Classical Paradox, Retold. Musically

Which song is being depicted, metaphorically, allegorically?

And the winner gets “the white loin” – Ajit’s eye wear:

Auxilary Myogenic Muscular Organs

Love can heal, love can make you think of alternative forms of human physiology too! No kidding, guess the lyrics of the song below:

It is damn easy, I did not want to put it up in Pyar Ke Perspective series.

So this time every one who answers correctly will get a mogambo look.

Needless to say the prize contains no hint to solve the quiz.

Uplifting Love

Prize: A chance to touch Bappi Da’s bling bling jewelry.

Pyar Ke Perspective – III

Or How love can be like old Doordarshan cartoon: Exclusively on Sundays

Here is the link to the video. (Song courtesy Divesh)

Mighty Heart

Prize: Grand Prize Folks! A brand new bestseller book titled “Curious case of AK Hangal”, the man who was never young

Pyar Ke Perspective – I

Love can be liberating, love can be educational. Do you often say you are lost while traveling? Do you have bad sense of directions?

Watch Jaya and Jeetu explain North, East, West, South in such beautiful lyrics and wonderfully synchronized choreography.

Note: I would be searching such soulful songs which give a totally different perspective on Pyar, Ishq or Mohabbat. Songs which transcend love between two people and serve a higher cause. Pyar ke perspective is a collection with this theme. Please feel free to contribute you shall be duly credited. Here is an old post on this theme.

Inspirational Amitabh

The answer to the quiz is quite easy but many people might not have seen the movie or heard the song so I am putting it up. Part of the reason for putting this up is for the fabulous song which this image depicts.

Quiz:

Prize: Anil Kapoor’s Moustache Comb

A veiled puzzle

Now instead of giving away hints that directly lead to the solution, let me confuse you a bit. Guess the song encoded veiled in the puzzle image (bottom).

Special prize:

Puzzle:

Guessing the image is easy, guessing the song is not! Hint: Do get your thesaurus out, brush up your synonyms.

Night Night Cricket

Guess lyrics of this great song. Added bonus if you could find its video. By the way there was a complain about prize distribution earlier so this time all people who would answer correctly shall get Dhanno’s Horseshoe!

Get The Song

Now this is a different quiz, not only do you have to find the song but you also have to find its video/audio from internet.

Grand Prize: Manorama’s eye lashes

Hint: Lyrics of the song were changed by the movie people because they were offensive, this image shows the words after the revision. You have to come up with link to the later version.

The prizes in my quizzes generally do not have anything to do with them.

Lucky 13

Guess 13 is not so bad for few people. Guess the song and win acting lessons from Bobby Deol.

A lot can happen over coffee

Find which lyrics have been encoded in the following image and win a grand prize of an audio cassette full of Sidhu’s continuous laughter (and nothing else)

Who’s Calendar Is It Anyways?

Continuing on “Who’s Desktop Is It Anyways” have a look at some one’s personal calendar to guess lyrics of a popular song. I think it is very easy I created it anyways because the lyrics fit in so well :D.

Aah the prize: Well you shall get a dinner date with Avinash Wadhwan (remember Meera Ka Mohan? if you don’t recognize him then you are not worthy of the prize).

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Coercion in Farmville

Guess the lyrics of the popular Hindi song hidden in this image to win Jackie dada’s dog, Moti of “Teri Meherbaniyan” fame.

Note: The solution doesn’t need your Farmville skills, if such a thing exists.

Ajay Devgan: thaaN thaaN se thaaN thaaN tak

Interesting trivia, Ajay Devgan has been in two songs which have ठां in them! Yes from ‘duniya di thaaN thaaN thaaN’

To ‘thaaN thaaN karke’

वो हिंदी में कहते हैं न : ढाक के तीन पात

Amitabh, Umbrella and Who?

Identify the song, movie and the actress with Amitabh.

Prize: Free pass to watch Dev Anand relentlessly bob his head.

