This song has been on an infinite loop since I first heard it in December 2013. The lyrics weren’t available anywhere on the internet. Thanks to @ShravanDathS for transcribing this for me in his increasingly scarce spare time.
How many ever versions of Aaj Jaane Ki Zidd Na Karo I listen to, I keep coming back to Habib Wali Mohammed’s rendition as part of some cleansing process.
Blogswara is out with its lastest album, V5. Check them out; I liked them and it’s free to download. I may update this post after listening a few more times.
I am a Ryan Giggs fan and that is something most of my friends know. With the kind of talent and oppurtunity that he had, I believe Sachin Tendulkar should have been the Ryan Giggs of Indian Cricket. But then again that is a different story.
The following is a clip towards the end of a Sky Sports special, An Amazing Run By Ryan Giggs.
One common thing in every sports compilation video, football in particular, is the awesome soundtracks that these have running in the background and that coupled with the ambient stadium noise & commentary results in a totally electrifying experience.
The reason I actually put this video up is because I noticed that the music here is very similar to the in Strings - Aakhri Alvida Na Ho. Compare the leads, preferably with headphones on.
saaansein gayi hai tham, aankhein meri hai nam
tum kahaan ho, tum kahaan ho
kahaan ho tum, kahaan ho tum
kahaan ho tum, mere jahaan ho tum
rothe se naina hain, na soye hai na jaage hain
tum kahaan ho, tum kahaan ho
ji liya pi liya zeher zindagi ka
ji liya pi liya zeher zindagi ka
ji liya pi liya zeher zindagi ka
ji liya pi liya zeher zindagi ka
( Tum Kahaan Ho is a song from Akash's album Aks. The song is a rehash of their popular Ji Liya. The lyrics put up here are the extra lines that aren't there in Ji Liya. )
I did not know what to answer when my cousin asked me this a few years ago. In some ways, I still do not know. This identity crisis is because of being party to a lineage of priests and atheist/agnostic/communists ( all are the same to me ).
( The lyrics for Main Tanha and Pehchaan can be found here. )
I did the unthinkable last week. I bought an album. Yes. I spent money to buy music. The only other time I remember being involved in the process of buying music was when a 4 year old cribbed for Apoorva Sahodarargal cassette for Pudhu Maappillaikku song. I have heard Penn Masala before, even performed two of their songs ( No Injuries To Anyone ). But totally forgot about them over the past year or so. But then pointless browsing at times leads you to something good and once such recent expedition has led to this. For those who have not heard about them, they are an a capella group based in University of Pennsylvania, who specialize in fusion mixes of Eastern Melody and Western Pop. Here is my chaar aana on their album, Pehchaan.
A very good start to the album, blending both the songs very well and is one that shall strike the right chord even with newbies to this genre. The transition back from Only You to Oonche Oonche Parvat is the best note in this track. The humming during Aisa Koi Saathi Ho part brings out the best of the vocals. Tempo of Only You has been raised to meet Neeley Neeley's pace.
Definitely the best track of the album for me. The way the notes move higher in the Every Breath part is just out of this world.Wohhohoo <-- listen out for this piece. It is representative of the kind of energy in the entire album. The final 15 seconds of this song is why i like this song so much.
I hate this song. Ok. I hated this song. Every single bit of it. It was on all the radio stations when KANK was to be released. After listening to it a few times, I decided I will near listen to it. All that changed after listening to this version. The chorus, in the background, brings out the best in the song. Moments where they are humming a totally tangential note to what the vocalists singing are amazing.
Vocalists should take the credit for this one. The original song has been most reproduced with a lot of care. Continuing with the Used to Love You bit all throughout the Kangna part was a nice choice.
