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Honeymoon Travels on Your Phone

March 3, 2007 By 2 Comments

 Kay%20Kay%20dancing Honeymoon Travels on Your Phone

If you’re based in the U.S., and you really love that catchy Saajanji Vaari Vaari song that Kay Kay Menon cuts loose to in  Honeymoon Travels Private Ltd.,  Saavn Mobile has added it to the ringtone songs you can download to your cel.

These guys appearing on the scene is a welcome thing, because their downloads are amazingly easy, the songs are actual clips, and they cost $1.99 a pop.  

Before this, everything Bollywood that I found for the phone either didn’t go through properly, or it was some awful tinny noise, that sounded like a recording of Ross on his little synthesizer.

Filed Under: New releases

Madhuri in Your Midst

March 2, 2007 By 5 Comments

Bollywood%20Axion Madhuri in Your Midst  

This is a story I wrote  that appeared in the February 23, 2007 issue of India Abroad.  

On a Saturday afternoon, the cold and the wind on the streets of New York’s garment district are searing.   But up on the 14th floor, as the sun pours in the window of the studio and steam escapes from an old radiator, the 18 women and two men in Pooja Narang’s advanced Bollywood dance class might just as well be at Mumbai’s Film City, waiting for Hrithik Roshan and Aishwarya Rai to emerge from their trailers and join them.

Narang’s iPod is hooked up to a set of small, powerful speakers.   As she presses “play”, the bhangra intro of Dil Laga Na from the movie Dhoom: 2 fills the room.   The three rows of students begin their routine, working on a segment of the number, then stopping to clarify a move.   “Is there a head bop there?” a student asks.   “No,” Narang replies.   “Only if you’ve got attitude” a woman on the other side of the room adds.   Laughter fills the room.

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