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July 30, 2005
"Bollyworld": I spent a whole evening in a bar in Thimpu
In a dismissive review of Raminder Kaur and Ajay J Sinha's "Bollyworld" in the Sunday Deccan Herald, M Bhaktavatsala runs off the rails as he concludes, "Incidentally, the book that claims to discuss global influences in Indian cinema ignores the most powerfully sustained manifestation of it. Indian film music has been global almost from the beginning. Today it is a craze that finds a responsive chord in the remotest parts of the world. It has driven many, like the Sri Lankans, to learn the language to understand the songs. I spent a whole evening in a bar in Thimpu listening to the Bhutanese singing old Hindi songs and asking me to translate them. But, I suppose, the subject is not abstruse enough for the editors of this book or perhaps it is too much to be fitted into an article. This is an altogether mixed bag of a book."
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