This video was sent to us by a reader. I found this video to be hilarious. Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are one of Curry Bear’s biggest heroes. Which does not say much because so are Batman, Megatron, and The Power Puff Girls. Stephen Colbert pokes fun at the idea of Obama being Hindu. Check out this video and let us know what you think.
Special thanks to Adil for sending me this clip. May all your cokes be cherry lime and may all your hats be fitted.
I wrote an article the other day about the DGG a.k.a the Desi Guilt Gene. This gene is a genetic mutation in our DNA that gives us a sense of guilt, responsibility, and/or obligation towards our culture and parents. Sometimes I wish I could just be like every other white American kid. But then a video like this comes along and makes me so grateful that I have the Desi Guilt Gene and our Desi culture to keep us in check. Curry Bear may be a badass (hence the eyepatch), but there are some things you just don’t do. This is one of them. If I had a choice between the Desi Guilt Gene and being this kid, I would rather live at home, marry a girl of my moms choosing and stand there with an annoyed look on my face as my mom bargains for an hour for a sari in Bombay that would equate to only 2 American dollars.
PS: Happy 4th of July everyone!
Curry Bear feels bad for making fun of Muslims two days in a row. It is not that I feel bad for making fun of Muslims, because that part is awesome. I feel bad for being repetitive. However, this ad showed up on the right side of our banner on Google ads. When one of our readers, Sam Fisher, clicked on it he saw this and sent it to us. I just had to post it. This is so awesome. It looks like an Afghani High School Year Book.
PS: Don’t jihad me bro, don’t jihad me.
Warning: This comic is in no way intended to offend anyone. Curry Bear respects all religions, but that does not mean they are excluded to be made fun of. Curry Bear makes fun of everyone and everything. People who are offended have too much pride and if you are indeed a religious person, you would know that hubris is a sin in nearly all religions. The only virtue that can counter hubris is humility. Humor is a form of humility. So enjoy the comic and please don’t jihad me.
Curry Bear has been hearing rumors that a new desi dance team is forming. No, this team is not being formed in the fires of Mount Doom. This team is being formed right here on the East Coast. This team will consist of 12-14 members from the tri-state area who were once part of a collegiate team. These college alumni will join forces to create a fusion team previously undefined by the South Asian dance scene. That’s right bitches - this team will be so undefined it’s a variable! (If you don’t get that then you suck at math and life.)
In Fall 2008, they will be launching a new dance team - AATMA. I don’t know what it stands for. Perhaps it’s “Anime Anonymous & Tourettes Management Association”. Current members include former choreographer of Drexel Jhalak (ohh so sexy), Rutgers SAPA (My Hometown Homies), TCNJ Saathiya (Most Creative Team Ever!), NYU Raas Malai (my favorite sweet dish?), and Mandy Moore…I mean many more. The purpose and formation of this team is to perform at concerts, events, and travel to different parts of the West Coast to compete on behalf of the East Coast teams. Ohh baby I smell an East Coast/West Coast rivalry going down! If anyone from Penn State Dishoom gets shot five times outside of a Film Fare Award show, I will change my name to 2Pac ShaCurry or The Notorious CB.
Out of the thousands of daily readers on the site, many of them are dance members. Well, at least all the ones who added me on Facebook are. I’ve decided to help them in making an awesome team by making this post. They have 6 open spots left and I want those spots to be filled with the best dancers and not just someone who happens to know the right people. I want this team to be awesome because I want a team with the best talent. In fact, I want this team to be so amazing that it will bring attention to our culture and our scene. I want to see this team be good enough to be on America’s Best Dance Crew, America’s Got Talent, and America’s Next Top Model!
The team seems to distinguish itself from others simply by the fact that it is bringing together the best of the best dancers on the east coast. With this combined talent, they plan to travel throughout the world and take over the Indian dance scene. It’s a lot like how Christian Bale traveled the world to seek the means to fight injustice in Batman Begins. Hell, I think they should rename it “AATMA BEGINS”. It’s going to be something we all have to see to believe.
Auditions will probably be held by the end of July, so if you think you have what it takes, get on the website and send them an email ASAP.
So calling all you Desi B-Boyz, B-Girlz, Bhangra fanatics, Dandiya demented, and Hrithik Roshan wannabes! Check out this website and contact these people! This may be a chance for a lot of you to be a part of something. Something bigger than you and your college debt! A chance to represent to the world what we are all about. That Desi people can dance! For others, it’ll be a chance to win back their parents love, because everyone knows that parents only love their child if he or she is a basketball player or an actor.
