Song 96:
Its election season in full swing and the rhetoric has reached a strange cat-and-mouse fight levels. Someone's losing his jigar, someone's losing her mind, someone's losing his temper and someone's losing any rational thinking while the chaotic country is losing any semblance of order.
Some people are losing their memory selectively, others are losing allies. People are hunting through each other's past offices and associates to hunt out some piece of information they could use against them somehow or the other. There's a lot of political wooing going on. Some are making a quick buck doing in-your-face propaganda, making complete asses of themselves, some are losing track of what they said last night on national television and rolling back their statements. Not a day goes by without a new explosive video being leaked (yup of the eyeball-grabbing kind) or a hilarious photo-op gone awry being propelled into Twitterverse with punitive condescension.
In this election jamboree new definitions are being coined, of age-old words such as 'secular' and 'communal'. Meanings are being distorted and twisted to suit one's narratives, Principals of colleges are giving political advisories en-masse to students via email, religious gurus are holding fort in their holier than thou garb, betis and bahus in hibernation have ironed their cotton handloom sarees and pulled out their Kolhapuri chappals and hit the campaign trail.
In all of this, a much needed fun song that might help you unwind and take it easy. Geeta Dutt and Rafi are funny and jovial in this song that sounds almost like light hearted office watercooler banter. Johny Walker was perhaps the first comedian for whom songs were conceptualised and sung by A-list singers such as Rafi. His co-star who is probably someone called Yasmin is rather cute and easy on the eye, albeit a one-song wonder.
The song is from Mr and Mrs 55 in which the lead actor Guru Dutt played a cartoonist. All the cartoons depicted in the movie were actually done by the stalwart of the art in India, R K Laxman whose 'common man' is perhaps the most recognisable cartoon character in India. Well let's hope these elections don't yet again make a cartoon of the common man of India. In a strange twisted manner the song and the mannerisms of the actors are symptomatic of the political scenario today, very little sense but entertaining nevertheless.
Its election season in full swing and the rhetoric has reached a strange cat-and-mouse fight levels. Someone's losing his jigar, someone's losing her mind, someone's losing his temper and someone's losing any rational thinking while the chaotic country is losing any semblance of order.
Some people are losing their memory selectively, others are losing allies. People are hunting through each other's past offices and associates to hunt out some piece of information they could use against them somehow or the other. There's a lot of political wooing going on. Some are making a quick buck doing in-your-face propaganda, making complete asses of themselves, some are losing track of what they said last night on national television and rolling back their statements. Not a day goes by without a new explosive video being leaked (yup of the eyeball-grabbing kind) or a hilarious photo-op gone awry being propelled into Twitterverse with punitive condescension.
In this election jamboree new definitions are being coined, of age-old words such as 'secular' and 'communal'. Meanings are being distorted and twisted to suit one's narratives, Principals of colleges are giving political advisories en-masse to students via email, religious gurus are holding fort in their holier than thou garb, betis and bahus in hibernation have ironed their cotton handloom sarees and pulled out their Kolhapuri chappals and hit the campaign trail.
In all of this, a much needed fun song that might help you unwind and take it easy. Geeta Dutt and Rafi are funny and jovial in this song that sounds almost like light hearted office watercooler banter. Johny Walker was perhaps the first comedian for whom songs were conceptualised and sung by A-list singers such as Rafi. His co-star who is probably someone called Yasmin is rather cute and easy on the eye, albeit a one-song wonder.
The song is from Mr and Mrs 55 in which the lead actor Guru Dutt played a cartoonist. All the cartoons depicted in the movie were actually done by the stalwart of the art in India, R K Laxman whose 'common man' is perhaps the most recognisable cartoon character in India. Well let's hope these elections don't yet again make a cartoon of the common man of India. In a strange twisted manner the song and the mannerisms of the actors are symptomatic of the political scenario today, very little sense but entertaining nevertheless.
Interesting!
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