Crazy Kiya Re!

It was much more relaxed looking Gavaskar in one of the ESPN ads, singing Crazy kiya re (It has made me Crazy), as he went promoting one of the channel's programme.

Probably taking a cue, that is how most of the news channels have been conducting their affairs ever since India beat Australia in the biggest upset of the Cup. Crazy kiya re will be the apt word to describe the song and dance sequences being played ever since that momentous achievement.

If you are a habitual channel surfer, the biggest patriotic musical hits of 2000s - from "Koi hamse jeet na paaye, chale chalo (no body can beat us, keep on marching)" to "Chak de India" are ruling the cricketing-music-remixes right now. Serious discussions are no longer the flavour of the D-day as passion has scored over conventional wisdom and expert advise.

Songs involving skirmishes and Parodies are winning hands down. For example "Har taraf bas yahi afsane hain, ham team India ke diwane hain (Everywhere, there are talks that we are the lovers of team India)", to "Ham bhi hain josh mein. Baatein kar hosh mein. Yoon na toon aankhe dikha" (We are fully alert so do not got over adventurous. Do not dare stare at me).

Even religious songs are not being spared. One can see Aartis on many channels with people religiously chanting "Jai Dhoni, Jai Dhoni, Jai Dhoni Deva", or Om bhoor Bava swaha, Jeet team India ko dila." You just light an Aarti and there is every chance that it will be captured live on camera today!

One wonders what will happen if India indeed win the trophy. Kirti Azad had jokingly remarked before the 1999 World Cup (in one of the meets organised by the Women Journalists) that if no other team wins the Cup, people might start making our Sculptures and sell.

One does not know if that will ever materialise even if this team loses. But surely, if this team wins, Dhoni XI's faces are sure to find a permanent place among the deities in the Pooja rooms of many cricket crazy households.