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Though nowadays somewhat stereotyped as being massive group dance numbers in traditional dress, Bollywood musical sequences have tended to follow the fashions of Hollywood. Though from 1957, this Marx Brothers influenced Ina Mina Dika shows a 30s/40s aesthetic. The James Bond influenced Baithe Hain Kya Uska Paas is the spirit of the jet age. Disco is taken on with Jab Chhaye.
When Hollywood films stopped having musical numbers, music videos became the main influence. Take a little Michael Jackson and a little Madonna and see what Bollywood does with it.
When Hollywood films stopped having musical numbers, music videos became the main influence. Take a little Michael Jackson and a little Madonna and see what Bollywood does with it.
One of the things I love about Farah Khan direction/choreography is her penchant for going unashamedly retro. For example Dhoom Taana where she reverse forrest gumps (that's a verb, right?) film stars from older movies into the performance.
posted by yeolcoatl at 8:53 PM on April 13, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by yeolcoatl at 8:53 PM on April 13, 2015 [2 favorites]
Strictly, isn't Bollywood only the Hindi films? (Bombay + Hollywood = Bollywood.) Tollywood are the Tamil, I believe.
posted by Peregrine Pickle at 9:08 PM on April 13, 2015
posted by Peregrine Pickle at 9:08 PM on April 13, 2015
And then there is Robot it kind of defies description. Robocop with dance numbers?
posted by boilermonster at 10:59 PM on April 13, 2015
posted by boilermonster at 10:59 PM on April 13, 2015
So Jhumma Chumma de de was actually inspired by a Guinean singer Mory Kante's hit Tama tama lodde. The same song inspired another contemporaneous Bollywood song, Tamma Tamma Loge. Personally, hate both Bollywood versions, but I suppose Jhumma Chumma de de is now considered a classic.
The music director duo for the song, Lakshmikant - Pyarelal (they're always mentioned as a hypenated duo: one of them Bollywood customs), appear to be big fans of Mory Kante; not only were they inspired by Kante's Inch Allah for the pallavi (thematic refrain) for another song in the same movie, they also used his song in the background for another movie, Agneepath.
That said, the movie Hum perhaps was one of the last to portray Bombay's port-workers woes; Bollywood swiftly moved into concentrating on the upper-middle class' peccadilloes shortly after that with crowd-favourites, Hum Aap Ke Hai Koun, or Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge, the latter of which Obama famously quoted when he was in India earlier this year.
So Nakka Mukka is Tamil. There's an English "version" that I may have linked to here before.
"Lose your top" in the link above is a fairly literal meaning of the song's line, Topu leechipoddi, but a freer translation ('svetchaanuvaadam') could be "It'll be a blast". Presumably, the lyricist was aiming for a double entendre.
posted by the cydonian at 11:32 PM on April 13, 2015 [1 favorite]
The music director duo for the song, Lakshmikant - Pyarelal (they're always mentioned as a hypenated duo: one of them Bollywood customs), appear to be big fans of Mory Kante; not only were they inspired by Kante's Inch Allah for the pallavi (thematic refrain) for another song in the same movie, they also used his song in the background for another movie, Agneepath.
That said, the movie Hum perhaps was one of the last to portray Bombay's port-workers woes; Bollywood swiftly moved into concentrating on the upper-middle class' peccadilloes shortly after that with crowd-favourites, Hum Aap Ke Hai Koun, or Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge, the latter of which Obama famously quoted when he was in India earlier this year.
So Nakka Mukka is Tamil. There's an English "version" that I may have linked to here before.
"Lose your top" in the link above is a fairly literal meaning of the song's line, Topu leechipoddi, but a freer translation ('svetchaanuvaadam') could be "It'll be a blast". Presumably, the lyricist was aiming for a double entendre.
posted by the cydonian at 11:32 PM on April 13, 2015 [1 favorite]
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I hope someone will add Tamil songs in this thread!
posted by freshkippers at 8:48 PM on April 13, 2015 [1 favorite]