Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Dostana

In honour of the new release of Mard: Dostana ka Zindagi, here are my top five Dosti songs from Bollywood. The following tracks in my opinion are timeless, heartfelt and surmise what being a dost really means - enjoy.

5 - Dostana - Salamat Rahe Dostana Humara (Part I) (1980)
Sung by Mohd Rafi and Kishore Kumar, picturised by Amitabh and Shotgun. Two of the greatest singers on the earth singing a song like this was and still heavenly to listen to. Ironically at the time Amitabh and Shotguns real life friendship was on its last legs, even though they were great together on screen. The recent Dostana film is a pure and utter mockery of this classic so please watch this film over the gay one....please!



4 - Dharam Veer - Saat Ajoobe Is Duniya Mein (1977)
"There are seven wonders in the world, our friendship is the eighth, how hard one might try, they can never break this bond - the bond between Dharam Veer....ohhooo ohhhhohhooo"
WOW - what friendship! Now these are real men riding on their horses, grabbing some poor kid in the first 20 seconds, and each of our dosts (Dharmendra and Jeetendra) holding him by his hands over the river...nearly making him at least a foot taller! You know seeing guys like this nowadays, hugging, and desperately reaching out to hold each others hands, would make you scream out...ewww...PUFF...but no, when you see these guys, you feel like doing the same with your mates and that includes making a fried egg in the middle of the woods (1.30) and then after beating some croonies up, start holding each others hands and jumping in sequence (2.05). However dostana aside....im sure the ladies absolutely loved Dharmendra's leather gladiator outfit....next fancy dress party i'm off too...i've decided - Dharm Veer it is!



3 - Suhaag - Ay Yaar Sun (1979)
Right.....I think i'm going to get me a friend, a bike and funky scarf, then i'll be able to push a car away single handedly (1.57), and then i'm going to pull of some serious dance moves (3.58) in between beating up some goons! Old certainly is gold yaar! Suhaag like Dharm Veer was also directed by Manmohan Desai, easily one of the most entertaining directors of that era and really the guy who invented family masala films - Amar Akbar Anthony, Naseeb etc. He was also known always to have the Ma as the central foundation to his stories and even though this and the previous song were about dosti, the Ma is always present, and along with Mohd Rafi's voice, it never fails to make this mard's eyes water when referenced to.



2 - Khudgarz - Zindagi Ka Naam Dosti (1987)
Fast forward to 1987 to Rakesh Roshan's directorial debut film Khudgarz. Man this film was brilliant, and yet so sad in places, had me in tears. Loving the dancing at 1.47, I wonder what will happen if I duplicate that at the christmas do......



1 - Sholay - Yeh Dosti (1975)
No dostana song list can be without this track. Known by everyone, sung by everyone, loved by everyone.
This friendship....nothing can break it.....not even flipping a coin to choose who gets the girl!!!! Dostana...im afraid its here to stay!!!










1 comment:

  1. Oi, mate, chup khor and stop copying my blog.
    31st October 2009 I had the Sholay Yeh Dosti You Tube clip on my blog.
    So watch it.....tui eck taba dimu.
    curryhouseblues rules

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