IKTARA
“सुन रही हूँ सुधबुध खो के, कोई मैं कहानी
पूरी कहानी है क्या, किसे है पता
मैं तो किसी की हो के, ये भी न जानी
रुत है यह दो पल की या, रहेगी सदा
किसे है पता, किसे है पता,…”
Written by the connoisseur
Javed Akhtar sahib, this is one of my favourite lines from the song ‘Iktara’ in
the movie ‘Wake up sid’. The film, directed by
Ayan Mukerji, lights up a smile on my face every time I watch it.
Today when I sit back and
watch the movie and remember the first time I watched the film with four of my
best friends, I'm only left with a thought that, may be time has changed but
the essence and feel of the movie still lingers. The film slowly and delicately
touches, captures and portrays so many minute emotions and beautiful moments in
one’s life.
Be it randomly meeting a girl at a party and going for a walk with her in the lucid dark night, having that one person in your life whom you hate or who hates you for no reason, fighting with a friend of how could he pass letting you fail, watching your mother learn how to speak in English just so that she could become a friend of yours, buying and arranging your own house in a completely new city, framing your own route to get to that point of success, having a cup of tea and bread-butter sandwich on the top of the roof on your birthday with that one special person, watching someone you love, love someone else, watching your best friend getting close to someone else and say “obviously it feels bad, but it’s okay, he’s happy”, trying to adjust in the cliché of other peer interests, capturing beautiful unspoken emotions in your camera, and unknowingly falling in love with someone.
Where better could have the movie ended than the drizzling boulevard of Marine Drive?
With time and age, often our priorities in life change. Things that mattered to us the most once suddenly mean nothing to us.
Just a couple of days back, my father was not well and was taking an afternoon nap. My mother was out for some work and had told me before she left to take my father to the doctor willy-nilly, after he gets up. Later, my father woke up, got ready and left to the doctor’s. When my mother returned back, she asked me why I hadn’t gone with him to the doctor, for which I casually replied that he himself got ready and left without any compulsions. My mother gave me a cold look and said, “When you are not well, your father never leaves you to yourself.” and left the room.
Often we get so busy embracing one opaque string of relationship, that we forget shielding other transparent ones, which gradually erodes with time. We become so blind-folded about one person that everyone and everything else becomes invisible. We live in a time where one does not know where his brother works but knows where will be his favorite band performing next, one does not know the total number of diseases their parents are suffering from, but surely knows which celebrity is seeing who, one does not know what problem is his friend going through but knows what their boyfriend/girlfriend are wearing at the moment.
With time we have become more and more self-centred and occupied. Unfortunately, this does not include only a specific age group of people. At times, I look back and think how different we were, how simple our lives were, how grounded our desires were, and how different our priorities were. May be, it’s just an inevitable part of growing up.
As the movie suggests, take some time off your day and make those people who really matter in our lives feel important. Fall in love but don’t ignore people who love you. It’s time we look for much more ecstatic tunes and tones in the form of people who love us, rather than being allayed for loving someone with the single tuned iktara.
Iktara
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NOTE: Iktara is a single stringed Indian instrument, mostly used for folk and devotional songs and compositions.
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