Familiarity is not that bad !!

I dint want to go to the concert .... But I went nevertheless.... Just one of the things that happen even when you know you have lots of clothes to wash, you are dead tired and you know you would have trouble waking up the next day for the CCNA class (Yeah finally joined the class which I have been thinking about for the past six months)

Now, I wasn't very keen in going to a concert... I've never been to one ... and I seriously doubted my threshold levels as far as a music concert was concerned.. Don't get me wrong.. I do like music ... and I am supposed to be a good singer too.. But I dont get too excited by most kinds of music.. I dont collect cassettes cds .. and I dont keep up with the latest albums...Anyway I guess you got the picture...

But there were some deciding factors ... It was a Jagjit Singh concert and I reasoned that I may never have the chance to actually see him perform again...

Almost everything went fine .. we reached the concert hall on time.. got the tickets ... and we were positioned such that we could see the Great Man performing clearly...

I have never seen so many Sardars at the same time before yesterday .. there were rows n rows of them and ofcourse accompanied by real 'Soni gudis' much to the delight of my friends ...

I was bracing myself for the most solemn of performances when JJS surprised us by cracking jokes every now n then ... then asking his co artistes to adjust the treble , this ..that(and heaven knows what other jargons he was throwing in) .. was really cool....

He was a delight to the crowd judging by the 'wah.. wahs' he got .. the claps that rang out when he hinted at what song he is going to sing by humming it first.. a real winner ...

But I couldn't appreciate most of the songs bcos they were in Urdu ( Mirza Ghalib's --- I know that such a person existed only bcos of a serial that used to be shown in Dhoor Dharshan those good old days) and in Punjabi owing to the crowd.... I found myself enjoying some of the Hindi songs like ' Des mein Nikhla hoga Chand' ,' Ye Doulat bhi le lo ..' because I had heard it before...

It should not have mattered whatever language it was .. music is music .... but I guess it is very human to be partial to things that are more familiar to you....But am not telling that I would have felt better if I had been listening to Carnatic Music sitting in Chennai.. would have felt equally out of place...

Anyway it was a different way to spend the evening.. and I would not think much in going next time if some other concert of JJS comes up ..

Signing off
Sundari





Comments

Gaurav said…
That was a gem of a concert..and even i was watching JS performing live for the first time..
and it was an awsome experience although i will not forgive u for dragging me out in the middle of the show!!
;-)
4:46 AM
Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

To Love , Honor & Cherish !!

I am the kind of person who cannot keep things inside me for long … It is very rare that I keep secrets… and mostly such secrets still remain secrets because of loads of dire threatening & warning … and yeah sometimes caution prevails and I vow myself to never utter a word outside about it … But if something is 'happening' in my own life… then it is sometimes a wonder that I do not climb the nearest mountain & shout it out till either my lungs or my throat give up... There is a sweet turn of events in life … What can I say!! :-) He came, he smiled and he conquered … And one of the most difficult questions in my life was solved owing to a smile… :-) I have always been fascinated by the Christian Sacred vows of Matrimony… How true the words ring out …. I take thee to be my wedded husband/wife . . to have and to hold.. from this day forward . . . for better, for worse . . . for richer, for poorer . . . in sickness and in health . . . 'till death do us part . . . and th...
Read more

Rajnikanth - Fish out of water !!

It was the first or rather the 2nd Rajnikanth movie for me to watch in theatre.. I do not know what I had expected to see.. But somehow it beat all the expectations I had .. I like him somehow.... those eyes of his have captured thousands of Tamil people's hearts (yeah.. not an exaggeration) ..and even though am not a fanatic of his movies.. I like him... It is his latest - ' Chandramukhi ' & I had watched it along with some of my friends in Matunga ..It was a different experience seeing a Rajnikanth movie in Mumbai ... But before u read on I just want to write a disclaimer ' The views expressed here are not intended to hurt anybody's taste . It is solely intended as a topic for discussion' .. Thanks.. now read.. Rajini is not that good an actor.. he fails miserably in sentimental scenes... he doesnt know to dance or atleast u can say that his dance is not graceful ... he doesnt pronounce Tamil the way it is supposed to be ...he started out his career as a v...
Read more

It is Autumn !!

When I was thinking how to write about the changes that have occurred in my life this time .. it suddenly struck me how apt my blog title "Transition" is .... atleast for now ... There have been so many transitions recently .. some were superficial & some were things that have run deep... like for instance the Farewell of my Bestest friend.. In my earlier post it was to bid 'adieu' to my room mate & close friend of 2 years ... I had gone to her marriage.. felt happy .. felt sad .. then came back to the same grind at office .... This week it was my bestest friend's turn to say bye ... He has been such a solid presence with all the timely advices, the kind words you want to hear , an infinitely big heart and as another friend had described once "a sample of the extinct species of a good man from a different era"... The kind of ideals that he upholds have to be experienced to be believed... And this moocho man will be blushing to his ro...
Read more