Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Aajana Dil Hai Deewana - Memories

After around ten minutes of staring at a blank page and still not getting any ideas for a new post, I decided to do some no-particular-reason- web- browsing.

'Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani' reviews, posters caught my attention and brought back some memories.

Well, nothing to do with the film or with Ranbir or Deepika for that matter. Just the title. Rather, just one word in the title 'Deewani'.

It happened when I was around nine years old. My maternal grandfather had expired and all my mother's siblings and their children had gathered at my uncle's house for the obsequies.

A lady lived next door with her husband and two daughters. My cousins and I used to go to her place for playing. She used to do sweet things like just calling her daughters aside , giving them some snacks and specifically instructing them not to waste them sharing it with the monsters from next door. Well it was perfectly audible to us and at that age a little bit of innocence was still intact I suppose and so we did not give it any importance.

That was the time when Hassan Jahangir's 'Hawa Hawa E Hawa ' song had been a super hit all over India. The same album had a song 'Aajana Dil Hai Deewana'

One day while playing, my cousin and I started singing this song. This lady's second daughter had just enrolled for Hindi classes and God knows what her honorable Hindi teacher taught her.

She retorted 'Hey you two, you think I dont know Hindi? I know what Deewana means. Deewana means payithiyam (word in Tamil for mad) right?'

At that point in time, my only Hindi teachers were the great heroes and heroines of Bollywood. I knew that 'Deewana, Parvana, Mastana' kept coming in every song churned out along with 'Pyaar' and 'Ishq', but did not really have a clue about their meaning.

"What? Mad? No WAY!  Mother promise" I responded.

"No, I know. My saar has taught me. Deewana means mad. You both are calling me mad ?"

Thats when the beings inside us with red skin and two horns got excited and we both started singing that song as loud as possible. I dont recollect what she had done earlier to annoy us that we absolutely enjoyed teasing her. With a villainous laughter we continued "Aajana Dil Hai Deewana, roke chaahe lakh zamaana, kehdo naa yai dil hai deewana, ta da ta ta ta ta da da ta ta". The last musical notes, we uttered with amazing musicality.

"Do you know what super song this is? This is the latest hit" one of us bragged to the poor girl whose Hindi was restricted to the pure Hindi lessons of her sir and she had not seen any Bollywood movie till then.

She was almost on the verge of tears and the two of us started singing with all the more frenzy.

"Wait, I will go tell my mommy" she threatened. " Sollikko (Go ahead and tell)" we replied nonchalantly and continued our rendition. I think we even did a jiggle or two in rhythm to our tune.

Once satisfied that she was fuming with anger and brimming with tears we returned home. Well, the lady did follow very soon with "You have these brats that you call children at home. You know what they did? They are coming to my house and making fun of my daughter with some Hindi song. It seems they kept calling her a lunatic"

Our parents were already grief stricken due to the death in the family and they were in no mood to question the authenticity of the baseless accusation against us. Do I need to say that we were grounded? 

"Aajaana Dil Hai Deewana" :D

28 comments:

  1. That was a sweet post :)
    Enjoyed the read ...
    Thanks for sharing this!

    best wishes
    Simran

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  2. lol!
    That girl must have had a terrible childhood with a mother like that!

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    1. May be she was not that bad . Guess we hooligans triggered the bad side of hers

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  3. hmmmm funny nice written..... deewana is good word

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  4. Nice nostalgia. Us Tamilians and out experiments with Hindi!

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  5. Interesting nostalgic post. We Tamilians and our experiments with Hindi!

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  6. You know what, that girl was actually right. Deewana means sort of crazy or madly in love... Not the lunatic kind of mad!

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    1. I know now Shilpa . Then I was convinced that since it came in all the filmy songs it ought to have a better meaning hi hi

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  7. Jaish this is a nice post with a touch of humor.Enjoyed reading it.

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  8. ha ha :D I remember this song... During one of the school functions, someone performed on it... it was fun.

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  9. I remember that song. My brother used to hear it every single moment when at home. :)
    Nice post

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  10. i remember singing this song the entire day when it was released. unfortunately, he never released any song after that and there were rumors that he was killed.

    lovely post Jayashree! enjoyed reading this! (i know it's a heinous crime to read a post three days after it was published.)

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    1. Thanks for visiting Deb :D Thanks for the comments too and No, comments are important, its ok if they arrive three days later :D

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  11. LOL....That was awesome, Jaish. Even I remember the song...Fun post!!:))

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  12. Hehe Poor you, deewana does not mean mad :). And I so remember that album. It was a rage in those days.

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    1. Thank you for the comment Rachna. It was a rage indeed, even in the no-internet, no-mobile phone times!

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