Maxter Warjri to release new single – ‘Kamkai’ on Meghalaya Day
By Mayborn Lyngdoh R | SHILLONG | Jan 18:
Kamkai: A new single of Maxter Warjri and the Band in collaboration with Mix and Flow Production: Lamonte Pakyntein and Ardon Rumnong, State of Mind production, directed by Kamki Diengdoh, Line of Production: Elizer Bareh, Alex Kharshiing and Emi Bareh, starred by Elizer Bareh, Make-up artist: Cordelia Diengdoh is scheduled to be released on the 21st January, 2020 on Youtube.
Meghalaya, the God-gifted nectar of Eden on earth is turning FORTY-EIGHT this year!
When we dive into the past, Meghalaya as a separatefederal unit celebrated the dawn of a new era on the 21st January,1972. Our fathers and fore-fathers fought for the Khasi Land, with their lives;diligently for years envisioned a better State that will cater to the needs ofthe indigenous population – better schools, better knowledge, better standardsof living, better society and a better life in general for all of it'sindigenous federal citizens.
Forty-eightyears hence, what have we achieved?
Maxter Warjri, a man filled with an overflowing volcano of emotions etches his resonance through his new single Kamkai. Kamkai at the surface level sounds trivial, funny, and invaluable. In the yester-years, once a man is dubbed as "Kamkai" he loses his status of being taken seriously in his community, society and even family. He is not only looked down upon as being unimportant, but his value as a "Rangbah" or "Rangdajied" is quickly flush out. 'Kamkai' has a very powerful connotation that prisms through the song.
The song begins with a narcissistic selfish contentment of the section of the contemporary Khasi people who feel that there is absolutely no need to participate in the fight for the rights of the common man because they are very comfortable in their Glass Houses – "Khuslai lei ko mynsiem, lawei ai kan wan". The bourgeoisie are most of the time unfazed by the wave of change that is coming; their mansion walls are too high to be stained with the cries and blood of the people whom they consider as pests.
Maxteralso vivifies the how "Word (Ka Ktien)" has lost it's importance in thecontemporary context. The Khasis have since time immemorial revered oraltradition. A word spoken is a bond that cannot be broken. But now everything isa deluded mockery. We have men in power, politically and socially withimpeccable words of wisdom adorned in magnificent speeches with empty promisesthat now plaque our very existence. 'Truth' was omnipotent… WAS!
Envelopedin the façade of lies we have become puppets of the Government, the SengBhalang that have sprouted like mushrooms, the men and women we thought wecould trust. They have mocked, misused their position given, and prostitutedthe very essence of bestowed trustful responsibilities. In disgust fumed withvomit on his lips, on what we have achieved in the last forty-eight years thepoet gasp his last lines – "Juban ki khlei, Lah i kamkai".
P.S.In the meantime, one can get a sneak-peek of the trailer before you taste the unapologetic bitter symphony craftedthrough the pen of the past and the present.
