Feroz Khan - RIP

Feroz Khan passed away earlier today, and my thoughts go out to poor family! Feroz was truly one of the coolest and funkadelic actors to ever hit Bollywood, the films he made and acted in all have the Feroz stamp of effortless swagger and funk about them. The industry truly has lost the king of cool. I can't believe it.

Parinda - How Anil Became a Bad Bhai and obsessed over Pigeons

A gorilla named Anil

Parinda is a brilliant movie, I watched when I was 8 perhaps too young but the WOW factor was still there, I watched it at 10 then I realized how explosive and great it was. Watching it now, I realize that it's one of the best gangster movies made, especially due to a favorite Masala Pradesh moustachioed jodi! The moustachioed duo could become a club as everyone has a mush Anil, Jackie, Nana, and Suresh!

Actual sweet bromance
Parinda starts off with Kishen(Jackie Shroff-mullet not too distracting) who is obviously a bad kid because he likes to punch people up wearing a Rambo-esque vest and making sure other goons fall down those stairs he bashes them up on. Kishan works for the big don Anna(Nana Patekar) who's lair isn't too great its a warehouse where he likes to hide bodies in coffins full cement. Inspector Prakash(Anupan Kher) is onto Anna and wants to catch him in the act. Then I'm not being objective because the best character arrives ANIL!!!

Nahiii!!!

Karan is a precocious yet lovable guy that makes me go SQUEE because Anil must at all times fit in a "Ha Heyy" into a moment of happiness. This happens when he jumps out of the shower to receive Prakash's phonecall who asks to meet up. This is also a good time for Suresh Oberoi and other scary looking goons to kill off Prakash. As kids Prakash and his sister Paro formed a cute little urchin family with Karan and Kishan, with Karan really emotionally blackmailing Kishan to become a bad kid because he's hungry! AWWWWTwo Hah Heyy moments!
Karan disobeys Kishan and runs off to see Prakash, while the baddies follow after him, meanwhile Prakash and Karan sing their childhood song of dosti. Then the famous shootout scene happens, this is a great scene and the use of pigeons is quite blunt on the head, and maybe it didn't need to repeated over and over in Vidhu Chopra's Eklavya. I know its a great scene, but to self reference yourself is just silly! Obviously in this scene Anil has to showcase his wonderful "Omg someone got shot" Blowup scenes, and he is just stellar! Paro(Madhuri Dixit-very unused) now suspects that Karan led Prakash to a trap to get him killed and he ignores him. Also we learn that Anna is mega scared of fire and is generally wacko which Nana can play to the hilt! Karan and Kishan have a faceoff where Kishan blames poor Karan for saying "GO steal that man's bag" and propelling him into a life of crime so that he could pay Karan's way to Amrica

Anil was just hungry, you didnt need to be a goon!

The rest of the movie onwards is great in turning the whole "Two brothers on opposite ends" on its head, it just gets rid of all the nice ness that the Shashitabh and the VinFeroz starrers where they were very opposite people who do bad things for their mother or to have a nice life. Kishan and Karan have no maa to be their object of reason so they just go into a downward spiral of being vigilantes for revenge. I love how Anil's downward turn is shown, yet i did have to shout aloud "Your piling up bodies for ANUPAM KHER!!!" which surprised me a lot. I must say Tom Alter and his shade of orange on his face and jet black mush and hair made him look quite fine!

The moustachioed quatro of my ANil, Jackie, Nana, and Suresh were all very good in their roles, Nana obviously had a great time playing someone soooo mad, and Suresh's coke-snorting, flute-playing goonda was good too! Madhuri was very unused here except to hug and kiss and sing to Anil so he becomes a good kid.

The Bonnie and Clyde shootout in the climax was explosive, first thing SEX! Which reminded me of any 80's bollywood sex scene it was either blue or fuzzy camera or seedy. This climax also made me puddle-induced after all the badly filmed sex scene, and shootout it was all very sad and made me say WHY!

You wished that's how it ended!

Parinda is a must watch for great faceoffs and for puddle-inducing times!

Rum's Back and its Movie Time!

OMG RUM IS BAAACCKKK!!

Yup, I'm back to continue to reign in the Masala Pradesh, and be a faithful law-abiding dual citizen of the Shashi Pradesh. I have stocked up on my movies and I'll review some as soon as my computer manages to capture some good screencaps! Here is just a sample of great stuff to come, now that i have the summer off for at least 5 months and what to do!?

1. Complete a world record of watching every Anil Kapoor movie ever made (very do-able, since i own a ton already)
2. Go to Boston!!
3. Try and review my already extensive movie collection, that sat on my shelf during these journalism filled months, gathering lots of dust.

