One of my all-time favourite movies is Mean Girls. Now, if you haven't seen it, don't write it off as a teenage piece of fluff. And if you have seen it and didn't like it, then it's highly likely I don't like you because you clearly have no sense of humour. This was the movie that really shot Lindsay Lohan to stardom, but let's leave our opinions of her out of the judgement of the movie.
Anyway, bit of background for those of you who haven't seen it (but you really should be out the door headed to the video shop to rent it)... The main character, Cady, is a girl who grew up in Africa and was home-schooled by her zoologist American parents. They move back to the US when she's 16, she starts going to a regular high school and has to quickly come to grips with the girl politics.
There's one scene where Cady is discussing with a couple of her friends why she can't see them that night, because she has to practice with "The Plastics" (the cool - and mean - girl group) for their act at the school Christmas concert.
Cady: We're doing a dance to this song...
Janis & Damien [in unison]: Jingle Bell Rock.
Cady: You guys know that song?
Janis: Everybody in the English-speaking world knows that song. They do it every year.
Now, cut back to Berna and I - driving from Darjeeling to Gangtok in a share jeep. A song with a very catchy chorus in English comes on the radio. I start singing along to the chorus and bopping away in my seat, before realising something. I don't know the words to the verses because they are, in fact, in Hindi. I turn to Berna and ask, "Is this song popular in the English-speaking world?" She looks at me with slight bewilderment and replies emphatically, "No."
Shit I'm going to struggle back home after a year of not using toilet paper, cutlery or anything that would be considered "manners" in the Western world, totally out of date with the music scene but scarily in touch with the latest Bollywood hits. 8 weeks til touchdown...
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