Category Archives: Videos

American Musicals Post: La La Land and Vennilave

Posted on by
12

This is one of those situations when I get SO FRUSTRATED with how everyone is going “WOW! Did you see this?”  While I am going “Yes, when I was 5 years old…..Do you, like, never watch anything before 1980?”, and I just CAN’T TAKE IT ANY MORE!!!!  So I am going to force you all to learn the basics of American musical/dance history on film, so you can better appreciate how that interacts with modern Indian film, and the occasional very very rare modern American musical.

Continue reading →

Happy 420! Let’s Celebrate Indian Style, With Bhang!

Posted on by
3

(this is an updated and reposted post from last year) I think this might be just an American thing, but 4/20 is traditionally a day to celebrate Marijuana.  There are a whole bunch of different versions of where it came from, but just accept that “420” in general is slang for marijuana, and therefore the date 4/20 has become a marijuana holiday.  Which means, I get to do a post of my favorite songs in which people are high!

Continue reading →

I’m Going To See Arjit Singh Tonight and You Aren’t!!!!

Posted on by
14

Did that sound mean?  That sounded kind of mean, didn’t it?  Well, I don’t care, I’m seeing Arjit Singh tonight and you aren’t, nah-nah-na-nah-nah (is that how that is spelled?).  And so you can be extra jealous, here is a reminder of why Arjit is so cool.

Continue reading →

Upcoming Rom-Com Trailers! Half-Girlfriend and Mere Pyaari Bindu

Posted on by
38

Yay, more rom-coms!  2016 was the year of serious patriotic historical dramas, but 2017 is looking decidedly more romantic.  Romantic and dramatic, none of that lightweight stuff like Befikre.  Which means I am watching these trailers going “wait, is something terrible going to happen or is this just a humorous misunderstanding?”

Continue reading →

Indian TV Commercials Post: Best Couples!

Posted on by
13

Understand that this is only a small subset of ads.  Since I am tragically cut off from Indian satellite television, I only know of ones that youtube randomly suggests for me, not the whole array of every ad out there.  But of the ones I have found, here are the sexiest!

Continue reading →

Happy Birthday Prabhudeva! 44 Reasons I Love You

Posted on by
16

Woo-hoo!  Prabhudeva’s birthday!  44 reasons to love him, and an excuse to post A LOT of Prabhudeva songs!  And maybe a few facts scattered in.  But not many. (I know you may not have time to watch all the videos I put in this posts, but some of these are truly not to be missed, so the ones in bold you MUST WATCH!!!)

Continue reading →

A Wedding Anniversary Post For My Parents! Their Filmi Love Story!

Posted on by
13

My parent’s 40th wedding anniversary is today and my sister and I are doing NOTHING.  Well, not nothing.  There is a some small stuff in the works.  But it’s not exactly the big rent-a-ballroom-create-a-dance-routine-write-a-poem kind of celebration that other, better children do.  To try to make up for that, I am going to at least do a theme blog post.

Continue reading →

March Meets April Today, So Let’s Celebrate the Magic of When a Couple Meets

Posted on by
Reply

I’ve been watching City of God basically on a loop for the past 3 days, just sort of in the background while I do other things.  And the one moment I have to stop and watch every time is the “Kaalangal” song.  At first because it is sooooooo sexy, but on repeat viewing because it is just so pretty.  In a way that felt really unique, until I started to remember the other song sequences I had seen like it before.  There is something about that really sweet moment when two people figure out for the first time that they love each other.

Continue reading →

Happy Birthday Akshaye Khanna! Better Late Than Never

Posted on by
11

If I say it’s been crazy busy at work lately, will that excuse me missing Akshaye’s birthday?  Or is that a weak excuse?  I was tempted to just ignore it entirely, but then I found the time and I thought “better late than never”.  So, here are 12 reasons I love him, plus one extra to make up for being late!  And they are mostly performances, because he is a very private person.

Continue reading →

Happy Birthday Emraan! My Favorite of the Imran/Emraans!

