Home › Blogs › Sam's blog

World peace through superior dancing and Bengali singing

Posted July 8th, 2008 by Sam
in

There are no weekend box office charts for online videos. But if there were, near or at the very top of the list right now might well be a four-and-a-half-minute video called “Dancing,” which more than four million people have viewed on YouTube, and perhaps another million on other sites, in the just over two weeks since it appeared. It’s the online equivalent of a platinum hit, seeping from one computer to the next like a virus.


Video here


Story here

Comments

Dancing is

On July 8th, 2008 GustavoMustafa says:

Dancing is Haraam!


Hahahahahaha, but one of my favorite forms of Muslim dance is the North Indian kathak.


I watch too much Bollywood.


I like the story of Umrao Jaan. Based on an Urdu novel, the original Bollywood classic is great.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=265MmBcFPQM


Funny, Afghans love Indian popular culture. After the fall of the Taliban in Oct 2001, the exhibition of Indian films resumed.


The Pakistani extremists and Pushtun extremists would be flabbergasted.


They banned kite flying, they banned the observance of Noruz, and wrestling/body building for men. Apparently, contact sports for men is homoerotic.

Hilarious! I’m not

On July 8th, 2008 Sam says:

Hilarious!


I’m not stimulated by this dancing, nor incited to evil, my “mustang mind” does not run free, I’m not suddenly “wild at heart” with surging testosterone, so I’m cool with the fiqh on this one.


When I want any of that, I go fly a kite! Oh wait…


I’ll go watch Umrao Jaan instead. Oh wait…


...too late.


More Umrao Jaan please…


Another American Bollywood fan is born!

Be careful! With watching

On July 9th, 2008 GustavoMustafa says:

Be careful!


With watching Bollywood, you will be quite acquainted with Hindu folklore, since it serves as the basis for many films.


Umrao Jaan is a “Muslim film” since the story recounts the life of a girl raised as a courtesan, who seeks a normal life, and set in the sumptuous Shia Muslim court of Lucknow.

I’ve been exposed to so

On July 9th, 2008 Sam says:

I’ve been exposed to so much comparative religion stuff, not to mention a little weirdo culty stuff since I was born and raise in and around Berkeley, CA; yet here I am a muslim. A little Hindu folklore is not going to rock my world. Just ‘cause some fiqh jurist can’t trust himself not to lose the faith at the drop of a hat, doesn’t mean the rest of the Ummah has to be held to his standard of weakness…


I’ve found that there are some Bollywood films I really love, but I’ve lost my access to inside tips since I divorced my South Asian wife. Got any tips on good Bollywood flicks for an interested but naive white fanboy?

Back to top