The current website (until the team has been established) is www.aatmadance.com.
To get on the mailing list, they can email info@aatmadance.com
Here is a video I came across on YouTube. It’s a PSA against domestic violence but man was their approach for this video wrong! Domestic Violence is a serious issue, especially for Desi people. This is why I feel so guilty for finding this commercial funny and disturbing. Note that I said I find the commercial funny and not the act of abuse itself, mostly because of the horrible acting. Luckily there is a very good charity out there for domestic abuse called SAKHI. I first heard about them at the IND Hangama show that Curry Bear helped promote and reviewed last year.
According to their website…
Sakhi for South Asian Women is a community-based organization in the New York metropolitan area committed to ending violence against women of South Asian origin. Recognizing oppression based on class, immigration status, religion, and sexual orientation, they work to empower women, particularly survivors of domestic violence. Sakhi strives to create a voice and safe environment for all South Asian women through outreach, advocacy, leadership development, and organizing. Please donate and spread the word.
It’s been a while since Curry Bear has done a desi movie review. Truth be told, there was nothing worth watching in theaters for a while. As some of you may have learned by now, Curry Bear is a big fan of Indian gangster flicks. In Curry Bear’s awesome book, there are very few Bollywood gangster movies that are well made. Company, Satya, D, Sarkar and Shootout at Lokhandwala are some of my all time top favorites. Nearly all of them are produced/directed by one man - Ram Gopal Varma (or RGV as I like to call him cause he’s my homeboy). In 2005, RGV released an awesome gangster/political thriller of a movie called Sarkar. Three years later, RGV released the sequel Sarkar Raj. Did Curry Bear like Sarkar Raj as much as he liked the first one?
Let me first start by saying that if you haven’t seen Sarkar, then I highly suggest you watch it. If you ever enjoyed movies like Satya or Company, then Sarkar is a movie for you. These gangster movies are not everybody’s cup of chai but it’s still great cinema. Bollywood puts out very few artistic/awesome movies and Sarkar is one of them. It may not have the glitz and glamor of a Shah Rukh Khan film, but they kick ass in everything else.
Sarkar Raj picks up a few years after the first one. Subhash Nagre (played by Amitabh “Big Daddy” Bachan) a.k.a Sarkar is relaxing and still in power in Mumbai. His son Shankar Nagre (Abhishek “I married the hottest woman in the world all thanks to Daddy” Bachan) is managing the “family business” as I like to call it. A hot, sexy executive named Anita Rajan (Aishwarya Rai) comes along with plans to build a power plant in Mumbai. She is told that if she plans to build it, she needs Sarkar’s permission to go ahead. Meanwhile Shankar has a keen interest in getting Mumbai a powerplant. Either that or he just wants to get into Ash’s pants, which he does in real life anyway. The problem arises when certain people oppose to the idea of the power plant. Soon the plot unravels and you find out what people’s real intentions are.
From what I’ve told you about the plot above, you’ve only heard about one-tenth of the movie. In terms of storyline, Sarkar Raj has a lot in store with a lot of twists and lots of people dying. It is very rare for a sequel to live up to the original (Speed 2 anyone?) but Sarkar Raj manages to do that. When you see a sequel and start questioning whether you liked the original better, then you should assume that it’s just as good if not better than the original.
In terms of acting, all three Bachans are good and so are the other characters in the film. There are very few movies I like to see Abhishek Bachan in, but in Sarkar and Sarkar Raj he is just awesome. I feel as if I can forgive Abhishek’s crappy movies just because he is so awesome in the Sarkar movies. Aishwarya Rai is just plain hot and she acts well for her role. But she is so hot that even if she were a bad actress, I don’t think I’d notice. The one actor who really stood out in this movie was Upendra Limaye, who plays Kantilal Vora, a Gujurati businessman interested in having the power plant built in Gujarat. Yes, he is a bad guy and the way he keeps singing old Bollywood songs is just amusing. I want to be a weirdo like him and scare people.
Should you watch Sarkar Raj? Well, if Curry Bear liked it, then you will too. If you don’t like this movie, then you probably don’t like babies either. I kidd, I kidd. Gangster movies aren’t for everyone, but good Bollywood movies are so rare that when a really fantastic movie comes along, you wonder why people still watch song and dance crap like Om Shanti Om. I guess it’s different strokes for different folks. So I say, if you liked Company, Satya and the original Sarkar, then definitely don’t miss out on Sarkar Raj.
