Barack Obama sings “chori chori chupke chupke”

Prabu Deva bringing you some Wacko Jacko moves with “Urvashi” from the film Kathalan

Here’s a little blast from the past…you have to love Prabu Deva…he is a god.

Tis the Season to get Wasted… Sanjay Dutt, Saaki Saaki, Musafir… (hic)

Tis the Season to get Wasted…tra la la la la la la la la
Pour a drink you haven’t tasted….tra la la la la la la la
Old Monk Rum, Bacardi, Brandy… tra la la la la la la
grab whichever bottle’s handy….tra la la la la la la la la

This original composition is coming to you direct from your very own yuletide alcoholic ROTD with compliments from the cyber bar. (a note on interpreting this classic work: the song improves vastly when you sing it after five or six drinks)

and on the subject of sharabis….

Here’s Sanjay Dutt singing “saaki saaki” from Musafir…

for all you drunkards out there: much love! Oh Sharabi! Kya Sharabi!

“I Love You”- (Mithun Chakrabory) Happy 7th Anniversary to my Demonic Counterpart

image from link

October 22nd…a day famous for many events, including ours…

* 4004 BC – The universe is created. This is according to the 17th-century chronology of the history of the world formulated by James Ussher the Anglican Archbishop of Armagh.
* 362 – The temple of Apollo at Daphne, outside of Antioch, is destroyed in a mysterious fire.
* 794 – Emperor Kanmu relocates Japanese capital to Heiankyo (now Kyoto).
* 1383 – The 1383-1385 Crisis in Portugal: A period of civil war and disorder began when King Fernando died without a male heir to the Portuguese throne.
* 1575 – Foundation of Aguascalientes.
* 1692 – Last hanging for witchcraft in the United States.
* 1746 – The College of New Jersey (later renamed Princeton University) receives its charter.
* 1784 – Russia founds a colony on Kodiak Island, Alaska.
* 1797 – One thousand meters (3,200 feet) above Paris, André-Jacques Garnerin makes the first recorded parachute jump.
* 1836 – Sam Houston is inaugurated as the first President of the Republic of Texas.
* 1844 – The Great Anticipation: Millerites, followers of William Miller, anticipated the end of the world in conjunction with the Second Advent of Christ. The following day became known as the Great Disappointment.
* 1866 – Paraguay: Battle of Curupaytí against Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay.
* 1867 – Foundation of the National University of Colombia.
* 1875 – First telegraphic connection in Argentina.
* 1877 – The Blantyre mining disaster in Scotland kills 207 miners. Those widows and orphans who were unable to support themselves were evicted by the mine owners and likely sent to the Poor House.
* 1878 – The first rugby match under floodlights takes place in Salford, between Broughton and Swinton.
* 1883 – The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City opens with a performance of Gounod’s Faust (opera).
* 1895 – In Paris an express train overruns a buffer stop and crosses more than 30 metres of concourse before plummeting through a window at Gare Montparnasse.
* 1907 – Panic of 1907: A run on Knickerbocker Trust Company stock sets events in motion that will lead to a depression.
* 1910 – Dr. Crippen is convicted at the Old Bailey of poisoning his wife and was subsequently hanged at Pentonville Prison in London.
* 1919 – Doris Lessing, British writer, Nobel Prize laureate is born
* 1920 – Timothy Leary, American writer and professor is born (d. 1996)
* 1924 – Toastmasters International is founded.
* 1926 – J. Gordon Whitehead sucker punches magician Harry Houdini in the stomach in Montreal.
* 1934 – In East Liverpool, Ohio, notorious bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd is shot and killed by Federal Bureau of Investigation agents.
* 1935 – Establishment of the rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union.
* 1943 – World War II: Kassel: RAF conducts an air raid on the city of 236,000 people, killing 10,000, rendering 150,000 homeless. Second firestorm raid in Germany
* 1943 – Catherine Deneuve, French actress is born
* 1946 – Forty four British sailors die when two British warships hit mines off the coast of Albania.
* 1949 – Soviet Union detonates its first nuclear bomb.
* 1952 – Jeff Goldblum, American actor is born
* 1953 – Laos gains independence from France.
* 1956 – A concrete girder weighing 200 tons kills 48 in Karachi, Pakistan.
* 1957 – Vietnam War: First United States casualties in Vietnam.
* 1960 – Independence of Mali from France.
* 1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis: US President John F. Kennedy announces that American spy planes have discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and that he has ordered a naval “quarantine” of the island nation.
