The soundtrack of love in seven Bollywood numbers
The soundtrack of love in seven Bollywood numbers
Paromita Vohra | TNN | Feb 14, 2021, 12:58 IST
From the sensuality of the telefoon song to the cheery raunch of the Govinda age and the masculine monologue that is Arijit, love songs in Hindi films have infinite histories
The best thing about Hindi film love songs is that there are so many. Not just thousands of love songs, but thousands of types of love songs, proposing through infinite variety that everybody’s somebody’s baby. There is Dhanno, whose eyes have “pyaar ka surma aur chand ka chumma”. There is separation’s ache, when “chand phir nikla, magar tum na aaye”. There is the veiled enquiry of which of ishq’s lakhon rang you would like to unveil and the abandon of love-lusht double kasht in Dreamum Wakeupum. Vishal Bharadwaj’s knowing heroine’s sing “Darling!” and make jalebis with their hips singing “O boy o boy”. Charlie. Love sounds gutted in