You Call That A Song?

In 1964, came a Bollywood film—Sangam (Confluence)—that, for the first time, saw a wife take matters in her hand and bring sleaze and the ensuing talk of decency, indecency, what’s right for men and what’s wrong for women—quite literally—into the bedroom; all with slacks and a sassy number—Buddha Mil Gaya (Got Myself an Old Man)—as her sidekick. This episode is all about the sass of that number and the number itself. 00:00: Raj Kapoor: Family 01:01: Raj Kapoor: Films 01:34: Raj Kapoor: Style 02:04: Raj Kapoor: Film Music 02:48: The Song: Details 03:23: Sangam: Plot 04:05: When Does The Song Show Up? 04:27: The Events Leading up to The Song 05:13: Is Sunder A Gentleman at All? 05:54: Is Radha Meek at All? 06:59: The Script Writer And Bollywood in the 60s 07:20: When Do the Bagpipes Start to Play? 07:52: Radha Dances and How! 08:42: Radha and Sunder: Sleaze Talk 10:39: Sleaze Talk Analysis 12:03: First Verse 13:15: Second Verse 14:04: Third Verse 15:01: The Aftermath of The Song 16:04: Lata The Diva 19:03: The Man, The Wife, and The Affair 20:34: Do I Recommend The Song at All? 20:57: The Wrap-up 21:50: Disclaimer and Intention of The Podcast Watch the music video of the song here: https://cutt.ly/rHFb1Gn

In 1994, a Bollywood film called Mohra (which means ‘Pawn’) put two action heroes, one buxom damsel of a heroine, a discotheque, some sexual tension, and some lessons in stalking into a song called Tu Cheez Badi Hein Mast (You’re a superb item). This episode, with all its time-stamped sections mentioned below, is all about that song. 00:00: Introduction 00:58: The Song’s Music History 01:28: Did I watch it at all? 01:55: Did I listen to it at all? 02:47: About Sunil Shetty and Akshay Kumar 03:33: About Akshay Kumar, Raveena Tandon, and Chemistry 04:11: Sexual heat? Or something else? 04:47: Was there a dress code at all? 05:17: The Lyrics 09:24: Why have the song at all? 10:30: That Typical Bollywood Trait 10:52: Four reasons to insert a needless song into a film 13:15: Did I like the song in 1994? 13:50: Me and My Hindi 13:26: Me and My Naïveté 16:50: Do I like the song in 2022? 18:30: Do I recommend you listen to the song? 19:12: The Wrap-up 20:02: Disclaimer and Intention of The Podcast Watch the music video of the song here: https://cutt.ly/SAQyIjC

Bollywood. It’s another name for a high-octane cocktail of action, emotion, and drama; and most of it drips down consistently into its music as well. You Call That a Song? brings you the delicacy and eccentricity of all of that in reviews of Bollywood songs that have graced radios, silver screens, and loudspeakers and thereby, intertwined themselves with the lives of an entire generation. Background Score: Jal -  Edge of Water: Aakash Gandhi | The Loner: DJ Williams