Tum Ho

'Tum Ho' sung by Mohit Chauhan in his filtered and precise raw voice is a beautiful composition and I remember playing it again and again so many times that I just press the 'Next' button everytime I see it in my playlist. But, what to do? I cannot even remove it either!

That's the power of A R Rahman's music, the western world has little idea of this!

 

So, let me introduce to the song:

Song: Tum Ho

Singers: Mohit Chauhan, Suzanne D’Mello

Music: A R Rahman (Do I even need to mention it?)

Lyrics: Irshad Kamil (The soul to the songs)

The song explains how a guy views the girl he loves:

"Khud ko main haar tumko, tumko main jeeta hoon": I won when I lost myself to you.

(One of my favourite lines). One of the most awkwardly correct phrases.

Similar to " If you love something from the heart, let it go,

                 If it comes back, it was yours,



A still from the movie 'Rockstar'



                 If it doesn't it never was."

Indeed, you can achieve eternal bliss only when you let go.

"Kahin se kahin ko bhi aao bewajah chalein": Let us go without a reason from a place to a place unknown.
Brings that picture when you go to some place with her - away from the world - to a place so green that your eyes are glared.

"Kis tarah cheenega mujhse ye jahaan tumhein": How will the world snatch you from me
The insecurities that you have for your love - are many. But in the next line, it says like "But if you are there, I don't have any worries".

All in all, you can sinfully immerse yourself into. I strongly suggest you to listen to this song.

Aria - Passage

This is what Wikipedia has to say about an Aria: "An aria (Italian for air; plural: arie or arias in common usage) in music was originally any expressive melody, usually, but not always, performed by a singer. The term is now used almost exclusively to describe a self-contained piece for one voice usually with orchestral accompaniment."

The song Aria by A R Rahman is a typical Aria in the movie Passage by Shekhar Kapur. The song has been sung by Kavita Baliga (Yes! An Indian!) and the music is phenomenal. You can read more about the movie at here.

The song gives you a feeling of something freeing itself and venting out in the air. It feels as if the singer is standing on a rotating disc with a single stream of light focussed on her in the midst of utter darkness. And, as she sings, she dissolves calmly into thin air as if there was another way of meeting death.

The movie is equally moving. As much as the movie is short, the impact is great. And, the crystal work in the movie. Man!!!!! You wonder if such things as crystal stages etc. will ever show themselves in your life.

So, go ahead and enjoy this song.

P.S.: Need help from someone who knows French , with the lyrics. I know very little French. :)



Chhoti Si Aasha

Because this song marked the "re-birth" of ARR in a way, I want to start blooging about him with this Chhoti Aasha in my heart that some day I will meet him and will get a chance to sing for him. I fall short of words when it comes to describing how much I respect him and want to sing for him. I usually am not a "fan" material and detest people who put up posters of their stars on walls and everything they can lay their hands on, but A R Rahman has been one of the few persons I would really love to meet before I die.

I know there are fans much more ahead of me in collecting his pics and info, but with this Chhoti Si Aasha, that some day I could meet him, I hereby start this blog:

"Mangalyam Tantunanena ..." - Saathiya