Poets and poetry have always been accused of too much symbolism and an abundant use of inexplicable metaphors and various literary mechanisms. But as they say, to understand life you have to live it (another metaphor although not that obscure), same is the case with poetry, and for living a poetry the prerequisite is, to think.





But if piece of creativity takes you through a lifetime and churns out all the emotions you would have experienced while your are “here”, and compels you to think while transporting you into a different world then I think its worth a look or even much more than that.





The title track of Vishal Bhardwaj’s upcoming movie ‘Kaminey’ falls into the realm of such kind of expression with some of the best lines ever written by Gulzar.





The track starts slow for a few seconds and then the tempo rises and by the time its ‘there’ you are so much involved with the carefully observed lyrics that you start feeling drowned, such a feeling you can only have at a time just minutes before you are about to die, not necessarily the physical death but may be because of world-weariness in which you see yourself walking on road to heaven ( I wish there was a ‘Stairway to Heaven’…)thinking about all the good ,the bad and the evil you did and done to you. While walking, in your mind there is a vacuum with no music , no sound, just scenes of things you cherished, those moments of pure, genuine and unrestrained joy and ecstasy ,the kind of happiness you get when you take out your parents out for a drive in your car with their favorite music.





The lyrics takes you in retrospective mood for that one last time, in which you ask and answer to yourself, what do did u do with your life and then you say I made its life difficult with all my desires ,my dreams, even if I listened to my heart it took me nowhere. The words flow further and the protagonist says that he asked his life to give him all the impossibilities which is explained in the actual lyrics with just the right metaphors. He, then answers himself by saying the ways of living have always been like that and will continue to be like that.





In the next stanza the protagonist talks about all the betrayal, the helplessness he felt when he found that everybody in his life were different ,not what he thought them to be , the wicked ways of life of which he himself was a part of sometimes.


The belief in conviction behind the lyrics might have prompted Vishal to go behind the mike himself and giving that much needed world-weariness feel to the song.





Forms of art, unlike science always have a hint of optimism( though not always)in it ,following the trend the song ends saying however ‘kaminey’ the world is you never stop dreaming and doing things to realize them. Hence the protagonist trudges on.





So, go on live a lifetime, what if its only for 5 minutes and 57 seconds.


I think I lived it 30 times..while writing this!!!!!!!!!!