Because everyone loves “I Feel Love:” "Raat Baaqi Baat Baaqi" (Namak Halaal,’ d. Prakash Mehra, 1982). Music Bappi Lahiri, lyrics Anjaan, vocals Asha Bhosle, Bappi Lahiri. Dancing’s stiff, she knows it. Her biographer called dance movements “her kryptonite.” youtu.be/4uu91OvMQy0?... - ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

heartonastick.bsky.social • 28 days ago

Because everyone loves “I Feel Love:” "Raat Baaqi Baat Baaqi" (Namak Halaal,’ d. Prakash Mehra, 1982). Music Bappi Lahiri, lyrics Anjaan, vocals Asha Bhosle, Bappi Lahiri.

Dancing’s stiff, she knows it. Her biographer called dance movements “her kryptonite.”

https://youtu.be/4uu91OvMQy0?si=uUA-wRCVDAX8B6Yc&t=5

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heartonastick.bsky.social•28 days ago

From the same film, something ecstatic for a rainy Friday night. "Aaj Rapat Jaaye To," vocals Kishore Kumar, Asha Bhosle.

https://youtu.be/HsSjeuDhuLA?feature=shared&t=5

heartonastick.bsky.social•25 days ago

So... Escape?

"Chanchal Sheetal Nirmal Komal," from Raj Kapoor's great mad 1978 melodrama ‘Satyam Shivam Sundaram.' Music by the duo Laxmikant–Pyarelal, lyrics Anand Bakshi, vocals Mukesh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tji4Cz48I-c

heartonastick.bsky.social•22 days ago

A quick cascade. From Awtar Krishna Kaul's '27 Down' (1974), music by Hariprasad Chaurasia and Bhubaneshwar Misra (as Bhuban Hari).

https://youtu.be/-ZoOqYGNqzs?si=v3_55hGbe6Avrwqg

heartonastick.bsky.social•21 days ago

A favorite: "Swaras" (or "Sa Re Ga Pa") from K. Viswanath's 'Sankarabharanam' (1980). A master singer and a would-be courtesan form a sustaining and chaste relationship around the sanctity of music. Music K. V. Mahadevan, vocals S. P. Balasubrahmanyam and S Janaki.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDqm0SUjpZM

heartonastick.bsky.social•1 day ago

"The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" ('Nazar,' d. Mani Kaul, 1990; after Dostoyevsky's "A Gentle Creature"). Vocals, Shambhavi Kaul.

https://youtu.be/EaSWxE3gQAs?si=D79SLBeWhbnjPyWM&t=4412

heartonastick.bsky.social•1 day ago

"Koi Yahan Nache Nache" ('Disco Dancer,' d. Babbar Subhash, 1982). Music Bappi Lahiri (after The Buggles), lyrics Faruk Kaiser. Vocals by Usha Uthup and Lahiri. Bang bang!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvzUzlFuglI&t=5s

heartonastick.bsky.social•28 days ago

Parveen Babi is a tragic figure, suffered mental health issues and was shamed for them. This film (among many) was delayed when she had a breakdown; the director publicly called her state “a hoax” and claimed to have alerted tax authorities in case she tried to flee the country.

heartonastick.bsky.social•28 days ago

When she returned to the film her part had been reassigned, her new role cut largely to a pair of musical numbers. You wonder if they added her character’s anguish (like the break in the middle of the song) to mock the star or lean into recent news.

heartonastick.bsky.social•28 days ago

She’d leave the industry within a couple years, start accusing international celebrities and government entities of conspiring to kill her. Years later, living alone and incapacitated in an apartment, she would starve to death.

heartonastick.bsky.social•28 days ago

Anyway. The tune’s undeniable, and watching Shashi Kapoor grow besotted can be one of the great simple pleasures in cinema.