All time high-April

You see, the thing about nostalgia is that it can be sweet, it can sometimes be saddening. There are some songs that make me want to bawl and most times I can never tell why. It feels like an era bygone, of simple times and reasonable needs. A slice in time that can never be rewound. And conditioning tells you not to hold on to it, for what's gone is gone and whats now is a gift, the present. It seems silly to weep over what you haven't experienced. Perhaps that's what makes it alluring and exciting-what you didn't know. You can create fantastic tales from period settings, can't you? The mind is such a foolish dreamer, it can make mountains out of molehills and create sepia tinted fantasies from the past, or the future even, for that matter. Never able to stay with the current...

Oh well, see- all this rambling is because I've been listening to 70s music for some weeks now and I was glad we got to April finally, cos its that much-awaited time to post this month's all-time high. Something I look forward to quite eagerly. So here's my pick, from the movie 'Umrao Jaan'.



zindagi jab bhi teri bazm mein laati hai hamein
ye zameen chaand se behtar nazar aati hai hamein

surkh phoolon se mehak uTathi hain dil ki raahen
din Dhale yun teri aawaz bulaati hai hamein

yaad teri kabhi dastak kabhi sargoshi se
raat ke pichhle prahar roz jagaati hai hamein

har mulaqat ka anjaam judai kyun hai
ab to har waqt yahi baat satati hai hamein