MUSIC HAS NO BARRIERS

Suraj: - O Sayionee, chain ek pal nahi.

Pinaki: - Dhaath, being an Indian, you are singing a song of a Pakistani band. You should be ashamed of that. Sing this song…Teri yaad...jab sataye mujhko…main laut aaoonga.

Arindam: - Arrey, yeh bhi toh Pakistani band ka gaana hai…Let me sing this song, Kabhi toh nazar milao…kabhi toh kareeb aayo.

Mainak: - This is also a song sung by a Pakistani singer. I don’t understand that why Indian government gives the permit to these Pakistani singers to come and sing in our Bollywood films. Pakistan is our arch-rivals; we cannot allow their singers to sing in our Hindi films.

Tuhina: - Now, don’t confuse music with politics. Music is music. It hardly matters, whether a man is an Indian, Pakistani or Japanese, the fact is that he is an artist first and all appreciate his work of art. Do you want to say that Nusrat Fateh Ali was a bad singer? Atif Aslam is also not so bad. You people give slangs to Bush, Clinton and Obama, but you respect Michael Jackson, why? Michael Jackson is an American, so as an Indian, why do you listen to that artist’s song?

Arindam: - Hey, I understand, what you are trying to say, but, I don’t agree to you that Pakistani singers are better than our Indian singers. See, culture wise, India is a land, which has produced the mother of all music, and that is the classical music. The Carnatic and Tamil clay pots will produce such a music, that you can hardly imagine of. Even the bowl made of limestone of North-Western India is used to produce fabulous music.

Suraj: - No, no, you are taking it otherwise, Arindam. Tuhina is not trying to compare Indian songs with Arabic songs. She just wanted to say that no matter, what is the nationality of an artist; we respect that artist for his or her great artistic quality.

Pinaki: - Now, don’t underestimate the Arabic songs also. See, the best thing about these Pakistani bands is that they have not tried to copy the western rock bands, rather they infused the Sufi type or Arabic tunes in their song to make it their own Pakistani desi songs. Even, the bands of West Bengal and Bangladesh always come out with their innovative local tunes. Bands like Bhoomi of West Bengal and Miles of Bangladesh always rocks. It is good that, now MTV is going to form a totally desi rock band, where you will find the music of flutes, dholak and table also? Arrey, haan, how can you ignore the music of tabla? Arrey, hujur, baah tabla boliye…he he he…Also, I like the music played by Ravi Shankar too.

Mainak: - Dhaath…I don’t like this boring classical music or that Sufi or Arabic style. I always love Dhinzaagh style songs…like the rap songs of Apache Indians. Just listen to their rap songs. It just rocks our body.

Arindam: - Abbey, ghochu kumar, have you ever heard any tribal songs full of drumbeats and sound of trumpets? You will just start dancing automatically. Even, still today, there are some music used in Tollywood films of South India, where the actors have to dance with full energy. These music are like that only; it will make you dance. But, the point is that nowadays, our Bollywood industry is giving too many opportunities to Pakistani or Arabic singers, but do the Muslim countries really respect our music artists? I don’t think so.

Tuhina: - Not all Pakistanis are terrorists. There are some khandaani or rewaaji Muslims, who have music in their blood. They just love music; no matter, you are Hindu or Muslim. Cinema halls of Pakistan earn around 61% of revenue due to Bollywood films only. But, the irony is that their ‘Sadaf’ company always comes out pirated VCDs and MP3 CDs to create problems for Indian market. Nowadays, you don’t need to buy any original Music CDs from Music World or Planet M, because Pakistani people have already created the pirated MP3 versions of it. Therefore, it indirectly proves that in their country also, people like to hear the Bollywood music. When A.R.Rahman got the Oscar award, even Pakistanis were overjoyed, because they are fans of his music.

Arindam: - Babah, after hearing your lectures, one song is coming into my mind. The song was of the film ‘Earth 1947’. The song is like, ‘Iswar allah, tere jahan mein nafrat kyon hai, jung hai kyon’.

Mainak: - Really, every artist should sing the song, ‘Geet gaata hoon main, goongoonata hoon main…isliye abhi sadaa muskuraata hoon main’, because “MUSIC HAS NO BARRIERS.”