Are there words to express the loathing I have for this video? Yes - Thank you, Onion AV CLUB:

Well, at least Urban Outfitters will have a new song to play on loop at all of their locations now, because that's exactly what this song sounds like: background music for a retail chain that specializes in faux-vintage t-shirts.

Natalie Portman, I know you think that you are smart because you went to Harvard. However, I don't know how you got through four years without running into a single person who could tell you that dressing up in blackface and mocking Hindu gods is not okay. Also, sweetie, that video is NOTHING like actual Bollywood. Mmm...'kay?

*sigh* I suppose there will always be that segment of the population who feels that not speaking English simply hilarious.

The music for Bachna ae Haseeno has been released! I think this song is really pretty (and Ranbir isn't looking so bad, either!)

While I don't think this movie is going to be meaningful in any way, it does look like it's going to be fun to watch.

From Ugly aur Pagli, which looks like it could a fun movie! (Of course it also be terrible...) Mallika seems to have found her niche in comedic roles, which is great, since there aren't too many female comedians in Bollywood at the moment.

I also have to mention that both songs I'm obsessed with this week come from a woman named Hard Kaur, a U.K. based rapper.

Has anyone heard her album? Is it worth picking up?

kohligs.blogspot.com has a little write up on her life, which is kind of interesting:

While growing up, she never imagined she would perform hip hop. The image of a salwar-kameez clad girl with a flower in her hair ruled Hard Kaur's imagination. Life is not a bed of roses, she learnt quickly. Her mother, after being kicked out of her in-law's place, refused to take things lying down. She moved to a cold England after her husband's death in the 1984 anti-Sikh pogroms in India.

From Bandhe Haath, which is turning out to not be quite as good as some of O.P. Ralhan's other works, although Mumtaz is deliciously plump and wonderful. Maybe part of the problem is that Ralhan didn't direct this one or perhaps Amitabh doesn't have it within him to capture the earnestness/angst over being good person yet being a criminal of a Dharmendra (Phool aur Patthar) or a Rajendra (Gehra Daag) or a Zeenat (Paapi) which make Ralhan's other films work so well. Amitabh in this era was more angry than contrite.

Taken from Haal-e-dil, a film directed by Ajay Devgan and (thankfully it would seem) did not receive an international release.

According to a couple of reviews I read, the story seems to be DDLJ-lite, but sluttier.

This song, however, is extremely catchy. I'm quite taken with it, although I can't figure out if the lyrics are telling me to burn up current fashion because I need to find my own style or to 'burn up' fashion by being super-hot.

Also, the costumes on the dancing girls are terrible! Who let them wear that?! (Ajay, I'm looking at you here... female dancers don't need to look slutty. It's not a requirement.)

Lastly, my posts will be light this weekend as I'm staying with my mother. Coming up next week: Episode 2 of Code Blue, the last O.P. Ralhan movie I could get my hands on as I think Pyaas has not been released to DVD: Baande Haath, more Nodame Cantabile, and I'm going to try to get to the first episodes of My Sweet City.

See you tomorrow!