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First a confession. The use of word KISS in the title is to get some more extra views. In one of those boring management classes i was told that KISS is Keep It Simple Stupid! The guru-mantra of advertising and marketing world. That day i decided i cant take this anymore. Life without the most purest emotion..lust! How non-lusty can you be! Thank God, Feroze Khan never went to any of those classes otherwise who would have given us that lip-lock of Vinod Khanna and Madhuri Dixit. And if you are still wondering how censor board passed that scene, then click here And whenever i think about this scene ( not the dayavan but the link) am ROFL!!

Though I hated the film but loved it when K Jo got everything colour coordinated in KANK’stumhi dekho na song. I also liked it when Anurag Basu made Pritam and his band climb up on top of the water tank of a 32-storied building for Life in A Metro. And when Vishal Bharadwaj decided to choreograph an action sequence on the beats of Omkara’s title track, i thought, wow this is also possible!

But then, there are some songs where nothing happens. Much like Sofia Coppola’s Lost In Translation ( two characters and nothing happens! ) Whenever these songs play on tv, everytime i think the same. How they kept it so simple and still it works ? Nothing really happens. No fancy camera movement, no chaiyya chaiyya, not even much variation in the shots. Mostly two characters in the frame and thats it. Sometimes not even two. Just one. So was it accident or was it planned ? May be the choreographer had an accident, wasnt well, wasnt in mood and he/she told the director to “just roll”. what the director thought ? Did he just roll it ? Or everyone knew that the song is so good that even if you keep the screen blank for few minutes, people would still not get bored. I dont know the stories behind these songs but have a look and let me know what you think. May be Pavan, Subrat, WB or RK can tell us some intersting stories about these songs.

And i am not talking about ghazals, bhajans, loriss or the the usual soapy sad numbers. Becuase there you dont have much choice but to stand or sit at one place and sing the song.

So, here’s my list of seven songs which followed the KISS funda and i am still wondering how ?

1) Bade acche lagte hain - just sit and sing.
How ? Just how they thought about it ? And how it works ? Dont know if there is any other song which has been picturised in more simpler manner than this one. Two actors. They are sitting & singing. Yes, thats about it. The camera occasionaly moves to capture the blue, green, white colours around them and comes back to them.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=3pN7sITXVyk

2) Maang ke saath tumhara - just sit and sing. But in a tonga.
And whenever you feel like just move your right or left hand. Who said you need to jump around to show chemistry between the actors. The face can say a lot more.

3) Rimjhim Gire Sawaan - Walk and walk more. Let it rain.
sir its a rain song ? so will the heroine be in a wet saree ? yes! and we will shoot close-ups! yes ofcourse! nahi to baarish ka maza kahan hai. In bollywood, rain is every director and choreographer’s delight. Heroine in a wet saree is the ultimate bollywood wet dream! And if its white saree, then say no more! So what happened in this song ? You guys just walk and walk more and we will roll and roll more.

4) Na jiya lage na - walk from this corner to that.
Everytime i see this song, i think something is gonna happen soon. Someone will just walk in. but nothing happens. The actress just walks from this door to that window and that window to this door. And in between she stops in front of the mirror. Btw, the lusty in me always wonders if the pallu dropping act was intentional or it just happened ?

5) Aajkal Zameen par paanv nahi padte mere - walk and run ( and some slo-mo)
Main udna chahti thi. Main alag thi.( i wanted to fly. i was different ) I dont get this. From Ponds to Femina to Frankfinn Academy, whenever they talk about a girl’s dream, its all about flying. Recently a female collegue cracked it for me. She said may be udna chahti thi is nice way of talking about having orgasm. Its more that just career talks. So, as Vinod Khanna and Rekha run in slo-mo, i wonder if Gulzar also dicovered a new meaning of “udte huye” in this song.

6) Churi nahi yeh mera dil hai - churi and chocholate.
Devanand in driver’s seat and has churi and chocholate as props. Check out the way he uses them. Everything is inside the car and you have only the frontal view. But as they, Devsaab is Devsaab! Though you can spot the cadbury’s logo there, am sure there was no funda of in-film branding then.

7) Musafir hoon yaaron - Sit and sing. Again in a tonga.
Have a look at this song and think about the Jeetendra of that famous matka-jhatka dance number. Is he the same actor ? It makes me believe that Jeetuji has a twin brother. Or may be thats why they say it all depends on the director.

Am sure there are many other songs like these. But these seven songs top my list. And i can bet on bade acche lagte hain for the top post. Let me know if there is any other song which is more simpler than that and still it works.