Doddavarella jaanaralla....

Having grown up listening to Akashavani
Bangalore (All India Radio) daily between 8:15 AM to 9:00 AM to the Kannada
film music played, many film songs reverberate even now within me. Unlike the
present days of Upendra’s lousy music and lyrics, those were the days of
meaningful lyrics and pleasant music. Why am I being so nostalgic? Nothing
nostalgic about it, we do have our AR Rahman to our rescue these days for good
music. Just remembered one song “Doddavarella jaanaralla, chikkavaraella
koonaralla….”, which in Kannada means that “seniors are not clever and
juniors are not fools either…” it goes on to continue “teachers’ words are
never true”. This was sung in the film by a set of comedians and I don’t think
most of us took the song seriously as we listened to it. Although I do not
subscribe to the whole of what is sung, somewhat nija alwa (true
right?)