Ae bambu bam bolo
Posted on: April 15, 2011
In the second half of 1950s, Hindi movies saw the influence of rock and roll music. The music of these songs was influenced by Rock and roll in the western countries. The lyrics of these songs were mainly gibberish.
The most influential of all these songs was obviously “Eena Meena Deeka” from “Asha” (1957). This song influenced lots and lots of imitators.
Here is a song from “Mausi” (1958) which is clearly inspired by “Eena Meena Deeka” kind of westen music based song. This song is sung by Asha Bhonsle. Bharat Vyas, normally associated with chaste Hindi lyrics, has come up with the predominantly gibberish lyrics of this song. Vasant Desai, who likewise was known mainly for composing semi classical music is the music director.
Only the audio of this song is available, so I am not aware how this song is picturised, though one can guess that the picturisation of this song has to be as club song.
PS-As informed by Mr Arunkumar Deshmukh, it is a get together song where this song is sung by Reshma to take a dig at the then popular rock and roll music.
song-Ae bambu bam bolo (Mausi) (1958) Singer-Asha Bhonsle, Lyrics-Bharat Vyas, MD-Vasant Desai
Lyrics
ho ho ho
ho ho
ho ho ho
ho ho
ae bambo bam bolo
ae bambo bam bolo
boodhe bachhe
jhoothhe sachhe
bam bolo
ae bambo bam bolo
kaheen ka eent
kaheen ka roda
Bhanumati ne kunba jodaa
idhar se thhoda
udhar se thhoda
taal ko todaa
sur ko marodaa
maar ke chaabuk
bhagaaya ghodaa
sarpat sarpat
sarpat sarpat
sarpat sarpat
sarpat
rampam po rampam po
rampam po rampam po
ae bambe bam bolo
ae bambe bam bolo
eena meena pheekaa
kahaan se pyaare seekhaa
khilaaye jaa sabko maal
vegetable ghee kaa
ho ho ho
ho ho
ka ka ka ka ka ka ka ka
kaale kaale baal
lalalalalala
laal laal gaal
te te te te te te te
tedhee tedhee chaal
dekh pyaare John
Roshandaan
kalamdaan
paandaan
khaandaan
annadan
vastradaan
sonaadaan
chaandidaan
peetaldaan
de daan
chhutte giraa
dekho ?? paap ka
nahin beta raha ab baap kaaa
rampam po rampam po
ae bambo bam bolo
waasta pada hai tujhe raag ka anokha
haldee na phitkaree
rang aaye chokha
bhool jaao bhairvi
bhol jaao malkauns
bhool jaao jogiya
bhool jaao chandrkauns
bhool jaao teentaal
dhruptaal
dhraptaal
come on
rock
rock
rock
rock
rock
rock
rock and roll
??
polam pol
bajaaye jaao dhol
khopdee hai khaalee
ye gaana hai ya gaalee
khopdee hai khaalee
ye gaana hai ya gaalee
Hindustani haath pe vilaayati hai taalee
ram pam po ram pam po
ae bambo bam bolo
ae bambo bam bolo
boodhe bachhe
jhoothhe sachhe
bam bolo
ae bambo bam bolo o
3 Responses to "Ae bambu bam bolo"
February 7, 2021 at 6:25 pm
longer audio link of this song availabe in this audio link, which starts from
37:07 and ends at 40:37(actually an additional second stanza exists in this audio link:(which is not available online)(the lyrics of this 2nd stanza has to be updated) Atul ji Help:
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April 17, 2026 at 2:51 pm
I loved this song as a young boy. Song lyrics recall “Ina mina dika” as well as “laal laal gaal” from previous year.
It is also notable that while “eena meena deeka” by Kishorekumar is more popular today, it was 15th in Binaca geetmala 1957 final …well behind “laal laal gaal” by Rafi Saab which finished 3rd in Binaca geetmala final of 1957.
I heard the long version (posted by Prakashchandra, above) for the first time. I loved it. Thank you.
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April 15, 2011 at 1:46 pm
Atul ji,
There are 2 points.
1) This is not a club song.The situation in the film is that some friends of Ramesh Deo(mausa) and Vandana(Mausi) have gathered for a party and they start dancing on English Rock N Roll records.Hearing this commotion,Reshma,the teenaged girl,decides to teach them a lesson that this is not the real music.Hence,she dresses in western style and sings this song and dances,making a fun of western music thru’ the lyrics .
2) As you rightly said,that was the period of R N R music craze in India and many songs were made in this time.
Some of the more famous songs were,Yeh hai zamana(Bhagam Bhag-1956),Lal lal Gaal(Mr.X-1957),Mr.John o baba khan(Baarish-1957),Mera Naam chin chin choo(Howrah bridge-1958) etc.
Out of many such songs,only few are remembered today.
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