Blast from the Past - Bindu Re Bindu Remix.

I usually don't give two hoots about remixes. They came in the early 2000s. They were a rage. Some were good. Most were mediocre fast-paced rehashes of good Hindi/Bollywood songs. Good thing we are through them now. This one here though, stood out. Might have to do something with Kunal Ganjawala's raspy voice. Maybe it's just the music video. This cute little video was played all the time on MTV. Even Channel V if you watched it.

Let's come down to the video, one thing that always helps popular music in well, becoming popular. This thing here was created by the good people of Studio Eeksaurus. They were the pioneers of animation in India. Remember the Amazon Battery's Last Long, Really Long video? It was also them. In fact, come up with any good animated commercials/videos in the past decade and chances are they came from Studio Eeksaurus.

I used to love this video while growing up. It looked quite groundbreaking in 2003 and a good 11 years later, I find it a little disturbing what with a creep stalker going after a girl and a cheeky upskirt shot thrown in for good measure. Guess you can get away with a lot of stuff when it's shown in animation.

Anywho, watch the video and take a trip down your 90s memory lane. Enjoy.

The Nineties Had the Best Earworms.

Remember the Nineties? Remember the movies? Guys with mutton chops, really long hair and Akshay Kumar being the shit. Like 'the' hot shit. Anyway, Bollywood had some really awkward years in the Nineties. As a result of this we are left with a lot of anomalies. Like Phool aur Kaante. This hit film released the year I was born and sort of put Ajay Devgan on the map. It was a college comedy that turns dark as all Nineties films were wont to and then turned into a Karate Kid seeks vengeance.

So when a few days back JCVD, yes you know the man who made Nineties awkward for Hollywood returned in this really epic commercial for Volvo.



I loved the commercial and it's really one amazing campaign but it got me thinking, 'Meh, apna  Ajay Devgan (Devgn now, is it?) did this like 2 decades back.' No shit, check this out.



Then while I was telling an Art Director at work about the film. He couldn't remember it. So a slightly older Account Guy - one who probably saw this flick on the big screen sang this song to remind him. And ever since then the song's stuck in my head. It's not really a bad song, except that it is a Nineties song which mean it either had Kumar Sanu or Udit Narayan singing it with either Anuradha Puadwal and Sadhna Sargam. This one features Kumar and Anuradha. The lyrics are as silly as they get and you have Shakti Kapoor frolicking in the swimming pool for no reason. That's always worth a watch. So is the female lead struggling to say, 'Oh my God!'