{"id":5781,"date":"2016-07-15T15:48:49","date_gmt":"2016-07-15T10:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=5781"},"modified":"2026-07-17T21:51:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T16:21:04","slug":"boogie-woogie-jaaved-jaaferi-childhood-90s-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=5781","title":{"rendered":"Boogie Woogie, Takeshi\u2019s Castle, and \u201cMumbhai\u201d: How Jaaved Jaaferi Shaped the Childhood of \u201990s Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<span class=\"dropcap\">A<\/span>fter Zoya Akhtar\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gully Boy<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, gully boys are everywhere. They\u2019re invading everything from our Instagram feeds to our mornings with their Mumbai-meets-Bronx style and sensibilities. The other day, I spotted the neighbourhood bhajiwala wearing an \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/bollywood\/apna-time-aayega-privileged-india-gully-boy\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Apna Time Aayega<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d T-shirt while hawking sabzi to middle-class housewives. Almost a year after the song became a war cry for everyone with any aspirations, Divine, Naezy, and all their numerous progeny continue to hold our attention as they spit a bar or two telling you that their gully is \u201cboht hard.\u201d In a way, gully rap has managed to open up a window that gives us a peek into the lives of our drivers, househelps, and the countless nameless, faceless people we take for granted every day.\u00a0\n\nBut much before boys were spitting \u201cbuntai\u201d into a mic, there was one man who was rapping about Mumbai and its streets. This was a time when our songs were mostly about love and separation. That man is the underrated actor, comedian, dancer, and voice actor, Syed Jaaved Ahmed Jaaferi, popularly known to the world as Jaaved Jaaferi.\u00a0\n\nIn the Bombay of the late \u201990s and early noughties, Lucky Ali, Shaan, and Bally Sagoo gave us mellow music to smoke hash to, while Alisha Chinai and the Colonial Cousins gifted us soundtracks for teenage crushes and heartbreaks. But it was Jaaferi and mavericks like Devang Patel, who offered us a taste of what would later come to be known as desi rap. Just like the Sugarhill <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/bollywood\/anurag-kashyap-gangs-of-wasseypur-cult-dialogues\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gang<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Slick Rick, Run-DMC, and A Tribe Called Quest overseas, Jaaferi and a few others pioneered a sonic and lyrical style that was a breath of fresh air in a soundscape choked by overtly sugary lyrics.\n\nBack in 1998, \u201cI am Mumbhai,\u201d Jaaferi\u2019s ode to the city in Kaizad Gustad\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bombay Boys<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, was one of the first rap songs to come out of Bollywood. The lyrics, deeply rooted in the cultural specificities of Mumbai still stand true. In the video, Jaaferi plays a melange of Bambaiya characters \u2013 a Mawali bhai, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/humour\/comment-week-much-contempt-marathi\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Marathi<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> kaka, Catholic uncle, and a transvestite, a regular feature at the city\u2019s traffic signals. \u201cMumbhai\u201d captures the city\u2019s soul like few other songs do:\u00a0\u00a0\n\nMumbai ekdum danger place\nWhere you survive if you got the pace\nYou\u2019ve gotta be fast, you\u2019ve gotta be tez\nYou\u2019ve gotta be shaana to win the race\n\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1575457891.jpg\" alt=\"Boogie woogie\" width=\"660\" height=\"407\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-56865\" \/>\n<figcaption>\n<p>Boogie Woogie and Takeshi\u2019s Castle brought to TV in the noughties what it was missing \u2013 fresh, simple, unadulterated, and literally un-adult-rated, fun for everyone from eight to 80<\/p>\n<p>R&#038;N TV Productions<\/p>\n<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n\u201cMumbhai\u201d remains Jaaferi\u2019s most popular song to date, and one of the first mainstream Hindi rap songs that has achieved cult status. In that sense, Jaaferi is also a man of many firsts: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Boogie Woogie<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the dance reality show fronted by the Jaaferi brothers \u2013 Javed and Naved \u2013 was the OG TikTok of sorts, a place where people showed up to bust a move for their 60 seconds of fame, regardless of talent or their background. It was a launchpad for many aspiring choreographers. For Kings United, a dance crew that inspired the movie <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ABCD 2<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and won NBC\u2019s popular reality show \u201cWorld of Dance\u201d, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Boogie Woogie<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was where they found their confidence. Its crew leader <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mensxp.com\/entertainment\/hollywood\/56955-lsquo-boogie-woogie-rsquo-to-emmy-nomination-here-s-fictitious-dance-crew-fame-suresh-mukund-s-journey.