I love the album version of this song. Haven't heard a lot (less than 50 times ) of the film version. The powerful beat boxing start, which slowly gives way to the "Dhin Dhin" loop and then the aalaap is just out of this world. The performance continues with the same energy with the "Janana Janana" bit and some awesome silences in the background. The only problem I had was with the end. The aalaap could have been a chorus or atleast higher decibel level, to go out on a high note. In Atif's version, his voice was overempasized. I am assuming these guys stuck with the music bit from the original album version.
This is the reason I bought this album. Heard this once on their website and made that impulse debut purchase on iTunes. I am very glad I did. Such a clean arrangement. The way the humming slows down and then picks up pace is awesome. The lyrics at the end are why I like this track : Kya Patha Ki Kaun Hoon Main, Shaayad Mujhmein Aag Kahiin... Jagaao Usey.
Once again the start, coupled with the prominence given to the piano track when compared to the original,is what struck me in this track. The Adnan-esque vocals are not as repulsive as they sound when rendered by the man himself.
Another one for the vocalists. The I Am Alone and Main Tanha lines are the best. After listening to it a lot of times, I could see influences from Lukka Chuppi in the interludes, but that was in the BG part.
The originals vary in tempo with the latter being faster, but a compromise has been reached in this track. I was happy to see Dosti's lead in the last 20 seconds, a bit that I really love. If only they had even Small Town Girl's lead.
A soothing rendition of one of my favorite songs. Vocals go back , giving prominence to the BG track. The Hindi lyrics and the use of Cheb Khaled's bit later in the song was nice to hear.
I hadn't heard the Paheli's version before this but had heard the Telugu tune. Having heard all the three, this track does more than justice to its predecessors. The transition to Aaj Jaane ki Zidda Na Karo was a pleasant surprise. Feels like you are listening to a nice Bhajan.
The second track I heard and ever since been humming the tune. The timing of Alaipayuthey was great, but the vocals for that just did not sound right. But the rest of the song more than overcomes that bit. Definitely in the top 5 of the album for me.
After listening to the songs a few times, I tended to forget that the songs are a capella and started treating them as normal ones.I felt that this a very good indicator of how much I liked it ( and hence how good the album is ;) ) From a few other reviews, I learnt that this one was much better than the previous album.
P.S. : The own compositions can be heard on their website radio in their entireity and other track samples are also put up there.
After seeing a lot of searches for these songs' lyrics landing up unsuccessfully at my review of Pehchaan, I wrote these down.
Disclaimer:
Lyrics are for educational purposes and all the related shit to avoid copyright infringement hold good.
This is my interpretation of what I heard. I am not guaranteeing accuracy. Also, there is no blue print for you to compare it with. Suggestions ( corrections ) are welcome.
I am assuming Penn Masala decided upon using crazy accents/encryption for the english words so that lyrics are not deciphered. Too possessive about their work aa?
Pehchaan
pehchaan, main dhoond raha
aaj dhoondtha hoon main pehchaan, mila de mujhein
khoye hue se mere nishaan, mila de mujhein
aakhir main hoon kaun aur, manzil meri kahaan
agar aag hai mujhmein tho yaaron, manzilein hai kyu dhabaa
chorus:
[
( first line too muffled for me)
and i feel i can't see, what i am meant to be
(again muffled )
and then i let the world see, me
]
wake into the sunset, wondered where it'd go
i just can't remember, good times i used to know
seems these days, i cant find myself
lost, running away from the answers i've failed
gazing up i heard ,so plain and clear
music moved me and i can have my sea( sounds like )
aaj dhoondtha hoon main pehchaan, mila de mujhein
khoye hue se mere nishaan, mila de mujhein
aakhir main hoon kaun, aur manzil meri kahaan
agar aag hai mujhmein tho yaaron, manzil hai kyu dhabaa
With the dawn of the new year fast approaching, I now sit down to compare two movies of 2007 dealing with the theme of college life, Happy Days in Telugu and Kalloori in Tamizh.
