Saturday, July 15, 2006

Bambai nagariya

 

Bambai nagariya

One of the first songs to start playing on the radio after a news update on the bomb blasts on Tuesday was Bambai Nagariya from Taxi No 9211, evoking tired laughter from a motley group travelling by car.
The irony behind Vishal Dadlani's lyrics (below) for the John Abraham-Nana Patekar film was evident:

Living in the city, drive me crazy
Living in the city, never easy
Living in the city, take me up and bring me down and down and down
Laakh laakh roz aake bas jaate hain
Is shaher se dil lagake phas jaate hain
Living in the city, drive me crazy
Living in the city, hey hey
Laakh laakh roz aake bas jaate hain
Is shaher se dil lagake phas jaate hain
Nana: Saala idhar toh footpath bhi houseful hai
John: Yeh Bombay hai, yahaan time ka matlab hai paisa samjhe. Mujhe tees minute ki journey teen minute mein puri karni hai
Nana: Saala khud marna hai toh mar na doosre ki kayko vaat lagata hai...

 
 
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2 comments:

  1. Lidia7/18/2006 2:00 PM

    That's kind of like the 2002 Bali bombings at a nightclub...the song that was playing before the blasts was "murder on the dance floor", ironic huh? Very sad.

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  2. Dawn7/26/2006 11:13 AM

    Heyyyyyyy I remember when you wrote about the movie Taxi 9211...I mentioned this song..:D
    Bappi Da is in his accent...bijudiya ;)
    cool one
    Cheers

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