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Decades back Dharmendra starred in Hrishikesh Mukherjee directed Guddi, as himself. The film’s theme Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money.
revolved around a girl, played by Jaya Bhaduri who was fascinated by the superstar. More than 35 ‘T is heaven alone that is given away; ‘T is only God may be had for the asking.
years later, Bobby Deol too enacts a similar role, though this time, the girl is replaced by a young Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
boy, aptly named ‘Nanhe’, who is his die hard fan and lives in a belief that one day he would come Worry is interest paid on trouble before it falls due.
face to face with his screen idol. Samir Karnik the director debuted with ‘Kyon Ho Gaya Na’ a few During those moments on the pitching rubber, when you have every pitch at your command working to its highest potential, you are your own universe. For hours after the game, this sense of completeness lingers. Then you sink back to what we humorously refer to as reality. Your body aches and your muscles cry out. You feel your mortality. That can be a difficult thing to handle. I believe pitchers come in touch with death a lot sooner than other players. We are more aware of the subtle changes taking place in our body and are unable to overlook the tell-tale hints that we are not going to last on this planet forever. Every pitcher has to be a little bit in love with death. There’s a subconscious fatalism there.
years back. ‘Nanhe Jaisalmer’ has lyrics by Sameer and music by Himesh Reshammiya. With the film’s It’s not the situation. . . . It’s your reaction to the situation.
setting in Rajasthan, one expects a different kind of soundtrack from Reshammiya which is Discretion is the better part of virtue, Commitments the voters don’t know about can’t hurt you.
uncharacteristic of the kind of compositions he has been churning out for over two years now. Well, My good hoe as it bites the ground revenges my wrongs, and I have less lust to bite my enemies. In the smoothing the rough hillocks, I smooth my temper.
this doesn’t quite happen as Reshammiya does try to impart the desert flavor in some of the My parents would always tell me that I should not hate the white man, but that it was my duty as a Christian to love him.
compositions, though with lesser results. Write your own music review of ‘Nanhe JaisalmerThe first Thomas Jefferson’s Decalogue of Canons III. Never spend your money before you have it.
song of the album, ‘Nanhe Yaar’, is one of the best created songs by Himesh Reshammiya and Sameer in Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It’s the aim of art to give it some.
recent times; pure, unadulterated and immersed with selfless emotions about friendship between the It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.
superstar and the child. ‘Nanhe Yaar’ is a hardcore Indian track that has melody as its strong A person’s journey through life is somewhat like a long walk through a forest on a dark night. Part of the way a companion carries a lantern, but then the path divides and one must go alone. If one carries his own lantern — an inner light of faith — he need not fear the darkness.
point. One can’t get tired of hearing the soulful voice of Sonu Nigam in the song which validates The V sign is the symbol of the unconquerable will of the occupied territories, and a portent of the fate awaiting the Nazi tyranny.
Reshammiya’s claims, that the singer is easily the best in the business. Now that’s the kind of Jesus, thou joy of loving hearts, Thou fount of life, thou Light of men, From the best bliss that earth imparts We turn unfilled to Thee again. We taste Thee, O Thou living Bread, And long to feast upon Thee still: We drink of Thee, the Fountainhead, And thirst our souls from Thee to fill. O Jesus, ever with us stay, Make all our moments calm and bright; Chase the dark night of sin away, Shed o’er the world Thy holy light.
music which one expects Reshammiya to whip up more often since it breaks away from the monotony and What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
gives a listener a beautiful number to hum around. In fact on a closer look, one almost feels that With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of intergrity.
‘Nanhe Yaar’ is a track composed for a JP Dutta film due to its obvious desert feel, coupled with Life too near paralyses art.
authentic Indian look and feel. Well, one can’t keep Himesh Reshammiya, ‘the singer’, out of A gold-medal winner in life may not be the person who is the fastest, the strongest, the toughest, who has the admiration and cheers of the crowd — but the person who has the courage to overcome adversity, overcome the thorns of life, the person who, in fact, has overcome the world.
action for long, isn’t it? This is why the very second song in the album, ‘Ulfat’, has Reshammiya Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.
doing a solo. There are shades of ‘Tadap’ [Darling] as well as ‘Mehfuz’ [Apne] in this rock track Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
which is a complete antithesis to the melody of ‘Nanhe Yaar’. Reshammiya sings the song in extreme The gentleman is a man of truth.
high pitch to suit the concert settings of the track but the results aren’t endearing enough. It Often when you find something worth doing, you also find folks trying to keep you from doing it.
isn’t a bad composition but still ‘Ulfat’ doesn’t turn out to be the song that you want to keep in Letting off steam always produces more heat than light.
your favorites list for long. A song like this warrants a ‘remix version’ and Himesh gives us one If you are posing as religious and are not living the life as stressed by God, you should wake up. It is wrong to be insincere. The best time to begin a religious life is when you are youthful and well. If you have a short time to live, you must work harder at it. And if you have along time to live, you should not waste that precious opportunity.
later in the album. To give him credit, by the time you have heard the original track a few times All riches are multiplied by the simple process of sharing them where they may serve others.
and moved on to the remix version, you sort of get a hang of the composition and don’t mind it much, Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love, this is the eternal rule
in spite of a sense of deja vu. Vineet and Jayesh Gandhi, two singers who have repeatedly been given The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
a chance to sing by Himesh Reshammiya, are back in action with ‘Kesariya’. Opening of ‘Kesariya’ by Even though I have never had an abrupt conversion experience, religion has been real to me and closely knitted to life. In fact the two cannot be separated; religion for me is life.
