my two great pop cultural loves, together at last
From darling Akshay, a Bollywood take on the Beatles, delightfully like the song from the Gumnaam clip in Ghost World (apparently this has been up for months - I'm so out of it).
the Kapoor family tree
For all your Kapoor Khazana reference needs (and beyond), here is a Kapoor family tree. This image is courtesy of Madhu Jain's book The Kapoors: The First Family of Indian Cinema (Penguin Books India, 2005). Click the picture to enlarge to legible size. The dates and underlining are my own. My notations indicate who is of what generation: double underlines are for Prithviraj's children; single underlines are for their children; dashed lines for their children; etc. If you'd rather read, the family tree goes like this, color-coded by major branch and with the names you probably recognize in bold: first and second generations: Prithviraj Kapoor (born 1906) is the father of Raj (Ranbir Raj, born 1924), Shammi (Shamsher Raj, 1931), and Shashi (Balbir Raj, 1938). Prithviraj and his wife Ramsarni (Rama) also had a daughter, Urmi (between Shammi and Shashi), and two children who died, Ravinder and Devinder. Prithviraj has a brother named Trilok Kapoor , who is a
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If you like stuff like this or Jaan Pehechan Ho you just have to watch Teesri Manzil. It's got some amazing songs - and a really great head-shaking-number. Plus, the girl from Jaan Pehechan Ho has a really funny supporting role. And the rest of the film is great fun, too!