Searching for Bollywood in Spain, Portugal, and Morocco

I’m back! I took a trip in earlier in the month to Spain, Portugal, and Morocco.  While I was there, I kept my eyes peeled for any signs of the Indian film industry.  So allow me to provide you with data from my trip.  In Spain, I looked around for  crews filming  Zoya Akhtar‘s Zindagi Milegi Na Dubara, but [...]

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Aaina (1977)

I had originally tried to order Aaina (1977) from Netflix, but got the 1993 version of Aaina instead, which I reviewed HERE.  I eventually did get the 1977 version of Aaina that stars Mumtaz and Rajesh Khanna.  I would not be tricked by Bollywood’s duplicate titles and miss out on my original plan to see [...]

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The Outer World of Shahrukh Khan (2005)

As promised in my post on The Inner World of Shahrukh Khan, I will now cover part 2 of Nasreen Munni Kabir’s documentary set: The Outer World of Shahrukh Khan (2005).  Kabir’s experience working with Kahn is nicely reviewed in  the article Shah Rukh bahut sharif aadmi hai by Aseem Chhabra. Towards the middle of “The [...]

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Bollywood Insider: Catching up for 2009!

Here’s a better late than never update on Bollywood Insider, with my favorite correspondant of Bollywood chugli and news, Suzi Mann.  Many of the links I’ve added here before from ITN/Bollywood Insider  through youtube eventually disappear.  Hopefully these newer links from AOL,  Bebo,  Joost, and MySpace will last.    Enjoy the updates yaar: ♥♥♥ 2/6/09:  Ash in Pink [...]

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Amitabh Bachchan was in my dream & I serenaded him with KANK!

In this magic season of Christmas I was visited by Amitabh Bachchan  in a dream. Maybe it’s because I’d recently seen him in Desh Premee (1982), where he looked like Jesus and it’s Jesus’ season. Maybe it’s that buzz around the Bollywood Blogosphere about a possible North American Bollywood Bloggers trying to get together sometime in [...]

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Bollywood meets NASCAR? Ta Ra Rum Pum (2007)

Ta Ra Rum Pum (2007) starring Saif Ali Khan -n- Rani Mukerjee (or Mukerji if you feel like spelling it that way) is sort of NASCAR meets Bollywood. In my commitment to watch all Hindi movies available through my local library system, I forced myself to watch TRRP. I also forced myself to write about [...]

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Bommarillu (2006) & Genelia D’Souza. Sometimes I sneak over to Tollywood.

I know this is a Bollywood blog, but sometimes I have to talk about Tollywood. I saw my second Telugu film the other day: Bommarillu (2006).  The first Telugu film I saw was Varsham (2004), which I enjoyed just as much.  I was excited to see Genelia D’Souza in a movie, since her much anticipated Bollywood [...]

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Bollywood Insider: “Taare Zameen Par,” Aishwarya Rai, John Abraham, Shahrukh, Fardeen Khan, Abishek Bachchan, Preity Zinta, Rani Mukherjee, Saif Ali Khan, Akshay Kumar, Deepika Padukone, and Shilpa Shetty

Opps, fallen a bit behind on the “Bollywood Insider” information, so here it is, better late than never. Can you believe how generous SRK is?   The latest Bollywood chugli from our favorite correspondent, Suzi Mann: The Latest Bollywood chugli – Shahrukh turns Santa – Abishek inspires kids in Taare Zameen Par – Deepika denies [...]

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Video of the Day- “Chhabeela” from Saawariya, 2007

Check out our Movie Times page and go see Saawariya, and if you’re in the area come meet up with your dedicated Blogwallahs to watch the movie this Sunday. Saawariya, starring: Ranbir Kapoor … Ranbir Raj Sonam Kapoor … Sakina Salman Khan … Imaan Rani Mukherjee … Gulab Begum Para … Sakina’s grandmother Zohra Sehgal [...]

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Video of the Day: “Kajra Re” from Bunty Aur Babli, – 2005

Bunty Aur Babli (2005) stars  Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan and Rani Mukerji. Watch Aishwarya Rai ’s special performance from the movie in “Kajra Re“ with playback singers Alisha Chinai, Shankar Mahadevan, and Javed Ali, and lyrics by Gulzar. Thanks to luvinlyf for the youtube video. Thanks to BollyWhat? for LYRICS in Hindi and English.

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