original is gold, but...

...there are some exceptions even to this rule.
now id told you a million years ago that i absolutely LOVEEE bollywood.
but more than that i LOVEEE bollywood music.
its so dramatic, larger than life and really can describe practically each and every feeling, emotion you've ever experienced in life!!
yup, you name a feeling, a situation and voila! we have a song :)

i love it all.
old music, new music. romantic songs, sad one, dances, cabarets, mujras everything.
what i dont like are REMIXES. they almost always ruin beautiful compositions.
but in the last couple of years, ive been doing a quick rethink on that theory.

here are some, which ive really really come to love.

1. THIS one is my absolute fav. THis song is guaranteed to improve my mood no matter what. oh and i must confess, i absolutely hated the original of this song...but it may have something to do with the fact that annoying babita (karishma n kareena kapoors mother!) starred in it...and in effect ruined the song for me.





2. i liked the original as well sung by legendary mukesh, but in this version from 'namesake' susheela raman's voice takes you to another world altogether...a hypnotic trance that you never wanna come out of.





3. this one is the most interesting in the list, i think. kishore kumar, the man i worship..had simply rocked the original version. great lyrics, all the right beats and kishore's magical voice...not a note was out of tune. and yet somehow without changing too much nitin bali...who is not even a great singer gave this smashing song. sometimes i think he chose the song well..thats it. perhaps u agree?!





4. Bombay Vikings, what can i say...they've taken a very beautiful song and turned it into something completely different and even more beautiful. Im so glad that Neeraj Shridhar, the lead singer from the Bombay Vikings is now creating 'original' magic in bollywood.





5. in the original its a sweet laid-back beautiful song again sung by mukesh...which gets completely transformed by energetic anamika. im no really sure WHAT i like in this new version...but for some inexplicable reason, i do.





6. Now in this one...its the same original composition...they've just re-filmed it. And thank god they did. Now ul say...its the same song?! Only those who've seen the original will know why I chose to put it here. The original picturisation KILLED the song piece by piece, note by note. not to mention the ugly actors..raj kiran and shoma anand for cryin out loud!!! I mean just look at this beautiful man. sigh.




you know in remixes....its not just about a faster pacier beat...which let's face it...sometimes just ruins the songs and more than that...the whole mood of the song. after all not all songs can be in the same peppy mood...now can they?!

let me know ur thoughts on this whole business of remixes. oh and pls share if you can think of any other great ones!


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