Pitchfork's Saturday deep-dive lands on Asha Bhosle's 'Dum Maro Dum,' one of Bollywood's most enduring tracks and a touchstone for the playback-singer-as-actress era.
While Pitchfork excavates Bollywood's psychedelic past, they're missing the broader conversation about how Global South cinema has always been more adventurous with sound experimentation than Western critics give credit for. "Dum Maro Dum" isn't just a Bollywood curiosity. It's part of a lineage that connects to Nollywood's genre-bending soundtracks, South African bubblegum pop, and the fearless sonic collisions happening across African film industries today. The West is finally catching up to what the rest of the world has known: our movies have always been wilder.
While Pitchfork excavates Bollywood's psychedelic past, they're missing the broader conversation about how Global South cinema has always been more adventurous with sound experimentation than Western critics give credit for. "Dum Maro Dum" isn't just a Bollywood curiosity. It's part of a lineage that connects to Nollywood's genre-bending soundtracks, South African bubblegum pop, and the fearless sonic collisions happening across African film industries today. The West is finally catching up to what the rest of the world has known: our movies have always been wilder.
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