Eddie Pensier writes:

If you have any old relatives (or maybe it’s you: we won’t tell) who watch the grand old movie musicals of days gone by with wistful regret, shaking their head and saying, “they just don’t make movies like this anymore”, I’ve got news for you: they do.

They’re in Hindi and Bengali, though.

I don’t seek out Bollywood movies but I watch them if they’re on TV. Not many other sorts of films revel in the sort of unself-conscious singing and dancing that were once commonplace.

Enjoy this clip of “Desi Girl” from Dostana, the first Bollywood feature filmed in the USA. It features the delectable Priyanka Chopra as well as the suave John Abraham. (Also Abhishek Bachchan, who isn’t quite so dashing to my eyes, but he must have something going for him since he’s married to Aishwarya Rai in real life.)

Somewhere in the beyond, I think Flo Ziegfeld and Vincente Minnelli are smiling and tapping their toes.