Enjoyed listening to the song HK..nice..

Thanks for sharing..oh, thank you for the Idli Rice too in advance:)


I was listening to this marvelous-uplifting song before I came on line..a friend gave me the musical notes not too long ago..so was finally able to try playing it on the piano too..wasn't that hard! Motivated me to play for some time..

Maria S wrote:oh, thank you for the Idli Rice too in advance:)

you are welcome. we bengalis are large-hearted and generous.

Sure..I know!

Anyone who wants to give us more idli rice- to make us look like Jayalalitha with her idli cheeks..is very "large"..I mean large-hearted:D in our eyes!

And we Tamilians (with our passionate and proud attitude!) appreciate-embrace those who respect and like us-and make them our Superstars!

LOL!

Huzefa Kapasi wrote:LOL!

Appreciate you appreciating my sense of humor and think you like (well, I'll count that as appreciation, like, mild embrace!) so..you are a Superstar in my eyes;)!

Seriously, it's good to know about all the trade deals..state to state and international!

Have a good evening.

An ear-splitting cacophony of Hindi and Marathi film songs, devotional songs, lots of live drums, recorded beats, crackers and fireworks as an endless procession of trucks carrying Ganeshas wends its way past my place for the immersion.

The whole spectacle and sound is filling me with total devotion and belief in the sacred. I'm so proud right now to be a Hindu. Not.

Maria S wrote:
Seriously, it's good to know about all the trade deals..state to state and international!

yes. contrariwise, west bengal is a milk deficient state (it consumes a lot of milk as sweets) and gets its shortfall from the south.

i was wondering why i liked this song so much. i just googled. it is junoon -- no wonder.

It's Gandhi Jayanti today and I'm listening to this beautiful rendition of 'Vaishnav Jan To' by Ustad Shahid Parvez Khan and Ustad Rashid Khan. Here's hoping that the words of Mahatma Gandhi's favourite bhajan may inspire us to nudge India towards his long-forgotten ideals. -- Ashwin Sanghi (author, historical fiction).

Huzefa Kapasi wrote:i was wondering why i liked this song so much. i just googled. it is junoon -- no wonder.

http://www.indicine.com/movies/lyrics/maula-lyrics-jism-2/

Huzefa Kapasi wrote:

(merely judging young yo yo honey or the lyricist)

a journal entry reproduced:

We are in delhi, its airport. My cousin and I are having a quiet beer in the airport lounge. It's 3 months since my return from U.S. My cousin is older, married, settled. A bunch of tourists walk in and settle down. They could have been european or american. The girls are wearing shorts and t-shirts. Their table, quiet and empty until a short while ago, now overflows with white freckled flesh. There is flesh in arms, flesh in thighs, flesh in calves, young cherubic faces, overflowing choleric skin. In India, the whole thing was clearly obscene. A familiar smell, a white traveller's smell - mint toothpaste and cigarettes - wafted in our direction and brought our conversation to a halt. The girls were shifting their legs, moving their arms, flashing their cleavages. I looked at my cousin and we were both thinking of the same thing. What did we make of these girls we seemed to ask each other with our eyes. After a while, I whispered to my cousin that I didn't find white women attractive [which is/was a lie -- i am adding this as an interruption in an otherwise faithful narration for i am suddenly attracted to choleric skin]. I said that as if I had earned a licence, after so many years in the U.S., to comment such. And I said it because, at that point of time, I was disappointed with these girls - they hadn't aroused me. He sipped on his beer carefully, nodding gently to what I had said. Yes, he said, quite true; white girls don't have any salt.... namak nahin hai yaar. And then he said, come one, let's make a move. As I got yanked out of the lounge by his sudden persistence to get moving, I thought about what he had said, and felt enlightened. He had said something I could have said but never did. Of course, it's not entirely true. But the feeling I got back then, in the lounge, after I had heard him, was that I was suddenly privy to the Indian male psyche. And I was a part of it. And also, that, in matters of eroticism, this psyche was corny and fetishistic. Namak nahin hai. Wah wah. A drenched heaving bosom sends this psyche quavering. A naked madhuri-dixit would be a big turn-off for this psyche.

those in US who can't see my embedded youtube link above, try this:

Huzefa Kapasi wrote:[youtube - brown rang]

i posted the above song in my older's fb feed. he clicked like. i also noticed that a girl from his college had posted something in his feed too. he is cozying up to the ladies i think. i was getting worried if he is homosex. not that there is anything wrong with it.

sansani khabar (hot news): my wife just told me that abida parveen is a cheatercock. the india-pak singing reality show is on in colors. abida parveen, she says, she gives 0 points to bad indian artists whereas asha bhosle and runa laila give 3/4 points to the poor paki performers. that is why india is lagging by 10 points. ridic. india-pak bias clearly at play here. horrible.

