Mangal Pandey - The Rising

2,929 Responses to “Lyrics: Main Vari Vari”

1. Fatima-Zohra Buurman Says:
   August 25th, 2005 at 1:59 pm

   Beautiful song, I love the heavy baseline in it, the clapping, the voice of Kavita Krishnamurthy. I have to learn Hindi….

2. Jenny Campbell- a lover of hindi songs Says:
   December 1st, 2005 at 7:18 pm

   an AR Rahman opus- the song begins and ends within the depths of the frenetic tabla and weeping santur, teasing and taunting as it should. It has hints throughout which remind me ever so slightly of Rekha’s tragedy foretold in the haunting ghazals of Umrao Jaan. Main Vari Vari’s resonance echoes long after it sets, like a blazing sun in that moment of triumphant glory just before it goes to sleep. Main Vari Vari vanishes coyly and enigmatically as a puff of smoke. the baseline spells impending doom and moves in on the song just like that from the seductive, snappy “Mere Dil Ka Tumse Hai Kehna” from Armaan. yes, this song is absolutely exquisite, ravishing and intoxicating- its sting is absolutely naughty, its loneliness beckoningly tragic, its adaa- swanlike.. the melody is kick-ass with as much attitude as a mujra picturised on Rekha; it’s as if to say “i am a forbidden fruit, you know i’m poison, come hither..” and that’s the allure. the melody is as shrewd as a slithering snake, an egyptian sphynx or the sensuous Bipasha Basu in Jism. and i can just picture the eyes of the temptress narrating the entire song as it has such soul-stirring raspy earthiness, like the speaking voice of Rani Mukherjee herself.. and the BEST part of this song is the first time Kavitaji sings Va-RI (i can just see Gracy Singh subtly and haughtily shaking her head at Aamir towards the end of Lagaan’s Radha Kaise Na Jale)…leaving that note abruptly and elusively as would the gaze of a lavishly spoilt expert courtesan who suddenly eclipses her eyes with her veil leaving you wanting more…BAS. and it disappears coyly behind the aanchal just as mysteriously from whence it came. the sweetly ethereal and other-worldly voice of Reena Bharadwaj has a childlike vulnerability and haunting spirit which adds to the macabre feel of the melody, like the spirit world calling out to Kavita Krishnamurthi Subramaniam’s solid yearning and earthy, nasal tone. a striking and necessary contrast of a silk lehenga brushing against the soil in an impassioned and fiery dance.