Surely the titles can be fairly misleading if this title is anything to be that. What is ooie ooie you may ask. It's is that something that ate my brain for a real long time after I started abusing Google for freezing my memory before nuggets get away.
I heard a lot of vividhbharti at home. Coming from a family, especially a father who was an old Hindi film music lover, and mother who almost mimicked whole song while making rotis, our home used our second hand radio (my aunt's "gift" (read castaway) rigorously. Not that the television had much to offer anyways besides an occasional chitrahaar.
Our day stared with Marathi bhajans and old Hindi songs, before dada ( my father) left for office. The radio switched off before upcoming film promos and time aai too left for work. Evenings started again with Marathi and then semi old and then a bit old Hindi songs. Later cable entered and ruined this radio beauty.
Honestly I still miss it sometimes. The reason I had to digress so much is that it is through these radio songs that my song guan (read trivial pursuit) started. I am happy ( honestly, embarrassed) that I know and enjoy a lot of black and white movie music along with current 'Sheila ki jawani ' along with trivial details like movie name, who has acted in it and story if I have seen it. And at times status like flop or hit movie.
So about this ooie ooie you may ask. I am coming to it, I am almost these. So in between two music programmes or if one has got over early, a filler used to be added. And no it was not a song. It was instrumental version of one, till a minute or two got over and was time for next programme was there. It was not that often but yes, I did hear it. There was instrumental of "Hume tumse pyar hai kitna" from kudrat , "boom boom" from a flop movie star, which had a real emanciated and stone faced "dagad " kumar gaurav in lead role. The movie incidentally sported songs from hit album "boom boom" by the brother sister duo "Hassan's " aka Nazia and Zoaib Hassan. The title song boom boom, which was later remixed by the musician Biddu, keeping Nazia Hassan's voice sam good and her voice especially a bit haunting.
I also used to hear a different tune as well sometimes. And once I hummed it to aai, who said there was a song called "ek.. Do...something something". I tried to find the song using same key words and Google very kindly gave me "ek do teen..." (Aargh😐) Google is a reliable search engine and gives bulls eye results most of the times, but what if the search it self is flawed. I tried my memory and remembered it had kumar gaurav in a 70's outfit singing on stage and people dancing. So my next search went to his limited filmography. I read the storylines ( no I didn't like the dagad still.. Lucky star kid though of another hit dagad, Rajendra kumar). I then zeroed on single movie 'Star". I had heard the songs earlier in fast forward mode ( except boom boom which like both old and remixed and music video of remix as well) all the others were too.. Too dunno what to say but I did find Zoaib Hassan out of tune or was that music?? But couldn't tolerate him ( just like Sharada who sang my favourite song o mere dil from gumnaam, I hear it only for the winery drugging voice of Rafi).some singers who you just can't like.
Now for the ultimate sacrifice, hearing all of Star songs. I did slow fast forward as in, on you tube, I took the scroll slowly to the end. The first in line was " dheere dheere " half the song later I realized that this is not the one. The next in line was something similar. But a few minutes later I heard it" ek do kehne bhi do, teen char ho gaya pyar, main to gaya, jaise bahaaar.. Ooie ooie". That's it. My search finally got over. The reason I couldn't find this song was that this nugget was hidden just before and the song was put as ooie ooie..
Finally a search over. Another one to go. But don't know when I will find it. That song, I just know the music. No actor, actress, film, singer. I just hope the song crosses the path with me some time.
For now " jai Google maharaj"
I heard a lot of vividhbharti at home. Coming from a family, especially a father who was an old Hindi film music lover, and mother who almost mimicked whole song while making rotis, our home used our second hand radio (my aunt's "gift" (read castaway) rigorously. Not that the television had much to offer anyways besides an occasional chitrahaar.
Our day stared with Marathi bhajans and old Hindi songs, before dada ( my father) left for office. The radio switched off before upcoming film promos and time aai too left for work. Evenings started again with Marathi and then semi old and then a bit old Hindi songs. Later cable entered and ruined this radio beauty.
Honestly I still miss it sometimes. The reason I had to digress so much is that it is through these radio songs that my song guan (read trivial pursuit) started. I am happy ( honestly, embarrassed) that I know and enjoy a lot of black and white movie music along with current 'Sheila ki jawani ' along with trivial details like movie name, who has acted in it and story if I have seen it. And at times status like flop or hit movie.
So about this ooie ooie you may ask. I am coming to it, I am almost these. So in between two music programmes or if one has got over early, a filler used to be added. And no it was not a song. It was instrumental version of one, till a minute or two got over and was time for next programme was there. It was not that often but yes, I did hear it. There was instrumental of "Hume tumse pyar hai kitna" from kudrat , "boom boom" from a flop movie star, which had a real emanciated and stone faced "dagad " kumar gaurav in lead role. The movie incidentally sported songs from hit album "boom boom" by the brother sister duo "Hassan's " aka Nazia and Zoaib Hassan. The title song boom boom, which was later remixed by the musician Biddu, keeping Nazia Hassan's voice sam good and her voice especially a bit haunting.
I also used to hear a different tune as well sometimes. And once I hummed it to aai, who said there was a song called "ek.. Do...something something". I tried to find the song using same key words and Google very kindly gave me "ek do teen..." (Aargh😐) Google is a reliable search engine and gives bulls eye results most of the times, but what if the search it self is flawed. I tried my memory and remembered it had kumar gaurav in a 70's outfit singing on stage and people dancing. So my next search went to his limited filmography. I read the storylines ( no I didn't like the dagad still.. Lucky star kid though of another hit dagad, Rajendra kumar). I then zeroed on single movie 'Star". I had heard the songs earlier in fast forward mode ( except boom boom which like both old and remixed and music video of remix as well) all the others were too.. Too dunno what to say but I did find Zoaib Hassan out of tune or was that music?? But couldn't tolerate him ( just like Sharada who sang my favourite song o mere dil from gumnaam, I hear it only for the winery drugging voice of Rafi).some singers who you just can't like.
Now for the ultimate sacrifice, hearing all of Star songs. I did slow fast forward as in, on you tube, I took the scroll slowly to the end. The first in line was " dheere dheere " half the song later I realized that this is not the one. The next in line was something similar. But a few minutes later I heard it" ek do kehne bhi do, teen char ho gaya pyar, main to gaya, jaise bahaaar.. Ooie ooie". That's it. My search finally got over. The reason I couldn't find this song was that this nugget was hidden just before and the song was put as ooie ooie..
Finally a search over. Another one to go. But don't know when I will find it. That song, I just know the music. No actor, actress, film, singer. I just hope the song crosses the path with me some time.
For now " jai Google maharaj"
