My favourites

Every morning!! When i open my cupboard to pick a t-shirt(i don't pick jeans,as it is the same daily :-) ) there is one t-shirt which whispers to me "pleaseee wear me.." and it smiles..:-) most of the time i pick it.. sometimes i reject it and look for something else... but eventually i come back to the same t-shirt which grabbed my attention initially... if i don't somewhere i feel i am hurting the t-shirt similar to the "pain of rejection." ,i know all this could be sentimental.. but that is how i develop my intuition... Sticking to something which gets ur attention in no time!!!

Similar to the t-shirt picking event, i face another awkward situation!!! selecting songs to hear on my ipod ... be it t-shirt or a song.. finally, realized this after one month of data.. "i wear and listen to some songs & t-shirt very often these are the ones i call my favorites" and then there are some other t-shirt and songs,which i don't wear nor listen,but they are jus there with me... they are the things which were there with me from long time but did not pass the test of time... so the point i am trying to make is certain things are standing the test of time ... displaying great characters within themselves... and i want to select those special songs and see its similarity!!!

My favs(Many other songs which i am not able to list rt now.. i will add it soon)


1.) Teri Ore(Singh is King),Tere Naina(Chandini Chowk to china),Iktara(Wake Up sid),Aaao Na (Kyun Ho gaya Na)
2.) Mukundha Mukundha(Dhasavatharam)
3.) Dooriyaan(love aaj Kal)
4.) Khudha Khaiyar(Billu Barber)
5.) Maula Mere(Anwar)
6.) Tuju mein rab diktha hai(Rab ne bana di Jodi),Aye Honsla(Dor)
7.) Rama Chaka (Godavari),Nu veana(Anand),Arey re(Happy days)
8.) Anbe Sugama(Parthalae Paravasam),Munbe Va(SOK),Katrae en vasal(Rhythm),Aye Haira Tera(Guru),Yeh jo des(Sawdes),Nila Kaigirathu(Indra),vellai Pookal(kanathil Muthamital)

It might look i am talking something contradicting to the article i wrote about rahman.. but i am jus trying to be more true to my taste ... the songs listed above are my favorites and the ones i listen very often.... they are not in the order of my liking or rated.. thats why both of my favorite music directors are on both ends so that we don't judge based on its order.....

Wat do they have in common!! one thing for sure no technology,voice modifications,fast paced numbers stay for long, they motivate us initially... when they fade away we dont even return to them!!! its all melody!!! all of them has great tunes and voice... with very less amount of instruments or orchestra... jus a tabala in maula mere is soothing and inspiring in the long run!!!... i definitely did not like "thuj mein rab diktha hai" intially... i thot there is nothing new... but when i watched rab ne bana di jodi it made such an impact which i have not lost till now... every time i listen to it i feel the the innocent true love he has for her!!! so songs which are so close to the emotion of the movie and which represents the feel of the movie in one song will definitely be in our minds forever... those songs takes us into the characters of the movie and make us ache every time u listen!!

all these have great lyrics,they are very simple and depicts the situation in the best possible way,the tunes have base of carnatic or Hindustani... they are not jus some tune which cannot be associated with Indian music or raagas... this might make us feel we have already listened to it some 100 times and its like bhajan... but believe me those are the songs we hear repeatedly!!! if not check ur recently listened or most heard playlist on your ipod!!

does that mean we should not innovate new things or try something different yes off course we should... but we cannot decide immd, as its the best.. it has to pass the test of time.. rahman is my favourite, but when it comes to repeated hearing for years... there are everyone in it... yes rahman is comparatively more... No doubt.. but still those songs which sticks to basics are the ones that lasts forever....

after speaking about all these basics,from wat little i know about music, every time when a new album of rahman releases i ignore all these and go back to his songs where he breaks all the basics and creates new rules and i listen only to it!!! then after some time i come back to these same playlist.. may be sometimes some of the track gets added to this list!!

All though there are so many music directors in the list i would rate two of these very high

Shankar - Ehassan - loy... appart form the songs and tunes i like(that anyways is a obvious reason)... they maintain the same chemistry,Friendship and are together for almost 10 years.. in times where people fight for smallest of the small things being in a creative and evolving process the way they are together by resolving all their creative differences is truly amazing!!!

A.R.Rahman - i know everyone will laugh if i appreciate his music... i don't qualify ... but why he tops everyone else is his modesty - 2008 FIlmfare... A.R.Rahman nominated for janae tu ya jannae na,Jodha akbar,Ghajini...(3 out 6 nominations was his) was judged the best music director and best Background composition... whole bollywood rose to standing ovation.... ranbir kappor and imran khan fell flat on stage...rahman was not noticing wat ranbir and imran were doing on stage.. Aishwaraya rai and amitabh were forcing him to see that act of falling on floor by ranbir and imran... whole bollywood rose to standing ovation.. everybody in bollywood accepted he is the greatest composer of our times... and u know wat he said..."i feel very awkward to hold this award,it should have gone to salim-sulaiman for Rab ne bana di jodi"