Yeh jo des hai tera...

A song from Swades. This is one of my favorite song now. It is almost three months since i reached the United States. It is not that I like this song since i have become a "Desi". It is just that i heard the song recently and i do feel that I have missed it for so long.

As far as I am concerned, there are songs in my life, which indicates a transition. A physical transition leads to a mental transition. I kept moving through different places in India and each such transition had a different effect. It is just the fear of a new place and the kind of effort I need to put to adapt to the new place.

This often led to remembering the early days at the new place and I also somehow ended up in relating to a song. This song would mostly be from a new movie released during that time (of course there are exceptions).

I well remember the songs from "Kaho na pyar hai" from my first year at my UG college. As one passed through the hostel corridor, all rooms on both sides had computer playing the songs from this movie.

It was "Uyirin Uyire" or "Ennai konjam matri" from the tamil movie "Kakka Kakka" during my PG years. I had moved to TamilNadu now and it had to be a tamil movie.

It was "Ghajini" (Tamil), when i joined my job. Almost all of my collegues in my training batch had a cell phone and songs from this movie. No wonder that songs represented this transition from college to job.

After almost three and half years, being in the same company and in the same place, things were pretty monotonous. Now coming to the United States was a change. Almost a week after i reached here, I stumbled upon this song in youtube searching for some other AR Rahman's songs, and that was it. It is this song for this transition.

I seriously do not know what or when the next transition is going to be and what song is going to represent it. I am waiting for it to unfold whenever it is supposed to. I am sure, people who read this also will start to map songs to their past and i swear it is going to bring back a lot of old memories.