Living Diagonally In My Parallel World!

  I am writing this without editing so that I don’t loose any thoughts 😊 Amitabh Bhattacharya, Irshad Kamil, Varun Grover - these are some of my favourite music composers from the “new” generation. This song is penned by Amitabh Bhattacharya, set to tune by Pritam and sung by Tochi Raina and Rekha Bharadwaj. So why Kabira? It so happened that last week or the week before, Yeh Jawani Hai Diwani (YJHD) was re-released in theatre’s. (These days new Hindi movies are not getting released because no one watches them in theatre’s. So they are releasing the old ones). And as part of the promotional advertisement for this movie, this song was played. What picked my interest was the opening line “Re Kabira Maan Ja रे कबीरा मान जा”.   It is not Kabir… but Kabira meaning Mine God. That changes the complete perspective. It had the same effect as द्येवा तुझ्या पायरीशी कोनी सान थोर न्हाई from Natrang. The meaning of this sentence is so deep, that suddenly I got interested in “listeni...