Crazy For You

And after Tu Kahan I guess I have to follow it up with the song it always reminds me of. Not without reason was Alisha widely regarded as the Indian reincarnation of Madonna. I might be stretching things a bit here, but even in my childhood I couldn't help but marvel at some striking similarity between these two songs. I am yet to pinpoint the similarity or similarities but deep inside I cannot ignore them. Anyways...here is the original by Madonna (1985 and for the film Vision Quest). And for the record Tu Kahan from Alisha's Made In India was released in 1995. That gap still makes me wince.

Crazy for You - Madonna

Tu Kahan

After years of periodic yahoo-ing and googling, I finally find it today - my favorite Alisha song. The exasperating part of this search was that I simply did not manage to find this song/CD anywhere - believe me, I have searched in the San Francisco Bay Area, Waterloo, New Jersey, Toronto, Montreal, Kolkata, Chembur (Mumbai) - need I say more? I was sort of getting more desperate the more this song eluded me. I mean, in this age of zero communication gap, zero distances, how hard can it possibly be to find a song you want to listen to? Trust me my friend, I had to work very hard for this one :-P
Anyways, thanks to imeem.com, finally listened to the song to heart's content. It is amazing how much work I got done this weekend, but it was finally finding this song that overshadowed everything and made me feel I finally have had a fruitful weekend. Am certainly pumped.

I had listened to the album Made in India probably when it was released and it was just this one song that stood out in my memory. Probably because it was the closest to classical soft rock in the Indian pop scene at that point. When I listened to it today, after all these years, I know precisely why it stood out. Certainly not disappointed. Worth the wait and the tireless search alright.

Enjoy. Cheers.

Tu Kahan - Alisha