In Reply to: Re: Blessed new year..nice Bollywood-song in a church..like it lots posted by Farmer on January 07, 2009 at 09:22:07:
Holy cow--that's a lot of resource material.
A few comments:
Jhankaar Beats sounds really entertaining. I may look around for a video with English subtitles.
Rabbi Shergill - Bulla Ki Jaana Maen Kaun. WOW! I really like this artist and the song. Thanks for pointing it out.
Adnan Sami - An excellent musician. I need to listen to more of his work, but I'm feeling overloaded right now from the feast your shared.
I can't tell you the names of the Bollywood flicks I've watched. A year or two ago, there was a Bollywood film festival on one of the cable TV channels. That featured films from the 1960s through to contemporary "classics." But what they were--right now, I couldn't tell you off the top of my head. I can tell you that the older Bollywood film from the 1960s stands out in my mind at the moment...
When I went to India in 2003-04, I watched a Bollywood flick on the flight over. Once again, I can't tell you the name or who was in it. It was a typical contemporary film, though, inasmuch as it was about a young, immature couple and their relationship difficulties. Love triumphed in the end and they stayed married. It was a bit improbable, but heartening.
I don't remember when I saw it, but I'm recalling one flick about a Hindu man who marries a Muslim woman. A lot of the movie is about him romancing her, and how she leaves her family to marry him. They have twin boys...there's also an hijra who saves one of the boys from death during a Muslim/Hindu riot that forms the climax of the drama. Also, some rather comical grandfathers (one Muslim, one Hindu) who make peace by agreeing to raise one twin as a Muslim, one as a Hindu. It was one of those "political" Bollywood flicks...