Offensive lyrics and melodies are an auditory assault. The songs of today can make you cringe rather than croon
One day, singer Nitin Mukesh whose father was the legendary singer
Mukesh, woke up to hear one of his old songs So gaya yeh jahan so gaya
aasman from the 1980s' blockbuster Tezaab playing with a different
beat. Nitin has given up singing for films and was therefore surprised
to hear his song in a spruced-up avatar.
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`Beta?` he inquired of his son, actor Neil Nitin Mukesh. `That's my song
and my voice. But the beat sounds different.` It was then that he
learnt that So gaya yeh jahan has been used as part of a new film
Nautanki
Saala. `I do not mind because they have kept my voice. Nowadays they
change everything including the voice and lyrics,` recounts Nitin
Mukesh.
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Offended
Three years ago, the Nautanki Saala director Rohan Sippy had desecrated
the Asha Bhosle-R D Burman classic Dum maaro dum by changing the voice,
beats and even the lyrics which contained gems like, `Aaj mere
liye chair kheech raha hai kal meri skirt kheechenga...Unche se uncha
banda potty pe baitha nanga.`
So affronted was the usually mild-mannered and forever-forgiving late Dev Anand that he lost his
habitual cool and threatened to sue for this su-su-potty version of his classic number.
No one had bothered to ask Asha Bhosle, who sang the original Dum maaro
dum or Dev Anand from whose film, Hare Rama Hare Krishna the song was
taken, what they felt about the new-rage version of their anthem
song from the 1970s.
Anand Bakshi who wrote the original Dum
maaro dum and R D Burman who composed the tune must have been happy to
be no more. Which musical legend would wish to be alive in
this day and age when lyrics like Bhaag D K Bose and Bum pe laat are
being flaunted in our films?
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Misfit
Legend Lata Mangeshkar sorrowfully admits she is now a misfit in the
singing world. `Kissko dosh doon main? (Whom do I blame?) There's too
much western influence in the popular culture of our country.
I suppose when kids get tired of aping the West, they will return to
their cultural roots. Nowadays, they sing and dance to the bhangra
wearing anything from skirts to shorts.
What is being made these
days isn't really music. Theek hai, chal rahaa hai. Kuch gaane aate
hain, chale jaate hain. Actually, we do not even have that many music
directors. Earlier there used to be a queue of them.
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