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...Singh's victory reflects the need of the Sikh community's elders to find turbaned role models. While Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, always seen with a spiffy turban, is an obvious example, Sikh leaders also hail pop culture icons such as the "turbanator" - cricket hero Harbhajan Singh - and popstar Daler Mehndi, whose glittering turbans are said to have inspired many a short-haired Sikh to take to the turban. Sikh organizations from Vancouver to Melbourne are renewing efforts at prachar, or preaching, to the 3 million-strong Sikh diaspora. Schools to teach young Sikhs how to tie a turban have...
...weeks in friends' houses and his own New Delhi villa. When he finally showed up for questioning at a police station in the Punjabi city of Patiala, a mob threw paint at his Mercedes. "It was very scary," says Mehndi. "Like a film story, and Daler Mehndi was Saddam or Osama, moving all the time, always between midnight and 4 a.m. ... People hated...
...year later all charges have been dropped against Mehndi. "Daler Mehndi and his brother look alike," says Punjab police Director-General A.A. Siddiqui. "That's where the confusion arose." Siddiqui rejects any suggestion of a police attempt to blackmail Mehndi. Meanwhile, the case continues against Mehndi's brother Shamsher. "The whole case is concocted," says Shamsher's lawyer, Rajvinder Singh Bains. "But the police are going ahead with it as a face-saving exercise...
...having a hard time keeping out the fun. At a recent recording session in Bombay, he still looked like a cartoon king, decked out in a black turban with sequined band, gold bracelets and chains, and a bright red designer shirt. ("I want the fans to look at Daler Mehndi like a maharajah," Mehndi explains.) He still has the same spring-soled bounce and huge smile. And, in the studio, he's clearly enjoying the music as much as ever. As they fine-tune the tracks, Mehndi has discussions about rhythms with his technicians and tumbi players that go like...
...most unlikely pop star became both miserable and unmarketable, Mehndi now sees nothing but blue skies ahead. "You know, I was a very bad taxi driver," he says. "Always looking in the mirror at myself and imagining I would be a big star in music. Nearly many accidents. But Daler Mehndi has no accidents in music. Yes, I struggle, I arrive and then I lose everything. But in music, I am very happy. And bhangra is very happy music. So in music, Daler Mehndi always has clear road ahead...