kher - the man

warm and comfortable in his studio, the little man (not little going by his talent) kher gives a warm and humble smile to everybody (bloggers basically) who comes in..
He shares all his tracks, the inspiration, or the "story" behind it, and explains the way he sees things very non-chalantly..

there's absolutely no difference between the man (married, and a father) and the musician that he is..
He speaks to fellow musicians in the same tone as he speaks to the bloggers, as he does to the media, the same thoughtful way he speaks true, to his wife, to his driver (who came in for a while fetching a bag from kailash's car).

Unpretentious, highly enthusiastic and positive is all the vibe that exudes from this little soulful sufi, who surprisingly doesn't relate instantly to the newly acquired term.
Sufi is a man (or woman) in love with god, and sings or dances purely to express this love to Him..
Though kher's demeanour, his tell tale, his fascination with the "nirguna" or the formless is strikingly all the signs of an ardent sufi, he is totally unaware of the fitting term, and also shrugs away any such titles given to him choosing to focus upon what he talks and sings about instead, God.

Putting God before oneself, another sign of but a sufi..
a sufi, who doesn't care enough to consider himself a sufi, a true sufi that is kailash kher..
He cannot get enough of God, as his evident from his compositions, even as he says the the world in its entirety, and in all of its small and big forms are but God in different shapes and sizes, all but exceedingly beautiful.

He speaks a language clearly from his "hriday" or his heart, as should strike to most Indian linguists who would agree that the words in his compositions may not necessarily appear in language dictionaries per say, but would be apt words imbibed by communities particularly living by the country village sides, which capture the essence of the what needs to be described.
Some might think that his hindi is "thetta" or fundamentalistic, some might even think that the language he uses is very "shudh" or the pure form, I personally called his style "sufiana", to which he insisted upon clarifying that the language he uses is neither thetta, shuddha, or sufiana, but in fact it is a "boli" of arbid words that he has imbibed from all over the places to describe things which do not quite figure in our daily use of language..
Words liter(ature)ally, are not important, they are but descriptions of what he's trying to express, and more important to him are these expressions of feelings, of love, of God.

A brilliant composer of sufi verses, kher oozes right from the heart and sings that way too, ask him if he's got some classical training and where his oh so strong highly electrifying emotionally charged high enrgy high pitched come from, and straight somes his answer, God stays in my heart, and all of my art is nothing but my heart spilling.
Intelligence is figuring out complexity; Genius is making that complexity, simple.
The domain of kher is the highly complex plain of divinity in all its forms, the overwhelming expressions of his perceptions and his approach to God are ineffable, but what all of it smoothly and effortlessly translates into for him, is simply love for God; what it translates into for us, is some great soulful music!!