The day - 31st of December 1999 ; the time must have been anywhere between 6 to 8 pm when we started to sing . Nervous ?? A bit we were for sure, but then it never did matter because we believed in ourselves and we believed that we sang well and rightly so cos we did sing well that day.Music has always run through our veins and we have pratically lived on it all our lives.
The new year party was amazing ...and me and ritu being a part of it and actually singing in front of such a large audience with full rehearsals was even more exciting. Dola Dola, Chanda Re, Sunta hai, we sang them one by one much to the surprise to a major lot who did not quite believe that we could pull them off so well !!!!
Everyone patted our backs for our performance ...for the last time.....
That was the last time we sang together. I flew to bangalore to pursue engineering while Ritu completed hers at Xaviers, Kolkata.We never could think about anything else part from our routined life.A lot of things happen to our lives....Ritu finds her soulmate...I face ups and downs in college life.A huge heartbreak follows...Music is out !!!!
Ritu comes to bangalore ;stays here for 2 years;completes her course and gets ready to leave for Kolkata.
In this mechanical IT life , there is hardly any time to indulge yourself and listen to your heart and dedicate a part of your life to something which once used to not only be a part of your existence , but also a way of life !!
Music was still out .....
The day -6th April 2008; the time somewhere around 8-9 pm ; Oasis Centre Bangalore, Amma and Sashi drag us on stage and ask us to sing !!! There was a karaoke session going on and we were suddenly holding mikes !! Nervous ?? A bit for sure ,but then it never did matter because we believed in ourselves and we believed that we sang well ..... And then we sang ......."Main Agar Kahoon"
The audience was enraptured !!! Claps and more claps !!! We were the centre of attention, suddenly..standing tall..feeling proud..
It took 10 years for me sing in public, and it gave me hope,it gave me confidence, more importantly gave me peace.. and as Ritu rightly put in that amongst so many changes that we have been a part of there is something inside us that is still the same .. Something which is stagnant.
Thanks mom and thank you Sashi for the confidence !!
I think I am a changed man, I sing to myself each day,and make a conscious effort to near perfection in my renditions, each time I hit a note....
I dont know how to conclude this post , maybe I will close my eyes , take a deep breath, look skywards and say Thank You...
2 comments:
as u said...it was a wonderful experience to relive those wonderful times that we shared when life wasnt as complicated as it is...its said that we lose some to gain some...but my version of it is tht we lose quite a lot 2 gain sum...ten yrs time we hve lost our innocense, our frequent trips together, our sittin on restaurant table n laughin silly silly things, and to a great extent our bondin...al of us r runnin nw...whr n for wht...wel i dont know...but al said n dun it was indeed such a refresher to be kids again...to experience tht tension again n pullin it off in great style in front of the huge crowd...as always!!!!!!
cheers to sid n ritu! :) guys..let us all meet up and sing together!!
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