Mehndi Music Monday
Love this song from "Monsoon Wedding". Great lyrics too:
O women of the house
Decorate me with henna
Make these fair hands beautiful with henna
Madhorama asks "Which one shall we marry?"
Madhorama says "The Fat One!"
The Fat One needs a bed too large to sleep on
Let's drop her on the wayside! Right on!
We want another! Right on!
We are fancy gentlemen
Brimming with lust and desire
Life intoxicates us
Do I lie? No way!
Madhorama asks "Which one shall we marry?"
Madhorama says "The Fair One!"
The Fair One has the color of butter
She sleeps alone on the roof as her lover pines for her below
This is the one we shall have
This is the one we like
We will marry her
O women of the house
Decorate me with henna
Make these fair hands beautiful with henna
Madhorama asks "Which one shall we marry?"
Madhorama says "The Fat One!"
The Fat One needs a bed too large to sleep on
Let's drop her on the wayside! Right on!
We want another! Right on!
We are fancy gentlemen
Brimming with lust and desire
Life intoxicates us
Do I lie? No way!
Madhorama asks "Which one shall we marry?"
Madhorama says "The Fair One!"
The Fair One has the color of butter
She sleeps alone on the roof as her lover pines for her below
This is the one we shall have
This is the one we like
We will marry her
posted by e-kvetcher at 6:11 AM
5 Comments:
Was it a search for Bally Sagoo?
Nope. Don't recall why I found this - though I did love "Monsoon Wedding"
A very enjoyable movie. One of the songs is a recording of Mohammed Rafi..... a famous and dulcet-voiced performer, whose singing is featured in hundreds of Indian movies. When the hero onscreen 'sings', it is usually Mohammed Rafi.
This song is a good intro:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ud2rsMT5ng&feature=related
Two other greats of Hindi songs:
Lata Mankeshar:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkLef5RDqdM&feature=PlayList&p=84AD0CE9E33775FF&index=0&playnext=1
And Asha Bosle:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKbXQO9v4qw
Between the three of them they must have recorded several thousand songs - no exageration.
Another great music tradition from the subcontinent is modern bhangra.
The Safri Boyz doing Bhangra Taan Painda:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEV4oymwsPs
And the Safri Boyz doing Rahe rahe jaan valiye:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAHTSHBJuFg&feature=related
This clip is very political:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKLkZsjhHS4
Fateh ji ka khalsa - victory is to the (brotherhood of the) pure.
Oooh, and this one is vibrant:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxM0pivWKPU
Turn it up real loud.
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