Some New Year thoughts..!!!!!

New year always makes me feel so positive.. so much alive and kicking….it makes me believe that there is a new day awaiting me… a new year of hope… another year to live…to love ..laugh and give…to live each day with zest and try to be the best I can be..

Sometimes we all need that push to get it all right.. and to start it all over again… I feel we get to view things differently when we look into our own ways of dealing with things… the letter not written…those words not said…those few steps not taken … I always feel this is the time to right some wrongs…

Its never too late to say the magic word that sets things right instantly… specially to the ones whom we know we can’t do without.. the ones who are the reason for our existence… its never too late to say ‘ am sorry’…

This one song from the amazing Tamil movie ‘ Vinnai Thaandi Varuvaaya’ captures the emotion in an amazing way of its own.. it portrays those shades of love where you give in totally into each other without any inhibitions.. where there is no hesitance to say that I was wrong….

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKcIuofZ3dU&feature

I have always continued to do what I have learned years ago..to forgive myself too and not just forgive others… for I feel its important for every human being should forgive one self as we live..coz we are bound to make mistakes at some stage… but once we realize that we have wronged… just forgive and say “if I had known better…I would have done better…”

There is no better time to make things better..to know better …to love a little more and to hate a little less… Wishing you all a very happy and prosperous new year… Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it all right...

“You may be sorry that you spoke, sorry you stayed or went, sorry you won or lost, sorry so much was spent. But as you go through life, you'll find - you're never sorry you were kind…”

An ode to a divine voice!!!!!!

Sometimes you realize how much a person meant to you or has influenced you after they leave… one such thing happened when I heard about the sad demise of Swarnalatha.. one unique singer with divine magic in her voice…one amazingly brilliant singer who made every song of hers unforgettable with her golden touch.. undoubtedly an irreplaceable loss to the world of music!

Have been reading a lot of write ups about her life that was spent in silence.. giving herself totally into music..staying away from all the glitz and glamour…could not help but write about that one song which has been a favourite ever since I heard it first… one song which got her many accolades ..

‘Poraale ponnuthaayi’ from the Tamil movie ‘Karuthamma’which got her the National award for the best playback singer and a lot of other recognitions..composed by the Mozart of South ARR himself.. she has remained a favourite of musicians like him… best of her songs were for ARR and Raja sir..though not a million songs… the handful of songs that she rendered her voice for are for sure going to make her soul alive for the years to come.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH0UNGxLF88

People may fade away..but the way they made you feel stays forever ..Swarnalatha was an amazing find... she will live forever through her marvelous renditions....the reality of separation then starts fading away like the mist on the window pane..music is without a doubt what feelings sound like... like how someone once said.."Music speaks what cannot be expressed..it soothes the mind and gives it rest...heals the heart and makes it whole... music flows from heaven to the soul..."can't get more real than this...

"We are all broken and wounded in this world..some choose to grow strong at the broken places..eventually we will come to know that music heals everything..and music is all there is... "

One of its kind..!!!!

Finally I am out of that 'hibernation' mode.. sometimes you just don't get into the right kind of mood to scribble your thoughts.. but this time around.. the hiatus was bit too long... I missed this space.. missed all those interactions too... my search for a song finally got me to one track from the movie ‘Supari’ the only place actually I actually liked Uday Chopra…

Some songs we get addicted to.. this one track I had in my i-pod for ages and finally had to delete it one day because the addiction was getting too much :) there is this peculiar kind of pain in this soulful track that will haunt you for a long time... "Tujhe chand chahiye" from the movie 'Supari' is one of the finest compositions by the fantabulous duo Vishal-Sekhar....the movie was dismissed badly by the audiences... but am sure even this track at least a few of you would have missed out on hearing too....here is it for those who have not..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQxLXcaIN2I&feature

Love ..!! that magical emotion which always has everyone mystified since ages…that beautiful bond that brings the world together..one amazing experience that will make us totally different people..when we start feeling that feel good pain.. the pain of all those unsaid words…when we find our soul in the other.. when we find the answers to all those million questions in the eyes of the one you love… when you feel there is nothing impossible..unachievable.. !! This passionate face of love is captured well in this track…where nothing else matters…

Like Gibran once said.. “To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night….To know the pain of too much tenderness…To be wounded by your own understanding of love..And to bleed willingly and joyfully…To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving…”this is what love does to you and me..so amazingly true…!!

