अलविदा जगजीत जी.....

I do remember the day, I was in class 8th. I went to a neighbor’s home whose son was in 10th. He was listening some different kind music. I like the music and listen for words carefully and immediately like the song. The song was “ये दौलत भी ले लो...”. I told him that I like this song and ask who is singer and from which movie this song belongs. He said it doesn’t belongs to any movie rather it’s called ghazals and singer is Jagjit Singh. My curious expression suggest him that I want further explanation. He then told me that there is a different class of music called ghazals that is altogether different from conventional movie music. So It was my first introduction with ghazals. Later on I heard few more ghazals from Pankaj Udhas and from Abida Parveen but I always like jagjit sahib’s ghazal very much. When I came to engg, me and my roommate has same taste in ghazals. I do remember the time, when we were in final year at that time we neither have computer’s to listen ghazals nor have such high storage capacity mobile phones (basically our phones of that time were just able to provide basic function of a cell phone: calling and listening… anyways….) so to listen ghazals we were largely dependent on “radio mirchi 98.4 FM” on which every night from 10:00-11:00 they used to play ghazals. Doesn’t matter how we roommates live whole day but during this time we did nothing except to listen music. Later on I mentioned it (listening ghazals)as a hobby in my cv too. That time I read about jagjit sahib and became a diehard fan of him.
The thing which I like most about his songs was that I was able to relate myself to many of his songs or if I say that for every situation of my life he has a song for me, it will also be not wrong.
I do remember one of his song “जब सामने तुम आ जाते हो....”. I simply love the video of this song and had a huge crush for Riya Sen those days. I know very few people will like for acting or for any other reason but thanks to this song I was in love with her. When I bought a computer first thing I did was to collect all jagjit sahib’s ghazals. I still have all his filmy-non filmy songs collection. Whenever I feel low I listen some of the chosen ghazals and it works like medicine for me.
When I met my “would be” life partner I feel we are very much different from each other . all our hobbies were different and it was tough for us to imagine that how will be our future life but then again jagjit sahib came in the picture. While discussing something ,one day we realize that we both have same taste for music and for ghazals we were almost on the same plate form.
I promised my fiancée that together some day we will attend his live concert. We both are still here , just jagjit sahib left us. Sorry Poonam..i couldn’t keep my words…His death is really a personal loss and I am feeling as if I have lost a close relative . a friend who always has something to make my mood.
Just want to say 1 line to you jagjit sahib: बड़े शौक से सुन रहा था जमाना , तुम्ही सो गए दास्तान कहते कहते ... …