The Wizard of Music

I have no idea how I got to writing this post. And NO, I’m not the wizard of Music. 😛

I was just roaming around the net jobless. And somehow I ended up on YouTube. It so seems that YouTube and me share a relationship of lifetimes. It’s like we’ve been together for ages. Every time I end up in YouTube, I loose control of myself. The makers of YouTube implemented a feature that made sure that their visitors never left YouTube. Its called Related Videos and it comes up on the right side of all the videos of YouTube. That’s the worst part. I really wish I could find one video on YouTube that didn’t have a single related video. Even video that were uploaded just seconds earlier somehow find related videos. I never get myself to leave YouTube once I get there. Well, that’s not what I’m writing this post for.

As I was clicking on the related videos on YouTube, I stumbled upon a London choir singing A R Rahman‘s Balleilakka from the movie Shivaji – The BOSS. It was awesome to see an entire foreign choir sing an Indian song; not just an individual but an entire choir. And then my focus was to listen to all those related videos to that one. There were so many. So many. I myself don’t know how many versions of the same song I’ve heard right now. ( Yeah, I have it playing in the background as I’m writing this post. 😛 ) And I don’t know how many more I’m going to hear. I think I’ve forgotten how the original song sounded like. I’ve been listening to different versions of the same song all night. 😛

Listening to all those songs, I realized how awesome we Indians are. We should be proud of it. I’m well proud of it. But this post is not about Indians either. Its one Indian in particular. The one and only A R Rahman. I have no words to describe this man. ‘Wizard’ is not just enough to describe his talent and the way he knows his talent. I wish I knew the ultimate word to describe this great personality.