A deep sadness sets in. Jagjit Singh is no more. Last time when I met him in a concert I told him that he merely sang popular ghazals in concerts and someone like me looked for more....he laughed and said, next time! The next time will not come. The one who was singing has closed his eyes. The loss is just so unbearable.
I discovered Jagjit Singh when probably I was eleven or twelve. The first of his ghazals that I heard was Kaagaz ki Kashti.. and the music, the voice and the poetry deeply touched me. It was a time when my own 'bachpan' had barely left me, yet the pain associated with that loss was so poignantly expressed through his music that it lasted with me, with in the layers of my own emotional fabric, forever.
Such was the magic Jagjit Singh created. His music remained with you forever and thus it was a close companion through my own journey through life. Poetry, use of a unique orchestra and his velvety voice gave expression to human emotions and created such a depth to it that it was impossible not to be touched by it. His music instantly struck a chord, with young and old, as easily as the touch of a wind, or the feel of the rain.
I just loved the image that he created with 'jhuki jhuki si nazar', or the way he streched 'darichon se tum mujh ko..', to create that impact, the way he sang, 'katl ki jab usne di dhamki humen, keh diya maine bhi dekha jayega', made me play that same 'sher' over and over again.I can go on and on.......
Jagjit Singh's music inspired me to paint, whenever I sprayed my colours on canvas, his music was a companion. I learnt to appreciate poetry through his music, at a later stage, I created my own poetry at times to his music, my own creative journey happened alongside, as at various stages of life, I happened to appreciate various forms of his music.
There is so much that is abstract about human existence, the feelings, the emotions, the thoughts, sensibilities..., the non physical form of our existence finds its expression in music and poetry and colours. Is it true that the physical existence is transient, but the non physical existence is intransient, it remains much after the transient self changes its form...? If it is, then it becomes axiomatically established that Jagjit Singh's music is immortal too. It will remain much after he is gone or we are gone too.
Music has an immortal existence, and with that, a kind of intransience is rendered to, our emotions, feelings of joy and despair, hope and despondence, hurt and pain, love and in a way to life itself ....
Kabhi khamosh baithoge , Kabhi Kuch gungunaoge, mein itna yaad aaonuga, Muje jitna bhulaoge....unforgettable JAGJIT SINGH...
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