Culture Buzz Your move, Delta. Passengers aboard a Finnair flight to Delhi, India were treated to quite the surprise today as flight attendants joined a dance crew for a Bollywood-themed groove-shakin’ to celebrate India’s Republic Day. I want to go to there. (via The Daily What)
Three years after the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, the city’s youth turned the Central Train station, one of the places the terrorists attacked, into a dance floor.
Movie Buzz As long as he isn't jumping fifty stories into piles of straw… Called Velayutham, this picture stars an average milkman who becomes a vigilante by night to take on corruption.
If Mick Jagger was a fat little Indian boy, he'd be this kid. The awesome moves kick in at :24.
I know dance is a big part of their movie industry, but maybe not all subjects call for an upbeat dance scene. But you know, just maybe.
Robot. Superhero. Musical This is an insanely awesome Bollywood trailer. This movie needs a worldwide release date. (via.)
A Bollywood-themed gamer's dream. come into the magical Bollywood style world of date-less gaming.
India is making its own big budget robot movie, chock full of dancing and pure craziness. Maybe dancing would have made the last Terminator movie better? (Via io9.)
Music Buzz Liz Phair dropped a surprise, internet-only album, sparking a heated debate among those who were alive and/or ALT during the '90s. More 40-year-old white women should rap. Actually, I kind of feel bad for you if you paid for this.
All it needs is an M.I.A. soundtrack and a scene where Gwyneth Paltrow climbs out of an outhouse puddle and this will be Oscar bait for sure!
This video was made by Israeli arms dealer Rafael Advanced Defense Systems. It features sari-clad babes dancing around flower-draped missiles as they sing a metaphorical love song about strengthening Indo-Israeli defense ties. It's being billed as “the most atrocious defense video of all time”, despite the fact that the concept is clearly awesome. Politics aside, I do like the chorus a lot. “Dinga Dinga Dee,” bitches.
Rafael, an Israeli arms-maker, attempts to endear itself to India's arms-buyers. It's sort of Bollywood meets the RNC.
The last scene in Slumdog Millionaire didn't really do it for you? Don't understand what all the fuss was about? What if the dance was set to “Peanut Butter Jelly Time?” Now you get it.
Now for something unexpected (yet I have the feeling Thom Yorke would love it): comedian Bill Bailey performs “Creep” with the Bollywood Pandits.
Music Buzz Natalie Portman stars in boyfriend Devendra Banhart’s new Bollywood-inspired music video. No comment on this one. You either find this horribly annoying or you’re mesmerized by Pretty Girl. You can probably guess my feelings on the matter.