Music Videos to Cherish - 3

Various themes in this post: let's start with drama, gotta love drama.

Remember Pardes? Even if you don't this song will remind you; it's you regular pre-climax dramatic recap that brings you up to speed with the movie just in case you've been dozing off. Although, with Pardes you probably weren't, at least not for the songs. The music in this movie was probably one of Nadeem Shravan's best work, in my humble opinion. Parts of the movie were shot right here in Vancouver, but portrayed as LA (like, whatever.) and this song itself along with the subsequent climax was shot in Fatehpur Sikri, built under Akbar (yes, the Great) and nearby in Agra is the Shah Jahan's Taj Mahal alongside the Agra Fort, I think. Don't believe me, click on the links to trusty Wikipedia. :) I have a fascination with these places and practically jumped out of my seat when I saw Hrithik, in the movie Jodhaa Akbar (linked later on), sitting on what I recognized as Shah Jahan's jharoka in Agra Fort. Had I taken Indian Art History back when I saw Pardes, I'd be pretty excited to see this song too.

Anyway, I especially love the dialogs in this one (seek to 2:40ish for them):

Arjun: vahin par ruk jao Ganga, aur apne ghar vaapas laut jao (stop right there Ganga, and go back home)
Ganga: chali jaungi, sirf ek baar kehdo ke tum... *shies away* ke tum mujhse pyar nahi karte (I will, just say it once that you don't... *shies away* you don't love me)
Arjun: nahin. main tumse pyaar nahi kerta. (no, I don't love you)
Ganga: tum kerte ho! (yes you DO!)

-- love this! :D replays:
Ganga: chali jaungi, sirf ek baar kehdo ke tum... *shies away* ke tum mujhse pyar nahi karte
Arjun: nahin. main tumse pyaar nahi kerta.
Ganga: tum kerte ho!
-- ahem, okay back to sequence.

Arjun: *frustrated* Ganga yeh theek nahi hai! (this is not right Ganga!)
Ganga: haan to phir yeh kaho na ke theek nahi hai, yeh kyun kehte ho ke tumhe mujhse pyar nahi hai... (then say its not right! why do you say that you don't love me?)
Arjun: *taken aback**recovers* nahin main tumse pyar nahi kerta. bilkul nahi kerta. (no I don't love you. I don't love you at all.)
Ganga: *recoils*
Arjun: samjhin! tum apne ghar vaapis laut jao. (do you understand! go back home now.)
Ganga: *hurt*
Arjun: *scolds*jao! (go!)

aw.

I enjoy this stuff way too much. You have to understand that I am only procrastinating. I feel too guilty to read past the prologue of The Gathering Storm, but somehow blogging feels okay. Anyway, here is the video:

nahi hona tha, Pardes (1997)
singers: Alka Yagnik, Sabri Brothers, Udit Narayan, Hema Surdesai
music director: Nadeem Shravan
lyricists: Anand Bakshi
actors: Shahrukh Khan, Mahima Chaudhary, Apoorva Agnihotri, Alok Nath, Amrish Puri
movie director: Subhash Ghai


Oh, Subhash Ghai does know how to entertain people for sure. I am very tempted to watch the movie again, just for the scenes that follow this song. I still remember them, they were pretty entertaining. :D Here is a link if you want to see SRK fighting to the track in the next few scenes, and then some acting by Amrish Puri (and overacting by SRK). Seek to 6:00 to the end of the song; the next videos on the playlist are on the right.

Doesn't Mita Vasisht just blow your mind sometimes? (She's the woman in yellow insisting "nahi hona tha!"). Speaking of Mita Vasisht, I remembered the following music video of Shubha Mugdal's man ke manjeere; it is just a-mazing to watch and Shubha Mugdal's voice rocks my world with inspiration. The album was released by Breakthrough, a non-profit organization aimed at human rights and awareness. The song is the voice of a woman who breaks out of an abusive marriage and builds her own life:

man ke majeere, Man Ke Manjeere (2000)
singers: Shubha Mudgal
music director: Shantanu Moitra
lyricists: Prasoon Joshi
actress: Mita Vasisht
movie director: Subhash Ghai


Shantanu Moitra made a good track, Prasoon Joshi deserves appreciation for the lyrics, there were definitely inspirational and hats off to the rest of the crew. Especially though, the song would not be what it is without Shubha Mudgal and Mita Vasisht, who were impeccable choices for this song, methinks.

