Celebrity Host, Celebrated Choreographer, One-film Old Director and Established Dancer Farah Khan choreographed a dance performance for Shakira in the MTV Awards recently.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQgzO6StnJ0
The performance starts with a few Bharat Natyam poses. There are two stooges behind Shakira, and all three then get into a few, what-is-supposed-to-be-picturesque, steps and then she grabs the microphone to resume her normal belly shaking flavor of dancing in tune with her very popular number, “Hips Don’t Lie”. While the performers behind, switch from Bharat Natyam to Belly Dancing and back to Bharat Natyam and then back to Belly Dancing.

Farah Khan (I never did like her style of dancing too much anyway) has erased whatever little bit respect she had from the minds of any dancer. Any Bharat Natyam dancer or a Latin Ballroom dancer can point out the smallest of mistakes and crimes(for the lack of a better word) that Khan has committed by choreographing this song.
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One of my earliest write up ponders the importance of being careful in life. Some of you liked it, some criticized and some others added more to it.

Now let me tell you.

The Saturday brought enough crowds to the Infinity Mall. After a small shopping, I came out and stood in the bus stop just opposite to it. I had to go to Santacruz.

The two girls standing in front of me were quite modish, though they reflected a kind of haziness somewhere, somehow.
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Mumbai Yellow and Blacks lining up outside Mumbai Central in the eveninig.

For previous Taxi Musings read OYE Taxi !!

Two friends – Bombaywallah & Mumbaikar – discuss BMC’s claim that 42,914 potholes have already been filled after the rains, and only 133 remain (TOI).

Mumbaikar: The BMC claims that, by the September 1 high court deadline for making Mumbai pothole-free, they have filled all but 133 potholes in the city.

Bombaywallah: And how many have they filled? 13?

Mumbaikar: Actually, they claim that they have filled almost 43,000.

Bombaywallah: Ever since independence?

Mumbaikar: No, baba! After the rains.

Bombaywallah: So, they are saying that they have completed more than 99% of the work! And what did the high court say?

Mumbaikar: The high court told them that more hard work was needed and gave them another week to finish off the remaining work.

My car was stuck just next to theirs in an interminable traffic jam a few kilometers before the Express Highway to Pune. After a few minutes of stoic silence, just as I finished my cigarette and rolled up my car window, I overheard them again.

Mumbaikar: But this isn’t really Mumbai, you know, and maybe, they are starting from the city centre and moving out. Maybe these are the last hundred odd potholes left in Mumbai.

Bombaywallah: Or maybe, since there is no road here, only potholes, they have counted this entire stretch as one Absolut Pothole.

Read the other entries in the series here: (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8).