Pimsleur course

I bought the Pimsleur Hindi course and I'm not impressed so far. I suppose it can be an effective drill but it makes feel like they think I'm an idiot because they teach me long words one syllable at a time and tell me so many times that I should listen, repeat and try to imitate the pronounciation of the native speaker. Really, I got that the first time...
There is too much English talking in it and after a while I lost my brain activity and when the English speaker told me to say Please listen, I dutifully repeated, Please listen. I suppose it may be different for English speakers but both are non-native languages for me so I've done a lot of drills in English too back in my day.

But I'm happy that I understood some of the Hindi material without being taught. 

Phata Poster Nikhla Hero Trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCrNoy5OeOI

Shahid Kapoor & Ileana D'Cruz

More random words

मौक़ा

mauqā (maukaa)
chance (m)

ज़ालिम

zālima (zaalima)
cruel 
 

आवाज

  āvāja (aavaaja)

 voice (etc)

मोती

 mōtī (motee)
pearl

Waise bhi perfection ko improve karna mushkil hota hai

I have now watched Dil Chahta Hai often enough (fastforwarding through some scenes) that I'm starting to be able to understand parts of it without the subtitles. I am already there with Jab We Met. I sometimes have one of these movies running in a small window in the top left corner of my screen while I'm doing something else on the computer, working under the assumption that hearing a lot of the language would tune the ear to the intonation and make it easier to distinguish the sounds and the words. Maybe I should pick some other films though, I don't want to get bored sick of my favorites. But I'm weird that way, I have some comfort films that I've been known to watch  tons of times and these two are joining the select group.You just can't improve on perfection. Another new fave is Three idiots. And I love Taare Zameen Par.

You can't go wrong with Aamir Khan? I'll have to find out, I have several of his movies on my watch list.

Chennai Express trailer

I want to see this film, not really sure what it's all about but it seems entertaining. Colorful trailers always reel me in. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rARol7Dk2zo

Song from the film:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=UmCnGpaSarQ#at=110

My favorite house cleaning soundtrack

This is my favorite background music for cleaning the house. I wouldn't normally be caught listening to annoying jingles like this outside of my Bollywood obsession but somehow it's okay when the songs evoke images of Salman Khan and Karishma Kapoor performing silly dances. The songs make me walk faster and the work seems to go quicker too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBjfLIhNHPs

Guzaarish from Ghajini

One of my favorite AR Rahman songs and what a gorgeous video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8hxGcedNUo

http://songnlyrics.blogspot.com/2009/01/guzaarish-lyrics-ghajini-translation-to.html

http://www.bollymeaning.com/2011/09/hai-guzaarish-lyrics-translation.html

piano chords
http://sari-gama.blogspot.com/2009/07/guzarish.html

Dinka Chika

A video song from Salman Khan's film Ready:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Y1V5up6ljw

The song is repetitive but I love the set. It's so colorful.

OMGing at the dance moves. That's all I've got to say about it... :)

Falak Tak Chal Saath

Not to be confused with the singer in the previous post, here's a catchy song I came across while searching for Falak songs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGhmZtY710E

The lyrics and translation:
http://www.hindilyrics.net/translation-Tashan/Falak-Tak.html

Falak songs

Falak Shabir is a Pakistani singer.  I really like some of his songs.
 http://www.falakmusic.com/

Falak Ijazat Full Official Video Song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn59knX5n1w

Falak Soniye Full Official Video Song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sk9UE7xEWvE

 I Me Aur Main Full Video Song Saajna (Unplugged) Feat.Falak

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI9bmLEx2yw

His song Mera Mann is included in the Nautanki Saala jukeboxes in my previous post.

Falak Mujh Main Hai Tu OFFICIAL VIDEO HD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFCvMzoSgIg

Falak: Judai Unplugged [Lyrics with English Translation]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4D9L4h8aac

Rog
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xya98ipiBNA
Tera saath ho
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJtCiLFEaiU

Nautanki Saala songs

Sadi Gali Aaja

Lyrica and translation

Another link that seems to be a similar translation

Nautanki Saala songs jukebox on Youtube

Nautanki Saala songs jukebox on Youtube part 2

Nautanki Saala Official Theatrical Trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kzcO_MgpBE

What Nautanki Saala means

Jiah Khan committed suicide

Sad news:
Actress Jiah Khan died. 
 http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/regional/tamil/news-interviews/A-R-Murugadoss-actress-commits-suicide/articleshow/20421911.cms
Jiah Khan (Nafisa Khan) (20 February 1988 – 3 June 2013), was a British-Indian actress who debuted as a chld  in 1998  in Dil Se....   She acted with Amitab Bachchan in

 Nishabd (2007) निशब्द

 http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xjei52_nishabd-part-1_shortfilms#.Ua3_XZxmN_M

with Aamir Khan in 

Ghajini (2008) गजनी

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfiCIISeIws

with Akshay Kumar in

 Housefull (2010) हॉउस फुल

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xt1zpi_hindi-movie-housefull-part-1_shortfilms#.Ua3_BZxmN_M 

Useful page

 Here's another useful page
http://www.ispeakhindi.com/

There is a vocabulary building tool and podcasts with some useful vocabulary and some delightfully random sentences.

For example, I have never had occasion to utter the following thoughts in any language. But you never know when knowing them might prove useful :)

एक हाथी ने उसे पैरों तले (under) रौंद (trampled) दिया । (Ek haathee ney use pairon taley raund diya.)  An elephant trampled him under the feet.

This might be a more common accident in India  but it's not going to happen anywhere near me.

 लाश ( dead-body) को मिट्टी ( soil) से ढक (cover) दो ।
(Laash ko mittee se dhak do.)
Cover the dead body with the soil.

