I'm a proud Brit-Bangladeshi who loves her family and friends. I'm shy but friendly, and have a passion for movies, music & books. I like people who are genuine and down-to-earth, I dislike ignorance and arrogance.
I'm a proud Brit-Bangladeshi who loves her family and friends. I'm shy but friendly, and have a passion for movies, music & books. I like people who are genuine and down-to-earth, I dislike ignorance and arrogance.
I LOVE: music and movies, my six girls -they're like sisters, socialising with friends, going to the cinema and theatre, reading books, taking photos, aerobics, working out, dancing, food, current affairs, history, blogging, watching football & cricket, playing badminton, swimming, going for walks, driving, visiting historical & cultural sites, just travelling anywhere really + anything and everything to do with Bangladesh.
BENGALI ART & CULTURE
NAZMONDO'S MOVIE CALENDAR (June-July)
** MONGOL **
6 June
** GONE BABY GONE **
-Casey Affleck, Morgan Freeman
6 June
** SARKAR RAJ **
-Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan, Aishawarya Rai
6 June
** TAXI TO THE DARK SIDE **
"in-depth look at the torture practices of the United States in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, focusing on an innocent taxi driver in Afghanistan who was tortured and killed in 2002."
13 June
** LA GRAIN ET LE MULET / THE SECRET OF THE GRAIN **
20 June
** THE ESCAPIST **
-Joseph Fiennes, Damian Lewis
20 June
** EDGE OF LOVE **
-Keira Knightly, Cillian Murphy, Sienna Miller
27 June
** WANTED **
-James McAvoy, Angelina Jolie, Morgan Freeman
27 June
** LES FEMMES DE L'OMBRE / THE FEMALE AGENTS **
-Sophie Marceau, Julie Depardieu
"In 1944, a five-woman commando unit parachutes into Nazi-occupied French territory."
27 June
** KUNG-FU PANDA **
-Jack Black, Angelina Jolie, Dustin Hoffman, Jackie Chan
4 July
** THE VISITOR **
-"A widowed college professor travels to New York City to attend a conference and finds a young couple, who turn out to be illegal immigrants, living in his apartment."
4 July
** THE FORBIDDEN KINGDOM **
-Jackie Chan, Jet Li
9 July
** MEHBOOBA **
-Sanjay Dutt, Manisha Koirala, Ajay Devgan
11 July
** WALL-E **
-18 July
** BEFORE THE RAINS **
-Nandita Das, Rahul Bose, Jennifer Ehle
"An English spice baron settles in southern India during the waining years of the British Raj."
25 July
** DARK KNIGHT **
-Christian Bale, Heath Ledger
25 July
** BUDDHA COLLAPSED OUT OF SHAME **
-Dir: Hana Makhmalbaf
"Amidst the wreckage beneath the ruined statue of the Buddha, thousands of families struggle to survive. Baktay, a six-year-old Afghan girl is challenged to go to school by her neighbour's son. Having found the money to buy a precious notebook, and taking her mother's lipstick for a pencil, Baktay sets out. On her way, she is harassed by boys playing games that mimic the terrible violence that has always surrounded them. Will Baktay get to school in time?"
25 July
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A BIT OF EVERYTHING:
Dance, Rock, RnB, Motown, Pop, Bangladeshi, Indian
+ Muse, Elvis (later stuff from the 70s), Janet Jackson, Jewel, Mary J. Blige... Sonu Nigam, Kishore Kumar... Shondha Mukherjee, Chitra Singh, Protima Bondhopaddhay... Konok Chapa, Bangla, James, Biprotip, Ayub Bachchu, Dolchut, Baby Naznin, Habib, Dilruba Khan, Samina Choudhury, Miles, Kumar Bishshojeet, Kamal Choudhury, Dolly Shayontoni, Runa Laila, Andrew Kishore...
