https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fhhdfWJ_Fc
Sunidhi Chauhan's kind of wonderful. Aa Tayar Hoja's from Asoka, which wasn't an enormous success but ranks as one of my ten favourite films ever.
― модный хипстер (ShariVari), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 07:34 (twelve years ago) link
my heart is with the older Bollywood movies from the '70s/'80s--esp. the ones with disco/funk/weird electronic soundtracks--and some from the '60s
newer Bollywood flicks tend to leave me cold. also, the women tend to look slightly healthier in the older movies--that 'Aa Tayar Hoja' video above, from Asoka (2001), looks like an advertisement for an ab workout machine...it's about as sexy as a Gaga video (which is to say, not at all)
here's one of my favorite Bollywood songs of all time--the best 'I Feel Love' homage of them all, from Star (1982)--Nazia Hassan on vocals, transcendent Summer/Moroder-style epicness
here's the scene from the movie--too bad you see the actress and not Nazia--Nazia was one of the most beautiful women on planet Earth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ead-K_q5QNs
― geeta, Wednesday, 13 July 2011 17:26 (twelve years ago) link
geeta - yeah I was in Mumbai (twice), Goa (twice), Delhi, Bangalore and I checked out every music store I could find but yeah all CDs/cassettes. the couple of random vinyl records I did find were from a street vendor in Mumbai, but they were nothing special. in general my inquiries about where to find records were met with predictable puzzlement.
― i hate it when rats eat my bushels (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 17:32 (twelve years ago) link
i have that Sitar Beat edit 12" u posted above geeta. has one of my fave bollywood tracks on it, Disco 82. i had my good friend translate it into english. funny lyrics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI7WAxhWabk
(they don't exactly make sense-they kind of have a nonsensical rolling on e quality about em.)I am disco-You are discoThe entire world in a discoDisco 82 la la la la (etc)do re me (the 7 sounds)rama rama rama (also part of the do re me sounds-but also, rama-is a god)My laughter and dreams are alive here.Don't show me a cage, I am not a domesticated bird.Let me say it - Let me say itDisco 82 (etc)This soma is in the form of liquor-it is not poison-if I drink it, and get tipsy-will you be mad?Let me live - Let me live-I swear by you!disco 82 etc.You to me, me to you-we keep saying something to one another.There is still night left-there is still much left to say-but we flounder.Let me fly, Let me fly-I swear by you.Disco 82 etc
I am disco-You are discoThe entire world in a discoDisco 82 la la la la (etc)do re me (the 7 sounds)rama rama rama (also part of the do re me sounds-but also, rama-is a god)My laughter and dreams are alive here.Don't show me a cage, I am not a domesticated bird.Let me say it - Let me say itDisco 82 (etc)This soma is in the form of liquor-it is not poison-if I drink it, and get tipsy-will you be mad?Let me live - Let me live-I swear by you!disco 82 etc.You to me, me to you-we keep saying something to one another.There is still night left-there is still much left to say-but we flounder.Let me fly, Let me fly-I swear by you.Disco 82 etc
― jaxon, Wednesday, 13 July 2011 17:41 (twelve years ago) link
ha, 'disco 82'! i know that one
that's exactly it though, the '82' -- india caught on to disco later than the western world did. their 1982/1983 was our 1977/1978. and that's what makes it so interesting to me: these popular culture movements didn't happen simultaneously
when i was in new delhi in 1992, i turned on the TV and the announcer said something like "here's a new song by kate bush called 'running up that hill'"
imagine being told, in '92, that 'running up that hill', from 1985, was a brand new song, hot off the presses: what happens then? all my notions about music melted right then and there
― geeta, Wednesday, 13 July 2011 17:56 (twelve years ago) link
Enjoying the videos and stuff folks. Thanks
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 14 July 2011 13:24 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, this is pretty much it for me too (though purely from a musical perspective - as I've said before, I don't really know the films themselves). But then I err towards the aesthetic from the same era in UK/US/European music, too, so it's not that surprising.
