Being South Indian!
I was watching a recent Bollywood song that is all set to rock the dance floors. If you haven’t watched 'Yentamma' yet, please do so to understand the background of this blog. The song stars Salman Khan, Chiranjeevi, Pooja Hegde and Ramcharan, which made me wonder if it was a Telugu song or Hindi. Note that I didn't wonder if it was South Indian or North Indian. For me it’s Indian and entertaining, and makes me want to dance. Now if you have watched it, you can’t help noticing it was so much like the Chennai Express songs, especially with the word ' lungi ' in the lyrics. At least the ‘ Lungi dance’ got the lungi right. Here, the veshti or mundu (traditional white/off white clothing that South Indian men wear) is depicted as a lungi . Lungi is a more colourful version, worn by few men 'informally or at home', but certainly not on an occasion. Thankfully school students learn names of Indian clothing religiously since grade 2, so I'm sure kids unde