Song 94:
Geeta Dutt too could be the voice of pristine purity and austerity. In this duet from Kala Bazar written by Shailendra and composed by S D Burman, accompanied by Sudha Malhotra, Geeta Dutt essays a rare tranquillity and peace.
It was in moments of turmoil that one could turn to ones faith. As long as your faith was peaceful and non-intrusive, guiding and correcting, it always showed you the right path. The song depicts the inner conflict of Dev Anand who is set on a path of dishonesty and worshipping money above all. How different is petty thuggery from working for covert organisations to spread false agendas and narratives today. Vitiating the atmosphere with falsehoods and divisive politics is today's biggest mafia.
Such money brings no happiness or prosperity. At the end of the day you realise that health is the greatest wealth, and two square meals of honesty are better than wrongly acquired riches. The riches dazzle but they eventually frazzle. The riches compete but eventually deplete. The moolah lures but rarely endures. The gold shines but unduly entwines. The feasts fatten but eventually flatten.
If one could be happy with just enough. Two words of love, a glorious sky over your head, cool breeze, enduring music, clothes that don't weigh you down, friends who love and pick up your calls at 2 am or answer those mundane I-wanna-connect DMs, peace of mind, time to work and plenty to rest and recoup, read a book, go for a walk, smell a rose, talk to your kid and not at her, there's enough to be thankful for.
The conflict was gone, the path was clear. If every day some ethereal song could show us the right way, we didn't even need to name that religion, we didn't need religion.
Geeta Dutt too could be the voice of pristine purity and austerity. In this duet from Kala Bazar written by Shailendra and composed by S D Burman, accompanied by Sudha Malhotra, Geeta Dutt essays a rare tranquillity and peace.
It was in moments of turmoil that one could turn to ones faith. As long as your faith was peaceful and non-intrusive, guiding and correcting, it always showed you the right path. The song depicts the inner conflict of Dev Anand who is set on a path of dishonesty and worshipping money above all. How different is petty thuggery from working for covert organisations to spread false agendas and narratives today. Vitiating the atmosphere with falsehoods and divisive politics is today's biggest mafia.
Such money brings no happiness or prosperity. At the end of the day you realise that health is the greatest wealth, and two square meals of honesty are better than wrongly acquired riches. The riches dazzle but they eventually frazzle. The riches compete but eventually deplete. The moolah lures but rarely endures. The gold shines but unduly entwines. The feasts fatten but eventually flatten.
If one could be happy with just enough. Two words of love, a glorious sky over your head, cool breeze, enduring music, clothes that don't weigh you down, friends who love and pick up your calls at 2 am or answer those mundane I-wanna-connect DMs, peace of mind, time to work and plenty to rest and recoup, read a book, go for a walk, smell a rose, talk to your kid and not at her, there's enough to be thankful for.
The conflict was gone, the path was clear. If every day some ethereal song could show us the right way, we didn't even need to name that religion, we didn't need religion.
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