When in love it always feels nothing is enough..there is this constant yearning which is like a flame that kindles the fire from within..where you let yourself melt in the sunshine of love..Sometimes I feel we are all prisoners in the crystal house of our dreams and hopes..The kind of love the song depicts conquers all the barriers in the world.. where you are all set to achieve the unachievable…Something in this song will ask you to live each day with zest and give yourself into love…and to keep the spark of longing within..

“I don’t want to live!I want to love first and live incidentally..and when we are living..right in the middle of an ordinary life..love gives us a fairy tale..”

Blissful whiff of breeze!!!!

Some songs get into your mind and gently touch your soul for the very simplicity and the genuine nature of the tune. One such song that I have been waiting for is finally out… ‘Kannolam’ from the much awaited Malayalam movie ‘Plus 2’ carries that whiff of fresh air.. that gentle breeze that will sooth our mind… like how Da Vinci said once.. “ Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication” and I truly feel that simplest things are most often the truest. ‘Kannolam’ carries within that mesmerizing touch of a soulful melody which am sure will slowly but surely get into every music lover’s mind space.

At a time when movies are plentiful and songs are numerous its very tough to find your space in the magical world of silver screen and Manu Ramesan, the creator of this track is certainly going to make it big there.. this is just an indication for the fab journey awaiting him over the years..a day when I can take credit of being one of his early admirers.. Manu is a promising music composer and has done a fab job in his first movie in Malayalam.. creating an identity of his own.. growing beyond the level of being the talented son of an amazingly gifted lyricist Sri S Ramesan Nair..it must be in his genes I say : )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTEWEo2IopY&NR=1

Each of us pass through that phase where you begin to understand the intensity the beautiful emotion called love.. those growing up years.. where you have not completely lost the child in you.. but you are on the verge of coming out of your cocoon… to be in a world of a whole new emotions and relationships.. ‘Plus 2’ is a movie that features a bunch of school students and the various shades of their lives..the ‘love’ here then of course is not the usual kind.. it is as pure as the dew drops.. something as serene as the buds of flowers yet to bloom.. gentle.. soft.. divine..this wonderful characteristics are brilliantly captured in the track which is so rejuvenating… “Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.”I completely agree to this…

We all sometimes sit and look back to those years of innocence where we believed in that link between angels and men.. believed in being loved.. believed in belief itself …this one track will take you through the memory lane and make you experience all that you used to experience during those wonder years where the painful realities of this unforgiving world of ‘now’ was nowhere in your sight. Someone rightly coined this once “The magic of first love is our ignorance that it will never end..”that is the very beauty of this tender emotion. We all fall in and out of love many times during the course of a lifetime, but the first rush of love always holds a unique place . It’s novelty, like the first drops of dew on an untouched leaf just has some divinity attached to it…

Our mind is a place where we live our dreams.. it is fragile yet wonderfully resilient..love yet again is nothing but the discovery of our self in someone else..

“Love has no desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving…”

PS: Manu, you are an amazingly talented musician and a much more amazing friend.. someone who has a friend like you can never be alone.. stay blessed..keep composing..keep amazing us!!!!!

Colours of my sunset sky!!!