I'll lighten the mood a bit, moving on to comedy and cuteness, otherwise known as Ranbir Kapoor. :)

prem ki naiya, Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani (2009)
singers: Neeraj Shridhar and Suzanne D Mello
music director: Pritam
lyricists: Irshad Kamil
actors: Ranbir Kapoor and Katrina Kaif
movie director: Rajkumar Santoshi
choreographer: Ahmed Khan


This one follows, and is just as cute:

agar main kahoon, Lakshya (2004)
singers: Udit Narayan and Alka Yagnik
music director: Shankar, Ehsaan and Loy
lyricists: Javed Akhtar
actors: Hrithik Roshan and Preity Zinta
movie director: Farhan Akhtar
choreographer: Bosco, Prabhu Deva and Vaibhavi Merchant (don't know which one in particular)


I love the "agarrrrr main kahoon..." right after she asks him to "ghuma phira" whatever he is saying so plainly. :D oh Hrithik, where art thou? Just give us Kites already!

Lakshya, despite the long, drawn-out war scenes, was a pretty good movie. Of all Hrithik movies, this is the third one I have watched the most (the first being Kaho Naa Pyar Hai, the second being Mujhse Dosti Karoge, and the next on the list would be Dhoom 2, but only for Hrithik) (I've also repeatedly watched parts of Jodhaa Akbar and most people can guess which ones =P). Points to note, Lakshya was also directed by Farhan Akhtar! He is not really the kid that he seems to be eh? I was so wrong about him. And choreography by Prabhu Deva! I bet he is responsible for me esa kyun hoon. One can just tell:

me esa kyun hoon, Lakshya (2004)
singer: Shaan
music director: Shankar, Ehsaan and Loy
lyricists: Javed Akhtar
actors: Hrithik Roshan
movie director: Farhan Akhtar
choreographer: Bosco, Prabhu Deva and Vaibhavi Merchant (pretty sure Prabhu Deva for this one)


On second thought, maybe not so much Prabhu Deva. Hmm... Yes folks, this is how our heart-throb behaves :D

Dream sequences are just amazing aren't they? Another Farhan Akhtar-Hrithik Roshan dream sequence is baawre from Luck By Chance (2009). Another Hrithik-Carnival theme pair is dil na diya from Krrish (2006) (yes, Priyanka ca be unbelievable annoying but I could not find a better quality, so seek to 1:34 to skip her unbelievable annoying-ness).

Dream sequences (if only for a lack of better term for it) bring me to this next video, performed fantastically by Vineeth and Vidya Balan and sang phenomenally well by MG Sreekumar and Shreya Ghoshal. I'll end with this, it is definitely one worthy to end a Cherish post with:

mere dholna sun, Bhool Bhulaiya (2007)
singers: MG Sreekumar and Shreya Ghoshal
music director: Pritam
lyricists: Saeed Qadri
actors: Akshay Kumar (the doctor), Vidya Balan (the wife/dancer), Shiney Ahuja (the husband/king), Vineeth (the neighbor/dancer) and more...
movie director: Priyadarsan
choreographer: Pony Verma (uncertain)


This song never fails to give me the goosebumps, even if I am just listening to it. It becomes so trance-like towards the end. Sreekumar and Ghoshal make it worth a while, and you gotta give it to Pritam, who just seems to output one melodious track after another (albeit who knows where they cam from). The movie Bhool Bhulaiya is a remake of a very popular Malyali movie Manichitrathazhu, which has been remade more than just this once. To be honest, I wasn't entirely happy with Bhool Bhulaiya, especially Akshay Kumar's acting, but this song and Vidya Balan won me over. Although I've been told the original performance is much better and I intend to check it out soon.

That's all for now,
Juhi must study :(

The Storm and The Body Thief

I got the email from the library today telling me that The Gathering Storm is ready to be picked up (finally!). For those of you who don't know, it is the long-awaited twelfth book in late Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series. It is the first of two books that are to be completed by Brandon Sanderson in place of the late author.

Before I can start the book, I have to get the prequel under my belt. It is sitting on my desk and I haven't been able to start it for the fear that I would not do anything else until I'm done the book. But now that I've got this library notification, I am pretty much screwed. Since there is a wait-list for it, I can't renew the Gathering Storm so I have to read it - that's my excuse anyway. I could technically skip the prequel, which is probably what I'll end up doing, but that won't help much - the Storm is at least a week's worth of reading, and that is if I am still as fast a reader as I was last summer.

