http://rogerbourland.com/blog/2007/01/29/prabhu-deva-kalluri-vanill/ Roger Bourland writes about music and life Tue, 14 Oct 2008 03:20:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.10 http://rogerbourland.com/blog/2007/01/29/prabhu-deva-kalluri-vanill/#comment-7730 Tue, 30 Jan 2007 12:34:49 +0000 http://rogerbourland.com/blog/2007/01/29/prabhu-deva-kalluri-vanill/#comment-7730 Roger -- this is pretty standard Indian film footage. Prabhu Deva (the male lead here) is the most popular Tamil movie star these days, and even here you can see more than traces of his skills in classical South Indian dance. While he has been called the "Indian Michael Jackson", it's the music video as a genre that owes more to the Indian film than the other way 'round. (If you have any doubts about MJ's own capacity for appropriation, catch Groucho Marx moonwalking in his opening number as Capt. Spaulding in "Animal Crackers" here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCvz8y_DUSY ). Roger — this is pretty standard Indian film footage. Prabhu Deva (the male lead here) is the most popular Tamil movie star these days, and even here you can see more than traces of his skills in classical South Indian dance. While he has been called the “Indian Michael Jackson”, it’s the music video as a genre that owes more to the Indian film than the other way ’round. (If you have any doubts about MJ’s own capacity for appropriation, catch Groucho Marx moonwalking in his opening number as Capt. Spaulding in “Animal Crackers” here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCvz8y_DUSY ).

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