Earlier I blogged about two of my good friends went on forming a band, Savario and Fabio of Hardware stores. I have one more bloke to add to that list, Job Kurian. Well, not exactly my friend or an acquaintance but we studied in the same college, he was junior to me, automobile engineering I think. He had fantastic voice and did a few stunning Karaoke during hostel days and college competitions. As expected he had a big fan club, especially female fans.
Never happen to cross roads for next few years. Recently, I heard he won a TV show in Kerala, again, singing competition. Saw those competition videos on YouTube; he was good, too good actually. Now, he has formed a band. I am sharing a video here, found on YouTube. Consider it as a simple promotion and advertisement, from my side.
Super!!! Well done Job and good luck. I will make sure that I will buy at least one album, if I come across one, on the shelves.
Have you ever wondered who started copy culture in Bollywood movie Industry ?
There is Anu malik , there was bappi lahari, but who is before that. What, how and who used to copy songs for our favorite industry pre-bappi era ? Someone should really investigate this matter ( and blog it ), like bollycats are doing.
For the time being I present you one fossil evidence of same profession , which date PB era ( pre-buppi era).This song feat.s hysteric Shammi kapu and four monkyes dancing to a tune directly plagiarized from a Beatles song. Continue reading “Prehistoric evidence of plagiarism in Bollywood”→
Vani at white phosphorous had written an interesting post on Hindi songs with wacky lyrics. That Post lists some famous Bollywood songs which never deserve to be hits, but still did.
This reminded me of my graduation days where we used to write Hindi “movie” songs, just like those, or better. I couldn’t help but writing about our contribution.
Some tips here:
No experience needed for writing a song, compose background music for it. When we (me and another copyright holder sarkar) wrote some songs and sung it in the middle of the night (in hostels life starts at mid night) the whole hostel went crazy. I guess they were cheering us, most of them were geeks.
Read news paper, blogs etc. pick a sentence first catches your eyes, write it down. Check Orkut scraps, mail regularly. That can make a great start up line
For example, there was a superhit song in movie “rakshak” Suneil Shetty and raveena:
“ Ladkeeeee haaaan shehar ki ladkeeeeeeeeeee,
ankh churake bole hay haawaryu haay haawaryu haay haawaryu
ankh milake bole haw do you do haw do you do haw do you do
I believe, lyricist picked up it from orkut scraps.
Remember general conversation with your friends, girlfriends etc. keep logging chat and instant messages also. There are some examples which went very super hit in Hindi industry (remember: accha to hum chalte hein…)
Planet Bollywood
When mention a movie song when I have my own. We framed it some seven eight years back. Though the song is not sold we still hold copyrights of it
Male voice: Maine tumko dekhaaa….
Female voice: kahan dekha..kahan dekha…
Male voice: Maine tumko janaaa….
Female voice: kyajanaa.. kya janaa…..
Male voice: shaadi karogi…
Female voice: na na…. na na… na na…
Both together and chorous: lallalallala…..
We even had our dance steps also worked out for this.
Remember every thing can be music. Koyal ki koo koo main , bachche ki susu main, sangeet hi sangeet hai.
Think from other people perspective. Feel for poor, oppressed, refugees, animals, plants anything, and think what they think. For exmple : Main character is feeling bad about a stray dog.
paagal kutta meraa… tumse ye Bhonk rahaaaaaaa ..
abto tere bina bhonka jayenaaaaaaaaa…………..
Finally rants. Write what you think when you are not actually thinking. Insert sounds and words, which no one has any idea. Include political , social cultural and historical events in between. Go crazy. One example:
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