Beedi Jalai-le Jigar Se Piya,Jigar-ma Badi Aag HaiOnly, but only Gulzar can take a so-called item number, and turn it into sheer poetry. Take the above lines from a sexy
nautanki number in Vishal Bharadwaj's forthcoming
Omkara. I have only heard snatches, but they have been more than enough to convince me that this song is a winner. In fact, I think the rest of the
Omkara soundtrack will also be
hatke and quite interesting.
Apart from the
paisa-vasool nature of the song which has Bips doing all the
dehati jhatkas-matkas with great gusto, the music, by Bharadwaj himself, has a certain R D Burman feel to it. And teamed with Gulzar's lyrics, how can one go wrong?
If just the first two lines manage to ooze all that passion, sassiness and earthiness, then I can only imagine what the rest will be like.
Now only hope that the hon'ble Censor Board of India does not ban this number on the grounds that it "glorifies" smoking!