Song: 46
Sometimes when it really got warm, club crooner liked to wear the bare minimum. She was so good au naturale that her attire was just a formality. Like a bronze statue chiselled out of precision and passion by Pygmalion himself, she stood tall and proud. Yet when people couldn't help staring, she could ask innocently, " What you looking at?" much to the hero's chagrin. Gulp, he went...."Errm at your face, I swear!"
Zeenat was afterall the perfect 10 when it came to gorgeous women who graced Indi screen. Even as women, many of us have ogled at her. I remember how when Satyam Shivam Sundaram had got released, we were still kids and our parents had left us home when they went for it. Many years later, in college a bunch of my female friends and I had gone to a seedy hall in Patel Nagar in Delhi and watched the movie with a bunch of rikshawalahs and such like, whistling and staring. She was just too good to behold in that. The story though farfetched, justified her attire through a deep and heavy spiritual and social message which is not entirely untrue.
But it was Feroz Khan who to quite an extent succeeded in portraying women who did not have to be sati savitri or dress like one to be considered virtuous. His heroines were a fine blend of the sexy and sweet, bold yet bashful. The lines between the hot and happening vamp who was only the toast of the smokey casinos and the heroine one could take home to mom, blurred because of directors like Feroz. Here were women who revelled in their sensuality, looked like a million bucks but had not lost their ability to love and be loved in the purest sense of the word. Also how these songs never seem jarring is because the lyrics always maitained some decorum. So whoever justifies cheap songs today by saying that 'situation hii aisee dete hain', need to know that the power of words can not be understimated.
And why this song is remarkable too is that it is one of Rafi's last songs, that he sang at the fag end of his career at age 56/57, the other one being the beautiful 'Maine Poochha Chaand Se' from Abdullah. He soon died after this, leaving a rich legacy of songs that brought so many moments of cinematic brilliance.
Sometimes when it really got warm, club crooner liked to wear the bare minimum. She was so good au naturale that her attire was just a formality. Like a bronze statue chiselled out of precision and passion by Pygmalion himself, she stood tall and proud. Yet when people couldn't help staring, she could ask innocently, " What you looking at?" much to the hero's chagrin. Gulp, he went...."Errm at your face, I swear!"
Zeenat was afterall the perfect 10 when it came to gorgeous women who graced Indi screen. Even as women, many of us have ogled at her. I remember how when Satyam Shivam Sundaram had got released, we were still kids and our parents had left us home when they went for it. Many years later, in college a bunch of my female friends and I had gone to a seedy hall in Patel Nagar in Delhi and watched the movie with a bunch of rikshawalahs and such like, whistling and staring. She was just too good to behold in that. The story though farfetched, justified her attire through a deep and heavy spiritual and social message which is not entirely untrue.
But it was Feroz Khan who to quite an extent succeeded in portraying women who did not have to be sati savitri or dress like one to be considered virtuous. His heroines were a fine blend of the sexy and sweet, bold yet bashful. The lines between the hot and happening vamp who was only the toast of the smokey casinos and the heroine one could take home to mom, blurred because of directors like Feroz. Here were women who revelled in their sensuality, looked like a million bucks but had not lost their ability to love and be loved in the purest sense of the word. Also how these songs never seem jarring is because the lyrics always maitained some decorum. So whoever justifies cheap songs today by saying that 'situation hii aisee dete hain', need to know that the power of words can not be understimated.
And why this song is remarkable too is that it is one of Rafi's last songs, that he sang at the fag end of his career at age 56/57, the other one being the beautiful 'Maine Poochha Chaand Se' from Abdullah. He soon died after this, leaving a rich legacy of songs that brought so many moments of cinematic brilliance.
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