Our mind is an enigma.. a mysterious nest of a whole sea of emotions. All those emotions which make us fall in love love…laugh.. shed tears..smile and live. Sometimes.. how much ever you try to resist the mesmerizing emotion called ‘love’ it just takes you in to its unknown depths and make you experience a zillion things…One song that stunningly captures this beautiful ‘helplessness’ of mind is ‘Sonnalum kelpathille’ from the Tamil movie, ‘Kadhal virus’. The movie sadly didn’t make it big.. but the amazing sound tracks still remain a favourite of many music lovers. None other than the musical maestro ARR can come up with spellbinding tunes like this every time he creates music..

This is one thing about the musical genius ARR.. he springs out fabulous surprises each time when you need them the most. Each track in the movie has its own uniqueness and the album was undoubtedly a trend setter in Tamil industry. In the classy ARR way.. he has brought together a talented bunch of singers to make the album as stunning as it can get. Unnikrishnan and Harini are at their best in the song which brilliantly captures the varying shades of love.. that yearning for a new sunrise every time the sun fades away in the darkness of each night…that very helplessness that makes you dream with your eyes wide open…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Pv1hNJoqus

Someone rightly said once… “Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings.. always darker.. emptier and simpler..” The sound track breaks all the conventions and introduces a contemporary rejuvenating feeling which comes as a relief every time you need that ‘come back’ to the amazing world. One track which talks about the amazing thing called hope… hope that tells you that..all that we are takes birth with our thoughts..with our thoughts.. we make our world..

A person in love is like a river flowing to merge into the sea.. in the end.. all things merge into one and it flows..In love, there are no distinctions..no differences.. when in love all we need that one star in our skies to dream our dream every day…resistance to obedience sometimes becomes the beauty of love..where you break through all barriers..and reach out for that horizon..

It is true that ‘ we cannot appreciate the beauty of sunrise unless we have waited in darkness.’…but again at sunrise some of us fight to stay awake.. just to pass through that magical journey of our dream yet again..there is always that longing to escape from the live we live while we are awake… to just lose ourselves in the blissful emotion..

“What you need to know about the past is that no matter what has happened, it has all worked together to bring you to this very moment. And this is the moment you can choose to make everything new. Right now… and a river runs through it”

PS: Angel.. you are a stunningly brilliant photographer :) serenity will endorse your pics starting this post :) cudnt find a better pic :)

Beyond the horizon...!!!!

Was watching this Malayalam movie 'Sukrutham' after long and it kinda shook my senses off very badly... sometimes hard realities of life uproot us totally and you try to find a base to your existence.. The movie talks about Ravi Shanker who miraculously escapes from the deadly arms of cancer with his dedication and perseverance .. gets back to life and realises that even though he has come back.. everyone else has moved on.. the movie ends on a negative note where he crushes his new life.. and puts an end to his terrifying loneliness... it really moved me..made me realise the shallowness of life without someone around you... the void which will form in the absence of a dream in our lives...

We all cherish and nurture some dream or the other at each phase of life. Some of us leave everything and everyone behind chasing that dream of ours.. and in the end get back to where we belong realising that what we were looking for all this while was actually within us... 'Sapnon se bhare naina' from the fab movie ' Luck by chance' amazingly captures this reality through its mesmerizing tune and the so close to life lyrics. This one song is one of the million reasons I have immense respect and admiration for Shanker Mahadevan, the musical maestro! Javed Akthar saab belongs to a divine league altogether..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njxeRQzPEOw

'Sapnon se bhare naina' depicts the chase in all of our lives.. the chase that at times leaves us in a huge void but some other time takes us beyond the horizon of our make believe world..Even though the movie didn't do that well as expected this one song am sure got all the desired and deserved attention..one toast to all the aspiring talents in the wonder industry of movies. Someone rightly said once..."Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not. We must remember that what you now have was once among the things that you only wished for.."The journey continues forever..we still go on thinking our destination has not been reached and forget to 'live' the life that we have been gifted with..it is by all means the journey that matters not the destination.

