{"id":148,"date":"2005-09-18T18:35:46","date_gmt":"2005-09-18T18:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/applecrumble.wordpress.com\/2005\/09\/18\/bollywood-season-coming-to-channel-4\/"},"modified":"2017-10-01T19:51:32","modified_gmt":"2017-10-01T19:51:32","slug":"bollywood-season-coming-to-channel-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2005\/09\/18\/bollywood-season-coming-to-channel-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Bollywood season coming to Channel 4"},"content":{"rendered":"
I am very excited to see that Channel 4<\/a> are about to start their annual Bollywood season<\/a> today. I’ve always been interested in Indian culture and music and after much research last year I bought my first Bollywood film – Kuch Kuch Hota Hai<\/a>. My wife and I loved it (admittedly me a little more than her) and found ourselves singing the songs around the house. It’s a fun movie and had everything I would have expected from a Bollywood film – a big romance, tragedy and lots of comedy. Shahrukh Khan<\/a> is very good – I found out later that he’s one of the biggest Bolywood stars out there – and Kajol<\/a> is lovely.<\/p>\n

Since then, I’ve bought a few more DVDs but haven’t quite got around to watching them yet. On recommendation from some of my Indian colleagues at work I now have Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge<\/a>, Black<\/a> and the strangely-named Jism<\/a>. Hopefully now that my project has gone live at work I’ll have a bit more time to watch them. Perhaps I should organise a Bollywood night at my house once we’ve had all our building work done?<\/p>\n

If you want to try one out on Channel 4 this year, I’m told that Murder<\/a> is the Hindi version of Unfaithful<\/a> which I thought was great. It’ll be showing at 00:45 on 17 November 2005.<\/div>\n

I am very excited to see that Channel 4 are about to start their annual Bollywood season today. I’ve always been interested in Indian culture and music and after much research last year I bought my first Bollywood film – Kuch Kuch Hota Hai. 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