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Images from Bolpur, Birbhum

Published in December 23rd, 2009

Posted by Anshu in Music, Travel, India

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Here’s this Baul singer, Poltu Das with his du-taara.

And this face which instantly caught my attention

Dhan te nan

Published in September 13th, 2009

Posted by Anshu in Television, Film, Music

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Do you love that song from Kaminey? It was weeks before I related the fact that the Dhan te nan I was reading it was the same as the song I was hearing. Reason? I was reading Dhan as in ‘wealth’, te as the soft punjabi ‘te’ and nan as what we eat!!!!
The song was […]

Buffalaxed!

Published in September 9th, 2009

Posted by Anshu in Web stuff, Film, Music, Waxing lyrical

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Buffalaxing is a concept where a song in a non English language is given subtitles based on what the foreign words SOUND like, not what it means. This word comes from a genius on YouTube whose username is Buffalax. He (or she) created the concept of Buffalaxing and is REALLY good at it. Watch this […]

Tick tick tick tick!

Published in September 9th, 2009

Posted by Anshu in Web stuff, Film, Music

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Enjoy this ‘English song’ from the Kannada film Operation Diamond Rocket. Starring the legendary Rajkumar. No, you don’t need to know Kannada to understand the lyrics here, you need to understand Kinglish! Dorrrrling!

English songs in Indian films

Anshu’s Amitabh Bachchan Trivia Quiz 2

Published in September 3rd, 2009

Posted by Anshu in Quizzes, Music

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Time for an Amitabh Bachchan Trivia Quiz again! My favourite topic!
Have the following singers ever provided playback for Amitabh Bachchan? If so, name the movies.
1. Bappi Lahiri
2. RD Burman
3. Laxmikant
4. Hariharan
5. Sukhwinder Singh
6. Which song sung by AB has been indirectly inspired by Meher Baba?
7. This music composer was responsible for introducing many unusual voices […]

Tribal angst

Published in July 12th, 2009

Posted by Anshu in Music, India, Our life and times

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See this poignant music video “gaon chodab nahin’ directed by KP Sasi which speaks of the woes of the tribal people- the adivasis when their land and homes are snatched away from them in the name of development. The lyrics are touching- especially if you understand the language

Bio rap!

Published in June 24th, 2009

Posted by Anshu in Web stuff, Music

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What next? Now commercial companies are releasing music videos to sell their equipment. Here’s this one by BioRad trying to sell their thermocyclers. Enjoy the PCR song!

And in case you want to sing along the lyrics are:
There was a time when to amplify DNA,
You had to grow tons and tons of tiny cells.
Then along came […]

Dev D: More original than the original

Published in March 1st, 2009

Posted by Anshu in Music, Film reviews

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If you hated the different film adaptations of Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay’s Devdas for the elaborate emotional atyaachaar, it is time you watched Dev D. Anurag Kashyap turns the age old tale on its head and comes up with his modern version of the classic set in rural Punjab and then travelling to sleazy Delhi.
Abhay Deol […]