Curry night?

The BBC Asian Network has announced the winner of of its poll of the Ultimate 90s Bollywood Song, and it would be curmudgeonly of me not to feature it. We are great Bollywood music fans, after all.

From the 1995 romantic comedy Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, starring Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol [dubbed, of course, by proper playback singers], here's Tujhe Dekha To (When I saw you):

Kumar Sanu and Lata Mangeshkar - Tujhe Dekha To

I much prefer this one, to be honest - but then again, it is rather earlier than the 1990s...

Sharmila Tagore, sung by Sharda - Leja leja leja mera dil [from An Evening in Paris, 1967]

Lamb Bhuna with pilau rice and a naan bread, anyone?

East of East Ham

I'm still off, making the most of my birthday weekend. I am, however. more than well aware that this is indeed a Tacky Music Monday - so this week, to cheer up everyone who is heading back to work and the come-down after the spectacular closure of the Olympics, let's head a bit further East than Stratford!

Here's the lovely Sharmila Tagore (notably the first Indian actress to appear on screen in a bikini, in this very film An Evening in Paris from 1967) - and one of our fave Bollywood-meets-go-go numbers Le Ja Mera Dil, also known as "Leeja Leeja":

Sharmila Tagore, sung by Sharda - Leja leja leja mera dil [from An Evening in Paris, 1967]

This sort of thing always happens when I go to Brick Lane for a curry...

Janmashtami, the Hindu celebration of the birth of Krishna, was the same day as my birthday on Friday. I wondered why there were so many blue people - I thought they were Smurfs!

It's time to celebrate

Ah, it is time for a celebration methinks! Time to crack open the champagne...

p> ...for tonight I have finally completed the transfer - manually I might add! - of (just about) every single one of the blogs I had posted on the benighted former social network known nowadays as My_______ [sic] to Blogger.

YAY!!!!

That is no mean achievement, especially since I was posting blogs daily (sometimes more than once a day) since the beginning of 2007 - 1400 in all...

So, to help us enjoy this very special occasion, and in the spirit of weirdness and campery that is our tradition - I have assembled some of our "very best in-house entertainers" here at Dolores Delargo Towers to play just for you.

Take it away boys and girls!

Les Rita Mitsouko - Marcia Baila

Sharmila Tagore, sung by Sharda - Leja leja leja mera dil [from An Evening in Paris, 1967]

Buttocks

Stefano e Bene feat Hard Ton - Why Your Love

You're welcome.