But I'm back and ready to vegetate in front of my movies and have fun in the summer!

Happy Shashi Week - For the cutest man with the curliest of hair!

That's how we all see Shashi, with red sparkles!

So continuing with Shashi week, which was declared by the Shashi Pradesh leader Beth, i had to have my own say on the Shash! Who i was lucky enough to sit on when i was 2 years old, and so far never met him since, though usually I do in Bollyhollymusicalitis. So here's an Shashi name meme!
S - Sweet second hero or hero, he was always a hero that could defend your honour as well as do dishoom dishoom with the coolest of printed shirts on! Shashi radiated sweetness in any movie he was in, sure in a few movies he played the bad guy or the well-dressed guy with grey shades! But he was just so sweet and likable and i felt him shooting his bhai in Deewar was necessary because he looked so CUTE in the police suit.
H - HAAAWWWTTTT! He inherited the Hawt gene from his Kapoor khandaan, he looked a lot like his daddy Prithviraj, but obviously a lot hotter. He didn't manage to pull off the mush like Raj, but those eyelashes, those curls, that cute grin, he had rays of HAWT coming off the screen whenever he appeared

A - Abundant! Lol Shashi starred in sooo many movies over the years, many of them he even admitted to doing it for the money, which is great for us bloggers coz there's enough of the SHASH to go around. Raj even called him a taxi, going from film to film, well that was kinda rude but there's an abundant supply of hidden treasures that Shashi has done including the above Pretty Polly with Hayley mills!


S - Satyam Shivam Sundaram and Suhaag, two seminal movies in my life, SSS exposed me to what a great dickhead Shashi could be, and what great acting to be such a bastard too! Plus the infamous scene where he screeches NAHIII when he see's reflection in a distorted mirror. And he brought back the sex and kiss back to the 70's which were full of sex and violence since Amitabh came along. Suhaag well come on, 2 lost bhai's

STEP AWAY FROM THE CURLS!
H - Hazardous, Shashi can be quite injurious to the health as outlined in PPCC post about the hazardous things about Shashi's charisma and general hotness that caused Hema Malini to go to hospital with burns. In my experience Shashi has injured my life because many of the men i go for must have cute 70's curls and must stammer "AAAHHH ummm... Kyaa Baaaat Hai?" whenever i ask them something suspicious!
I - I LOVE HIM!

There you go, some of my faves about Shashi!

Happy Holi!!

Unfortunately the journalism program I'm in doesn't allow too much leeway when it comes to fun. yet nevertheless I put smeared a bit Red powder on my face, and braved the funny looks people gave me on the bus, but hell it was HOLI!
So I'll just list a few of my favorite Holi scenes and songs from the movies I love:

Silsila - Rang Barse
You all knew it had to be here, and as a child grown up on a steady diet of Yash Raj movies this was one of the best holi songs ever! It captures the atmosphere of mirth and fun, and even adds the awkwardness of Sanjeev n Jaya as they look on as Rekha and Amitabh play Holi in the most obvious and suggestive way! The more riskier the two get, the better the tension and awkwardness grows.

Mashaal - Holi Aayi Re
Now this is probably my actual favorite Holi song, as Rang Barse is great and its slightly expected that you'd put that in your top list. But Mashaal is a one of my favorite ANil movies, its full of redemption and journalism so guranteed i usually like it! Put the song is so cute and Anil does his usual Lakhan tapori style dance when being squirted with the Holi colour guns, and his chemistry with Rati Agnitori is very sweet here as they dance together. Plus Dilip and Waheeda get to tenderly apply powder to each others faces, and sing about how each day together is a holi for them which gets a big AWWWW from the Masala Pradesh here.

Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi
The scene in "Tu Mujhe Rab Ko Diktha Hai" where its Holi and Surinder dreams of all the colours and the girls on his balcony swirling their chunis all around. Then his wife just comes up and puts some powder on his face, only SRK could have made the after-face sooooooo cute and heartfelt, his happy face and realization that she's growing to love him is really nice! Sure its a tiny moment of holi but some Holi's can be quaint and sweet like these gestures.


Mohabbatein - Soni Soni
I really love Mohabbatein because the experience of watching it in England in a cinema full of my friends and family, it was packed. Little did i know that all the songs would be the first dance that brides and grooms danced to at the many weddings i attended. Soni Soni always makes me wanna dance and usually I do, as a mad kid I mimiced the dance moves when I was 10. Its full of pomp and colour which makes it soo fun, plus SRK thankfully dancing without those fugly glasses on, and he still had his own version of the Hugh Grant flop too!

