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BodhiTree-Revisited

Posted on | October 8, 2009 | 3 Comments

ok.lets get over with the confession part of it,first-while i like the music of BodhiTree-I am NOT a diehard fan.In fact,only by the very loosest definition would I be called a fan,if at all.Given a choice, I would more rather listen to The Eagles,Pink Floyd, The Doors, Tina Turner, R D Burman or even Guns N’ Roses, all of whom seem to have had some effect on the music of BodhiTree, to some extent or other.

so why bodhitree,all of a sudden?just because i copied some music into my player today,and going out to office,the first song it plays randomly is-you guessed it-GMD!

Now, I make no bones about the fact that the prime attraction of BodhiTree fo me-and perhaps,most of us- lies in their nostalgia value and the feeling of ourness. good or bad,popular or unpopular,hyped or obscure,they were OURS!they make us feel a common-ness,as if we own a bit of everyone of their songs,being successors of what they left those many years ago-maybe the XL of today is a bit different from what it was in their time,but it is still XL.we all have eaten too many potatoes and cribbed about the mess,suffered at the hands of Gango,some of us even have written horrible disserts,lots of us have batted for IR girls (and BM ones,too)…batch after batch,year after year.so,it is as if we feel what they are singing about.and there in lies their USP,which has sustained there popularity,across batches,among XLers, and this earthy campus feeling,manifested across different songs is what sustains their popularity across other campuses.after all,which campus does not have its own version of Gango,Dadu,JLT and IR girls? (for some unfortunates,it could be any females on campus :P ).

and yet,while i was listening to GMD, i could not help but wonder how things have changed. the song says about pappu-”gaon me saabun bech raha hai,jhooth hai uska hans.na”- and yet it says about pappu earlier that “CQ bhi uski khaas nahi thi,day 2 tak pad gaya rukna”…now look at it from a b-schoolers perspective…today if pappu gets placed on day 2,he would not get to sell soap in a village-that privilege is now reserved for day 1 studs,or those who get left on day 3…similarly…a bike waala would have a difficult time now.the times have changed-and that is another thing about these songs…they are the products of a past,simpler era.

i wonder what bodhitree (the original band) would have sung about,has they been on campus last year or this year-the recession?rakhi sawant and reality shows?sherlyn chopra and silicon valleys?the deflation of the Great Indian MBA dream?or could they still afford to sing of frivolous and unimportant things in life-like a professor who gives bad grades,a mess which offers too many potatoes and affairs stillborn due to lack of bikes?

PS: Regarding Pappu…  Shrik says its PPO, not Pappu. These people on the web say its Pappu. Either ways, i initially thought it was Pappu, now ain’t sure. No definitive version of the lyrics seems to be available on the web, but mostly people seem to agree that its Pappu.    *shrugs*  does it matter?

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3 Responses to “BodhiTree-Revisited”

  1. Saurabh
    October 8th, 2009 @ 8:53 pm

    the lyrics says pappu…but the reference is to PPO only yaar…my personal opinion…

    guide tha uska bada harami pappu (PPO) ka toda sapna…else whats the guide to do wid pappu…

    :)

  2. Devika
    October 8th, 2009 @ 9:52 pm

    Pappu equals PPO in slanguage anyway, right?

  3. Sandeep
    October 8th, 2009 @ 10:25 pm

    @Saurabh & Devika: I think you guys hit it…my mistake for not picking up the slang reference…

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