Dang, yo! Amitabh burns up the screen in Trishul! He is a one-man wrecking machine as he fulfills his oedipal Angry Young Man destiny. ( Let me tell you more about his suits with the big check prints on them. )

Overall, I really enjoyed this. It had plenty of romance, dishoom-dishoom, socialist messages about money not being worth selling your soul for, feminist messages about how ladies can do stuff, AND lots of shots of Shashi and Amitabh with their shirts unbuttoned to the navel. How could you lose?!

I watched Trishul last night. (LOVED IT! Review coming later today...) The music was okay, but when this song began, I got chills just from hearing Kishore's voice. A very lovely song and sweetly picturized on Amitabh, The Shash, and Hema with Rakhee lurking in the background.

I'm about halfway through Bunny Rueben's excellent biography of PRAN! I've been reading it on my lunch breaks for a few weeks now. She keeps bringing up his fondness for disguises of all sorts. The bit I finished yesterday was on Johny Mera Naam which has Pran in perhaps my favorite of his disguises - the Hot Pandit!

I really want a t-shirt that has pictures of Pran's many disguises on it - perhaps arranged like the squares of the Brady Bunch or an Andy Warhol painting - with the caption "....and Pran." Who is good with Photoshop? Can I have that T-shirt, please?

Also, apparently Saif is upset with little sister Soha for showing too much skin in her Maxim photospread. Excuse me? Pot, kettle - black.

Also, part 2, is there anything more horrifying than Bollywood "rock"? Exhibit A: Sanjay Dutt's rock "item number" from Woodstock Villa. *shudder*

Finally, DC area people, who wants to go see some movies?!

Opening June 6th - Sakar Raaj, with Aish, Abhi, and the Big B

June 20th - De Taali, with Ritesh and based on Dawson's Creek

June 27th - Thoda Pyaar Thoda Magic, with Saif and Rani. Fairy who can't love + cold hearted man, etc. etc.

Because I'm on the topic, here are a few of my favorite Bollywood heroines - ( Item girls and character actresses will be for another day! )

This song is just so much fun! Hema and Dev Anand romping around some ruins while being chased by the police in Johny Mera Naam.

Maybe I'll pretend that I'm wearing a snazzy black sari with electric blue trim and running around with a briefcase full of diamonds instead of going to work in the pouring rain. "Ooooo Mera Raaaaajaaaaa......"