This song hit my ears yesterday evening. I stood there still listening to this song watching the rain pouring outside. Had a cup of tea in my hand and I don't know when my mind digging old memories.
I can't exactly recall which year was it ..but we had board exams , so it cud be year of 1996-97. Cable TV was introduced in my town, One of our neighbour (Joshi uncle) came with a free cable connection offer at our home. My papa resisted because I and my brother both had Board exams that year, but he didn't listen. He told us to watch the free cable for some months and get it disconnected whenever we wanted.
There were some 12-15 channels including Zee Tv and Zee Cinema. It was like a blessing after watching the classic dance shows and 7-colors strips on Doordarshan. We used to come to home from office and watch the Cable all day.. Very soon, we got addicted to "DISH" (Cable is called by this name still) ..
When my father realized that we are diverting from the study, he told joshi uncle to disconnect the cable. It was like "pahaad hi toot pada ho" , we started acting like, "we are studying papa, you go and watch the cable.. but don't get it disconnected" ..
Zee TV started showing trailer of "Phir teri kahani yaad aayi". Its mahesh bhatt's movie starring Pooja bhatt and Rahul Roy. This was a movie from Zee's own movie house and they were showing the premier of that movie after 2 weeks on Zee TV.
It was quite fascinating to watch a movie on the day of its release. Zee Tv broadcasted its song whenever it got a free space in the channel schedule.
"Aane wala pal ek sapna hai ..
Gujra hua kal to apna hai ..
Hum gujra kal me rahte ha ..
Yaadoo ke sab jugnu jungle me rahte ahi .. "
I didn't realized when I sipped the last sip of my tea. The song was still playing ..
"Mein gazal ban gayi aapke saamne ..
Shauk se ab mujhe gunguna lijiye ..
Shayarana si hai zindagi ki sada ..
Aap bhi zindagi ka mazaa liziye .."
This movie was based on Mahesh bhatt's own life .. (somebody says so) , But who cares, we watched it after studying for some 6 hours continously and after convincing papa .. it was a short movie of 2 hrs with excellent songs.
The movie songs are awesome, and the lyrics are very touching ..
My personal favourite song is "Tere dar par sanam" .. Its not something which you listen a lot and then forget it when you hear some other song .. Some of my childhood memories are linked with the songs of this movie and It will always be cherishing those memories with these songs...
Dev gan soye hue the aur Rajasthan me shaadiyo ka season ekdum manda tha .. Ab un par kya rok tok jo love marriage, ya court marriage karte hai .. :)
Well, Diwali chali gayi aur shaadi ke invitation cards ki barsaat hone lagi har ghar me .. Mere mamoo ki shaadi 20th Nov,09 ko thi aur uska badi besabri se hum intezaar kar rahe the .. Uske aaspaas aur bhi itni shaadiya thi ki lage haath saari shaadiya attend ki ..
Ab jaha shaadiya hogi, waha music aur dance masti to hogi hi .. DJ ka fashion aajkal har shaadi me sir chad kar bol raha hai .. Shahnaayi bechari kone me apne budhaape ko ro rahi hai , dholak kahi bagal me oongh raha hai .. Band baaje apne aap ko itra rahe hai .. DJ jaha hoga, waha par yeh ek common question hota hai ... host kaun banega ?? who is performing ?? and on which song ?? ..
Is function purane jamaane me "mahila sangeet" aur aadhunik yug me "Geet Gunjan" ke naam se sambodhit kiya jata hai .. Purane jamane me sirf ladies milkar dholak bajati aur geet gaati .. Ab to yeh haal hai ki Shaadi ka reception ya dulhe ki sajawat badhiya ho na ho , Mahila sangeet (sorry, Geet gunjan) jaroor uccha koti ka hona chahiye .. Reception ke din khaane ko bhale hi makke ya baajre ki roti se kaam chala lenge, lekin Geet gunjan me chappan bhug hone chahiye ..
It can also be considered as a "Trailer" of a movie, Ise dekhkar ladies yeh idea lagati hai ki Shaadi ke baaki functions kaise honge aur unme aane ka koi fayda hai ya nahi ...
Well, jin logo ko is function ke baare me pata nahi, unki jaankari ke liye bata du ki yeh Shaadi ke 1-2 dino pahle hone wala woh formal function hai, jisme ghar ki bahu, betiya (aur program ke end me dulhe ke dost ya dulhaan ke bhai ke dost) dance perform karti hai .. DJ wale ko order diya jata hai , he comes with the big speakers (no limit how many u order) , Dance floor with flash lights , a good collection of CDs (or Computer) .. Special Nashta tayyar kiya jata hai guest ladies ke liye .. Ek host hoti hai (in most of the cases) aur she hosts the whole program with some jokes, some incidents about relatives, poems, sher-o-shayaris etc. . Host mostly collects the list of songs to be played in some kind of order for the dancers ..
