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This week's video is Find You, the latest single by Nick Jonas. As with his last single Remember I Told You, it's not from his latest album Last Year Was Complicated (released in 2016). Nick has said that the song is about the journey of finding love.

Find You came out on 14th September. It's a nice, chilled out song that goes more "dancey" on the chorus.

As I've mentioned before, quite a few Bollywood films are based on Hollywood ones. (And sometimes films from other countries as well). So for this post I'm featuring a couple of Bollywood films and the Hollywood movies they were based on. This post contains spoilers. :)


Aitraaz/Disclosure

Aitraaz (2004) is the film that inspired this post! The Bollywood film channel B4U Movies is free to air at the moment and I watched Aitraaz last night. I first saw it years ago (rented it on video from the library!). It's a remake of the 1994 film Disclosure starring Michael Douglas and Demi Moore, and since I have Disclosure saved on my Sky planner I watched it again last night as well! Aitraaz (which translates as "Objection") is also based on the real life case of American basketball player Kobe Bryant.

The film is about businessman Raj Malhotra (Akshay Kumar) who works for a mobile phone company. He is happily married to Priya (Kareena Kapoor) and they are expecting a baby. …

Today's video (or audio) is I Got Time by Bebe Rexha. It's from her new EP All Your Fault: Pt. 2. I have her first EP All Your Fault: Pt. 1 which came out in February. I don't like Pt. 2 as much but I like some songs and I Got Time is my favourite. :) I recently bought it on iTunes.

All Your Fault: Pt. 2 was released last month.

Please note that the song is explicit. :)




Listen to songs from Pt. 1 (Bebe's debut EP) here: http://starsparklex.blogspot.co.uk/2017/03/new-bebe-rexha-ep.html

I'm doing an extra post today because I'm taking part in the Writing blog linky from Carol's site Virtually All Sorts. If you have some writing you'd like to share then you can take part at the link below.  :) #WonderfulWorldofWriting


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I haven't posted any Tollywood videos for ages, so I thought I'd share one today and also a Bollywood video, since I had planned to post more about Bollywood this year!




Tollywood

First up this is Seeti Maar from the Bollywood film DJ - Duvvada Jagannadham. It's an action comedy which came out in June and is about a man called Duvvada Jagannadham (played by Allu Arjun), a Brahmin priest who moonlights as DJ,  a crime fighter in disguise (like a superhero!). He falls in love with Pooja (Pooja Hegde) who is involved with a crime boss.


This is a dance scene from the movie. The playback singers are Jaspreet Jasz and Rita.




Bollywood

And here is Piya More from the Bollywood film Baadshaho which stars Ajay Devgn, Emraan Hashmi (one of my favourite actors), Ileana D'Cruz, Esha Gupta and Vidyut Jamwal. The film is set during the Emergency time period in the mid 70s. Indian queen Gitanjali (played by Ileana who started out in Tollywood) asks her bodyguard Bhawani Singh (Ajay) to…

This week's video is GOLD by Japanese girl group Happiness. They are a group in their own right and also part of the band E-girls (currently 11 members strong) . Happiness members are Miyuu Ariiso (the leader), Sayaka Nagatomo, Karen Fuji, Kaede Dobashi, Ruri Kawamoto, Yurino Suzuiki and Anna Suda. (You will also see their names written the other way round, since in Japan the surname comes first). Former members are Mimu Hikoi and Mayu Sugieda. Miyuu (stage name is spelt MIYUU) left E-girls in June but is still a member of Happiness.

Happiness were formed in 2009 and to date have released 10 singles, including debut Kiss Me, Wish, JUICY LOVE,  Holiday, Sexy Young Beautiful, REWIND  and GOLD; and two albums, Happy Time (2012) and GIRLZ 'N EFFECT (2016). They are part of the new E.G. Family collective and linked to other E-girls spin-off groups Dream (now disbanded) and Flower. Their male counterpart is EXILE TRIBE.


GOLD is Happiness' latest singles and will be released on…