Voice….or Noise??

What can be termed as noise??

Is it the reverberating, grating sound of helicopter blades or the incessant wail of an infant??

A screech of a parrot or the continuous honking of cars??

The deafening sound of a rocket or the burst of crackers??

What will fall in the category of noise?

As the sound of the helicopter engine is an indication to the pilot that all is set and he can give full throttle…

The wail of the child is a call for the mother regarding the feeding time…

The screech of the parrot awakens us from slumber, to wake up to a beautiful morning. It’s a natural alarm clock…

The honking of cars is the unspoken conversation between two drivers to move forward and give space…

The rocket sound is the sound of success in an endeavour, for which hundreds of people apparently slogged day and night…

The burst of crackers denotes the joy bursting in the heart of the person playing with them…

Is it that there is a thin line between noise and voice??

That what is noise for one, is maybe the most beautiful and awaited voice for someone else??

Are these subjective??

When someone sings in a beautiful, melodious voice and has people swaying to the music; for someone who doesn’t understand the language, it can be a chaotic noise…

The squeals and giggles of a toddler, which are like drops of nectar for the mother, can sound like a hammering noise to someone else…

The scraping of utensils can be awaited by some as a prelude to lip-smacking food, for others it can be… Well, a grating, scraping noise…

The pitter-patter of falling rain,
The howling of the gusty wind,
The cock-a-doodle-doo of a bird,
The rocking of a cradle,
The burst of lightening…

All these can be music to one ear and an abhorrent sound to another one…

So can noise and voice be classified in one square box??

Can it be true for all??

Can anyone give a universal definition to these??

My feather brain is totally cluttered with the “noises” of the “voices” in my head!!!!!

Left……or Right??

There are supposed to be four directions – up, down, left and right…But come to think of it, aren’t the horizontal ones used more than the vertical ones?

The Sun emerges in the right corner of the globe and vanishes in the left side…

The Earth rotates on its Axis from left to right…

The scribblings of the pen, discovered by the humans to put their jumbled up thoughts into coherent words, are also written on the parchment from left to right, or in some languages like Urdu, from right to left…

The vehicles used to transport our forms from place to place have the steering either on the left side or on the right side…

While crossing the circular, perpendicular, coiled or straight pathways, we are taught to cast our eyes sideways, left, right, then again left and then cross the road…

People are left handed or right handed, depending on the usage of these body parts connected to the upper torso…

The brain has the left or the right side dominant, making people prolific in commerce, science or arts, music and other art related qualities…

The heart has the left valve and the right valve… the blockage of which can render the left and right, both eyes of the person lifeless…

Ears, nostrils, almost all facial and body parts are situated on the left or right side of the anatomy…

Even day to day phrases involve these 2 directions the most…

Spending money “left, right and centre”…

The “left hand shouldn’t know the doings of the right hand”…

“Left right out in the cold”…

Why this penchant for these two?? Are we “up” to something?? Is everything “down”right wrong??

Are we seriously “left” with nothing “right’ or is it always “right” to be “left”??

Now my feather brain has gotten boggled too much in this “right-left” business, so I think it’s time for me to leave you to your assessments…

Am I “Right”??? please agree with me, as that’s all I’m “Left” with now!!!

Bollywood “Ishtyle”

Yesterday, my friend told me that she encountered a group of people huddled closed, without wearing masks… My immediate reaction was “kitney aadmi they”!! (How many people were there)

Have you ever realised how the Bollywood Lingo is engraved on our memories, so much so that we use it regularly, in our day to day lives without even batting an eyelid, or giving it a second thought??

For describing a shopoholic, I’ve very often heard this phrase “She’s like Crime Master Gogo….Aaya hun to kuch to lekar jaaunga”!!! ( I will take something or the other, irrespective of what it is….Courtesy movie “Andaz Apna Apna”)

Who doesn’t remember the eternal threat by a very handsome and formidable Sunny Deol “Ye dhaai kilo ka haath hai…Pad jaaye to aadmi uthtaa nahi; uth jaata hai!!”(When this 5 pound punch lands on someone, the person doesn’t rise but passes away…Courtesy movie “Daamini”) I, being a well built person myself, use it all the time to make people around me shudder with fear!!!

Then there’s the cringeworthy brag “Haar ke jeetney vaale ko Baazigar kehtey hain“.. (The person who wins in a loss is called a Baazigar… Courtesy movie “Baazigar)This is the favourite dialogue of all the losers like me, who can’t even lose that extra pound of flesh accumulated around the belly!!!

The moment we hear “Badey Badey deshon me aisi choti choti baaten hoti rehti hain senorita” (such inconsequential things keeps happening in large countries), the dimpled, smiling, absolutely gorgeous face of a smirking Shahrukh Khan pops up in the memory eye, along with the mad as hell and utterly cute Kajol of course…..The epitome of romance seen in any Indian movie…The ultimate pick up line used by so many Romeo’s to woo their Juliets!!! I find it to be absolutely “Zhakaas“!!!!!!!! (Another bomb by our dear Mr. Anil Kapoor)

For a lover of treasure hunt, there’s the classic “Mark idhar hai” and the query “Ye Teja teja kya hai, ye Teja teja“!!!!(The mark is here…..the other one is too stupid to translate….. Courtesy movie “Andaz Apna Apna”)

A woman, out to humiliate her man, (because he has trashed her cooking, dressing, body structure, other skills….or simply because she wants to do so…..with women, the last is the most truthful) would invariably use the line “Ek chutki sindoor ki keemat tum kya jaano babu“!!!( How would you know the value of vermillion… Courtesy movie “Om shanti Om”) Though what has “sindoor ki keemat” got to do with anything else is totally beyond me…

AND then there’s the evergreen rebuke….

“Khaamosh!!!!!!”
(Shut up!!!!! Courtesy the evergreen Mr Shatrughan Sinha!!)
Its usage is multifaceted….
When you want to shut  up someone…
When you want to show that you are physically, mentally, emotionally, and most importantly verbally fit to make people cower…
When you actually have nothing else to say!!!!!(This being the case mostly)…

My feather brain for one, is a sucker for all things “filmy ishtyle”….

What is your favourite Bollywood dialogue “Aoooooooo, Lalita!!!!!!!