The western pop has its car driving songs – fast beats, with heavy guitar and drums and unique twangs – like the beach boys.
We in india have our equivalent, ie maattu vandi jatka songs.
Only in india, can the maattu vandi or jatka, can outrace the automobile. Even though the real ride may result in bruised bums, we have the cheery actors spouting away the beauty of the countryside, the land and above all the MOTHER. Underlying this, is also, a mockery, some slight but many overt, of the city life, which is viewed as selfish and ‘anti family’.
Here I give two songs, from two different parts of india, two different era, separated by more than 20 years, but still carrying the same theme, and one only has to close one’s eyes, to imagine the bells of the cows and stink of their farts, as they pull the kolly/bolly stars from reality to the silver screen.
The first is from periya idathu penn, with our own vathiar, thalappa kattu and all, mocking the then pretty lass, B. Saroja Devi.
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The other is from aah, 1953, Raj Kapoor and two bullocks. My sympathies, ofcourse, lies with the bullocks.
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