I was flipping through on the IdiotBox a couple of hours ago and I chanced upon Mohra playing on one many Hindi movie channels.
For those of you who remember, this movie hit the screens in '94 and became some kind of a hit. There was Akki and there was Raveena( who by the way, I still think, is very very cute). This is one of my memories of Paresh Rawal's comic roles. I don't remember much about the story except that there was Akki playing cop, Raveena as the chick, Paresh as the side-kick comic relief and Sunil(back then he was still Sunil and not Suniel) Shetty trying very hard to hide when the spotlight shone upon him.
But, what I do clearly remember was the smash hit Tu cheez badi hai mast mast. This song became a rage overnight. Suddenly it was very very hip to tie a black cloth around your head and wear tacky dark sun-glasses. I have vague recollections of doing that with every piece of cloth I could find from towels to doormats. It was the next coolest thing to Batman/Superman cape for a 8-year-something boy. I think there was this girl in my class in Mumbai who wore a rip-off of the white dress that Raveena wears in that song on her birthday. Some of us guys thought it was cute - in a very kiddish way.
The song didn't really make any sense then, nor does it now. It is a song that Akki and Raveena sing to get into the baddie's night club to catch the baddie in the process of cutting a 'deal'. It is hopelessly glitzy in a cheap way, like most songs of that era. Countless dancers in lurid costumes shimmying around. Every second step is a pelvic thrust of some form and every third step is Raveena thrusting her assets in and out. Very sexy, but the dress, now that I think about it, was among the worst. Ever.
There was something so catchy about that song that we used to sing it in the bus on the way to school and back again. Another one of those kind of songs was Stop that starring Govinda. Sexy sexy was a number that everyone wanted to sing, but a lot of kids were told that it was bad word. We used to furtively sit in the last seat and huddle closely and sing that one, just to rebel.
On a tangent, Dhak Dhak karne laga from Beta is one of the sexiest Bollywood songs ever. It was so classy and yet so...hot! Madhuri is still hot, though she has an almost fake American accent after so long a stint in Denver.
And with that sweet note...Good night!
P.S: Here is the video. Bad quality, but still it's got sing-a-long-lyrics in Hindi. Check out the hips in the opening. ROTFL.
For those of you who remember, this movie hit the screens in '94 and became some kind of a hit. There was Akki and there was Raveena( who by the way, I still think, is very very cute). This is one of my memories of Paresh Rawal's comic roles. I don't remember much about the story except that there was Akki playing cop, Raveena as the chick, Paresh as the side-kick comic relief and Sunil(back then he was still Sunil and not Suniel) Shetty trying very hard to hide when the spotlight shone upon him.
But, what I do clearly remember was the smash hit Tu cheez badi hai mast mast. This song became a rage overnight. Suddenly it was very very hip to tie a black cloth around your head and wear tacky dark sun-glasses. I have vague recollections of doing that with every piece of cloth I could find from towels to doormats. It was the next coolest thing to Batman/Superman cape for a 8-year-something boy. I think there was this girl in my class in Mumbai who wore a rip-off of the white dress that Raveena wears in that song on her birthday. Some of us guys thought it was cute - in a very kiddish way.
The song didn't really make any sense then, nor does it now. It is a song that Akki and Raveena sing to get into the baddie's night club to catch the baddie in the process of cutting a 'deal'. It is hopelessly glitzy in a cheap way, like most songs of that era. Countless dancers in lurid costumes shimmying around. Every second step is a pelvic thrust of some form and every third step is Raveena thrusting her assets in and out. Very sexy, but the dress, now that I think about it, was among the worst. Ever.
There was something so catchy about that song that we used to sing it in the bus on the way to school and back again. Another one of those kind of songs was Stop that starring Govinda. Sexy sexy was a number that everyone wanted to sing, but a lot of kids were told that it was bad word. We used to furtively sit in the last seat and huddle closely and sing that one, just to rebel.
On a tangent, Dhak Dhak karne laga from Beta is one of the sexiest Bollywood songs ever. It was so classy and yet so...hot! Madhuri is still hot, though she has an almost fake American accent after so long a stint in Denver.
And with that sweet note...Good night!
P.S: Here is the video. Bad quality, but still it's got sing-a-long-lyrics in Hindi. Check out the hips in the opening. ROTFL.
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8 comments:
you forgot "yean kaali kali ankhen" and "hum dono hain alag alag" .. those were very popular too back then. i was in a small town, so i never got to see the black dress fad :(
yo baybee.. even me sawing it last naight........
@shankar: yep. those two were awesome. I still listen to hum dono hain alag alag. Simply for "ladki dekhi monh se seeti baje haath se thaali" and "aila ayga..."
@kutti paapa: kkkkkkkkkame it off this weekend!
Why don't you cover these songs in a series of posts? That is, have a review of the smash hits of the '90s era in a series of blog posts. It will be interesting and perhaps your readers can contribute something? What say?
@andy: excellent. will get on to doing it as and when i find the time and the frame of mind to do it. SUNY kaisa hai?
Abbe most of the time you don't realise you're in phoren land. The place is saturated with Chini junta (Indians come in second place).
Basically lagta hai ki North East mein ghoom rahe hain!
It's the same drill...classes, assignments, quizzes etc, not much change I'd say.
tu saala vahaan pe at least raath ko so raha hoga aur din mein jaga hoga. chaar saal to US time ki practice kar rahe they.
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