Comments on A walk in the clouds..: Jewel Thief

[aNTi] I have been trying to play some nice RD mel...

2005-07-27T00:33:00.000-04:00

[aNTi] I have been trying to play some nice RD melodies to rinse the Hassan Jehangir crap out of my ears. And the 'God, we were stupid' line nicely sums up the theme of my next post :)

[Megha] But Hassan Jahangir was quite the rage at ...

2005-07-26T23:03:00.000-04:00

[Megha] But Hassan Jahangir was quite the rage at one point of time - with baggy pants and dark glasses to boot! And I remember my friends dancing for a Hassan Jahangir compilation mix for a school function! God, we were stupid!

[Sriram] You always sneak in a comment when I am w...

2005-07-26T16:50:00.000-04:00

[Sriram] You always sneak in a comment when I am writing a response! Uncanny, I tell ya!

Part Two of JT will be coming soon. But I had something else in mind to write about, which I hopefully will in a day or so :) In the meantime, how about trying for an extra for POTC: Dead Man's Chest? ;)

[Zaph] Personally, I think it is Pandit Maharaj wh...

2005-07-26T16:38:00.000-04:00

[Zaph] Personally, I think it is Pandit Maharaj who has the best tag line. All your problems solved in seven days, guaranteed. Black magic eliminated in 72 hours itself! What a fascinating thought. Tsk tsk.

[Leon] Nah, nothing to be embarrassed about. While it is a sacrilege for someone like me to have not watched Sholay, I think everyone has a list of 'famous must-see movies that I have not seen and dare not admit in public for fear of being lynched'. I definitely have mine :) Also, as you will notice, the discussion in the commentspace is rarely about the topic of the original blog. So even though you have nothing to say about Jewel Thief, chances are you'll find something to say about Marie and Parle-G biscuits, so there is hope yet :) Glad you decided to comment, either way! :)

[RT] Thank you! Always try to look for the positive, even when it tries to hide behind the voice of Mohammed Aziz, I say! ;) Nice to have you drop by, and glad you liked it here. Hope to see you around again :)

[aNTi] Soon is .. um .. soon :) Got a little buried in work the past few days. Hopefully in another day or two. But probably not JT - part 2. I have something else in mind ;)

And thanks to all that Hassan Jehangir talk, I went and downloaded and listened to some of his old numbers. Big mistake. BIG big mistake :|

[Anurag] I indulge in my silliness and let the reader indulge in theirs? No other reason that I can think of really.

Honton pe aisi baat and other songs of this movie shall soon be discussed in an upcoming post, so I shall resist talking too much about them right now :)

[Dan] Thank you! Glad you dropped by :)

[Anurag] Yes she bribes us all with that Marie bi...

2005-07-26T16:33:00.000-04:00

[Anurag] Yes she bribes us all with that Marie biscoot packet and hence we are hypnotized... now add jewel thief into the mix and now you know the result!!

[Meghs] Ok, that does it. time for me to bring out the voodoo. (No NO, not the axe deo!! the REAL voodoo dolls and magik istuff) *threateningly holding a voodoo doll of a t-rex* when is part two coming? you the telling now or else me is the poking t-rex with voodoo needle!!! *umm.. can I add my pirate laugh at the end?*

Excellent stuff. Brought back memories of when I w...

2005-07-26T10:49:00.000-04:00

Excellent stuff. Brought back memories of when I watched Jewel thief. A real klassic.

Seventy eight comments!!!!! What do you do, bribe ...

2005-07-26T06:42:00.000-04:00

Seventy eight comments!!!!! What do you do, bribe these people to come and post comments? Wow!!!

Jewel Thief is a wonderful movie. I love the dance sequence for "Hothon pe aisi baat..."

[Megha]: How soon is "soon"?And I have been having...

2005-07-25T15:19:00.000-04:00

[Megha]: How soon is "soon"?

And I have been having those Hassan Jahangir ditties as ear worms for years now...

I dont know how the discussion is balancing itself...

2005-07-25T02:50:00.000-04:00

I dont know how the discussion is balancing itself between jewel thief to ayi milan ki raat type and bees saal baad/mera saaya..
But liking a stray "pooriyadhanashri raag" in the mediocrities of mohd azizs is what caught my attention..:-)
My first time here and must say lovely blog and informative too.. Gave me a lot of insight on kishan kumars and shabbir kumars of the world and I laud at your attempt to resurrect them..:-)

I hate it when you write about movies coz I can't ...

2005-07-25T01:06:00.000-04:00

I hate it when you write about movies coz I can't comment.. lol. I've seen very few Hindi movies and almost none of the old ones.. not even Sholay.. (embarrassed)

ah back on zeetv i see. the programming is fine, b...

2005-07-24T09:33:00.000-04:00

ah back on zeetv i see. the programming is fine, but ajmeri baba is driving me up the wall.

100% guaranteed results!!

-zaph

[phatichar] In Orissa actually, near Rourkela. So ...

