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That would launch us into a spirited, nostalgic conversation.

If we were in the same cab, he would ask me about a song playing on the FM. The next afternoon, he came to my desk and said hello. He asked me my name and the team I was from. He was about to launch into another tirade when I, sitting right behind him, said, ' Howrah Bridge.' He turned around. To drive home his point, he next asked if anyone in the cab knew which film the iconic song was from. Listening to it, he lamented how the younger generation knew little about our viraasat,В and what a tragedy it was. MadhubalaвЂ™s ' Aaiye Meherbaan'В was playing on the radio. One time, a senior illustrator, a known connoisseur of old Bollywood music, was sitting in the front. Often, during the long commute, the cab would fill with melodies from an era long gone, courtesy late-night radio. Everyone who left the office after 11 PM got a cab ride home. When I was in Delhi during my early journalistic career, I was often put on late-night shifts. He got up, and did something he had never done before - he hugged me. Jaane tu ya jaane na, maane tu, yaa maane naa.вЂќВ When I was done, I saw his eyes moisten. So that cold January night three years ago, I looked at him and sang, вЂњTera mujhse hai pehle ka naata koi, yu hi nahi dil lubhaata koi. But I never got a chance to thank him for his many kindnesses. He always made himself available and extended support whenever I needed it, even when it was difficult or inconvenient for him. Growing up, he'd nurtured me in his quiet, unassuming ways. To my right sat a distant, much older cousin brother, someone I had a reverential attachment for. When I got out, I was asked to tell how I felt about the person sitting to my right through a song. We were on the terrace sitting around a bonfire and playing pass-the-parcel. I can never forget a cousinвЂ™s pre-wedding celebration. It forms the backdrop of most of my fondest memories, friendships, and relationships. Old Bollywood music is how I communicate - it is how I laugh, cry, live, and love. I didnвЂ™t know what they meant, which movies they were from, or who acted in them, but I knew them by heart. I remember, even when I was as young as five years old, I could sing word for word several of Mangeshkar, Mohammad Rafi, Kishore Kumar, RD Burman, and Asha Bhosle songs. To date, we, as a family, are invincible at antaksharis.

#Hindi qawwali songs old movie#

Whether itвЂ™s raining or a family get-together or a weekend or we are traveling or killing time during a power-cut, we always invariably find ourselves turning to old Hindi movie songs.

My siblings and IВ have grown up listening to them endlessly, thanks to our parents, who are ardent admirers.ДЇor us children, first came the songs. Our personal taste in music differs but we all love old Bollywood songs. Albeit in our different ways, we all seek refuge in it, get inspired from it, find answers and joy in it.

The only thing that unites us all is music. We are as different as the members of any family are. The one lullaby that my mother crooned me to sleep when I was an infant was ' Mere Ghar Aayi Ek Nanhi Pari,' a song from Yash ChopraвЂ™s 1976 film Kabhi Kabhie.В Years later, when I left home for college and couldnвЂ™t sleep in the strange new surroundings for the first few nights, IвЂ™d listen to the Lata MangeshkarВ song on earphones and in no time, would be snoring peacefully.

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But when entertainment is concerned, is there even any guilt to what gives one pleasure? In our new series Pleasure Without Guilt, we look at pop offerings that have been dissed by the culture police but continue to endure as beacons of unadulterated pleasure. When the going gets tough, we turn to our favourite guilty pleasures. Old Bollywood songs are a treasure trove for every mood, every occasion, every relationship