This is one Doordarshan film which never ceases to make me nostalgic. Adore that clip of Sunil Gavaskar running through the rain. Now question time. Can you identify the maker of this film? That was simple? OK… so why don’t you identify all the torch bearers in sequence for me! Happy quizzing!
Anshu’s Mad Ad Quiz
Here’s a heady mix of easy and not-so-easy questions on advertisements we have grown up watching: 1. Which popular director featured in a commercial for a well-known adhesive brand? 2. Which popular playback singer made her singing debut with a Farex jingle? 3. This model went on to do a music video for Himesh Reshammiya and [...]
Dhan te nan
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 [...]
Talent which caught our attention
In the recently concluded television show, the deserving troupe of brick kiln labourers from Behrampur, Orissa, the Prince group touched our hearts. I had posted one of their acts earlier. Here are the other two. The other act which caught my eye was Sneha and Richard’s amazing salsa. And this with a recently operated leg. [...]
Sample Shekhar Suman as Sidhu
There’s this show on SAB TV called Tedhi Baat with Shekhar Suman (Monday to Thursday 10.30 pm). It is a rip off on Prabhu Chawla’s Seedhi Baat. The adorable sardar Gurpal Singh plays the interviewer, and Shekhar Suman dons different avatars. I caught the episode where Shekhar mimicked Navjot Singh Sidhu. Hilarious mind blowing stuff– [...]
Salsa!
Caught this amazing performance on AXN last night where Janette floored me with her salsa on ‘So you think you can dance’. Phew! I haven’t stopped raving at the way she let’s herself fall!
India’s got Talent
Here are two interesting groups that we saw in the auditions of India’s got talent. Watch out for Super Mario and the Krishna act. Amazing stuff!
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