2005-07-23T00:40:00.000-04:00

[phatichar] In Orissa actually, near Rourkela. So not quite as far North as you. You were in Jamshedpur, right?

It sure is nice to run into people with similar stories :)

Oh boy, is this spooky or what? That's exactly how...

2005-07-23T00:27:00.000-04:00

Oh boy, is this spooky or what? That's exactly how it used to be in our colony as well. May I ask you which colony you grew up in, in the north??? Am just curious. And hey, anytime...it's great fun sharing similar childhood memories with people :) The net's a great place to be, huh? Take care...

[pingoo] Oh yes, nice lines na? I never paid atten...

2005-07-23T00:26:00.000-04:00

[pingoo] Oh yes, nice lines na? I never paid attention to them until my friend's lil confusion though :) So you're saying I have Chunky Pandey's sense of humor? Eeesh! :)

[sanky] *enters singing doodh si safedi nirma se aaye, rangeen kapda bhi khil khil jaaye* Okie dokie, your appeal has been accepted. After all, I am known to be a reasonable person. Mulzim ko ba-izzat bury .. oops .. I mean .. bari kiya jaata hai. Khush? :)

[aNTi] Aww, now now, you sound as tormented as Sonu Nigam does in that song :)

[Suhail] LOL! One is curious what explanation you provided to Tony for Abdul ka pataa. Zaroor monotony end kar diya hoga. Your fellow jalebis are curious to know and keen to learn.

And yes, as [Priyavadan] pointed out, hawa hawa is Hasan Jahangir not Ali Haider. Other notable gems from the same superhit album that come to mind -

* aaja na dil hai deewana, roke chaahe laakh zamaana
* le bhi le dil tu mera, o jaaneman
* shawa ye nakhra gori da

Yikes! Why is that I remember so many of his songs? Need .. to .. purge .. brain .. immediately!

[Suhail] I guess hawa hawa was hussain jehangir or...

2005-07-22T23:31:00.000-04:00

[Suhail] I guess hawa hawa was hussain jehangir or someone not Ali Haider, I could be wrong..

Haha. talking abt mondegreens..I remember when Ali...

2005-07-22T19:56:00.000-04:00

Haha. talking abt mondegreens..I remember when Ali Haider's Hawa-Hawa was at its peak('ab us' ka pata de..zara mujh ko bata de...mein usse milongaa..ek baar mila de..yaar mila de) , one catholic friend Tony, in all his shweet-innocence asked me..

"..yaar tujhe maloom hoyenga..bol na..ye 'abdul' ka pata kyun bolta hai?"
hehehe :D Me being of the seedha-saadha-like-jalebi variety made up some big story. Thankoo.. thankoo..for reminding me about Tony and his various antiques.

[aNTi,priyavadan] he had that "joint eyebrows" thi...

2005-07-22T18:12:00.000-04:00

[aNTi,priyavadan] he had that "joint eyebrows" thing to add to his creepiness!!

[anti] he still is creepy, nothing has changed and...

2005-07-22T17:43:00.000-04:00

[anti] he still is creepy, nothing has changed and I bet it never will change! "aacha silla diya tuneh mere pyar ka.." is that the song you were referring to?

[Megha] Gawddddd Kishan Kumar! I don't remember t...

2005-07-22T17:18:00.000-04:00

[Megha] Gawddddd Kishan Kumar! I don't remember the lyrics of this song, but what i still remember is the visual of him holding a gun with both hands with his back to a wall beating his forhead and crying. I hate ALL you guys for bringing back this memory! Creepy guy, he was!

Haan Mi-Lord main apneee safai main yeh kehna chah...

2005-07-22T16:38:00.000-04:00

Haan Mi-Lord main apneee safai main yeh kehna chahoonga ki..I just wanted a juiccyy next post ...keeping the ending as shrouded as can be kept :)

expose the ending!! ...*holding my ears and chanting shiva shiva shiva*......never would I expect such literary felony ...from megha....with a soul like a safed saree with blue border... washed with nirma.....

Aap se request hain milord kee is mulzim ko baizzat beri kar diya jay!!

The 4 lines u mentioned r simbly sooperbu. Now is ...

2005-07-22T14:44:00.000-04:00

The 4 lines u mentioned r simbly sooperbu. Now is it a coincidence or what ?? ashq is mentioned in so many songs but we had a similar discussion to urs, when this song was played once... one of my friends asked another friend
"Oh so you know the urdu meanings of the lyrics ? xshplain ashqon ki maala ?"
friend thought for a while and then pounced back, its garland of tears..he guessed from the context I think... but he was spot on :).

"aati nahin, aati nahin from Prem"

That's xactly what came to my mind when I read SK !!(Not saaruk khan..on that note he reminds me of ...k ka ka ka ..kiran) Chunkey Pandey once said the same thing -> linking the song with constipation :).

[Rajesh] I shall steal a friend's joke here and us...

2005-07-22T14:13:00.000-04:00

[Rajesh] I shall steal a friend's joke here and use it on you.

