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Chak De India!: Punjabis in Twenty-First-Century Bollywood | BollyLogging
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About the Author: Dr. Charn K. Jagpal. Bollywood Talk in South Asian Fiction. Punjabis in Twenty-First-Century Bollywood. I’ve been a Bollywood watcher since the age of four. Raised in a small town, it was our family’s favorite pastime to sit together on the weekends before an Indian classic or new release. While other children were singing lullabies, I was singing Yeh dosti, the theme song from Dharmendra and Amitabh Bachchan’s megahit Sholay. Singh is King Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi. Khiladi 786 Son of Sardaar.
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About the Author: Dr. Charn K. Jagpal | BollyLogging
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About the Author: Dr. Charn K. Jagpal. Bollywood Talk in South Asian Fiction. About the Author: Dr. Charn K. Jagpal. Welcome to my blog, and thank you for visiting! BollyLogging is my first attempt at blogging so please be frank with your opinions. I heartily welcome constructive criticism. Here’s a bit about me:. I am a Punjabi-Canadian, born and raised in British Columbia. I have a few projects on-the-go at the moment that speak to these passions. Add the Masala: Poems with Puninglish Flavours. These p...
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“We Twist”: Out-Dancing Cultural Stasis in Love Aaj Kal | BollyLogging
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About the Author: Dr. Charn K. Jagpal. Bollywood Talk in South Asian Fiction. 8220;We Twist”: Out-Dancing Cultural Stasis in Love Aaj Kal. I mentioned in a previous post, Twist or Shout? Inter)National Dances in 1960s Bollywood, that I would return to the topic of hybrid dances in Bollywood and I do today with a twenty-first-century film that nostalgically and artistically gestures back to the 1960s dance craze: the twist! The song We Twist in Love Aaj Kal. The message in the song We Twist in Love Aaj Kal.
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Whose Child is it Anyways?: Family Swaps in 1960s Bollywood | BollyLogging
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About the Author: Dr. Charn K. Jagpal. Bollywood Talk in South Asian Fiction. Whose Child is it Anyways? Family Swaps in 1960s Bollywood. Like I mentioned in my last post, I’ve been returning to historic Bollywood for inspiration and entertainment for a couple of months now. It’s a rich mine of information, ripe with potential topics for my blogging posts, including links to contemporary films, historical events, and celebrated authors Salman Rushdie perhaps the most notable among them. Raised as the aff...
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Gothic (Re)Turns: Housed Memories, Roused Lives in Om Shanti Om | BollyLogging
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About the Author: Dr. Charn K. Jagpal. Bollywood Talk in South Asian Fiction. Gothic (Re)Turns: Housed Memories, Roused Lives in Om Shanti Om. Current scholarship on Farah Khan’s mega hit, Om Shanti Om. The storyline of Om Shanti Om,. Modelled on Subhash Ghai’s 1980 film, Karz ,. Is a reincarnation narrative and such narratives of rebirth go hand-in-hand with the Gothic in Bollywood. The most prominent feature of the Indian. Via the commonplace Indian theme of reincarnation. Correspondingly, Om Shanti Om.
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To Twist or Shout?: Dancing (Inter)Nationalism in 1960s Bollywood | BollyLogging
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About the Author: Dr. Charn K. Jagpal. Bollywood Talk in South Asian Fiction. To Twist or Shout? Dancing (Inter)Nationalism in 1960s Bollywood. It’s been a while since my last post! But I also now see with stronger clarity the cycles and breaks in Bollywood themes over the decades. Perhaps the scene that articulates this struggle best appears as a song in the film Prince. The enduring assumption that women embody their nations that women are the catalysts for constructing and regenerating a national iden...
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About Me | Add the Masala: Poems with Puninglish Flavours
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Add the Masala: Poems with Puninglish Flavours. BY: Charn Kamal Kaur Jagpal. Welcome to Add the Masala: Poems with Puninglish Flavours! This blog lays bare my new (ad)venture into the world of creative writing, an (ad)venture that began somewhat intuitively after years of training in literary analysis and commitment to postcolonial studies. However, writing poetry is not my full-time job. I’m balancing this new addiction with my current research pursuits. I am also making steady contributions to my blog ...
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Just An Other Juckaw-in-the-Buck-saw | Add the Masala: Poems with Puninglish Flavours
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Add the Masala: Poems with Puninglish Flavours. BY: Charn Kamal Kaur Jagpal. Chot Class →. March 6, 2013. Just An Other Juckaw-in-the-Buck-saw. Posted in Punjabi-English Poetry. There goes an other Surrey Juckaw. Into the one-size-fits-all buck-saw. Defaced by his collie. Chained by his neck’s so-nah. Overrun by his guddy. There goes an other Surrey Juckaw. Into the all-fit-one-size buck-saw. Beheaded by his proud pug. Handcuffed by his over-protective cur-raw. Terrorized by his unruly dawry. Some strays...
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Family Channel | Add the Masala: Poems with Puninglish Flavours
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Add the Masala: Poems with Puninglish Flavours. BY: Charn Kamal Kaur Jagpal. Buzzing Bizarres →. April 4, 2013. Posted in Punjabi-English Poetry. And family matters soon. D on the telly. Some are going doo-gone-eh. S to the pot. S to the lot. Others make it okay-lay. But whatever their shuckle. They all draw saw. From the deep muth. Of cherished gull bought. Of sometimes knuckle mar. But always got-your-curvy- pitch-aw. So when you cha. The rhythm of hussaw. Take your home-owned hissay. S in the air.
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Make Beliefs | Add the Masala: Poems with Puninglish Flavours
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Add the Masala: Poems with Puninglish Flavours. BY: Charn Kamal Kaur Jagpal. Just An Other Juckaw-in-the-Buck-saw →. February 24, 2013. Posted in Punjabi-English Poetry. Ing in the coon. They will magically toot. That will flutter vich. And make belief sony. To win the lur-eye. Invade my cherished yea-dosh. My wizardry of uj. As in this case,. Is occasionally used as a transitional word interchangeable with Only. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Address never made public).