I would lovingly say, “Oh that’s Hamsalekha daasaru” and wink.Ī while ago, a friend and I were discussing that Hams is a man for songs from birth to death.
Someone in a family function would sing “Aparaadhi naanalla”, a classical composition from Hamsalekha and get away with the ajjis saying “entha saMskaara”(what a samskaara) though the girl sang a film song but it was mistaken for a song by the holy trinity of Carnatic music.
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This is a song from the legendary movie Prema Loka which released in the ’80s we went to college in 2009 but that was our anthem because everything was still so relevant. Recently during a college reunion, all of us only sang “KaLeyithu aa besige, araLithu hoo mellage, hogoNa college ige”(Summer is over, flowers have bloomed, let’s go to college). Again, his cassettes were exchanged by the old lovers at home, writing beautiful messages copied from his songs. The old cassettes in my home still have the front cover, with large images of Hamsalekha holding a mandolin, SPB in front of the microphone. If the combination was Hamsalekha, SPB and S Janaki or Chitra, the cassettes were a superhit, clearly ignoring the heroes or heroines. The best part about him was he wrote the songs, composed music for them and sometimes sang them too, though the singer part is a little hard to digest. His songs were part of group songs in school, dance performances and also played a role in healing heartbreaks.
For the average Kannadiga children in Bengaluru who studied in state syllabus schools, Hamsalekha was a hero. Well, that MS who was thrown out of the music class because she quoted Hamsalekha was me, Meghana Sudhindra.