This week's video is a more unconventional bollywood dance number. As you'll notice, there is little choreographed dancing, except for the two Elvis impersonators flailing about. Aside from them, this is a good representation of a typical Indian wedding - the decorations, the music, the clothes.
The song is called "Emotional Attyachar" from the movie "Dev D." Its really good. I'll lend you the DVD. The song title translates to "Emotional Torture" because, of course some girl broke our hero's heart and now he is drowning his sorrows over the course of the video. Just like in last edition's "Desi Girl", you'll notice a lot of Hinglish.
Example: Bol Bol why did you ditch me? (Tell me, tell me...english)
Zindagi bhi lele yaar kill me (Here, take my life, kill me)
Bol Bol why did you ditch me whore? (yes, they say whore in a Hindi song)
Monday, September 14, 2009
Awesome Bollywood Video of the Week - 9/14
Monday, August 31, 2009
Awesome Bollywood Video of the Week
This was a feature that I started back in June but I forgot to continue. I thought it was interesting enough to continue, so let's hope I can remember every Monday from now on.
This is a song-and-dance sequence from a movie called "Dostana", where two straight Indian men in Miami pretend to be gay in order to live in a swank apartment. Things get complicated, of course, when they fall in love with their female roommate. This also stars my favorite Bollywood actor, Abhishek Bachchan, who's the bearded chap in the video.
The song is called "Desi Girl", where 'Desi' means 'Indian'. I'll spare you the word-for-word meaning of the lyrics, but the chorus is worth noting:
"Dekh lakh lakh pardesi girls" - I've seen thousands of foreign girls
"Aint nobody like my desi girl" - That's in English.
Translation - Indian woman are whiz-bang
Enjoy.
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Billions of Blue Blistering Barnacles! A Tintin Movie!
Remember this guy?
Well, he's coming to the big screen in 2011, courtesy of a couple of dudes named Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson. What kind of mediocre talent would work with these hacks? Let's take a look...
For those unfamiliar with comic books about Belgian reporters, the guy with the weird hair is Tintin. He and his dog Snowy had some pretty amazing adventures in the comic strips printed between 1923 and 1976. You may also remember him from the equally cool cartoon series that aired on Nickelodeon in the 90's. Basically, Tintin went around the world foiling bad guys in Egypt, China, Tibet, Palestine, Peru, and other locales. The comics and cartoons were a nice mix of humor and surprisingly hardcore action.
Watching this theme again sure does make me happy.
So Tintin is getting a three picture deal. The first will be directed by Spielberg. Peter Jackson will take over the second. The thought of these two working together is a dream come true. The third director is to be determined, but I have my fingers crossed for Quentin Tarantino.
Even better is the team they complied to write the script. The headliner is Edgar Wright, who you may remember from rocking your world with his screenplay/direction of Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz . He's joined by Doctor Who scribe Stephen Moffat and some guy named Joe Cornish. Both Moffat and Wright are brilliant at combining thrills and comedy, which is the essence of every Tintin adventure.
And oh yeah, it's going to be a motion-capture 3D film. Just like Beowulf and The Polar Express . Hopefully the technology will improve in the next few years...
The Cast
Tintin is Jamie Bell. of Billy Eliot and Defiance .
Captain Haddock, his foul-mouthed best friend will be played by Andy Serkis. Serkis already used motion capture to play Gollum in the Lord of the Rings series, so he knows what's up.
Doppelganger detectives Thomson and Thompson will be played by Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, the leads in Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz . Even though they look nothing like each other. To me, it doesn't matter because Pegg and Frost are the best comedy duo since Woody Allen and Diane Keaton.
The new 007, Daniel Craig, will make an appearance has the villain of the film, a pirate named Red Rackham. I couldn't find a picture of Red Rackham but he shows up at 0:35 in the video above. Since we know Rackham will be featured, it can be assumed that the first picture will follow the Tintin classics The Secret of the Unicorn and Red Rackham's Treasure .
The cast is rounded out by one of my personal favorite actors, Mackenzie Crook. He's great as Gareth Keenan in the UK version of The Office but he's more famous as the pirate with a wooden eye in the Pirates trilogy.
I haven't been this excited for a movie since Indiana Jones 4. I've been reading Tintin for as long as I have been able to read. We have pretty much the entire collection (except Tintin in Tibet ) at my house. And now Spielberg, Jackson, and Edgar Wright are working on it? There is a god. Plus, George Lucas isn't around to screw things up. Unless he's the third director. Ye gads...
I will leave you with a classic Gareth moment.
