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Thursday, April 4, 2013

Hindi gaaliya dil pe lagti hai yar,english nhi

It was a stunning IPL-6 opening ceremony. Katrina was so seductive and awesome as usual with sexy moves and deepika on Honey Singh song

s was also an entertainer. The fake macho image of SRK was ignored . What was the main event and feature of the ceremony was PITBULL. A bald american rapper with a gang of bald musicians did rocked the stage. While almost everyone was enjoying his tunes, some  people like me who want to act as a spoilsport and use their narrow-mindedness in an illusion to act like a critic and use their critical reasoning to write critical views of so called critics in order to make reader's mind more critical were concentrating on the lyrics of his songs. My wish was heard when a renown tune stimulated my ears and then came the lyrics I was waiting for " I’m impatient baby, now give me dat a$$". That brought a glow in my eyes and totally cheered me up. Somewhere inside I knew that I have got a new topic for my blog.
Frankly I don't really have a problem with PitBull or his lyrics; infact I turnout to be fan of this bald rapper. But I just could not ignore the people and indian media ignoring this moment; moment when abusive language and words disrespectful to women were used in songs, that too on one of the biggest stage of entertainment with several MPs and VVIPs present. People didn't ignore Honey Singh three months ago when his newyear's night show was cancelled claiming the lyrics of his age old song to be disrespectful and highly abusive. I raised this matter on my facebook wall and there were some funny comments. One of my friend joked " Hindi gaaliya dil pe lagti hai yar,english nhi"; No doubt it is somehow not wrong. We are still not comfortable with the meanings of english words. Infact people boast their abusing-in-english skills. Many of my girlfriends scold me for using BC/MC but they don't see any bad in  kicking  your a$$ and the F word ( okay... not girlfriends but friends who are girls). This language is so in. They call it smart english in which they can leave an oxford scholar behind. Couldn't figure out why I can't call BC/MC smart hindi.
Coming back to Honey Singh, No doubt he is an icon, atleast in the northern part of the country. People love his songs, his music. It won't be exaggeration if I say almost all hindi and punjabi music lovers would be having atleast 2-3 songs of Honey Singh in their cellphone. Then Why there were masses protesting against Honey Singh ? Why his newyear's event was cancelled. Hell yes some of his songs have abusive lyrics, some disrespect women. Is this what we call freedom of speech?


We don't stop artists from making explicit paintings,why stopping a musician. Isn't music an art in itself.
And for god sake, Do we need Songs to judge whether we respect women or not?