“hmmm…hmmm..hmm..hm” the song went in my head. Now that is weird but when such a song goes in my head, usually the picturization comes in my head, if I have seen it. There was young Urmila matondkar and Nagarjyna in the song. “he doghe kontya pic madhe hote” I wondered. Nagarjuna esp is not that common name in bollywood. Though the rangeela gal is. Then the lyrics slowly dawned from my harassed brain “tum jo mile to laga hai…mil gai mujhe zindagi”…n I guess Suresh wadkar is the singer. Somewhere, Drohi was labeled as the movie. Promptly the song, actor and actress and movie went the reminder. For prompt search on google once in office. Who will switch on the system only for the search. The moment in office, and wiki to my rescue, I searched the movie. And on google. Which confirmed the song and movie. Now came a shock to me. the music director was none other than RD burman. “iska music director RD burman hai” I told my better(?) half on communicator with a shocked smiley, who was busy searching the song. He just smiled. Then was a big pause. “tum gaana sun rahe ho na…shaane …bhej do…” I typed. In a few minutes I received his usual “delete after downloading” mail, blame it on limited mailbox space.
The song starts with a bit of music which was the typical of the musicians then and which was just so good. Kind of creating environment for the song. And then the song started. “tum jo mile to laga hai….jaise mili hai zindagi…” Simple lyrics of Javed Akhtar and equally simplified music of the maestro “the RD burman” sung by Suresh Wadkar, this is a just so forgotten but somewhere in the memory song. It takes you in that phase when music was not noise and pictuarization was not exotic locales and skimpy outfits. It was more of understanding the thoughts the soul. The essence of the song. An ideal song to be dedicated to that someone whose worth at times we end up forgetting in life J
tum jo mile toh laga hai, jaise milee jindagee
jatee kaha hain yeh rahe, jin peh chalee jindagee
itna mujhko kab tha pata, aisa bhee ik ganw hain
rasta takatee mera jaha, inn palako kee chhaw hain
meree toh thee dhup me hee, abb tak palee jindagee
tum ko pake aisa laga, jitne the ghum kho gaye
sadiyo sey ham patthar ke the, abb mom ke ho gaye
itane hansee rup me hai, dekho dhalee jindagee
jine ko jite the magar, itnee khabar thee kise
dil me aisee galiya bhee hai, jin me hain sapne base
sapne mile toh khilee hai, ban ke kalee jindagee
My earphones back in my ears I started working, subconsciously in the lanes of memory, the fingers typing away words deciphered, putting sense in them.
