The most absurd songs in Bollywood

Bollywood loves being absurd.

How else does one explain the wave of songs with meaningless lyrics that's been sweeping over us all these years?

We scoured through a heap of such instances and came out with a couple of notable ones. Take a look:

Pigeon Kabootar (Teen Thay Bhai)

Sample this: Pigeon kabootar, parrot tota, teeja titli butterfly. For the uninitiated, this isn't just some random words put together. This is the title song from this week's release Teen Thay Bhai. The lyrics may be illogical but Daler Mehendi infuses life into the song with his booming voice and the song has become catchy.

Even before one could get to the song, the title of the film stumped us. Who on earth feels proud of being faltu? But to the film's credit, it did strike a chord with the young audience.

As did the song.

Aal tu jalal tu, aayi bala ko taal tu was the film's title track and by way of its lyrics, it urges the youth to just be useless -- like the title -- and not fret over things. In this case, the words may be gibberish but the message was loud and clear.

Now what exactly is Tinku Jiya here and where did he chance upon 'Ishq ka Manjan'? We'd like to visit the store!

If we break this down, Jiya roughly translates to heart in English. So what does Tinku mean?

This item song from Dharmendra-starrer Yamla Pagla Deewana tried to recreate the seductive magic that these songs are known to have, to some effect.

And this time, the audiences didn't exactly buy into the lyrics too.

Everybody guessed what Akshay Kumar was implying when he playfully urged Australian pop star Kylie Minogue to Chiggy Wiggy with him in this club song from the film Blue.

Club song Aye Paapi had Shahid Kapoor show off his dancing skills. But we wonder if co-star Vidya Balan's dressing sense rendered him incoherent or was he just calling her a sinner in Hindi for her many fashion faux paus?

Someone should've told Kamal Haasan that even roping in the very talented Chitra to playback for his heroine wouldn't help make sense of the lyrics.

This one was so cute, we wouldn't mind making an exception. Kucchi Kucchi Rakma had Arvind Swami ask his wife Manisha Koirala for a baby on a scenic hill, in the company of village kids.

A R Rahman's music in this song, and the rest of the album, was a treat to the ears.

Another gem from Mani Ratnam's Bombay, the song featured a young Sonali Bendre dancing to the tune.

In Rahman's case, music always seems to take an upper hand to lyrics.