The rise of headphones and MP3 culture around this time meant that most of these tracks were also the first to be played widely on Discmans and Walkmans nationwide.Īs years went by, these tunes became timeless. The item girls ushered in their own little revolution and remixed music regularly landed up busting charts nationwide. The era also launched a number of young actresses like Shefali Zariwala, Mumaith Khan, and Yana Gupta into item girl superstardom. The Remix Era of Indian pop music stuck to a standard formula: A bunch of sexy girls dressed in loud outfits, a few catchy beats, a smattering of sexual innuendo, and perhaps a big star thrown in, helmed together by a tacky narrative. The entire episode was pathetic but oddly wonderful. Some even remembered the exact dance steps from the video. ![]() That night, the DJ decided to go retro on us and played the Spice Girl’s hit, “If You Wannabe My Lover.” Next thing I know, we were both pissed drunk, switching the chorus with “Saiyyan Dil Mein Aana Re.” And to our absolute elation, by the time the third chorus came around, another table of fellow desis had started singing along. My batchmate Shefali and I decided to rock the dance floor at a Chicago club. The popularity of these videos soared the saat samundars. This kind of implied nudity on Indian television was unheard of at the time, and by Shobhit’s own admission, the 47th viewing of the video, led to him handing himself his “ rite of passage” into boyhood. Cleavage shots filled up every frame and in one sequence, Miss Naidu’s bust is covered with nothing more than a layer of drenched flower petals. ![]() Once, during our summer break, the entire school found out that Shobhit was having a particularly vela day when iTV replayed “Kaliyon Ka Chaman” on repeat, 48 times straight – a slinkily dressed Meghana Naidu gyrating with a bunch of other women dancers, 48 times over. Proof of this was the insane number of times, Shobhit, a school friend, phoned in a local music request channel, iTV, and requested for the same video: “ Kaliyon Ka Chaman”. Of course teenage boys across India upped their creativity to come up with excuses so that they could lock their rooms and ogle at the scantily clad Sophie Choudry, the gyrating Meghana Naidu and a thong-sporting Miss Zariwala. Of course teenage boys across India upped their creativity to come up with excuses so that they could lock their rooms and ogle at scantily clad Rakhi Sawants and Sophie Choudrys. If these CDs were put under the white light used in the X-Files that makes sperm stains glow, they could potentially blind a person. ![]() ![]() These were then downloaded and stealthily hidden in discreet C/Program Files/Research Folders. We did, however, have just a sliver of porn that a privileged few accessed through shady CDs hired “on rent”. And the closest thing we had to stalking our ex was keeping an alert for when s/he came online on MSN Messenger. Smartphones were unheard of and kids spent most of their time doing primitive things like salvaging actual personalities through face-to-face communication. Which is why, an entire generation of grown-ass men crooning and gyrating to lascivious Hindi pop hits from the mid-2000s is now common at bars and pubs across the country.īeing a teenager in the noughties was a wondrous time. It’s been scientifically proven that no matter how old you get, music that triggers memories of your teenage years and your first feelings of love, will forever hold a special place in your brain (and heart). Why do all our attempts to be better than Bollywood’s “jhataak music” phase fail so spectacularly? While many would like to believe it’s because “’90s musix is a roxx”, the truth is deeper than Kumar Sanu’s voice. There is a point in the life of every party when the Kygo and Rihanna that have been on loop are replaced by “ Saat Samundar Paar” and “Chamma Chamma”, and all the effort that you’ve made trying to be cool is dissolved in a hot mess, leaving you in a confused state of mind: You are both elated and embarrassed on the dance floor.
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