Let’s travel with music…
Journeys are always important markers of our lives. Recently when I was going to Silliguri, while travelling with all comfort of Indian Railways I was looking around the compartment and my idle mind was simply thinking that how much our journey got changed in last couple of decades. If you take a look on 1980’s and 1990’s, people did travel those days with even slower means of transportation, having poor facilities as compared to now. So how did they manage? What did they do while traveling?
As far as I remember most of them just used to take rest and sleep, and people who don’t like to waste time in sleeping, they might be thinking about something random, may be some old happenings, missing someone, thinking about their behavior, thinking about their aim of life or any past incident etc…
But, now a days if you look around, majority of people like to listen music while travelling. All it takes is a pair of headphones to create their own personal safe zones. Though in older days also people used to carry their battery operated radio-transistors. But now because of easy availability of those tiny gadgets, we can find more and more people with an earphone plugged into ear and enjoying their favorite songs.
Whenever we talk of music, first thing comes to mind is Hindi song. Undoubtedly Hindi songs are the soul of Indian culture and an important part of Indian music….As we all know, there are plenty of Hindi songs that suits different occasion, different mood and different situations. In short we can say, songs are there for each and every occasion and talking about all of them will not be possible here at this space. So let’s talk about Hindi songs based on the philosophy of journey. So that, next time when you go on a journey, just carry your i-pad or any other gadget you like, load it with all those fabulous songs of your choice and enjoy every moment of your journey….
Let’s start our journey with this song of film “Andaz” by Kishore Kumar, “ ज़िंदगी इक सफर है सुहाना, यहाँ कल क्या हो किसने जाना ” …..rightly so, because we all know “Life is a beautiful journey filled with uncertainties….”
There are times when you may try to sail through all the difficulties in your journey, then you may tune into “ नदिया चले-चले रे धारा, तुझको चलना होगा”…. similarly, at times you may feel alone during your journey then just keep on moving and listen….. “ चल अकेला-चल अकेला, तेरा मेला पीछे छूटा साथी चल अकेला ”….
At times, we look for certain kind of help but we don’t get expected response from our counterpart then songs like “ हज़ार राहें मुड़ के देखीं, कहीं से कोई सदा न आई ”…. This will soothe us and motivate also….
As we know, in this journey of life, people come and go….Each of them leave behind memories for their loved ones, as this song says…. “आदमी मुसाफिर है आता है जाता है - आते जाते रस्ते में, यादें छोड़ जाता है”….
you may find this song from the movie Imtihaan “ रुक जाना नहीं - तू कहीं हार के ”…. an inspiring one, especially if at any point of your journey, you just start feeling like a looser, tired or depressed.
On the other hand when your journey is a pleasant one( wish it remain always) and you are enjoying it like anything then you can very well tune into “ सुहाना सफर और ये मौसम हसीं ”….
Well, list is too long and it’s not possible to include all those evergreen old songs here. So, allow me to take a break from this journey and now you continue the journey by adding your favorite songs about journey in the response box below. Let’s all travel together in this melodious journey.
