Rewind

Read about Patrick Swazye's demise today and that took me back to May 1991. Me and my sister were having summer vacation at school and had picked up the movie 'Dirty Dancing' from the rental shop and had enjoyed the movie and were also hooked to the music ,and ofcourse not to mention Patrick . The next morning (21st May) we heard about Rajiv Gandhi's assasination. That mean we were stuck at home for the next few days with only the movie and spent the days , watching it again and again :)

Here's one of my favourite songs from the film and I also took out the dusty Audio CD from the rack to take me further back in time..



Here's a HD verson of the song

Comments

Aparna Bharathan said…
Those were the days when we only had good ol' Doordarshan for company and when some national figure died there was only mournful music played. And here we were, watching this fantastic movie and couldn't make up our minds whether to mourn specially since it was Rajiv Gandhi and not watch the movie!

Finally we couldn't help ourselves with the video sitting there and beckoning us, we watched the movie non-stop for those 2-3 days! I am sure whoever borrowed the video after us couldn't see it because it was completely worn out ;-)

I am sure for our generation it was one of the best dance movies. Though Patrick was very good in Ghost and City of Joy, it was in Dirty Dancing that he really stood out with his dancing skills.

May Patrick Swayze's soul RIP.
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