Jayesh Gandhi is based on the popular Rajasthani folk track and while the flavor remains consistent Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.
throughout the track, Vineet aided by Sameer’s lyrics gives a different touch to the ‘antaras’. His He who brings goods for sale is blessed with good fortune, but he who keeps them till the price rises is accursed.
voice bears an uncanny resemblance to that of Sonu Nigam which makes one wonder if Sonu himself may All thing is the woorse for the wearing.
have been better suited to croon the number. Nevertheless, Vineet does a decent job while rendering Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man’s deceiver Was never mine.
this track, which after ‘Nanhe Yaar’ is soothing yet again; though not with similar long lasting Like,—but oh how different!
appeal. Towards the second half of the song, Reshammiya even adds a bit of jazz to the proceedings Security is a thumb and a blanket. Happiness is a warm puppy.
though it is there only for a short while. Overall an average situational track which should appear Friends are flowers in the garden of life.
as a part of film’s background score. After ‘Ulfat’ there is yet another high-on-rhythm fast paced Like a solid rock is not shaken by the wind, so the wise are not moved by praise or blame.
track which arrives in the form of ‘Ranjhana’. In the very first listening, this Himesh Reshammiya Each generation makes it’s own accounting to its children.
rendered solo, borders on being annoying, courtesy the high bass beats that seem to be the handwork One kind kiss before we part, Drop a tear and bid adieu; Though we sever, my fond heart Till we meet shall pant for you.
of a small town DJ who could well be applying his skills at marriage processions. The arrangements It costs a lot of money to look this cheap. (about herself)
are poor which act as a turn off to begin with. Once you have settled down to this fact, the overall As long as men and nations are aware of their divine origin, that human beings are a reflection of the source of all life, then it follows that it is the beholden duty of man to increase goodness, beauty, truth and peace in the world. But when men and nations deny the relationship of man to the divine, then the soil is fertile for the growth of hatred, injustice, strife and war.
composition isn’t too difficult to digest, though one would have expected the final copy of the song Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
to have been more carefully designed. The ‘remix version’ makes an appearance too, but after hearing No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent.
the original there is hardly any interest that remains towards hearing it with additional beats . Mortal birth is a boon to which only those spirits who kept their first estate are eligible. (see Jude 6)
Himesh’s voice continues to blaze on from the music system as he sings yet another track ‘Lamha The purpose of an organization is to enable common men to do uncommon things.
Lamha’. The sound of ‘dhoom pichaka dhoom dhoom’ is straight out of Anu Malik’s ‘Mere Mehboob Mere Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
Sanam’ [Duplicate] and though one doesn’t mind that much, it is Sunidhi Chauhan who turns out to be None love the bearer of bad news.
the biggest culprit in the song. She tries to sing the track differently in a low husky mode but the Visualize the type of person you want to be. Then act as if you already ARE that person.
final result turns out to be such a drag, that one wonders how the song was accepted in the first A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.
place? Supposedly a love song, ‘Lamha Lamha’ doesn’t quite work in spite of an attempted Mortality is, in reality, a very, very short period. It is literally a snap of the fingers compared to an eternity. It is so short that we can do it. We can prevail. Why, you can stand your foot in a vise for a while if you know it’s going to be released soon. Yes, earthly probation is short compared to eternity, but so very much is riding on how we handle the trials and temptations of the flesh.
collaboration of rhythm, melody and shades of Indian classical feel. For the only duet in the album, If you ask me to name the proudest distinction of Americans, I would choose . . . the fact that they were the people who created the phrase “to make money.” No other language or nation had ever used these words before. . . . Americans were the first to understand that wealth has to be created.
it is a downer though the ‘remix version’ does promise a decent outing if presented well as a There are always some of us, not a few, in every generation, who go over wholly to the green flag. It is such a passionless fealty, so reticent a love, that neither do trumpets sound for it nor quarrels arise from it. Only, you will find that those who have pledged allegiance are happy about it in quiet.
promotional music video. In the end what remains with the listener after hearing ‘Nanhe Jaisalmer’ He who laughs last — thinks slowest.
is the title song ‘Nanhe Yaar’. This is surprising though since in an album dominated by Himesh The world is your mirror and your mind is a magnet. What you perceive is in this world is largely a reflection of your own attitudes and beliefs. Life will give you what you attract with your thoughts think, act and talk negatively and your world will benegative. Think and act and talk with enthusiasm and you will attract positive results.
Reshammiya sung songs; it is Sonu Nigam who ends up making the most impact. Remaining tracks range Nobility of birth does not always insure a corresponding unity of mind; if it did, it would always act as a stimulus to noble actions; but it sometimes acts as a clog rather than a spur.
from being below average to average which doesn’t quite make ‘Nanhe Jaisalmer’ the kind of album The golden rule of gardening is to pay attention to local conditions of weather and soil.
which Reshammiya would wish to flaunt around five years down the line.

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