I’ve always felt that other than our upbringing, if there was something that has had a major impact on all of us while growing up, it was  Bollywood. Whether it was turning all of us into hopeless romantics, rooting for toxic positivity and happy endings or simply condemning the concept of ‘consent’, which was anyway a joke according to the film industry, our cinema has been infamous for promoting problematic behaviour.

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Turns out, there is a lot of toxic masculinity that Bollywood has contributed to by furthering problematic stereotypes, especially with its hit songs, the lyrics of which would make you cringe and want to punch the lyricist right in the face. 

In fact, most of these old songs are less of songs and more of threatening jingles that are only promoting stalking and overlooking consent. Here are some of them with the wackiest of lyrics! 

“Kab tak roothegi, cheekhegi, chillaaye gi?

Dil kehta hai ek din haseena maan jayegi”

The hit 90s film starring actors like Govinda, Sanjay Dutt and Karishma Kapoor, literally ended up producing a song that was the antithesis of consent and romanticised a girl’s protest on a road while chasing her down.

“Tu kisi aur ki ho na jana

Kuch bhi kar jaaonga main deewana

Tu haan kar, ya naa kar

Tu hai meri… Kiran”

From the movie Darr that was a psychological thriller and literally based on a stalker, the song could be an anthem for all the creeps out there who won’t need a girl’s answer to claim her as their own. 

“Chal pyaar karegi?” “Haan ji haan ji.”

“Mere saath chalegi?” “Na ji na ji.”

“Tu haan kar ya na kar, teri marzi. soniye.

Hum tujh ko utha kar le jayenge.”

Another 90s hit song that heavily promoted crucifying the concept of consent. The lyrics for this one are straight up implying how it doesn’t matter whether the girl say yes or no, the guy will take her along forcefully, anyway. Such romance, much wow.

“Raja beta banke maine jab sharafat dikhayi

Tune bola ‘hatt mawaali’ bhaav nahi diya re

Thandi aahein bhar li bohot

Acchi baatein kar li bohot

Ab karunga tere saath… Gandi baat…”

As the name suggests, the entire song is but a testament to how a guy, after trying to be the nice guy and not getting anything for it, will finally resort to “bad means”, because why not? Slow claps for the lyricists here.

“Yeh uska style hoinga, hontho pe na dil me han hoinga

Aaj nahee toh kal bolegee, ai tu tension kai ko leta hai re”

The worst part of this song, believe it or not, is actually not the questionable lyrics, but the fact that these were being sung by a woman in the song, no less. Aishwarya Rai who played the character of Shirley in the film Josh was saying this to console her brother who got rejected by a girl, but obviously it didn’t mean anything because apparently, in the 90s, girl saying no = girl saying yes.

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