Huzefa Kapasi wrote:youtube link -- khwaja mere khwaja

i listened to it yesterday, after a long time, when it was sung by a pakistani contestant in the india-pak music competition going on in colors. i have listened to this song on repeat mode whole day. i don't know why i did not get attracted to it the first time i heard it. this is a befitting celebration or reply-to to NFK by a r rahman in the same language with his own language used. it is marvelous actually. i wish NFK was alive to listen to it and break into raptures and join rahman in the dervish dance.

Listening to my subconscious mind right now.

Enjoy!

nice guitaring by keshav in the first track. i had heard the yo yo honey singh track in my car but hadn't been able to find it later (couldn't recall the lyrics). thank you!

yaar angreji neat de is lovely. txs again!

happy mahalaya all! tomorrow also marks the end of pitrapaksh. durga has descended once again to vanquish evil and do good some good.

I listened to the same song sung by few other artistes, but I like this rendering.

Huzefa Kapasi wrote:[youtube - brown rang]

pretty much on the mark analysis by nishita jha -- http://www.tehelka.com/story_main54.asp?filename=hub201012Honey.asp

you you honey singh. (your music is OK though.)

edit. doubly old song, lol.

loved the movie. darjeeling and bengaWlis.

oh i love all the barfi songs... is dil ka kkya karu and ashiyana my favs oh and ala barfi too. all of them!

this is another current fav

what is a barfi song? you listen to it and then you barf?

MaxEntropy_Man wrote:what is a barfi song? you listen to it and then you barf?

http://www.google.com/#hl=en&sclient=psy-ab&q=barfi%20songs&oq=&gs_l=&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&fp=bcf375ce9ef5ce06&bpcl=35466521&biw=1920&bih=979&pf=p&pdl=300

GOOGLE HELPS

I like all the title songs in James Bond movies..this one stands out with
Adele's powerful voice....the movie "Skyfall" will be out only on Nov 8, but this song already has close to 50 million hits, for good reason!

Let the Sky fall..

can't find the vdo i was looking for...enjoy the song B)

http://neverendingplaylist.com/#!/artists/akon/ARCGJ6U1187FB4D01F

arvo looks like jesus christ


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtFPdBUl7XQ

http://soundcloud.com/de-kulture-music/bachu-khan-langa-bana-re-maro

^ abida parveen sang this tonight in what are the final episodes of surkshetra on colors. what a lovely song! there was also a hair raising rendition by her of tere ishq nahaya, accompanied by atif aslam.



she sings like a soul possessed -- what with her unruly, kinky hair. she is second only to NFAIK imo. best episode so far. my wife, as usual, remarked again that she is the biggest cheatercock in the world. maybe my wife is right but i don't care. (i suspect it's partly 'cos abida resembles my sis and, yes, my sis is the biggest cheatercock in the world and my wife and her don't get along.) atif aslam, otoh, my wife thinks is cute (he is captain of the pak. team and not in the jury).

ultimate romantic song

been listening to this since last night...

i like this better (ok "as much" not "more") than the nfak version. it is more soulful. bought a big collection of sufi tunes yesterday (including wadali brothers).



the nfak one which i think should be considered one of his best:

Don't know if anyone listens to Nikhil Banerjee. Here's an Alap (Raag Desi)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nrpms4vf5s4

Also a simple request to Rashmun. Please listen to this song and get a translation of the lyrics and enjoy. The mridangam is too good and that too when I listen to this in AIWA stereo connected to PC.

Following is the same song from the movie.



Enjoy...

may be he is born somewhere already and has a new b'day
but since we don't know where when etc...

very sweet 7. great selection. google carried a doodle of him yesterday. i was very surprised to see google do hindian propaganda.

my fav line - ring the bell i'm in danger
tonite i'm falling in love with a stranger