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
Feels like the '90s are old enough for this thread. So, what about '90s Bollywood?
I'm hoping in vain that it'll all be like "My Adorable Darling"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4tmeg9me9E&t=4s
(Purists would argue they should've bought fewer guitars and more amps.)
Allegedly Anu Malik's songs did resemble lots of other songs, but not Bollywood ones.
― flyingtrain (sbahnhof), Thursday, 30 July 2015 21:50 (eight years ago) link
Gurudev (1992)R D BurmanAsha Bhosle,Shailendra Singh
http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=dpCrRj0CRKE
― Noel Emits, Sunday, 9 July 2017 16:34 (six years ago) link
he he digging this list: https://open.spotify.com/user/spotify/playlist/37i9dQZF1DWYRTlrhMB12D?si=wIekccu4R2-aoJKNIB7t3w
― niels, Friday, 3 August 2018 13:06 (five years ago) link