Some songs stand the ‘Test of Time’, yet others fade into
obscurity. I am making this statement with specific reference to Telugu and
Hindi movie songs and I can guess same is the case with songs in all the
languages of the world.
Elsewhere in the world everlasting songs may be forth coming
copiously every year. But this is not the case with Telugu and Hindi movie
songs, most modern day songs are not good. Without naming great lyricists,
singers and music directors of bygone days; I can declare that songs of
yesteryears, majority of them are very popular even today, very melodious and
with great music and meaning.
Most modern songs, virtually all of them may have good singers but
the lyrics are difficult to understand in one hearing, they are mostly
meaningless and sometimes vulgar and always noisy with the cacophony of too
many loud and unnecessary instruments and the accompanying dances are unethical with vulgar gyrations.
There are hundreds of old evergreen songs in Telugu and Hindi but
here is one video song from the Hindi movie “Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi” of 1958,
which my children, Srikanth and Srinath loved to see often and repeatedly as
young children years ago, and then it was popular with my grandnephew, Vihaan
and today it is with my one and a half year old grandson, Atharv. My children
were never tired of listening to this song and today my grandson keeps coming
to me few times every day when I am at my desktop asking me to play this song
by uttering the words - Pom, pom, pom! And I have to obey him until he changes
his mind for something better to do in the house. It is now so popular with him
that he demands this song from his grandmother at the time of feeding him meals
and she has to play it for him on her mobile phone.
The title of the song is ‘Babu Samjho Ishare’, and as I mentioned
earlier it is from the movie ‘Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi’ of 1958. The singers are
Ashok Kumar (a great actor), Kishore Kumar (actor and a great singer) and Manna
Dey (another great singer). The Lyricist is Majrooh Sultanpuri and the Music Director
is Sachin Dev Burman and the Movie Director is Satyen Bose. And the actors in
this song are Ashok Kumar, Kishore Kumar and Anoop Kumar, all brothers!
Thanks to all these departed souls who continue to amuse our
children!
You may now see and enjoy this video:
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