Desi OSTs I love
Before I ever watched a #KDrama, #JDrama, #CDrama or #TWDrama, I'd watched around 400 films from India, more than 95% Hindi.
The "1 a day" thread on OSTs from East Asia showed me how much even a limited grasp of lyrics can affect the way songs stick, so I'm starting a very personal daily thread celebrating songs from the land of my fathers and of 10% of my DNA – a nice desimal fraction 😂
#Hindi #Urdu #Punjabi #India #Bollywood
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#DesiOSTs I love
Another song from #Lagaan that my wife and I both enjoy, especially when the weather fits, as it often does here – clouds promising rain and delivering nothing #Bollyywood #Hindi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmCn31pq8i0
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Continuing with songs connected to my wife, this one is her FAVOURITE 'Hindi' song, one she loves cranking up the volume for, this has a famous line that I love "jiski zubaan Urdu ki tarah" – "whose speech ('tongue') is like Urdu" – a language I knew of before I went school because my single parent Dad had learned it when he was at school, and taught me to count to ten in it.
#Bollywood #Urdu #Hindi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-pX4qwtAxA
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The first three songs in this thread were written by A.R. Rahman. A towering figure in Indian cinema songwriting for decades, this is the first of two entries in his mother tongue, #Tamil Anyone who guesses unaided which #JaneAusten novel inspired the film this song is from should be burned as a witch😂 #TamilCinema
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gep0IzKTcFI
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Probably my favourite ARR #Tamil song, I've played this more often than I can count, despite not understanding a word.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1A23EcPCEkc
"Her mesmerizing eyes will leave you swooning. Lose yourself in the song ‘Kajra Re’ from the film 'Bunty Aur Babli' and enjoy the rhythmic beats."#YRFnewrele...
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My Dad grew up in Punjab ("5 rivers"),tried to teach me them as a kid & could name them all 70 years later. ALL my bosses are Punjabi, and when we moved into our current home 6 years ago 70% of the block was Punjabi (~50% now).
Which makes this very Punjabi song both apt and ironic. Apt because Sadi Gali "our street" IS Punjabi, ironic because I have almost no Punjabi #Bollywood #HindiCinema #Punjabi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_HaezV0DqI
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There is only one song that I could possibly end with.
My favourite song from my favourite film,, from anywhere and anywhen.
The only film I own a copy of the dialogues of – a beautiful physical book with the dialogue in two(3?) languages and four scripts.
A line from this song is in my profile, & the last verse sums up my view of the world perfectly, which is why its opening lines are on a t-shirt I had printed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAbu7h5LCN8
#Pyaasa #HindiiCinema
Ronsboy67