“ Unki awaj me ek chain aur sukun tha...”, said Javed Akthar when Jagjeet went beyond horizons of pleasure and pain. Who knew that after few days another shaksha would go beyond the mysterious clouds of evergreen stardom to rest in the infinite memories. These memories of Dev sahab would come in the avatar of saffron clad Guide who tells us that he never regretted about anything he did passionately in his life: “ betrayles, heartbreaks ...but no regrets!”
Any deeply devoted personalities cannot be paraded just for arriving at some denominatory characterisation of their personification. But two of them can be said to have unique gift of touching hearts of the people who heard him or watched him on the screen. With the time becoming more and more fermeneted and water, air and land around us aggressively getting polluted, their audacity to soothen the massively troubled minds of common men and women was the hallmark of their existence in songs they stood for and thus charm of life those songs reflected.
Proffessional roles apart, what makes a person as a source of inspiration is their simple, elegant approach to the seemingly complex and difficult task of making each other happy. The spontaneous showering of pleasure and lateral reflections they exhibit about the connections of art and life are simply matter of daily practise for them. But still they nurture a kind of proffessional sophistication, very flexible but firm discipline about the performance they do and thus starting a informal conversation with the audience apart from their formal roles they do in studios and sets.
If Jagjeet gave classical gazal the modern outlook, Dev gave modern romance the vintage touch. Other day when I was reading one article about modernity by Dipesh Chakravarty where he says modernity is like a waiting room for many people simultaneously at any point of time in history. There is always rush in our lives to move ahead, to grow, to rise and to prosper. So, we are always trying to forget from where we arrived to that waiting room. We, due to hurry to confrm reservation to next milestone in life always struggle, fight and spread hatred in that waiting room. We want to travel by some train to reach our destination to achieve something. Jagjeet reminded us of our emotional connections to the heritage we left befind before leaving to catch the train. Dev consistently dragged us to the new voyages of train possible where he potrayed in front of us how easy it is to discover the romance with life at every station we arrive and still not forgetting the founding principles on which this outlier life started.
So, where is the vaccume? We express our condolences by saying that the person`s loss is irreparable and the vaccumen created because of their eternal journey can never be filled again. But mind again. If we think we cannot absorb what they radiated, if we feel helpless without their presence that is spiritual retardation of our minds which keeps us busy in thinking about our mortal inabilities. But think again for a second, if we truly loved the persons for whom we are grieving; we will never again disturb the people around us who are dedicated to the quest for cherishing moments of satisfaction. Dev and Jagjeet always tried to give those rare moments to the people with and for whom Jagjeet and Dev lived, and empowered their hopes towards illusionary-hopeless life.
