जीने लगा हूँ, पहले से ज़्यादा

A refreshing love song. Shreya Ghoshal excels.

सुन रहा है न तू? (Female voice)

I have not seen the movie आशिकी 2, but the adaptation of this song by a TV serial — पवित्र रिश्ता — is impressive.

हम बेवफा हरगिज़ न थे

Recently, I heard this song again, and noted that the first couple of lines were intriguing:

"I was never unfaithful,
Yet, I could not be faithful ...".

And, of course, the fact that this is in Kishore Kumar's voice is a perennial attraction.

तू जहाँ जहाँ चलेगा, मेरा साया साथ होगा

This is a song that, I learnt recently, has been dedicated by Lata Mangeshkar to Sachin Tendulkar, the cricket maestro who retired yesterday from test cricket after his 200th appearance.

If you want to listen to all the four stanzas, use the audio track hyperlink.

ಓ ರವಿಯೆ, ನಮ್ಮ ಕುಲಪತಿಯೆ, ...

When you witness a musical production such as Jaya Jaya Vijayee Raghurama, presented under the auspices of One School at a Time (OSAAT), with a string of songs each of which is composed in a raga to suit the mood portrayed by the song, you will find yourself humming, or recalling, that one song over and over again. The following song is one such in today's presentation in Los Altos Hills, California:

रसके भरे तोरे नैन, सावरिया

Male lover pleads to the female not to make him restless, by describing her eyes as full of रस, love.

बड़े अच्छे लगते हैं

Simple lyrics, describing what seems to be a certain separation. (I haven't seen the movie).

The lyrics are so simple that it looks like they can be adapted,  to several different situations — husband-wife, brother-sister, father-daughter, grandfather-granddaughter, etc. — in real life.

Any takers?

न जाने क्या हो गया है तुम्हे देखकर

Lilting tunes are a specialty of this song while it expresses feelings of romantic love.

आजा रे परदेसी

This is a second song I have encountered recently that uses the phrase पंथ निहार to describe the act of waiting for someone by looking at the road on which the expectant person would come. The first one is मेरे जनम मरण के साथी.

ನಾ ನಿನ್ನ ಧ್ಯಾನದೊಳು ಇರಲು ಸದಾ

A devotional composition by ಪುರಂದರದಾಸ.

The lyrics on the web are somewhat conflicting and I have, therefore, not provided any links to transliterations and have provided my own transliteration from listening to Bhimsen Joshi's rendering.

Another ♫दरबारी कानडा feast.

मेरे जनम मरण के साथी

A devotional बंदिश, a Meera Bhajan, composed by Meera Bai, a 16th century, famous, devotee of Lord Krishna. Another ♫दरबारी कानडा feast.

तुम ही हो

Nice melody. Declaration of love.

मेहँदी है रचनेवाली, हाथों में गहरी लाली

The video you see is an illustration of how to dance to the song, by the famous Bollywood choreographer Saroj Khan. It is sung to a new bride — बन्नो — as she prepares herself for the wedding.



The original picturization of the song on Karishma Kapoor, however, has a somewhat different melodrama woven into the song.

देवन के पति इन्द्रा

A lovely composition by Swathi Thirunal that is designed for Raag ♫दरबारी कानडा, as you will note from the line

राग पति कानडा,

and enumerates all the 'head's of various important life's larger-than-life ingredients.