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to THE ROUGH GUIDE THE ROUGH MUSICROUGHGUIDES Psychedelic Bollywood is a universe of extremes. schedule to broadcast Western pop. The sixties trickled back to Indian shores and Dharmatama’s (1971) tension-building Lusciously over-the-top films portray 1960s saw the release of Indian-inspired went on to manifest themselves, first in the scene, prefacing a shoot-out in a seedy, glittering princesses drowned in jewels album The Velvet Underground and Nico underground scene and then Bollywood. psychedelic club in Afghanistan (at a time living aside dishevelled slum-dwellers by the American band of the same name. when the country was associated with its fighting their way to the top. Across The seminal psychedelic rock album Sgt. One of the very first examples of a place on the hippy trail), and experiment sprawling billboards advertise the hottest Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band was psychedelic element on the big screen with synths and wah-wah guitars, as well as new release, well-loved posters ripped- released the same year by The Beatles and was seen in the classic Hare Rama Hare sinister laughs and screams. out from magazines decorate the inside of featured several Indian gurus on the iconic Krishna. In this film, a young woman runs auto-rickshaws and booming Bollywood front cover and instruments likes sitar, away and joins a hippy commune where she MERA NAAM HAI SHABNAM – soundtracks reverberate out from roadside tabla, tambura on the tracks. The late puffs with pleasure on an oversized chillum and R.D. Burman again combine in this stalls. Like India, Bollywood is an assault Shankar played a huge part in invigorating and dances loosely to the hypnotic music. hypnotic offering for Kati Patang (1970), in a on the senses – an experience like no other, Western interest in Indian music: he ‘Dum Maro Dum’, the famous track from scene in which restaurant dancer Shabnam thrilling in its eccentricity. performed at Woodstock and collaborated this scene is sung by renowned playback flaunts her charms upon a spellbound with George Harrison. Fascination with singer Asha Bhosle. male audience, while openly provoking the The term ‘Bollywood’ first came into jealousy and embarrassment of their female Indian culture was also spurred by the The Virji Shah brothers make up the common parlance in the 1970s when film hippy trail, which led many flare-wearing partners. production in India was at an all time high. composer duo known as Kalyanji Anandji. wanderers to seek refuge in Ashrams in Together they composed several seminal MOMENTS OF PASSION (INSTRUMENTAL) – Film had been a much loved medium since popular coastal hotspots like Goa. the 1930s and 1940s though, offering a Bollywood hits and openly acknowledged A spectacular exploration of Indian rhythmic rampant escapism that provided salve to the Influenced by the Western rock and the the influence of James Brown and variation and colour, constantly switching hardships of the time; the Great Depression, intertwined hippy movement, the Indian psychedelia on their musical brand. Other between the tension of seven- and five-beat World War II, the Independence Movement underground scene mushroomed: rock-zine jewels included feature , time-cycles and the mesmerizing groove of and the violence related to the Partition of the Junior Statesman was founded and Usha Iyer and yodeller . the more regular eight-beat, this track is India. Simla Cigarette Company held a ‘Battle of Delve deep into the time-warp and lose taken from the now-classic Lamhe (1991). yourself in the heady world of psychedelic the Bands’ competition at Shanmukhananda TITLE MUSIC (INSTRUMENTAL) – R.D. India was finally granted independence from Hall in , offering a platform to Bollywood. Britain in 1947. Though the Empire made its Burman provides more proof of his genius in newly formed garage rock bands. The first PYAR ZINDAGI HAI – Lata Mangeshkar, combining styles, in which Indian Bollywood exit, the cultural implications of 200 years simmers of a psychedelic underground of colonial rule meant that many English Asha Bhosle and perform melodic themes are backed up by a band inspired composers like R.D. Burman to together in a mischievous Bollywood funk recalling the likes of Jefferson Airplane. businesses remained. Recording magnate work far-out music into their blockbuster HMV stayed, capitalizing on the emerging work-out that recalls