come closer - kasam paida karnewale ki - 1984

Another 80's bollywood gem! Enjoy!

play that beat Mr. Raja #1

A little promotional here...

my friends from Cartilage Consortium (Paris) have made an incredible work digging out some selected oddities from the Tamil Film Industry (1984 - 1991) and released a compilation called "Play That Beat Mr. Raja #1" by Illaiyaraaja, Shankar Ganesh, Hamsalekha.
Vinyl only "s'il vous plait!", limited copies, great artwork by Moolinex, listen via Cartilage Records' bandcamp page.

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Music From The Third Floor is dead. Long live MFT3F!

For the last four years PC has been posting around 200 Bollywood soundtrack rips along with 7 absolutely great volumes of personal favorites (get the last 7th volume one here) on the blog Music From The Third Floor. What an effort! And what a pleasure it has been to, that from time to time, visiting the blog and always find something new there.
Thank You for the music PC! Well done.

The last in line is Laxmikant Pyarelal's background score to 'Bobby'. Get it here!


Introduction by Raj Kapoor

Aar Paar

O.P. Nayyar - Aar Paar. Available thanks to Music From The Third Floor.


Geeta Dutt - Hoon Abhi Main Jawan

Here is a lovely clip from the movie with Shakila acting out "Babuji Dheere Chalna" (vocals here as well is from Geeta Dutt).

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Hooray for Tollywood!

This Tollywood film clip from Adavi Donga has Chiranjeevi, the star of Donga, the source of the viral "Indian Thriller" musical number "Golimar."

Solla Solla Enna Perumai

[via Tofutti Break]

Lijjat Papad Commercial

Debra Paget's First Dance for Fritz Lang

Two years ago or so Debra Paget's dance from Das Indische Grabmal (The Indian Tomb) was on a bunch of sites owing to her "artificially nude" appearance juxtaposed over Fritz Lang's exotic and tense mise en scene. It looked cool. This clip:



is not dissimilar and it's from the first film of his Indian Epic Trilogy - Der Tiger Von Eschnapur. The set is pretty spectacular as is Paget's gusto towards getting the performance maximized. A great lepers-that-look-like-zombies scene shortly follows in the film.

Hindi Films

I have no idea if you have never seen this lovely collection of Hindi movie posters or seen them 100 times....I discovered them at Papy-Potage, which is an awfully good place to visit.

Music From The Third Floor: Vol. 3

Music From The Third Floor: Vol. 3 is ready and waiting for you.
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drunk elephant dancing

These sequences come from a bollywood movie bought by a friend of mine who was in India recently. Unfortunatly i can't read Hindi!!! So obviously i don't have any clue about who is involved in this production. If anybody knows something, please drop a comment. Thanks. (et merci Gwen!)




##UPDATE##

Movie : Annai Oru Aalayam
Title video 2: Appane Appane
Actors : Rajnikanth, Sripriya,elephant
Year : 1979

Thanks to Papy Potage once again for the informations. By the way if you want to watch amazing bollywood videos go visit his nice blog.

Kamal Haasan, Tamil Superstar

Who is the Tamil star that has gone from childhood actor to modern-day superstar in a career that has spanned more than 45 years? Why it's Kamal Hassan. According to Wikipedia, Dr. Hassan is "a self-professed atheist and rationalist" - which makes him pretty awesome in my book. But even better, he can hold his own in a seriously all-over-the-map fight.



Oh, and check out his dance moves in this post over on Visual Guidance, which features Kamal as some sort of biker/disco hybrid star. Amazing stuff!

Music From The Third Floor: Vol. 1

Music From The Third Floor has compiled a best of/sampler of what has been uploaded and posted this far on this goldmine of Bollywood beats and ballads. Check it out!
Music From The Third Floor: Vol. 1

Laxmikant-Pyarelal's 'Anita'

"... Lots of atmospheric things going on throughout, and a couple of great songs. Like the lovely Latin flavoured 'Karib Aa' and the more frantic 'Pichhware Budha Khansta'. There's plenty of dialogue on here as well... is it just me, or does the guy sound really sleazy? What puts this album on my list of favourites however are the two instrumentals - spooky bossa beats, creepy organs and massive John Barry-esque orchestrations - the second one in particular is truly amazing."

Music From The Third Floor presents Laxmikant Pyarelal - Anita

BollyWeirdness Maximus

Click here if you dare.

Upkar

Music From The Third Floor shares Kalyanji Anandji: Upkar, Soundtrack from 1974 [IMDb]. Good stuff!

Bollywood beats, ballads and bombs

Music From The Third Floor's project: "A box of some 150 Bollywood soundtracks on vinyl; classics, duds, and those with one or two good songs on thems. The plan: Make MP3s and upload them all here, on a semi-regular basis. ..."
Sound like a good plan. I'm game.