Daler Mehndi

Way back in 2000, a co-worker sent me a music video of a Indian pop singer. At the time I didn’t know it, but his name was Daler Mehndi. When I first set eyes on the awesome ‘Tunak Tunak Tun’ video, I laughed my ass off. I had to have watched that thing a hundred times just that day. Every time, laughing at the cheesiness of it all. But soon, the laughter turned to amazement. It reminded me of all the things I love about the 80′s, bright colors and good music. I started looking into other bhangra artists and I hit the mother load. I couldn’t understand a single word they were saying but damn if it didn’t kick ass.

I went from listening to Indian music to watching clips of Bollywood films. Imagine the most awesome thing you can…now times that by a million. That is how awesome the Indian entertainment industry is. I would love to live in a world where things could be solved by breaking into dance and song. Sounds like a perfect world to me.

Check out one of Daler’s music videos.

If you haven’t seen the Tunak Tunak Tun video, search any video site. It’s everywhere.

A small example of Bollywood awesome-ness. There is a movie called, Shootout At Lokhandwala. The movie has guns and a bunch of bad ass gangstas. In between popping caps in asses, they take a time out to bust into song and dance.

See, you’re never too hard for some dancing with your fellow gangstas. The Bloods and Crips should be watching this. They could learn a thing or two about real Thug Life.