Happy Days is another Shekhar Kammula movie that has struck the right chords in the Telugu cine-goer’s heart. The fact that the average Telugu movie buff is an engineering college student has hugely biased that opinion. There have been infinitely many movies based on college life, but this one shall be remembered for a long time because of the story. I now feel, more than the story, it is the choice of the manner in which the story was told that mattered more. The songs were excellent and “Happy Days” and " Oh My Friend " will replace " Mustafa" at college farewells for sure. I feel this movie is more for the parents of students than students themselves because they get to see more of their kids' lives than they usually would get to. The comedy was in most parts provided by Rajesh’s character. ( I had more comedy to deal with due to the comments of a college gang on the camrip ).
Now for the bashing. Apart from a single instance of Friendship-Showing ( Tyson - Shankar ), the rest was unbearable. All the friends just HAD to be paired up right!!!? This is where the movie pissed me off the most because the message that is given here is that all college gangs are pairs or trying to be. Yes, the LOVE angle is bound to be there - I do not disagree with that, but when you are trying to brand your movie to be a family movie, trying to tell the parents, a fair share of what they should know, then why not be totally correct too. If not for the supposed branding, I wouldn’t have had this itch to criticize this movie. There are many who remain very good friends and not go by the KKHH-SRK definition of Love. Please. Let us move on from all that. Though set in an engineering college backdrop, the movie attempted to summarize college life in general. But this movie got caught up with the love-interests of the leading characters and forgot about the guy from the village. With a do-takey ka dialogue, his story is finished off. The friendship being portrayed too felt a bit artificial at sometimes. I will remember this movie more for the songs than anything else.
Now coming to Kalloori. I saw this movie only because techsatish was showing it. I had no idea about it. Was pleasantly surprised to find that one of the leading ladies in both the films to be common. The bus-scene start was a nice one. Instead of ragging being the crux, its a song by the seniors explaining ways to screw up their education culminating in a request to avoid those ways and study well. I was taken aback by this novel beginning and mind you the song was not the preachy kinds - I felt it was pretty funny. It was set in a village/town backdrop, wherein a group of village-friends are joined by a city-girl in their BA-History class. Each one with different problems in their family life, socio-economic or otherwise, but when together tend to forget about all that and help each other out in their own very way. One of the girls is portrayed to be staunchly against the concept of Love and expects everyone to be friends forever and nothing more. But when two of them are attracted to each other, I thought, another movie going down the drain. And that is where I went wrong. The uneasiness amongst the two, to stand up to their friends' ideals and control themselves was nicely shown. Two scenes I liked the most were the one where the girl makes him realize the cost of his education and the one where she confesses her love towards him, to the other girl and the subsequent explanation by that girl towards the need for her idealistic views. The happy ending wasn’t to be with a Dharmapuri incident-like climax, which I kind of expected with the movie coming from the same team as Kadhal did. The songs weren’t as catchy as Happy Days but nevertheless very melodious and thoughtful. But it is in the lyrics department that it outdid the former. Also, there weren’t any song-dance sequences; songs took the story ahead, and that is something I expect to see in every movie ( Spoof Dances like Dhoom Tha Na in Om Shanti Om are also expected). I hear that the climax was changed to what I ended up watching, after post-release criticism on logical irregularities. I wish to see that as a positive step on the part of the Director, willing to correct mistakes in the finished product. There was nothing spectacular about the movie. Just the fact that almost everything was as close to reality as it can get. I pity the Telugu town/village student community who could not relate to themselves in Happy Days. I hope Shankar dubs Kalloori into Telugu and at least gives them a chance at that.
One thing that was common to both the movies was the actors. Almost all were rank newcomers, and all portrayed their respective characters very well. Most notable was the role of Ramesh in Kalloori - he was the most versatile actor amongst the lot.
Two movies with seemingly same basis, but turned out to show two entirely different viewpoints. Regarding viewer appeal, Happy Days wins hands down, but in terms of telling what was really intended to be said, Kalloori succeeded.
If you haven’t watched any of the two and now intend to do so, sorry for spoiling the fun.