* 1964 – Jean-Paul Sartre is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, but turns down the honour.
* 1964 – Canada: A Multi-Party Parliamentary Committee selects the design which becomes the new official Flag of Canada.
* 1965 – End of the Second Kashmir War between India and Pakistan.
* 1966 – The Supremes become the first all-female music group to attain a No. 1 selling album (The Supremes A’ Go-Go).
* 1966: Double-agent breaks out of jail- One of Britain’s most notorious double-agents, George Blake, escapes from prison in a daring break-out believed to have been masterminded by the Soviet Union.
* 1968 – Apollo program: Apollo 7 safely splashes down in the Atlantic Ocean after orbiting the Earth 163 times.
* 1968 – Shaggy, Jamaican musician is born
* 1969 – Spike Jonze, American director and film producer is born
* 1970 – Tunku Abdul Rahman resign from Prime Minister of Malaysia.
* 1972 – Vietnam War: In Saigon, Henry Kissinger and South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu meet to discuss a proposed cease-fire that had been worked out between Americans and North Vietnamese in Paris. Thieu rejects the proposal and accused the United States of conspiring to undermine his regime
* 1976 – Red Dye No. 4 is banned by the US Food and Drug Administration after it is discovered that it causes tumors in the bladders of dogs. The dye is still used in Canada.
* 1981 – The United States Federal Labor Relations Authority votes to decertify the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization for its strike the previous August.
* 1981 – The founding congress of the Nepal Workers and Peasants Organisation faction led by Hareram Sharma and D.P. Singh begins.
* 1981 – The TGV railway service Paris-Lyon is inaugurated.
* 1983 – Two correctional officers are killed by inmates in Marion, Illinois. The incident inspired the Supermax model of prisons.
* 1986 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs the Tax Reform Act of 1986 into law.
* 1986 – WNBC traffic reporter Jane Dornacker is killed when the helicopter she is riding in stalls and crashes into the Hudson River.
* 1987 – John Adams’s opera Nixon in China debuts at the Houston Grand Opera in Houston, Texas.
* 1987 – The pinnacle rock “Gendarme” falls at Seneca Rocks.
* 1989 – Katie Eber Pope of the Church of Samuel L. Jackson of Latter-Day Snakes, and the world’s first cynical philanthropist born.
* 1991 – Dimitrios Arhondonis, metropolitan of Chalcedon elected 270th Archbishop of Constantinople, New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch as Patriarch Bartholomew I of the Orthodox church.
* 1999 – Maurice Papon, an official in the Vichy France government during World War II, is jailed for crimes against humanity.
* 2000- Jewish Festival of Simchach Torah…we meet later this day…
* 2005 – Tropical Storm Alpha forms in the Atlantic Basin, making the 2005 Atlantic Hurricane Season the most active Atlantic hurricane season on record with 22 named storms.
* 2005 – Crash of Bellview Airlines Flight 210 in Nigeria kills all 117 on board.
* 2005 – The first phase of Transantiago, the new public transport system of Santiago de Chile is implemented.
* 2006 – A Panama Canal expansion proposal is approved by 77.8% of voters in a National referendum held in Panama.
* 2006 – Michael Schumacher drives his last Formula 1 Race. The very same day the Spaniard Fernando Alonso wins the 2006 Formula 1 World Championship, becoming the 8th and youngest driver to win it twice in a row to emulate the achievements of Mika Häkkinen, Michael Schumacher and five other drivers.

all dis data from wiki

Sending a little Mithun Chakraborty and Rati to serenade you on a beach with “I Love You” …

“hare krishna hare ram” from “bhool bhulaiya”

Another music video has been censured….from a film because it offends religious sentiments…ironically as I went to the cinema toilet in Metro Adlabs the song was blasting on the radio but they cancelled the song and dance from the film because there are nubile young foreign girls looking too sexy while the name of the Hindu Lord and cowboy, Krishna is being chanted…..its funny that after close to three decades the same refrain is still being chanted in films with naughty white girls and suspicious gurus…. by the way I dig the little Krishna “finger dance”….actually if the flute master were here he probably wouldn’t mind the little girls shaking their butts in prayer…that was his “thing” riggghhhht?

