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Today's video is of the song Bardaasht from one of my favourite Bollywood films Humraaz . It's about couple Karan ( Akshaye Khanna ) and Priya ( Amisha Patel ) who are in a dance troupe/band (I thought they were more of a dance troupe but I don't know!). They get a job performing on a cruise ship, which is owned by rich businessman Raj Singhania ( Bobby Deol ). Raj falls in love with Priya and Karan sees an opportunity to make money by having Priya marry Raj and then later divorce him to get his money. But Priya starts to fall in love with Raj.  It's supposed to be like the Hollywood film  A Perfect Murder but I haven't seen that, so don't know how similar it is. The video is from a performance scene on the ship. For another Amisha video, see my Tollywood video post: Narasimhudu- Krishna Murariki

It's American rapper Ja Rule 's 36th birthday today (he was born on a leap year), so I thought I'd post one of his videos. Here is Livin' It Up featuring Case , which was released in 2001 and is from his Pain Is Love album.

Takeshi's Castle was a Japanese gameshow that was on TV in Japan in the 80s. It was based around Count Takeshi (Japanese actor/director Takeshi Kitano ) who lived in a castle and the aim of the show was for contestants to beat the challenges Count Takeshi set and defeat him by "storming the castle". The challenges were silly but also quite hard and by the end of the game there weren't often that many contestants left. It seemed to be very rare for players to beat Takeshi! Takeshi's Castle is the British version of the show (featuring certain games). There is also an American version, MXC (Most Extreme Elimination Challenge) which they sometimes show on British TV and various others around the world. This post is based on the British version, which is narrated by actor Craig Charles. It ended in 2004 (although it was brought back in 2009 but according to Wikipedia they had just changed the opening sequence) but they currently show repeats on the TV channel Challeng...

Here is another piece of music by Czech violinist Ivo Sedlacek. At 16 and a half minutes it's longer than the other one I posted Colour Of The Leaves but if you'd liked that, you'll probably like this one as well. :) Ivo Sedlack- Dance of Autumn Lights

Here's a peformance by Amar Gamal. She's another former Bellydance Superstar, who also co-founded a troupe called Bellyqueen along with fellow dancers Kaeshi Chai and Jenna. She's now a long distance member of the troupe. In this video she's dancing with Isis wings. Amar Gamal For more info about Amar visit her Wikipedia page:  Amar Gamal Wikipedia I'm not sure how accurate it is but gives some information. Also visit Bellyqueen's site:  Bellyqueen

Today's video is another Tollywood (the Telugu language South Indian film industry) one. It's a song called Krishna Murariki from the film Narasimhudu, starring JR NTR , Amisha Patel and Sameera Reddy . Amisha is a well-known Bollywood actress, but she sometimes acts in South Indian films too and Sameera has also acted in Bollywood. Narasimhudu (which according to Wikipedia is a remake of Kannada language film Durgi) is about an orphan called Narasimhudu (NTR) who is adopted by some villagers who help raise him. Then when two villagers rape a young girl, the adult Narasimhudu avenges her. This video is nothing to do with that though, it's a dance scene. Update 2- 26/8/23: I've replaced the video again but it still freezes towards the end! Update 14/8/13: This freezes towards the end. I think the first video I posted here got removed by YouTube. You can watch another version here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp-E_CY4acM  I won't post it on my blog yet be...

This one isn't a music video really, just pictures put to music. The piece of music is called Colour Of The Leaves and it's by Czech violinist Ivo Sedlacek . His music tends to be quite long (this piece is about 14 minutes) but it's beautiful and worth listening to if you're into classical/violin music or just open to different types. It's not the sort of stuff I usually listen to but I like it. Hope you enjoy it! :) Update 25/8/17: The video I first linked to is now gone from YouTube but you can listen to a sample of the song here:  Colour Of The Leaves sample Sorry about that, it's a shame! I'll update if I find a new video or longer sample in future. :)