Tuesday, June 16, 2009

A Mondegreen... And An imagination

It was just another busy morning... in fact busier! Anant was late in waking up; at 9:35 I had to pull him up from the bed, and he was so reluctant coz Papa was still sleeping!! (Papa had slept late, but does that matter?)

So there we were, finally on the breakfast table, I trying hard to make Anant eat fast and Anant hell-bent on not improving his speed. He was adamant and I was getting furious. He was trying to make me smile and I was not ready to smile till I saw his plate clean... and fast!

In the background was playing the CD of 'Guide', I was trying to drown my fury in the melody... when I suddenly heard Anant singing with the song... in all seriousness... lost in his world... as usual. The words that came out from his lips had this amazing effect... I just couldn't stop giggling... seeing him, sitting there, playing with his cheela and singing, "Mote chal, mote chal"!!!! In the background, Lata Mangeshkar rued melodiously, "Mose Chhal, mose chhal... mose chhal kiye jaaye..."

I guffawed, at this innocent mondegreen, a product of Anant's limited vocabulary which contained neither mose nor chhal. There was this look of relief, mischief and 'how smart I am' in his eyes as soon as he saw me laughing. He knew he has not heard it right, and, immediately, there was a story in his head:

"See Mamma, there is this queue at Prithvi Theater, everyone is going in except this Mota Aadmi (this fatso) and there is this girl behind him and she want to go in and this Mota is not moving, so this girl starts singing, 'Mote chal, mote chal'.

And I had to stop the story there, by putting food in his mouth. He has won again, Mamma was feeding him, finally!!

BTW, here is that lovely song:

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