― emil.y, Thursday, 14 July 2011 15:56 (twelve years ago) link
I love all eras of Bollywood, but if we're talking strictly music yeah the disco/funk/weird electronics of the 70s/80s is the best
my wife and I have been searching FOREVER, to no avail, for this 70s Bollywood film called "Goonghat" that we caught on TV while we were there. maybe if I spoke/read Hindi I could find it but alas
― i hate it when rats eat my bushels (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 14 July 2011 16:01 (twelve years ago) link
my wife and I have been searching FOREVER, to no avail, for this 70s Bollywood film called "Goonghat" that we caught on TV while we were there.
do you mean 'Ghunghat', circa 1960? someone has posted the entire movie on youtube in 20 parts
― geeta, Thursday, 14 July 2011 16:09 (twelve years ago) link
O RLY
― i hate it when rats eat my bushels (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 14 July 2011 16:16 (twelve years ago) link
it was definitely older, I was only guessing about the year
― i hate it when rats eat my bushels (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 14 July 2011 16:17 (twelve years ago) link
hmm no that isn't it. this was in color. featured the semi-common practice of casting midget/dwarf as a child
― i hate it when rats eat my bushels (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 14 July 2011 16:18 (twelve years ago) link
much more into romantic 60s Bollywood, so pretty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFr6G5zveS8
― zappi, Thursday, 14 July 2011 16:31 (twelve years ago) link
That's gorgeous. Appreciate the sports jacket too.
― модный хипстер (ShariVari), Thursday, 14 July 2011 17:47 (twelve years ago) link
the actors are are almost white in bollywood movies nowadays
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 14 July 2011 18:45 (twelve years ago) link
like all of them
? can't say I've noticed that trend
― i hate it when rats eat my bushels (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 14 July 2011 18:47 (twelve years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/Shah_Rukh_Khan_%28Berlin_Film_Festival_2008%29_4.1.jpg/220px-Shah_Rukh_Khan_%28Berlin_Film_Festival_2008%29_4.1.jpg
this guy looks white to you?
― i hate it when rats eat my bushels (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 14 July 2011 18:48 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2hSEu4X1WA
really appreciate the effort here
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 14 July 2011 18:50 (twelve years ago) link
shakey he's like a big actor holdover, but whenever I visit my parents they're watching some bullshit two bit new movie with actors with a lot of anglo facial features
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 14 July 2011 18:51 (twelve years ago) link
also, you shoulda posted a picture of rajinikanth
Pale = beautiful is clearly a huge issue and one that goes far beyond the film industry. It's an exaggeration to say that the majority of stars are 'almost white' but there's no doubt the actors are not reflective of the country's diversity.
― модный хипстер (ShariVari), Thursday, 14 July 2011 18:55 (twelve years ago) link
well yeah there's no arguing with that
― i hate it when rats eat my bushels (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 14 July 2011 18:56 (twelve years ago) link
just saying that when I'm out eating chaat somewhere and watching vids looped on dvd on the big flatscreen in the corner more people in the newer vids have a homogenized look but then again I don't really pay close attention to these movies on a historical basis, and actively dislike most of them
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 14 July 2011 19:00 (twelve years ago) link
whenever I listen to that sun city girls track, after it's over, I think to myself "good hustle guys"
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 14 July 2011 19:01 (twelve years ago) link
uh oh i'm having a fantasy otm. one of the things i love about sharukh khan is how indo his features are--sort of amazed he still gets cast.
― horseshoe, Thursday, 14 July 2011 19:07 (twelve years ago) link
but not really because he's awesome.
― horseshoe, Thursday, 14 July 2011 19:08 (twelve years ago) link
Bit depressing to see him in skin-lightening cream adverts but he's completely amazing otherwise.
― модный хипстер (ShariVari), Thursday, 14 July 2011 19:14 (twelve years ago) link
did you guys see the whole Aishwarya Rai skin-lightening controversy? it wasn't her; it was a fashion magazine that apparently lightened her in Photoshop for the cover
http://jezebel.com/5719938/lawsuit-rumors-for-elle-india-skin+lightening-controversy
― geeta, Thursday, 14 July 2011 20:08 (twelve years ago) link
:( i hadn't read that
last time i was in india, my sister and i were joking about using the skin-lightening creams we saw freaking everywhere and my male cousin, very seriously, was like, i can get you guys some if you want it! it turned out his sister had a gigantic stash.
― horseshoe, Thursday, 14 July 2011 20:09 (twelve years ago) link
yeah :(
Aishwarya Rai is teh hotness
― i hate it when rats eat my bushels (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 14 July 2011 20:10 (twelve years ago) link
i'm sure i have no idea what i'm talking about, but my sister's in india for the summer working and she and i were talking about how what indians need is an analogue to the Black Arts/Black Power movement. obviously it's a different situation and would look different and it's pretty ridiculous of me to be opining about what a subcontinent full of people should be doing but.
