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The Show "Ishq Kills" aired on Star Plus
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"Yeh Ishq Hai...." What a heart-piercing title track!
It was 2014. Although I can't remember the day exactly but probably it was when the promos of 'Ishq Kills' were still on air, prior to its premiere, that I had heard this title track for the first time while flipping through the channels. And that was that. It was 'love-at-first-hearing', instantly. As the track began to play, something just happened, I could feel a sudden upsurge of emotions inside me. It was so powerful and intense. The tune just reeled me in. And today after almost four years, while I was surfing through TV shows on Hotstar app, my eyes fell on "Ishq Kills" and I was at once pulled towards its title song. Since then it has only "grown" into me. So much so that I have now transferred it to my phone memory so that I can listen to it as and when I feel like. Infact, to be true, actually it was this tune that piqued my interest for the show back in 2014.
Of course everyone wishes for a love story to culminate in success. But it doesn't always turn out that way. Not all love stories conclude on a happy note. Not always is one's love reciprocated. Not always is one's love answered the way he/she wished for. Not all love relationships get fulfilled. Two people in love do not always end up together. And not all love stories are licit! 'Ishq Kills' aims to show this other side of Love -- that of unfulfilled love and forbidden relationships and their repercussions.
So it takes something special for a music piece to be able to portray the whole gamut of human emotions -- the cries of a pining heart, the anguish of an unrequitted love, the post-break-up feeling of devastation, the searing pain of betrayal, the disappointment of rejection or the fire of an all-consuming obsession -- in unsuccessful love stories and to have that much effect on the listeners. And this 3 minute something long track does a superlative job at that. There is something so compelling about it. It is sublime, thoughtful and very powerful.
It's not the first time that I have been enamoured by the title track of a particular TV programme, it had happened with me before as well (the title tracks of Kitni Mohabbat Hai, Diya aur Baati Hum, Balika Badhu, Pavitra Rishta, Kasauti Zindegi Ki and Sanjeevani being the notable ones). But this track of Ishq Kills, I feel, is still different from the others in that there is something haunting about the music, it's heart-piercing (as if someone has darted arrows from his quiver) and yet one wouldn't mind being pierced... so soulful and profoundly emotional it is. And I love the way it starts off subduedly only to pick up pace gradually for a striking (but graceful) climactic flourish. It certainly hits the right emotional chords. Especially the strumming pattern of the guitar at the start, it belies its depth. Anyone who is in love, would certainly feel a strong gust of emotion.
Who said that somber songs can't be appealing enough?