So we're back to TGE (that great era when India were on the cusp of liberalization) and there's no better video to illustrate the contradictions of the period that this.
Remember Asif Sheikh? Or Ruchika Pandey? Well, even I forgot these guys but I still remember the Filmfares of those days featuring them. (of course, the Filmfares I used to read in the local barber shop, that seemed to never have India Today but always have Filmfare, Women's Era and Debonair. No wonder it was always crowded).
Now to this legendary video. You'll recognize the song - not necessarily because you remember the movie (Yaara Dildara) but because a guy called DJ Suketu created a remix a few years ago. It made the MTV charts and everyone was humming the tune again.
But what of the original? It's a peppy tune, something that the young generation would have hummed easily. And, considering that the Youtube video has 226 comments to it, I think it's fair to say it was a raging hit back then.
But look at that video. Look at the primitive camera work. Look at the amateur lighting. Look at the clothes that Asif and Ruchika are wearing. Look at their expressions, the setting, the flowers. Simply look at Ruchika standing in one place and gyrating as she taps her waist.
Most importantly, look at those cows in the background. I mean ... cows! They didn't move a few feet away and shoot without cows. They insisted that they stand right in front of the bovines, make sure that eight or ten of them appear on every single moment of the video. They needed that rustic quality to this video. As two cows danced int he foreground, they needed more in the background. What creativity!
Imagine 15 years from now. I'm telling my children about the good ol' days, when I was their age. And these are the kind of gems that will pop out. I mean, I used to laugh at my dad in his bellbottoms. Everytime I see this video, I wonder if he was better off. I mean ... Cows!
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Never seen this video before - one mithun chakravaarty was bad enough. This look alike seems an added insult on people's sensibilities.
Did you notice the scant resepct for the flora and fauna? Tearing a bouquet and scattering flowers, trampling all over a meadow disturbing the cows ( in the beginning of stanza 2 the cows are actually scared by these two coming running) and disturbing the birds.
Terrible terrible - Ya sorry Siddhu. There is no way you are going to be able to go back and erase this just like we can do nothing about those bell bottoms and sideburns.
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