DesiLassi

Taaza DesiLassi... Malai Marke !!

2007-07-17T12:33:00.000-07:00

My Dear DesiLassi Fans,

Let’s start with a confession: “We have been lazy when it comes to updating our blog!” But hey, you can’t say the same when it comes to updating our website; I am sure all of you have noticed the stylish new look and all the exciting new content and features that we have added to our much loved DesiLassi over the past 3 months.

Here are some of the latest attractions:

1) Revamped Website: We have given DesiLassi a facelift with a brand new user -interface and a whole range of exciting new sections and features. You really have to experience this to understand why we are bragging so much… Click here to check it out and then let us know what you think.

2) 8 more Indian Languages: DesiLassi has now moved a step further from providing only Hindi movies’ songs & lyrics to content in 8 more Indian languages. I think we will show off a little bit here and enumerate all the languages we have now:

1.Hindi
2.Tamil
3.Telugu
4.Malayalam
5.Kannada
6.Gujarati
7.Bengali
8.Punjabi
9.Oriya

Just a quick note: Since we have just begun adding content in the above listed languages, lyrics’ files for some songs might not be available but we are working to make everything available for you in the coming weeks. All you have to do is stay-tuned at DesiLassi!! You will also notice a vast majority of the songs will be only 30 secs in length. Well, it’s because we don’t have the copyrights for the same as yet. But as and when we receive them, we will replace the 30 sec clips with full songs :)

3) Add as favorites: Nothing like having all your favorite songs separate and play them whenever you want without having to look for them again… so based on popular demand, we have added this option to all the songs, trailers, promos and albums at DesiLassi. So now just click the “heart” icon to add the particular song to your favorites list.

4) Playlist: Another feature which was requested by many is to simply choose multiple videos then have them playing one after the other. You will be happy to note we have implemented this feature too. So just choose your videos, stretch your legs, lean back and enjoy them playing one by one just for you!

As usual there are many other features we have added but I will let your inquisitive self to find them! And in parting let me say… step into www.DesiLassi.com and be ready to enjoy a whole new DesiLassi experience…

March Mirch Masala !!

2007-03-09T01:50:00.000-08:00

Dear DesiLassi Fans,

With the coming of March, we know we are in for a very hot season in India ! And DesiLassi is going to crank up the temperature too, so be ready for the hottest summer ever ;-) Here are the latest goodies we bring your way:

The first thing you will notice, if you are a regular DesiLassi visitor, is that we have redesigned the main page. Earlier, it had only songs and you had the same songs loading again and again. Though we kept adding new content all the time, our index page was pretty much the same! Now, following the public demand, we have given it a makeover. Instead of only songs you’ll find sizzling trailers and promos on our home page. And all of this changes each time you refresh the page !

And here are the new trailers we have added:

Water (Deepa Mehta, John Abraham, Seema Biswas, Lisa Ray)
Black Friday (Anurag Kashyap)
Ghost Rider (Nicholas CageEva Mendes)

And here are the new previews we are offering exclusively to DesiLassi fans :

Pray for me brother (A. R. Rahman & Blaze)
Asha & Friends (Asha Bhonsle & Urmila Matondkar)
Par Langah (Simon Nandhara)
Tum Chalo (India Poised)
Sakura
Tanhai
Amaan Ayan

Hmm... just in case you guys are wondering why I am not unleashinany secrets like the one one I did last time, about what is in the pipeline on DesiLassi,… well its to keep the suspense. But now that we have reached the end of the post let me reveal atleast something:

We will be adding more than 500 lyrics from popular old and new film songs in the next couple of weeks on DesiLassi !!

So spread the word and visit DesiLassi often...

Valentine masala at DesiLassi !!

2007-02-20T06:00:00.000-08:00

Dear DesiLassi Fans,

Its exactly two weeks since I declared this Blog to be alive (and promised some biweekly masala!) and to keep up with my promise, here I am (in phata poster nikla hero style ;-)! I will reveal some of the latest happenings at DesiLassi.

If you chanced upon our website a couple of days before Valentine’s Day, you would have found that we had (and still have) a link on the right hand corner of our website called “Send Valentine video cards”. Clicking on this link sweeps you away from the familiar orange and green surroundings of DesiLassi and takes you to one very very rosy (in other words a super romantic) corner of DesiLassi. This is our way of supporting people in love (half the world is in love, the other half is single and jealous of the other half!). So, lovers young and old, flock to this section and send your better half some video cards. They are romantic, charming, unique and most importantly FREE (he heee… yes, I love that word too!). And hey, did I mention that you can write a personal message too with this video card ?!

DesiLassi Secret1: We plan to have such video cards for all occasions. So remember to check on DesiLassi for all those special moments like Friendship Day, Father’s Day, Mother’s Day, Teacher’s Day etc…

DesiLassi Secret 2: Looking at the success of the two sections (Polls and Bollywood Masala), we have decided to update those sections twice every week! So, visit DesiLassi often and participate ekdam dilse in our Polls and read our Bollywood Masala and increase your Bollywood Gyaan…

So till the next update… enjoy!

Ps- You are also encouraged to comment on this blog and post your own poll idea or Bollywood Trivia.

NO! This blog is not dead !

