Gothamist: Bollywood in the Hood

Sonali Kulkarni

Thu, 07 Sep 2006 12:49:36 -0500

the actress in the theatre segment is Sonali Kulkarni

The Heart Desires

Thu, 07 Sep 2006 12:37:21 -0500

hi smileyface! I know who Preity is, obviously. By her dimples! and I don't mean Dimple Kapadia hee hee. But I do like that Dil Chahta Hai clip better than the other ones I found on youtube .

:)

Thu, 07 Sep 2006 11:01:33 -0500

http://youtube.com/watch?v=hjzlPtsS0R8 Preity Zinta is in the movie but is not the actress in the song you linked. She was paired with Aamir Khan in Dil Chahta Hai, not Saif.

k8

Wed, 06 Sep 2006 23:05:08 -0500

Hey, some of us silly white hipsters do know something about Hindi films and can recognize Saif Ali Khan at first glance, thanks. Makes total sense why this was blogged—Bollywood filming in Europe and Australia has become pretty normal but here on the LES? Rock on! Now where's Preity?

The Heart Desires

Wed, 06 Sep 2006 14:25:27 -0500

"Dil Chahta Hai" Starring Preity Zinta! I love you, Preity Zinta. In this scene, the two young lovers go to a movie, and when a silly dance sequence starts they end up recognizing themselves on the silver screen! Tee hee! http://youtube.com/watch?v=hjzlPtsS0R8 Also notable: the flick is interesting because it knowingly pokes fun at Bollywood conventions throughout the storyline. You can see a bit of that in this clip which gets surprisingly meta for Bollywood. Meta. Aren't you impressed? (PS if this shows up 2x, sorry, the first one didn't go)

You know nothing

Wed, 06 Sep 2006 14:01:15 -0500

Yawn.

you = moron

Wed, 06 Sep 2006 13:17:04 -0500

to: "you know nothing" someone else already ID'd the actor 10 comments earlier. you really should read what people aready said before mouthing off.

N9

Wed, 06 Sep 2006 12:08:01 -0500

I would've loved to have seen this, if only to see how they shoot the big dance numbers. My all-time favorite movie of any country is Lagaan. I think it's also a good introduction to Bollywood, and the music is awesome.

You know nothing

Wed, 06 Sep 2006 11:38:18 -0500

The guy in the first photo is Saif Ali Khan a very famous actor in the Hindi film industry. His mom is Sharmila Tagore. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharmila_Tagore Definitely wouldn't expect you hipsters to know anything about Hindi films. It's good to know there are some things you can't ruin!!

LES love

Wed, 06 Sep 2006 10:12:05 -0500

True that, bigger isn't always better (and in this case, I certainly wouldn't argue that it is). But, bigger is often newsworthy. This fits the bill.

The cynic

Wed, 06 Sep 2006 02:41:29 -0500

"Bollywood is a bigger film industry than is Hollywood" ... bigger isn't always better. "foreign film score a permit from the film commission" ... the only thing odd about this is that a foreign film company wanting such a permit. In this case I suspect NYC is a site for a dance number.

LES love

Wed, 06 Sep 2006 00:06:26 -0500

Hilton, it deserves a blog entry 'cause it's a totally different type of film shoot; a foreign film! Bollywood is a bigger film industry than is Hollywood, and having a foreign film score a permit from the film commission -- and commandeer an entire block for an entire afternoon in hipster central -- seems like just the sort of shit Gothamist should be posting about.

not to beat a dead horse

Tue, 05 Sep 2006 23:23:34 -0500

but to meesalikeu's point, it really is "on". I don't know why this became a new yorker/non-new yorker thin, but it sounds stupid any other way, everyone says it that way. you grew up on the upper west side or the lower east side or the upper east side. you have an appointment on the upper west side. there are a handful of nice wood townhouses on the upper east side. blondie's sports bar has locations on the upper east side and on the upper west side. etc. blahblahblahblah...not hard. not a big deal, but "in" sounds weird.

meesalikeu

Tue, 05 Sep 2006 19:56:35 -0500

geez louise, even the 'new yorker' boomers can't help telling us how it should be and blahblahblah.

Hilton

Tue, 05 Sep 2006 19:51:59 -0500

Why does this deserve a blog entry? There are plenty of tv and movie sets in NYC every day. I may be missing something here, but what the hell makes this taping so special?

New Yorker

Tue, 05 Sep 2006 19:15:19 -0500

I'm a NY'er born & bred. 44 years ago. Lemme tell you how this city works, no matter where you're from: If you LOVE NYC, you RESPECT NYC, you CONTRIBUTE to NYC..... THEN YOU'RE A NEW YORKER ! *UNLESS you do not speak English in which case you should GET THE HELL OUT and come back only once you can.

brooklyn baby

Tue, 05 Sep 2006 17:47:16 -0500

I am amazed by the incredible ignorance and intolerance of some of you supposed New Yorkers.

christina

Tue, 05 Sep 2006 17:06:05 -0500

i think they were filming something on the brooklyn bridge on saturday too. that may not be part of this though.

anonymass

Tue, 05 Sep 2006 16:55:01 -0500

They could have filmed that in our IT dept.

just wondering

Tue, 05 Sep 2006 16:50:55 -0500

hey "real" new yorkers: is this grammatically correct now? http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/05/movies/05dvd.html

crush

Tue, 05 Sep 2006 16:38:52 -0500

My friend Shefali tells me that she has a secret crush (actually, not so secret now) on the actor in the first picture, Saif Ali Khan. Shefali would like to know: is the shoot continuing this week??

just asking

Tue, 05 Sep 2006 16:34:26 -0500

remember when there was nothing BUT immigrants and transplants on the LES? yeah, keep criticizing and playing your "birthright" card.

spawn

Tue, 05 Sep 2006 16:29:20 -0500

i digress, but I agree with comment #3. It's ironic to hear transplants complain about "Bridge and Tunnel" people or how they hate New Jersey yet they have lived here only 2 years and don't know anything about New York beyond the pronunciation of houston street.

Teddy N

Tue, 05 Sep 2006 15:40:16 -0500

Don't be too hard on them about "in the LES". They don't really know NYC that well yet. Most of them never will.

Elwood

Tue, 05 Sep 2006 15:32:18 -0500

Funny. They had a bunch of Indian people filming at C-Town in Park Slope last week.

wuhhh??

Tue, 05 Sep 2006 15:28:26 -0500

Wow, people from New Jersey and Long Island get criticized, but at least we get the lingo right. More and more everything is the NYC -region- rather than just Manhattan itself now that transplants have overrun the culture.

Nathan

Tue, 05 Sep 2006 15:23:43 -0500

Don't be too hard on them about "in the LES". They don't really know NYC that well yet.

nyer

Tue, 05 Sep 2006 15:02:59 -0500

On the LES.