Four years ago on a gloomy Sunday afternoon, I was enjoying a cool drink with my friends in a food joint… We were so engrossed in our talk that I didn’t notice that a really nice song was being played in the joint…. Suddenly, I realized this and started concentrating on the song…. It was a soft romantic number…. I could identify the female singer as Shreya Ghoshal but somehow couldn’t identify who the male singer was…. I asked my friends but they too weren’t sure…. None of us were sure of the movie as well… But that tune somehow was so enchanting that I couldn’t stop crooning it even after going home….. Wah… Kya music hai… That’s what I thought….
A couple of days later, I heard the same song on television… I was sitting in the other room and by the time I went to the TV room, the advertisement had disappeared…. Oh Man…!!!! When will I get to know the details of this song… !!!! As most of you know that I am an avid follower of Hindi film music…. I took this as a challenge to find out more about this song…..But the problem was that I remembered only a part of the song… It went something like this…. “Meri nigahon mein tera chehraa rawaan hai…. Gehre hai armaan jaane jaan pagal samaa hai….” My problem got accentuated due to the fact that this was not the first line of the song… I tried googling it but with no luck…. !!!!!
The torture continued for some more days…. I could hear the song playing in my ears day-in and day-out but couldn’t make out more about it….. One day, as I was watching Saregamapa Challenge 2005 I heard the music of this song…. But somehow I missed out on seeing the name of the movie as I got a call from one of my friends around about that time…. I thought this couldn’t get worse than this…. The tune was still lingering through my ears…. It was just marvelous…. I don’t have words to describe… It was one of those refreshing songs which you hear once in a century….. From the day I heard this song, I knew that this would change the shape of Bollywood music….
A week after the incident in the food joint, I was sitting in my house and that’s when I had the privilege to make out the movie of this song…. I couldn’t believe my eyes when I got to know the movie name and more so, the singer… It was a complete transformation for the singer…. I remember that music from his older movies was bent more towards Indian classical music…. The composer himself had accepted that he is inspired by Kalyanji-Anandji’s music and more often than not, you could sense the rustic feel in most of his songs…. It was a complete transformation for the music composer and also the singer….. It was outstanding the way he created a fusion of Indian and western instruments… It was just out of the world….
And thus, started my liking for this great music composer who has given so many hit songs ever since….. Some people like him… Some people hate him… But you just can’t ignore him…. I must say that I am one of those who admire him a lot…. I am a big fan of his brand of music…. I am a fan of his brand of songs…. I am a fan of his brand of lyrics… Yes, I am a big fan of the effervescent music composer and singer of the path-breaking song – “Aashiq banaaya apne….” from the movie Aashiq banaaya apne…. Hats off to Himesh Reshammiya for having entertained us with his superb music all these years…. I am a big fan of his... and seriously, he is superb, outstanding, fantastic, mind-blowing history!!!!!!!!!
