28. History of Hindi Cinema ཧིན་དཱི་གློག་བརྙན་གྱི་ལོ་རྒྱུས།

Tibet's cultural engagement with India stretches back to the ancient past. If it was not for them, we'd be unlettered, uncouth barbarians terrorizing the plains of Central Asia (though Chogyal Namkha'i Norbu would vehemently dispute this extravagant claim.) This trans-Himalayan tryst lasts to this day but instead of Buddhism, we now have Bollywood without which Tibetan weddings would be even duller affairs. So I sat down with our somewhat regular guest Thinley Wangchuk to talk about the history of Hindi cinema (maybe as a way of overcoming our shared trauma about the death of 90s action-flicks, invariably starring Suniel Shetty, brought upon by karva-chauth films of Karan Johar. Image: www.tallengestore.com Track: 'Karachal' - Alash Ensemble

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