Horny Hippies go “Hare Raama Hare Krishna”

The 1971 Dev Anand film that gave white chicks and hippies in India a bad name for decades to come…. enjoy “Hare Raama Hare Krishna” with Zeenat Aman as the naughty Desi girl who has fallen in with the evil hedonistic ways of the west including smoking pot and wearing short skirts. dirty dirty dirty! 🙂

There’s Something about “Julie”

I guess there’s something about the name “Julie” that inspires B-wood.

The 1975 flick about an anglo-Indian chic and her tragic romaaaance….Julieeeee…..ahahhahahhhhhhhhhhhhh……I love you….. check out the little seamy little seduction routine, those were the days where you expressed your lust by emphatically rubbing your collar bone and paging through underwear catalogues. go figure.

And here’s a juicy little number where Mithun Chakraborty swing dances to trumpets in “julie julie” from the 1988 Jeete Hain Shaan Se…….soooo……julie julie…humko mary nahi maangta…humko lilly nahi maangta…humko sandra from bandra nahi maangta….(to kaun maangta)….hey julie julie…..johnny ka dil tumpe aaya julie

now if you want to creep yourself out, while you are listening to these songs follow this link to sacredmediacow and click the link to wikimapia to read where an x marks the spot and someone has written ominously “julie die here (pramod)”….lol…wonder if its true?

Punjabi Rapper BOHEMIA does MERA JUTA HAI JAPANI

I love how Desi music and film is messing around with all the classic vintage material from the Indian mediascape. Bohemia is a Punjabi-American rapper who has worked with Snoop Dogg and is coming out with a new album called ‘Pesa Nasha Pyar’ that is being produced by Bally Sagoo.

Here’s a bit of background on our punjab da putar, Bohemia from ISHQ records:

After immigrating to the West over ten years ago, Bohemia came to realize that the South Asian experience in America wasn’t all nice cars and palm trees. On the contrary, he found himself living amongst murderers and drug dealers.Through his experiences, come raw, hard-edged raps depicting not just California street life, but a life many South Asians lead in America. His lyrics are in Punjabi, while many of the hooks are in English. Placed over hip-hop beats, Bohemia makes it seem as though Punjabi was made to be rapped rather than merely spoken.Bohemia looks up to artists such as Jagjeet Singh and the late Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. His music has created a big impact on the streets of America and he has a large underground following and is widely recognized as the pioneer of Desi Hip Hop.

Image and quote from ISHQ records

Guju Rappers get all Sentimental and stuff…awwww

One of my best friends is a Guju so I’m allowed to make fun of Gujarati sentimentalism. Cho chweeeeeeeeeeet!!! Trust Gujaratis to turn a rap song into a “Kyunki Saas bhi kabhi Bahu Thi” video melodrama about family loyalty, money, and the evil west with its beckoning hot-tub orgies. (this has English subtitles and the refrain is in English)

Thanda Thanda Pani

impressive memory this guy has…

Happy Rakhi Sawant Guys…

For some strange reason, Rakhi is one of the few festivals that I try not to dismiss off hand as being another opportunity for greeting card and cell phone companies to cash in on nauseating mass-sentimentalism. Like a vegetarian who eats a portion of fish once a year (for health reasons) I try to put aside my “bah-humbug” attitude for at least one incremental day of the year. Cuz in our extended little clan of bros…these guys are like characters that just popped out of strange chapters of dusty books and they are truly mad and like Kerouak:

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!

and now for a gratuitous song and dance number…by the biggest rakhi one could hope to tie around a boy…. Rakhi Sawant. Dancing in a harem. Happy Rakhi guys. lol:

lol. I just found out a close friend of mine wants ME to be a rakhi “brother” and is going to tie a rakhi on me today. To make matters more interesting; my rakhi sister is a guy. That’s pretty cool. I always wanted to have a sister. Just never realized she was going to be a guy. lol. 🙂 click here for next year’s Rakhi post.

