The Great Raja

Yesterday while returning back home from office, the cabbie played a classic song on his cd player.The awesomeness of the song made me drool that I requested the driver to repeat the song, much to the irk of fellow passengers. It was probably the first time, I kept my headphones back into my purse and listened to the entire song wide eyed and wide eared, while rest of folks slept away in glory, ignorant of the pure awesomeness that was surrounding them.

Our brain has got two sides - the creative left and the analytical right. Music generally triggers the creative side of the brain, but this song, in my case triggered the analytical one. And so breaking the mysterious web that i have created here, the song was(including only the male singer lyrics- the chauvinist me ;))

***Drum roll***

Hey Eh........
Hmm Pehle Toh Kabhi Kabhi Gham Tha
Abb Toh Har Pal Hi Teri Yad Satatee Hai 
Pehle Toh Kabhi Kabhi Gham Tha
Abb Toh Har Pal Hi Teri Yad Rulatee Hai 
Pehle Toh Kabhi Kabhi Gham Tha
Magar Yeh Dard-E-Judayee Hai Har Ghadee Abb   

Mai Tujhse Kaise Kahu Yeh Bata
Ke Teri Yad Ke Sahare Jee Raha Hu 
Mai Tujhse Kaise Kahu Yeh Bata
Ke Gham Ke Aansuo Ko Khud Hi Pee Raha Hu 
Mai Tujhse Kaise Kahu Yeh Bata
Naa Mar Dale Teri Bewafayee Mujhko   

Ho Bata De Mujhko Bewafa Yeh
Mai Teri Rah Me Kab Tak Khada Rahunga 
Bata De Mujhko Bewafa Yeh
Mai Tere Dar Peh Yun Kab Tak Pada Rahunga 
Hmm Bata De Mujhko Bewafa Yeh
Tu Mujhko Kab Talak Aise Hi Rulayega 
Bata De Mujhko Bewafa Yeh
Tu Mujhko Kab Talak Apna Naa Banayega   
Hmm Ai Pagli Tu Kyon Ro Rahi Hai
Ke Gham Toh Mujhko Uthana Hai Judayee Kaa 

Ae Pagli Tu Kyon Ro Rahi Hai
Tere Liye Toh Sama Hai Yeh Shehnayee Kaa 
Ae Pagli Tu Kyon Ro Rahi Hai
Ke Gaon Chhodna Hai Mere Mukaddar Me 
Hmm, Ae Paglee Tu Kyon Ro Rahi Hai
Ke Umr Gujregee Abb Meree Yeh Safar Me  

And so the ANALYSIS goes like this: (Read it at your own risk)!!

PLOT: Sad Scene. Girl is getting married to someone else and guy is singing (as expected) a sad song in her memory.. SETTING: Picture a rain sequence. TWIST: The Guy, at times also sings on behalf of the girl (Refer the underlined parts of lyrics).

WRITER: The song writer is suffering from amnesia and deja vu simultaneously. As a result he gets a literary diarhhea. Every odd line gets repeated. Writer lets out all possible words and lines that he could ever write on girl getting married to someone else-bewafa sanam-udaas balma theme and put into this song. Thats one primary reason, even if u sleep in between the song, when you wake up, the song will still keep playing. Its a never ending saga of 10 - 15 miutes.

SINGER(MALE): He shares his initials with greatest musicians today (AR) - His Majesty, Qawaali King, Altaf Raja. Yes,yes,yes hes the one who sang the eternal epic song

Tum toh thehre Par-de-seeee,

saath kya nibhaa-o-gayyyyy....

 tu-tu-tung-tudung-tung 

Subah pehli..

tik-tik-tik-tik 

subh-ah pehli

tik-tik

 subh-ah pehli gaadi sayyyyyyy ,

ghar ko laut jao-gayyyy

tu-tu-tung-tudung-tung 

Tum toh is one of the hot favorites in any gathering like pinics, razzies farwell parties,etc.

Coming back to our current song,PTKK (Pehle Toh Kabhi kabhi), the lyrics though sad, His Majesty, Qawaali King Altaf Raja  doesnt sound sad at all. On second thoughts , why would he be, after all his girlfriend isnt getting married!  #greatThoughts. He successfully sings in same monotone, the entire infinite length of the song.

SINGER(FEMALE):  I am letting out a secret here. Shhhhh.. The songstress(no idea who) is a garba singer.(That explains her stamina to sing the marathon song). In off-season, she lends her voice to music videos a-la-T-Series. She was told that it is a duet and she has equal number of lines to sing along with His  Majesty, Qawaali King, Altaf Raja.(Checkout the original lyrics below with her lines are in red)

 He: Pehle Toh Kabhi Kabhi Gham Tha

She: Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-aaaaa-aaaaa-aaaaaaa
He: Abb Toh Har Pal Hi Teri Yad Satatee Hai  

She: Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooo-oooo-ooooo-ooooo
He: Abb Toh Har Pal Hi Teri Yad Rulatee Hai 

She: Hmmmmmmmmmmm-hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm  

VIDEO: Unfortunately, I never got the privlege of watching the video. Sigh! Ill youtube tonight, maybe!

That ends my analysis.

Verdict: Yes, office work exhausts my think-tank and so I am off to another great song by His Majesty, Great Qawaal, AR Ishq aur Pyaar ka, mazaa lee jiyeee, thoda intezaar  ka mazaa leejiye..