Video of the Day: “Pardah Hai Pardah” from Amar Akbar Anthony (1977), we’ve got 4 versions for you here!

Dosto, today I present you with the song “Pardah Hai Pardah“ from the 1977 film, Amar Akbar Anthony. I enjoyed this song so much I added 4 versions for you. At the Bollywood Food Club, we don’t really do true film reviews; why bother when there are already so many great bloggers out there [...]

Read Full Post »

Ever wondered about those huge homes in Bollywood movies?

I recently read Motiba’s Tattoos, a memoir by Mira Kamdar. Kamdar is an American born Jain woman and her book traces the life of her grandmother. I was reading along, not expecting anything Bollywood, but when describing her time spent in Mumbai as a kid Kamdar served up some spicy Bollywood dish:
The slum was still cloaked [...]

Read Full Post »

Bollywood Insider: Arnie and Beyonce join Akki? Salman body wax!

Bollywood chugli from 1/17/08 from our favorite correspondent, Suzi Mann:  

Latest Bollywood chugli - Salman get’s full body wax! Arnie and Beyonce to join Akki in screen outing? Ash tipped for Asterix

Read Full Post »

Bollywood Insider: from 1/11/08 The chugli on Bipasha Basu, Hrithik Roshan, John Abraham, Aishwarya Rai, Benazir Bhutto, Saif Ali Khan, and Kareena Kapoor

Bollywood chugli from 1/11/08 from our favorite correspondent, Suzi Mann:  
Latest Bollywood chugli: Bips’ birthday, Hrithik on a high as Jodhaa Akbar arrives, Bollywood to mark Bhutto legacy, Bebo and Saif get serious.” 

I was glad to see in this clip that Shabana Azmi is going to play the role of Benazir Bhutto and NOT someone like [...]

Read Full Post »

Video of the Day: “Main Jaadugar” from Jaadugar (1989)

Today’s video is the song “Main Jaadugar” from Jaadugar(1989), starring Amitabh Bachchan, Jaya Prada, Amrita Singh, Aditya Pancholi, Amrish Puri, Johnny Lever, and Pran.

American-returned Shankar Narayan is baffled to witness his former businessman and jailbird dad posing as a soothsayer by the name of Mahaprabhu Janak Sagar Jagat Narayan in a small town called Dharampur. [...]

Read Full Post »

Video of the Day: “Kal Ho Naa Ho” from Kal Ho Naa Ho (2003)

I explained about this movie the other day in the post “How Kal Ho Naa Ho changed my life,”  so let’s watch a bit more with today’s video: “Kal Ho Naa Ho” from Kal Ho Naa Ho (2003). This tune has a nice dhol beat.
The music is conducted by the award-winning trio Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, with playback [...]

Read Full Post »

Video of the Day: “Pretty Woman” from Kal Ho Naa Ho (2003) or “How Kal Ho Naa Ho changed my life!”

Today’s video is “Pretty Woman” with music by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, by playback singer Shankar Mahadevan, picturized on King Khan from the movie Kal Ho Naa Ho.  I’ll get to that later but let me give you a little background first.
This is a pivotal Bollywood movie for me because it’s partly responsible for my current addiction to [...]

Read Full Post »

Halla Bol!

 
I saw Halla Bol this weekend and of course I don’t want to write a review, but do want to point out what I liked:

The brooding, angry, simmering, seething Ajay Devgan. I couldn’t get enough!
Pankaj Kapoor’s character Siddhu. (Dosto, I didn’t know he was Shahid Kapoor’s dad!)
Darshan Jariwala’s character Gaekwad
Ajay’s giant watch
Giving a kidney to [...]

Read Full Post »

Video of the Day: “Main To Hoon Sab Ka” from Hatya (1988)

To honor Nandini’s commitment to more Govinda in 2008, today’s video is “Main To Hoon Sab Ka,” from Hatya (1988).
Hatya is a 1988 Bollywood thriller film directed by Kirti Kumar and starring Govinda, Neelam, and Anupam Kher. Govinda stars as Sagar, a wealthy but idle young man. Following a night of consuming much alcohol he [...]

Read Full Post »

Video of the Day: “First Day First Show of Halla Bol”

Yaaro, click HERE to see “First Day First Show of Halla Bol,”
starring: Ajay Devgan, Vidya Balan, Pankaj Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor, Ishteyak, Sridevi, Boney Kapoor, Jackie Shroff, Ruby Bhatia, Pahlaj Nihalani, Neeraj Vora, Tusshar Kapoor, Ranjit Kapoor, Mukesh Tiwari, Lekh Tandon, and Sayali Bhagat.
The movie goers say some of the following: “Very good movie.” “Pankaj [...]

Read Full Post »