Himesh's source of Inspiration...

There is a deafening high pitched nasal sound based cry, the dark setting is now slowly being replaced by a faint light…the camera zooms into an old worn out Baseball Cap, the cries become louder and the Cap slowly begins to rise. With growing intensity of the nasal shrieks, the cap rises higher and it reveals a chubby, bearded guy closing his eyes with an expression akin to that when one whines in pain, The camera zooms out and we are presented with a flabby unshaven entity who is still crying out loud hysterically into a microphone kept at a hair’s breadth from his nostrils, the entity wears a jacket over his attire to cover the excess flab…the camera zooms out further…and there he stands..Himesh Reshammiya!
Himesh has suddenly emerged as the trump card for many a producer wanting to rake in good money through music sales. The number of critics and detractors that he has might just equal the number of fans he has for his music. If somebody were to do a research on the most viewed personality on TV he would easily win the race hands down far outnumbering even politicians and film actors much more famous than him.
Himesh Reshammiya seems to have perfected the art of giving great foot tapping numbers in every movie’s sound track. In addition to this, his penchant to load the soundtrack with remixes of the songs as well gives a lot of dance numbers and additional revenues as well. Although his critics may go hoarse ranting about his high pitched nasal tone and loud music, they will not be able to deny that Himesh Reshammiya SELLS and probably SELLS better than any other music director in the industry today.
I have absolutely no issues with his brand of music, Infact I listen to his numbers a lot and am a fan of his music as well. There is however one major problem and a real painful one at that - Himesh’s urge to feature in the videos of his songs and if that was not bad enough... even worse is his attempt to actually try and act in those videos! There will hardly be a gap on 15-20 minutes that you would find in most TV channels wherein either Himesh Reshammiya himself or his name, do not feature on screen.
The other day when, as is the case while channel surfing, I happened to chance upon yet another Himesh Reshammiya video and noticed his expressions and style of singing. I started thinking why does Himesh Sell? Where does he get the creative inspiration or ideas from? A few more music videos of Himesh were viewed and many songs of his heard...and then it struck me…I found the answer…Himesh Reshammiya is what we would generally call a bathroom singer…but he uses his bathroom and the time he spends there to come up with innovative tunes and expressions for his videos. Take for e.g. the Jhalak Dikhlaja song…it starts of with a UMMMMMMMMMMMOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAH and Himesh in the video totally focused on relieving himself of some heavy matter in his body/mind, he slowly raises his crouched face and as he comes to the AAAH part of his song you can see the relief on his face, and after that the master stroke..”Ek baar aaja aaja aaja aaja…” this song had to be crooned when Himesh was busy with his morning rituals, if you know what I mean. And if you were to actually look at lot more songs of his...they would all have this common thread in them. Also Himesh is probably the easiest Music Director for a lyricist...all the lyricist has to do is give him a couple of words or at max one stanza and Himesh will weave his magic and come up with a 4 minute song plus 3 remix versions as well. Lets take a few songs of his…Naam hain tera tera is repeated a zillion times in the song, just give Himesh the words Ishq Kiya and he will repeat them 25 times in his song…on the same line you have the famous Jhalak Dihklaja, Tera Suroor to name a few…
Of late there has been a new dimension to Himesh’s songs…his extensive use of English sentences in the songs…some of them being “I’ll love you unconditionally… Soniye”;”I love you Oh Sayonee Whats up? “ ;”I’ll love you till I die” and so on…Lets just see how long and to what extent would he carry on this trend as well…
There you have it…Himesh’s sources of inspiration and creative inputs...the good old bathroom!