Dec 12, 2011

Why this Kolaveri Kolaveri kolaveri....

The song "why this Kolaveri di, became a phenomenal song, due to its simple lyrics and amazing tune.....One of my friend asked me to reconsider my liking for Kolaveri Di as it uses some outrageous words against girls..like white skin, black heart and killer rage [meaning of kolaveri]....

I guess people who like this song with true understanding of these words can better answer why they liked it so much. Most of the north Indians or people abroad who were not familiar with the original lyrics have perhaps did not bother about the literal meaning rather its ease to muse people with simplicity and melody..

Seeking happiness in love is more painful than this Kolaveri I guess..When you are in love, everything seems pink; every idea seems great and every dream is under the quote "possible"..You want to sleep, eat, think, drink and sing with the tunes your lover want you to...Even if you don't like it.. But like everything ephemeral in this world..this magic too breaks so easily and quickly followed by the more painful feelings.

We love, we betray, we fall in love and we feel being cheated by the other end when we do not see the equal vibes coming in return..Expectations and expectations..that is what is the basis of all problems, all pains. We know we are the best ones to bring happiness for ourselves, still we look to others and rely on them to keep us happy.. ..One thing is sure, if you devalue yourself to show your devotion to your lover, he or she too will not give you the due importance you want or deserve and then the agony of ignorance make you cry...why this Kolaveri....




2 comments:

som said...

I do agree with you. Love brings pain; it brings unhappiness; it is ephemeral. But all this is true only when the love you are talking about is not selfless.

Expectations, as you aptly mention, form the basis of all problems.

What if we could love, and not expect in return? Would we still be unhappy? Would we still cry? What if we could "Shift+Del" our ego? Would we still be unhappy that we are not getting back the love we gave? Perhaps not; perhaps, we can be really happy if we could at least try just giving what we could, and not expect anything in return.

"Devalue" the self, and then only you could transcend the barriers of unhappiness and enter the realm of true happiness -- that is what all the major religions of the world seem to teach, and that is how you will be nearer the Supreme Power. If you can reach god by being selfless, can you not experience true love in the same way? When we are in love, don't we try to please our partner by doing little things that may not define who we are, but we nevertheless do those things only in order to please the beloved? Why do we complain, later, then? May be because we start thinking "Enough! Now let me see what he/she can do for me in return." That is how we start expectating, and out goes the happiness.

Kolaveri is a nice song, and the feelings it expresses are real. But it is up to us whether we choose wallowing in sorrow or being at peace...

May be we could just try loving. And not expecting. And go on like that.

som said...

I do agree with you. Love brings pain; it brings unhappiness; it is ephemeral. But all this is true only when the love you are talking about is not selfless.

Expectations, as you aptly mention, form the basis of all problems.

What if we could love, and not expect in return? Would we still be unhappy? Would we still cry? What if we could "Shift+Del" our ego? Would we still be unhappy that we are not getting back the love we gave? Perhaps not; perhaps, we can be really happy if we could at least try just giving what we could, and not expect anything in return.

"Devalue" the self, and then only you could transcend the barriers of unhappiness and enter the realm of true happiness -- that is what all the major religions of the world seem to teach, and that is how you will be nearer the Supreme Power. If you can reach god by being selfless, can you not experience true love in the same way? When we are in love, don't we try to please our partner by doing little things that may not define who we are, but we nevertheless do those things only in order to please the beloved? Why do we complain, later, then? May be because we start thinking "Enough! Now let me see what he/she can do for me in return." That is how we start expectating, and out goes the happiness.

Kolaveri is a nice song, and the feelings it expresses are real. But it is up to us whether we choose wallowing in sorrow or being at peace...

May be we could just try loving. And not expecting. And go on like that.