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The Meenaxi Vinyl We Needed

November 2, 2024 — Leave a comment

I stumbled across a vinyl version of Meenaxi – A Tale of Three Cities, and I’m almost disappointed it’s just a generic pressing of one of A.R. Rahman’s most underrated soundtracks and, of course, one of Tabu’s most underrated gems.

For a while now, I’ve been lamenting the death of physical media in India. The movie collection is really really suffering from it.

The world is also suffering from lack of high definition promo materials and HD transfers for M.F. Hussain’s Meenaxi. The world deserves multiple color vinyl editions to play on the Yeh Rishta [MV]/Rang Hai [MV] color palette themes of the movie. Blue, yellow, orange, purple, besides the red one.

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When you’re on the train, and you Chaiyya Chaiyya~

September 29, 2024 — Leave a comment

I forgot to post this a while back, but this is a total feeling when you’re listening to music and the song comes up.

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And my Fave 50 Songs of 2017 Are~

goran kudasai, dozo~

Posted on December 22, 2017 In Chinese, English, Graphics, Japanese, Jobs, Korean, Misc., Music, Sharing, Spanish , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
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Top50 Songs of 2015

It’s out, it’s out! You know what to do~

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Posted on December 17, 2015 In Chinese, English, Fun, Graphics, Japanese, Jobs, Korean, Misc., Music, Sharing, Spanish, Swedish , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
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Top50 Songs of 2014

I’m the crazy lady of Best Of lists~ so here’s another one.

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Do your thing~

But if you’re lazy, I’ve set up (almost) complete playlists on Xiami and YouTube.

Posted on December 15, 2014 In Chinese, English, Fun, Graphics, Japanese, Jobs, Korean, Misc., Music, Sharing, Spanish , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
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Early 2014 Music Highlights~

Last time it took me 2 years to get my 2012-2013 list out. LOL This year, I’m early. I’m pretty happy with my picks at the moment, so I hope nothing mind-blowing pops up in these last remaining weeks of 2014. In the meantime~ you know where to go.

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Posted on December 11, 2014 In Chinese, English, Fun, Graphics, Japanese, Jobs, Korean, Misc., Music, Sharing, Spanish , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
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It’s End of the Year Voting Season!

Oh, who am I kidding. What I love about the end of the year is all the Best Of lists, rankings and voting. Expect my annual Top50 Songs of 2014, My fave movies of the year, and My fave local 2014 releases. I might even have enough material for a 2014 Music Highlights.

We started voting early on the YAM Magazine lounge because we are all lobbying for our favorite films, and prepping our personal End of the Year lists. I’m the most serious of all because lists can only matter when you grab the biggest possible sample. Not watching Indian movies meant that I wasn’t watching roughly 30-35% of the worldwide output.

So this is my first year online voting for Indian movies! I actually kinda like how MANY categories there are for actors to get a nod. LOL They don’t always make sense (Superstar of Tomorrow, hahahahaha and the Male Thriller/Action is quite rubbish), but I’m generally happy when I get to vote for Tabu, Madhuri and Rani without much conflict. So~ YEAH!

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You can vote here.

Posted on December 8, 2014 In DVD/BR, English, Films, Fun, Jobs, Misc., Music, Screencaps, Sharing , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
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The Tabu Filmography in Just Music

September 30, 2014 — Leave a comment

In honor of the release of Haider today/tomorrow and me not being able to watch it until it hits the DVD/Bluray shelves… or EROSNOW (or someone else) decides to VOD it early or *cough*… I had been curating a YouTube playlist of all the music sequences -choreographed or not- (and item songs or special apperances) in Tabu’s filmography, which has resulted in a list of over 83 clips (est: 6 hours) from Tabu’s participation not only in Hindi films, but also Telugu, Tamil… and the random Malayalam clip that I was able to find.

The list has time to expand with rarer to find clips, I suppose, including (at least) one or two more clips for Idee Sanghati, as well as other regional movies that aren’t on YouTube. There are also clips that are included in their dubbed version (with the original title and the language they’re on), because the original audio isn’t available… as well as repeated clips in better resolutions than their “official” uploads.

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Bitter at Times or Sweet as Honey for Yuva

A lot of people don’t seem to like Abhishek Bachchan. I don’t particularly find him attractive, but I do think he can act a lot more easily, than- let’s say Hrithik Roshan, who -I think- is SUPER hot. But maybe my opinion on the both of them is biased considering the first Abhishek film I saw was Yuva, and Hrithik got stuck with K3G. Also, I haven’t seen that many Hrithik movies, but at least he was good in Guuzarish.

Obviously, I have more fun with a Shahrukh Khan/Rani pairing, but if I didn’t have to count Bunty Aur Babli (Ok, and maybe KANK), I’d put the Abhishek/Rani pairing ahead of Aamir/Rani. Rani has loads of chemistry with Shahrukh and Abhishek… especially in Yuva. They’re loving each other one moment, and exploding into serious argument the next. And the resolution to their conflict is pure serious drama, I love it.

The track Kabhi Neem Neem is pure A.R Rahman crack. According to the online dictionary, ‘neem‘ refers to a tree whose bitter bark is used as tonic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEIKdvQ28IE

Have I told you my iTunes library is now filled with Bollywood soundtracks?

Posted on March 26, 2014 In Celebrity, Clips, DVD/BR, English, Films, Misc., Music, Sharing , , , , , , ,
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M.F. Husain Fake Criterion Continued

February 23, 2014 — Leave a comment

I haven’t done a fake Criterion fanart in a long time — possibly in over 4 years [1] — but after seeing M.F. Husain’s films, I couldn’t resist. Besides Madhuri Dixit- DUDE! Tabu as Meenaxi. I can’t possibly resist.

Fake Criterion Collection: M. F. Husain - Gaja Gamini Fake Criterion Collection: M. F. Husain - Meenaxi

I do believe that Tabu acted miles around the material that Madhuri Dixit got, and that M.F. Husain should’ve used a lot more of Madhuri’s dancing skills and charisma to get his muse concept across. Especially considering how she was his muse and all.

Full set on Flickr and MUBI.

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