Meitri Erambdam Erol….(MEELAL) opposes the adoption of Bengali script in the region. In 2006, activists of a pressure group organised protests against the use of other scripts while writing Meitelon1 . During the agiatation, some miscreants are believed to have set on fire the State Library, which was home to a good collection of old and new literatures on almost every subject, in the heart of Imphal city. Despite winning the script debate, MEELAL lost its identity in the post-protest period. Tapta’s popular number Meelal in the album condemns the uncontrolled blaze of MEELAL that had resulted in the destruction of many precious Manipuri books written in Bengali scripts. .
This album is more of a romantic ballad. In Pelle, Tapta introduces synchronisation of his vocal with rap music sung by a female artiste. The song is a figurative sketch of peroxide sprayed Manipuri blonde girl who considers herself more Caucasian than all the blonde beauties in the West.
Since the late 1970s, many artistes have sung various classic love songs based on inter community romance or romance between boys from the valley and girls from the hills. All of them were hits in their respective contexts. Many critics claim Tamgi Ibung in this album is the lowest rated among all songs that describes inter community love songs ever recorded by any artiste in the state.
Only Meelal survives in this album as Tapta’s comical lyric hits the right chords that eventually alerted social and cultural activists in the state. The number describes the futility of imposing the script upon the people who neither read nor write it properly is really an embarrassing task. It not only reflects the fringe views in the valley but also the views of communities inhabiting the hills of the state.
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