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Yes: I am going there! I am putting a stake in the ground and saying that these ten films are the ones from 1970s Hindi cinema that I would take with me to a deserted island* (*subject to change without notice).
Several I have only seen two or three times (they are hard to watch although [...]

Despite my near-certainty that I should know better, I once again succumbed to the lure of the Mithun-Ravi Nagaich combo. Feeling that I needed something *fun* to do, I watched Gun Master G-9 battle the unnecessarily complicated maneuverings of Evil with equally needlessly elaborate gadgets and code names—all the while still failing to convince me [...]

This Mehmood movie is a total hoot. I can’t believe I hadn’t seen it before, although I have seen all the songs and the songs really are the film. They dominate a story which deftly blends horror and comedy, managing to be suspenseful and funny—not a combination I’d think would be easy to balance. It [...]

Sometimes a film’s music is so fabulous that you don’t even care if the film itself is bad. But when you get a soundtrack like that and a film that is highly entertaining if a *teeny bit* flawed, then life is good! So it is with this one. Kalyanji Anandji have delivered what may be [...]

Typical b00b, er, n00b mistake. (full size image NSFW)

Gordon Ramsay’s “Gordon’s Great Escape” recently aired on Channel 4 in the UK and through the miracle of the interwebs, we had a chance to watch the three-part series. Over the course of a few weeks, everyone’s favorite foul-mouthed Scotsman travels all over India to learn about India and its cuisine. Not one to shy away from getting his hands dirty (or in this case yellow from turmeric), Ramsay tries his hand in cooking on a passenger train, running a street stall and entering a cooking competition for housewives.

In the last episode he even makes it to Kerala to eat beef (errichee) curry in a roadside toddy shop and take a few swigs of the homemade hooch. After learning how to cook fish (karimeen) Ramsay also joins in at kumbala – a sport that involves surfing behind bullocks across flooded paddy fields.

The series ends with Ramsay cooking for some royalty, (the maharajah of Udaipur), Mumbai’s well-to-do and some Bollywood stars (our interns think they spotted Kabir Bedi at the table) at the Taj Mahal Hotel.

Recipes, pictures and more here.

Petty bribery is common in India, but the introduction of a zero rupee banknote has given some would-be bribers pause.

One such story was our earlier case about the old lady and her troubles with the Revenue Department official over a land title. Fed up with requests for bribes and equipped with a zero rupee note, the old lady handed the note to the official. He was stunned. Remarkably, the official stood up from his seat, offered her a chair, offered her tea and gave her the title she had been seeking for the last year and a half to obtain without success.

[ via kottke]

I got my copy of Sanjay’s new book back in December, I forgot to share it with you guys earlier. Here are a couple snapshots. The book should be available to everyone in a couple weeks or so.

Also, I’ve been working on the new Ghee Happy website, it’ll go live next week! Keep checking back here, cause there’s a new limited print dropping soon as well!

Are you guys ready?

There’s nothing finer on a wintry and cheerless day than a Wadia Brothers Arabian Nights tale brought to you in Glorious Gevacolor! I am pretty sure that an early Nadia stunt film would be equally fine, but until they become readily available these are just the ticket. Standard features include feisty beautiful women (and dancing [...]

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