While watching it, I do find or any one can notice that a kind of antagonism that goes on between a male performer, who is in a semblance of Charlie Chaplin and a female is more like traditionally dressed up woman,
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who also represents traditional values, in this song.
As Charlie Chaplin-male is charmingly singing and proposing this traditional female to have/ to eat eggs before fall in love, she is more and more opposing to eat any, while beautifully performing in this song.
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As Charlie Chaplin-male is charmingly singing and proposing this traditional female to have/ to eat eggs before fall in love, she is more and more opposing to eat any, while beautifully performing in this song.
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In India, having egg(s) in a meal is a kind non-vegetarian food habit which not supposed to be eaten by a few upper-caste families and may be many more!. That's what female character claims against his pursuit when male performer (in demeanor of Charlie Chaplin)
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allures this traditional woman by singing playful song. Candidly, she conveys somewhere in the middle in one of the dancing sequences that she is a daughter of Brahmin priest, upper caste family. Thus, she would neither eat egg and nor she will be enchanted by
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any of his 'fun traps'. But male performer keeps on singing, performing and luring traditional lady by offering eggs on the Sunday.....and, eventually, another female appears in the song who kind of wearing a modern scout leaders' uniform, a pair of pants and a
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shirt and singing in English-Hindi slang. She represents therefore modern values in contrast with the traditional woman. Moreover, she alleges this traditional woman that she is incapable to fall in love through her jovial expressions...
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Finally this modern looking woman chose to fall in love with this Charlie Chaplin guy in the end! Song was released in the 1947 when India got the Independence from Colonial Rule, that's why I found this song quite interesting which, at least for me, carries many of the
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dichotomies that still persist. Anyways, enjoy this song! However this may be commented not least to me, may be elsewhere!!!
Written by Rahul Dev Prasad
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