THE most REMARKABLE SONGS of The LAST DECADE: #1 CHANNA MEREYA

                                              

I take great interest in analyzing things and have always thought of sharing my musings. Today I finally took the decision to publish them through a blog. As a self-proclaimed music critic, I opted to write about the most outstanding songs of the past decade.

 I am going to start with a song of the most popular and prolific singer of this decade. I agree that it is a bit predictable that I chose to begin with a song by Arijit. But ‘Channa Mereya’ certainly has qualities that make it stand apart.

For me this song was the most nostalgia invoking song of the said decade. Amitabh Bhattacharya, Arijit and Pritam Da have created something extraordinary here. And it does justice to Karan Johar’s tradition of successfully showing intense emotions. The picturization could surprise you though, if you came across the audio version first. It could feel too heavy on your senses, at first; when you have imagined it to be in a different way.

The song has so many words that have not been used in Hindi songs for a while. And it paints a quaint picture of the 90s, when people still used to write letters. It mentions things like spending time on the Aangan (terrace) with friends that most of us miss doing now.

This song has been popularized as the breakup song when really it is a song of unrequited love. Its huge popularity could also be because most of its lines convey the universal feeling of parting from your dear ones.

The Hindi lyrics and the Indian instruments playing in the background make it more Indian than most of the recent Hindi movie songs. All these things make it very unique and something that will be remembered for many more years.