{"id":6233,"date":"2018-01-12T17:01:26","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T11:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/calamur.org\/gargi\/?p=6233"},"modified":"2018-01-12T17:01:26","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T11:31:26","slug":"hindi-film-music-encompassing-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calamur.org\/gargi\/2018\/01\/12\/hindi-film-music-encompassing-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Hindi Film Music : All Encompassing Love"},"content":{"rendered":"

It began as one of those really lovely twitter chats. A conversation about music. About love. About friendship. And, before i know it, i was looking at music that is about an all consuming\/consuming love for Agents of Ishq<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

There is lust. there is like. there is love. And, then there is the love that transcends time and space, life and death; the love that does not speak it\u2019s name \u2013 but is there like an eternal light. The love that is depicted in Bollywood. The love that may never find a physical manifestation; where lovers may never come together \u2013 but it is the strongest love of them all. It is a love that is closer to the being in love with God as depicted in Bhakti rasa, or in the qawallis sung by the Sufis. A love where God is personified as the lover. As with God, and you having no ego with God, the love songs I am going to list here are about a love where you have no issues subsuming your own identity in that of your lover. A love that is so pure, and yet so strong , that just hearing about it makes your heart smile.
\nMora Gora Ang Laile (Bandini)<\/strong> . Sung by Lata Mangeshkar, and picturised on Nutan, the song is the Gulzar\u2019s first outing as a lyricist. The song can be interpreted either way. A woman telling her lover to take her fair body, and give her his dark body; or it can be seen as what the music director SD Burman saw it as, a Vaishnava song that celebrates the love of Radha and Krishna<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n