Music - Part 3

Maybe it's because I was born in Bombay, but I quite liked Bollywood films when I was a kid.

There were certain gems among the Bollywood songs of those days. I'll keep updating as and when I remember them.

One of the oldest I remember is a Mithunda song. (No, not I Am a Disco Dancer...though that was really cool as well!) I don't know what movie this one is from.
It had Mithunda doing ganpati-style dance...

Hava hava aye hava, khusbhoo luta de
Kahaan khuli haan khuli, zulf bata de
Ab uska pata de, zara mujhko bata de
Main usse milunga, ik bar mila de
Yaar mila de, dildaar mila de
Yaar mila de, dildaar mila de
(Not sure, but i think at this point he had that tapori scarf around his neck which he tugged at both ends while singing the last 2 lines)

Since I only remember the chorus, I scouted the net for the complete lyrics and actually found them here!

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Don't know how many of you remember, Deepti Bhatnagar, whom I have mentioned earlier, did a shit film with Mithunda! Actually two, but the one I recall is Ganga Ki Kasam, whose poster you can buy here for $10!

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This song came much later, but it is worth a mention -- Muqabala!

It had a cult video, with Prabhu Deva and his rubber body doing those funny dance steps.
Ok I shouldn't call them funny because we actually tried to dance to that song for some function in school. But we could manage only one step -- Squat. Do a pelvic thrust to the left and simultaneously flick your wrist in the same direction. Repeat to the right side. Left. Right. Left. Right. Left. Left. Right.

And talking about funny dance steps, another popular one was the chair dance that Sanjay Dutt and Madhuri did in Tamma Tamma Loge in the film Thanedar.

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Javed Jafri actually acted as a hero in films, once upon a time. I remember the song Julie Julie which was picturised on him and a girl wearing white and pink 'western' clothes. They were a makapao (Goan) couple in that movie so besides the clothes, the lyrics too had to reflect that. Hence....Humko Mary nai maangta, humko Lily nai maangta humko Sandra from Bandra nai maangta. To kaun maangta? Julie Julie, Johnny ka dil tumpe aaya Julie, tere liye chad jaoon sooli, tuhi to meri jaan hai, jaan hai, jaan hai...wah!
I loved this song.

While searching the net for the name of the film which this song is from, I came across this..... check out the entire site...has some really cool stuff from the 80s/90s

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More Bollywood songs from 80s/90s
Jadoo Teri Nazar which became a big joke in school when we changed the lyrics to Jadoo teri nazar, BADBOO tera badan
Shayad Meri Shaadi Ka Khayal If you sang this song when a boy was around, means you wanted to marry him
Hawa Hawai Sridevi as Miss Hawa Hawaii (whatever that means) in the fantastic film, Mr. India which had a cook named Calendar!
Om Shanti Om with Rishi Kapoor on the rotating circular stage. Choreography was class in those days!

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This suddenly struck me...remember cassettes of film soundtracks which had Song xyz on Side A and Song xyz (sad version) on Side B?
Now days it's Song abc & Song abc (remix/radio edit/Dj A's remix/Dj B's club version).

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Trivia: I remember reading somewhere, that popularity of film soundtracks increased in the 80s partly due to the 'cassette culture'. Lots of chhota cassette manufacturing companies came up in that time which made film music easily available and affordable.

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