Dip into Music.......

One more round on music... but this time, it's Hindi film music.

For me, it's always an interesting fact that how music gets generated in one's mind, gets passed on to another one and also many people from there. This process of music reaching the last level, that is we fellows, is a long journey.

Initially, when I was listening to Madan Mohan or Salil Chowdhary, I wanted to become like them. But very soon realized that it is not like you just become a music director. One need to have lots of thought process about how the music should originate, what shape it should take and what is the satisfaction one gets out of composing the music. More than anything, getting drowned in music !!!!

For example, people like Madan Mohan were so perfectionists that they could not tolerate even single "besur" in any of the instrument or voice. Ilayaraaja, can find out one besur in 40 piece orchestra where 20 violins are there. He can find out which particular violin is creating the problem.

Now, to get to that level of detailing is not possible if you just wish to become a music director. It needs lot of meditation about music. It needs lot of sense of listening to the music. It needs hell a lot of power to identify the mistake and more than anything, to prove what was identified as a mistake.

Salil Chowdhary was one music director who could literally play any musical instrument. In most of his compositions, he has taken charge of the highlighting instrument and delivered it perfectly. Again, it needs lot of guts to provide an outcome which is equivalent to a master artiste. Salil Chowdhary had that guts.

Also for him, language really did not matter to create those "all time, never to come" gems. Be it Choti si Baat, Aanand, Parakh, Jaagte Raho in Hindi or Chemmeen and Manasvini in Malayalam, it was that creative element which created history.

Even today, I find just one tune of a line of his song "baag mein kali khili bawra nahi aaya" repeating in the songs of Chemmeen, an amazing thing. What is the language has to do here? It's sheer music and sheer creativity and the passion which has worked. I do not think there are these kind of experiments from any music director.

For great souls like Salil Chowdhary, Madan Mohan and Ilayaraja, apart from the nuances of music rather technically perfect music, it is the music which just oozes out of their heart and soul, is what is important.

Listen to Madan Mohan's "Yun hasraton ke daag" from the movie Dastak in Lata Mangeshkar's voice. You will be zapped at the violin pieces... wov... it creates such an amazing graphics in your mind when you listen, that you can never escape from it. These are the things which makes music directors like Madan Mohan, a unique composer. Even today, I get goosebumps when I listen to "Maayi re...." in Madan Mohan's voice. Just one sharp note in a stanza is enough.... it changes the entire pattern of the song creating myriad colors !!!

With all these, I decided that I do not fit the bill of a music director. I always felt that there is a complete life ahead for me to listen, listen and listen. Leave those compositions to the GODS !!!