The first selection for today is a duet by Kumar Sanu & Anuradha Paudwal (who had a lovely voice all her own) that I have always thought would make a great first dance at a wedding due to the sweeping music & romance filled lyrics.The second song is my personal favorite, You can almost feel Kumar Sanu channeling Kishoreda in the song that is so wonderfully sweet & heartbreakingly sad all at the same time.
Mangeshkar, the great playback singer star of Bollywood dating back to the ‘40s, has dubbed in the singing voices of every star from Mumtaz to Aishwarya Rai. I knew that I hated the music, though, so there was no way I would endure watching one of these naïve pageants of neon blood, fully-clothed chaste cheek-kissing, and inexplicable eruptions of song and dance in scenes of romance or family dispute.
I refused to see the fun in it, although my mother insists that I had a brief obsession with the last forty minutes of 1982’s Disco Dancer when I was a toddler.
The movie is your standard boy meets girl/boy loses girl/boy gets girl back starring two former models - Rahul Roy & Anu Agarwal - who couldn't really act but were easy enough on the eyes to where you really didn't care too much.
The movie wasn't half bad but I don't know if I remember it that way because the eleven, yes eleven, songs were all just so darn good.
I do believe her, which means that technically I shouldn’t be allowed to write this Firsts essay, but any memory I had of Disco Dancer is on the mental equivalent of the , a departure of protest that was rightly ignored by the rest of the family.
