Why is 420 called #marijuanaday?
Coming up: A thread on the many references in pop culture to #420culture.
*Children, please look away*
#420day
Starting from 1978:
The song 'Khaike Paan Banaras Wala' from Don starts with @SrBachchan drinking "Shivji ka prasad".
*giggle*
In fact, the song begins with "bhang ka rang jama ho chakachak phir lo paan chabaaye..."
1992: Tarantino wrote the script for Pulp Fiction in Amsterdam(!). His fondness for marijuana is failry well known (lexichronic.com/brad-pitt-quen… ).
In fact, there was a rumor for a long time that in Pulp Fiction all the clocks point to the time 4:20.
2003:
Boom the absolutely mental but unpopular movie is actually named after a common #420culture practice - 'Boom Shiva'.
Before a bank robbery, Katrina Kaif, Padma Lakshmi and Madhu Sapre smoke up and do the Boom Shiva routine, and that’s why the movie was called Boom.
2004:
The movie with the greatest ever tagline: “Charas: A JOINT Effort”
2007:
@Kailashkher’s song Bam Lahiri makes no effort to conceal what the song is about: Parvati's love for Shiva, and what she is willing to do for him.
Including "Din bhar teri mein bhang ragdoongi. Bhang ragdoon, tera ragdoon dhatura"
2013:
Naseeruddin Shah starred in a documentary about legalizing cannabis!
2013:
Go Goa Gone's opening scene features Kunal Khemu and @thevirdas smoking up and watching the infamous Goli Maar song of Chiranjeevi.
(for more on this, you can also check out the first episode of IWTK).
The other obvious reference in the movie :
Babaji ki booty:
"Jo bhari chilam bane hum hero
Life lage film, samasya zero"
2013:
In @prateikbabbar's Issaq, there is a clever take on the “Smoking is injurious to health” disclaimer usually seen in Indian films. When a person is seen smoking pot in the background, the disclaimer says “Character is smoking herbs, not tobacco".
Another great song about smoking pot.
Oopar oopar renne de by Tanishk-Vayu
"ghaas phoos pe loat raha hoon
roll roll kar jalna."
2016:
The Blueberry Hunt is a little known movie, starring Naseeruddin Shah (!) and set in the beautiful state of Kerala.
Shah plays a retired Colonel, who runs a marijuana plantation of a variant called 'Blueberry Skunk'.
In "Luv Shuv Tey Chicken Khurana", the movie revolves around this famous "chicken khurana" dish which has this one secret ingredient, that made the Khurana dhaba famous across Punjab.
Spoiler alert: the secret sauce turns out to be marijuana.
2020-4-20
The 1992 Dr.Dre album "Chronic" was released today on streaming services, as a reference to the date 4/20.
In fact, the album cover is a tribute to the rolling paper brand Zig-Zag's iconic packaging, and the name "Chronic" refers to a slang for high-grade cannabis.
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