Posted in Uncategorized on January 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Bombay to Bangkok
Kiss like you mean it.
Unstylish Kuknoor film which has a regular real life Indian everyman sketch from Shreyas Talpade. That’s about the only thing real about the film ,as it meanders through amateur home video execution and cheesier than bollywood character sketches.
The finesse you have come to expect in Nagesh Kuknoor films(Dor, 3 [...]
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Posted in Music and music video on January 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Nina Simone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUcXI2BIUOQ
Aint got no money…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFWs5kWP-us&feature=related
Ne me quittes pas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSSIlx9hiu8&feature=related
Here comes the sun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSasf8GBfV4&feature=related
Sinnerman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckarOiWLLtY
Mississippi goddam
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klIcu7r46Ig&feature=related
I put a spell on you..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAv1FDpdnmE
If you knew
Townes Van Zandt
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTGKzWDakK8
Waitin’ round to die
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtzgwNDZAs4&feature=related
Pancho and lefty
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YdRHIKM9YE&feature=related
If I needed you
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxC1utGVR2w&feature=related
Townes and blaze from Austin pickers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyRHq4jN0wA&feature=related
(complete here but less impressive)
A song for…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEiM_JIYiP8&feature=related
Two girls
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReM17-xe8sM&feature=related
Ballad of Ira Haze.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WalPJy3VSTo&feature=related
Catfish song
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Aaye Na Balam
posted Sat, 05 Jan 2008 07:52:28 -0800
The film version (with video from Swami)
Padma Tawalkar
Sharif Gazal (with Afghan lyrics)
The quwwals get in the act…(Azimullah and Nusrat)
Bismillah Khan (shehnai)
(one day, someone will post, in the comments section a link to the Bade Ghulam Ali Khan version,(go to 5:16) and I shall feel filfulled.)
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Khoya Khoya Chand
posted Fri, 04 Jan 2008 20:37:23 -0800
Khoya Khoya Chand.
The half movie that showed up rocked. Khoya Khoya Chand is a classic . Sudhir Misra needs to be congratulated.
The zeitgist of indian cinema – the timeless and self replicating organism that produces bollywood-is captured perfectly in the first half.
What saves the movie from [...]
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Posted in other stuff on January 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Who me? A primer on the the ONE ..
posted Sun, 30 Dec 2007 02:40:50 -0800
Name : Ramesh Ram…
Email Address : Cdrakenc@gmail.com (don’t even ask)
Blog: (never updated) http://ramesh.journalspace.com
Height/ Weight: 6′1 175 (varies between 160 and 185)
Color of hair/ eyes black/ brown
Bald? Nope (not yet, but give me 20 years.)
Interests: Film (Bollywood/international indie), Travel (Germany/Japan/Central America/Sout/east/west Asia/ [...]
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OM Shanti OM
posted Fri, 09 Nov 2007 23:57:09 -0800
OM Shanti OM
India’s Badshah of love produces a phantasmagorical treatise that illustrates the adage that Hate is only love carries too far.
Om shanti om is intense, colorful stylized musical , intelligent and succeeds in scaring the crap out of one because its tuned precisely wrong. The [...]
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Tamil film music videos from youtube 1960-2007
posted Thu, 09 Aug 2007 23:30:06 -0700
http://video.aol.com/video-detail/paal-vannam-paruvam-kandu-from-paasam/997307824
paal vannam
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YCm11DX3wg
Malare Kurinji malare
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52lDnAYzCUk
Uravugal thodarkathai
http://oruwebsite.com/music_videos/kaathalikka-neramillai/nenjathai-alli-konjam-video_e4aff2f90.html
Nenjattai alli konjam tha tha
http://oruwebsite.com/music_videos/paar-magale-paar/aval-paranthu-ponale-video_1baf236c9.html
Aval Paranthu ponale
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDYZBfd1H0E
aarodum Mannil endrum neer odum
http://youtube.com/watch?v=NilZsIcqRSA
Ilamai ennum poongatru
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jtWqMGEd_o&mode=related&search=
Nenjam Marappadhillai
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_TGMaRiuvg&mode=related&search=
Yaaradi Nee Mogini
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXzYXGMVwH4&mode=related&search=
Kangalin varthaigal puriyadho.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0ET7nZG4Is
Ulagam engum [...]
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La Perdicion de los hombres
posted Wed, 18 Jul 2007 17:03:33 -0700
Don’t throw rocks. This is a film in the spirit of the Japanese new wave (Oshima’s non sex ones, Sushumi Hani) and works as a darkly funny script that uses the device that things are always more interesting when there’s a dead body in the [...]
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Posted in Music and music video on January 19, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Youtube talat Mehmood and hemant kumar songs…This is a mood for old hindi songs from the bengali – neorealist era(which means plenty of fedoras , Shots of the sky reflected from the water, the shadows of sad evenings…and arabesque harems are the settings for these talat, hemant and Kishore kumar songs in Hindi and bengali.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5u_6VaeQQ-w
Teri [...]
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What the Sea Said (Bengali)
posted Tue, 10 Jul 2007 18:59:36 -0700
Yugant (The Aeon Ends) Aparna Sen’s film about reconciliation with age between a couple who truly have something they share is a dense personal work that deserves analysis. The trouble with films that say much but only to people that will listen , is that [...]
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