Sunday, October 16, 2005

Buster loves Bollywood

Buster the Bird and I share a musical passion.
You can read all about how bird-sitting Buster became an apparently full-time occupation at the Dog Town Talk blog, located here.
This morning I discovered something new about Buster the often-irascible parakeet: He loves Bollywood film soundtracks.
I was enjoying some coffee and a Mohammed Rafi CD when I noticed some peculiar behavior from our feathered friend.
During Rafi's duets with Asha Bhosle or Lata Mangeshkar, Buster would become unusually animated. He rang his little bell with an almost religiously fanatical fervor and dragged his dangling ball toys from one end of his cage to the other while chirping along to the Hindi film sangeet.
Buster reached his Bollywood epiphany during "Yeh Ladka Hai Allah," the classic from the 1977 film "Hum Kisise Kum Naheen, in which Asha sings the first three verses before Rafi surprisingly comes in for the fourth verse. Buster went crazy. He acted as if India had just defeated Pakistan in the Cricket World Cup. It was like the Holi festival without the paint-splattered faces. Buster loves Bollywood!
You know, I'm starting to warm up to this little winged fellow.

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