HindustanTimes Sat,30 Aug 2014 Why the $#%@ did the lyrics take
so long? Amitava Sanyal, Hindustan Times June 11, 2011 First
Published: 00:18 IST(11/6/2011) Last Updated: 00:22
IST(11/6/2011)  DK Bose has stirred a debate, and rightly so.
But worryingly, the reaction is more on the hand-wringing side.
Several people are holding forth on how 'degrading' such lyrics
are to the considerable legacy of Sahir, Gulzar and Javed
Akhtar. How absurd!  Where were such self-appointed minders of
the nation's moral fabric when Sahir's erotic yearning of a sex
worker was put to the tune of a Vaishnav kirtan ('Aaj sajan mohe
ang laga lo', Pyaasa, 1957)? Or when Gulzar was writing '...Apna
kaam maal haath aye to daboch na' (Satya, 1998)? Or when Akhtar
supposedly typed in 'I got to tell you how I feel,/Oh baby! You
are the only one for me' (Karthik Calling Karthik, 2010)?  Truth
is, Hindi film lyrics have often fallen foul of the invisible,
shifting line of a particular generation's morals. Do you think
parents encouraged the