After Munni it’s Sheila’s time to hit puberty

I have never been a big fan of Bollywood movies or their soundtracks. They are mostly rip offs of some old classic Hollywood movies or some famous band’s/singer’s compilation. But recently Bollywood has gone a bit original and how, with the tracks like ‘munni badnaam hui’ and ‘Sheila ki jawaani’.  Lyrics with words you would fail to imagine the true meaning behind them. Anyhow, I am certain they don’t have any meaning.

Whatever happened to good, soulful music?  Remember those 70’s and 80’s era when Kishore Kumar’s compilations, Asha Bhonsle’s songs or Lata Mangeshkar’s voice could shake down your soul. The 90’s were still tolerable with Kumar Sanu and Anu Malik (well, I don’t really mean Anu Malik but since I’ve mentioned already that am not a huge fan of Hollywood music, this is all I could come up with). And now with people like Himesh Reshamiya, some more losers and few more losers it’s the ‘death of the music’.

Imagine parents asking their kid to sing that song they know for their guests ‘beta uncle, aunty ko who waala gaana sunao’  and the 5 year old kid with all their skills and efficiency would sing and dance ‘munni badnaam hui darling tere liye’. Does that kid have a slightest idea know who munni is and how she got into all this badnaami?

Imagine the horror of those poor girls who unfortunately got names like munni, Sheila and few more such to come (I don’t think we are stopping that soon) I still am not over the after effects of that Dairy Milk’s advertisement few years’ back, which had this Miss Palampur character. Being from Palampur was like a punishment then, people would actually address me and other girls by ‘Miss Palampur’. Trust me; it was no fun at all. I have all the sympathies with the girls going through the same. I really hope they would sue these music directors and song writers someday who are selling nonsense in the name of music. At the least Sheila dixit should do something. She should feel humiliated on being reminded of her ‘jawaani’ in this way.

P.S- songwriters and lyricists – Please stop treating your music like some brothel selling their best ‘item’ girls and start respecting it for the sake of those who really care.