Imagine Eric Clapton's 'Layla,' one of rock music's definitive love songs, with an Indian twist. There would be Indian instruments - ghoongroo, sitar, tabla - and it would probably be sung in Hindi.
Here's the good news. You don't have to imagine, it has happened. And the lyrics are in Sanskrit.
Over the last one week, music lovers have been sharing Krish Ashok's Indianised version of 'Layla', called 'Leela' on various social media sites.
Ashok, who calls himself an "amateur multi-instrumentalist," describes his musical endeavours like this: "I take the ridiculous and the sublime, add cellos, violins, guitars and random internet collaborators to make music of sorts." He posted 'Leela' on his Soundcloud page.
A Sanskrit version of Eric Clapton's Layla as (Leela) https://t.co/F9oLUxHze1 (lyrics by @utprekshaa & @vajrabhrt)
- Ashok (@krishashok) March 8, 2015For this song, Ashok's collaborators are SP Suresh and Vaishnavi Sundararajan, who wrote the Sanskrit lyrics along with him.
'Layla' was inspired by the 12th century Persian love story of Layla and Majnun. Clapton is believed to have written the song for his future wife, model Patti Boyd.
This new version has a lovely feel to it.
@krishashok Just listened to it. Beautiful! @utprekshaa @vajrabhrt
- Twyodor Dostoevsky (@twyodor) March 12, 2015Brilliant!!! @krishashok's Sanskrit adaptation of Clapton's Layla as (Leela) lyrics by @vajrabhrt & @utprekshaa https://t.co/Qzp905ZUI9
- Akanksha Srivastava (@akanksha) March 8, 2015Listen to it here:
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