Dakar, February thirteen (IANS) From mythological actors Raj Kapoor as well as Dilip Kumar to ? la mode movie icons Shah Rukh Khan as well as Hrithik Roshan, Bollywood is right away as well as perpetually in Senegal, a coastal French-speaking West African republic that’s madly in adore with Indian films, song as well as cuisine.
Sitting in Sea Plaza restaurant, a single can listen to a melodic records of ‘Kajra re’, a renouned Hindi movie number, boyant in to a tainted zephyr wafting in from a sun-kissed Atlantic Ocean.
Or go pushing in to a not-so-lonely calm night, usually to locate a ultimate Bollywood numbers, ‘Sheila ki jawani’ as well as ‘Munni badnam hui’, floating in from bars as well as discos sparse all over in this busy city of over a million people.
Dancing in Dakar, says Sheikh, a 30-something grill physical education instructor who is similarly lustful of celebration of a mass Sartre as well as Camus, is never unequivocally dancing but ‘hip-hopping Hindi music’. What do a French-speaking Senegalese similar to about Indian films?
‘The song is great. The dancing is best as well as actresses have been beautiful,’ Gorgui Sy, who heads Les Amis de’Inde, a single of a 40-odd Indo-Senegalese loyalty clubs dedicated to Indian song as well as dance which have mushroomed in a republic whose race of scarcely thirteen million people is reduction than which of Delhi.
‘We similar to Indian culture, traditions as well as family values. It puts us in to a mental condition universe as well as additionally keeps us secure in reality,’ Sy said.
‘We adore Indian drive-in theatre as well as stars. Shah Rukh Khan as well as Hrithink Roshan have been my favourites,’ pronounced Antra Mbaye, who is compared with Kumar Sanu Kelo, a forum which promotes a song of Indian thespian Kumar Sanu. ‘I desired ‘Devdas’,’ she pronounced in her lilting French.
In fact, such is a recognition of Indian drive-in theatre as well as song which dozens of Indo-Senegalese loyalty associations have been set up, points out N. Parthasarathi, India’s attach? to Senegal, a Francophone republic whose chronological sites as well as beach resorts capture scarcely a million tourists each year.
‘They have been dedicated to Indian song as well as dance. And they have been often run by Senegalese,’ a attach? tells this upon vacation IANS correspondent, adding there have been only 300 Indians vital in Senegal.
Parthasarathi removed with many penchant how Pallavi Kulkarni, an Indian TV star, was mobbed during a airfield when she visited Dakar in Apr final year. Kulkarni starred in ‘Vaidehi’, a renouned Indian TV soap portraying a bad girl-rich child adore affair, which was a large strike with Senegalese women who form a infancy of TV viewers in Senegal.
It was pristine madness, removed Sheikh. Thousands of men, women as well as young kids lined up a roads to have a glance of a actress, as well as her attainment was shown live by 2STV, a in isolation TV network which aired a TV soap with French sub-titles.
The stately accepting she got obviously outstripped which of Senegal’s President Abdoulaye Wade, who had returned from a week end revisit to a eremite locale of Touba upon a same day.
Hindi movie DVDs have been many in direct here, pronounced a Indian envoy. There is zero similar to a Bollywood DVD to benefaction to a Senegalese. They delight it, pronounced a envoy.
But it’s not only food, a sharp Indian food as well has converted many Senegalese palates. Zaika (taste in Hindi), situated tighten to a sea front, is you do sprightly business.
It’s not only Indians who patronize a Indian restaurant. Lots of Senegalese as well as foreigners come here, says Jaspreet Diwan, a 20-something physical education instructor of a grill in Punjabi Hindi who arrived here from Ludhiana, Punjab, 5 months ago.
And what do they similar to most? Dal tadka, butter duck as well as duck tikka, he says, amused during being asked an viewable question.
(Manish Chand can be contacted during manish.c@ians.in)
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