In our online class we learn how to dance, Bollywood style, along to the song “Uden Jab Jab Zulfen” performed by legendary playback singers Mohammad Rafi and Asha Boshle. When we share a dance with kids in class we don’t reeeeeeeally learn how to do the steps — a whole lot of our little music class kiddos can barely walk, for heck’s sake. What we do is strive as best we can to capture the essence of the dance. In the case of Bollywood Dancing, the essence is JOY.
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A Bollywood Classic — Uden Jab Jab Zulfein Teri
Don’t know where to start with Bollywood? You may try “Naya Daur.”
Bollywood is India’s Mumbai-based billion-dollar film industry. Most Bollywood films are lavish, epic musicals, full of lavish,epic musical production numbers. Though the industry is much more modern today we can never go wrong with starting our Bollywood exploration with the classics. There is no film more classic than the 1957 “Naya Daur,” an “old India” vs. “new India” exul of song and dance. ENJOY.
AR Rahman AMAZES
Indian composer AR Rahman is an international sensation, and rightly so.
Nicknamed the “the Mozart of Madras” and “Isai Puyal (the Musical Storm),” Rahman’s music effortlessly embodies classical traditions of India and the most modern global music, giving hope to India’s brilliant “Bollywood” film industry that it will be able to transcend classics to keep making movies that resonate with a billion Indians today. AR Rahman has won almost every music industry award in the world and, dernit, he deserves them.
