What music can you turn to then? Our new-age film-makers, largely Mumbai-based, are for reasons mentioned above, perhaps inured to the romanticism of the monsoons. It tends to inspire more anxiety than joy in the Mumbaikar’s heart today!īut, still, there are those occasional days when it pours and you are indoors and your heart brims over with unspeakable emotion that only music can truly express.
Yes, over the years, the swelling, gnarled Mumbai traffic, denser than the densest of clouds the ubiquitous garbage heaps dotting the streetscape and stinking of over-consumption the general and real difficulty of movement within the city during the rains thanks to severely potholed and broken roads that develop deep craters and cracks inevitably at the first showers - have leached much of the romance from Mumbai monsoons. The connection is visceral! When nature around us, typically silent (though the roaring sea is never really physically or emotionally distant from the Mumbaikar’s consciousness), breaks out in thunderous heavy showers, it cannot but evoke an echo in the human heart, rousing it to create its own music, for art is essentially imitation of nature. WHEN the first grey clouds swan into the Mumbai sky and hover over the city, rain-songs, especially from old Hindi films, invariably quicken in my heart and burst on my lips.
MUNMUN GHOSH sings a song for the monsoon rains as they bring to mind the evergreen melodies of yesteryear films and more…as if to say forget Covid-19 this monsoon, re-discover the joys and abundance of magical and life-giving rain. Amidst urban collapse and failing, unsustainable lifestyles… take a break in musical nostalgia, says Mumbai based yoga practitioner, vocalist and sitar player Munmun Ghosh
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