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Vintage Bollywood

Golden Bollywood

When I was a child I lived in a home where Bollywood movies consistently played on our TV box and Dads Friday family nights were always organised with a selection of the best movies and Indian food.

 Bollywood soon overtook the home with movies on almost every evening, Bollywood music on the radio and cassette player and of course the self acting moments in front of the bedroom mirror.

Over the years Bollywood has seen much glamour. The charisma of Indian movies is unflinching as is the aura surrounding its appeal.

Bollywood has the biggest fan base in gratitude to fine actors and films having a mass appeal.  The films appeal to large numbers and captivate the audience to think, laugh and cry and sometimes are ominous for days to come and I am one who certainly would have been.

Vintage Bollywood movies have inspired me over the years.  I find these venerated movies simple but beatific. Vintage movies normally are seen to be simple but there is more than simplicity to these entities.

The earlier movies were not so developed as the technical supported movies today. With no special effects to support them, the movies relied on actors and directors to make the plot of the story a success, given the best actors and directors to Bollywood.

My huge value for the early Bollywood actresses is owing to their simplicity, great talent and natural beauty. Nevertheless, the chivalry and romance played by Heros captured women’s hearts by the masses.

The movies have come a long way with new technologies improving special effects. Like other aspects of movies, music in films has also evolved but the appeal for vintage music still remains central to my heart as does the story line of vintage movies. Vintage movies started as being simple but changed to versatile themes over time. With little to help the director in those days, it was vital that a good story line is able to captivate the audience. Known for their solid storylines vintage movies are still my favorite.

In my opinion the essence of vintage movies is what forms the bedrock of the Indian Film Industry. It’s a legacy that I will cherish.

Links and pictures of my Golden Bollywood favourites…………………………………

Jaane kyon log

Rafi - Kya Hua Tera Wada

Mere Sapnon Ki Rani

Chura Liya Hai Tumne song

LIKHE JO KHAT TUJHE-KANYADAN

Kya Khub Lagti Ho

Chanda Hai Tu

kabhi kabhi mere dil mein khyal ata hai

Kabhi Kabhi Mere Dil” (Female)

Aja Re O Dilbar Jani Noorie Noorie

Yeh Dosti

Chori Chori Koi Aaye

Ek Ajnabi hassena se

Chalte Chalte Yunhi Koi Mil Gaya Tha

MAINE PUCHA CHAND SE

Thare Rahiyo

eh dile nadan 

Mere Naina Saawan Bhadoo

chand mera dil

Dadi Amma Dadi Amma

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEgHOLNAu98

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K2RKBQ0phs

Angels Sale

Angel Sale – 6^th February.

7 am Saturday mornings….. Still in bed, curing the horrendous headache due to over indulgence of beer, raising midday for comfort food to ease the tummy and back to bed and snooze……………….

 Well not here! And I guess 3/4,000 of you peeps, too were in the in the random depths of Wembley on the 6^th February, in the endless queue for Angels Warehouse sale.

To recapitulate to you fashionistas, the famed TV and film costumier  clear out their warehouse, where you stuff as much as you can in a £20 bag or £50 bag.  It involves rummaging through hundreds of boxes full of garments and accessories, be warned… hazardous loose women ready for carnage! Though, the endless scrambling, trying things on and eager scrutinizing eyes soon have you grubby and passé.

Inadvertently, the motive of sticking to a £20 bag had quite easily morphed to a £50 bag, and then an additional shared £20 bag. SIGH!  

Fairly, the door charge into the warehouse is a fiver, which is a fair do considering I would probably pay the £60.00 on a single jacket at Rokit.

Five jackets, one shirt, one top, a pair of violet, 80’s stilettos, five hats and a fur travel box later, I most certainly squeezed every penny into the bags. After wizzing through the 50’s, 60’s,70’s, 80’s and 90’s aisles, not once, not twice but a lucky third time, fabilicious pieces were of my ownership!…. and did I mention it was “bags” of fun??

Asian Bride or Asian Pride?

Mr K and I certainly were not at the Asian Bride show to plan yet another wedding, once is definitely enough, but more the motive to observe the Asian fashion market at the wedding show.

Ostensibly one of the must visit Asian Bride shows of 2010, sponsored by one of the leading Asian magazines, Asian Women, had somewhat startled me immensely on behalf of those brides shopping for their dream wedding dress.

I mean, tell me if I’m wrong, but isn’t this one of the most or most important days of a couples life who is about to marry?

I’m not claiming to be au fait on wedding shows but a one stop shop should surely provide a balance or vast variety of wedding businesses and endless choices, don’t you think?

Consisting of two floors of exhibitors, the choice in wedding dresses was as equivalent as the choice of luxury wedding cakes in Greggs! To then be informed that the 3^rd floor consists of better choice from the ‘the big boys’ when it clearly was just another heap of event organisers, photographers, caters, entertainment and then, if you don’t blink, women’s fashion, oh, and the small volume of men’s fashion too!

Where’s the Asian pride? Or does it only sit in the battle of monopoly on the show floor? There’s far too many event organisers and photographers, and far too less choice in fashion.

Fashion shows always a high sigh of bliss but expectations defo. un-met but one name which does score each time is, Imani.

 Imani designs have proved a strong presence in the arena. For someone with high expectations I have to say the Pakistani designers have stolen the majority of points from me but were let down by other designers displaying their pieces alongside the catwalk. Alas, pernickety as one can be, I could not help notice the same Imani poster over used since 2008 or possibly beyond.

