Once again after a long break, I am back with another song to talk about. This time the song doesn’t belong to any Bollywood movie but is a Ghazal sung by the ‘king of ghazals’ Jagjit Singh ji. ‘Ghazal’ in themselves are a different genre of poetry altogether. Hard to translate the idea of aContinue reading “English Translation: Tumne dil ki baat keh di…”
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Is this love…
After a long gap, I am back with another song which is a permanent member of my playlist. This song comes from a not very well known movie released in 2002, ‘Kya yehi pyar hai‘ starring Aftab Shivdasani, Amisha Patel, Jackie Shroff and others. If you look at its IMDb ratings (don’t even bother), youContinue reading “Is this love…”
Down the memory lane…
This second week is dedicated to another very old song from the movie ‘Hamraahi‘ released in 1963. I have to say that the movie has a lot of beautiful songs and almost all of them are quite popular and must have been so at that time as well. The songs of this movie have aContinue reading “Down the memory lane…”
Love: Then and now…
Since I made a promise to translate one song per week, here I am with the first song for the year. I have to say, there’s hardly just one webpage with the lyrics of this song in Hindi and that too wrong in many places. Now I have to say the movie is not veryContinue reading “Love: Then and now…”
52 weeks, 52 songs
‘Premi, pagal, deewana; ashiq, majnoo, awara…’ The first words, I have been told, that ever came out of my mouth were the lyrics to this song from the Bollywood movie ‘Phool aur Kaante‘ (Flowers and thorns) which was released in 1991 starring Ajay Devgan and Madhoo. Ajay Devgan’s debut was released the same year thatContinue reading “52 weeks, 52 songs”
The Heritage Chutney 