Indian Superman chases tail in Outer Space

Babe BHANGRA Pounde Ne by Gurdas Maan

Bhangra Bhangra Bhangra…tall surds in suits and long grey beards bust some moves…

shake it grandpa!

Trippy tunes the Beatles made during their India travels

image from veda

“Within You Without You” was written on a harmonium at the house of long-time Beatles friend, Klaus Voormann, while “there were lots of joints being smoked”. It was written by George Harrison and recorded with a group of Indian musicians, without any input from his fellow Beatles. It was the second of Harrison’s songs to be explicitly influenced by Indian classical music, after “Love You To”. It was released in 1967 on Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, the last song to be completed for the album.Harrison wrote this as a 30-minute piece. He trimmed it down into a mini-version for the album. The laughter at the end was Harrison’s idea to lighten the mood and follow the theme of the album. Sped up to C#, an instrumental version at the original speed and key appears on the Anthology 2 album.

info from wiki

Harrison took his Hindu teachings most seriously, of all the Beatles. On the evening of 30 December 1999, Michael Abram broke into the Harrisons’ Friar Park home in Henley-on-Thames and stabbed George multiple times, ultimately puncturing his lung. Harrison and his wife, Olivia, fought the intruder and detained him for the police. Severely injured, it is said that George went out into his back garden and chanted “Hari Krishna.” till he received medical assistance.

image from vedicbooks

The song is basically about the Hindu and Buddhist idea of maya, the illusions which can prevent us from self actualizing, and of course the idea of love as an emotion to be cultivated and practiced as a spiritual path.

Within you Without you lyrics:

“We were talking – about the space between us all
And the people – who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion
Never glimpse the truth – then it’s far too late – when they pass away.”

“We were talking – about the love we all could share – when we find it
To try our best to hold it there – with our love.
With our love – We could save the world – if they only knew…
Try to realise it’s all within yourself, no one else can make you change.”

“And to see you’re really only very small
and life flows on within you and without you.”

“We were talking – about the love that’s gone so cold and the people,
Who gain the world and lose their soul.
They don’t know. They can’t see. Are you one of them?
When you see beyond yourself then you may find,
peace of mind, is waiting there.”

“And the time will come when you see we’re all one,
and life flows on within you and without you.”

And this is a pretty trippy video to go along with the psychedelic rock

Across the Universe:

One night in 1967, the phrase “words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup” came to Lennon, after hearing his then-wife Cynthia talking. Intrigued, he rushed to grab a paper and pencil. He began to write the rest of the lyrics, and when he was done, he went to bed and forgot about them.

In the morning, Lennon found the paper on which he had written the lyrics and brought them down to his piano, where he began to play chords, and find pitches to match the words. The flavor of the song was heavily influenced by Lennon’s and The Beatles’ short-lived interest in Transcendental Meditation in late 1967–early 1968, when the song was composed. Based on this he added the mantra (Jai Guru Deva Om) to the piece, which served as a link between the bridge and verse.

