Vir Sanghvi has written this scrumptious piece on the origin of the ubiquitous samosa. And he says it is not originally Indian.

Check this one out!

Either way, it is Amul which has the last say!

Amul

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 Govinda- Kimi Katkar Superman song buffalaxed.

One of Prabhu Deva’s songs Muqabala massacred by Buffalax

If you like this try looking at the Benny Lava series on youtube or this buffalaxed Adolf Hitler speech

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

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 to playback singing, including AB. He sang for an AB film (though for his costar SK and not him). Name the composer and the film.

8. Which song did AB sing with a former Miss India?

9. For which film has AB sung the maximum number of songs?

10. Asrani sang two songs for this AB film. Which film? What is the Bachchan family’s unique contribution to the music of this film.

Ab Trivia Quiz 1

Bollywood trivia quiz

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. Waah Sneha!

And though the Illuminati group did not reach the final, this act was par excellence. Wonder how they managed the lift bit.

This came to me by email:

Cuba has run out of toilet paper. Yes, the isolated island nation, which has survived economic sanctions for nearly 50 years, has finally been laid low by a key shortage of lavatory paper.

State-run company Cimex, which manufactures lavatory paper, has warned that the global economic meltdown as well as a series of devastating hurricanes have hit the production and it may not even be able to import sufficient supplies till the end of the year.

“The corporation has taken all the steps so that at the end of the year there will be an important importation of toilet paper,” a Spokesman for Cimex was quoted by the British newspaper as saying.

Cuba both imports lavatory paper and produces its own, but does not currently have enough raw materials to make it, he said, adding the shipment will enable the state-run company “to supply this demand that today is presenting problems”.

Arrey bhai, why fret and fume. Adopt the Indian style! Simple solution… inexpensive too!

(Apologies for the potty humour!)

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– poor Gurpal got no where with his questions– as Shekhar plopped Sidhuism after Sidhuism and kept him going around in circles. Let’s see if there is a video somewhere online of this particular episode. Really worth a dekko.

Found one

Hope the rest of the episodes are consistently good.

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!