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...Bollywood has eyes to conquer the firangis--Hindi for "foreigners." U.S. viewers know Bollywood secondhand from Moulin Rouge (the production number with the elephant), Ghost World (that goofy disco clip, from the 1965 film Gumnaam) and the art-house hit Monsoon Wedding (the dance that brings a fractious family together). Bombay Dreams, the Bollywood-themed West End musical with an irresistible crossover score by top Indian composer A R Rahman, is headed to Broadway. But can the real thing make it here? Can Americans open up to the baroque beatitudes of Bollywood cinema...
...Bollywood has eyes to conquer the firangis?Hindi for "foreigners." U.S. viewers know Bollywood secondhand from Moulin Rouge (the production number with the elephant), Ghost World (that goofy disco clip, from the 1965 film Gumnaam) and the art-house hit Monsoon Wedding (the dance that brings a fractious family together). Bombay Dreams, the Bollywood-themed West End musical with an irresistible crossover score by top Indian composer A R Rahman, is headed to Broadway. But can the real thing make it here? Can Americans open up to the baroque beatitudes of Bollywood cinema...
Just after dawn the old city begins to wake. The jackhammer throb of a thousand electricity generators competes with raucous Hindi music blasting from the stereos they have brought to life. A discordant orchestra of scooter bleats, car horns, rickshaw chimes and temple bells nearly drowns out one of the day's early funeral processions. The cortege turns into the packed alleys surrounding the Golden Temple, where lanes that barely fit two abreast are thronged with devotees, foreheads smeared with vermilion tikka, a blessing from the temple priest...
Gordon cites the addition of Hindi to the curriculum as well as the suspension of classes on Martin Luther King Day as two examples of structural changes brought about by students...
...played clarinet, and also wrestled for three years: “I wasn’t very good at it. Pretty bad, actually.” Explaining his “eclectic” musical tastes, he says he likes a lot of Irish and folk music, and Hindi music as well. Commercial music, he says, feels processed and “very refined,” but English or American or Irish folk is “less processed. When you listen to folk music, it still has that raw edge—like biting into sugar cane...