The structure of the lyrics is straightforward: three repetitions of a unit consisting of a verse, the line “Jai Guru Deva Om”, and the line “Nothing’s gonna change my world” repeated four times. The lyrics are highly image-based, with abstract concepts reified with phrases like thoughts “meandering”, words “slithering”, and undying love “shining”. The title phrase “across the universe” appears at intervals to finish lines.In his 1970 interview with Rolling Stone Magazine, Lennon referred to the song as perhaps the best, most poetic lyrics he ever wrote.

info from wiki

John and Cynthia:
image from bbc

Across the Universe lyrics:

Words are flying out like endless rain into a paper cup
They slither while they pass They slip away across the universe
Pools of sorrow waves of joy are drifting thorough my open mind
Possessing and caressing me

Jai guru deva om
Nothing’s gonna change my world

Images of broken light which dance before me like a million eyes
That call me on and on across the universe
Thoughts meander like a restless wind inside a letter box
they tumble blindly as they make their way across the universe

Jai guru deva om
Nothing’s gonna change my world

Sounds of laughter shades of life are ringing through my open ears
exciting and inviting me Limitless undying love which
shines around me like a million suns
It calls me on and on across the universe

Jai guru deva om
Nothing’s gonna change my world

Here’s the song with footage of the Beatles at the Rishikesh Ashram:

“Sexy Sadie” is a song about the Beatles getting disillusioned by the Maharishi who had been their guru at the ashram. “Sadie” is really “sadhu”…..and so it goes “sexy sadhu….what have you done?” It was written by written by John Lennon (and Paul McCartney) in India.Originally titled “Maharishi”, the Beatles changed the title to “Sexy Sadie” to avoid the potential for litigation as the song’s lyrics portray the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in a less than favorable light. Lennon became discouraged after the Maharishi had allegedly made a pass at one of the female members of their entourage. Lennon once said of the song: “That was inspired by Maharishi. I wrote it when we had our bags packed and were leaving. It was the last piece I wrote before I left India. I just called him, ‘Sexy Sadie,’ instead of (sings) ‘Maharishi what have you done, you made a fool…’ I was just using the situation to write a song, rather calculatingly but also to express what I felt. I was leaving the Maharishi with a bad taste. You know, it seems that my partings are always not as nice as I’d like them to be.”

info from wiki

The maharishi:

Sexy Sadie lyrics:

Sexy Sadie what have you done?
You made a fool of everyone
You made a fool of everyone.
Sexy Sadie ooh what have you done?

Sexy Sadie you broke the rules
You layed it down for all to see
You layed it down for all to see
Sexy Sadie oooh you broke the rules.

One sunny day the world was waiting for a lover
She came along to turn on everyone
Sexy Sadie the greatest of them all.

Sexy Sadie how did you know
The world was waiting just for you
The world was waiting just for you
Sexy Sadie oooh how did you know.

Sexy Sadie you’ll get yours yet
However big you think you are
However big you think you are
Sexy Sadie oooh you’ll get yours yet.

We gave her everything we owned just to sit at her table
Just a smile would lighten everything
Sexy Sadie she’s the latest and the greatest of them all.

She made a fool of everyone
Sexy Sadie.

However big you think you are
Sexy Sadie.

Here’s the songs with a slideshow of the Beatles at the ashram with the Sexy Sadhu:

Lucky Lips “hai rama rama”…NRI schoolgirls dancing in Moscow

Don’t know if you ever saw this film “Lucky no Time for Love” 2006, but it was probably the first of these “Lolita” inspired films to come out with the idea that jail-bait romances make for good box office success. This film did pretty well, and starred Salman Khan as this older guy who ends up looking after a nubile young NRI schoolgirl living in Moscow. They suddenly find themselves trapped alone during some sort of terrorist attack and fall in love, etc. But basically they never really kiss or actually do anything too controversial. The controversial bit was that the girl who plays Salman Khan’s love interest is an Aishwarya Rai clone and when this film came out there was all sorts of gossip flying about regarding how Salman Khan was making threatening phone calls to his ex girlfriend’s (Aishwarya) new boyfriend (then Vivek Oberoi). Anyway I just like this catchy tune from the film “Hai Rama Rama”. Recently I came across footage on my dv camera of me, my husband and a friend of ours getting slightly smashed on russian vodka and dancing to this song like maniacal bears pretending to be schoolgirls…so whenever I hear this tune it cracks me up…The video is basically four NRI schoolgirls flirting with the Russian navy and singing a song about having “lucky lips” that are going to be kissed someday. Its cute in a sort of slightly kinky schoolgirl tease kind of way.