{"id":1355,"date":"2006-12-03T10:55:38","date_gmt":"2006-12-03T14:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1355"},"modified":"2006-12-09T21:48:17","modified_gmt":"2006-12-10T01:48:17","slug":"chaiyya-chaiyya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1355","title":{"rendered":"Chaiyya, chaiyya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">A<\/span> couple <a id=\"p1353\" rel=\"attachment\" class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?attachment_id=1353\" title=\"Clive Owens and posse\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/in_side_ma_n.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Clive Owens and posse\" \/><\/a>of weeks ago, we watched Spike Lee&#8217;s 4th movie, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0454848\/\">&#8216;Inside Man&#8217;<\/a>. The movie was released <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boxofficemojo.com\/movies\/?id=insideman.htm\">earlier this year<\/a> with reasonably <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/inside_man\/\">good reviews<\/a>. Albeit a heist movie, the movie features some of Spike Lee&#8217;s trademarks, like the tension and struggle of people from different parts of the NY society and how these tensions affect the main characters. All nice and well, this is a heist movie and it should come with amazing theme music.\n<\/p>\n<p>It does, but unexpectedly, Spike Lee reached out to &#8216;Bollywood&#8217;: when the movie starts, the song <a id=\"p1354\" rel=\"attachment\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?attachment_id=1354\" title=\"Chayya, chayya\">&#8220;Chaiyya, Chaiyya&#8221;<\/a> (1 minute fragment, mp3) (from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0164538\/\">&#8216;Dil Se&#8217;<\/a>) guides viewers through the streets of New York. I heard that initial reviewers were <a href=\"http:\/\/reporter.blogs.com\/risky\/2006\/03\/inside_man_boll.html\">blown away<\/a>: Inside Man literally has nothing to do with &#8216;Dil Se&#8217;. Apparently, Spike Lee liked the music so much, he thought it needed it be in there.\n<\/p>\n<p>That said, a clip from &#8216;Dil Se&#8217; featuring that song<sup>1<\/sup> can be found on YouTube, and of course, it features the typical Bollywood elements: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hl9UQLvvQxY\">overzealous dancing and singing<\/a>, but amazing scenery shot on top of a moving train. No safety harnasses either. Hey, even Michael Jackson can&#8217;t beat this!\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"extra\"><small><strong>Update:<\/strong> Someone uploaded the whole intro of the movie of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9ZsSfWS-Zmo\">&#8216;Inside Man&#8217;<\/a>. Judge for yourself.<br \/>\n<strong><sup>1<\/sup><\/strong> Wikipedia on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chaiyya_Chaiyya\">&#8216;Chaiyya, chaiyya&#8217;<\/a><br \/>\n<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago, we watched Spike Lee&#8217;s 4th movie, &#8216;Inside Man&#8217;. The movie was released earlier this year with reasonably good reviews. Albeit a heist movie, the movie features some of Spike Lee&#8217;s trademarks, like the tension and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1355\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}