Its pretty late into another saturday night and already I am halfway through a weekend which just began a few hours back! The day began disappointingly since our do or die cricket match against Hindu Business Line stood cancelled due to reasons beyond my understanding. We finally decided to get a dts connection for our new television and lured by the simply unbelievable schemes launched by reliance ( remember DAPO!!) we decided to try our luck with Big TV.Unfortunately we haven't been able to savour the latest offerings from the prodigal Ambani..we must wait for a few more days for it to be set up.
Enough digression. Lets get to the point of this post.
The day ended with a run-of-the-mill visit to the theatres to get a first hand view of Farhan Akhtar's screen debut in Rock on! I got what I expected.
It wouldn't be fair if I discussed the plot of the movie here at least. What was perhaps the greatest achievement of the movie was the fact that it transported me a few months into the past as we stood on the audi stage with our last performance. Yes..I am talking of the little band we got together in college.
Rob, the backbone of Magik was Abel Joseph.
Jo, the guitar maestro were Vinu, Aaron and Jobin.
KD, was Imti...they were all alive right before my very eyes on the celluloid screen.
What is it with music?
Even after years of formal training and also the usual fooling around part...I fail to fathom.
Yea I miss those days.
I don't want to sound cliched but our band was unlike others. We fought it out too...just as Magik did in Rock on. We had immense talent. We played like there was no tomorrow..and we loved doing it!
Things are different now...but I just couldn't stop the deluge of memories that came rushing back with every riff and every chord.
Cheers to the phoenix connexion! Rock on!