I give this movie 4.5 paws out of 5. I have to cut off a pinky just because there was no Aishwarya in a bikini.
Here’s a clip from MTV Cribs of Russell Peters. Man, I did not know that making fun of brown people could make you that rich. I need to do stand up so I could make millions like him. Fuck this blog and fuck Google Ads.
I remember Dave Chapelle said that MTV Cribs sometimes pays celebrities to pretend they’re living in that house and endorse ridiculously priced items, so I can’t say for sure if it is actually Russell Peters’ house. But I got to say, if it is house (and I believe it is), this guy has it made. You all need to start clicking on more of my ads so I can afford fake $3 apples on my dining table.
Dear Curry Bear,
ive graduated college and have been working, living at home with the folks.
after watching baghban, i told myself i would always take keep my parents happy
and stay with them, but living with the folks is really driving me insane..
whats the best way for me to solve this? Do i find a new job far away tahtd
force me to move?
Dear “I watch too much Bollywood Girl”,
This is a very touchy issue for a lot of desi people. I do not recommend finding a job far away that will force you to move unless you have a place in mind that you would like to move to. A place where you have friends and a social scene would be acceptable, such as places like N.Y. or Cali. If you move far away just for the sake of moving away from your parents, you will regret it. Yes, you may enjoy the freedom but what the hell are you going to do with that freedom if you move to Smallville, Kansas? You might find a good looking farmboy to plow and roll around in the hay with, but what are you going to do after you are done milking him for all he’s worth? Will you marry him and fuck him with a kryptonite condom? No.
A better option would be to find a job that is 50 miles away or so. It’s close enough so that you can still hang out with your friends but far enough that you can find an excuse not to come home when the weather is bad, when you have to work late, or if you just want to get shit-faced at Old Bay in New Brunswick, NJ. Of course, if you work late you need a place to stay - That is when a friend would come into play. If you don’t have a good friend, then you should not be moving out because you are a loser and no one will hang out with you anyway. Now in order for this to work, you need a good friend who will let you crash at their place once in a while.
The trick to desi parents is that if you make a drastic change, they go on rants. Letting you make sudden drastic changes in your life makes them feel like they are losing control of you. Your job as a desi kid is to give your parents the illusion that they have a big influence on you and they still control you. When you crash at your friends place a few time, this will give them a chance of getting used to you not being around. Then when you bring on the change to them, they won’t object. This transition could take a few months but your parents will be ready for the change by then. If you decide to move in with the friend you are crashing with, than there is pretty much no change to make at all. Before you know it, you are free from your parents curry masala dishes, annoying Zee TV shows and constant complaining. But you are still close enough to visit them to do your laundry, cook you food, and find you a ristha (unless you would rather just marry Curry Bear).
A lot of people would say things like: Stop being a loser and just tell them. What’s the big deal? Just do it! Is six inches a respectable size? Ok, maybe they won’t ask you the last one but you get the idea. Here is the thing, 30% of the desi population have this gene. It’s called “The Desi Guilt Gene” or “DGG” for short. There are a few of us that have this unspoken guilt driven relationship with our parents. No matter how much we want to separate from them, there is a part of us that feels like they need us more than we need them. We feel like we would hurt them if we moved out and we don’t have the heart to do it. A lot of this has to do with the fact that back home in desi populated countries children usually live with their parents. Your parents were probably raised in India so therefore you feel like you are betraying your parents and your culture. Other desi kids do not have this gene and have an easy going relationship with their parents. They do not possess this gene so they just do not understand what you are going through.
My research at Awesome University has concluded that the Desi Guilt Gene, or DGG affects 3 out of every 10 desi kids. Sometimes in a family one kid will get it and the rest will not. The DGG affects people when it comes to marriage. Desi kids will be pressured into marrying whomever their parents choose because of DGG. Curry Bear scientists have been trying to find a cure for ages. Please donate to Curry Bear so we can put an end to the Desi Guilt Gene. For every comment you leave, DesiDanceTeams.com will donate a portion of their vast wealth to this cause as soon as those pretty boys stop dancing to Imran Khan songs.
This message has been brought to you by:
”Desi Guilt Gene Research Center”
Excuse me, Can I talk to you for a minute? Here is the part 2 to the video I put up a week ago. This time this guy (who is actually played by a girl) is at a fast food restaurant. Check out this video. It’s almost as funny as the last one.
