Almost every 90’s Kid from India would have heard of this
song “Tum toh thehre pardesi …. saath
kya nibahaaoge” in one or the other place knowing or unknowing what is actually
playing in back ground. This introduces me to introduce you to a very special
genre of songs that was especially famous during 90’s or at least my childhood.
Its called “DHABA SONGS”. You don’t have to worry of it if you haven’t heard of
it. It’s not a genre of music by itself. I can say, it’s the kind of
classification that I am making to describe these kinds of songs. Please don’t
mistake me I am not stereotyping anyone or any kind of music or so but just to
ease of understanding I am using this classification.
My House was in a Jain temple street. There are many
advantages of your house being in a Jain temple road. One is you will always
get to see hot Jain chicks religiously dressed up going to temple at least once
for a week. Especially on Sundays it’s pretty much sure that you can expect any
Marwari girl in the town you want to check in can be taking a walk to Jain
mandir to find peace. I am not sure if she would find peace in the temple, but
for sure all the anxious guys who were interested in her in their own degrees
of attachments would find peace in their own level of attachments. The other
thing is now and then you will get to see this Marwari wedding processions to
move in front of your house. Oh, my god! it’s one of a kind you should never
miss. My sincere suggestions to all my fellow buddies is if you ever happened
to meet a Marwari friend in life, make sure that he invites you to all
marriages of his relatives. It’s not only about the very lavish display of
wealth, lot of tasty food you as a non-Marwari would never ever would have
expected that you would taste them in your life, music, hot girls, cute kids,
their dogs but also the greatest display of joy that they portray in a marriage.
Oh, it’s absolutely fantabulous. If you ever been to such a marriage you will
always observe either some band as a team playing some background music that
covers the entire free space in the environment or some DJ kind of a person
carefully coordinating all the music systems lighting's and taking care of the
video displays and all such kinds of stuff sitting in an isolated corner with a
headphone. If you ever paid attention to the songs. I bet you will definitely
would have come across this song “Tum toh thehre pardesi …. saath kya nibahaaoge” and many such songs. At
is time I am very much exited to show you guys how this song looked like. Please have a look.
But the most important observation of this song and many
other songs from this guy called Altaf Raja was that they
gave lot of peace for Indian Highway truck drivers. I am not joking there is this serious
stereotyping of Indian truck drivers that they are inhumane. There are stories
behind these drivers that in long Indian highways that these drivers would keep
a brick on the accelerator and go for a sleep or so for a while; Or they would
ask their cleaners to take care of the road while they take a small nap and
come back. Since I haven’t seen it in first hand I would say it was only an
exaggeration of the boredom of their job routine or I don’t know. Can’t just
say it’s not possible after Adidas saying impossible is nothing. Especially
after seeing video like this
video.
Now, it is important to describe what was their daily routine would
somewhat look like. Most of these truck drivers would leave early in the
morning after a very short sleep of 4 – 5 hours to pass through the important
cities as they are restricted entering the important metro cities during the
peak traffic hours or so. And keep on travelling in the left lane of highways
till they feel bored. Usually there will be a Highway Dhabas in road ways where
these truck drivers stop to have lunch. Sometimes there if there are no Dhabas
when they get bored they do all these impossible things. But I would say this
guy Altaf raja kept these guys from falling asleep for a long time or keep them
pushing harder not to break for some more time when they get frustrated, but
cannot stop because of their daily targets of covering so many kilometres a
day. This was one more place where these kinds of songs would fill the
environment to keep it alive. I am not in position to judge these guys but all
I could say is that they could have had a better life if did they went to
school when they were young. I am not sure what point I am making but all that
I say is its pathetic.
I would say these kinds of songs did originate in these wonderful
places called Dhabas which
are the only entertainment they have during their thousands of kilometres of
boring journey. Have a look at this video if you guys have time. This is almost
every kind of food you can get in most of the Dhabas. I am sure that your mouth going to water
after this.
I am not understanding for myself what are the things I am
trying to connect through todays blog. I think I cannot. it is complex to understand
the interlinking between various phenomenon happening in India. Even its
complex to draw connections in between.
All I can say is that they all exist in complex intricate symbiosis
within every Indian and this cannot be described or cannot be orderly explained
as Germans do. its complex and intricated. But it works there.
- Sid
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