Nobody chooses this mood. It is what the room sounds like when nobody is choosing - a 1971 cabaret number landing on top of a 2016 club record and neither one apologising.
Talli means what it sounds like. Four drinks in, comfortably gone, still upright. It is the default setting here because it is the honest one: a real theka does not run a themed evening, it runs whatever the shop has, in whatever order, and the mixture is the character of the place. Everything from the other five rooms feeds into this one, plus about twenty-five records that belong nowhere else.
The orphans are the good part. My Name Is Anthony Gonsalves is named after a real man - Anthony Gonsalves was one of the busiest arrangers in Bombay and the violin teacher of Pyarelal, half of Laxmikant-Pyarelal, who wrote the song as a tribute and had Amitabh Bachchan speak the nonsense while Kishore Kumar sang around it. Kaanta Laga arrives twice over: an R. D. Burman tune sung by Lata Mangeshkar for Samadhi in 1972, rebuilt as a remix in 2002 that became the most argued-about music video in the country. Aati Kya Khandala is sung by Aamir Khan, who is not a singer and did not need to be.
Then the ones that are only funny after midnight. Chaar Botal Vodka is a song with no other subject. Party All Night is the one people mean when they say aunty police bulayegi, which is a line inside it and not a song of its own, whatever your friend insists. Jalebi Baby, Kar Gayi Chull, Ek Chumma, Lungi Dance. Sober, most of these are indefensible. That is the qualification.
The shuffle is weighted so the wild cards surface roughly one in five. Any denser and the novelty stops being a surprise and becomes the format, which is the failure mode of every drunk playlist ever made. So Piya Tu Ab To Aaja can land next to Nashe Si Chadh Gayi next to a ghazal, and the room stays off balance without turning into a joke. If you want one clean mood instead, the other five rooms are one click away and the lights change with them.
132 songs · nonstop · talli
Questions
What does talli mean?
Talli is Hindi slang for drunk - specifically the cheerful, unsteady, several-drinks-in stage rather than falling-over drunk. It is affectionate and mildly comic in tone, which is why it gets used about friends rather than strangers. Theka uses it as the name of its default mood: everything at once, in no sensible order.
What are nashe wale gane?
Nashe wale gane are Hindi songs about intoxication - the state rather than the drink. The category is broader than sharabi songs and takes in everything from Piya Tu Ab To Aaja to Nashe Si Chadh Gayi to Chaar Botal Vodka. Some are about alcohol, some about being high on a person, and the ambiguity is usually deliberate.
Is Aunty Police Bulayegi a real song?
No. It is a line inside Party All Night by Yo Yo Honey Singh, from the 2013 film Boss, and there is no separate track from that era by the name. A different 2025 Haryanvi single called Aunty Police Bula Legi does exist, but it is a much more recent and unrelated record.
Licence
आबकारी विभाग · EXCISE DEPARTMENT
FORM L-2 · LICENCE TO SELL SONGS FOR CONSUMPTION ON PREMISES
I picked every song here anyway. Twenty years of sitting in these rooms stone cold sober, waiting for other people to finish, with nothing to do but listen to what was playing. Every song on this site is one I heard somebody else sing badly.