Bollywood Living

Tonight I went to a Bollywood Concert in Liverpool.  My dad and I were the only non-Indians, having ventured out on a whim after a colleague of my dad's offered him free tickets.  Mostly the night was filled with ear-splittingly loud Hindi pop (although effectively sung by an Indian Pop Idol finalist), badly executed choreography (the male dancers were so skinny they failed to lift up the Bollywood stars - twice), and an amateur Hindi singer who sang his lyrics from off a notepad.  It was fun entering into a completely different world for the night (although my dad's colleague kept trying to apologise for the quality of the show, and promised that the shows he was interested in bringing over were actually of good quality).  However, the best part of the night wasn't even part of the show itself, and kept me going for a good half hour more than I intended it to -

Laughter must be contagious.  Even though I couldn't understand anything the stand up comic was saying, his facial expressions and body language were so engaged I had a pretty good idea of what he was getting at.  The funnest part of the night, however, was watching the audience react to his jokes.  There's something so joyful about watching other people practically rolling in the aisles with laughter at something which obviously must be funny.  I could have watched them all day.  When (I think) the  comedian made a joke about Fijian Indians and the length of their ------, the four IT guys behind me barely started pissing themselves before I lost it too.  At that moment, I felt like something had been exchanged through the language barrier.  A fun, funny night.



Indian comedian Jimmy Moses, who was the hilarious, non-English speaking comic at the Bollywood evening.  Even the booming laughter of the judge in this video makes me want to giggle.