{"id":10671,"date":"2013-09-04T14:16:43","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T21:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=10671"},"modified":"2013-09-04T14:19:08","modified_gmt":"2013-09-04T21:19:08","slug":"miley-cyrus-and-bollywood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2013\/09\/miley-cyrus-and-bollywood\/","title":{"rendered":"MILEY CYRUS AND BOLLYWOOD"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><b>MILEY CYRUS AND BOLLYWOOD<\/b><\/h1>\n<h3>There Are Other Options<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10680\" alt=\"Pankaj Udhas2\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Pankaj-Udhas2.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"287\" \/>Every week I watch <i>AVS<\/i> (<i>Asian Variety Show<\/i>), as its web site describes it, \u201ca weekly capsule that encompasses the best of Bollywood and beyond.\u201d The New Jersey-based, English language program is available on cable and satellite TV stations as well as online, and does a great job in keeping you up-to-date on South Asian culture if you\u2019re into it\u2014like I am.<\/p>\n<p>Last week they ran an interview with the legendary \u201cplayback\u201d film and <i>ghazal<\/i> singer Pankaj Udhas. Ghazals, which are written and performed in many languages, are intense songs grounded in poetry, and have been hugely popular in India and elsewhere. But in his <i>AVS<\/i> interview Udhas, who was performing in New York as part of a tour, noted that while still popular\u2014as evidenced by the response to his tour\u2014\u201cpeople aren\u2019t as euphoric about ghazals as they used to be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was a euphoria for [ghazals] singing that may be lacking today,\u201d Udhas said, then explained: \u201cMusic today in India is nothing but Bollywood. The only music being heard, recorded and mastered is Bollywood, Bollywood and Bollywood. It\u2019s the only music being recorded.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10673\" alt=\"Miley Cyrus\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Miley-Cyrus.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"141\" \/>This, Udhas said, \u201cis very unfortunate, because worldwide, every genre of music prospers.\u201d In the U.S., he added, \u201cSo many radio stations are playing jazz, hip-hop, rock, pop, so there is space for every genre, every kind of music. Unfortunately in India, they have shut all the spaces, and what has happened is today the only music you are listening to is Bollywood, the only option you have is Bollywood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Presumably, Udhas didn\u2019t see the MTV Video Music Awards.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever radio may or may not be playing in America, for the last week, in what Sarah Palin likes to call the \u201clamestream media,\u201d it\u2019s been Miley Cyrus, Miley Cyrus and Miley Cyrus, the only option you have is Miley Cyrus. And if not Miley Cyrus, it would be, Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift, Kanye West, Katy Perry, One Direction, no other direction.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10681\" alt=\"Bollywood-3\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Bollywood-3.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" \/>And if it\u2019s not the VMAs, it\u2019s the CMAs, the Grammys, any music awards show. I realize it\u2019s asking a lot to expect anyone to watch <i>AVS<\/i>, let alone know it exists. Same with ghazals and Pankaj Udhas.<\/p>\n<p>But there are other options. Plenty of them, \u201cif we get out of this rut,\u201d Udhas concluded. \u201cMaybe not only ghazals, but so many other beautiful genres of music that prosper in India,\u201d let alone the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Jim Bessman<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MILEY CYRUS AND BOLLYWOOD There Are Other Options Every week I watch AVS (Asian Variety Show), as its web site describes it, \u201ca weekly capsule that encompasses the best of Bollywood and beyond.\u201d The New Jersey-based, English language program is available on cable and satellite TV stations as well as online, and does a great [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4976],"tags":[7064,7063],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10671"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10671"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10679,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10671\/revisions\/10679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}