Posted on by
4

(This is an updated and reposted post from last year) If you’d asked me 9 years ago when Jaane Tu…Ya Jaane Na came out, I never would have said that Emraan would be my favorite Imraan/Emraan.  But today, oh my goodness!  He has beaten his homonym by a mile!  And today he is 38 and still going strong!  Here are 38 separate reasons I love him (yes, most of them are videos).

(Also, that photo up top makes me crack up)

Continue reading →

Happy World Poetry Day! Worst to Best Poetry in Hindi Film!

Posted on by
8

Happy World Poetry Day!  India of course has an amazing poetic tradition in every language.  And for the past 70 years, a lot of the best poets have ended up working in film lyrics.  And also some of the very worst poets.  I’m going to do a quick post giving you a run down of worst to best.  Even if you can’t understand the language, you should be able to tell just from the sound of it that some of these are very very good.  And some are not.

Continue reading →

Happy Birthday Rani! 39 Reasons I Love You!

Posted on by
15

Shashi a couple days ago, Rani today (in India, another 10 hours in America)!  Are they related?  I’m sure they are, probably through some obscure marriage somewhere.  If nothing else they are related through Ranbir and Ayan’s friendship, which is as close as a marriage.  Anyway, Happy Birthday Rani!  I couldn’t manage a full 79 reasons to love Shashi, but I can come up with a whole 39 reasons to love you!

Continue reading →

Happy Birthday Shashiji! The BEST Kapoor! 12 Reasons I Love You

Posted on by
1

79 years old today!  Which in my family is super young (Grandpa’s turning 96 this year), but for the Kapoors is pretty old!  A reward for clean living, and general niceness.  Shashi is clearly the “best” Kapoor.  And so he gets a full dozen reasons I love him.

Continue reading →

Happy Saint Patrick’s Day! All the Irish-Indian Connections I Can Think Of!

Posted on by
4

(This is a re-posted post from last year, because I am lazy.  And also there really isn’t anything to add to Irish-Indian connections in the past year) There really aren’t as many connections between Ireland and India as you would expect.  They both start with “I”?  They are both former British colonies?  Their flags are confusingly similar?  The both have disputed territories to the north? But what few connections I could remember, I have pulled up and highlighted, on this, the ridiculous made-up unofficial international Ireland celebration day.

Continue reading →

Summer songs on a Snowy Day

Posted on by
10

(This is an updated and re-written and edited reposted post from last year, because I am lazy and the weather is awful again)  If you are in the same general climate zone as me, you just got hit by a surprisingly large and late snowstorm.  Not unheard of late (somewhere we have pictures of me and my sister in snowsuits making a snowman in April), but still kind of late.  In a sort of “I thought winter was wrapping up and now it feels like it is just getting started!” way.  So I thought it would be a good time to re-post a list of summery songs I put together last year around this time.  If you aren’t in the same temperate zone as me, feel free to bookmark this post for the next time you are stuck in the kind of grey days that feel like they will never end.

Continue reading →

Baahubali 2 Trailer!!!! Where’s Tamanaah??????

Posted on by
20

Yaaaaaay!  The trailer is out!  And I missed it last night because I can’t understand time changes!  Karan announced when it would be released, but I thought it would be early this morning, not late last night.  Oh well.  It’s here now!

Continue reading →

Happy Birthday Alia Bhatt! 24 reasons I Love You!

Posted on by
19

So weird that Alia is 24 today!  When I was 24, I had just lost my 3rd post-college job and started working minimum wage in a movie theater.  Which is kind of like being a major movie star I guess?  At least we were both making money of the film industry.  Except I had more popcorn smell that never gets out of your hair, and she has more glamorous premieres.

Continue reading →

Happy Birthday Aamir! The Top 12 Reasons I Love You!!!

Posted on by
5

The earlier posts today (here and here) were just updated re-posts from last year.  But this one is entirely original!  Because I couldn’t find the top 11 post from last year!  But let’s pretend it’s because I wanted to do something nice for Aamir’s birthday and not just re-gift.

Continue reading →