If I ever have to get rid of a body on the sly I'll know what to say.

Lootera songs

Songs from Ranveer Singh's new movie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgJ8M7c4mro
(he's the guy from Band Baaja Baaraat and Ladies against Ricky Bahl)
Apparently it's a period piece and he's said to  have attended workshops to learn to emote with his eyes. 

If you understand this song you will understand at least 50 % of all the other Bollywood songs out there

I am only slightly exaggerating. This song has all the clichees and all the vocabulary that comes up over and over again in filmi love songs

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCGUz3vDiRY


Jab se tumhe main dekha sanam
Since I have seen you, my love

Meri aankhon mein tum h
You are in my eyes

Meri neendon mein tum
You are in my sleep

Mere khwaabon mein tum
You are in my dreams

Jab se tumhe main jaanaa, sanam
Since I have known you my love

Meri dhadkan mein sanam
My love is in my heartbeats

Meri saanson mein tum
You are in my breath

Meri yaadon mein tum
You are in my memories

Mere khayalon mein thi kab apsaara ya pari
When was there a fairy or angel in my dreams

Chaahat thi jiski mujhe tum to ho bilkul vahi
I wanted just this one

Jab se tumhe main chaaha sanam
Since I have loved you, my love

Mere geeton mein tum
You are in my songs

Meri baaton mein tum
You are in my talks

Meri raaton mein tum
You are in my nights 

Tum ho mohabbat meri
You are my love

tum meri deewangi
you are my madness

Mere siva ab tumhein koi bhi dekhe nahin
Now let no one see you except me

Jab se tumhe main socha sanam
Since I thought of you, my love

Meri chaahon mein tum
You are in my desires

Meri raahon mein tum
You are in my paths

Meri baahon mein tum
You are in my arms 

Aashiqui 2

Here are a couple of videos with songs from the movie Aashiqui 2. I haven't seen it but I love the soundtrack, and some of the lyrics are quite easy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjmjgsAqCqE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBeEgvmFVCA

The trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyXXgpPqe6w

Sunn Raha Hai is my favorite song  on the album.

Lyrics:
http://bollymeaning.raag.fm/search/label/Aashiqui2

http://www.bollymeaning.com/search/label/Aashiqui2

Dil ne jise apna kahaa

    दिल ने जिसे अपना कहा   

 Another day, another movie. Dil ne se jise apna kahaa is a Salman Khan starrer with Preity Zinta and Bhoumika Chawla in female lead roles. In short, it's a story about love and loss and loving again. The first hour of the movie with Preity Zinta is the best part I think. It's a very sweet love story, some might think too sweet. They're a young couple in love and really cute together.  The second part requires you to suspend some disbelief and it doesn't work as well. It's even a little creepy as it is not clear that the second woman is loved for herself and not just because a part of the first woman lives in her.

The medical parts of the story are not the least bit believable to me. I think her doctors basically killed her. She's bleeding internally and they're saying that they have to wait for the bleeding to stop before they can operate her. Whadda heck? Don't you usually operate to try and stop the internal bleeding? The way they defibrillate looks very odd as well. Let me tell you that I wouldn't let those doctors perform a heart transplant operation. But they did a great job as it left no apparent scar:

     

  

भूमिका चावला

सलमान ख़ान

प्रीति ज़िंटा

U R MY Jaan

I'm watching this movie now and one hour in I don't really like it. I think the main characters are supposed to fall madly in love in the end but I've no idea why, I don't like either one. Hoping it will get better because they talk really clearly and I like the fact that I'm able to understand them some of the time.

http://www.youtube.com/movie/u-r-my-jaan

EDIT: I've now finished watching the film although it took several attempts. I kept pausing and it didn't turn out to be much to my liking. I liked some of the camera angles and the  colorful wedding scenes visually (those are my favorites in Indian movies I think, the bride and the setting and everything is decked out so pretty) but the plot was um-hum. There's this girl who wants to be a big movie star and she travels to a big city against her parents will to attend an audition, only it got canceled and as she whines and complains a slimy agent arranges her an audition with even slimier movie producers and eventually pimps her out to a ruthless off-seas billionaire visiting India. Nothing like THAT happens, because of course she's a good girl and besides, he's got a girlfriend and she's engaged... he just flashes his money around and she gives her the talk that money does not make one happy and Indian girls are better than foreign girls which, naturally, changes his ruthless character and makes him a better person. I couldn't have guessed that it was about to happen...

 The film doesn't say whether he ever officially broke up with his girlfriend and as for her fiance, well, not to spoil anything but a word of advice to any young brides: Running off from your own wedding with a smugly gesturing billionaire without a word to your groom is just about the lousiest thing you can do to someone you agreed to marry, perhaps second only to actually marrying him and making his life living hell.

A romantic comedy does not work too well if in the end you liked the guy who got dumped a lot better.

Here's a review:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEBcVFN1kZ0 

The trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpZymP-WYuQ 

Do you think these people look like they are in love?

Yeh Dil Maange More - Superhit Comedy Hindi Stage Play

http://youtu.be/r4nk3fvy03A

This seems fun. I only understand something here and there for now since there are no subtitles.

I have become a Mohit Chauhan fan

Here's yet another Mohit Chauhan song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ujeIk5SmbM


Listening to it I understood a word here and there,  not enough to make sense of it but luckily there is a translation:

http://www.bollymeaning.com/2010/12/abhi-kuch-dino-se-lyrics-translation.html

A song from Players

http://www.bollymeaning.com/2011/11/dil-ye-beqarar-kyun-hai-tu-bata-lyrics.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y89S4bqgkSU


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jn8xA2DxpEA