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Sunday, December 4, 2011

Dev Anand and I.


When I came to know Dev Anand – ‘god of happiness’ – demised, I went literally numb for a while. The feeling was more of sadness than shock. Then experienced a nerve wrenching vacuum deep inside, as if I lost someone very close to my heart. Notwithstanding the fact we’ve hardly known each other.

So, the obvious question arises, “Why am I getting so sentimental?”

No, I’m not getting sentimental; I’m actually getting very emotional, reminiscing those songs on Dev Saab that have always been instrumental to help me grow up, shape up, and build up an image... to wear and carry for the world, outside.

It’s a different issue altogether though, whether the said image's been right or wrong, but it keeps on providing me with the spirit of life, till date, to LIVE… always with a hope that tomorrow is different and will be better.


I won’t cower to confess that it's from Dev Saab only, I've learnt many things like: ‘how to love’, ‘how to flirt’, ‘how to gamble’, ‘how to tease’, ‘how to booze’, ‘how to care’, ‘how to pain’, ‘how to motivate’, ‘how to mentor’, and ‘how to pack-up’… to ‘roll and act’ again and again... even without a gain, relentlessly.



And this process of learning has always been very enriching for me and my creative existence.

Just the reason, to celebrate his journey to a greater world, I'm trying to revisit my association with Dev Saab, muse-ically and musically, song by song, exactly the way I’ve consumed HIM since ages...

To love

To flirt

To gamble

To tease

To booze
http://youtu.be/J1Y09x4EZp4

To care
http://youtu.be/pC45vxZtdgk

To pain
http://youtu.be/4ZKLJg6nk1s

To motivate
http://youtu.be/xgL6jeeSqYQ

To mentor
http://youtu.be/ZLAytTJFwiY

To pack-up, and roll again to act
http://youtu.be/9V-wefxMxDY

And finally to say, with misty eyes, R.I.P. Dev Anand, my friend (if I may say so), philosopher and GUIDE!

2 comments:

Rachit said...

We would surely miss him, he was a great man with his own unique and distinct style. And these songs! They are just so fill of passion, joy and emotions! Gets me reeling to see that smile on his face. RIP, the legend.

Unknown said...

Actually! He's not dead. He can't be dead. He has just gone to live elsewhere, and relive in me as usual.