All complaining aside, I am totally excited and I would be squealing if I wasn't in class (yes, I am blogging from class the really good student that I am). I can't WAIT to read about... whatever that will happen next. I actually don't really remember the details, so I have been reading the summaries of the eleven books I read last year, just to be up to speed. Oh but I am SUCH a sucker for drama and fantasy and magic that I know I'm going to be in an awesome, separate, little world of Jordan/Sanderson for the next week or so. :D

Only if the book was available during spring break... le sigh.

The other book that I'm going to pick up today is Anne Rice's The Tale of the Body Thief. I wasn't able to get through it the last time but hopefully I will feel more tolerant of Rice's digressions after I've read the Storm and am in want of more reading. I want to get through the Body Thief so I can move through Rice's Vampire Chronicles and get to The Blackwood Farm, which connects to her Lives of the Mayfair Witches - what I am really after. To prove how much I love the Mayfair Witches, here is a family tree that I made, and want to update after reading Blackwood Farm. In my defense, one really does need a family tree to keep track Rice's story lines.

Music Videos to make you Cringe - 2

This one deserved a post all to itself:

sun re, from Sun Re (2005)
singers: Abbas Ali Khan


I was looking for the video of this song to add to a Music Videos to Cherish post, but I thought this one might have been a fan-made video. But after some confusion as to why this video was appearing on most of the entries, I saw the whole thing and the singer's lips, to my surprise and eventual almost-devastation, were matching the lyrics.

"Bling!!?" was my reaction after I had stared at the screen for a while. "Epic Fail" is what my brother would say, and I would not hesitate to agree. I spent about half a second to consider that maybe this was a new, artsy way of contrasting different styles of video but I gave up that idea in the other half of that open-minded second.

This is just outright injustice. I can't even point and laugh at the video because I love this song. This song was in my feel-good playlist. I listened to when it rained softly and I was feeling emotional. When I missed someone, when I felt lonely. Now I have bling and smoke and jokers burnt into my memory. :(

Amplifier for Everyone

I was looking for ways to procrastinate and came upon Imran Khan's song Amplifier from album Unforgettable (2009), and I thought I'd translate it so everyone can appreciate the humor of the baby Amplifier remix. Don't worry, I'll include all the related videos, you won't miss out on anything. :)

So here is the song:


LOL right? Yes I know. Moving on, here are the lyrics and translation:

"
kaaliyan baariyan we gaddiyaan nu mein lawaan - I buy cars with black-tinted windows
speed mein 220 di chalaan - I drive at a speed of 220
police de samne mein nai rukhda - I don't stop for the Police
i am a knight rider - I am a Knight Rider

breakaan maar maar tardi mein chiekh kad da - I hit the breaks and the tires screech
sari loki takde we ki hogeya - Everyone looks my way to see what happened
lagda we injh mera dil rukda - It seems as though my heart stopped
unu mein puchda - I ask her:

ni gaddi sadi beja ni jattiye - Get in my car O Jattiye (Punjabi (Jatt) girl)
ni door tenu lehja we arriye - I'll take you far stubborn girl
ni woofer tu meri meri - You're my woofer
mein tera amplifier-fier - I'm your amplifier
(x2)

gaddi meri tenu wi awaaz mardi - My car calls out to you
black leather seetaan uttey aah bendhi - Come and sit on the black-leather seats
tenu weh main ser karawanga ni - I'll take you out on a ride
puri dunya di - of the whole world

kendi garmi we lagdi weh seene ni - She says she's hot around the chest
pijh gai weh kurti paseene di - and that her top is drenched in sweat (Ew?)
challi digrees di tooph pendi - and that its a 40-degree sun
on kar AC - and to turn on the AC

ni gaddi sadi beja ni jattiye... - Sit in my car O Jattiye...
(x2)

jaandi eh club das tere ki erade - Come to the club, what do you say?
DJ nu puch ki lewa main tere gaane - I'll ask the DJ to play your songs
lehja mein lehja tenu jithe we tu chaawain - I'll take you wherever you want
ekh waari aawe moodh banawe - Just get in the mood to come with me
(x2)

ni gaddi sadi beja ni jattiye... - Sit in my car O Jattiye...
(x4)

meh tera amplifier-fier - I'm your amplifier
(fade)
"

The video is making more and more sense isn't it? =P

Here is "the baby Amplifier remix":


ROFL right? I know! =D

I stole this video from Saquieb Khan, who probably stole it from someone else, but I thank S. Zaman for giving me this opportunity to procrastinate. I also thank Salman Rizvi (and let this be noted) for translating most of the song.

Thanks to the reader for staying with me through the post. :)
I am now getting my bum back to work.