Asian Culture, Lifestyle and Entertainment
Promotional images for cosmetics brand Avon, featuring Aditi Rao Hydari, its brand ambassador in India. The 30-year-old beauty is one of the most popular actresses in South Asia. She recently stars as a doctor in Kaatru Veliyidai (lit. Amidst the air), a Tamil-language romantic war film.
Trailer for Hollywood film Life of Pi – latest work by Academy Award winning Taiwanese-American director Ang Lee – which is based on the novel of the same name by French-Canadian author Yann Martel. The 3D movie is opening on November 21.
Official synopsis from Fox Movies… “Life of Pi is about a young man who survives a tragic disaster at sea and is hurtled into an epic journey of adventure and discovery. While marooned on a lifeboat, he forms an amazing and unexpected connection with the ship’s only other survivor… a fearsome Bengal tiger.”
Not interested with the plot to be honest, but the visual effects look stunning. Suraj Sharma plays the main lead… the fact that a 19-year-old Indian teenager is making his acting debut in a huge Hollywood production is an amazing story itself.
Chammak Challo, a Hindi song by Senegalese-American singer Akon (not in video) for Bollywood film Ra.One, a science-fiction-superhero-action-flick starring Shahrukh Khan and Kareena Kapoor (who sings the female part if not mistaken)…
Group dance – essential in most Bollywood movies – is not spared even if it’s scifi.
Punjabi music video of “Tunak Tunak Tun” by Indian pop singer Daler Mehndi; one of the funniest MV I’ve seen…
The song was released in 1998 and enjoys its international fame thanks to the Youtube phenomenon [credits to tarv for the upload]
Fun music, interesting beat and wacky dance moves… the music video oozed awesomeness lol. It’s almost unbelievable that Tunak is actually a love song :p
US’ Warner Bros have filed a lawsuit against Mumbai-based Mirchi Movies related to the title of its upcoming film Hari Puttar – A Comedy of Terrors, which Warner feels is a bit too similar to its Harry Potter franchise [more on THR].
Hari is a popular Indian name while Puttar means son in the Punjabi language. It’s said that the storyline doesn’t relate to Harry Potter at all… and judging from the poster alone, I would have ruled that Mirchi is the winner for the lawsuit.
However, I can’t deny the probability that the Indian movie maker is being opportunistic for publicity, which they managed to get it now regardless of whether it was intentional at the first place.
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