Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Shankar Jaikishan | Suraj & Gumnaam


With the exception of NRIs, most Americans' first experience of Bollywood was probably seeing a good portion of the scene below--"Jaan Pehechaan Ho," from Gumnaam--in Terry Zwigoff's Ghost World:



As crazy as that scene is, it's nothing compared to this scene later in the film:



I've long suspected that scene to have been a conscious parody of the famous dream sequence in Raj Kapoor's Awaara:



... which, if so, would be especially ironic, given that Bollywood's most famous duo, Shankar Jaikishan, composed the music for both.

Get it all here.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Files are removed. :( Care to repost them, captain? Would be AWESOME.

cibulka [at] gmail com

Anonymous said...

I would deeply appreciate a repost of these files, too, thanks!