Hail Mogambo

Special birthday dedication to one of Indian Cinema's icons. There was and always will be one Amrish Puri. LOTD pays homage to one of his most famous villainous portrayals as Mogambo, the maniacal warlord seeking to spread terror in India. Why Shekhar Kapur moved on to make drab films like Elizabeth is beyond me.

Batata Vada

Film: Hifazat .. Starring Madhuri Dixit and Anil Kapoor in some weird bhaang-induced hallucination. It hardly makes any sense why they'd dream about batata vada when high, but then again sensibility is hardly a qualifying criteria for being an LOTD ... Enjoy ..

The LOTD Film

There comes a time when one must acknowledge genius. Genius is often never recognized in its own time and so is the case with Mehul Kumar who gave us the very first certified full length LOTD feature film. TIRANGAA released in 1992 may not have exactly set the box office on fire, but gave us gems like Rajkumar as Brrrrrigadierrrrrrrrr Surrrrrrrrryadev Singh, Nana Patekar as Shivajirao Wagle (of "Maratha maarta hai yaa martaa hai" fame) and of course the matchless peerless Deepak Shirke as ... wait for it ... Pralaynath Gundaswamy. LOTD salutes this epic classic and dedicates this whole week so that you can see the entire film on the link below.

http://www.onlinemovie4u.net/2009/11/tirangaa-1992.html

And the mandatory snippet is here as well. Nana Patekar goes on a passionate monologue while our Jaanbaaz Brigadier leaves this gem of a dialogue " Ye commando bada hi khatarnak hotaa hai Gendaaswamy,Ye tumhara baap hai ... Patta hilne se pehle hi Pedh kaat daalta hai .." ROTFL

Comic Partnership - Made in Heaven

When David Dhawan meets Govinda, absolute magic is created on screen. Shola Aur Shabnam marked the beginning of this revered partnership. Request you to spare 13 mins of your time and watch both the clips. Hilarious would hardly do justice as an adjective to this scene.

Date upon date upon date upon date for the 2.5 Kilogram Hand

Film: Damini. Made an absolute legend out of Sunny Deol. Firstly for his court scene where he leaves a heavy duty monologue and then of course for the "Dhai kilo haath" line. Think Amrish Puri's eyeballs were ready to depart from their sockets when he heard this line. God bless the elder Deol scion.

Daaaiiii Bolaaa !!! Tum Aana Gaana, Gaana

Iconic ... 'Nuff said ... Enjoy ...

United Criminals Conference

Film's name: Elaan E Jung ...Two part LOTD ... Sadashiv Amrapurkar as Nag is priceless ... Goes to great lengths to explain how he would inject venom into his own father ... And the United Nations like conference is too brilliant for words ... Such an organized and well behaved forum of criminals the world will never see... And for some odd reason he squeals a certain portly Mumbai off spinner's name towards the end ... Go figure ... Did he say, "Powar is everything in the world??"

Second clip we see the mystery of the flying skeleton being solved ... An automated assembly line for removing all the skin and flesh and leaving your bones for a kindergarten display ... Imperious !!!

Karate

You have to hand it to Bappi Lahiri ... He can get away with the most ludicrous of lyrics and then start grooving about the IPL ... Only Mithun would dare to star in a film titled Karate based on the martial art and get away without knowing one move ... Legends are created thus ...

Jai Bajrang Bali

The original Ironman of India stops a plane about to take off with a rope and little help from an iron pole ... And a lot of assistance from Hanuman ...

Leg Split

Serving up the legendary Leg Splitting, Bike Balancing stunt from Phool Aur Kaante ... When you make your big screen debut in this fashion it sort of defines what you are identified with for the rest of your life ... Such remarkable stunts help erase the fact that the debutant in question is uglier than a crow ... If I was one of the extras he was blowing kisses to, I'd charge double the usual fees .... Cannot stomach the fact that he wont be doing such roles again .. Comedies and family films .. What is the world coming to !!! Sheesh !!

LOTD Faceoff

There was this time back in the nineties when AR Rehman was an unheard entity for a Hindi film viewer... First came Roja followed by Kaadalan and its dubbed version Humse Hai Muqabla... The rest as they say is history... What I have lined up today instead is a double header of the same song in different languages... First up is the Indian Michael Jackson, Prabhu Deva, doing an item number in Gentleman ... And his chief competitor for today, Praja Rajyam President Chiranjeevi in the Hindi remake of Gentleman ... Somehow I'm surprised no one told Chiru that he can't dance (not quite like Prabhu Deva anyways)... But I guess ability was never a qualifying criteria ... I personally like the cheesy CG with the yellow hearts and yellow arrows cleaning the female's ears...
Upto you folks to decide Praja Rajyam or Prabhu Devam ?? Voting lines are open .. The lucky winner gets a DVD of the Best of LOTD to be released in 2025...

When eyebrows attack

WHAT A DEBUT ... I live for such films and such songs ... And die trying to finding them ... Previously featured was another song from the same film, Prem Qaidi ... Please enjoy folks ... :-)

Your Templar Red Dot

Call it an exercise in finding your roots ... This blogger hails from Odisha and strangely enough never thought for finding an LOTD worthy clip from here ... Trust me you don't need to know what the lyrics mean ... The choreography and the over-expressive eyes will make your day ... Let me know if you want more from here ....

Telugu Lava

Someone tried to do a Benny Lava on Chiranjeevi, no less ... If you ignore the lack of coherence of the lyrics that appear as subtitles, then you'll probably enjoy it ... Praja Rajyam couldn't have asked for anything better ... Those who can't quite see the entertainment value you are just "Sacks of Meat-aaaa" !!

Super Dancer - Naachenge Naachenge

The distinct twang of Bappi Lahiri meets the equally distinct "jhatkaas" of Mithun-daa ... Somewhere behind the drum is Shakti Kapoor headbanging as if he were at the front row of a Slipknot concert ... Think he realized he needs to reinvent himself to get screen time, after this abysmal headbanging performance .. And as a bonus there's Smita Patil (correct me if I'm wrong) screaming Super Dancer ...

How to Stop a Plane

Probably all of you are aware of Bala Krishna moving entire trains on the back of one prayer .. Watch him de-wheel a moving plane with bullets .. Strong !!!! And there's also some retard trying his hand at Hindi ... Yeeediot if Bala Krishna knew Hindi, then Rajinikanth would've never had a chance in Bollywwod ...

Maa Kasam .. What catching

Stunning to say the least ... Dharam is god awesome !!! A true IRON MAN

DO IT LIKE THE NAXAL

Well after a prolonged absence its back ... Apologies for not updating this blog ... But after repeated requests from a small but dedicated band of followers its time for Season 2 ... Feast your eyes on the original Bengali Disco Dancer ... Some strange Martial arts form which combines break dance with some good ol' Dishoom Dishoom ...Film's name : Waqt Ki Awaaz ...