to some songs whose language I couldn’t understand. I came to the TV room only to see that THANKFULLY (oh yess...!! thankfully) my mom, while surfing all the channels, had discovered this wonderful channel and was listening and watching attentively to the songs and the heroes-heroines dancing around the trees.. But what surprised me even more is that the quality of songs, the quality of picturization, choosing of shooting locations or spots in South-Indian movies have changed, rather improved, drastically... I still remember some of the old South-Indian pictures which I had saw on the net-the pathetic, aged heroes (or uncles !!!) and their young, beautiful heroines (who seemed like their daughters..!!!) and terrible acting, equally terrible shooting spots and lip sync..

Since then, I became a fan of the SS Music channel and I still remember the first Tamil song I heard-“Nenjukkul Peidhidum”, sung by the great Hariharan, from the movie Vaaraanam Ayaram starring Surya, Sameera Reddy and Simran... Aaahhh..!!! I fell in love with the song and the beautiful picturization  of the song as well... Too good....!!!! For a change, I actually liked Sameera Reddy in the movie.. I even downloaded the movie from Youtube (obviously with subtitles... :P :P )

Since then on, my journey of listening to South-Indian songs started and also watching them (with subtitles... :P :P ) The second song which just took me to a trance state is the song “Hosanna” from the Telugu movie “Yeh Maaya Chesave” starring Naga Chaitanya and Samantha which was later remade into a Tamil one named “Vinnathaandi Varuvaayaa” starring Trisha Kanan and oops..!! I forgot the Tamil hero’s name...!!! Never mind...!!! This song is just awesome or rather just inexplicable how much it affects me and how peaceful and calm I can feel when I listen to this song... I forget everything, every damn tension, worry in this world...!!! Truly Mr. A. R. Rehman- you are a GENIUS...!!!!

And indeed, Music has no barriers, no demarcations, no limitations and cannot be bounded by any language... You just got to feel it, then one can automatically understand what the song has to say, what the message the song has to give out to its listeners............. Music has only one language and that is to feel it from your heart....!!!!!!! That’s it......!!!!!!!!!!!!

Father's day...............

19^th June was Father’s Day... Till now, I have always consciously avoided this day or consciously kept myself busy in some or the other day so that the realization of my father’s loss doesn’t seem so overwhelming... Today also I had kept myself pretty busy (doing nothing actually as it’s raining cats and dogs in Ranchi for the past 72 hours), but busy in the sense I woke up in the morning at 11.45 am as it was pretty dark outside due to the clouds, then spent some time whiling away in the balcony listening to music... I had never known it myself the exact date of Father’s Day, or rather never considered important enough to be remembered.. But today, after I logged onto Facebook and the innumerous “Happy “Father’s Day” updates and never-ending sms-es, it reminded me painfully that yes, today is Father’s Day... Yes, the pain of losing a father at 3 years of age, remembering very little about the person who was in your life for such a short span of time, seeing your family struggle all these years through everything, hearing about that person only through others and trying to form a picture regarding how that person might have been when he was alive among them, growing up listening how IDEAL that human being was—an ideal son, an ideal husband, an ideal father (as long as he was with me-no matter whether that was a very short span in my life), continuously seeing your grandmother shedding copious tears whenever she looks at your face because I look like my father(everyone says so...!!!!)-the feeling just became too overwhelming and excruciatingly painful....

I really used feel jealous whenever I  used to see my friends’ fathers coming to drop them off or pick up from school.... And I still do whenever I see a girl being her Daddy’s li’l princess.....!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I miss you Babi.... I missed you whenever I was awarded for ranking first in class, for being the all-runder in school and you weren’t there like others’ to applaude for me..!!! I miss nagging to you for buying me something that I really like....!!! I missed you whenever other’s fathers came to hug their daughters after every dance function......I miss you when all the families go out enjoying themselves the whole night every Durga Puja, every new year, every Christmas, every Poila Boisakh......

I just miss you.................I miss you very much....................................