I’m a Bollywood music buff. Not the songs bollywood churns out these days, but the older ones till 2015 or so. I used to be an avid collector of audio cassettes and later on CDs. And yes, no one was allowed to touch my collection without my express permission.

Of course, there are some songs that stay with you forever. They are like a wave of nostalgia which sweeps upon you whenever you listen to them. A particular song will sometimes take you to a place you have been or to the time you spent with someone you love.

Music processing in the brain is deeply interconnected with areas responsible for memory and emotion, like the hippocampus and the amygdala. When you hear a song linked to a significant life event – a first dance, a summer road trip, a difficult goodbye – your brain doesn’t just recall the event; it recreates the feeling of that time.

Songs have a way of evoking memories that even pictures are not able to do. Maybe it’s a song you had with your first love or a song that you listened to whenever the going got tough. Sometimes there is a song that will take you back to the time spent with your best friend.

I too have a song that always takes me back to the time spent with my best friend. The song is “Maula Mere Maula.. Aankhein Teri Kitni Haseen” from the movie Anwar. It’s sung by Roop Kumar Rathod, music is by Mithoon and lyrics by Sayeed Quadri.

I had a CD with this song and my bestie and I used to order pizza and play this song, sometimes on loop, and enjoy our pizza dinner. I have always found this song calming, a view shared by my bestie. She and I have watched many movies together, we must have listened to thousands of songs but this one song stayed with us.

Even today, whenever I listen to this song, I am transported to those college days where we would discuss all our problems over pizza and somehow life always felt a little lighter.

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