Ghumshuda

When I get songs stuck in my head, it’s a very sad state of affairs. There’s a limited selection I can draw on, due to my musical ineptitude and downright ignorance. Hence I’ll find myself humming The Little Drummer Boy while strolling down the city streets in the merry, merry month of August. Sometimes it’s an 80’s song. Then I really worry, imagining myself rockin’ out to Spandau Ballet at the future senior’s facility I will inhabit.

Right now, I can’t get this song from a Bollywood movie - Bagwan help me!- out of my head. It’s from the movie Chalte Chalte (According to Wikipedia, the title translation is While Walking) and the song is called Ghumshuda – which is the chorus I keep repeating ad naseum – “Ghumshudaa! Ghumshudaaaaaaaaa! It means “Lost! Looooooost!” I’m addicted to the song and the dance number, which you can view too, thank you youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhHRnH3InGI

I just looked it up and felt that weird shudder you feel when someone walks over the fireplace mantle where your loved ones will keep the urn with your ashes in it. It’s very appropriate for how I’m feeling these days. I back in my home town; everything is as familiar as can possibly be. I’m gainfully contributing to society and proudly paystub-deduction-paying my taxes again. Feeling lost seems an odd way to describe the circumstances I find myself in, but “if the shoe fits princess, buy it.”