Heeeeee.

Excellent, excellent day today.

1. I picked up my copy of The Kapoors, the book about the most famous Bollywood family and it is super-super awesome for facts like ( Read more... )

Today's clip-of-adorableness is courtesy of the Bollywood classic BobbyBobby, a huge and very influential Bollywood hit of the early 1970s (I think most of the 'young love' story movies are indebted to Bobby some way or another), follows a rather simple but effective story. Raj (Rishi Kapoor), the only child of neglectful, rich parents (seriously, ( Read more... )

A nifty little Across the Universe picture to start with:


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I promise to reply to everyone tomorrow. Last couple of days have been a bit crazy.

This is a bit unconnected :)

I. Movies

Saw Across the Universe tonight. It was a flawed (if fun) movie but the creators of it were both incredibly talented and on drugs, to be able to fit all the Beatles songs the way they did. (it's worth seeing if for nothing ( Read more... )

Here is a mv for my favorite Bollywood movie ever, Veer-Zaara:

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I thought I couldn't be more excited about the upcoming Saawariya. I was wrong. The new trailer, with title song and actors' faces Came out. Large version here:

http://www.saawariyafilm.com/

but here is a smaller, youtube one. Am dead.

Click to view

Ranbir and Sonam are adorable. *melts*

Went with smartylibrarian and tatterpunk to see Chak De India today ( Read more... )

One of the very few celebrity couples I like are Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek Bachchan, Bollywood superstars which recently got married (their wedding created an INSANE media frenzy, because not only are Aish and Abhi superstars, but Abhi is the only son of Amitabh and Jaya Bachchan, both huge stars themselves. Amitabh is probably the best known BW ( Read more... )

Posting something at calixa's lj reminded me of one of my ultimate guilty pleasures: Bollywood flick Dil Ka Rishta (relationship of the heart) starring two of Bollywood prettiest people: Aishwarya Rai and Arjun Rampal.


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Recently, I watched a very unusual movie for Bollywood. Last year’s sleeper hit Gangster, starring Kangna Raut, Shiney Ahuja and Emran Hashimi. It was filmed and set in part in South Korea, and in doing so, it seems to have adopted somewhat a tone of a Korean movie into itself ( Read more... )