Anyone who knows me will vouch for the fact that I am not a film buff. Films are so long and I just do not get the whole ‘The End’ bit.
So this chain of events took place:-
It started with me really getting into old hindi songs in the past couple of years. I heard them growing up, but learnt to rightly tune them out as all things the parents were into- now I’m completely smitten.
I then watched ‘I Cant Think Straight‘ which has Lisa Ray playing a bisexual Arabic woman in love with a ‘desi’ Brit girl Sheetal Sheth (very cute and brown).
Then, I have this list of songs that I’m meant to learn.
so one day I’m humming a song from said list and my father piped up from across the room “DOYOUKNOWWHATMOVIETHISSONGISFROM?””
ANANDTHEMOVIEANAND!!HAVEYOUSEENIT?
My father is adorable. He was a tough-guy in his youth and now he has this halo of white-grey hair behind his head. I of course rolled my eyes and snorted, ‘Yaidd’sfrom themovie wheredatguy diesintheend”.
Dad rose to the occasion “NOO!ITSABOUTHISLOVEFORLIFE.HELOVESLIFEANDFIGHTSFORIT.-
-ITSABOUTHISCOURAGE”
He was seriously frothing by now.
I ofcourse was unaware that I’d put my foot because I didn’t know how awesome the film was.
Parental playing aside- my father has the best taste in films, he’s a seriously classy guy. Which is probably why we weren’t allowed to watch Hindi movies or any television for that matter growing up. The only movies I’ve seen as a kid were old black and white one’s or foreign films with Ava Gardener or Errol Flynn ‘, Guru Dutt movies or Mughal -E -Azam.
Back to the chain. After the talk about Anand, within a matter of days I read in the newspaper that Lisa Ray had been diagnosed with a kind of awful Cancer and all these things ran through my head and fit, like pieces of a puzzle.
So I went back to my list and worked out the song. My cousin and her daughter helped my with lyrics and I transposed the music manually on paper.
Here is my version
http://soundcloud.com/user483852/maine-tere-liye-cover
Lisa Ray this is for you.
And a link to Mukesh’s original
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCsohi4zq00
ps: the father is completely right, I watched ‘Anand’ one afternoon alone and wept from start to finish.
