Wow is the word...

There is something about music that is indecipherable... Pure and so very amazing.

All the people who know me will vouch for the importance of the music in my life. But these days music has moves me like never before. Songs have an amazing capability to take me another level altogether.

One such song I have heard in the recent times is “Leja leja” from the album “Ustad and the Divas”.

Now if you have heard this song, you will understand what I am saying. The song is just heavenly. Nothing else compares to it…

And if listening to the song was a divine experience in a way, the video was one of the most therapeutic things that has happened to me in quite some time now. Catharsis, no less! The first time I watched the video I found myself sobbing at the end, hair standing at its ends and all that…

The video album goes something like this – The girl(Nina Sarkar from namma bengalooru) is a bar dancer and the guy(Varun Toorkey from amchi mumbai) is a call-center employee. As expected, the girl’s life isn’t exactly a bed of roses. And almost all throughout the song she keeps on missing her bus. The main character in the whole song is a BILLBOARD. Initially it has a picture of a girl sitting on a bench. The first time the girl misses her bushes, she brandishes a marker pen and draws menacing clouds and big raindrops over the girl’s picture. Enter the knight the other day! He draws an umbrella over the girl! Day II – Someone tries to molest the girl in the bar. She runs away from the bar and comes to the stop JUST IN TIME to see the bus leave. Our cute guy is seated in the last seat. He doesn’t see her, she doesn’t see him… Tears in her eyes, she turns to the billboard where the “protected for & cared for” girl greets her. She draws this bus stepping into a pot-hole and splashing mud all over the girl in the picture. Our guy comes the next day, sees the picture, gives a damn cute smile and draws a guy BETWEEN the bus and the girl. The next morning on her way to work, our bar-dancer peeks at the billboard from the bus and sure enough the girl is again taken care of. A heart-warming smile lights up on her angelic face. She dances away to glory that night and makes in ON TIME to the bus-stop for the bus as well as the guy…

It’s such an amazing concept. I can’t just imagine how creative the geniuses behind this video must be… Ok granted, the girl being a bar-dancer is dressed in skimpy tops but still given what we have to endure with Rakhi Sawant and the likes of her, this girl still manages to stir up the feeling of love, sympathy and warmth in us. Most importantly, she carries of her attire with aplomb.

The album reminded me of a chance remark that Raviraj, one of my friends from Progeon, had once told me. “Bar girls”, he said, “aren’t any different from the likes of what you see on M.G.Road and other “hot” places. Just that they have to lead their lives in such ignominy seems so harsh.”

Then, I dint quite agree. But today, one song made the difference to my outlook. If it had such an impact, the word for it is definitely WOW, ain’t it?