Thank you dear friends, readers, participants and lovers of the quiz and the blog!
Thank you for the overwhelming response! It was also nice to see you, Lomo and Andi, who put their annual appearance at the birthday celebrations. Good to know, that you are there somewhere in the background. Maybe this is also a good opportunity to thank all the dear readers, who read the posts but can’t respond. THANK YOU everybody for all the support, love and affection you shower on me and the blog.
It was great fun for me to put the quiz together, but what was difficult, was to give points. In fact most of the participants gave all the answers right. There were only small technical mistakes, like forgetting to name a singer or the film name explicitly. So the points scored show rather my stringency, or shall we say tight-fistedness in giving points, rather than the participants’ knowledge of the songs.
Nobody got the answer to the 20 points question. What’s more, some also attempted to solve it. In fact, I would have been really surprised if anybody had got it right. Who would keep the statistics of this blog? 🙂
Maybe I should have framed the question properly. My mistake!
Sunehriyaadein had the best go at that question and her answer had me in splits for hours. With her kind permission I’m sharing it here.
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My ten favourite bangala (bungalow) songs
A dream of one’s own house/cottage in the suburbs has been and is the motor of many middle class households all over the world. Maybe it is the security it offers or the need for privacy, to have a garden and the cosy life which one associates with it and thus to achieve ultimate goal of every human being to be happy. If one really ‘achieves’ all these things with the acquisition of this cosy house is secondary. I think the dream in itself the best part of it.
Like many of the dreams and aspirations of the common man (whoever or whatever he/she is), even this aspect has not been neglected in the Hindi film songs. Here are my favourites!
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Tags: aag lage bangle me, aaiye aapko main apne bangle ki sair, Aap Ki Khatir [1977], Aji Bas Shukriya [1958], Anand Bakshi, Asha Bhosle, Asha Parekh, bangala, bangla, Bappi Lahiri, Basu Manohari, Bengal, dariya kinare ek bangalo, dev anand, DevAnand, European settlers, Farida Jalal, Farooq Qaiser, G. M. Durrani, ganga ki reti pe bangala chhawaai, geeta bali, Ghulam Mohammed, hai lagaa, House No. 44, hum to tere dil ke bangale me aanaa maangtaa, Iftekhar, ik bangala bane nyaara, Johnny Walker, Joroo Ka Ghulam, K. L. Saigal, Kaala Paani, Kalyanji-Anandji, kanta lagaa, Kidar Sharma, Kishore Kumar, Lata Mangeshkar, Magroor [1950], Majrooh Sultanpuri, Meena Kumari, Mirza Ghalib [1954], Mohammed Rafi, My ten favourite bangala songs, My ten favourite bungalow songs, Nalini Jaywant, Nanda, nazar laage raajaa tore bangale par, o daata o daataa de hamko bhi ek pyaara bangala, Pankaj Mullick, President [1937], pyaara ek bangala ho, R. C. Boral, R. D. Burman, Raja Mehdi Ali Khan, Rajesh Khanna, Rehman, Rekha, Roshan, S. D. Burman, Sabse Bada Rupaiya [1976], Sahir, Samadhi 1972, Shaili Shailendra, Shakeel Budayuni, Shamshad Begum, Sudha Malhotra, Suraiya, Vinod Khanna, Vinod Mehra
Hidden umbrella passions in ten Hindi film songs
Umbrellophily, a phenomenon not spoken sung about in the Hindi film industry. The author of these lines like many other fans of Hindi film songs was not aware of this shocking fact either. During his search for a list of his 10 favourite umbrella songs (since rain-song lists have been beaten to death), he stumbled over this taboo topic in the Hindi cinema. While he was searching, he could unearth only three songs, which mention an umbrella and two-thirds of them were not even melodious. Why this step-motherly treatment towards this ‘protector against rain’?
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