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wtf_musikBollywood musical dance numbers are notorious for being ridiculous and nonsensical, especially those from the early 90's. When a booming economy combined with a lack of advanced movie-making technology, suddenly, everyone and his brother-in-law was making a Bollywood movie. As a consequence, the musical numbers got bigger and more thoroughly ludicrous, because, well, you gotta make your flick stand out somehow, right?
"Jumma Chumma" is taken from the movie
Hum and is a perfect example of early 90's Bollywood. First of all, the song is a rip-off of a popular international pop song. Second, there is the natural, logical, and historically accurate combination of Caribbean elements with industrial Indian scenery. Thirdly, there is the obligatory "wet sari" scene (in this case, it's a flamenco dress). In these regards, "Jumma Chumma" is pretty typical Bollywood.
Where "Jumma Chumma" gets weird is the gangbang porno setting and setup. The song is about demanding a kiss from Jumma (who I presume is the chick), the love interest of Mr. LookAtMahCrotchDancin', which seems innocent enough. However, the whole video seems like a Grand Guignol buildup to an
Annabel Chong bukkake masterpiece; in a warehouse full of blue-collar Indian men, who are rhythmically thrusting their arms out so that their mugs of beer foam and spill over, one man incites them in a simian display of extreme sexual frustration. A lone woman in a red flamenco dress appears, and perhaps to demonstrate what they think of her, the men dance by pounding, pointing to, and thrusting out their crotches. At one point, they point to their thrusting crotches, then collectively point at her, perhaps to emphasize their needs and inability to reach climax without her. A small boy throws a coin into the air, which the leader of the group catches it in his pants; the rest of the men then stare at his crotch, which is then juxtaposed against a load-bearing support, which is probably not Freudian at all in the slightest. The woman is sprayed liberally with a firehose, which rips her dress into shreds, perhaps a metaphor for her delicate defloration. She is tossed to the men while the leader jumps on the makeshift stage and dances in the suds from the beer. The woman's dancing becomes more frenzied as more water is sprayed, poured, and otherwise applied to her (more) naked form. Towards the end, she attempts to crawl, then dance, then run away, but she is surrounded by a warehouse full of horny, drunk men, who suddenly close in on her as she nears the load-bearing support pole, thrusting their foaming beers at her wet, ravished dress. We are left with image of the leader, his face covered in lipstick prints, apparently satiated.
I proudly present "Jumma Chumma De De" as my initial submission to wtf_musik.