Tag: bollywood

Music

A Holi Playlist

Spring is here, which means that it’s time for the best holiday that has been turned into corporate marketing that isn’t Christmas. It’s Holi!

Tags amitabh bachchan, bollywood, color run, cultural appropriation, deepika padukone, festival of colors, hema malini, Holi, India, indian diaspora, mohabbatein, rekha, Sholay, Silsila

Music

A Diwali Carol Playlist

It’s time to clean everything, go shopping, and eat until you explode. As I mentioned last year, I don’t know that much about Diwali. I do know there aren’t enough Diwali carols, or really any.

Tags bollywood, comedy, diwali, govinda, happy diwali, kabhi khushi kabhie gham, mohabbatein, Shah Rukh Khan

Music

Bollywood Item Songs – An Introduction, Part 2

Post author By Karishma
Post date Thursday, September 17th, 2015
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This week we’re back with more item songs! Did you catch last week’s list? I’ll wait. Come back when you’re ready.

Tags 90s Bollywood, A.R. Rahman, bollywood, bollywood music, item songs, Madhuri Dixit, Shahrukh Khan, Sushmita Sen, Urmila Matondkar

Music

Bollywood Item Songs – An Introduction, Part 1

Post author By Karishma
Post date Thursday, September 10th, 2015
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How do you even begin to describe the true glory and history of the Bollywood item song?

Tags bollywood, caravan, helen, hema malini, Madhuri Dixit, Mr. India, rekha, Sholay, Sridevi, Tezaab, Vaijayanti Mala

News

PoC News in America

Hope you are enjoying this long wonderful, 3-day weekend if you are stateside.

Movies

Movie Looks: Taal

Taal (1999) is a bad movie. I remember seeing this movie when it was in theaters and thinking, “this is terrible.” I was 12.

Tags 90s, 90s fashions, Aishwarya Rai, akshaye khanna, anil kapoor, bollywood, movie looks, movies i'm weirdly obsessed with

News

News in Asia

Welcome to another week of news. We’ve got tensions between North and South Korea, responses to the bombing in Bangkok, and other news.

Tags bollywood, china, Hong Kong, Humans of New York, India, Indonesia, japan, Narendra Modi, news in asia, North korea south korea and marilyn monroe, obama, pakistan, Thailand

News

PoC News in America

Eid Mubarak to everyone who celebrated Ramadan!

Music

A Bollywood Disco Dance Party

Post author By Karishma
Post date Thursday, May 7th, 2015
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I am in no way exaggerating when I say the late 1970s/early 1980s Bollywood and disco marriage produced the best music ever. The hooks were infectious as hell and will make you dance. Sure, a huge factor in my fondness for this music is my parents (Dad mostly) playing this around the house growing up, but […]