Tag: Cinema of India

  • Disco Bollywood Part 2

    Disco Bollywood Part 2

    If you’ve listened to the shows, you’d probably know I have a thing for disco, and also Indian/Bollywood music, especially Usha Uthup and ABBA Hindi I posted exactly (spook!) 5 years ago, and strange covers in general. Well I discovered this video and ended up delving (again) into the brightly coloured world of silver costumes…

  • Urvasi Urvasi

    Urvasi Urvasi

    Will.i.am’s It’s My Birthday is UK number one, has quite a cool Vine-based video but I’m glad he didn’t even try and compete with the original. It’s based off a Tamil song composed by A.R.Rahman called Urvasi Urvasi from the film Kadhalan. Watch the video, it’s like Vanilla Ice meets John Hughes meets Seven Brides…

  • Disco Bollywood Babylon

    Disco Bollywood Babylon

    A post about Salma Agha & Sabina on Facebook meant I went on a little Disco Bollywood trip. Above is a clip from Disco Dancer, an 1982 Bollywood film I’d really love to see. ‘Somebody dances here, somebody dances there’ indeed. This was sung by the mighty Usha Uthup who has been played on Radio…

  • Bhangra Bootay

    Bhangra Bootay

    As you might have guessed I tend to avoid hype and spam, I prefer to discover the new on my own rather than follow the crowd – the John Peel approach of avoiding what the industry or received opinion says and making up your own mind. Sadly that means that sometimes you miss stuff, as…

  • Radio Clash 26: Strangely unthemed edition

    Radio Clash 26: Strangely unthemed edition

    No theme, no packdrill (what is a packdrill? And why does the pack want to be drilled?) really, but some great mashuplets, ukrainian furry (dice?) covers, planet bollywood and some monetization issues that need to be modelled, action planned, thoroughly processed and then downsized down a vertical industry hole into a hierarchical framework far, far…

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