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Remember this song from Taal? I find it beautiful, the audio
as well… Not just because of the amazing A.R. Rahman but also because this was
one of the happy songs I would listen to, away from home in ‘students’ city Darmstadt, back in my German Internship
days…
Since I had always idolized my father and wanted to be like
him, I had taken along his favourite Talat Mehmood’s ‘dukhi’ tapes; which I
somehow, later, understood were not good for me and confessed to an Indian
elder-brother-like Indian friend the office people introduced me to. I called
him ‘Basav bhai’.
Mr B. Patil and his wife Kiran were very kind to me. Basav
Bhai asked me to not listen to those tapes. Simple enough… But I needed
something and hung on to them and confessed again to another Indian friend I
acquired at the Christmas fest Aiesecers took me to in, Mainz, a city nearby.
This was
Devraj! The ever helpful and smiling brother to Devrupa, who in turn, was
to become my confidante later… Devraj promptly invited me over to their place
in beautiful Heidelberg for the weekend. The brother and sister are IT people
and Bengalis with Hyderabadi accent! Devraj took us around the castle city and
also sent me off with the Taal cassette tape! This music brought a new lease of
life into my evening meal cooking time or simply after office hours!Nils, my bubbly flat-mate had made fun of Aishwarya’s
picture on the cassette-cover, “Indian girls make naked pictures? Are they not
traditional?” I explained, “No, no, she is wearing skin coloured leotard!”
Nicole, my other flat-mate remarked on some instrumentation
of one of the songs, probably ‘kanhin aag lage lag jaaye’… “This sounds like
some European music I have heard before…” I had to say, “It is quite possible…
Our film music has a lot of western influence…” But they all liked the whole
album overall and I was in any case, very proud of our national treasure, A.R.Rehman.
I probably left it for them before coming back, just like the red chilli powder
requested by Frank my third flat-mate, along with other spices…
Coming back to the song above, ‘taal se taal mila’, while
for us Indians the rain is a wonderful phenomenon not just because we are an
agricultural nation but also because it is a welcome change in the warm
climate; whereas, for the westerners it is more of a hassle. So, when dancing
and singing in the movies seem already funny to them, dancing in the rain must
seem ridiculous! In their kind of cold weather, it is quite understandable. So,
when during my Christmas invite at flat-mate and fellow AIESECer (Students
Exchange organization), Frank’s parents’ place, after numerous questions
whether to carry umbrellas by his younger sister Anne, Frank refused
confidently, it was only natural that she gave it back to him when it rained
heavily during our walk!
And I took a photo!:D
Hope you enjoyed this:)
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