Word: punjabis
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Nair’s best known work, Monsoon Wedding, is the eighth-highest-grossing foreign film ever released in the U.S. Shot in just 30 days on real sets, this story of a Punjabi-arranged wedding received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Foreign Language Film and won the Golden Lion at the 2001 Venice Film Festival...
...sudden diversity, he says he’s concerned about the widening gap between the traditional form of Bhangra and the team’s modern interpretation. Not one of the 12 members is from the area of India where the dance originated, and none can speak Punjabi, the native language of Bhangra songs...
Within the group, there is division over the issue, Patel says. Some have pushed for more conventional forms for “ideological reasons, like maintaining the purity of Punjabi culture,” and others consider the adaptation to other cultures a necessary element...
Patel says that gradual changes to the dance are necessary to keep it relevant in today’s society, but says “there are indeed Punjabi cultural values, and we should be careful not to lose sight of those as the dance evolves...
While Bhangra is affected on a relatively small scale—Patel says people outside the group often casually joke about the dearth of non-Punjabi South Asians on the team—other groups say the problem arises at nearly every show...