In my last post I gave a brief description about the origin of Rebetika, where and how it thrived and lastly the arrival of Laika and Indoprepi.
I shall be dedicating this post in bringing forward the inspired Greek Indoprepi songs. The Greek music company MBI published two CDs with 30 such Indoprepi songs in 1995 under the names "The Homecoming of Mantoupala" and "The Song of Nargis". Needless to state that Madhubala and Nargis were the two most famous actresses of Hindi cinema in 1950s and 1960s in Greece because the films they acted in and the songs they sang appealed to the Greek psyche, specially the poor and the downtrodden ones. The CDs were published with the original Hindi tracks and did not provide with the inspired Greek songs due to the widespread popularity of the Greek renditions. The Greek songs are difficult to pick from a wide collection of Rebetika, Laika and Indoprepi songs present on the internet. I could, ultimately, collect almost all of them based on the original Hindi numbers that were published, but there are many more Greek songs which have a very familiar tune with a feeling of Dejavu but I am unable to pinpoint them. I have tried to provide you with the original video of the Hindi film song wherever available followed by the audio of the Greek version. I don't have any intention of violating copyright laws by providing the videos in my blog. As you will notice that the Greek songs are almost always the simpler version of the original Hindi ones with a heavy influence of the Bouzouki, the most favored instrument of the Rebetika songs. Some of the songs are a direct lift as far as the tune is concerned and some have only a few notes in common.
1a. Dunia Mein Hum Aaye Hain- Mother India (1957), Naushad / Lata Mangeshkar
1b. Kardia Mou Kaimeni (1960). Two versions, the first one is the original and the second one is a recent recording thus reiterating the fact that the song is still popular in Greece.
This is the earlier version
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