Note: This one is quite simple. Just identify the song and everything else is a give away.

Who’s desktop is it anyways?

Guess lyrics of the song hidden in this innocuous Microsoft Outlook meeting request and win Mahesh Bhatt’s DVD player (the one which converts DVDs of foreign flicks into Hindi cinema inspirational movies).

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[Comments would be displayed after some time to enable every reader to have a chance at the prize. Early bird gets nothing as all worms are damned asleep]

Gulzar and his dhuan

Gulzar is one of the best lyricist of our times. From ‘Mora Gora Ang Lay Le‘ to ‘Dil To Bachcha Hai Ji‘, Gulzar has covered an amazing range of emotions with such poignancy. A single post can not do justice to his body of work so what I want to highlight is his metaphor for ‘Dhuan’. Poetry of any genre or era carries some common metaphors like Parwaanaa (Moth) in Shayari. Despite his single-minded yearning for Shamaa (Candle) it is his fate to die when united with her.

Poets have used metaphor of Smoke to signify symptoms of a burning fire within. For longing or unrequited love or. Like Meer said:

Dekh to dil ke jaan se uthataa hai
Ye Dhuaan sa kahaan se uthataa hai

Or have a look at following lines where Kaifi Azmi’s uses smoke literally to evoke other emotions:

Main dhoondta hoon jise wo jahaan nahi milta
nayi zameen nayaa asmaan nahi miltaa

Vo mera gaanv hai vo mere gaanv ke choolhe
ki jin mein shole to shole dhuaan naheen miltaa

But Gulzar has used Dhuaan totally differently in few of his works. He wants to express the feeling when you want to cry but no tears come out of your eyes. You might well up but no tears roll down your cheek. As if smoke has stung your eyes, literally. The shift is from a burning sensation within or real burning to the physical act of experiencing the affects of it; yourself. Case in point, his evergreen song of loneliness and urbanization from movie Gharonda:

Ek akela is shehar mein shaam ko aur dopahar mein
Aab-o-daanaa dhoondta hai, ashiyana dhoondta hai
[aab = water, daana = seed (literally) aab-o-daana = subsistence]

Din khali khali bartan hai aur raat hai jaise andha kuan
In sooni andheri aankhon se aansoon ki jagah aata hai Dhuaan
Jeene ki vajah to koi nahi marne ka bahaanaa dhoondta hai

Can any one forget Maraasim, his collaboration with Jagjit Singh. Each ghazal from it is golden and so evocative. He used the word has radeef (the last rhyming word) in one of the ghazals.

Aankhon mein jal raha hai kyun bujhta nahi dhuaan
Uthta to hai ghata sa barasta nahi dhuaan

Or for that matter his sensual lyrics from Dil Se:

Jiya jale jaan jale
Nainon tale dhuaan chale dhuaan chale

No wonder his prize winning collection of Urdu short stories was titled Dhuaan!

Graphical Pyaar

Now we have seen whole lotta perspectives of love in Hindi cinema lyrics on this blog. So in that spirit try to decode the lyrics:

Prize: Sunny Paji ke dumb-bells
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Here’s the MATLAB code for the same.

x = [0:0.01:(pi/2)-0.01];
y = 1 + tan(x)+2*x;
plot(x,y,’blue’,x,13,’red’);
ylabel(‘Pyaar –>’,’FontWeight’,’bold’);
xlabel(‘Time –>’,’FontWeight’,’bold’);
title(‘Graph-ical Pyaar!’,’FontWeight’,’bold’);
set(gca, ‘XTick’,[0:0], ‘XTickLabel’,[]);
set(gca, ‘YTick’,[0:0], ‘XTickLabel’,[]);
a=1.47;
text(a, 1 + tan(a)+2*a, ‘Limit’,’HorizontalAlignment’,’right’,’VerticalAlignment’,’bottom’);

SRK, Shilpa and …

Lyrics of which song are depicted in this photo, answer this to win Jaani’s muffler.

[Pretty easy one I say]