Fifteen years back on 14, February, 2008, very pretentiously I had written a song -"Bajar Valentine". The song was written from a monotony of office life of a growing India which only aspired to be what an Indian want to be which it could not be. Today, if the Indian has become what the person
wanted to be in 2008, can the same song be written or rewritten again?
The stoicity has now actually set in the desire to be more in each Indian -Be it in the market of dates, nightouts, hangouts, night stand outs, desires in every space of an Indian life.
Desire to be more in a way is so normalised now that its stoic on each and everyday of our lives. The valentines in us have desired so much more that love and empathy have become reclusive in a closed space. Lovers are a subset of dodo species, slowly and steadily getting to a hide out space. Markets of every desire space are more abundant than ever in comparison to last fifteen years trajectory of an Indian life.
A relook to compose a new version of the same song -"Bajar Valentine" on 14th February, 2023, only strengthened the stoic, neurotic, depressive pain with which the song has gone for a hide out in 2023.
Like the VCRs, CDs, Floppy Discs, the immatured, stoic, valentine song of 2008 has only given birth to the e junk of new desire spaces across the society. However, what remained constant is to relook back to the past and find out the hiding, stoic, seeker. The seeker has got lost out in the cyber junk of desire of 2023, Valentine Day.
The valentines of 2008, are therefore the plastic desires of today and will be the cyborg aspirations of future. It is quite true to the core romantic values of Indian cinema where the characters can do more and more with each passing frame of Indian cinema. They are much more than one single culture, they can act, they can sing, they can romance, they can be the vile and many more. However, they are not dangerously stoic of doing much more than what they are.
But, the song search on February 14, 2023, surprisingly led to stoic results. It could not do more like the Indian Cinema characters. Hence, the "Bajar Valentine" only stayed with no birthday of "Bajar Valentine 2023". However, may be the block will open out to come with versions of future..........