Kabhi Na Kabhi To

My undying appetite for obscure (but good) music led me to chance upon the Boban Markovic Orkestar, a Serbian brass ensemble of exceptional trumpets and tubas. Given that brass is an acquired taste, and it does take a while to start to get over the jarring sound, (especially for fans of jazz who have audibly adapted to the gentler saxophone), I was introduced by a fellow musical aficionado to a certain track of theirs, that got me amusingly curious.

The track was called "Mere Yaara Dildara" (bear in mind, that BMO is a true-to-the-soil Balkan group). It was only upon listening to the track that I realized that it was a cover of A R Rahman's song of the same name, from the obscure and forgettable Priyadarshan flick Kabhi Na Kabhi (Pooja Bhatt/Anil Kapoor/Jackie Shroff).

And a rather unique cover as well, as they seemed to have sifted out the mediocre parts of the song (read: the chorus, S P Balasubramaniam's disgraceful pronunciation and Chitra's shriekage), and maintained the catchy interlude and verse into a really interesting fusion of brass and Bollywood. Bet there are all of two-and-a-half desis who have identified that this song exists. Another small sign that Bollymusic is slowly yet certainly becoming a global inspiration.

Here you go:

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