We have to always know that what is not started today is never finished tomorrow...Wordsworth once said "As high as we have mounted in delight..In our dejection do we sink as low.."Let's not let this happen... we should maintain the rhythm of life during highs and lows..and its true that what we dream of will be ours..Sometimes we know the path..but dont know where it will lead..not knowing where we will end up should inspire us to trod the less chosen path..There is no better time to be happy and content than now..so make happiness a journey life life and not a destination..Let our dream be like the sun..as we tred towards it... let it cast the shadow of our burden behind..

"Only as high as I can reach can I grow, only as far I seek can I go, only as deep as I look can I see, only as much as I dream can I be..Now, bring me that horizon!!!"

PS: 'Serenity' , my mindchild completes 2 years today. Just wanted to say a note of heartfelt gratitude for all of you out there for watering the seeds of my thoughts through your constant feedback... Now on 'serenity' will also hold an 'anti music piracy' badge..stay blessed!

Till we meet again...!!!!!

I have always felt that love is something which you can never define… love of all kinds… the whole sea of emotions that it brings along with it… is way beyond our understanding most of the time…specially the shadow of loneliness that it carries within…the kind of loneliness seperation brings into our lives…one amazing song that depicts this feel good pain of the most beautiful kind is ‘ Abhi na jao chod kar’’ , a brillaintly amazing track from the Dev Anand starrer movie which released in 1961….The song has been around for a long time… but the intensity of the kind of pain it depicts become clearer each time you listen to it… a must listen… one song you will wish never ended…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTum7gcQeoI

It goes through a lot of highs and lows and the very catchy composition adds to the mesmerizing listening experience.The soulful tone is very catchy and it leaves a mark in your mind for ages… Rafi Saab is one amazing singer.. who has been amazing me ever since I heard him first… one fab singer who gave us a whole lot of songs to cherish and admire… Happened to hear this version from a talented singer and loved it to the core…‘Abhi na jao chod kar’ captures the winter of love in a heart warming way… It is true that seperation for love is like wind for fire… it lights up the flames if the fire is intense… and just sweeps away the shallow sparks…

Sometimes in life everything seems like nothing…we always yearn for a little more time… some more attention.. a bit more of love… what ever we get seems just not enough…but that’s the way of love…where reason just can’t take a lead …where your emotions take the better of you and you just let yourself get lost in that sea of emotions…It usally happens in relationships… of all kinds…we always look for something more… that desire is always there unsettled..but if we look at it ina different perspective that is the very beauty of the beautiful emotion called love…

Time is never long when in love… there is always a touch of yearning…which is like a gentle breeze that revitalises your soul..but I feel that yearning should never lead to discontent.. you are warm enough but still you tend to freeze.. you are fed enough but still you let hunger haunt you…we should all be able to strike a fair balance and experience the blissful emotion…by not letting our yearning wander into new unknown fields where you get lost and deserted…Totally agree to the person who said.. “Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence….”

Incompleteness in absence is so beautifully captured in the song which will stay as a favourite for the years to come…

“ I have found the paradox..that if you love until it hurts…there can be no more hurt..but only more love…”

Faded colours!!!

Memories of a very dear friend whom I lost couple of years back made me write this post. He was the darling of everyone.. quiet... softspoken and amazingly brilliant... Since there were so many students we had in our school with his name.. us friends used to always refer to him as 'paavam'Sandeep. Yes thats what he was... in every way... we never met for like years after school till we once bumped into each other at an inter college fest... We had a thousand things to talk about.. and yeah I was so very happy for having met him... Again life took us in different directions and we never actually met...but we had a common link who kept us updated...

