Rishit Thakur

Rait Zara Si song was 10/10 But this Gibberish version 1000/10 God @ARRahman 🗿

Arijit Singh retires from playback singing … omg 😭😭😭

I lowkey predict that people will stop asking frontier AI models dumb questions because they'll assume that the model will judge them for wasting its talent on trivialities. I do this now: chatgpt gets all the trivial ones, while Opus is for heavyweight explorations.

Plenty of genius musicians exist. They give. They pour. They deliver. Rahman is a seeker. He doesn’t just make music, he listens for what the music is trying to become. You can enter the wonderment, or stay at the threshold and call it “just a song.” Listening to him is exploration, a slow walk through light, shadow, silence, and surprise. Once you get addicted to the surprises, it’s difficult to go back to the ordinary. You start seeking, more layers, more light, more silence.

The atmospheric, melancholic spiritualism and Floyidish psychedelic guitar of Itsuroh Shimoda's "Everybody Anyone" (1974) finds a profound echo in #ARRahman s "Aaromale" (2010). Decades apart, but spiritually adjacent.

The greatest living composer of the last 3 decades got attacked and abused (even by people within the industry) for stating an opinion in the politest, mildest manner, that too based on his lived-experience. And the very next day forced to issue an apology/clarification to calm the toxic mob down. If any further proof was needed to confirm his hints at the rising divisiveness... youtu.be/kbMinfmC3E0?si…

Listening to Tere Zikr for 2 straight days.... When this song begins, it doesn’t feel like music. It feels like someone has opened a small window in their chest and let you listen to their heartbeat. The voice comes in almost like a lullaby, soft, unhurried, as if she’s singing more to herself than to the world. There are no grand beats, no heavy orchestration trying to impress you. Just gentle chimes, a hush of atmospherics, and her voice floating above it all. The arrangement is so minimal that silence itself becomes an instrument; the spaces between the notes feel as meaningful as the notes themselves. She isn’t merely singing about love; she’s singing from inside it. The feeling is not “I’m in love with you,” but “my entire existence is soaked in you.” Love here is air, water, sleep, prayer. When she talks about living and drinking in that love, it’s not dramatic, it’s tender, surrendered. There is no rebellion in her voice, no plea, no bargaining. Just the calm certainty of someone who has accepted that this love is both her wound and her cure. The word that keeps glowing underneath everything is remembrance. She isn’t just longing for the person, she’s addicted to their mention, their name, their memory, the quiet act of holding them in her mind. That gives the song a spiritual shade, like a Sufi murmur carried on a breeze. It’s romance that has wandered so far inward it begins to resemble devotion. The music supports this: those chiming tones feel like tiny bells in a shrine, the ambient swells like incense curling up and disappearing into the dark. And then there are the nights. The way she sings of lonely nights slipping past like a single drop of dew is where the song becomes almost unbearably delicate. Loneliness is usually heavy in songs, thunder, rain, storms. Here, it’s weightless. Nights are fragile, glistening, gone before she can even hold them. That image makes her longing feel pure, almost childlike: she sits with her memories, turns them over like beads between her fingers, and somehow even her solitude is softened by the glow of his name. What makes this composition so moving is that everything is small, a small melody, light instrumentation, a quiet voice, yet the emotion inside it is vast. It doesn’t shout its pain or flaunt its passion. It breathes, it whispers, it remembers. In a world full of songs that try to get your attention, this one does something braver: it closes its eyes, folds its hands around its own heart, and lets you listen, if you’re willing to lean in close enough. If you let it, this song doesn’t just play in your ears. It rocks you gently, like a lullaby written not to put you to sleep, but to wake up the part of you that still believes love can be both ache and prayer at the same time. Thank you .@arrahman @shilparao11 such a beauty you are , thank you @aanandlrai @dhanushkraja

There’s something so beautiful about this song, something that can’t be explained. It brings tears to my eyes every time I hear it… It’s so rare. I guess this is the whole point of what music can do to you. 🥺❤️💔 @arrahman @shilparao11 @Irshad_Kamil #TereIshkMein

My Apple Music Replay 2025 ❤️ #ARRahman

The songs moved the story forward on their own, fitting the scenes beautifully. @arrahman & Irshad Kamil used the music almost like a script. I was a bit underwhelmed by the scores, like in some of his recent projects, but the album itself is excellent and feels super fresh.

Saw #TereIshkMein, & like most Anand L Rai films, it felt strange. You can’t call it good or bad. It keeps you wondering what’s going on & why things are happening the way they are. Still a few scenes stick with you long after it’s over. A lot of parallels from #Ranjhanaa

Saw Homebound yesterday .. what an amazing film ❤️❤️

If you understand this reference, you are one of us.

“The hardest thing to teach a student—and the hardest thing to believe consistently—is that there is nothing ‘out there’ to go and get. There is no part, no career, no opportunity for which you should be searching and scrounging and coveting. All of the preparation is within, and you keep yourself mentally and physically fit; you remain generous with yourself and others; you stay deeply in study about your craft. Whatever is yours will then arrive.”​ — Marian Seldes

Began watching this GOATed show today !!

Your best work comes through you, not from you.

"You need to make yourself a big target for luck, and the way to do that is to be curious." Paul Graham on how to figure out what to work on:

Wonder is the intersection of science and art. ✍️

The intense pressure to differentiate oneself on social media is "frying people's brains. This constant pursuit of uniqueness for validation is mentally taxing and can lead to a loss of genuine curiosity and identity. (9/n)

Society's fear-based upbringing perpetuates shame around public failure. Overcoming this cultural aversion to failure and embracing risk-taking is crucial for societal progress and individual success. (8/n)