It is said that lyrics of a song is like a flower and music is its fragrance. A song touches one’s heart when both the lyrics and music are good. Though romantic songs are large in number, we find songs written on various other themes also in Odia. In this piece four songs have been discussed which describe the life of low income employees. I am very sorry that I cannot recall the lyricist and all the singers who created those beautiful songs, as I heard them some twenty years ago from All India radio.
A girl is describing the impatience of her sister-in-law (bhauja) on Saturday as she waits for her husband to come from work place in the song ‘Sanibara dina mo bhaujanka mana hela khali kan kana, bhai asibaku kahithile boli kamare na laage tankari mana’. Normally low income employees find it difficult to take their wives to workplace as they cannot afford it. So if their home is within three/four hours of journey, then they visit on every Saturday. Newly married girls particularly from rural areas may identify themselves with this song.
Misery of a husband whose wife is illiterate is very well described in the song Doora bideshare kie manepade…..sung by Sikandar Alam. He cannot bring his wife to town as he is unable to find a rented house for two; at the same time he cannot go home as his leave is not granted. So he decides to write a letter to his wife, but he recalls that she is illiterate…apathoi mora kania….
In ‘Afisi bela jaye gadi’ sung by Tansen Singh, husband is worried that he is getting late for office and his boss may write adverse remark in his service book while his wife pleads not to leave food and wants to serve a piece of fish fry more.
‘Aji masara pahila’ depicts the typical picture of a low income employee on the first date of a month. Wife, children want to go for shopping, cinema; but husbad is left with little money as his salary is almost spent on paying to milkman, grocer and others from whom he buys everything on credit.
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