Tag: India
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What happens if Bollywood goes Carribean?
No not a mashup or remix – a new (well 19th century?) form of music – Chutney! Embarassing name, but basically the music made by Indo-Carribean people in places such as Trinidad & Tobago and Guyana working as indentured servants (British Empire!) in the 19th Century mixing Soca beats with with traditional Hindi or Bhojpuri…
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Disco Bollywood Babylon
A post about Salma Agha & Sabina on Facebook meant I went on a little Disco Bollywood trip. Above is a clip from Disco Dancer, an 1982 Bollywood film I’d really love to see. ‘Somebody dances here, somebody dances there’ indeed. This was sung by the mighty Usha Uthup who has been played on Radio…