[lbo-talk] Re: indian beatles

B. docile_body at yahoo.com
Sat Jun 10 01:12:08 PDT 2006


Not Bollywood, but from Turkey and roughly in the vein: Turkish Star Wars, a Turkish venture into sci-fi from the late 70s modeled on Star Wars:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZz6zj9m19w&search=turkish%20star%20wars

The first person to clue me in on the existence of this sort of stuff was Basim, singer of the The Kominas (Punjabi for "The Bastards"), a "taqwacore" band of Pakistani (punkistani?) descent who are interesting in and of themselves: http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2006/04/18/the_clash/

-B.

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