So we are celebrating our 60th day of being a republic nation when we decided that the public matter and not just a few handfuls and we finally announced that India is "to the people for the people and by the people".
SO i switched on our good old doordarshan channel to see some r-day parade just to find out that there is no visibility and the entire ground is full of sudden fog cloud cover. So to pass time they showed this 22 year old song "Mile sur mera tumhara toh sur bane humaara."
And it felt so nostalgic because there were times some 5-10 years ago when I used to wait for "mowgli" to start on doordarshan and always these songs used to come up.
That time I used to get irritated because i had to wait 5 mins more for my cartoon to start.
When i heard it today it felt awesome. After listening to the doordarshan i channel surfed and landed myself on ZOOM where it was playing the ZOOM version called "Phir mile sur"
Oh the 5 minute doordarshan version is now a 18 minute ZOOM version and its bigger than ever.I absolutely loved the positive energy in the video.It is so well made with so many national icons coming together in one video which shows India's unity in diversity with so many dance and music forms and 28 states and even more number of languages singing in one tune and one line and yet everytime it sounds so different.
" Mile Sur mera tumhara toh sur bane humaara" my english translation would be..
" You Sing, I sing and we both have a SONG".. lol...
The song is peaceful and makes you feel so good and i bet once you listen to it.. you cant stop humming the tune all day.
3 comments:
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anythin tht depicts india and its people is inspiring & the old 'mile sur mera tumhara' was a brilliant act.
however i don find the new video well-made enough. the music is lack-lustre i still find important national figures ignored..
a lost chance!!
Well I happened to see it on youtube before they banned it due to copyright issues. And I felt horrible...disgusted and terribly betrayed of my nostalgic feelings.
We have grown listening to the song and have even sang along...in languages we did not even know.
And then this ugly version began with Amitabh pretending to be a classical singer... toh suuuuuurrrrrrr bane hamara...and the only thought that came to my mind was why didnt the terrorist shoot him down at the Taj (and I am a otherwise fan of Big B). Then I see Shankar Eshaan Loy acting like delinquent rockstars. Add to my woes comes Shaimak prancing around The Great Shobhana...am sure she would kick him out of her dance school for lack of talent.On the whole it felt like a bollywood advertisment rather than something on national intergration. What did Deepika achieve to look like a gag doll under the waterfall.The three khans were tempting me to choke them. When they could spend so much on the video why not a nice cool looking vest for Salman instead of watching someone in their innerwear hopping around with a hole in his jeans at the bum. Shahrukh stands at a studio with the sealink in the background doing a DDLJ pose and Aamir messing with the tune !! Then we have Shahid hallucinating he is Freddy Mercury and Ma'am Chopra lip syncs to an eunuch's voice.Shetty seems to advertise her Rajashtan Royals :))
Of course the musicians were nice in keeping the sanctity. All of actually were wonderful. But did you notice the young guys were all celebrity kids??
But the things that got my goat was them still showing India as a village with women weaving baskets instead of the technological advancement. The older version had the metro showcased here nothing about the new India.
Couldnt we have atleast Sachin from the sports for all that he has achieved. Bhutia without his football is running around filmistan streets...if you guys remember P.T.Usha with the stag it still makes us proud. We had Mario Miranda sketching but here we have Ranbir Kapoor in his nightsuit. I wish I could push him off the cliff.
At the end they suddenly remember the olympians so they give 2 seconds of airspace to them. Hockey is the national game yet we dont even see the hair of Dhanraj Sir.
The army is shown as a bunch of celebratory guys having fun.
I could go on and on with this to show how disgusted I am with this attrocious version. But then I see the author feeling sad and I feel guilty for stealing away his sweet nostalgia.
Some things are sacrosant and this is one of them that our generation has ruined like all the other good things.
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