Glory Days

I did not know
That my favourite song from the 90’s which gripped my soul had a sequel.

I listened to it today.
Piya Basanti Re

This was my favourite song among many other pop songs which played on TV music channels of the 90’s and early 2000

Sung by Ustad Sultan Khan and Chitra and directed by Pradeep Sarkar the music video, Piya Basanti became hugely popular, due to the music as well as the beautifully-conceived and directed music video itself.

The soul stirring voice and the video combined had me glued to music channels eagerly waiting for the song to play.

Later, much later, during the internet era, I tried to find out where this video had been filmed, I found the little tea stall, the water gushing by, the thick cloud swirling around, the quick stolen glances between the hill born girl and the gun toting guy all so enchanting, always wanting to go back and feel that little rush they had experienced.

I learnt it was set in the idyllic hills of Kothgarh in Himachal Pradesh. Never having been to a mountain in those days, always been a beach girl, and this places so far away, yet my heart felt so close to the place.

The video and music set the narrative for something more, there had to be, there was romance and mystery and allure about the glances and the chance meeting.

A daisy still reminds me of that one song. Go back and watch the video to see why!

But I never did find out what happened, every time I listened to this song, I was so caught up in the past, so happy with the memories that one song could bring back, of happy carefree lives, crushes, stolen glances, distant dreams.

Until today, something made me look up the song again and there it said sequel.
This is the one
Surmayi Aankhen

Music is like a time machine!
Sometimes it takes only one song to bring back a thousand memories.