Bemaina Tapori Gaane – Jab Tak Rahega Samose Mein Aaloo

For all songs in this series, go here.

Prologue: A friend’s constant posts about some of the late 80s and early 90s tapori Bollywood songs prompted me to create this series Originally planned to post songs from Hindi (Indian Language) films only. Then I decided to find such songs in Telugu (= Indian Language), my mother tongue; and English. If you come across any songs in any language that would fall in this category, feel free to comment and I will post about them too.

Tapori = typically means a street thug with unique style of language; similar to ghettos. However it is crudely also used to mean something meaningless yet totally fun.

Bemaina = Urdu word for meaningless

Gaane = Songs

Next on this list Jab Tak Rahega Samose Mein Aaloo from the 1997 Indian Hindi-language romantic comedy Mr. & Mrs. Khiladi (= M. & Mrs. Player) filmed on the lead actors Akshay Kumar and Juhi Chawla. Music was composed by Anu Malik and Lyrics were penned by Dev Kohli with Background Vocals provided by Abhijeet Bhattacharya and Poornima.

I always wondered if the lyricist was hungry and eating a samosa or having his lunch while writing this song. As much as comic and total double-meaning the song is, it did make me hungry after listening to all those food items. 😛