― horseshoe, Thursday, 14 July 2011 20:14 (twelve years ago) link
that's pretty far off-topic i guess
i've never used these creams, and i object to the principle. (i bet they're not safe either.) but i'm a bit sensitive about the issue, because i actually got made fun of in the opposite way when I was a kid--I'm paler than a lot of Indian people (my family hails from the mountainous North) and my hair is more brown than black. when i was a kid, other indian kids would tell me i didn't look 'indian' enough, or that i must be half-Indian, or whatever, but no--my parents are both Indian
it was really odd
the funny thing is, when i was 14 years old, i actually hated Bollywood movies--at the time I wore all black and listened to Coil (why did I have so many Coil records? I don't remember now) but i distrusted Bollywood and its big, colorful, over-the-topness: it signified the mainstream to me, which i hated at the time
now, many years later, in my 30s, i adore Bollywood movies, and i appreciate them: also, things get more interesting when you add some time to them
― geeta, Thursday, 14 July 2011 20:26 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i didn't mean to suggest there's only one "indo" look. (my family hails from the mountainous north, too!)
― horseshoe, Thursday, 14 July 2011 20:28 (twelve years ago) link
Disco circa 1985, from the movie Saaheb, music by Bappi Lahiri:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDzOSqkWfCY
― geeta, Monday, 22 August 2011 23:13 (twelve years ago) link
you can see a lot of michael jackson in those dance moves as well
plot synopsis, courtesy of Wikipedia:
Anil Kapoor plays Saaheb, the youngest son of the family. He is focused on football, his passion. Due to this, everyone in the family constantly tells him he is no good. However when circumstances demand, he gives up his kidney to fund his sister's marriage, at the cost of his football career.
― geeta, Monday, 22 August 2011 23:17 (twelve years ago) link
it's no "aao na" but it's cool
― bamcquern, Monday, 22 August 2011 23:22 (twelve years ago) link
Don't really know much about Bollywood but some Kollywood soundtracks I've enjoyed
Kadhal RojaveKadhalanParuthiveeranKannathil MuthamittalGhilliAnniyanChandramukhi
― The Sunspots In Your Eyes Are Actually Cataracts, Mr. Rudich (AWALL), Tuesday, 23 August 2011 02:35 (twelve years ago) link
tell me more! tamil cinema is not something i know that much about
― geeta, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 23:04 (twelve years ago) link
more Bollywood 'I Feel Love' action (Bappi Lahiri, in case you were wondering)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7Cg-eFUWho
(starting at around 2:30)
― geeta, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 09:46 (twelve years ago) link
Me on some Bollywood disco gems, over at Wired's Beyond the Beyond:
http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2011/09/musica-globalista-geeta-dayal-on-disco-part-1/
― geeta, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 21:35 (twelve years ago) link
this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBu_TBNmmkc
― geeta, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 16:09 (twelve years ago) link
Babla's Disco Sensation isn't a Bollywood OST per se but still really good, "Old film hits with a new disco touch"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMxl-wLNOB4
― The Sunspots In Your Eyes Are Actually Cataracts, Mr. Rudich (AWALL), Wednesday, 2 November 2011 05:06 (twelve years ago) link
http://bodegapop.blogspot.com/2013/06/get-this-two-dozen-track-revelation-here.html
I gave myself a task: Using only CDs I'd purchased in Jackson Heights, Queens, over the last decade or so, create the Single Most Kick Ass 1970s-80s Bollywood Freak Out Mix of All Time without resorting to any track included on any previous Western Consumer-targeted Bollywood Funk/Disco/Dance or other compilation.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 14 June 2013 14:16 (ten years ago) link
I really really love the 1930s/40s stuff on the History Of Indian Film Music box set from a few years ago. I'm having a hard time finding other CDs of that period however. Any recommendaions? I do have wonderful comps of Asha Bhosle and Lata Mangeshkar that are comprised of 40s-60s stuff, i believe.
― brimstead, Saturday, 15 June 2013 02:16 (ten years ago) link
That Bodega Pop link doesn't seem to work for me. Bah.
― emil.y, Saturday, 15 June 2013 13:47 (ten years ago) link
Any decent overviews of more recent Bollywood stuff (Yo Yo Honey Singh, "Badtameez Dil", etc)?
― etc, Sunday, 15 March 2015 07:59 (nine years ago) link
Isn't there a new thread kinda covering this now...forget what its called
― curmudgeon, Monday, 16 March 2015 14:26 (nine years ago) link
Ah, sorry, I'd missed Rolling Punjab, Hindi/Bollywood, etc. jams from Central Asia... - though I can't see anything in that thread due to YT being blocked in China, and a rolling thread might not be the right place to ask about 90s/00s/etc overview comps.
― etc, Monday, 16 March 2015 15:25 (nine years ago) link