Those are 4 of my faves, I'm sorry for my lists being very sporadic or very short, but blogging it in class is the cause! What are your favorites??

Slumdog Millionaire Takes Home the Oscar + Rum has lost her voice!

MY Anil and the happiest cast and crew!

I have officially lost most of my vocal chords, I screamed soo loud when my favorite movie Slumdog Millionaire won the Best Picture. Yesterday was one of the happiest days in my life, sad as that sounds it was the first time I wept for Heath Ledger's win and when they won Best Picture, because it was the absolute hysteria of winning that must have transpired over to me! I also managed to screech when AR Rahman won best score and best song for Jai Ho, and the wonderful dancing and dhol playing along with the taiko drums! And gosh darnit AR Rahman's cute and starstruck speech about choosing love instead of hate. SO SWEEEET! And it was brilliant to see my ANil whooping and hold the Oscar high up in the air, as well as holding onto Azharuddin Ismail(youngest Salim) and his sweet and happy grin as well as the Ayush's(youngest Jamal) happy little face!
It certainly made my day and I'm happy even in the face of a looming news story deadline in a few hours, but F*** it Slumdog WON!!!

Romance Movies - How Bollywood Love made me have BollyHollyMusicalitis

Again my whole week was consumed with writing two action-packed stories for the school newspaper, unfortunately the articles were not titled "Why the Hell does Vancouver not have DEV D" or "Slumdog Backlash is Unfair" both articles I have written on the side, and maybe I'll post them.
But I digress as usual, yesterday was Valentines Day! I personally abhor something sooooo commercialized and cheezy, in Bollywood land Valentines is everyday where the Shah Rukh and Shashi's romance me around the trees or in a Kashmiri boat ride. But here are some of my favorite and most unrealistic love stories ever that have made me the craziest BollyHollyMusicalitis sufferer in Blogland.

1. Kabhi Kabhie:

Guilty of: Making me search Vancouver for a poet as broody and cute as AB, purchasing a funky leopard print jacket like Raakhee, questioning if I'm adopted, wishing for a cherubic boyfriend like Rishi, wishing to marry a hubby as cuuute and forgiving as Shashi, and aging gracefully like Raakhee. Kabhi Kabhie is a wonderful movie but perhaps watching at 13 didn't help my chances when coming to Vancouver. Damn you Yash Chopra for making luscious and cute movies.

2. 1942 A Love Story

Guilty of : Dancing in the street on the way home from work, falling for someone so cute as Anil Kapoor, wanting to be a revolutionary at 3 years old like Jackie Shroff, buying an Orange chuni to fling around in a field by myself! Wanting to receive a Hollywood style snog while performing Kuch Naa Kaho, to be chased all through my small town by an Anil-lookalike who screams "Rum Rum Rum!" 1942 is an epic love story that I shouldn't have watched when I was an impressionable 2 year and 18 year old!

3. Kuch Kuch Hota Hai

Guilty of : Making me love my best guy friend, following the fugly hairband fad that Kajol started, making me buy a slinky purple shiny dress like Rani in "Koi Mil Gaya", made "Tujhe Yaad Na Meri Aayi" the saddest breakup anthem played, made me cry bucket loads like Kajol in the infamous rejection scene, made me fall for Shah Rukh, made me even like Salman, made me want to dance in a Scottish countryside

4. Barsaat

Guilty of: wishing to have an RK boyfriend, making me copy all of Cuckoo's dance moves in "Patli Kamar Hai", making me dance like Cuckoo in a public place, loving the rain and dancing in it, always giving me a cold whenever dancing in the rain, buying huge hoops like Nargis, sniffing like Nargis is quite unappealing when I do it, searching for a Mr.Wrong like Premnath, buying a Mao-esque hat like Premnath, the biggest one here is : Hoping that a Romantic poet's violin music stirs my soul and I run to him and recreate a beautiful iconic pose like above.

5.Bobby

Guilty of: watching any Romeo-Juliet intense love story after it, wanting to sing "Hum Tum Ek Kamre Me Bandh Ho" if I ever got trapped in a room with a boy, loving Rishi as if he was a Jonas Brother, trying out Dimple's buns(very baad idea for curly hair), Wanting to run off with someone on the "Motorbike of Cool", hoping for the electric chemistry Dimple-Rishi had, making me print the above poster on a t-shirt, and Making me sympathize more with Farida Jalal crazy girl than with the star-crossed lovers, wishing that my young love was that mad and intense. Bobby is a wonderful movie, I could watch it all the time because there ain't nothin better than a teenage love story!

Hope you like them, a part 2 will definitely follow as the Bollywood movies that made me into a goofy person must be exposed!