Melodies with partly sung mukhda

Posted on 05/02/2023 on Trivia- The Spice of Life Do you remember the adorable nursery rhyme BINGO? In an attempt to teach the kindergarteners the English alphabet, each time B-I-N-G-O is sung, clapping/music replaces the alphabets one by one till only O is sung. I am not sure whether there is technical term for this.

The Mela Songs

Posted on 20/11/2021 on Trivia – The Spice of Life There are umpteen Hindi movies where siblings get lost in a mela only to providentially meet years later as strangers. The mela or the fair, thus, is infamous for being the venue for orchestrating such disunion. While a lot has been written about this trope,

Romantic Songs with a Third Person

I had been toying with this theme for a long time. There are songs where apart from the couple in love, there is someone else in the frame – either obtrusively or unobtrusively. The third person may be an innocent onlooker. Alternately, it could be the villain whose intentions are not noble and is spitefully

Tongue-in-cheek Songs

While writing my post on Songs of ‘Surrender’, which speak of self-deprecation and subjugation, I felt I must also enlist songs which are antithetical to these songs and thus this post on tongue-in-cheek songs. The flavour of these songs is completely different. These are songs which are peppered with back handed compliments; in these melodies,