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November 20th, 2006

Play it again and again and again, Sam…

Posted by: Robert Basler
Tags: Oddly Enough, , , ,

Okay, you’re a carpenter in India. You steal a million bucks worth of diamonds from a jewelry shop you’re working on, and the last thing you want to do is attract suspicion.

So naturally, you sell some of the diamonds, get drunk, go to a dance bar and tip the band lavishly to play the same song, over and over and over. You have them play the Bollywood song Humko Deewana Kar Gaye repeatedly, not for one night, not for two, but for three nights.

Oh, and while you’re at it, make sure a police informer is hanging out at the same bar, and that you’re carrying $67,000 worth of the diamonds with you when the cops pick you up. Here is the story:humko300.jpg

Stars of Humko Deewana Kar Gaye: Actress Katrina Kaif performs with Akshay Kumar at the 7th International Indian Film Academy awards in Dubai June 16, 2006. REUTERS/Jack Dabaghian

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