A: Dil Se picture dekhi hai?
B: Haan, dekhi hai..
A: Dil Se picture kaise dekhi? Log to aakhon se dekhte hain!

Yes, that was a bad one, but the movie was no less bad, so I had to use it on you. Of course Preity Zinta's existence more than made up for all the bad in the movie, so I cannot really complain. And [fingeek]'s mention of the My Fair Lady tune didn't remind me of the song, but now, thanks to your lyrics, I have the English Marie jingle playing annoyingly in my head in 8 track sound. Thankoo very much for that. You are very kind.

> No wonder I don't blog that much anymore...

Your blog's loss is my commentspace's gain .. *sheepish grin* :)

[blogman] Bulaqi Kashmiri Bakery was near Lakdi Ka Pul, very close to Nasr School - which is my alma mater, hence the local bakery connection funda for me :)

[pingoo] Yes, Aziz sounds like Shabbir in this song. But Aziz sounds bad enough when he sounds like Aziz, so going and sounding like Shabbir is harakiri, if you ask me. You can see i'm not much of a fan of either :) But given what Shabbir did to RD's tunes in Betaab (1983) my angst against him is definitely more!

I have been singing achha sila diya tune mere pyaar ka since the whole topic of Bewafa Sanam (1995) came up yesterday! And you are absolutely right. It is one of the first songs where Sonu Nigam stepped away from being a recording artist singing cover versions of Mohammed Rafi songs and came into his own as a playback singer. On a related note, I have to narrate a unexpected mondegreen I discovered in this song recently :)

One of the paragraphs of the song goes like this ---

ashqon ki maala mere gale pehnaa ke,
khush hai vo ghar kisi aur ka basaa ke
kar diya khoon dekho, mere aitbaar ka
yaar ne hi loot liya, ghar yaar ka

A friend of mine firmly believed for years that the first line was ---

aashiqon ki maala mere gale pehnaa ke ..

I have this visual of this particularly nasty woman akin to angulimaal who made a maala out of all the guys who fell in love with her and put the maala around this chap's neck :) I know unrequited love can turn people bitter, but my friend's interpretation of these lyrics was on an altogether different level of bitterness, methinks!

Of course Hindi film songs and mondegreens can make for a totally separate and funny discussion, in themselves! :)

[Hokie] Thankoo. When it comes to R D Burman, I take a special interest in remembering trivia, that's all :) And I TOTALLY relate to the 'never leave a movie incomplete' theory! If you believe a movie is bad, don't watch it. But if you start it, finish it. I have tried to follow this rule even on multiple viewings of a movie. This has resulted in unfortunate events like my watching Jaani Dushman - Ek Anokhi Kahaani (2002) THRICE. Yes, I am ashamed .. *slinks into a corner*

Ah, Sanjay Kapoor! The song that comes to mind always is aati nahin, aati nahin from Prem (1995), a song that SK sings looking so constipated, that one wonders if this was the director and lyricist's sense of humor at work, or if there was a greater cosmic justice at play somewhere. Oh and let us not forget the finger wagging .. aati nahin .. *wag wag* .. aati nahin. Ugh.

[Rajesh] LOL! I take it you are not much of an Aditi Govitrikar fan? ;)

Soch was werry interesting, definitely worth a wat...

2005-07-22T11:55:00.000-04:00

Soch was werry interesting, definitely worth a watch.

I agree. I'd happily give up my watch, to not have to see it again.

[Hokie] sighs and 'beowwwwww' sheds bucketful of t...

2005-07-22T11:19:00.000-04:00

[Hokie] sighs and 'beowwwwww' sheds bucketful of tears at reading the "projector uncle's tales". Hokie also grew up in a "company township" and our "uncle" was nice enough to always show Kishen Kumar movies !! That was his favorite backup, but when the backup becomes the primary, you know what starts happening. btw, the aaja meri jaan composition being a RD creation was a zinger. Wow, Megha, u sure are a mine of information...

anyways, hokie also has a dubious record, once I start watching a Hindi movie, I have Never ever left it incomplete, how bad it might be. After all, the kids of the producers have to eat na ??

[Rajesh] - Soch was werry interesting, definitely worth a watch. I think Sanjay Kapoor never gets mentioned alongwith the Avinah W and Kishen Ks of this world, definitely potential material..
Hokie sings 'Dilbar Dilbar' and retreats to his corner sighing...

Ah ! that piece of info right there, I didn't kno...

2005-07-22T10:59:00.000-04:00

Ah ! that piece of info right there, I didn't know that, so she is Saira Banu's niece..hmm. So u like the song ! cool song na...don't you think Aziz sounds like Shabbir in this song ??

Can't resist to talk about one of my fav songs when u mention Kishen Kumar :),"Acha sila diya tune mere pyar ka" from Bewafa Sanam. I think its one of the first songs that catapulted Sonu Nigam into the limelight. One of those songs which gives me shrills !