American crime soundtracks. Evidently the Western thriller music of the 1970s. YEH MERA DIL YAAR KA DIWANA – More market in ‘new’ India. HMV pressed Western psychedelic movement owed much to Indian seductive cool from Asha Bhosle this time rock albums and released them alongside inspiration and the relationship was mutual: CABARET DANCE MUSIC (INSTRUMENTAL) taken from the classic 1978 action movie their Indian output and in Mumbai and the sounds and styles of the swinging – Kalyanji/Anandji take full advantage of , in a scene depicting the typically Calcutta, All India Radio made time in its dramatic attempts of a seductress trying to legend that is , in which 01 LATA MANGESHKAR, ASHA BHOSLE & 09 ASHA BHOSLE Aye Naujawan Sab Kuchh Yahan distract a distinctly unimpressed Amitabh an orphan is faced with reality in the search MAHENDRA KAPOOR Pyar Zindagi Hai () from the film from the film APRADH Bachchan. for his parents. (music Kalyanji/Anandji, words ) (music Kalyanji/Anandji, words Indeewar) HARE RAMA HARE KRISHNA – Another gem DANCE MUSIC (INSTRUMENTAL) – Another of psychedelic grooves from 1971’s Hare far-out freak-out from Kalyanji/Anandji, 02 KALYANJI ANANDJI Cabaret Dance Music 10 & ASHA BHOSLE Main (Instrumental) Hoon Pyar Tera Rama, Hare Krishna, with Usha Iyer and this time for 1976’s , starring Dilip from the film from the film JO JEETA WOHI SIKANDAR Asha Bhosle on vocals, this song pokes fun at Kumar. This eccentric speed-funk offering (Kalyanji/Anandji) (music R.D. Burman, words Majrooh Sultanpuri) the shallow, ill-informed and drug-induced also somehow manages to reference the hippie take on Hare Krishna spirituality: blaring horns associated with Spaghetti 03 ASHA BHOSLE Mera Naam Hai Shabnam 11 LATA MANGESHKAR Apni To Jaise Taise “Can we go a little faster, man?” Western soundtracks. from the film KATI PATANG from the film LAWAARIS (music R.D. Burman, words Anand Baskhi) (music Kalyanji/Anandji, words ) SOUL OF BOBBY (INSTRUMENTAL) – DUNIYA MEIN LOGON KO – R.D. Burman This track is taken from Raj Kapoor’s 1973 gives a hilarious growling delivery of his own 04 SHIV HARI Moments Of Passion (Instrumental) 12 KALYANJI ANANDJI Dance Music hit Bobby and features some wonderfully composition alongside Asha Bhosle, for the from the film LAMHE (Instrumental) energetic saxophone and flute soloing. 1972 film Apna Desh, in which a young man’s (Shiv-Hari) from the film BAIRAAG (Kalyanji/Anandji) Kapoor was so impressed with compositional honesty in his role as a government clerk in duo Laxmikant-Pyarelal’s music that he Bombay (Mumbai) becomes a problem for 05 R.D. BURMAN Title Music (Instrumental) from the film HARE RAMA HARE KRISHNA 13 R.D. BURMAN & ASHA BHOSLE Duniya Mein decided to have it released on a standalone his corrupt superiors. (R.D. Burman) Logon Ko (Apna Desh) LP. from the film APNA DESH FREAK OUT MUSIC (INSTRUMENTAL) – (music R.D. Burman, words ) AYE NAUJAWAN SAB KUCHH YAHAN – An More bizarre psychedelia from R.D. Burman 06 ASHA BHOSLE Yeh Mera Dil Yaar Ka Diwana from the film DON Asha Bhosle classic for the film Apradh taking this appropriately named ‘Freak Out (music Kalyanji/Anandji, words Indeewar) 14 R.D. BURMAN Freak Out Music (Instrumental) (1972), this track is a quintessential example Music’ into a totally hypnotic territory. from the film HARE RAMA HARE KRISHNA of music, highly reminiscent of (R.D. Burman) JAAN PEHECHAAN HO – This wonderfully 07 USHA IYER & ASHA BHOSLE Hare Rama Hare the Beatles’ experiments using sitar over an Krishna r‘n’b backing. It later formed the basis for playful interpretation of up-tempo rock ‘n’ from the film HARE RAMA HARE KRISHNA 15 MOHAMMED RAFI Jaan Pehechaan Ho the Black Eyed Peas 2005 hit ‘Don’t Phunk roll was given a new lease of life when it (R.D. Burman, words Anand Bakshi) from the film GUMNAAM/SURAJ (music Shankar Jaikishan, words Shailendra) with My Heart’. featured in American cult hit Ghost World (2001). 08 LAXMIKANT-PYARELAL Soul Of Bobby MAIN HOON PYAR TERA – More rock and (Instrumental) All tracks published by India Limited/Saregama R.D. BURMAN (BONUS DISC ARTIST) – This from the film BOBBY PLC roll frenzy from Mohammed Rafi singing in (Laxmikant Pyarelal) All tracks licensed from Saregama PLC this frenzied dance number. hand-picked bonus album spotlights the work of seminal composer R.D. Burman. APNI TO JAISE TAISE – This track is from the 1981 mega-hit Laawaris, starring the

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