The long forgotten climax song of Bollywood

"Hoton pe aisi baat, to dabake chale aayi "( Jewel Thief)
"Jab tak hai jaan, jaane bahar mein nachoongi " ( Sholay)
"Yamma Yamma , yeh khoobsurat sama" ( Shaan)
" Anhoone ko honee kar de ,Amar Akbar Anthony"
" Oye oye, gazar ne kiye hai ishaara ( Tridev) " and many more such songs.



Q. Whats common to all of them ?
A.  They are all climax songs from Bollywood of yore.

These Songs that are now slowly getting extinct in the new era of Bollywood as item numbers but we have forgotten the climax songs . Climax songs were characterized by the following

1. Properly clad in the 70s to skimpily clad heroines in the 80s singing a catchy song usually with when alcohol is flowing freely as the municipal drains in Mumbai.
2. A huge kumbh mela type aggregation of villains ranging from Bob Christo, Papu Polyester, Shakti Kapoor, Anand Balraj to champs like Raza Murad, Gulshan Grover and of course Amrish Puri. And in that rare moment of weakness when the double intoxication of wine and woman induce the bathroom singing Indian Idol in the villain, the movie would reach its earth shattering climax and the heroes would crop up to pound the villains to kachumber and ketchup consistency.
3. Usually the heroes would be locked in custody and at that end of the song would have got the energy or the strategy to break the chain or lock. Their brains would work in overstimulation mode.
4. After that they could be in obvious disguises that would completely fool the villains. Long moustaches, a big mole, a turban, a velcro strip like beard and other fancy dress stuff leased by Maganlal Dresswala would be the common disguises.
5. And then there would be the action se bharpoor gun fights and dialogue baazi to create a happy ending and der aaye durust aaye police would come and arrest the left over villains.
Oye oye ... such golden moments of a bygone Bollywood era.

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