One of those mornings at work.. I read this news about a bike accident... but least did I think that it could be someone whom I know who was swept away from this wonder world...one hard knock that was... one hard knock which kept reminding me never to take things or people for granted... sometimes when knowingly or unknowingly..you tend to take someone for granted... some kind of strange assurance that he/she is going to be there always with you.. so why make an extra effort..to stay in touch.. to call once in a while to ask how things are.. to share a smile..no.. instead we let things be.. then one day comes when reality bites and you know that you can never have them back in your life again...not even for a single moment.. they are gone once and for all.. and I have always felt that it is the most painful reality of life...that nothing is forever.. its what we want to be... 'forever'is just as long as you are there...

This one realisation I feel.. many of us need... which will hold us back before hurting someone else.. before saying things which you know you can never take back.. for not saying things which are meant to be said... again its about saying and doing things at the right time.. when its required...not when the moment has passed by... and your words and deeds just dont make a difference... Its true with every relationship.... relationship with family.. friends... colleagues... or even mere 'hi-bye' friends...

'Vida parayuka aano'' from the Malayalam movie Big B kind of absorbs the pain of seperation...from loved ones... a haunting track it has always been a favourite...This one post and the song specially I am dedicating to my dear friend... and his extremely sweet mom who made it to the biggest occasion of my life despite knowing that..coming there is just going to take her back to old days and make her miss him even more... But I know for a fact that.. I will be there in which ever way I can.. if that brings some smiles in their lives again...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-luwCHXknxw&feature

Life (as I have written a million times before this...)happens only once...so live each and every moment to the fullest... not just breathe and exist but live with zest and vigour...

"It's a weird feeling.. you know the end of something great is coming..but you want to hold on..just for one more second..so that it can hurt a little more...

Fleeting moments...!!!!!!

Sometimes you get this sudden reality check ... about the very fleeting nature of the journey called life.. I had one such hard knock while flipping through the pages of a magazine... this city of dreams with its streets of gold..where I have moved into has transformed me a lot I think :) was reading this article written by Anoop Menon, an upcoming actor in Malayalam movies where he had written about a girl who came into his life like a flash of lightning and just vanished in the engulfing darkness of life... a girl who knew that her time here was limited... who knew that each second lost is never going to come back... but stood up bravely and decided not to give up.. and to live her life to the fullest...

I have always felt that Cancer is slow poison.. it grasps you when you least expect it and engulf you totally in it... takes away your dreams and the very right to live..where you loose yourself in the valley of its insensitivity... I so wish there was something divine and miraculous which could eradicate this and all other incurable diseases from the face of earth...I wish...

This one song somehow came into my mind when I was thinking about that girl and a million others like her.. who were nipped in bud...who never could live their life according to their terms..moments like this get you out of all the materialistc thoughts where you just want to live ...every single second as if there was no tomorrow..take some time out to be with the ones whom you care about... to tell them that you care... to feel the rain... just walk by the side of a lake.. sit by and relax... make life worthliving.. for as always we must realise that this moment is the only thing that we have which is certain.. there is nothing that can empower destiny..

'Kal rahe ya na rahe' is one fantabulous song which earned more brownie points for my favourite singer KK.. he has just done a fab job with the very distinct so close to life rendition that will get your eyes moist every time you listen to it.. I have been listening to this one track for like ages...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffDpXIa_RCA

Lets not wait for one more day to start it afresh.. for life happens only once.. lets not wait one more day to say and show that we care..coz we dont know what the next days sun rise will have for us in its golden rays..let us not do or say anything which will make us feel that ''Í should have done something about it then...''so go for it this moment...dont keep it for another day...if you feel you can make a difference in someone's life do something about it when you can... so that life becomes a beautiful experience...when today's sun is all set to sink into the silence of another night.. I have decided to make a diference.. and even if the night darkens with an upcoming strom..I would still stand..and keep my eyes wide open to see the wonders of sunrise.. of snow fall.. of the sea..of the rain.. and feel the breathtaking music of love...hoping and dreaming of another sunrise.. which will hold a whole lot of promises and dreams..

"I trust my soul..my goal is just to live and not just exist..there is only now..there is only here.so give into love...no other path..no other way...no day but today..."