The remaining contestants on So You Think You Can Dance did the title track to Jhoom Barabar Jhoom. Bollyrecruiters can skip over the gori backpackers at Churchgate for now — this is a great job for a week’s work. But enough with the precision and the modern dance-style spins. Once again, but looser.
(thanks, Pratima)
Previously: Robot […]
Two contestants on the American show So You Think You Can Dance did a number from Om Shanti Om recently (thanks, Prakruti and Pooja). It’s a marvelous job, but their style is very pro dancer, pinpoint precise with ballet-style spotting. It reminds me of the way some Japanese women raised in Japan dance salsa, a […]
In a perfect storm of desi obsessions, Suleman Mirza and Madhu Singh mash up bhangra with Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’ in the semifinals of Britain’s Got Talent. It doesn’t lie very far from their first routine, but it kills just the same. At 2:20.
Achinta McDaniel’s LA-based dance company fused Lewis Carroll with Bollywood elements for last fall’s Paheliyan (Riddles): The Story of Alice:
Take one part ballet, toss in bits of tap, jazz and hip-hop, then blanket it all with a variety of Indian movement. You get Bollywood-Tech…
The original story remains intact, but there are changes. For […]
A chubby guy named ‘Spidermanav’ pops ‘n locks to ‘Billie Jean’ in a skull cap, and he cracks me up:
Completely missed this – apparently little Shirley Temple turned 80 a couple of days ago! Via the Bright Lights blog, here’s an excerpt from Graham Greene’s controversial review of the Temple-starrer Wee Willie Winkie from 1937:Infancy is her dis…
Stephen Colbert played a clip from Superman ripoff Dariya Dil on last night’s show, and for a brief, shining moment, Govinda, Kimi Katkar and Aarey Milk Colony shimmered on America’s screen:
These days, they can outsource any American job to India. Look what they did to Superman. You thought Superman 4 was bad.
Berkeley students in blue and gold bust out bhangra at the Campanile, on the Bay Bridge and in the windows of Macy’s Union Square. A Cal umbrella stands in for a staff. My blue ‘n gold heart is flush with pride (thanks, Vinod):
The NYT reports that Disney is exporting High School Musical to the land which thinks it invented musicals about underage love. Here’s the pseudo-Punjabi version, ‘Aaja Nachle,’ which isn’t ashamed to steal from the best. The skirts are more modest, the legs more covered, but let’s face it, Bombay blew past that Rubicon long ago […]
A dance team earns my eternal gratitude for playing ‘Rump Shaker,’ ‘Freek-a-Leak’ and ‘Here Comes the Hotstepper’ on Boogie Woogie, an Indian TV show more used to Hindi film songs. The old-skool judges look traumatized, while the younger ones are into it, like Samrat Chakrabarti’s beatboxing talent show judge from Loins of Punjab:
Rahul Roy and a woman in a minidress dance a disco Hava Nagila while Bappi Lahiri applauds from the sidelines. The whole thing is subtitled in Hebrew and Russian, the former for the Judaism, the latter for the kitsch.
Bollywood’s reverse Midas touch spares nothing. Or makes it awesome. Depending on your POV. (thanks, Ron)
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Did Metro Boston confuse bhangra with belly dancing? Mapless exoticism?
How well do desi MIT students dance salsa?
About as well as you’d expect. I won’t say more, under the same mercy rule an umpire uses to stop a baseball game when one side is getting slaughtered. Let’s just say it’s a good thing these workaholics from Cupertino, Istanbul and Haifa have a solid plan […]
A fan is born by J.
For the past couple of days, all Indian news channels have focussed on one thing. Reporters have been stationed “on location”; everyday passers-by have had cameras and microphones thrust into their faces and been asked to give their opinions and make prophecies. India has, it would seem, only one […]
Condom Usage PSA in Telugu from turbanhead on Vimeo.
A PSA to prevent from sexually transmitted infections and HIV, from Nrityanjali Academy, Secunderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India.
Also: Youtube link.
It used to be that all a beautiful actress had to do was look pretty and step carefully from side to side. Here’s Zeenat in ‘Kisne Dekha Hai Kal’ from Heeralal Pannalal (via PMH):
The original ‘Yeh Mera Dil’ has Anglo-Burmese actress Helen vamping comically while Amitabh, clad in bright green shirt and plaid blazer, does his best to look disapproving:
This retread sounds like the poor man’s Metro meets Dirty Dancing, with the graphics ripped from Cocktail:
Said Vikram, “It was a minute-and-a-half dance sequence in the film and we wanted it to look really good. So we had extensive salsa training for 40 days…” Mumbai Salsa is a discotheque where the characters take refuge because […]
Check out these dance scenes filmed in the dark. Both assume that people spontaneously break into choreographed line dances at clubs, which is true only in Dallas. Both songs are metronomic and hypnotic.
The first clip is the foam party from Boys and Girls, a bad remake of When Harry Met Sally for preteens which I […]
Here’s that excellent tango, salsa, flamenco and swing medley from Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd. The dancers in ‘Pyaar Ki Ek Kahaani Suno (Listen to a Love Story)’ are Minissha Lamba and Abhay Deol. Note the hip spin, dead drop and stylish dips:
… [Director] Reema Kagti had choreographer Kunjan specially flown from Mumbai to Goa to […]