Rehna Tu - World Without End

I was surprised to see my last blog to have dated 2008 June! I was expecting it to be Jan 2008. For quite sometime I decided to stay away from the internet and running away from "Socializing". I have had a wasted 6months time that it was absolute fun :)

Last friday I heard some good music in the 1st cubicle and pinged the good lady to share those songs. I dint even know it was Rahman sir's album until my itunes told me. I just listened to the 1st 2 songs - Arziyan and Bhor Bhaye and concluded the movie had only sufi and Hindustani. Period!

I got a pop up to shut down my pc only then did I realise it was time to leave and had 20minutes to catch my bus. I had 2 mails to be sent to my onsite stating why I spent the whole day in RnD and did not bother to finish the original worth while task. After sending the mails, I was left with 10minutes to copy the songs to my pen drive and catch the bus. Unfortunately I could not find my pen drive and had to decide if I should catch the bus, go home without the songs or stay back an hour more and listen to the remaining songs.

I really dint have any work back home except for reading a book with 1300 pages. I decided to stay back and listen to the remaining songs. Being a Friday evening, there were not many people in the wing. I put on my headphones to continue with the 3rd song - Delhi6. My earlier judgement of the album being very sufi was baffled with Delhi 6 title song. I sat with the task updating the quality centre. I realised i could multi task efficiently with music running through my ears. I could update more than I could without the music. Dil Gira Daftaan and Kala Bandhar moved on. Either I was engrossed with my updation or the songs dint stick in my mind as Delhi6 the first go. Then came masakali and it made me feel elated. My reflex pushed me to check the time. Fortunately it was around 5.45 reminding me I had another solid half an hour for my 6.20 Bus.

Then came my soul filling song - Rehna Tu. 1st time I listened to it "I was just butter in his hands"! 3 times I repeated Rehna Tu!!! Since then I have been listening to the song like n number of times and I stopped having the count. my ipod, my lappy itunes, my office itunes can give me the count 58. Itunes should be wrong as am very much sure I have listened to it atleast 150times in the last 1week. Back in my cubicle, I wanted to copy the songs or rather the song! I suddenly remembered I have a mobile which can be used for music listening purpose and as a mere storage device ;) I never used my mobile for anything apart from texting and calling people. I got the cable out of my cubicle mate's PMU and frantically copied the songs to my mobile. I was expecting it to throw an error for no disk space. Only then I saw the whole folder was 9Mb! The good lady had sent me a compressed version. The time was 6.10. I dint have much time and had to fast shut down the system and run towards my bus. I could not wait 30minutes to get back home to copy the songs and listen to Rehna Tu.

All evening I put the song in Repeat One mode and until it was 12am, the song was repeating with me reading through the huge book. I am still listening to Rehna Tu and typing this blog. I cant say I have no words about the song. It would be useless writing a whole blog without having any words for me on the song.
Everytime I listen to the song I would fantasize some scenario. First, I was thinking about my good friend and her hubby in the song. I dont know why I did that but they always seemed so much in love. Then I was reminded of the Alaipayuthey song "Nagida Nagida". Saturday passed, Sunday and the Monday passed with lot of sequences. Tuesday morning I was waiting for my cubicle mate to come and translate me the urudu song! She was in no mood to translate even a word. I did not leave her easily and offered her something which she could not refuse. (You will never get it out of me!) she translated word by word. After knowing it was indeed a romantic song and all those words running through my mind endlessly, I did not know what to imagine the song sequence to be. SIGH!

I was listening to the song and reading "the huge book" - World Without End. I had to make Caris and Merthin dance to Rehna Tu! Caris and Merthin are the characters from the medival fictious place called Kingsbridge! Merthin is a fine craftsman, Caris is a Wool trader. Caris is a revolutionary women from the year 1337. She wants to have a "live in" relationship with him and not have kids. According to her, marriage will make her a slave to the husband and the kids would only worsen her slavery. She likes Merthin and wants him to be with her but not marry her or have his kids. Maybe this is why men call women highly unreasonable.

So the song Rehna tu running, Merthin is pleading Caris to marry him. The lines go like this:
"Rehna Tu
Hai Jaisa Tu
Dheema Dheema jhonka
Ya phir junoon
Thoda sa resham
Tu humdam
Thoda sa khurdura
Kabhi daud jaye
Ya lad jaye
Ya khushboo se bhara"
She bluntly refuses to marry him but says she loves him and cant marry or fall in love with anyone else other than Merthin. Merthin still pressures her and sings:
"Tu zakham de agar
Marham bhi aakar tu lagaaye"
Caris tries to make Merthin understand her career is at stake if she marries him or have his kid. Merthin continues to sing:
"Zakham mein bhi mujhko pyaar aaye
Dariya o dariya
Doopne de mujhe dariya"
And then the musical goes on further when Merthin holds Caris's hands:
"Haath tham chalna hi
To dono ke daye haath sang kaise
Ek daaya hoga ek baaiya hoga
Tham le haath yeh thaam le
Chalna hai sang tham le"
And if you thought Caris to have molten with these lines and goes shy, you are wrong! She still has not married him yet. let alone say yes to his proposal. I have crossed 600 pages of the 1300 paged book and there is no such sign. I drafted the scenario when I was in page 200.

I finally made a good musical out of the book and Rehna Tu. I call it co-incidence!!!