So in disappointment I sigh and perpetuate with repugnance for these wedding shows. So in no glory of inspiration, lo’ and behold, a sudden gleam of a beautiful, vivid girl’s collection caught my eye. Designer Jazelz, reined me in as fast as a brides mum reined in, before the bride, at a wedding gown shop!

So there I was in euphoria with Mr special K, admiring a revolutionary kid’s wear designer who had definitely put the freshness back in Asian pride but unfortunately this was not the stop for Asian bride outfits!

I adore Jazelz creativity throughout her collection, merchandising and her touch to small detail. Her stand, accompanied with her warm personality draws you into a fantasy world, ideal for little girls who play the perfect part at a wedding of a flower girl. Contemporary and eloquent, the collection consists of vivid prints and mouth watering colours harmonizing with inventive detailing, unique to the traditional Asian outfit.

Good luck Jaz, we loved it!

Now there is no way I can coax any bride to attend any of these shows for a wedding dress until my views distort positively but fingers, toes and  Punjabi plaits crossed, I endeavour to report back well from the Asiana Bridal show –   Asiana Magazine.

iphone 3GS

With some concern, in the last few weeks, my obsession with garments has dropped at a rapid speed for a high fascination for the iphone 3GS! Alarm bells! Nooo not the iphone….my concern that I may have deluded my passion for fashion??? ‘Of course not’ I hear myself say… just temporarily Monita just temporarily.

There is also the growing love for the recent sub zero snow fall which I began to peacefully sight out of my bedroom window this morning, daydreaming into a Winter Wonderland… until the beloved phone gadget reigned me into reality with the alarm tone, set myself - which reminded me of my musical jewellery box when I was a wee child….remember the ones with the Ballerina rotating when opening the box. Sighhhh those were the days when waking up to an alarm clock was anonymous.

So I now believe my lack of ability of using an iphone has immigrated from the incompetence portion of meee brain over to Alpha waves before bed time……it’s a bit like when Mum use to say (with a tinge of the Indian accent not Abu style) “learning in the mornings stays in your brain” with of course her Indian remedy of flavoured nuts for brain power! Not sure of the result…….

 Well I certainly found the Alpha brain waves (which I leant about in the book I’m reading, ‘making it’ by Lou Gimson and Alison Mitchell), whilst bordering conscious and subconscious zone of sleep, I certainly grasped my new tech. skills with new ideas on possible improvement for the next iphone! How you’re meant to be at your most creative whilst half asleep, I just dooon’t know!

 So enough oral gibberish and back onto serious iphone natter but before I do, I wanted to share how far the aura of this iphone had captured me in just a few hours. So, after Winter Wonderland I found myself tapping away on the phone, like the geek with HUGE reading glasses’ on the MSN smilies, until I snapped back into the real world around me and realised the hubby had been serious talking for the last unknown minutes… experiencing my first listening of  “Japanese talk”!! Isn’t this meant to be the other way around??? uhh  iphone!

 SO, iphone reviews based on current usage on the 3GS and not previous knowledge on previous models, tested by a vintage phone user!

 My top ten features of the G3S so far:

 1.    Comes in a compact box with iphone, quick start manual, hands free/headphones and charger/USB wire. Apple has successfully designed the equipment to be double usage, diminishing the ownership of 100’s of wires into one.

2.    Set-up of the phone is an easy guide via the itunes website. And with the click of a few buttons…Voila!

3.    Ultra sexy and slim in Black! A bit like the little black number in my wardrobe, perfect accessory to match!

4.    Large screen, ease for texting for people who have sausage fingers like mine and no need to for squinting.

5.    Performance – Fast CPU, great graphics and memory. Nippy and more responsive than other phones I have used. I been told it is noticeably more responsive than the 3G which Im guessing separates the two same style phones, not forgetting the Compass and Video on the 3GS

6. Finger print resistant and face grease, so cake on the MAC foundation ladies.

7.QWERTY Key pad, makes life so much easier!

8.Video quality Apple claims up to 30 frames per second, and as the test video recording I tried out at home, it comes pretty damn close and the video is smooth as hell. Recording isn’t great in low light but at least it’s fluid. The tap-to-focus (and re-expose) feature also carries over to video, which you can use to “aim” your camera at a part of the scene.

9. How can I forget, one of my favourite features is the lightness of the phone, fabo for the evening handbag!

10. And last but not least, you sure will find your self surrounded by envious by-standers. lol!

Blog Virgin

Monita here.

HApPy NeW YEaR to all fellow bloggers and followers……..

Having listed my new years resolutions in the scraps of my ol’ 09 diary, which I still have not worked out how to link in for view, one of me “must do in 2010….” things is to start blogging.

Why? (To avoid boredom I’m going to say this all in one breath at a possible speed of Obadiah Rutledge) Simple, having spent most my life in an office and communicating my thoughts to a PC all day long, it’s been well over due for me, myself and I to bond more often in reflection of my own blog and of course to the world out there. And in doing so I decided I will be become that social butterfly again and detach myself from the chain and ball and and and (breath….) begin the world of social life beyond my office window…..sigh….off the chest!

What perturbs me even more these days are the advances of technology! Having thought myself a bit of a whiz kid, having able to show off with my Photoshop and illustrator skills, I really thought I had grasped I.T well over average, until of course I decided to blog!

Easy…errr no! So I’ll save the ear ache on my trouble setting myself up and even more trying to figure out how it all works. Seriously, how difficult can this be? I now worry the iphone 3GS (16G) (link missing due to incompetence) purchaaaased yesterday by a well trained hubby is now sat in the unconfident portion of me wits.

I hope not to elude the blog and phone from distress and instead hope to evolve a fruitful new adventure.

So here I am trying to blog!