{"id":3999,"date":"2006-11-30T23:53:09","date_gmt":"2006-12-01T04:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=3999"},"modified":"2006-12-01T05:23:22","modified_gmt":"2006-12-01T10:23:22","slug":"maximum_fugly_n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/30\/maximum_fugly_n\/","title":{"rendered":"Maximum Fugly: Nach Baliye 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think we can all agree that there&#8217;s enough <a href=\"http:\/\/bollywoodfugly.blogspot.com\">Fugly<\/a> to go around. Here&#8217;s one I spotted (and indeed, uploaded) myself:<\/p>\n\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/FiJGuYpWJ_A\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/FiJGuYpWJ_A\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n\n<p>Gotta love them back-up dancers! This clip is from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nach_Baliye\">Nach Baliye 2<\/a>, a popular dance reality TV show on the Star One channel. The contestants aren&#8217;t actual amateurs, but professional TV actors who are taking a stab at dancing. Also, they&#8217;re all married (and most weeks, the married couples dance only with each other). Finally, every show features gratuitous brown-nosing of the star judges, including especially <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saroj_Khan\">Saroj Khan<\/a>. In short, it&#8217;s &#8220;Dancing With the Stars,&#8221; only much more conservative and twice as cheesy.<\/p>\n\n<p>(Forgive the low quality of the video; a higher quality version can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zshare.net\/video\/intro-wmv-ps5.html\">here<\/a>, though you&#8217;ll have to sit through some introductory stuff. More recommended dance snips from this week&#8217;s show: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zshare.net\/video\/tanaaz-wmv.html\">Tanaaz<\/a>, as Kali; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zshare.net\/video\/bakhtyaar-wmv.html\">Bakhtyaar<\/a>, with kiddies; and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zshare.net\/video\/hussain-wmv.html\">Husain<\/a>, rocking the Hrithik Roshan moves to a <s>Daler Mehndi<\/s> Sukhbir tune.) <!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think we can all agree that there&#8217;s enough Fugly to go around. Here&#8217;s one I spotted (and indeed, uploaded) myself: Gotta love them back-up dancers! This clip is from Nach Baliye 2, a popular dance reality TV show on &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/30\/maximum_fugly_n\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3999"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}