Songs Of Justice Chowdhary Movies Free Download
Joao Charlesbois
1) Jangal Mein Mor Nacha (1958, Madhumati): This Bimalda blockbuster was among the first Hindi movies I remember watching. All the songs are wonderful. In particular, I like Zulmi Sang Aankh Ladi (sung beautifully by Lata and picturised on a very beautiful Vyjayanthimala) and this Rafi number picturised on a drunk and Johnny Walker very much (oh listen to the beats and the hiccups!). But since I am a bit more partial to Rafi, this is the song on my list!
The song I picked for this list is the sad Lata solo, Jaa Re Udja Re Panchchi. This was probably the first song that I had heard from this movie, one which made me buy the cassette! It still remains a song I am very fond of..
Sometimes, on the way back from school, we would get gola ganda or strawberry milkshake. When we went to Dolmen Mall Tariq Road or Paradise, she made sure to buy a new cassette or CD for the car. She liked knowing what the latest item songs were.
My mother loved cheap gaanay, but she also knew there was a time and place for everything. Once we got home and parked the car, a thousand and one chores awaited her. Cleaning, ironing, cooking, washing the dishes, supervising homework, budgeting, dealing with irate men, she managed it all with an expression so removed from the woman who came to pick us up from school. She was a strict parent and many things were not allowed; fashionable clothes, close friendships with boys, staying out late in the evenings. But, in the car she was someone else entirely. In the car she sang about jawaani while dodging traffic, speeding in celebration whenever a favourite song came on.
What is a cheap gaana? A cheap gaana is the song all male relatives shake their heads at whenever someone is surfing channels during a daawat. Of course, we can have many conversations about the sexual politics of cheap gaanay and umm and errr over whether they are truly liberatory or not, but a cheap gaana is still a kaanta in the side of patriarchy. Kaanta lagaa / haye lagaa / ha! Cheap gaanay inspire you to shout your love from the rooftops, stick a picture of the one you desire to your seena with Fevicol, while also reminding you not to take yourself too seriously. In Dabangg 2, Salman Khan claims Kareena has enslaved the entire nation of India with her beauty, saare India ko tune ghulam kiya re. She instead chooses to compare herself to tandoori chicken, mein toh tandoori haye/ mein toh tandoori murghi hoon yaar, gatkale saiyaan alcohol se (oh yeahh!)
As we can see, the idea that cheap gaanay corrupt society is one that is unlimited in scope, everyone from disapproving uncles to know-it-all professors to self-professed film critics has offered some shade of this opinion. Now recovering from my own shame, I am convinced that we critique cheap gaanay in ways that do not do justice to the genre. If Bollywood is sexist, repetitive and profiteering (a) then, by enjoying cheap gaanay, audiences are contributing to sexism, unoriginality and exploitation (b) is a class participation remark I have heard too many times to count. When I think of cheap gaanay, I think about my mother in her car, my khalas dancing at my wedding, my friends laughing when a song we love comes on, girls at the parlour humming under their breath, students singing O Saki Saki in school vans, cinemas filled with women, babies on their laps, all of us transfixed by the possibilities of seeing and being seen. How to explain to stuffy types that without cheap gaanay, there can be no revolution?
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