I was surprised to learn that Music of Greeece, former Greece (Yugoslavia, Albania, Kosovo, Croatia, etc), Armenia, Georgia, Central Asian Countries and some parts of Russia was quiet similar to Music of Indian Sub Continent. Decades ago Mukesh's song 'Awaaraa hooN' was a hit in USSR and all Eastern Block Countries. HemanTo Mokerji's 'RaaT Nashili hai, khoya, khoy ChanD hai, ik baar moskoraa Day, ik baar moskoraa Day" and some of his other songs were also hummed by them though he was called HemanT Kumar as in India.
"Raheem M." <raheemm1@yahoo.com> wrote:
Dear Alochoks,
This is so amazing! Bangla is in the top 10 most spoken language in the world!
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ List_of_language s_by_number_ of_native_ speakers# Top_20)
Bangladesh could use this fact in its cultural and tourism branding efforts. Bangla is as sexy and beautiful as French. Did you know that the #1 music video on the internet contains a Bangla song? (Check it out -- http://www.fewtureweb.com/category/ fun).
We should make hay out of this straw. There needs to be films with sexy girls talking in beautiful Bangla. We should collaborate with one of the top rap stars like 50 cents (a.k.a. fiddy cents) and get him to sample a bangla track in one of his next songs. Then perhaps we could get a major Hollywood movie to include a mix of a Bangla song into the movie - can you imagine how amazing it would be if the next bond movie was interlayed with high paced audio containing Bangla fusion music instead of the usual boring whatever they use?
Alochoks, think about it? We could make Bangla sexy! Then this would lead to other great things - perhaps the Oscar folks would notice one of the fantastic Bangla dramas - and we could get a nomination. Maybe MTV would highlight Habib or one of those guys and make them into a international super stars! Oh lord - we would become so cool!
And can you imagine what kind of effect this could have on GDP, politics, elections, weather and what not? I mean this is ground-breaking, earth-shattering, universe-rattling and then some!
Please give it some thought. Let us write 10,000 lines on this great idea. We shall launch online petitions. Let us meet and discuss. We shall form several regional organizations, with respective leaders. We shall do press campaigns (please try to wear fitted, tailored suits - we cant be hip if we dress like old school professors. If you want to be old school - go all the way and just wear panjabi and paijama - anyways I digress). Let us write to the editors and maybe collect some donations. And dont forget, you HAVE TO recruit one professor! Aint nothing cool like a university professor!
And if the press campaign is successful, please do not forget to do a dawaat. A large community picnic is even better! We have to celebrate every little success! Invite some biggies - your local pol or whatever. If you want to make that into another press event - no worries baby - go for it! All I ask is that you include all the leaders in it. Sometimes, one of those quite, go getters, who get things done will start criticizing. Only way to deal with this is - nip it in the bud - you cant have any room for negativity.
And oh yes - cant forget the factions! (Faction - love that word - maybe include it into a slogan for Bangla?) This is VERY IMPORTANT! I dont care how you do it - just get it done. Make sure that your local "Promote Bangla" organization has several factions - lets start with the basics - we need a BNP faction, an AL faction, a Sylhet faction, a Pabna faction, a Chittagong faction, etc. Go crazy with the factions! The more, the merrier! Let yourself loose. Bonus points for the guy who is able to create the most factions - its rockin!
Finally Alochoks, we shall come back to this forum in about a year and talk about our great success! I look forward to 2009! Its early but hey - Bangla is cool and so am I and whatever...
- Raheem
New York
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