Of late, the beauty of nature is sparingly found in a beach song, everyone is going after ‘other’ type of beauty. Also many foreign beach locations have found place in picturisation of the songs.įrom, ‘Sagar Kinare Dil Ye Pukare’ and ‘Hum Tumhe Chahte Hai Aise’ to ‘Tanha Tanha Yahan Pe Jeena’ from Rangeela and ‘Anjana Anjani’ from Yuva, the beaches have proved a spectacular location. The Girgaon Chowpatty, Juhu Beach and lately, Madh island can be counted as favourite shooting locations for a beach. The ultimate capture of the villain, who’s about to escape by sea route, (or something on the similar lines) has been a climax for a number of films.
The sea shores were used for songs, but also for climax scenes and dhishum dhishum scenes. But the 70s and 80s films (Seeta Aur Geeta, Raja Jani, Sagar, Yashwant etc.)portrayed the beach quite effectively. So the seashores are not only for romantic songs, but other songs have also been picturised there.ĭue to lack of sophisticated cameras and equipments, there are comparatively less number of seashore songs, from films of 50s-60s. There are songs, where a family is enjoying happily and denotes the delightful moments of their life. On the other hand, slow and peaceful waves, are shown to have calming influence. The conflict gets highlighted more effectively. The waves sticking the rocks, making a huge splash have been metaphorically used as emotional explosion, a character undergoes, like a sudden outburst of cry, that helps drain the frustration. But you will find some soulful, emotional songs as well on my list. The beach or the sea shore made its appearance in romantic songs, picnic songs, for obvious reasons. Her expressions were never vulgar and lustful, even in a seductive song, and not needless to say, her clothes also used to be decent, as per character’s demand. Next decade saw a comparatively decent exposure by actresses like Helen, who always maintained a standard. Also there were no unnecessary skimpy clothes and most of the songs till 1960 had a reasonable decency in picturisation.
Of course this must have brought more realistic approach to the picturisation. This must have started in early 1950s, in my opinion. During the Golden Era, most of the films were shot at the studios and only some of the songs were picturised outdoors. I worked on it and here I’m!Īs the Hindi film industry was firmly settled in Mumbai (then Bombay), it was but obvious that the sea shore and the beaches would appear in the songs. “Oh! I have one incomplete song list on this theme”. Then suddenly, wheels started churning in my mind. A few weeks back, one of my friends shared photos of his recent holiday to seaside. The rough idea of this post was with me for a few months.
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