Kolhapuri Remix

Dhagala laagli kal… pani themb themb pal…

Bhava! Remix ka hai jamana. All those DJs working on these sparkling discs, moving swiftly from one song to other mixing bits and pieces are making hell new avatar. All over the world remixes are making wave and adding new zing to the old songs. As if they are teaching us to look at tried and tested/ tasted things from a new angle. Wow! It really is cool thought. With due respect to originals, I too felt that fusion sometimes makes us happy.

Well coming back to Aaple Kolhapur. It’s pretty nice hawamaan. Unlike other cities we don’t check the weather repo here. We don’t require one. Everything is always fine here. Aaal ees well, always.

So, we were in remixes and talking about how it makes us happy. But who must have invented this remix technology (?) Let me scratch….

Ha! Got it. Who else than we the Kolhapuri. Jaggat bhari..amhi kolhapuri…

How??

Leme explain.

Have you ever seen any Merce being driven by orange Pheta (local turban made up of very long piece of cloth and to be built around the head. Many a times it act as decorative item to be donned during weddings to add Shaan (build image))

All over world Mercedes cars are being driven by class people who normally wear posh dresses to suit the class class. (upper layer in class). But Kolhapuri never believes on such universal truths. They have their own set rules. So rural rugged looking easily climbs behind the steering wheel of any so called made-for-classes machines and drives it on shaky road as comfortably as he drives his own tractor in farm.  No fuss about it. For him changing roles is very easy. Just like the DJs on the Discs.

But DJs only mix songs. Kolhapuri mixes anything with everything. One can see people having combo of Digestive Soda (aerated plain cold water) with plain fresh (first hand, dharoshna etc.) milk. The famous Kolhapuri food items like Misaal or Bhel are well crafted mixtures of many things resulting into new mouth watering items. Isn’t it a Remix?

Like a reputed DJ Kolhapuri also mixes words. Without intending to hurt others reputation he repeats some so called rusting words (Aa XXXX…. Ma XXXX…. Chya XXX.. ) mixing them smoothly in his sentences. While doing all this mixing he won’t follow so called rules of grammar and will change masculine gender into non-masculine and non- feminine (no.6) without doing any surgical operation. For example he will say kai mhantey te? instead of kai mahntoy to. How creative?

This way of mixing has gone deep into all Kolhapuri culture in such a way that you will easily find Hindu’s Lord Ganesha and Mohamedian Pirsaab occupying same Pandol whenever these festival are on same  day. No tension … no confusion..  only fusion. Great!!!

So Bhava! have any doubt about who invented Remixes?

Its rocking Kolhapuri… Yo…… Naad Khula..