8Bollywood songs to DIE for!
The New Year is an excellent time to look forward, start over and aspire to newer things. However, I ' ve always felt that one can never have enough to remembering the good things. So, a great way to start the year would be to harken back to eight incredible pieces of music Bollywood has produced. There ' s plenty more where this came from, but consider this a nudge in the right direction:
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Lata Mangeshkar is doing the singing, but we also get Asha Bhosle laying forth the enchanting streams of Shokh Nazar Ki. The songs, as always, work better in the context of the film itself, but they hold their own with aplomb when they pop up on your mp3 player. Highest recommendations!
5Mughal-e-Azam: The most inevitable name on this list, classic Bollywood means very little without mention of the sounds that accompanied this spectacular historical epic. Naushadji lends to this soundtrack every possible shade of human emotion that could emerge in a battle of wits, loves, hostilities and deceits. This exposition of human drama in its massive exuberance flowers in the presence of pieces like " Prem Jogan Ban Ke ", " Ae Mohabbat Zindabad ", " Teri Mehfil Mein Kismat Azma kar " and obviously, " Pyar Kiya Toh Darna Kya ".
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3Anarkali: Aa Jaan-E-Wafa, Aaja Ab To Aaja, Dua Kar Gham-E-Dil, Yeh Zindagi Usiki Hai... I could go on. But I think you should just dive into Youtube. There isn ' t much that I can say that would match the inexplicably delicate soundcrafting by Shailendra except that its quality allows no intention of being removed from this country ' s musical memory.
6Shree 420: Raj Kapoor ' s films had a penchant for carrying the story along with music that tended to become iconic. This being the film that gave us " Pyaar Hua Iqraar Hua " and " Mera Joota Hain Japani ", it surprises no one to know that the music made it big in the Soviet Union. The intricate entwining of quirk and melodrama made the soundscape absolutely perfect for Raj Kapoor ' s " little tramp " persona, to the extent that Chaplin( who inspired it) would probably have been proud.
8Mera Naam Joker: A movie about a man subjected to a broken heart while he must continue to create laughter for others might not have worked when it released, but Mera Naam Joker is now considered a act of cinematic grace for many reasons. One of those is the music. You ' ll feel your soul ache with " Ae Bhai Zara Dekh Ke Chalo " " Sadke Heer Tukh Pe ", " Daagh Na Laag Jaye " and " Jeena Yahan Marna Yahan ". The idea of laughter emerging from pain and loss( something the late Robin Williams often testified to) was given artistic shape not simply the Raj Kapoor ' s flawless direction, but by realising a series of songs that remains, unsurpassably evocative of what it feels like to be the man behind the makeup. Naushadji.
1Bees Saal Baad: Lata Mangeshkar ' s voice spinning magic in " Kahe Deep Jale Kahin " is reason enough to love this film ' s music, but throw in the ambient pieces that accompany this black and white( loose) redoing of The Hound of the Baskervilles, and you have plenty to do on a Sunday( or any day). Hemant Kumar left plenty to remember him by when he composed ' Beqarar Karke ',‘ Zara Nazron Ke’ and‘ Sapne Suhane’. Hence, put it on your playlist, and play it on loop.
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It is impossible to forget the immortal strains of longing etched in the heart in " Inhi Logon Ne ". " Chalte Chalte " and " Thade Rahiyo " are piece that capture, with astonishing rapture, the resigned agonies of an eternally unfortunate woman. Meena Kumari ' s stunning visualisation as a woman subjected to repeated devastation would probably not have reached a similarly frenzied pitch if not for the notes and chords arranged by Ghulam Mohammed and Naushadji.
7Aandhi: R. D. Burman fills in phonetic colour to lyrics by Gulzar, and the result is " Is Mod Se Jate Hain ", " Tere Bina Zindagi Se " and " Salam Kijiye ". The music is integral to the various issues that film examine( the price of an ambitious woman ' s emotional happiness, the opportunism of political candidates), and are just as gripping as standalone track as when they are filling into a greater narrative.
There is far more where this came from, and it does us well to return to the archives of Bollywood ' s golden years, for in this age of autotune and awkward, unrelated rapping in the middle of practically every song, it reminds us that we have always have the shelter of glory if we are willing to travel back in time.