I think its time to pass on mobile ring tones...

Do you know what your mobile ring tone is ?
Chances are since you don't call yourself too often , you have probably forgotten .
In all possibility, you, your spouse, dog or friend had downloaded Roobaroo, or Dus or Kajra Re or Bryan Adams '18 till I die ' and have no idea that it still lurks like a miasma in mobile reality.

If I hear the once sweet , but now saccharine Pal-Pal Ek Pal , from Munnabhai one more time, I may go beyond gritting my teeth to screaming ! Or any of the other tunes , actually .

Interestingly , a lot of people use ring tones to reflect phases or moods and for a observer of human nature , its fun to track , However, if the ring tone is a reflection of ones personality, a lot of us have to get our acts together , or just think of how we come across to a stranger .

I had 'Roobaroo' from Rang De Basanti as a ring tone , as a lark , and completely forgot to about it for 3 months, till a irate client offered me a kingdom of riches to change it . The embarrassment was a bigger motivator !

I recall the times I have cringed when I heard Madonna's belting out 'Like a Virgin' , when I called the very 50 year old secretary of a client! A devout bhajan as the ring tone for a distinctly naughty doctor ... And Nelly's rapping ' Its your Birthday ' when I called another serious search consultants ( he blamed it on his son !) . And not to forge the famous 'Bheege Honth Tere' from Mallika Sherawat's film Murder with innumerable candidates.

I think we should pass up the Mobile VAS team's marketing messages, and return to the days when a ring tone was a ring tone. And if you expect a tring-tring , when you call someone , that's exactly what you should get .