aaaaaaaaaa aaaaauuuuuuuu aaaaaaaaa
Tumse Mohabbat Kar loon Jee Bhar Ke
Poori Hasrat kar loon Jee Bhar ke
Jo Toone diya ishq mein Jo Toone diya ishq mein
Lut Jaaon Lut Jaaon Lut Jaaon Main Lut Jaaon us karz pe

I swear I haven’t made them up, but I cud definitely have come up with something better. This song has a very addictive tune, but once you hear the vocals(esp male) you involuntarily change the track! Why do the same phrases need to be repeated is something that beats me. I can’t wait to get my hands on the instrumental version, wonder where I could find it.

Bolo hare hare hare hare Bolo hare hare hare hare
Tere ishq mein dooba rahe Tere ishq mein dooba rahe
Shaamon sehar mera rom rom Hari yoooom hari yoooom hari yooooooooom

For those weak in Hindi, I’ll attempt a translation. May my hair drown in your love day and night. Now why would do that and how is Mr.Hari involved in this! Now if you are a barber and your name is Hari, then it makes sense! You may think that Himes Bhai is trying to recreate the magic of Rishi Kapoor on a giant gramaphone record. Wrong my friends, after the autowallah community he is reaching out to the hajjam/nai community!

Tak tanana tanana tandoori nights tandoori nights tandoori nights
sama sharabi jahan sharabi dekho rabba sharabi dildar mein
hawa sharabi teri aada sharabi yeh fiza sharabi dildar mein
tanha tanha he dil tanha tandoori nights
if u loving was wrong i dont wanna be right

Being a foodie, I could instantly connect with this song. Notice how magnificiently Himes Bhai reaches out to all the cooks,waiters and dhaabawallahs with this so-called-melody. For the uninformed, Tandoori Nights is my favorite desi restaurant in Gaithersburg MD and there are many restaurants with the same name in Hyderabad, LA etc. One can’t help but notice how each song is dedicated to a different section of the society. This song apparently features Himes and Urmila running around trees, but all I can think of is my greasy and fluffy Aloo Paratha!

Masha Allah Subhan allah masha allah subhan allah
Tera chehra jabse dekha Dil Gumshuda hua vallah

Is Duniya mein Jo Ishq Di Lagan Lagaye
Sisak Sisak Ke Bilakh Bilakh ke Tadap Tadap Ke Mar Jaaye

oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Tere bin chain na aave na aavae chain na aave na aave chain na aave na yaar

Would you believe if I told you that they above are actually three different songs? That being the beauty of Himeshji Maharaj, they all look and sound the same! All the three the songs have a strong sense of deja vu and the now slightly boring nasal twang. Himes Bhai’s jarring voice drowns the shenai and tabla in the background as he carefully woos the minorities. You don’t want to leave anyone depressed don’t you?

‘Dhoom tere ishq ki‘ sajna is probably the best of the lot. It is in songs like these where you see how much potential himes bhai really has. My guess is that he is being forced to dole out third class class music! If not for his stupid ego and attitude for singing every song, this could have been a chart buster. This song has Rahat fateh Ali Khan written all over it and could have well become another tumse mann ki lagan. However Himes is no Khan saab but the song is definitely worth another hearing.I rather not mention ‘Ek Hasina Thi‘ for I can’t imagine anyone stir up the vocals of KishoreDa. This one is painful and looks all over the place, so lets leave it there.

All said and done, Karzzz is a sorry comeback after Aap ka Suroor. Being a musical, I expected it to blow me away. Now I just have to be content with a waxed-chest and cleavage-showing Himesh Maharaj jiggle on a gigantic DVD!

himessing¹: Himesh + Singing (It’s a new genre!)
himesiatics²: Himesh fanatics

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I go get my Sprite, Salsa and Chips and then, Thanda! Himesh saab gives an acha insaan speech on badlaav and topis. I’m still hopeful for the mayhem to start any moment and I just get the whole packet of chips while he speaks. He starts of with his first song ‘Odh Li Chunariya‘, which understandably was his first ever song. He then sticks to the same theme with ‘Teri Chunariya‘, but when that was followed by ‘Tere Naam‘ I begin to cringe. When he sings a rendition of ‘Teri Yaad‘, I can sense the mood. It’s more like an exhibition of his soulful songs and show people that he can churn out such stuff as well. I get up and to put the chips packet in the kitchen shelf, when all of a sudden he breaks into ‘Ashiqui mein teri‘ and then ‘Naam hain tera tera‘(Deepika Padukone was a music video girl then). Hell Yeah! This is the stuff that I and all the autowallahs in the audience want to hear. Then comes the most awaited song of the day and the one that shot him to super stardom. It was short lived as he then just moved his lips to the track of ‘Jhalak‘ and firang dancers were prancing around the stage.

The chips and Salsa find their places on my shelf and the Sprite is back in the fridge as the contestants croon to Himesh hits. Again an thanda performances follow each other as every contestant seemed to find the mellowest of Himesh songs to sing. The judges looked distraught and were visibly upset with most of the contestants. Everybody had the same comments like  sur,taal,leh, feel, fear etc. The only decent performance of the day came from a female contestant of the ‘Lakshya Gharaana‘ where she sang ‘Dil Mahiya le Gaya‘. The knockout performance of the day however came from a self confessed ‘Himeshji ka pirated version‘. The guy was dreseed in black with a cap and trenchcoat! His rendition of Aashiq banaya Aapne was the only saving grace of the evening, Himeshji even did an encore with him on Shankar’s behest. What satisfied me the most was that, one of my fav Himesh songs which isn’t as popular as the others was sung by a contestant. Some may call it waahiyaad for its lyrics and picturization but, hey! I like it and this is my blog. Beautiful vocals by Sunidhi Chauhan and Priyanka wasn’t too bad either, I swear  that I heard the song before I saw it.

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