Ab Rajasthan me geet gunjan ho , to gaane ki choices kya kya hogi .. ?? Hmm, Bollywood hits (for the teenage aur unmarried girls) , Rajasthani Folk songs (for Bua, Chachi, Maami, and other bahu/betiya of the family) , Punjabi Bhangda (Jab masti ka mahaaul ban jaaye, aur saare family wale maidaan me kood pade) , English (what ?? who plays that .. yes, Brazil is exception.. Lafadi dosto ki to yahi choice hoti hai .. )..
Now, there is a special song was the most played song durng that weddng season .. and the award goes to "DJ Par Naachu ..." , I don't even remember how many times i listened to that song in variuos weddngs (i think 200, no it shud be 500 above, forget it .. ) .. Agle 2 weeks tak mere kaano me shaadi ke dhol ki jagah "DJ par Naachu" hi baj raha tha ..
Song's lyrics are somethng like this ..
"Assi kali re manne ghaghro jada de..
chunri manga de manne tara su jadi ....
DJ par naachu saari raat saajna ..
Ek baar naachne ko kah to sahi "
(English me bole to , I will dance on the dance floor for whole night if you just ask me to dance ) ..
Thats a marwari (Rajathani) song , and I don't remember which album or which film this song belongs to .. Who is the singer and when it was released .. Humkaa kuch nahi pataaaa !!!!
Don't worry, I am not going to write anything statistical facts or the facilities provided by BoA.
Well, Soon as I arrived in USA, My first task was to open a bank account. That is an obvious thing that we need paycheck as a reward of all hard work.
I enquired some of my colleagues and friends, and I got BoA and Citigroup mostly as a reference. I decided to go for BoA and opened a new account on 6th April,09.
The Bank officer, who created my account wrote my name as "Hemant Kumar Taylor" instead of "Tailor". I am not sure how my name was appeared like that in my passport. Well, I got it corrected and then she told me that I will get 2 cards (with correct and incorrect names printed on it) within 2 business weeks. They issues me a temporary card to perform transaction.
Two weeks passed, and I didn't received my check card. I went to BoA banking center on 22 April,09 and describe the situation. They said "we apologized for the inconvenience, we will dispatch a new check card to your address and it will reach to your address within 2 business weeks".
Two more weeks passed, and it was the last day (May 5th, 09) to pay the apartment rent. I used temporary check card but it was blocked (BoA blocked it on 22 April). Now another funny situation was Apartment renting center were not accepting "CASH". Hey !! What kind of rule is this ?
Well, I called customer service on 5 may,09 and it was their response - "Sir, we disptached your card on 25th April and it will reach you by 5 May. Today evening you check your inbox and it will be there" ... Unfortunately, It wasn't there that evening.
I convinced my colleague to pay the rent on my behalf and avoided late fee.
Next day , I again called customer service, and it was their response - "Sir, we dispatched your card on 27th April and it should reach you by 7 May." .. Unfortunately, It didn't arrive on 7th :(
I was furious, This time I contacted BoA Online customer service. After a long debate, he assured me that I will get my NEW Card (yes, they are sending it to me third time) by Monday 11th May. He told me that it will be dispatched by UPS this time, not USPS.
5 minutes later, I called Customer service on phone and they completely denied that Its not possible to send the check card by UPS and it will at least take 2 business week.
NOW I am frustrated and I am gonna close my account. Can you suggest me a nice bank ??
Well, this could be very difficult for many first time bloggers to write their first blog .. Its not that difficult !!!
Write anything .. yes, anything !!!
If you are worrying about what to write , then following ideas could be useful ..
1. How did you hear about blogs ?? what was your first impression when you heard about blogs ?? Who suggested you to write a blog ?? or Why did you choose to write a blog on wordpress or blogspot etc. ?
2. Write about yourself. Its not necessary to be in English .. Write in any language you are comfortable with.
3. Write about your hobbies, passions, fav. tv shows, fav. movies, music, sports, news etc. etc.
4. Write about your family or friends .. Write about your colleagues .. Write about your exams, jobs, coaching
5. Write about the recent incident you encountered with ..
and so on .. .
Need any other suggestion ?? Throw a comment on this post and i will suggest you more ... :)
And yeah ... you can write about "What to write in your first post" same as i did .. ;)
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