To procrastinate in my job search yesterday afternoon, I walked over to 74h Street in Jackson Heights and bought a movie at the Golden Hits Bollywood store. The movie is Shree 420… And what a perfect movie it was for me to see!
The movie opens with the main character, Raj (played by Raj Kapoor), heading [...]
Should I actually go to a movie that isn’t from India? I’m thinking of it. The movie (which I think originated in France?) is called Whatever Lola Wants, and it’s playing at the Tribeca Film Festival this weekend… It’s about a struggling dancer in New York who gets interested in belly dancing and some legendary belly dancer [...]
I stayed up well into the morning watching a 1995 movie called Karan and Arjun (available with subtitles at Daily Motion). The scene below is fantastic, and the music to me sounds like pretty good Indian-folk-techno-rock fusion - hard-driving, especially near the end. (I love the guy’s vocals at the end of this clip - so goth.) [...]
I guess I should warn that this might be quite a leap for some people from the last posts, although it continues on the theme (sort of). But I like Robyn (who hails from Sweden, one of my other favorite nations for music), and this is one of her best songs. Actually, it’s a cover of a song [...]
I couldn’t resist - thought this was quite incredible. (And notice how it’s suddenly in color too!)
Ah, spring, time for all kinds of creatures to come out - including the snakes?
I’ve seen quite a few snake movies in my time, but I was mesmerized by this scene from a 1954 movie called Nagin (not to be confused with so many later movies called Nagin or Nagina or Nihagen: Nagina Part II, [...]
This is just outstanding… A great example of fusion between desi music and dancehall reggae, from 1993. I’m beginning to realize that I like a lot of the Asian Underground-related fusion of the early ’90s more than the present-day bhangra/hip-hop kind of fusion.
When it comes to rock/pop/fusion/electronica… Well, I never get [...]
(That’s Smarnika - learned about her while passing by on a tag at Ek Musafir.)
(DJ Sara and DJ Ryusei… I’ve known about them for a few months. I think they’re sem-famous now.)
