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talkpoliticsYou saw Thora Birch dance to it in the beginning of Ghost World!
You've seen the beer commercial!
Now here's the real thing, the wild number from a 1964 Indian film, Gumnaam.
Enjoy!
Excuse me, but I have to spend the next five minutes wiggling my hips, shaking my head, and dangling my hands limply from my wrists.
PS: I love bollywood films -- and I think this is a terrific song. No idea what it means, but I love it.
You've seen the beer commercial!
Now here's the real thing, the wild number from a 1964 Indian film, Gumnaam.
Enjoy!
Excuse me, but I have to spend the next five minutes wiggling my hips, shaking my head, and dangling my hands limply from my wrists.
PS: I love bollywood films -- and I think this is a terrific song. No idea what it means, but I love it.
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Can you do this with your neck? Caaan yooou?
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Date: 7/10/11 16:20 (UTC)Can't believe you guys didn't include the best of all
Date: 7/10/11 16:59 (UTC)Re: Can't believe you guys didn't include the best of all
Date: 7/10/11 17:00 (UTC)Re: Can't believe you guys didn't include the best of all
Date: 7/10/11 21:17 (UTC)A similar but less popular variant of the song called "Thaiyya Thaiyya" from the same movie and sung by Sukhwinder himself is also excellent, and is much closer to the original Sufi poetry written by the mystic Bulle Shah.
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Date: 8/10/11 10:37 (UTC)Re: Can't believe you guys didn't include the best of all
Date: 8/10/11 15:43 (UTC)But sometimes "ho" is used to mean something similar to "is," in the sense of "[which] occurs," or "[which/who] is found to be." So in the Chaiyya Chaiyya song "jin ke sir ho ishq ki chhao" means "over whom the shade of love is (or remains/occurs/would be found)".
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"Ho" is also used as the second-person form of "hai" ("is"). So,
Main achhaa hoon: I am good
Tum achhe ho: You are good
Veh/Voh achhaa hai: He is good
Note that in the second person form, "tum" can be replaced by "tu"/"aap", to indicate respectively lesser/greater formality or regard than ordinary. In that case "ho" would be replaced by "hai"/"hain" respectively.
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Date: 8/10/11 15:53 (UTC)Re: Can't believe you guys didn't include the best of all
Date: 8/10/11 16:24 (UTC)Re: Can't believe you guys didn't include the best of all
Date: 7/10/11 21:25 (UTC)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=let8giY3oWM
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Date: 7/10/11 17:16 (UTC)Re: me love
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Date: 7/10/11 18:03 (UTC)It's fun.
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Date: 7/10/11 18:22 (UTC)my two sons are on the spectrum and have sensory issues, but they consider that song to be the best song for dancing EVAR. gets them pumping like maniacs.
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Date: 7/10/11 22:25 (UTC)The lyrics are simple and beautiful, and can be looked up fairly readily.
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Date: 7/10/11 20:59 (UTC)The performance is one of the neighbouring colleges of the one I studied in. Our team usually beat them, and all other colleges in the university, every year :D (Extra security used to be on standby in case our college came second). Bhangra traditionally is set to folk lyrics telling stories of life, harvest, love, separation, union, courage, and of course, Punjab. It is very exhausting and demands extremely tough practice - you have to dance on your toes most of the time and keep grinning like you're on the highest high throughout it (there are points for these sort of things for judging winners).
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Date: 7/10/11 21:57 (UTC)I went to Washington DC for Bhangra Blowout 18 and I'm going again in '12 for BB19!!!
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Date: 7/10/11 19:03 (UTC)The lyrics are basically nonsensical. Something like:
There should be some familiarity
Life should be a little easier
O stealers of hearts don't steal your gaze
Tell us your name
LOL!
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Date: 7/10/11 19:12 (UTC)Dev Anand was the coolest actor Bollywood has ever seen. He is still alive, he just celebrated his 88th birthday and is still producing and directing movies - and acting in them! Here's (http://www.hindustantimes.com/Mayank-Shekhar-s-review-Chargesheet/Article1-752071.aspx) a review of his latest creation - draw your own conclusions ;)
And Madhubala was the prettiest woman that has ever existed or will exist in the history of the universe and parts beyond. Or almost. Unfortunately she died young, at 36 :/
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She died young too.
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Date: 7/10/11 20:01 (UTC)What is the song about?
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Date: 7/10/11 20:45 (UTC)Basically.
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Date: 7/10/11 21:37 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 7/10/11 19:23 (UTC)Don't say anything about there being an "original", this is BETTER!
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Date: 7/10/11 19:41 (UTC)They're both from a Tamil movie that was later released in Hindi. The songs were a hit, the movie was a dud.
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Date: 7/10/11 21:29 (UTC)I think you will like this
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