Hey, it’s “A Fish Out of Water”! I got tipped off to this one when I went to old post at Parties, Sarees and Melodies to download a copy of the original soundtrack by Laxmikant Pyarelal. Thanks for the tip, Stella_1! This has some real ROTFL moments (I really fell off my couch at 1:30)… That having been said, after one viewing of the “dancers” here, maybe some of you will have a better appreciation of Sandhya.
OK, I have to admit, at least in terms of the music, I think the next one is actually good! (By the way, I think I once also posted a Pakistani mujra done to this remix – partly for the same reason, I actually like it!) I don’t mind the video so much either (though I admit I didn’t exactly like it at first either) – it is pretty funny in a tacky way. (In fact, it embarrassingly reminds me of some of my own experiences in my youth, when I went to “New Wave” clubs.) I suppose it’s a bit insulting to the Asha Parekh dance that the main part comes from, but on the other hand, it also samples “I Love You” from Hare Rama Hare Krishna, and it contains a parody of Zeenat Aman in that very scene that I find pretty on-spot hilarious. (Actually, it’s a combination of the Zeenat Aman character and a western woman dancing in a short skirt next to her who is egging on the crowd – but in the remix, of course, she has to be updated, so she’s a bit more vulgar – though not half as vulgar as the star of the video. What would Dev Anand’s character have said about this scene?) On top of all that, if I’m not mistaken, there is also a fragment of “Mehbooba Mehbooba” from Sholay…
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P.S. I considered also linking to the remix of “Ek Pardesi” (since I just linked to “Ek Pardesi” in comments to another post the other day), but I decided that that one is just too awful. And I couldn’t find any other of these remixes that I could stand (of course, there is Bally Sagoo, but that falls into another category). So, I’ll just leave it at two for now.
kids actually bought this D J Doll dvd 4 yrs ago in India: they were looking for a clip they had seen, and someone told them it was in here.
I think it is the first dvd that we have actually thrown away without having watched it…good it was cheap!
OK… But did the kids watch it? Did they find the clip they were looking for?
No, the clip they wanted wasn’t there, and some of the video clips were too embarrassing? this one is in fact, the best of the lot.
It is not true I threw it out straight away as for a couple of years it actually was useful: in propping up a lopsided shelf or something…
the Jal bin machli remix is highly hilarious, they’ve mashed up with bits of Beyonce’s Baby boy and that’s indeed a fragment of mehbooba mehbooba in the second song which is was also inspired by demi Roussosss’s ‘say you love me’
Thank you for the information, Bollywooddeewana! I think I saw someone in the YouTube comments to the “Jal Bin Machli” remix say something about Beyonce (if not in comments to this edition, then another), but I confess I wouldn’t have been able to identify it on my own. (Maybe that means I’m really out of it where mainstream contemporary western pop/r’n'b music is concerned. But unfortunately, whenever I’ve heard Beyonce, she has just had no effect on me whatsoever, though I admit I have found it mildly pleasing to look at her image sometimes.)
I had absolutely no memory of Demi Roussoss either (though there was something familiar-sounding about that song), but that clip is great! And who are those dancers? Could they be Pans People, by any chance?
You’re welcome, i have no idea who the dancers are, they could be random or they could indeed be the Pans People as they look quite similar
Yes, they do look similar… I think they’re a little better in Rossoss’s clip, but I had to include the George Harrison clip for the Indian relevance. :) In some of their other dances, they’re a little funkier (so not quite as dreary, IMO), and even more similar-looking to the dancers behind Mr. Roussoss.
P.S. OK, I’ve been looking up his stuff a little…interesting! (I also found out the correct way to spell his name – it’s “Roussos.” :)
Check out this excellent video for Demi Roussos and the Moroccan singer Hasna doing “Far Away”: