While travelling in a bus or a SUV during long journey, it is a common practice to play aantakshari to pass the travelling time. I think that is quite a good option and travelling is made more fun that way.
I have myself been to many trips and have played aantakshri at most of the road trips. I had been with many different groups - Family, Sangli friends, UDCT friends and now SCMHRD friends. While each group was distinctly different (except me being common element), I observed that in almost all trips, the same set of songs were repeated more or less. I observed that the same old songs were sung by all. Not many new songs were tried by people. Everytime when Tha came everyone sang 'Thande Thande pani se'.. and when na came 'na na kaarte pyar ..', etc came to everyone's minds including me. Most of the songs sung were of the 1990's or at max the early 2000's. In my last trip, no other song of a movie released after Lagaan was sung.
What are the reasons for this? Have we all hard the old songs more than the number of times we've heard the new ones. Definitely no in this era of radios where we get to listen to the latest songs almost 5-7 times a day.
I believe that most of us have watched aantakshari played by elders who sung these old songs and so these have remained firmly ingrained in our minds.
Also the fact that the old songs had easy flowing lyrics which makes it easy to remember old songs. The new ones have slightly tough lyrics to remember or their pace is fast.
The most important reason i believe for not remembering the new songs are the fact the the new songs have their peak not at the beginning but somewhere inbetween. For eg- Say in the Iktara song from wake up sid... We all remember the words gunja sa hai iktara .. and so these words remain in our minds. The start of teh track (oh re maanwa...) isn't repeated a lot of times and so it doesn't remain in our minds. And the fact that in aantakshari we've to start from the beginning of the song, we end up not singing the new songs. Thats why the differing amounts of stress on different parts makes it difficult to retain the new songs.
Hope next time I play aantakshari, I keep in mind these things and try to sing new songs.
I have myself been to many trips and have played aantakshri at most of the road trips. I had been with many different groups - Family, Sangli friends, UDCT friends and now SCMHRD friends. While each group was distinctly different (except me being common element), I observed that in almost all trips, the same set of songs were repeated more or less. I observed that the same old songs were sung by all. Not many new songs were tried by people. Everytime when Tha came everyone sang 'Thande Thande pani se'.. and when na came 'na na kaarte pyar ..', etc came to everyone's minds including me. Most of the songs sung were of the 1990's or at max the early 2000's. In my last trip, no other song of a movie released after Lagaan was sung.
What are the reasons for this? Have we all hard the old songs more than the number of times we've heard the new ones. Definitely no in this era of radios where we get to listen to the latest songs almost 5-7 times a day.
I believe that most of us have watched aantakshari played by elders who sung these old songs and so these have remained firmly ingrained in our minds.
Also the fact that the old songs had easy flowing lyrics which makes it easy to remember old songs. The new ones have slightly tough lyrics to remember or their pace is fast.
The most important reason i believe for not remembering the new songs are the fact the the new songs have their peak not at the beginning but somewhere inbetween. For eg- Say in the Iktara song from wake up sid... We all remember the words gunja sa hai iktara .. and so these words remain in our minds. The start of teh track (oh re maanwa...) isn't repeated a lot of times and so it doesn't remain in our minds. And the fact that in aantakshari we've to start from the beginning of the song, we end up not singing the new songs. Thats why the differing amounts of stress on different parts makes it difficult to retain the new songs.
Hope next time I play aantakshari, I keep in mind these things and try to sing new songs.
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