Bollywood Beauty

[dangermousie]

For those on my flist who are not familiar with it, Bollywood is the name for Indian movie industry. I simply adore Bollywood movies (which you can find in movie theaters and on-line rental places with English subtitles). They are lavish, beautiful musicals, often with happy endings. Often they are wonderfully melodramatic love stories. And they always have a bit of everything: fighting, love, comedy, tragedy, the works. And visually, they are stunning.

So here is a bunch of my favorite Bollywood pictures, beneath the cut:



Akshay Kumar and Priyanka Chopra celebrating Holi in the upcoming Waqt:


Salman Khan and Sneha Ullal (with a LOT of back-up dancers) in the upcoming "Lucky," a Bolly star-crossed love story filmed entirely in Russia:


John Abraham and Lara Dutta as an Assasin and his Moll in Elaan:


Vidya Balan and Saif Ali Khan in the upcoming Parineeta:


Sushmita Sen as a courtesan in Kisna, a movie about a poet protecting an English woman during the Partition:


Shah Rukh Khan and Preity Zinta in my favorite movie last year: Veer-Zaara, the story of a doomed love affair between an Indian air force pilot and a Pakistani aristocrat:


Abhishek Bachchan as an Enforcer in the gritty, harsh Yuva:


Ashwaria Rai and Ajay Devgan in the art-house Raincoat:


Madhubala as a doomed slave-girl in the newly colorized Mughal-e-Azam:


Arjun Rampal in Moksha, a movie with the neatest cinematography I've ever seen:


One of Bollywood's most famous movie couples, Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol, in Kabhi Khushi Kabie Gham:


The most visually amazing BW movie (Shah Rukh Khan and Madhuri Dixit in Devdas):


Kareena Kapoor as a low-class hooker in Chameli


Amitabh Bachchan as an elderly patriarch separated from his wife in Baghban:

Comments

[plazmah.livejournal.com]

Yay! And just as I was looking for some good BW pics! You are totally my image source :)

[ecentrika12.livejournal.com]

great pics :) isnt that from hddcs and not raincoat though...?

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

Nope, it's from Raincoat. It's a flashback scene when Ajay is (pretending?) to be sick and she comes in. They never got so lovey-dovey in HDDCS until the very end.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I aim to please :D

Btw, I love the icon. I haven't seen Shakti as am reluctant to get a whole DVD just to see SRK and Ash shake it up, but I do want to see Ishq Kamina really badly. Any clue what song compilation would have that?

Btw, any BW icons I can steal? *grovel*

[iheartpotatoes.livejournal.com]

I have the song on a SRK songs disc and also and Aishwarya songs disc. My sources are either Nehaflix, Jackson Heights, or my best friend. I don't think she'd lend her DVDs to strangers, tho :-P.

[sababagal.livejournal.com]

Bee-you-tee-full pictures!!

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Woe is me then. Can I be her temporary best friend? :)

Actually I am going to order Karam from nehaflix today, so I might as well throw in a SRK songs comp to get free shipping. Any idea which one?

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Thank you. So is your icon. I miss Kajol! When is that Kajol-Aamir movie coming out?

[wasabi-girl1.livejournal.com]

Niiiice pics, especially the stuff from upcoming movies! :)

[plazmah.livejournal.com]

LOL, I've been looking to replace the icon too!

Actually, I have the video for Ishq Kamina on my computer. I could send it to you through Gmail. Do you have gmail? If you don't I could send you one of my three billion invites ;)

Except for the BW icons already at jadeicons and on my icon site, I've got nothing to share. Yet.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I absolutely LOVE the look of Parineeta. I could probably post all pictures I've seen of it. So gorgeous. And am very excited to see Saif in a completely serious role (though still think nomming him for comedic as opposed to lead in Hum Tum was insane).

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Thanks but my computer is low-tech so I won't be able to view the thing. I wanted a SRK comp for a long time anyway.

Off to lookie at your icons :)

[wasabi-girl1.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I hope the movie doesn't disappoint!

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Heeee, icon love!

I think with the look this pretty and a cast I like, not to mention a good plot (as I read the summary of the novel), it has every chance of being good. At least it will be pretty to look at, if nothing else.

[savingmykisses.livejournal.com]

Oooh may I have a gmail please?

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Btw, who are you saving your kisses for? Does his name have five letters, begins with "Af" and ends with "tab"?

[plazmah.livejournal.com]

Done :) Sent it to your .edu email addy.

[linaerys.livejournal.com]

Great pics! Esp the K3G one, but all of them very good.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Thanks! My fave (purely as a pic) is actually the shot of Vidia Balan from Parineeta. I love shots through intervening obstuctions.

[linaerys.livejournal.com]

That is a nice one. I get distracted by SRK though. I'm still new to BW, and pretty SRK-focused.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Hee. Nothing wrong with that. SRK is my favorite too! He is pretty distracting :)

[jonaki.livejournal.com]

The picture of Madhubala takes my breath away.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

She was so beautiful...