Tag: Indian films
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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…
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Siri Know How
It’s like dictionaroke all over again! Siri’s got skills rapping to Young MC…with help from Skeewiff.
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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…
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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…
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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…