{"id":69,"date":"2007-09-27T12:09:35","date_gmt":"2007-09-27T19:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/?p=69"},"modified":"2009-01-31T02:17:01","modified_gmt":"2009-01-31T09:17:01","slug":"favorite-video-of-the-week-nimbooda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/?p=69","title":{"rendered":"Favorite Video of the Week: Nimbooda"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nNimbooda<\/strong> from the movie Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam
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\nFor a long time after watching this video, I was obsessed with creating my own Chicana version of a Bollywood musical number. I imagined made up cholas and chachas dancing in the Lincoln Mini-Mall, Bollywood style. Afterall, the Indian women on the screen didn’t look all that much different from the Latina women in my neighborhood. I asked around to see if some film student would be up for the idea, but no luck.
\nThis video for Nimbooda (Hindi for Little Lemon) is one of my all-time favorite Bollywood scenes. The costumes are beautiful, the choreography amazing and the song extremely catchy. It features Aishwarya Rai, considered by many to be the world’s most beautiful woman<\/a> (too bad she wears blue contact lenses) and is from the excellent film ‘Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam.<\/a>‘ It’s the usual Bollywood story of forbidden and unrequited love, deliciously enjoyable and equally frustrating!<\/p>\n

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Another Bollywood favorite from the movie Asoka<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n

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\nAa Tayaar Hoja <\/strong><\/p>\n

My favorite Bollywood movie description from a DVD box in Little India:
\n“Will their timeless love survive the test of time? Only time will tell…”<\/em><\/p>\n

Other Bollywood movies you might enjoy:
\nDilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge<\/strong> (great music and dance sequences)
\nDevdas<\/strong> (very popular film, super high budget, big stars)
\nLagaan<\/strong> (same as above with anti-colonial message)<\/p>\n

Not a Bollywood film but it has beautiful singing, dancing and more interesting, strong, tough women (they’re prostitutes):
\nMandi<\/strong>
\nmandi.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n

Check out these films and in no time you’ll want to learn Hindi and start your own living room dance numbers. You might even pick up a few slick lines like “Cool, Tony, cool!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nimbooda from the movie Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam For a long time after watching this video, I was obsessed with creating my own Chicana version of a Bollywood musical number. I imagined made up cholas and chachas dancing in the Lincoln Mini-Mall, Bollywood style. Afterall, the Indian women on the screen didn’t look all … Continue reading Favorite Video of the Week: Nimbooda<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}