Since I have been back, while watching television I get drawn occasionally to channels showing Punjabi music videos. They seem to be two different kinds.
The first kind which is likely produced in the United Kingdom and you have a combination of Punjabi and English lyrics. The male performers invariably wear dark glasses, have shirts open to their belly buttons, showing lots of gold chains. The women tend to wear short skirts and low cut tops. The style seems to be the bhangra ragamuffin ( fusion of reggae and bhangra) sung in Jamaican patios first popularized by Apache Indian. The singer's actions tend to be rap style index fingers pointing downwards, lots of zoom shoots particularly of women draped over
expensive cars and other accessories.
The home grown ones tend to be generally in rural settings, with a good looking guy supported by a group dressed in the tradition punjabi lungi and bright kurta's and hurt your eyes bright turbans with a roosters plume. The girl is dressed in a traditional salwar kameez with long hair and curls on her forehead acting coy with her group of friends. The music is provided by the dholak. While the lyrics might vary if you have heard one, you have heard them all as they all appear to be the same.
The interesting fact about the latter and which reflects the changes in traditional Punjab is that very few of them, if any, have full grown beards or long hair. Reflects the changing face of the Sikhs in the Punjab villages.The men want to be "modern" but they want their women to be traditional.
Bhale Bhale !!!Chak de Phate !!!
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