there are maybe three readers who will be as interested in this as I was, but too bad
So I'm watching Partner, and in the middle of "You're My Love," I spy Katrina Kaif wearing what appears to be a strategically sliced (and be-whaleboned) U of I t-shirt.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9v2wHHg0TtV-wR6Z0z32SSq6-1kFt2iVcJ9PEhO6JtThiQzsd5V1cgJDBS_EWtlSQ1MzV6sFgmzDHs9xLJcWnMw6cW5HFwxYW81tUTqsB_w3B5RcwivgSQ4iquFDhJz61hSxU/s320/I2.jpg)
We've all heard of Harvards and Oxford University London*, but I never thought Bollywood's incorporation of non-Indian universities would extend to Urbana-Champaign.
But then when I took the disc out of the DVD player and put it in my computer to get screen captures, I was able to see that in fact it isn't a U of I t-shirt. It's a t-shirt for the fictional (or very unknown) Illinois Lions basketball team.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIXij0lMemjV5NLh2PbGki0Uqipxtda3BE2yAyOyi-dhwbaX6-492osPARmG19XUKXpRqfSFDnLZbjtOdLTRjcC8Jn1RMjObN444Ulc60A5vBUKZq1Renzwo6JxBkPh6-PEOB3/s320/I4.jpg)
Oh well. The song is still really catchy and chock full of fug potential.
* Update to post: an email from a reader made me realize I should indicate that I do indeed know the proper names and locations of these universities - what I have written here is a reference to what I have heard them called in some (by no means all) movies. I don't remember where "Harvards" popped up, but I'm pretty sure "Oxford University London" is used in K3G.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9v2wHHg0TtV-wR6Z0z32SSq6-1kFt2iVcJ9PEhO6JtThiQzsd5V1cgJDBS_EWtlSQ1MzV6sFgmzDHs9xLJcWnMw6cW5HFwxYW81tUTqsB_w3B5RcwivgSQ4iquFDhJz61hSxU/s320/I2.jpg)
We've all heard of Harvards and Oxford University London*, but I never thought Bollywood's incorporation of non-Indian universities would extend to Urbana-Champaign.
But then when I took the disc out of the DVD player and put it in my computer to get screen captures, I was able to see that in fact it isn't a U of I t-shirt. It's a t-shirt for the fictional (or very unknown) Illinois Lions basketball team.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIXij0lMemjV5NLh2PbGki0Uqipxtda3BE2yAyOyi-dhwbaX6-492osPARmG19XUKXpRqfSFDnLZbjtOdLTRjcC8Jn1RMjObN444Ulc60A5vBUKZq1Renzwo6JxBkPh6-PEOB3/s320/I4.jpg)
Oh well. The song is still really catchy and chock full of fug potential.
* Update to post: an email from a reader made me realize I should indicate that I do indeed know the proper names and locations of these universities - what I have written here is a reference to what I have heard them called in some (by no means all) movies. I don't remember where "Harvards" popped up, but I'm pretty sure "Oxford University London" is used in K3G.
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