Good old Bollywood has a song for every occasion. Whenever the hero and heroine get or don't get an opportunity, they jump into a song and dance routine..it is hilarious at times but that's the only thing thats original about hindi cinema...its 'breaking into' a song without any logical explanation :|
Personally for me, the mohd. rafi - kishore kumar phase was the best phase of hindi music...the songs were pure music..with live musicians and instruments devoid of digitalization..music is always supposed to be in analog form.Thanks to the new age technology even a dog can bark and it will sound good..!!
But we have seen some musically handicapped years when the music industry was hit by a tornado named Bappi Lahiri and calling his songs retarded would be an understatement ..!! It was in 1994 that Aashiqui was released and Nadeem-Shravan swooped into the music industry like saving graces..(btw Aashiqui is one of my favourite-est albums..)
But i am more interested in doing a psycho-analysis of the lyricist's brain....Here's a list of the songs which got my goat..
1) Ouchhhh... Dhak Dhak karne lagaa... ho mora jiyara darne lagaa.. saiyaan baiyaan chodo na.. 'kacchi kaliyan tod na' :| The english interpretation would ideally be >> don't pluck the unripe buds..!! lmao..!!
2) Choli ke peeche kya hai..choli ke peeche Isn't it obvious..??!! My inference is that our lyricists were sex starved....our country being sexually oppressed and our censor board being conveniently hypocritical..we cannot have direct songs.. so i guess our lyricists decide to be all suggestive..!!
Imagine releasing a song like 'I kissed a girl' (in hindi of course) in India and the kind of uproar it will create... (i can only imagine what its hindi interpretation would be..lol..!!)
But choli ke peeche kya hai..seriously..??!! Objectification of women has been rampant and even the songs cannot escape its presence..
Moving over from explicit songs to some really inane stuff...
3) Tamma tamma logey (it's encrypted code..i bet noone can decode it) tamma tamma logey tamma tu premi..AHAA main premi..AHAA.. tu raazi..AHAA main raazi..AHAA.. phir kya daddy kya amma..ek bas tu hi pyaar ke kaabil..saara jahaan hai nikamma..
4) this one is my permanent chart buster..actually song no. 3 is copied from this song. Jumma chumma de de (rearranged version of 'i kissed a girl'..the girl in question here is Jumma..:P) Jumma chumma de de chumma
5) Mera naa--aaaaa--aaam Shabnam...pyaar se log mujhe Shabo kehte hain tumhara naam kya hai..?? Eena ya meena...anju ya manju *laughs* eena..meena..anju..manju..yaaaa madhu.. (no these aren't the common Indian female names)
6) question -- Ladki hai kya..?? answer -- re baa baa question -- uski adaa..?? answer -- re baa baa question -- uska nasha..?? answer -- re baa baa re baabaa re baabaa re baabaa baabaa baabaa baabaa (talk about obsession with nursery rhymes..!!)
7) an educational song was : ek do teen char panch che saat aath nau dus gyaraah barah terah terah karoon din gin gin ke intezaar..aaja piya aayi bahar.. learning counting was never as easy..
8) chamakchalo chamakchalo zara dheere chalo..zara dheere chalo..!! Innovative ways of addressing a female..a feminist's outcry..
9) lyricists have even found a way of incorporating a scorpion's bite into a song.. i think it should have been the ost of 'the scorpion king' :| bichua..bichua..bichua..bichua..bichua..bichua..bichua.. ho bedarda aadhi raat ko meri chaat pe chadh gayaa.. chori se haaye ungli mein challa de gaya.. bichua..bichua..bichua..bichua..bichua..bichua..bichua..
10) The choreography of this song can put the top choreographers to shame..this genre of gyrating vibrating hyper voluptuous hip of Shilpa Shirodkar and the extra dancers is unrecognised to the world..youtube it to know what m talking about ;) Angna mein baba..duare pe maa..kaise aayein gori hum tohre ghar ma.. Khet gaye baba..bazaar gayi maa...akeli hoon ghar ma tu aaja balma..:|
11) If you think "22222" is Docomo's sound..think again.. the song is: 222222 2222222 athra baras ki kuwari kali thi...:P now the lyricist wants to address the heroine as "unmarried bud"..i clearly don't understand the obsession with a mere 'bud'.. on one occasion..heroine says dont pluck unripe buds..on another occasion she says she's a bud...the heroine in question here is madhuri dixit.. clearly the context in which the word 'kali' is used is still undetermined..
12) Ek aankh maaron toh parda hat jaaye duji aankh maaron kaleja kat jaaye (if i wink, my liver gets cut) dono aankhein maaron toh chori pat jaaye chori pat jaaye ---- A Bappi Da creation which speaks for itself :)
13) tofa tofa tofa tofa laaya laaya laaya laaya tere tere tere tere liye liye liye liye ---- A Bappi Da creation yet again :P
Watch out this space for more spiritual insights like these ;)
I did apprehend a post related to 'song/ music' coming up in your blog! :P The song - "jab takk rahega samosa mein alu", should surely receive the honor to be amongst chart toppers of such blogs post! I would also never forget "tu tu tu, tu-tu taara" :D
Hahhaha!! LOVE how uve analysed all the songs :D
@Piyush :P There are a lot of gems in Bollywood. Expect a version 2.0 :P
@FashionPhD :) :)
Liked your way of dissecting some of the most popular songs of Bollywood.I really enjoyed reading your post as much as any other who had read it.But lets face it, jo bikta hai wahi banta hai boss.I have always considered our lyricists as the best artists we have in the industry,but on the other hand also agree to the fact that how could someone even think of writing a song like..Choli ke piche kya hai..ohh c'mon...with all due respect...i mean you dont know that..or what do you wanna hear..!!
Well every song is made keeping in mind a particular section of the society I believe.And you cant like everything that is there in this world..so on a lighet note..chillax..!!