2007-02-05T01:21:00.000-08:00

Dear Readers,

In case some of you have made repeated trips to this blog and have been frustrated by the complete lack of activity for the past two months... my deepest apologies. While we have been regularly updating the www.DesiLassi.com websites daily, we have not been as proactive in updating our blog. But well, I am back and I assure you, I will be keeping this blog trotting at the speed of the DesiLassi website (or may be sometimes faster ;-)

Since this website is the official blog of DesiLassi I am obliged to say what we have been upto, though I would rather spend the time rambling on what "I" have been up to (went to Kolkata for a few days to attend my best friend's wedding... the wedding was good fun and so were the sweets and the pretty women... I had a secret something, with a secret someone... but it can't be posted here... he hee... sorry ;-) .

Well, getting back to DesiLassi we have added the following features in the past 2 months:

1) New look & feel Yes, we have given DesiLassi a brand new skin, a new look and feel! Check it out and send us your comments

2) A weekly Bollywood poll (the current question is: who is the hottest male actor in Bollywood?) So ladies come in and vote for your heart-throbs! Poor Salman and Aamir are falling way behind Hrithik, while SRK is leading the race by 15 votes...

3) Bollywood Masala is another new addition. It show cases the latest drama, news and masala in Bollywood. So who is on our Masala list this week? Who else but Shilpa Shetty for winning the Big Brother show and for facing racism with steely resolve... check out the full story at www.DesiLassi.com

We have added many other nuggets but what fun would it be if I talked about them all here...right? Check the website and dive deep and discover for yourself all the little treasures we are sending your way... have fun, be proud to be Desi and have loads of Lassi (summer is just a few weeks away)

Till my next post... happy surfing...

A different subtitling!

2006-11-22T00:48:00.000-08:00

That we at PlanetRead (the same team behind DesiLassi) have been successfully employing SLS(Same Language Subtitling) on filmsongs in India to promote literacy and provide reading practice is well documented in both the national and the international media. Listen to the recent podcast of our President Dr. Brij Kothari on the well-known The Kamla Bhatt Show.

But then, what about a different kind of subtitling our beloved Bollywood follows? Remember 1942? Oh, most of us weren't even born then you'd say. But do you remember 1942- A Love Story? Of course, you would. It is this subtitling that I'm referring to. Think for a while and you'll be flooded with instances of Bollywood films adopting such subtitles. Why do they do that? One never really knows. Maybe that our films lack humour and the makers of these want to provide us with that by adoptng such funny subtittles.

Shakthi- The Power, Bose - The Forgotten Hero, Tarzan - The Wondercar, Meenaxi - The tale of three cities are perhaps the first ones that come to my mind. Can you think of some? Wait, maybe we can run a small contest here.

1. We'll collect entries till the 1st of December. Submit your entries by commenting on this post.
2. We're running this contest for two categories, one for most entries submitted and another for the most funny subtitles. Now who decides which ones are funny? It is you, the viewer. We'll put up a list of entries soon and let you decide the winners!

Here are my entries,

1. Mr. 100% - The Real Player
2. Nigehbaan - The Third Eye
3. Family - Ties of Blood
4. Tathaastu - So be it.
5. Iqraar - by chance
6. Jackpot - The money game
7. Tumse Milke- wrong number
8. Rafta Rafta - the speed
9. Classic - dance of love
10. Lakeer - forbidden lines
11. Banaras - a msytic love story
12. Rehguzar - the road to destiny
13. Lucky - no time for love

Ok, I'll stop at 13. The unlucky number!

PS. I'm not making these up. Infact, I've watched some of them myself. Perhaps enjoyed their titles. That is all.

What Desi? What Lassi?

2006-11-14T10:30:00.002-08:00

Hello!

Caveat: Don't read any further. You'll get bored.

Welcome to DesiLassi! (Oh how much I wish I had those wonderful 'prayer' videos which appear at the begining of every movie! No wait, maybe we can get those videos for you on DesiLassi

We're sure you've enjoyed the 'trial' post. It wasn't really 'trying' for Nirav to write that post, but then he 'tried', maybe that is why he called it the 'trial' post.

Bad jokes aside(and you'll see many more of these in the coming posts) , this blog is an attempt to provide you with some more juice(lassi did we say?!) on the happenings at DesiLassi , our efforts in bringing Bollywood closer to you, and over a period of time provide you with a complete desi feeling.

Now for the questions - why the name DesiLassi? When we wondered ourselves about the reasons behind naming our entertainment venture DesiLassi, we realized that there could never be a tastier American Lassi or a Swiss Lassi, or for that matter a Hungarian Lassi. Lassi evokes that special desi feeling in us , and Bollywood definitely quenches our thirst for entertainment. So when you put one and one together, you get eleven and the name DesiLassi. One and one eleven? Don't believe us? This is what Govinda and Sanjay Dutt have to say. In fact, I didn't know that the movie had the punchline - by hook or by crook. You can definitely look forward to discover more trivia like this one on this blog and on DesiLassi. Entertaining you is of 'paramount' importance to us. By hook or by crook? Not at all, we've obtained the rights to the videos on DesiLassi and we are yaabsolootley legal.

As of now we have about nearly sixty videos online which we're sure you'll love to watch. More content, more features are definitely in the pipeline, provided the water supply department clears those pipes. The coming posts will elaborate on the features on DesiLassi, our aims, our team and contain some more bad jokes. But then I'm not the one to be blamed for the bad jokes, because I work for DesiLassi and DesiLassi is based on Bollywood content. So while Bollywood gets inspired by Hollywood and other woods, I get inspired by Bollywood!

PS. Don't blame me. I already told you this was going to be a very boring post. Instead enjoy the videos on DesiLassi!

Trial post

2006-11-14T03:01:00.001-08:00

Trial post !