Dark tales, dream tunes

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Bob Chowdhury

@Qwest

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Posted: 18 years ago

Dark tales, dream tunes

Ya ali wins the Best Song honours in our year-end Bollywood poll. Even as Himesh and Rahman go missing, two of the top five, picked by our readers, are by city boy Pritam

1. No Himesh. No Rahman. Not even Anu Malik. Pritam's Ya ali, which is a copy-paste job of the band Guitara's Ya ghali, is the best song of the year. But only just, with 22.6 per cent votes. The Best Song category has turned out to be the most fiercely contested of them all. While A.R. Rahman's Rang de basanti has just missed out being in the Top Five, Himesh's Jhalak dikhhla ja could manage just four per cent votes! The readers refused to take sides with remixed songs as Don's Yeh mera dil finished right at the bottom of the list. So, Ya ali it is! The Gangster song was initially supposed to be sung by Kailash Kher but Assam wonder boy Zubeen sung the alaap so well that he got the full song.

2. Onir's Bas Ek Pal may have had just a weeklong run in Calcutta but the Atif Aslam chartbuster Tere bin was able to touch the right chords. With 16.3 per cent votes, Tere bin is a thumbs up to new music director Mithoon's foray into Bollywood music

3. Jatin Lalit's swansong in Fanaa gets recognition with Chand sifarish coming third (14.2 per cent votes) in the year-end list. With Kailash Kher's Subhanallah refrain, Shaan breezes through what was Aamir Khan's opening ode to Kajol in the Kunal Kohli

4. Pritam, again! And another Shiney-Kangana movie, too. K.K.'s Kya mujhe pyar hai makes it to number four in the SMS poll for Best Song. Woh Lamhe, much like Gangster, scored high on music and, as the Bhatts have shown year in and year out, that is half the job done at the Bolly box-office

5. Shankar Ehsaan Loy, who had a mixed year in 2006 with KANK and Don not quite living up to their high standards, manage to sneak into the Top Five with Mitwaa. Pakistani singer Shafqat Amanat Ali makes most of this Javed Akhtar-penned number, picturised on Shah Rukh and Rani

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MOE

@wite_rainbow

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Posted: 18 years ago

i cant believe we want and like the copied stuff... 🤢
thx bob da!
Ive been listening to Shafqat Amanat Ali's music i think he is pretty good and he did good with Mitwa 👏

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Noopur

@galois311

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Posted: 18 years ago

Huh, Rang De Basanti's song isn't up there? Wow. Still, I like some of the songs in the list. 😊

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sur_sangam

@Sur_Sangam

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Posted: 18 years ago

Thanks QB for sharing. I like song at #3 "chand sifarish" it is very well sung by Shaan.I am surprized another great song from the same film "tere haathon mein" missed it. Pritam is numero uno, is not unexpected.He found a good song beating every body at it.Thanks again..

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Krishna

@snowflake0555

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Posted: 18 years ago

well actually wasn't Rang De Basanti the #1 song of 2006?? that's what it had said in the top 20 songs podcast...anywayz thanks for sharing 😃

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shootingstar

@shootingstar

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Posted: 18 years ago

eh... 😕 some songs are good 😛

Thx bobda

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@the coolest one

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Posted: 18 years ago

hey i know about this poll.it was there in the telegraph newspaper.i myself voted for kya mujhe pyaar hai 😃

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Ron

@AznDesi

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Posted: 18 years ago

HAHA thanx Bob da! those are damn good songs. It is just a lil annoyance to me that out of the Top 5... 2 are straight up copy and paste. Oh well hehe i enjoyed the hindi versions a alot 😆 😆 😆