In Reply to: Re: Blessed new year..nice Bollywood-song in a church..like it lots posted by CB on January 06, 2009 at 19:29:08:
What I like about the video & lyrics is, that you can understand it as dedicated to Jesus...I do...but as the comments on youtube prove...many just understand it as dedicated to some loved one, which is also possible, when "in love"
CB, to be frank, I got to know the video while youtube window shopping/hopping/surfing...I haven't seen the entire movie...so I am also a bit at a loss, why the setting is in the church...every now & then you find, that Bollywood-productions pay some tribute to the various religious, ethnic
minorities & therewith may be add some "social glue/bind" to that ethnical meltingpot India...also Bollywood is "wise and smart" enough to produce a lot of movies partly abroad, to suit the NRI, non residential Indian or even foreigners living in that particular country...many movie/theatre visitors can or want to remember more the songs than the acting or logic/thread & plot (camera & cutting), which is anyway often behind, compared with the Hollywood productions...but IMO they have an emotional angel, which I hardly find elsewhere nowadays...
A lot of Bollywood actresses were first in the modelling or advertising business & then got "discovered"...some where at the minimum Miss India or even Miss universe & Miss world...so the competition seems big & sometimes the acting talent is missing...the actress in pink, Riya Sen, is probably missing some in that area...from what some critics say...in the movie the guitarist is in love with her...clotheswise I guess she might be "catholically"-correct...knees are usually to be covered...shoulders I don't know?!...hair should be covered according to Paul, from the way I understand it, but who cares today???...a lot of times in the Indian movies, the song-setting/set up has only marginally to do with the scene prior, so I am also intrigued/puzzled, why they have a "practicing" in church...many of the Bollywood movies I have, are cheap buys via ebay & seldom brand new by my demand, here's some further info:
Plot
This movie was a tribute to R.D.Burman. Jhankaar Beats is a story about love, friendship and music. Deep (Sanjay Suri) is happily married to his lovely wife Shanti (Juhi Chawla), with a little daughter Muskaan and another baby on the way. Rishi (Rahul Bose) is his best friend and colleague at an advertising agency. Rishi is a little immature and stubborn, and this keeps on causing fights at home with his equally headstrong wife Nicky (Rinke Khanna). Rishi and Deep are also dedicated musicians, obsessive about the music of R.D Burman. They play at a club sometimes, and compete in an annual pop music contest called Jhankaar Beats -- and have lost for the past two years.
When the movie starts, Rishi has been kicked out of his house by Nicky and the two are considering getting a divorce; Deep's nagging mother-in-law has come for a two-month visit, and both of them are under pressure to get an advertising campaign ready for a new client, an oddball condom manufacturer. Around this time they meet Indraneel (Shayan Munshi), Neel for short, who is the son of their boss Mr. Kapoor and is joining the company. Neel is an ace guitarist who has his own problems - he is insanely attracted to a pretty girl, Preeti (Riya Sen), but cannot muster the courage to talk to her; to make things worse, his father has decided that he is wasting his life and has given him an ultimatum - find himself a girl in two months or settle down with a girl his parents choose. Rishi and Deep, though they tease him mercilessly, grow very fond of Neel, and he also has a sure ally in Shanti. Shanti, meanwhile, is trying to get Rishi to see sense and make up with Nicky. There are also a host of colourful supporting characters, among them a newlywed couple living above Deep's flat, Nicky's handsome lawyer, and the very sexy owner of a rival advertising agency. How they resolve all their issues forms the rest of the story.
