badtamiiz dil
About this song
- Singer
- Benny Dayal
- Lyrics
- Amitabh Bhattacharya
- Music
- Pritam
- On screen
- Ranbir Kapoor, Deepika Padukone, Kalki Koechlin
- Film
- Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani (2013)
badtamiiz dil (Hindi: बदतमीज़ दिल, Urdu: بدتمیز دِل) "Mannerless Heart" is a song from the 2013 Indian romantic drama "Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani".
The song and video clip happen in the setting of a wedding party, where 4 long time friends get reacquainted after several years.
One of the friends is the party entertainer and male protagonist, Kabir "Bunny" Thapar (played by the Indian actor Ranbir Kapoor).
The couple being married are his lifetime friends Aditi and Taran (played by Kalki Koechlin and Kunaal Roy Kapoor respectively).
Also attending the party is the fourth friend and female protagonist, Naina Talwar (played by the Indian actress Deepika Padukone). Naina and Bunny had been in love years ago, but life took them to different paths afterwards.
The party grows inceasily reckless as the song progresses, and during it, Naina and Bunny reignite their love.
The lyrics talk about a heart that can't control itself. A big part of the lyrics, especially at the beginning, is just gibberish, a collection of phrases put together in rapid succession just to provide a quick, high-energy start. (This was admitted by the lyricist himself, Amitabh Bhattacharya).
Some of the phrases used are:
gili gili akhaa this could be translated as "wet, wet eyes", but it probably means nothing. It has been included as a tribute to a very famous 1972 song interpreted by Kishore Kumar also called "Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani" (This Youth is Crazy), like this film's title.
Dhamkaa-fulaanaa is an expression meaning "this and that, so and so, trivial, miscellaneous, unimportant things". In the song is quickly pronounced as something like Dhimkaa-falaanaa. The second word should be pronounced carefully because fulaanaa means an undetermined person or thing, but falaanaah means "penis" in Urdu. It can also be fulaanaa-Dhamkaa, and the spelling falaaNRaa is valid in Punjabi. "siNh kaa siNghaaṛaa khaa ke" means "after eating the singhada of a lion" (the singhada is a species of aquatic edible plant also called "water caltrop"). Here the author is just playing with the similar sounds of "siNh" (lion) and siṁghaaRaa (the singhada plant). raaii ke pahaaR par tiin [foot] [Liliput] means "a 3-footed Lilliputian over a hill of mustard seeds". Mustard seeds are known for being small, and "Lilliput" refers to the mythical land populated by diminutive individuals, described in the tale "Gulliver's Travels", by the Anglo-Irish writer Jonathan Swift chiknii chamelii and ciknaa kamiinaa are "a smooth (or oily, or polished) jasmine" and "a smooth wicked one", respectively, but it might simply refer to a woman and a man. aaluu bhaat, [murii] bhaat mean potato-rice and "muri" (Bengali typical puffed platter) rice.
The wedding scene was filmed a the Overoi Udaivillas luxury hotel in Rajastan, India.
The playback singers are Benny Dayal for the male parts, and Shefali Alvares for the female parts.
The music was composed by Pritam, and the lyrics, as mentioned, were written by the Indian lyricist Amitabh Bhattacharya).