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Tuesday 14 March 2006

The Beginnings

Taken from two previous posts with which I began burning up 'extra' time on a pastime!:
18-Jan-2006:
Colours of Spring

"Tu, bin bataye
Mujhe le chal kahiin
Jahaan tu muskuraaye
Meri manzil wohin"

A R Rahman has done it again. Predictably endearing with every repeat hearing, it is amazing how you emerge unconsciously liking a different number every time, until you start liking the whole.
Remnants of Swades and Yuva are seen hither and thither throughout the album. The title track is a creditably crafted 'authentic' Punjabi experience, for a Southerner that Rahman is, lilted by the unique combination of Daler and Chitra.
With every assignment, Prasoon Joshi makes inroads into territory that ad-men of his calibre have shied away from. Some meaningful verses with youthful simplicity and thematic variety prove his mettle as a Gulzar in a new bottle. A fact to be underscored is that it's Rahman's quality of creating more with less of music as such that allows the listener to delve deeper into the poetic aspect of the vocals. This is true especially in Tu Bin Bataye, the choice of singers of which is equally laudable.
Convincingly rendered by Lata, Lukka-chuppi / Bahut huyi / Saamne aa jaa na pulls us into a persistent image of childhood, where the child, away from his mother, feels a loneliness, though for all the treasure he discovers. Here, there is the beauty of a Hindustani classical with the tabla being extensively utilized.
The other well-composed numbers have an element of revolutionary patriotism in them. Of these, Roobaroo and Khoon Chala attract whereas Pathshala, though for the engaging music, is deficient with its lyrics compromised. One track that awfully falls short is Khalbali, coming through as another amateurish attempt at Arabic music.
This album promises to keep us hooked to it, until it gets a new lease of life as another Rahman classic.

Postscript: Critisicm is better done by people who do not know to do the real thing ;o) and not amateurs like me!

04-Jan-2006:
An Id for a Lifetime

With all major Indian telecom service providers launching lifetime validity recharge cards, the concept of validity as a mode of compelling customers to talk more is slowly losing its sheen. Compare this to a landline connection where you'll have to pay a fixed rent to keep your connection active and running. Combine this with the soon to be launched technology which enables you to retain your number across service providers. And then, it sinks in that this, though seemingly a simple marketing decision, is indeed a revolutionary idea. If all goes well, we might soon see Telecom Service Providers coming up with lifetime validity cards cards attached to every connection that you procure.

I do foresee, in not very distant a future, every person on earth with an attached mobile number, becoming an unavoidable personal identification number much like his name. Now, you can have a telephone directory which never needs to be corrected, except for possible additions and deletions. And, your old kindergarten friends will no longer be lost in the maze, because he'll still be contactable in the number he wrote into your autograph book.

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