Caught Inside Man - a Spike Lee Joint - over the weekend (review coming, don't worry) and was absolutely floored by the must running over the title and credit sequences. It's a ditty called "Chaiyya Chaiyya" - a remixed version for the film, anyway.Here - thanks to the phenomenal YouTube - is the opening sequence from the film. The song itself starts about ninety second in.
After hunting around and being wildly disappointed by iTunes because the soundtrack is only available as the entire album (when I want only the one song - I thought we were in the post-album era) and by PLCH and my other local libraries who don't have the soundtrack, I went hunting online.
Turns out that the song's from a Bollywood spectacular called Dil Se... and is one of the larger musical numbers in the film - filmed entirely on the top of a moving train. It's kind of a cool sequence and lets you check the original version of the song - give it a listen with or without subtitles.
PS - turns out that the library has a copy of Bombay Dreams some sort of Andrew Lloyd Weber schmaltzfest with a version of the song in it. I've reserved it but am not terribly hopeful.
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