For the first time, Tapta’s music video screened at international festival! For its patriotic content, Bande Maataram video was selected for screening at ‘Film South Asia Music 2007’ held in Kadmandu, Nepal. The festival included other music videos short listed from Pakistan, Nepal and India. AR Rahman’s Maa Tujhe Salaam was in the same category of Bande Maataram.
However, the most demanded number in this album is Problem. Video of this well-written and wisely-composed song was has been widely popular outside the state. Introductory part of Wanted sounds like cowboy story. But it is just social joke Tapta frequently plays with his fusion music. Wanted is about a young man who has been underground for certain reason. But the moment he returned home, every corner of his house was ransacked by army and his was declared Wanted.
In Jom, Tapta appeals for complication of life in Manipur. Khomlang may sound like patriotic song dedicated to motherland. Of course, the song is Tapta’s protest to his step mother whose children are of different skin colours, food habits and mother tongues.
Like a prophet (Panjee) Tapta predicts risks that could happen to anybody in day-to-day life of Manipuri. That is nothing but gun that can fire like a fun any moment, any time. The central idea of the song Restaurant is manifold. It narrates the deluded youth of the society who ruin themselves in the dark world of drug abuses. But the narration of the song further extends that they keep laws in their pockets and distort the society into a messy way. Tapta asks them to share their strengths together to improve the law and order of the region.
National Highway 39 (NH 39), is an important route where most of the imported land transports from outside are operated through this road only. If this highway is blocked, life in Manipur is half dead. This is the weakness whereon some social organisations in the state play frequently with government. Tapta blames those social culprits who issue the importance of NH-39, not the highway in the song.
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