Finally saw the 'Ek chidiya, anek chidiya' video downloaded atleast a month back. And all the images still as fresh as they were in the good old days when DD was the only channel to watch. The orange-with-yellow border mangoes (which for some inexplicable reason i really craved), the holier-than-thou sister, the blinking sun and moon, the birds pecking at grains hip-hop style... And yet, i don't remember ever liking it so much. In fact, i clearly remember a time when i used to get away from the TV when this film came on. Boredom? Overkill perhaps?
Go 92.5 FM has become full hindi now and that's a big disappointment for lovers of all kinds of music like me. They played a song the other day which seemed strangely familiar and the words came back to me. It was from the movie 'Ek Duje ke Liye' and has lyrics consisting only of Bollywood movie titles. 'Mere Jeevan Saathi... Pyaar kiye jaa... Jawaani Deewani... Khoobsurat Ziddi Padosan Satyam Shivam Sundaram'. And my mom reminds me i HATED this song. Then why does it sound so nice now? Changed sense of humour? Maturity perhaps?
Or maybe simply, nostalgia. The heady feeling of the past being so much better that the haze makes you forget that it really wasn't so good. The lesser you remember, the more lucid the imagination.
2 comments:
are you ever too young to be nostalgic?
exactly..hence the last paragraph.. the haze combines with scattered memories of myself at age 4 or so... n since im doin nothin but break my back n do services portfolio right now, ANYTHING i did before architecture seems so much better...
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