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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
What a joy. This only intensifies my desire to visit the New York offices of Salon.con. Are there certain days when this happens, or is it more of a spontaneous thing? Do you guys reproduce other famous dance sequences; I’m thinking Tim Grieve and Peter Daou dancing one of the fight scenes from West Side Story… “Boys, boys, crazy boys!” Or maybe Joe Conason and Heather Havrilesky working through the Travolta, Thurman number from Pulp Fiction? This new slant on things really enhances my Salon experience, thanks a lot.
And also say that the singer looks like John Waters.
This song has absolutely nothing to do with the rest of the movie--there's a scene in a nightclub and so hey, let's have some dancing! Gumnaam is basically the Agatha Christie classic And Then There Were None/Ten Little Indians--this time, with real Indians.
I am an engineer at a wireless communications company in California. Every day at work is like this.
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Surely some at Video Dog can get a video camera and film the staff of Salon recreating this important work. Please--we'd love to see it.
... a great "playback singer." The voice behind (lipsynching) actors of Bollywood's golden era - roughly the 1950s thru the '70s.
Kishore Kumar, another great playback singer, was a natural with songs like this one; somewhere w/in him lurked a crazy little kid itching to get out (and often succeeding!), and his songs are infused with the oomph that is Asha Bhosle's stock-in-trade.
Rafi, and Lata Mangeshkar, excelled at the classic romantic song. Go to www.raaga.com, search for "Ehsaan Tera Hoga Mujh Par" - Hindi - Song - Exact ... and give the first two songs a listen. Great, huh?
Ah, good times.
The video is a hoot. With the obligatory Random Whitey(s) and everything ;-).
I like all of your ideas, and we may be sending some staffers to some Arthur Miller dance classes to fulfill your request (Tim Grieve -- talk about two left feet!). As for Jaan Pehechaan Ho, we usually only perform it at old folks' homes and elementary school assemblies. If we ever tape a performance, though, we'll definitely make it available on Video Dog!
I can’t tell you how pleased I am at this glimpse into the inner workings of Salon. I can certainly understand that a number like the one depicted would be difficult to just pull out of the proverbial hat on say casual Friday, but knowing that this happens at all really brings what I read on the web site into clearer focus, and I’d certainly like more of the same. For instance the recent argument over the 2004 Ohio election results. I’m contraverted as to whether the weight of evidence of GOP fraud and malfeasance really adds up to an outright theft of the election, but if I could see a video of R. F. K. Jr. and Farhad Manjoo dancing through their debate a la “You’ve Been Served” until one of them just colapsed from well… “being served”, that would make things so much clearer. Keep up the good work.
I love you guys. This song has been on permanent rotation on my MP3 player for the past year or so, and now I have the visuals. Vibration + ululation + masked dancers = wow. I subscribe to emusic and have found tons of Bollywood stuff, but this number is definitely the shimmy shimmy bang bang tops.
NO WAY!! I just went out and rented Ghost World again two days ago because I had me a hankering for this video. Now here it is! CREEEEEEPY!!
This combined with the Zuiikin Gals video has made my life on this dreary planet a little nicer.
I've watched it daily since you put it up. It soothes my soul and is great for chasing off creeps -- just start the clip and they disappear.
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