Tuesday, May 15, 2018

Childhood -- A look back and minor connection to planets

Love for Music Movies and interest in Politics and other topics:

We inherit so much from parents knowingly but mostly unknowingly. My love for OP Nayyar Songs and equally with SD BURMAN songs was due to my parents and my father especially loved these two while mother preferred Marathi song and radio a lot. He had huge collection of cassettes (& used to put cigarette butts in them to make them run smoother!) It was a simple stereo which we used for more than a decade or so before VCR craze took over late 80s and early 90s. He played Ek Musaphir Ek Hasina (Sadhana fan) and also Phir Wahi Dil Laya hun as they came in a combo! :) These songs got itched in my memory in the childhood. SD BURAMN songs of course were there too. He wasn’t a fanatic with one specific composer so he did not collect all movies of one guy! :) He got only what he loved. ROSHAN was also his favorite and he used to say best of Roshan is as good or better than most just that he doesn’t have as many as other. He respected Shankar Jaykishan but he called them Karkhana (manufacturing unit) and LP Laxmikant Pyarelal he called bigger Kkarkhana! :) PAKIZA is played a lot too. Same with Umrao Jaan. Being a MEEN Lagna and Meen Surya he loved melodious and slow but romantic songs – never tragic ones! They got forwarded no matter how hard it was! :) Tula moon sign also did not have time for tragic song. He used to start yawning however good the song was sung etc. The same thing has happened with me! :) No tolerance for Jagjeet Singh AT ALL - - Except his Romantic songs like HOSH WALO KO. Guess, Chitambar DNA is NOT at all meant for Jagjeet Singh songs (the tragic ones). Even the only senty song from Kashmir Ki Kalee – Hain  Duniya Usi ki --- got similar treatment most of the times – or was heard once in a while as a respect to Rafi. He LOVED Rafi of course and I liked Kishore more as a child and later appreciated RAFI more too.

The thing I hated most as a child and later started loving in college was GAZHALS. A child can NEVER appreciate Gazhals! :) I still remember tortures of Mehdi Hasan and Ghulam Ali in the mid-80s when TV used to have India-Pak series Gavaskar 28th hundred and India West Indies Gavaskar 29th and 30th (236*) and audio used to be Ghulam Ali and Mehdi Hasan!! HATED it…!! Only after 10th and more so engineering started loving Ghazals – I guess you need some hormones to like Ghazals.  Until then I used to ask my father – If she doesn’t come why he is not going to her house (Rannjeesh hi Sahi)!  :) :)  He used to say “Tula nanter kalel” – (“you will know later how good these Gazhals are.”)

My mom was also a classical singer who had learnt it well and used to sing many songs very well. All Mavashis used to sing songs in Chalisgaon in summer vacations. Still remember Madhuri Mavashi Singing “My heart is beating” as clear as I heard it yesterday! :) I developed habit of watching movies due to parents love for it. I have heard stories how I cried thru Sholay and Mukaddar ka Sikandar when I was like 1 / 2 or upto 3 I guess. I continued this habit BIG TIME! :) I remember I used to take 5/10 rupees from mom and used to catch some movies alone from standard 8th to 10th. I have seen movies like “Inaam Dus Hazaar” “Jonhny Mera Naam”, Hera Pheri, Amar Akbar Anthony alone! Used to walk to the theater. Only condition was to show the ticket to mom to ensure I spent money the right way! :) Most of the times DAMODAR and Vijayand Was allowed for me and not other ones in Nashik. DAMODAR was named after one of the Chaphekar Bandhus who died (hanged) for the country and the same placed they had killed British officer (place where the created this theatre!).

I got Sports due to Ketu and Mangal in the same nakshatra but different signs but still close. I got it from maternal grandfather. It was hardcoded in the DNA with Mangal in MRIG nakshatra. The above things I caught from 5th house Vargottam Surya – the interest in music movies and later on politics was all seeded in the way we were raised and the discussion in the house. I used to go to RSS Shakha from 8th to 10th Standard and a little bit in 11th too. The moment I came back home my father used to take my class (he was mostly a congress fan and Nehru & YashwantRao Chavan fan). He used to explain me SAHAKAR stuff, Villages stuff and how RSS or BJP had (late 80s/early 90s) no clue what it meant to govern India at grassroots level. We kids used to get all impressed by Skhakha speeches and then my father used to step by step WITHOUT arguing against it – used to make aware of politics as social change and social aspects. It was just giving data and not trying to influence – giving data from the other side and asking to make an informed decision. His love for Nehru was a bit too extreme for my tests. He had a very extreme opinion on Advani as he said anyone who came from division after 1947 they should not be given top posts as they carry bitterness towards folks and would take country in to wars not due to practical reasons like Bangladesh mukti but for revenge and vendetta which is deep rooted when they had to leave their Jaaydaad and mistreated in now Pakistan. A bit extreme but maybe he formed this opinion on what he heard from some of the folks he met who came to India after division.  We had a JeevanJyot building in Nashik which had 24 families settled after division (Sindhi and Punjabis). My politics interest is majorly due to RamMandir Andolan. I am still amused that Hindus in India need to do an andolan to build a Temple where billion people believe Ram was born. This was not acceptable AT ALL in the 90s and also now. Millions would never vote for BJP or Hindu parties but they would want temple and temple only in Ayodhya… !! Unnecessary complications should not happen there. There are hundreds of places for other religion to have their stuff – Ayodhya and Mathura IS NOT THE ONE… It MUST go – you can vote for next 100 years for Congress but ANY Hindu should never compromise with the places such as Kashi and Mathura…!! This should not even be a debate is my humble opinion. Anyways, it is a different topic but that Andolan/movement increased interest in politics and it kept increasing reluctantly.

As you can see we are product of our environment but it is WE who choose the things come across as per our own liking and buddhi. Extreme interests find a way out eventually the way Ajay Atul found it. I had HUGE skills with leg break bowling right from 3rd standard with cricket ball (not tennis or other) and used to surprise many but eventually it wasn’t meant to be. Later on, used to bow quite fast and consistently without injury or any problems – people used to come in Nasik colony to “at least 4 over daal ke chala jaa”  :) ;) Had got one batsman out on 1st ball for 7 times – he danced around when  he scored 1 off me in the 8th game! :) (But they beat us a lot—8 out of 10 games!) BUT Again – maybe my passion for cricket was there but ego of settling in career and earning OWN money was more???! Looking back – yes maybe. else I think I could have achieved 60%/70% of what Srinath achieved and giving gaali galoch body language & not like gentleman Srinath! :) But YOU are responsible for what happens to you NOBODY ELSE. It is ego / self-esteem of Ashwini Bhave that stops her from adjustments which would allow artistic achievements whereas Madhuri makes those adjustments for the love of the art and desperation for the art.

Planets mapping:
(1)   Sports is all maternal grandfather DNA and blessing.
(2)   The multiple interests in music movies and politics is L10 Dashamesh in the 5th house Vargottam Navamansh in Meen rashi (Father house owner in the Buddhi Sthan).
(3)   Memory is Chandra and Lagna in Vrishchik
(4)   The desire for publicity is Chandra Rahu 1st house.
(5)   Friend circle and rather a lot of friends and close people is 4th house Guru Shukra
(6)   UNNECESSARY debates, Auditing, policing and calling Tharoor or Chidambaram HALKAT is Mithun Mangal but more so SHANI acute Drushti on Budh. :) I can do without this!


Enough I guess!!!  :)

Regards,
~Milind

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