Norah Jones – Mumbai gave me you
Dear Norah, as I write this open letter to you, I am filled
with peace and tranquility which I find occasionally. Your visit to Mumbai for ‘A
Summer’s Day’ concert has given my soul a serene calmness and has enriched my
mind creatively. Your fragile yet strong posture inspires many a soul. You are
one of a kind and that is why I chose you over many.
On my way to the concert, I was greeted by many, some
unknown, some quietly and some at the concert with full love and happiness. What
your songs express is nothing but our daily activities in a very fascinating
way. I found meaning of inhuman objects in your songs and some humane.
Is it the buildings of Mumbai that I love? Is it the never
ending traffic? Or is what it gives to us, what it lets us be. Whatever it may
be Mumbai gives what you wanted and want. And it gave me you. It gave me your
songs and symbolized them with objects around me. When you sing Chasing
Pirates, I find banal things in mysterious ways. When you sing Come Away With
Me, I feel Mumbai is asking me walk with it. When you sing Don’t Know Why, it
makes me think about all those times when I waited till the break of day to see
hope through new lenses. You and Mumbai have given life to my old yet young
soul.
Your songs teach the mind how to make give music to mundane
life and enlighten the wary soul. However far you might have been from me when
you were performing (even though I was just in front of the stage), you were
with me. And we did sink soon.
I was never fond of the sea until I came to Bombay and found
alive. I never knew how to say I like this and refrained myself from saying I don’t
like this, until it gave me you.
What is with your composed smile, calmness, delicate look? Is
it a façade or is it your way of defining life? Concealing the reality or is it
protecting being secure.
You sing as if you aren’t hurt, as if you are making a point
– am hurt but am not shattered, am broken but I won’t go down. Whatever it may
be, however harsh it may be, it calmed my soul, a tired one.
And then you walked away, as if leaving the soul filled with
anticipation and left it empty yet hopeful that I will see more of you and will
be filled with uncovered mysteries of life, living in Utopia.
And your ending number had enough reasons and meaning to
make me walk with you and your songs till the end of my time, realizing only
after you were gone, Mumbai gave me you and you gave me love – for an unknown
wish.
Photo Courtesy - Sunil Bhandari. Thanks Sunil :)
Photo Courtesy - Sunil Bhandari. Thanks Sunil :)
Norah Jones – Mumbai gave me you
Reviewed by Sudatta
on
March 04, 2013
Rating: 5
Reviewed by Sudatta
on
March 04, 2013
Rating: 5