Screenshot from music video. Bollywood songs (often termed filmi songs) are heard far beyond the borders of India. Alisha Chinai is a singer of Pop music in India Biography Born in 1972 to a Gujarati family Sujata changed her name to that of her cousin's daughter Alisha Shankar Mahadevan is an Indian singer and music composer He is a part of the Shankar Ehsaan Loy trio team that provides music to Bollywood ' Javed Ali' is an Indian playback singer He has been singing in Hindi movies from 2000 but shot to fame in 2007 when he sang the song Ek Din Teri Raahon Mein(Music A music genre is a categorical and typological construct that identifies musical sounds as belonging to a particular category and type of music that can be distinguished from other Filmi (or Filmy used as an adjective is a colloquial term which refers to anything relating to the Bollywood film industry A songwriter is someone who writes the Lyrics to songs the Musical composition (chords or Melody to songs or both A composer (literally meaning 'one who puts together' is a person who creates Music, usually in the medium of notation, for Interpretation and Performance Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy is a musical trio consisting of Shankar Mahadevan, Ehsan Noorani and Loy Mendonsa.

"Kajra Re" (Hindi: कजरा रे,in English: "Kohl-lined Eyes"^[1]) is a song written by Gulzar and sung by the playback singers Alisha Chinai, Shankar Mahadevan, and Javed Ali. Hindi ( Devanāgarī: hi [[wiktहिन्दी हिन्दी]] or hi [[wiktहिंदी हिंदी]] IAST:, IPA:) is Kohl is a mixture of Soot and other ingredients used predominantly by Middle Eastern North African Sub-Saharan African and South Asian A playback singer is a Singer whose singing is prerecorded for use in movies Alisha Chinai is a singer of Pop music in India Biography Born in 1972 to a Gujarati family Sujata changed her name to that of her cousin's daughter Alisha Shankar Mahadevan is an Indian singer and music composer He is a part of the Shankar Ehsaan Loy trio team that provides music to Bollywood ' Javed Ali' is an Indian playback singer He has been singing in Hindi movies from 2000 but shot to fame in 2007 when he sang the song Ek Din Teri Raahon Mein(Music

The song is from the 2005 film Bunty Aur Babli, starring Abhishek Bachchan, Rani Mukerji and Amitabh Bachchan. The year 2005 in film involved some significant events Releases of sequels took place with movies like The Devil's Rejects, Cheaper Bunty Aur Babli ( Hindi: बंटी और बब्ली Urdu: بنٹی اور ببلی Translation: Bunty and Babli released in Abhishek Bachchan (अभिषेक बच्चन born February 5, 1976 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India) is an award-winning Rani Mukerji (রাণী মুখার্জী रानी मुखर्जी born on March 21, 1978, is an award winning Indian Film actress The scene in which this song was featured was when Amitabh and Abhishek were at a night club and Aishwarya Rai, making a special appearance in the film, starts singing; Amitabh and Abhishek soon join her in the singing and dancing. Aishwarya Rai-Bachchan or Aishwarya Bachchan (Birthname Aishwarya Rai; Tulu: ಐಶ್ವರ್ಯಾ ರೈ born 1 November 1973 is an internationally

Prior to the dance, Amitabh, playing an inspector, discusses his brush with unrequited love in Delhi, which is later alluded to in the song. Aishwarya's character probably sympathises with Amitabh's, being his townswoman.

The song has its roots in a folk song of Braj Bhoomi, in which the celebrated black eyes are Lord Krishna's

Trivia

Chinai won the 2005 Filmfare Best Female Playback Award and the 2005 Bollywood Movie Award - Best Playback Singer Female for the performance. The Filmfare Best Female Playback Award is given by the Filmfare magazine as part of its annual Filmfare Awards for Hindi films Although the awards started The winners are listed below- See also Filmfare Best Female Playback Award Bollywood Movie Awards Bollywood It was also nominated by The Times of India as one of the 20 best songs in 2005. The Times of India ( TOI) is a leading English-language Broadsheet Daily newspaper in India. ^[2]

The music video is 7:50 seconds long, the album version, available on the movie soundtrack, lasts 8 minutes 4 seconds. There are also two official remixes to this song: "Special Movie Remix" which is 5 minutes and 33 seconds and "Aqeel Tribal Mix" which is 5 minutes 49 seconds. The two remixes sound very similar.

References

External links

• Video of "Kajra Re" on YouTube