SPECIAL SONGS:
"I Drove All Night" (Cyndi Lauper), "Piece of My Heart" (Erma Franklin), "Hedonism" (Skunk Anansie), "Enjoy The Silence" (Lacuna Coil), "Tonight Tonight" (Smashing Pumpkins), "Unfinished Sympathy" (Massive Attack), "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood (Santa Esmeralda/Kill Bill OST), "All Cried Out" (Allure feat. 112), "Turn Me On" (Kevin Lyttle), "Groovejet" (Spiller), "Passion" (Gat Decor), "Teardrops" (Womack&Womack), "Crazy" (Aerosmith), "No Good" (Prodigy), "Linger" (Cranberries), "Creep" (Radiohead), "Cosmic Girl" (Jamiroquai), "Wish I Didn't Miss U Anymore" (Angie Stone), "The Time is Now" (Moloko), "You Do Something to Me" (Paul Weller), "You Got the Love" (The Source feat. Candi Staton), "Sultans of Swing" (Dire Straits), "I'm Not In Love" (Enrique feat. Kellis), "Trouble" (Ray Lamontagne), "Hands Up/Be Without You" (Wi-fi), "Rose" (The Feeling), "Dakota" (Stereophonics)...
http://nazmondo.flixster.com
Alice In Wonderland (Disney), Angel On My Right, Atonement, Baby Boom, Bhat Dey, Blackboards, Blood Diamond, Bourne Identity/Supremacy/Ultimatum, Brick Lane, Bridget Jones's Diary, Britz, Bombay, A Bronx Tale, Carla's Song, Carlito's Way, Charlie Wilson's War, The Chess Players, City of Joy, The Colour of Paradise, The Colour Purple, The Constant Gardener, The Corporation, Corrina Corrina, Cry Freedom, Days of Glory, Dead Man Walking, The Defiant Ones, The Departed, Desh Premee, Dil Se, Dirty Dancing, East Is East, Edward Scissorhands, Fahrenheit 9/11, Fargo, Finding Nemo, Forrest Gump, Gandhi, Gangs of New York, Girl Interrupted, Glory, Grease, The Green Mile, Hairspray (1988), The Hidden Blade, Hotel Rwanda, I Am Sam, Joyjatra, Junoon, King Arthur, Kingdom of Heaven, The Kite Runner, Lady Jane, La Haine, The Last King of Scotland, The Last Samurai, Life is Beautiful, Love and Hate, The Madness of King George, Malcolm X, The Man Who Cried, Meghe Dhaka Thara, Memoirs of a Geisha, Mischief Night, The Mission, Modern Times, The Motorcycle Diaries, My Left Foot, Mystic River, Namak Halal, The Namesake, Noorie, O Brother Where Art Thou, Of Mice and Men, Omkara, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Onno Jibon, Osama, The Pianist, Pinjar, Rainman, Robin Hood (Disney), Sadma, Secrets & Lies, Sense & Sensibility, Shawshank Redemption, Shemol Chaya, Shooting Dogs, Shrek, Shurjo Dighol Bari, Silent Waters, A Soldier's Story, Some Like It Hot, This is England, A Time To Kill, Toy Story, Turtles Can Fly, The Twilight Samurai, Wallace & Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Water, Yasmin, Zara Si Zindagi...
Comedy, documentaries, drama, news, Bangladeshi satellite channels, boxing (if Amir Khan is fighting), football (especially the World Cup) and cricket (if Bangladesh are playing).
FAVE SHOWS: Frasier, Have I Got News For You, Whose Line Is It Anyway? (not the American version), The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, Strictly Come Dancing / Strictly Dance Fever, Pride and Prejudice (classic!), Goodness Gracious Me, Phoenix Nights, Question Time, the news, Dead Ringers, Bangla Bangers / Chop Shop, Peep Show, Father Ted, Will and Grace, Child of Our Time, Desmonds, The Real McCoy, Rock Profile, Spitting Image, The Muppet Show, Sesame Street, Bengali dramas (especially ones with rural settings and deal with social issues), wildlife progs...
I absolutely love books (fiction & non-fiction), particularly those with social/historical/political themes.
I've just finished reading Jeremy Seabrook's "Freedom Unfinished: Fundamentalism & Popular Resistance in Bangladesh Today". Now I've made a start on Fyodor Dostoyevsky's "Crime and Punishment".
I also regularly enjoy reading: The Independent, The Guardian, The New Statesman, Private Eye, Heat
MY NO.1 HEROES ARE MY MUM & DAD