SA RE GA MA PA...So simple, yet so magical

The magic of melodies, although a rhythmic fusion of words and music, can never be plainly articulated and expressed in words. It gives a feeling which is splendid, mystifying. I pick one song and keep poring over it , getting enraptured for hours and hours, endlessly trying to figure out the magic within to express the mesmerizing effect. To say, it deeply touches my heart, enriches my soul …sounds shallow, for there is something more deep to it, deeper than.. the blue water running endlessly across the undefined oceans ....the never ending roots of the huge trees forming dark, lovely, deep greenery of forest …… the pious and inexhaustible colorful imagination of a child’s mind devoid of fear... limitless…it’s a sensation which cannot be quantified absolutely.

There are songs which reinvigorate, each and every particle of my body, the words and the music take a form, which I seem to identify so well, but could never be aware of its proximity to me, they define a feeling I have always had within me, but could never realize. I keep repeating the words, play with the tunes, try holding them to my heart, but it simply flows, freely, endlessly, entangling me in a perfect loop, taking me into trance, peace, serenity, composure, divinity…a spiritual enormity…..

I keep humming them, try to put the notes with the same intensity, make the words flow with the same inexplicable feeling, till they completely get ingrained in me. It is soul -quenching to listen to a good music and all the more, when you put your voice, emotions, and feeling to sing it with the same magicJ….

Presently, engulfed in the song..

From the film: bazaar
Singer: lata mangeshkar
Music Khayaam
Lyricist: Makhdoom Mohiuddin, Bashir Nawaz

Dikhayi Diye Yoon Ke Bekhudh Kiya
Humein Aapse Bhi Judaa Kar Chale
Jabhi Sajda Karte Hi Sarse Gayi
Haq-E-Bandigi Hum Ada Kar Chale
Parastish Kiya Tak Ke Aye But Tujhe
Nazar Mein Saboki Khuda Kar Gaye
Bahut Arzoo Thi Gali Ki Tere
So Ya Se Lahoo Mein Naha Kar Chale
Fakirana Ae Sada Kar Chale
Miya Khush Raho Hum Dua Kar Chale
Jo Tujh Bin Na Jeene Ka Kehte Hum
So Us Ahad Ko Ab Wafa Kar Chale
Koi Na Umeed Na Karte Nigahen
So Tum Humse Munh Bhi Chhupa Kar Chale