Lens-Artists #297 – Music to my eyes

For an Indian, music is like the air we breathe. It is an inseparable part of life there from birth till death, and naturally, everything in between.

I’ll share some of the Bollywood songs that come to my mind as soon as I come across certain scenes.

When mustard blooms, it is such a pretty scenery. There is a 700 year old sufi song by a Indo-Persian poet Amir Khusro (in India), that has been recreated in a period drama that got released on Netflix just on the 1st of May. It describes the flowering of mustard fields, and other scenes of Spring. Watch it here. I’ve been listening to it on loop!

The Canola Fields here remind me of the Mustard Fields from India

But until I heard that one song linked above, the mustard fields evoked the memory of another Bollywood song from 1995 because it literally showed those fields! Even today, when new couples come across a mustard field (or Canola) for the first time, they won’t leave the field without taking a few shots to recreate that song 😉.

Moving on, another very old Bollywood song I get reminded of on looking at Tulips, is this one here. It is from 1981! I still have to experience the vast expanses of Tulip fields in the Netherlands, but I am very happy to have seen this beautiful scene in Wroclaw this year.

Have you ever wondered what emotions would the first farmers have felt on seeing the golden fields of ripened grain? I cannot imagine what they would’ve felt, but I am happy that centuries later, this beautiful song came along and I got to listen to it – Fields of Gold by Eva Cassidy.

This is Gold that satisfies hunger

Hope you enjoy the music I shared as much as I do, even if you don’t understand the words…

This is my entry for LAPC challenge by Egidio.

In this blog, I focus on sharing some of the photographs that I capture, often during my travels but also in the everyday life. If you’d like to read about my travels, you can find the stories on this blog – Reflections on the River.