My Favourites: 'What's Life?' Songs

'Life's as tedious as a twice-told tale' quoth Shakespeare in King John. 'Life's but a walking shadow', he claimed in Macbeth. Such vexation that he can't even agree with himself, offering multiple definitions for life. But why not? What is life if not contrary, contradictory, vexatious...? 

What is life? It is the sort of philosophical question that leaves people scratching their heads - you can either be extremely philosophical or extremely flippant, depending on your mood of the moment. But Hindi movies excel at posing such existential dilemmas, and offering solutions - take it or leave it. So, one day, when I was searching for songs to file under my 'Word Play' theme, a theme I had neglected completely, I thought - deeply - about the meaning of 'Life ™.' What is the meaning of life? Considering my penchant for Hindi films and songs, I decided to turn to them to resolve my ignorance. And never mind that they cannot make up their mind as to the answer, and offer extremely contradictory opinions as to the meaning of life - after all, 'Life™' means different things to different people. So here they are, some of the 'answers' I found to that deepest of existential angst. 

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