Music soothes the savage beast....

[ileliberte]

Three songs today from the movie 1947:Earth. It's about the partition of India into India and Pakistan in 1947, and is a wrenching, horrifying movie that I will probably never watch again because it was that good. It has it's lighter moments as well though. It's based on a book called "Ice candy man" and is by Bapsi Siddhwa if anyone's interested. I uploaded four of my favorites. The music is by A.R.Rahman and the songs are uploaded on my own server, so please right click and save, and let me know if you're downloading :)

Ruth aa gayee re (The season has arrived) Somewhat fast paced, fun song about the arrival of spring.

Yeh Jo Zindagi Hain (this fragment just means "this life is", it goes on with metaphors about life and realizations) Meanderings about the vagaries of life with some sexual awakenings thrown in for good measure :D

Ishwar Allah (Ishwar is the name for god in most Indian languages and Allah is the Islamic name) A song asking god why tragedy/darkness exists when god himself made the world. The lyrics are beautiful, but sound immensely corny when I try to translate them myself. They were composed by a poet, so I'd say it needs a poet to translate them as well.

Raat Ki Daldal Hain.mp3 (The mire of the night) A song in the background of one of the most wrenching moments in the film when a train arrives from across the border with only bodies in them.

Comments

[an-kayoh.livejournal.com]

I'm taking them. Thank you!

[lemonitsa.livejournal.com]

I have seen this movie.

a wrenching, horrifying movie that I will probably never watch again because it was that good

mmhmmm.
the scene when the train arrives made me cry.

[raucousraven.livejournal.com]

Thanks very much for the music. I might have to watch the movie now. *braces*

[ileliberte.livejournal.com]

You're welcome. Be prepared to feel horrible afterwards :(

Ruth aa gayee

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks for giving away this song for free.

I first heard this song on Indian Idol , and immediately came under its spell. I tried several Hindi music sites , but couldn't find it on any of them.

Thanks once again.

K. Narayan ( from Port Harcourt , Nigeria )

Re: Ruth aa gayee

[ileliberte.livejournal.com]

No problem, glad you liked it. I would suggest itunes too, they have music from this movie and other A.R. Rahman works too that can be bought, if that is a possible option for you. Feel free to browse my music tag, I have more by Rahman uploaded.

[sobelle.livejournal.com]

Thank you again for the downloads... as I said before, finding new and unfamiliar music is very much something I enjoy.

I started out with just one or two but I'm finding (as I said before) that your tastes are excellent (or is that because I like them too? :)

I don't want to overtax your server so I won't download more than a few at a time.

Thank you

[ileliberte.livejournal.com]

You're welcome, I'm glad you like them :) I actually have a lot of bandwidth, so if you want to download more, feel free, since the song files are pretty small.

[sobelle.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

VERY much appreciated!

[ampara.livejournal.com]

Thanks a lot! Rahman is great. Ruth aa Gayee Re sounds beautiful.