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Proof that Bollywood has always been Cool and Hip | Jaan Pehechan Ho | Mohammed Rafi
Groooovy! Although the '60s song & dance number Jaan Pehechan Ho had a brief Renaissance in 2001 when it was profiled in the cult film Ghostworld, the surf-rock/bollywood flavoured hit must be continously celebrated over and over again for its sheer funkiness and infectious kitschy Hawaiian beats (Check it out HERE or go under the cut for the video).
Jaan Pehechan Ho (a Hindi phrase roughly meaning "We should get to know each other") was first featured in the opening sequence of the 1965 Bollywood film Gumnaan (a remake of Agatha Christie's And Then They Were None). The dance features singing by Bollywood legend Mohammed Rafi and hip-swaying dancing by Laxmi Chhaya. Ooh, dig the clothes! Enjoy!
(Source: www.mohdrafi.com by Meri Awaaz Suno).
According to SALON it is the "Best Foreign-Language Frug Freakout to Appear on a Movie Soundtrack: Mohammed Rafi, "Jaan Pehechaan Ho" from the "Ghost World" soundtrack (Shanachie)" (see Salon Archive)
"Jaan Pehechaan Ho" plays during the opening credits of "Ghost World" -- a wondrous (if flawed) film adaptation of the Daniel Clowes comic -- as the camera pans from one blue-television-lighted suburban window to another, looking desperately for signs of life. As the camera finally happens upon the window of the film's protagonist Enid (played masterfully by Thora Birch), we realize that it's "Jaan Pehechaan Ho" that's blaring out of her bedroom TV in an absolutely raucous '60s Bollywood sequence. That sense of otherness -- and the sly charm of it -- goes on to inform the whole movie, but it never hits this early apex again. "Jan Pehechaan Ho" is Enid's freak flag brought to speaker-bursting life." (Salon)
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Posted by TamikoJuly 27, 2007 at 7:04 AM
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