{"id":6209,"date":"2010-06-11T12:23:45","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T17:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=6209"},"modified":"2010-06-11T12:32:39","modified_gmt":"2010-06-11T17:32:39","slug":"monsoon_song_sh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/11\/monsoon_song_sh\/","title":{"rendered":"Monsoon Song Showdown: Do Bigha Zameen (1953) vs. Lagaan (2001)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was recently chastised by a colleague for not ever having seen Bimal Roy’s classic Hindi film, “Do Bigha Zameen” (Two Acres of Land). The chastising was sufficiently harsh (“what’s wrong with you?! it’s on frikking YouTube, you have no excuse!!!”) that I felt compelled to actually watch some of the film. (Beautiful, even on YouTube.)<\/p>\n\n

Watching the film, one thing that struck me was the similarity of one of the key monsoon songs to “Ghanan Ghanan” from Lagaan<\/i>. Here is Hariyala Sawan Dhol Bjata Aya:<\/p>\n\n

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And here is Ghanan Ghanan:<\/p>\n\n

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There are similarities both in the structure of the songs and in the way the songs are filmed. Did A.R. Rahman or Ashutosh Gowariker acknowledge the debt to Bimal Roy after Lagaan<\/i> came out? (They might have — I might not have been paying attention.)<\/p>\n\n

The blog Dusted Off has a great list of “Top Ten Monsoon Songs”: here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

And one of the commenters on that post links to his own “105 Baarish Songs”: here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was recently chastised by a colleague for not ever having seen Bimal Roy’s classic Hindi film, “Do Bigha Zameen” (Two Acres of Land). The chastising was sufficiently harsh (“what’s wrong with you?! it’s on frikking YouTube, you have no … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6209"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}