Nostalgia in 2046
When we’re old and withered, will ‘Come to Me’ be to us what ‘Aaj Phir Jeene Ki Tamanna Hai’ was to the parental units? 
on Wednesday, April 30th, 2008, 7:37 pm in Film, Humor, Video clips › 
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Growing up in the 80s (I’m 31 now), I grew up on a steady diet of “Chitrahaar”, which showed songs like ‘Aaj Phir Jeene Ki Tamanna Hai’ on a regular basis. It’s not just the parental units that will remember those Dev Anand movies with nostalgia, but also all of us who grew up during the heyday of socialism.
Oh, absolutely, but we own them a different way. We didn’t rush out and see Guide on opening day :)
Where were you when Hrithik Roshan became the queen of England on top of a running train in the middle of the Sahara?
This clip of Aaj Phir Jeene Ki Tamanna Hai also on youtube, is more complete, and also in higher resolution. The song is great, but so is Waheeda Rehman. I still wonder how they filmed the song, bringing along those random extras too.
One of the (possibly unintended) messages in the song for me is that you can’t enjoy life any other way nearly as much as when you are at the ‘point of inflexion’ - indifferent between life and death - jeene ki tamanna = marne ka iraada. (What that also means is 2046 is too far away to be thinking about.)
She totally acts that out in the song, both in the roll in the hay ,and on the terrace. Watch her nearly trip over her sari at 3:22 in the clip.
thanks, manish.
The guys in the second clip look like the Indian versions of the douchebags found on njguidos.com. Who are they again?
Those are Mr. Aishwarya and Ritesh Deshmukh.