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 :(