I have decided to abstain from all movies/ serials with an extensive background
score.
No. it’s not because
I'm too busy working or because I have a major exam. It’s simply because it has
made everyday life such a pain in the rear!
I was pretty alright until I watched a few episodes of Devon
ke dev mahadev. This particular episode
had the ridiculously good looking telly Shiva staring into the love struck Sati’s
eyes oblivious to the other demi gods and humans around them as the background
music wrapped it all together ,successfully causing the goose bumps effect. I
felt like a big cube of butter dropped into the hot frying pan!
It took a few days for me to get over that melt down. I kept
wondering why!?? Why does a “divine”soap have such an effect? Was it the
stunning Shiva? The Impossible human-god
relationship angle?? The beautiful sets?
Was it how Shiva, Sati and everyone else said the right things at the right
time or was it just the music??
Well the actual culprit is THE music!
You can call me crazy,
but I watched the same episode on mute and surpriseeee!! It wasn’t magical
anymore. In fact it was plain awkward! How long can two people with blank faces
stare at each other without any background music!?
Then started the movie marathon (on mute of course) but with
sub titles to reconfirm my hypothesis.
I started with Vinnai
thandi varuvaya, a beautiful Tamil move with amazing BGM. I changed genres and watched Pirates of the Caribbean, Inglorious
bastards(another amazing BGM), Star wars, Legend of Bhagat singh, Visvaroobam,indira,
and a bunch of other movies which I hold special. Without the Background
score the emotions conveyed in these movies seems blunted. Even the heart
tugging dialogues and scenes dint quite complete the picture.
Yes I am quite jobless at the moment. But here’s why it affects
my everyday existence.
When I wake up every morning, there is no chirping birds or
girly chorus playing in the background. I’m late to work or college and
literally on a run but there is no fast paced music playing along pushing me to get
there faster!
After a fight with a
friend there is just breakable silence, no sad violin tunes. Someone cracks a
joke there isn’t the claps and laughs we hear in the background of a sitcoms.
When
a mother in law fights with her daughter in law there is no weird owl hooting
noises, or crying chorus that produces enough tears to build a dam!!
And If I do manage to stare at someone with all the love I could
possibly feel, it just makes me feel like a creep and that someone extremely uncomfortable!
Where the hell are those goose bumps inducing music when I need them??
There are so many such everyday situations that get blunted,
buried in awkward silence, or the unbearable sirens and horns and the din of mundane existence.
Wouldn’t life be much cooler if we had our own bubble around our heads playing
timely “punch music”??
Imagine having your own intro music!( like Ajith’s in Mangatha) every time you enter a new
place??,
or VTV’s Bgm every time you
feel a little romantic?
Or how about Superstars “vidukaiyaa inda valaki” music when you are totally stumped in an
exam hall?
There is such a sharp contrast on what’s portrayed on screen
and our lives. May be that is why we look up to cinema or television and music
as a source of escape from everything that is normal making us feel inadequate
and incomplete in some way...... the only solutions being, Invention of the “punch
music bubble”or just stop providing such unattainable, unrealistic BGm’s for otherwise normal events pictured on
screen( like the movie The lunchbox)
The latter pretty much won’t happen, because family soaps
thrive on Sad music, a villain/vamp will always have an owl or wolf entry
music, all major dialogues will be followed by a lightning bolt sounds, shocking
incidents will have a a few Carnatic swarams in high pitch, romance is never
silent and has nostalgic numbers playing along. No awkward silence anywhere.
So our best bet and
the only hope for a “complete” feeling is the “punch music bubble”. In case you
are interested please wait for your turn in the Q. Someone somewhere is equally
mad and is working towards the betterment of us! It is time to blurr the lines ;)
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