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Suresh Mukund<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> received a nomination for an Emmy in the \u201cChoreography for Variety\u201d category this year. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Boogie Woogie<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> then set the precedent for dance reality shows, which are now a staple on Indian TV.\n\nThe rest of us \u201990s kids, who were not as talented as Mukund and gang, took inspiration from <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Boogie Woogie <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to pop it, lock it, and drop it like it was hot, on the annual day stage at school or a family wedding. If Govinda taught us the latkas and jhatkas, Jaaferi taught us swagger. I remember 1985\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meri Jung<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for nothing but the catchy \u201cBol Baby Bol\u201d, in which you can see him jiving like a pro. As a pre-teen, I remember making mental notes of steps and trying to pull them off at a Christmas dance.\n\n<blockquote class=\"quote--center\"><p>The whacky, fun Jaaved Jaaferi you saw IRL was the Jaaved Bhai you saw on screen.<\/p><\/blockquote> \n\nAt the helm of everything out of the box during the \u201990s was Jaaferi, the man who blew our minds with his mad skills. The extent of his legacy spread out to different facets of pop culture. Who can forget Jaaved, the prisoner from the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/humour\/lead-maggi-nasa-satellite-college-hostels\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maggi<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> hot-and-sweet ketchup ads? Or his hilarious running commentary underlined with a tapori inflection in the Hindi version of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Takeshi\u2019s Castle<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">? My cousins and I would rush home a little early from tuitions, running through a maze of chawls, taking a shortcut through the back of a butchers shop, dodging the arterial spray of a freshly slaughtered chicken, past a desi bar stepping over a passed out patron, and over a makeshift bridge of ply over a naala, just to catch <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Takeshi\u2019s Castle<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> reruns at 5 pm. We\u2019d joke about this being practice for when we finally made it to <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Takeshi\u2019s Castle<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and have Jaaferi commentate on our antics.\n\n<i>Boogie Woogie<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Takeshi\u2019s Castle <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">brought to TV in the noughties what it was missing \u2013 fresh, simple, unadulterated, and literally un-adult-rated fun for everyone from eight to 80. Back then it was all crash zooms and saas bahu drama \u00e0 la Ekta Kapoor and Jaaved Jaaferi walked a higher path. There was no put-on persona. The whacky, fun <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/jaane-bhi-do-yaaro-kundan-shah-naseeruddin-shah-democracy-mahabharata\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jaaved Jaaferi<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> you saw IRL was the Jaaved Bhai you saw on screen.\n\nI\u2019ve met the man twice briefly. In both these meetings, I could surmise that he had a quiet, confident air that immediately put you at ease, a far cry from the manic energy and coke-tinged nasal twitching of our celebrities. Jaaferi or JJ, as those close to him address him, struck me as a man who\u2019d done his time in the sun, and was now chilling in the shade to avoid <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/sunburn-music-festival-pune-hyderabad-netas\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">sunburn<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. His extremely accurate knowledge of the importance of the self felt like a refreshing break from the cultish personalities some of his peers command. He knows his strengths and plays to them, chilling until it\u2019s time to shine. It\u2019s a worldview that seems straight out of a verse from \u201cMumbhai\u201d: \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Khane ka peene ka marne ka jeene ka, chalne ka phirne ka uthne ka girne ka, tension nai lene ka, bhai se poochne ka, kasa kai, bara hai, I am Mumbhai<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d.\n\nHappy birthday, Jaaved bhai. Here\u2019s to taking your time in a world that can\u2019t stop screaming, \u201cApna Time Aayega\u201d.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much before gully boys were spitting \u201cbuntai\u201d and \u201cboht hard\u201d into a mic, there was one man who was rapping about Mumbai and its streets. His name is Jaaved Jaaferi. The man, who turns 56 today, influenced \u201990s kids with his music, moves, and inimitable commentary. 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