Indian food is yummy. So yummy that I've found quasi-Indian food from the store when I can't get to a restaurant. One kind of Indian food I've gotten a couple of times is currently offering CDs of Indian music with the foods. The second CD I've gotten (it's all random) features music of A.R. Rahman. Rahman has been dubbed the "Mozart of the Madras," and his music has been featured in over 100 Bollywood films.
Rahman's music uses traditional tonalities of Indian music, but modernizes it by adding electronic dance beats, sampling and overdubbing, and other European and Western elements. It's always interesting when things I stumble on come full circle. His music is also heard in Slumdog Millionaire (great movie, by the way) a couple of years ago and in the recent 127 Hours. I did not know that. : )
Bollywood has always interested me. I guess enchanted is a better word. It's so hypnotic. The music and the dancing is hard to turn away from. Repetitious, rhythmic, charming, and very high-energy. In college I ran across an Indian movie on TV. I tried to get the title, but with no grasp of Hindi, that didn't work. Then, I tried to search for it later, figuring that there couldn't be that many...WRONG! Bollywood turns out more movies per year than Hollywood (and is actually only a part of Indian cinema). It is based out of Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, and produces mostly musicals, and that is where A. R. Rahman fits in.
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