Jaan Pehechan Ho

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{{Infobox song
| name = Jaan Pehechan Ho
| cover =
| alt =
| type = song
| artist = [[Mohammed Rafi]]
| album = [[Gumnaam]]
| released = 1965
| format =
| recorded =
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| genre = [[Music of Bollywood|Bollywood]], [[filmi]], [[Indian rock]], [[rock and roll]]
| length = 5:38
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| writer = Composer: [[Shankar Jaikishan]]<br/>Lyrics: [[Shailendra (lyricist)|Shailendra]]
| producer = Shankar Jaikishan
}}

'''"Jaan Pehechan Ho"''' ("Let's Know Each Other") is an [[Indian rock|Indian rock & roll]] [[Music of Bollywood|Bollywood song]], sung by [[Mohammed Rafi]], composed by duo [[Shankar Jaikishan]], and with [[Hindi-Urdu]] lyrics by [[Shailendra (lyricist)|Shailendra]].<ref>{{cite book |editor-last1=Gopal |editor-first1=Sangita |editor-last2=Moorti |editor-first2=Sujata |title=Global Bollywood: Travels of Hindi Song and Dance |date=2008 |publisher=[[University of Minnesota Press]] |isbn=978-0-8166-4578-7 |pages=22 & 271 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=19JBf6oDOy0C&pg=PA22}}</ref> It was produced for the 1965 [[Bollywood]] film ''[[Gumnaam]]'', directed by [[Raja Nawathe]], produced by N.N. Sippy, and starring [[Manoj Kumar]] and [[Nanda (actress)|Nanda]]. The song has been widely "[[Mediation (Marxist theory and media studies)|remediated]]" in North American circulation.<ref name="Novak">{{cite web|url=http://www.culanth.org/?q=node/298|title = Novak, David. 2010. "Cosmopolitanism, Remediation, and the Ghost World of Bollywood." Cultural Anthropology 25(1):40-72.|access-date=9 December 2012}}</ref>

==Music video==
[[File:Jaanpehchaan.jpg|thumb|right|"Jaan Pehechan Ho" as seen in ''[[Ghost World (film)|Ghost World]]'']]

The song's music video was shot in a [[Discothèque|disco]] and features [[Laxmi Chhaya]] as the dancer and [[Herman Benjamin]] the choreographer as the lead singer.

==Popular culture==
The song first entered American popular culture through 1994 live performances of the song by Heavenly Ten Stems, an American experimental indie rock band that was based in [[San Francisco]].<ref name="Novak"/>

The song appears in the opening credits of the 2001 movie ''[[Ghost World (film)|Ghost World]]''. In an interview, ''Ghost World'' writer [[Daniel Clowes]] mentions that he obtained his 20th generation copy of the scene from someone who had been housesitting for [[Peter Holsapple]], guitarist and songwriter for [[The dB's]], and he copied it from Peter's collection. Then they approached the sons of the producers and acquired the rights to use the song in the movie. The ''Ghost World DVD'' features the entire music video from the movie.<ref name=ghostworld>{{cite web|last=Brandi|first=Ralph|title=And the dancing is really a substitute for sex|url=http://www.thereisnocat.com/showme38.html|access-date=1 July 2011}}</ref>

The song was also used for [[Heineken]]'s 2011 "The Date" commercial.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www2.journalnow.com/news/2011/oct/08/wsmain02-ask-sam-straight-answers-ar-1477198/|title=Ask Sam: Straight answers|work=[[Winston-Salem Journal]]|date=2011-10-08|access-date=2011-10-08|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.is/20130103213338/http://www2.journalnow.com/news/2011/oct/08/wsmain02-ask-sam-straight-answers-ar-1477198/|archive-date=2013-01-03}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyiBg1TmZ3w|title=Heineken "The Date" commercial (2011)|access-date=15 November 2016}}</ref>

In 2012, a cover of the song was included by [[The Bombay Royale]] in their debut album ''[[You Me Bullets Love]]''.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/music/latest-releases-the-bombay-royale-odd-future-chet-faker-and-sean-paul/story-fn93z1ud-1226324871332|title=The Bombay Royale, Odd Future, Chet Faker and Sean Paul|work=[[The Australian]]|date=2012-04-12|access-date=2012-04-12}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SA1qg9c6DCY|title = The Bombay Royale - Jaan Pehechan Ho|access-date=2012-03-30}}</ref>

In the 2014 video game [[Far Cry 4]], by [[Ubisoft]], the song is heard playing when the character storms the main antagonist's fortress.

The song, with similar costumes and choreography, also appears in the [[Cullberg Ballet]]'s rendition of ''Ekman’s Triptych''.

It was featured in the 2017 film ''[[Basmati Blues]]'' and in the 2019 Bollywood film ''[[Luka Chuppi]]''.

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[[Category:1965 songs]]
[[Category:Hindi film songs]]
[[Category:Indian songs]]
[[Category:Mohammed Rafi songs]]
[[Category:Songs with lyrics by Shailendra (lyricist)]]
[[Category:Songs with music by Shankar Jaikishan]]
[[Category:Urdu-language songs]]

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