Kajra Re

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“Kajra Re”

Bollywood song by Alisha Chinai, Shankar Mahadevan, and Javed Ali
Released	2005
Genre	Filmi
Length	8:04 (soundtrack album) 7:50 (music video)
Writer	Gulzar
Composer	Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy

Screenshot from music video.

"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.

The song is from the 2005 film Bunty Aur Babli, starring Abhishek Bachchan, Rani Mukerji and Amitabh Bachchan. 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.

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 sympathises with Amitabh's charecter and plays a courtesan.

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 this song. It was also nominated by The Times of India as one of the 20 best songs in 2005.^[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^{[citation needed]}: "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.