At The Edge

From Jat land. Hip-Hop for Ganpat's mummy-daddy.   "perhaps, at the very heart of it all, in its [the subcontinent's] climate, with its unendurable heat and unpredictable monsoons" ~Wendy Doniger in 'The Hindus: An Alternative History'" From Desert land... featuring a phenomenon called Rani Rangilee. Angrez log will be forced to go Freudian on this one. Half-way though it...they will be probably orgasmic.   Ram and Sita imagining doing things to each other in 'Rama at Sita' from Philippines.  Annotated notes:   -0- A God for Bladder Control

I think I am still a little bit funny. Audio: A version of Daft Punk's 'Get Lucky' from album 'R andom Access Memories' (2013) Video: 1. 'aplam chaplam', Azaad (1955) 2. 'Nain Lad Jaye Hain To Manwa Ma', Ganga Jamuna (1961) 3. 'Whoopi', Dastan (1950) -0-

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Chiranjeevi break dancing in Kashmir. 'Sweety' song from Pasivadi Pranam (1987). 

And while we are are on the subject of Heroines and print technology: A man at Daryaganj showing a neat little cut and paste technique. video link

And so the madness continues. video link

It still takes around 20 queries and 40 clickthroughs for Youtube to come up with this. It is bad. video link

Lots of snakes playing lots of instruments. video link From end sequence of Naag Pooja (1971).

video link Disco item song from a Telugu film from 1980s dubbed in Hindi as Maut Ka Badla Maut(1985). Although the star of this film was Vijay Lalitha, the actress that kept this thermos warm is Kavitha. And the Thermos is famous Eagle Thermos.

"Clark Kent is Superman's critique on the whole human race."  ~Bill in Kill Bill 1. Bill didn't know much about human race. -0- Kaun Hai tu?Tu Kaun Hai? (Who are you? You are Who?) Main Manoj Hu. (I am Manoj) Main Mohit Hu. (I am Mohit) Bahut Maray Karay Hu Main. (I like to beat a lot) Main Khurakh de du. (Should I give you the Medicine) Achha. Hmm. And just when Mohit and Manoj, who look like identical twins, are about tear each other part. Something swoops down on them from the sky. It's a bird, it's a plane. it's Mannu Dhaakad (Great) Man. This is the story of Raja, a not so mild-mannered rickshaw driver who likes to disguise himself as a Superhero, Mannu, a messiah for the poor and landless. A hero more Dhaakad than Superman. While all powerful Superman finds it difficult to fly chest out against the wind, our desi hero does most of his flying standing up-right. When Mannu takes his Lois Lane on a late nigh...

video link Bela Bose burning the dance floor with Chandra Shekhar in Street Singer (1966) Wah! Wah!

Something that made me laugh recently. from 1979 Disney movie 'The Black Hole'. Found the scene in the film 'A Brief History of Time' (1991) based on Stephen Hawking book of the same name.

 "It is true India neither invented nor produced the motor car, the refrigerator,  the airplace, nor did it manufacture these in the overwhelming quantities of the other industrilized countries, but for hundreds of years when the Indian peasants did not have to work, he sat in the shade of a tree and thought...[White Noise/Censored?]... He thought the philosophy of truth in life and he thought as an artist in action. " A rather interesting documentary (check out the style, especially the music in the opening scene at 2:20) on the father of India's nuclear weapons program Homi Bhabha produced probably in the late 70s by government's film division. video link Part2 Part3 (A reader, Shubhankar sent in the youtube links. Thanks!)

video link 'A Beautiful baby of Broadway' sung and performed by Iqbal Singh in 1960 Hindi film 'Ek Phool Char Kaante'.

 The man had among many other things a great ear for music, this one is from one of his most underrated movie. video link A later night viewing of an old Satyajit Ray interview on DD Bangla lead me to this wonderful film.

video link From Nastik (1983), the Boy - Raju Shrestha, who grew up to be Amitabh Bachchan in almost every second film . The Mother - Nirupa Roy in a rare 'Showdown with God' scene from Badle Ki Aag (1982). The scene may well be cut from CDs and DVDs, couldn't find it in the versions available online, but found it thanks to Zee Cinema's obsession with showing some real Bollywood first thing in the morning. The Man - Amitabh Bachchan in the famous ' Aaj khush toh bahut hoge tum ' scene from Deewar (1975).

video link Video: Television series "Vikram Aur Betaal" (1988) from Ramanand Sagar  Music: "Under Pressure" (1981) by Queen and David Bowie

11/26/08 Hindu Muslim Sikh E'sai Sab ke Dil Ka pyara Superman! Malegaon ka Superman video link  (Update: Upholder had to remove the video because of: a copyright claim by NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation). But I found a trailer and a clip (and then the film). Read on) SUPERMEN OF MALEGAON Directed by Faiza Ahmed Khan A documentary partly produced by KBS (Korean Broadcasting System) and NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) . The documentary is about the making of a movie called " Malegaon ka Superman ' directed by Shaikh Nasir. It tells the fascinating story of a ragtag crew of people from Malegaon (in Nashik district of Indian state of Maharashtra) who set out to make a 'Superman meets Bollywood' kind of flick in their own town on a shoestring budget. The above clip is their final product. The rest of the documentary covering the making has also been uploaded but sadly it has a Japanese voice over. The director of the film, Faiza Ahmed...

video link Gandalf meets Shahenshah