*a special request- please play teri deewani, naiharwa,saiyyan and chaandan mein while ur reading this!* :)
thanks! :P
Have you ever felt the need to slap yourself to see if what was happening was actually true or whether it was just a beautiful dream??
This is exxactly what Im feeling right now..!!
so lets rewind a little
(few years back):
I heard the song Allah ke bande and thought- hey nice song man..!
and then I heard this awesome soul stirring song called teri deewani..!
and I said- awesome !
After a few months , my cousin gave me a cd which had a lot of albums and one album called "kailasa"...
THATS IS IT! I was hooked for eternity!!
I listened to that album day in and day out..
i knew each and every beat, each and every rythm of all the songs in the album... I was just soo sooo soooo addicted..
then I started following all kailash kher songs..and I realised that the songs had such an amazing feel to it. I would search for some new kailash kher song each day!
and then this was turning into a huge problem at home... I wouldn't let anyone hear anyhting else!!
And God forbid if anyone stopped a Kailash kher song in between.That person was in HUGGGE trouble..! slowly my friends noticed my madness and they went-huh..wats so great about those songs.. How did they know!
Pretty soon, My didi got hooked to the songs too and together we would talk about these songs day in and day out.. we would sing "teri deewani " before going to sleep and all.
I would say "isn't it so odd, kailash kher doesn't even know that he has such a big fan!"
Then I learnt about the Kailasa band.It had Kailash Kher , Paresh kamath and Naresh Kamath who were brothers.
One day I heard saiyyan on tv and thats when I realised that this band was just made for me!! :P
They made such beautiful music!! Each song just brought this amazing and pure feeling of music ..
didi started calling me "kherni" :P
And then there was "kailasa Jhoomo re! " I went yayyyyyyy!!!
I always felt that with an A.R Rahman song, the magic is such that you won't like the song when you hear it for the first time , but if you hear it like two or three times thats when you start loving it, but with a kailash kher song, I just fall in love with the song right away!!
Then came a series of songs and I started feeling more and more that "THIS IS MY BAND" :P
If the newspaper said anything about Kailash kher, my mom would tell me that there was something about kailash bhai.. :P
my friends toh waise bhi always kept teasing me.. they were like use pata bhi nahi hai you exist!
Thats when magic happened..
or in amazing words this is what happened:
"Ishq ka jaadoo sar chadh kar bole,
khub lagalo pehre raste rab khole " :P
Destiny had to help me meet them..! you know this famous line that goes- "Kissi cheez ko dil se chaho toh puri kaynath use tumse milana ki koshish karti hai.."? here it was more like "kissi cheez ko dil se chaho toh kamaths use tumse milane ki koshish karte hai" :P
i searched facebook for "kailash kher" and found a profile, was not sure if it was HIM but still I added him..!
And then chaandan mein was released.. MAGIC MAGIC MAGIC..! aaah! when was I going to meet them I don't know..
I just thought it was going to be an unfulfilled dream and kept listening to all the songs day in and day out!
At college, people would irritate me by saying "kya yaar kailash kher kahan acha gaata hai"
They did this because they knew I was gonna get so irritated and all.. I actually would stop talking to that person if he said anything bad about kailasa :P
In any antakshari I would sing kailasa songs.. I was getting so predictable :P
And then one day I was in surat lazing around at dad's place and suddenly my best friend calls and says "hey ash, ur kailash bhai is coming to ahmedabad today.."
I was like "ha ha ah okay not funny"
and then she was like beyyy Im not kidding he's coming..!! I pleaded dad, I wanted to goooooooooooooooooo but it wasn't possible!!!
It was sooo sooo heartbreaking.. so many of my friends went and I was so upset.. but then they said "oye if her biggest fan is not there, the concert wud be no fun" and then I was happy :P The same thing happened when I was in mumbai and they said kailash kher was coming after 4 days and I was leaving the same day.. ARRRGGHHH Again!!
I had lost hopes of ever seeing them perform live..
Suddenly one day my notifications said "KAILASH KHER HAS ACCEPTED YOU FRIEND REQUESt" I wentt yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!
but he wasn't regular and I wasn't sure if it was him :(
and then One day I searched for "paresh and naresh kamath"
OHMY GOD!! they were on that social networking site!! Paresh bhai and Naresh bhai were there!!!
I called each and every friend and told them this.. they were like oh must be a fake profile!!
then I asked them about kailasa and stuff and they gave me the most amazing news , they said they were coming to Ahmedabad!!!
yayyy!!!!! :) :) :)
Now present:
6th February 2010:
I reached the venue and we got the most amazing seats(thanks Paresh bhai) :)
I was so close to the stage.. It was like a dream. people around were so normal but I was like-"OMG OMG OMG"
the band was doing their sound check! It was like I was waiting for that moment since I don't know when! Paresh bhai and naresh bhai are sooo down to earth..!! maybe they don't even know themselves that they are suchhh big people!! they talked normally with me..! I was on cloud 9!! :P
And then the stage was set for magic to happen.
kailash bhai came in sining Jana jogi de naal..!! And I was like ohhhh nooooo!! He's here. This is it!!!
Im watching Kailasa live that too I was so close to the stage!!
Couldn't stop smiling..! Couldn't stop myself from screaming the lyrics while the other executive people sat there elegantly. My heart danced to the tunes..
Aand I felt sooo sooo good!! aaah my dream has come true.. I can die peacefully now:P
AND SUDDENLY::
Kailash bhai said "some people are crazy and we have the information that a crazy fan of Kailasa is sitting here with us! " My heart skipped a beat .. I thought is he talking about me?? and thenI thought, no no no no..!
suddenly he said "I would like to call Ashwini Mohan on stage..Ashwini mohan"
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EVERYTHING AROUND ME WENT blank!!! you know this scene they show in movies where everything around you stops for a second.That is what happened!!!
You have no idea how it feels when a person you have worshipped for so much time is actually calling u on stage!!
all I could think was "kailash bhai said my name!!"
and then I went up on stage.
I was there!!! STANDING RIGHT THERE WITH THE WHOLE BAND!!
and then we danced and sang !! Never ever In my wildest dreams had I thought something like this would happen!!
How could this happen to me??!! The moment was to die for! although for a moment I did pray that I shoulllddd not faint!!!!!!!!!! :P
My face flushed and blushed and it gave the wierdest of expressions.. I started dancing with full force but later like a lightening the feeling struck me that I was standing there with the legends!!
and then I just stopped dancing,
I just stood there dazed..!
That moment was like a flashback of all the days i have listened to these songs in a loop almost like 50 times a day..! It was like someone from up there was smiling and saying "there you go! ab khush? "
The concert was just of 90 mins , but the fun was something I would remember till I turn 90! :P
After the concert I talked to Paresh bhai and Naresh bhai and the other band mates.
I talked to the drummer Kurt and the tabla player "sanket".. the others had left and were in a hurry. It was because of them that this was possible.. I was a different person that day...!
The feeling was just psychedelic!!!
It was like my heart was just too full with happiness!!
Finally - I can finally say the line and mean it that- "God is great"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Im so so so sure, that the happiness that they have given me was just so enormous that they are going to succeed so so so so much in life! God just put the star batch on their collar :P! Im so sure, they will be legends !
can't stop YAYYYY'ing :) :) :)
aavjo,
ashwini
