uperman Returns has thrilling action, a romantic caped cheek-to-cheek flight, lingering Kal Penn close-ups and just one hench-desi line, something like ‘What are we gonna do?’ Mira Nair said last year:
“So by the time Namesake comes out next year, everyone will know Kal Penn, which will be great for us!” [Link]
Which with one line is […]
Check out Blackmahal, a group which mashes up eminent Bay Area dholi Lal Singh Bhatti’s beats with hip-hop. Listen here or find it in the first half of this week’s Bobby Friction & Nihal show.
The rhythm track on ‘Save the Flavor in Your Moustache’ reminds me of the Dum Dum Project’s wicked dance track ‘Supafly […]
I feel utterly betrayed.
Abhi
All these years, Abhi from Sepia Mutiny has averred that he won’t pollute his finely-tuned proto-astronaut brain by watching Bollycrap. And here I find that he’s actually been going behind our backs to find fame and fortune acting in the crappiest of them all, Krrish.
It’s raining, raining. My heart is paining, […]
Have some delicious Goodness Gracious Me (via Popagandhi):
One of the surreal things about living in Bollywood is attending film premieres (thanks, Anuvab), running into celebs you don’t recognize and then seeing the same parties covered on the social page the next day, a secret decoder ring for the B-list. It never fails to amaze me how much whisky, live music and tchotchke-fu […]
Some young intern who (unlike us ) is completely obsessed with Kaavyagate, has stumbled upon what was allegedly Kaavya Viswanathan’s LiveJournal, and it was promptly mirrored:
… Jesse Andrews [is] an assistant editor at Harvard’s not-yet-launched, Atlantic-bankrolled and unbearably douchey new alumni mag… His intern discovered the LiveJournal of… Kaavya Viswanathan. Problem was, once he blogged […]
A new book claims you can apply vastu shastra, India’s feng shui, to Web site design (via India Uncut):
“Just as the world comprises of the five basic elements, each Web site has five elements and these need to be in balance with one another… Earth is the layout, fire is the color, air is the […]
In Andheri, Bombay, the Superman ads are in Hindi, the Krrish ones in English Crossover is so tricky for the modern übermensch.
This is like showing up to an Indian wedding in a fancy kurta only to be greeted by ten uncles in Western suits.
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Another witty road sign from Ladakh, courtesy of Horn OK Please.
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I caught a flick at a new funmall in Bombay’s Andheri ‘hood just over a week ago.
Bowling alley at Fun Republic in Andheri. Like all the aunties fearfully clogging mall escalators, everyone was a crap bowler. They’ll get better, it’s new.
Here’s what the post-Schwarzenegger Hanuman looks like (via Pickled Politics):
Time reported in March that director Shekhar Kapur will soon debut a nagin-theme comic book set in East Village, in partnership with Deepak Chopra and Richard Branson. Having run out of superheroes, and realizing that an underwear pervert in pink leather is just lame, comics and […]
Check out these two new Nelly Furtado remixes by Punjabi-Quebeçois group Josh, ‘Promiscuous’ and ‘Maneater (Josh Desi remix)’ off Furtado’s new album Loose.
These are authorized mashups. The second is actually a bonus track on the disc. Furtado grew up in Canada with Punjabi friends and has sung in Hindi. I’m not feelin’ these as much […]
The WaPo writes about a New Yorker who posted this on a gay desi Web site last summer:
“Hi, I am looking for a lesbian girl for marriage. I am gay but I would like to get married because of pressure from parents and society. I would like this marriage to be a ‘normal’ marriage except […]
Brown knight to rook 4 — Mittal just won Arcelor:
The world’s two largest steel companies, Arcelor and Mittal Steel, have agreed on a merger deal valued at… about $32.5 billion, ending five months of bitter resistance… The merger will combine Arcelor… with a fast-growing conglomerate founded by an Indian, Lakshmi Mittal, who built a fortune […]
A story on the collapsed Jet-Sahara merger in DNA offers this odd neologism:
… when a corporate enters into a deal worth Rs 2,300 crore, it goes through all the implications, especially the financial ones, with a toothcomb. [Link]
What’s a toothcomb — is it a mutation of the idiom ‘with a fine-tooth comb’?
… you still hear […]
On TV today, I saw a team of Indian men using long tan sticks to manhandle a small white ball down a green field. They wore the same dispiriting baby blue uniforms as the national cricket team. It looked like a game for senior citizens — everyone ran while crouched, most unergonomically.
David With the Head […]
At night, the J.W. Marriott by Juhu Beach in Bombay emits flames from torches atop its main gate. You half expect Siegfried & Roy to leap from the bushes. Its nightclub crowd has a pricey, pushy rep. But this idea to deter drunken driving is pretty cool:
Used by the Hotel Marriott in India for patrons […]
Desh-hopistas Karmacy are rockin’ the Knitting Factory in Tribeca tonight after landing the first desi promo deal with America’s largest urban radio station, Hot 97 in NYC. Also, Karsh Kale spins tonight in the o.g. borough.
Karmacy, 8pm June 24, Knitting Factory, 74 Leonard St., Manhattan, 1, 9 train to Franklin St., buy tickets
Karsh Kale, 10:30pm […]
Sonic from Astounding Studios possesses you you with a blast from ‘Jhalak Dikhlaja‘ (via Sepia Mutiny). Stop, or she’ll shoot a mosquito coil. Those tweeters are straight outta the back of a rick. I think we just found out what’s beneath the choli: two-toned catsuit with piping.
Krrish, supposedly Bollywood’s first superhero movie, is exactly as bad as it sounds — a clown musical with soapy melodrama and orangutan jokes. It bruises the mind. On the other hand, it surpasses Superman 3 in black leather kitschy badness.
The villain wears all white when kindly and all black when not. Yeah. It’s that subtle. […]