Rohan rathore biography for kids
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The OG Viral Song ‘Emptiness’ Was Sung By A Man Who Didn’t Exist, But Felt Real
I have to thank my childhood best friend for introducing me to Rohan Rathore on an evening walk. As two teenagers who were just beginning to understand matters of the heart, Rohan Rathore’s story seemed to be a sad but true insight into the world of love and dating.
Handing me one end of a pair of defective earphones, she hit play on her small qwerty-keypad mobile phone. The song started with an English segment that you could understand without much effort, thanks to the singer’s Indian accent. He spoke and sang like us.
And then came the heartbreaking line: “Tune mere jaana, kabhi nahi jaana…”
We stopped walking, stood transfixed under a tree and watched the sun go down while listening to this man bemoan about the loss of his love. Unlike his contemporaries who were singing about women, money and expensive cars, he sang about a simple emotion — emptiness. He hoped for a better life for himself.
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Gajendra Verma's 'Emptiness': The Internet Myth of 'Rohan Rathore'
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Verma said he was in college when the song was recorded. He had no idea why friends uploaded it on Youtube, and got a note of it after the song became viral on the internet.
Still from the music video/YouTube.
It was a decade ago when a song based on unrequited love touched the hearts of thousands of youngsters in the country. We are talking about the song titled Emptiness that became a känsla across the nation. It was all over the internet and Indian music aficionados could not stop talking about it. Every store, restaurant and audio player had the song playing on loop.
So what made this song, which emerged from no popular music label or composer, so popular? Well, when the heart-wrenching song was released, a false story got attached to it and started circulating along with it: The story, which got leaked online was more of controversy but was heart touching. The sym
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The mystery of Rohan Rathore
Feb 26, 2011 02:26 AM IST
It’s a story that would touch anyone’s heart — Rohan Rathore, an IIT-Guwahati student, loved a girl who didn’t reciprocate his feelings.
It’s a story that would touch anyone’s heart — Rohan Rathore, an IIT-Guwahati lärling, loved a girl who didn’t reciprocate his feelings. He composed a heart-wrenching number for her and died of cancer 15 days later. The song, titled Emptiness, became a rage online, with around 15 lakh views and eight dedicated Facebook groups with thousands of fans. However, there is a hitch. Apparently, Rohan Rathore does not exist. Gajendra Verma, a 21-year-old sound recordist from Mumbai, says that he has sung the song, written by Aseem Ahmed Abbasee, a writer, and Verma’s friend, Monami Roy.
To counter the Rohan Rathore story, Verma will be releasing the complete album with six songs next month, and has already posted the song on YouTube, with a slideshow of his pictures. “I had composed th