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What I've been watching: Musical edition
Jun. 14th, 2010 03:18 pmThe good:
We watched the hysterical "Singh is Kinng" at a Bollywood party on Friday. I picked it, and I'm so glad I did, from the hilarious disclaimers about hens not being harmed at the beginning to the bizarro end credits, with lots of WTF throughout. Apparently, Punjabi films with Sikh characters and dress are rare in Bollywood, so this was kind of different.
Have a fun video snippet from the show...
The bad:
I know some of you will probably be appalled that I didn't care for "Chicago," but I didn't. In case you want to talk about the stage play, I did see it performed by a community theater many years ago and enjoyed it, but I was a teen Christian at the time and didn't quite approve of how racy it was. Watching the movie version, I found I liked the songs, thought the costumes and set were fantastic, and was favorably impressed by Richard Gere's singing. However, my main problem with it is ( spoiler )
We watched the hysterical "Singh is Kinng" at a Bollywood party on Friday. I picked it, and I'm so glad I did, from the hilarious disclaimers about hens not being harmed at the beginning to the bizarro end credits, with lots of WTF throughout. Apparently, Punjabi films with Sikh characters and dress are rare in Bollywood, so this was kind of different.
Have a fun video snippet from the show...
The bad:
I know some of you will probably be appalled that I didn't care for "Chicago," but I didn't. In case you want to talk about the stage play, I did see it performed by a community theater many years ago and enjoyed it, but I was a teen Christian at the time and didn't quite approve of how racy it was. Watching the movie version, I found I liked the songs, thought the costumes and set were fantastic, and was favorably impressed by Richard Gere's singing. However, my main problem with it is ( spoiler )
