Songs That Shouldn’t Be In Your Shaadi Ke Videos

We love to have the perfect video coverage of our wedding day. Who wouldn’t? We shell out thousands of rupees to find a good, experienced video waala, and expect him to freeze our most special day in film forever.

I remember watching shaadi ke videos of my aunts and chachas, which had the most romantic songs in the background, while the video waala zoomed in and out of the bride or groom’s face. After the editing, it was very common to see the bride’s blushing face and lowered gaze surrounded by digitally-enhanced flowers, mostly roses, which fancily rotates clock wise or counter clock wise around the bride’s face.

And just when you’re about to put the niwaala in your mouth, the experienced video waala finds you and zooms in his lens.

Back to the topic, the choice of songs to be played in the background is of paramount importance. These songs, when ever and where ever they are played, will remind you of your wedding day. So either you give them your selections, or the video waaley will do the picking themselves. Sometimes they, unintentionally (or intentionally perhaps) chose the wrong song. It happened with the shaadi ki video of one of Hubby’s relative. They played “Nayak Nahi Khalnayak Hu Main” just when the bara’at entered! Now every time that music plays, the poor man gets teased. It will forever be his wedding song.

So I’m thinking, what other songs would make a “tragic” background for a shaadi ki video? Here’s my list:

1. Abhi zinda houn tho ji lene do (Barsaat ke mausam main, from the movie Naajayaz)

I’m still alive, let me live.

2. Yeh kya jagah hai doston (Umraao Jaan)

What place is this, my friends?

3. Dost dost na raha (Sangam)

A friend is no longer a friend? (?)

4. Woh shaam kuch ajeeb thi (Khamoshi)

The evening was somewhat strange.

5. Yeh kya hua, kaisey hua (Amar prem)

What has happened? How did it happen?

6. Jaane kahan gaye woh din (Mera naam joker)

Wonder where those days went?

7. Waqt ne kiya, kiya haseen sitam (Kagaz ke phool)

Time has caused such a beautiful tyranny (?)

8. Manziloun pe aake lut-te hain (Sharaabi)

help?

9. Phirta rahoun darbadar (Murder)

I’ll be roaming aimlessly (?)

10. Chann se jo toote koi sapna (Jag soona soona lage, from Om Shanti Om)

help?

Okay, I’m somewhat exaggerating here; but who knows? Do you have any other songs in mind that we should be totally avoiding for shaadi ke videos?

Oh, and if someone could possibly translate those song titles, I’d be very grateful. Obviously, I’m terribly bad at it, and have absolutely done no justice whatsoever.

And if you’re getting married soon, good luck!

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