Here they claim, that Riya Sen can`t act
The following is the review of a movie I recently acquired via ebay & which touched me deeply...I zero in more & more in my acquisitions on how Bollywood tackles the various aspects of Hindus and Muslims living together, intermarriage...Kashmir-conflict, terroristic impact on personal lifes etc....some are "emotional", cineastic milestones in my opinion...other topics include the cast & economic gaps:
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May be you enjoy the following music video...it's sad,but so true for the folks who have not found yet the light which came to this earth..celebrated at Christmas...also the comments on youtube give a real good impression, how the differences are dealt with
Rabbi Shergill - Bulla Ki Jaana Maen Kaun
with English...clearer...lyrics
Music video...original?!...more for the eye
from youtube:
Baba Bulleh Shah, whose real name was Abdullah Shah, was a Punjabi Sufi poet and humanist. He is believed to have been born in the small village of Uch, Bahawalpur in modern day Pakistan. His ancestors had migrated from Bukhara in modern Uzbekistan, in 1680. At the age of six months, his parents relocated to Malakwal. There his father, Shah Muhammad Darwaish, was a preacher in the village mosque and a teacher. His father later got a job in Pandoke, about 50 miles southeast of Kasur. Bulleh Shah received his early schooling in Pandoke, and later moved to Kasur for higher education, to become a student of the prominent professor, Ghulam Murtaza.
Baba Bulleh Shah was a direct descendant of Muhammad through the progeny of Shaikh Abdul Qadir Gillani of Baghdad.
A large amount of what is known about Bulleh Shah comes through legends, and is subjective; to the point that there isn't even agreement among historians concerning his precise date and place of birth. Some "facts" about his life have been pieced together from his own writings. Other "facts" seem to have been passed down through oral traditions.
Bulleh Shah practiced the Sufi tradition of Punjabi poetry established by poets like Shah Hussain (1538 -- 1599), Sultan Bahu (1629 -- 1691), and Shah Sharaf (1640 -- 1724).
Bulleh Shah lived in the same period as the famous Sindhi Sufi poet, Shah Abdul Latif Bhatai (1689 -- 1752). His lifespan also overlapped with the legendary Punjabi poet Waris Shah (1722 -- 1798), of Heer Ranjha fame, and the famous Sindhi Sufi poet Abdul Wahad (1739 -- 1829), better known by his pen-name, Sachal Sarmast ("truth seeking leader of the intoxicated ones"). Amongst Urdu poets, Bulleh Shah lived a mere 400 miles from Mir Taqi Mir (1723 -- 1810) of Agra.
Rabbi Shergill I first heard of through the following movie, the song/video runs unfortunately without subtitle...I like the end, because the man apologizes to his wife, because he had accused her falsely, but really makes up beautifully, it's an average characterstudy otherwise
Delhi heights
May be you like the following musician...I like the blend of western/latin and eastern music:
...."Sami has won many international awards, including the "Nigar Award", the "Bolan Academy Award", and the "Graduate Award". He was given a "Special Award of UNICEF" and a United Nations Peace Medal for a song he wrote and performed for Africa. He was invited to be a member of the jury of the prestigious music festival "Voice of Asia" competition, held annually at Almaty, Kazhakstan - the jury comprises top music composers of the world. Sami was featured in a documentary, commissioned by the Foreign and Common Wealth Office of Great Britain, about ten people from the Indian sub-continent, who have influenced the Asian culture in the UK, over the last fifty years.[7]
A review of his piano solo performance on Channel 4, UK, in Keyboard Magazine acknowledged him as the "Keyboard Discovery of The 90s". Swedish radio and television referred to him as the fastest keyboard player in the world.[2] Sami has performed for prestigious music festivals to sold-out stadia of his solo concert tours all over the world in over forty countries.[citation needed] In summer 2003, he became the only Asian artiste to have sold out, Wembley Stadium, London, for two consecutive nights, which won him a place in the Limca Book of Records. [8]
As a classical concert pianist, Sami has had the honour of giving "solo" Royal Command performances before the King of Sweden and King Hussein of Jordan.[9] He has also performed before Heads of State and Government such as President Mitterrand of France, the President of United Arab Emirates, the President and Prime Minister of India, the President and Prime Minister of Pakistan, the President and Prime Minister of Khazakhstan, the Prime Minister of Kyrgystan, the Prime Minister and Christina of Sweden...."
Too bad, I have not yet googled the lyrics...I prefer to listen to music/songs with comprehendable lyrics...don't want to listen to some wild/fals imaginations, but I suppose, they are "normal" love songs....considering his English/Pakistani background, the comments on youtube are also enlightning:
Teri Bahon Mein
Adnan Sami- Tera Chehra
What have you watched so far?...I think you watched monsoon wedding?...really good, also in light of us having been in TF