For Himesh

My bus journey was too boring and irritating. Boring because I was travelling alone and iriitating coz unfortunately the bus conductor was a big fan of Himesh reshmia. Topped over it was the bad speakers of the bus and they were made to sound utterly awful by the potholes on the road. Negative multiplied by negative is positive and that happened to be the case here. Himesh was sounding better under the influence of bad speakers. This led me to another thought which I think will validate enormous popularity of this singer who these days is asking for over 3 million as one show fee in spite of the fact that he was confirmed the most unloved celebrity of 07 in India.
I remember 2004 general elections quite well. Ram naik was BJP candidate from South Mumbai and against him was Govinda, who was given ticket by congress. Odds in favour of govinda were very low and Naik was quite confident of his victory since he was nominated to lok sabha 4 times before that from the same constituency. The result said some other story. Govinda won. That’s an altogether different story that after a year he was in the list of members with most number of absents. The agenda put forward by Naik was development and some “shining India “ story which obviously didn’t appeal much in comparison to govinda ,who did his campaigning with all those activities which majority of the middle class and lower class(major vote share) found very, entertaining I would say. Travelling alongside normal “junta” in local train was one such stunt.
We boyz and gals of “DCH” and “Rock On” era always ignore one thing that there are people in India who are still living in the age of “tere naam”, “bewafa sanam” and to them himesh is god and his compositions verses of holy scripture. So then we have sonu nigam and fellas who sing songs like “tanhayee” for us and on the other side is Himesh who has “Naam tera tera” in his kitty. And it is quite clear that we are in minority. This is also due to the fact that some of the members of our “ we love sonu nigam” community have either defected to “ we love himesh” or “we love both “ community.
Now even I would like to give some argument in “His” favour. The best thing is that he accepts that he is a nasal crooner and then subsequently boasts of giving some 21 hits in a year(may be more). Its like “virendra sehwag has no technique but bingo, he is the only one to have 3 triple hundreds alongside sir don bradman and Brian lara”. So this sets his fan base. Apart from that he fearlessly acted in a movie, watching which was considered offence in PVR gold and platinum class community and once again the govind analogy proved its correctness. Alas, the movie was hit with one auto-rickshaw stunt and ample amount of crap. So “the himesh” has a hit movie too, to his credit. Also I would appreciate one thing that since there was a brand new competitor in the field so that gave other singers a run for their money too. And very few people survive in industry after souring relation with salman, exception being ash and srk which was quite obvious in latter case. And third is our own himesh.
So, next time when you hear himesh,calm yourself down and remember sehwag and smile on the fact that how entertaining is test cricket due to him.