Kabul Calling
Have a listen to this story from NPR, set in Afghanistan, and see if you can identify that ringtone in the first minute of the story.
This girl would definitely recognize it.
Have a listen to this story from NPR, set in Afghanistan, and see if you can identify that ringtone in the first minute of the story.
This girl would definitely recognize it.
November 25th, 2006 at 3:58 pm
cool LOL
November 27th, 2006 at 6:13 am
Gotta love globalization.
November 27th, 2006 at 7:23 am
Funny thing is that after Kabul was liberated in 2001.
a dumb CNN reporter asked a store owner with
poster of Bollywood heroines in the background
about whether he had heard of Brittany Spears.
and In another segment on CNN, I heard Talat Mahmmod
song playing in this bus transporting American troops
in Baghdad. I guess the bus driver was Indian.
Accept for Americans, every one in the world has seen Awaara (1951).
I have been asked by chines, russian, turks, etc about the movie
when they couldn’t remember the name of movie.
So it has been going on for long time, especially in Afghanistan
where Indian movies are very popular.
November 27th, 2006 at 12:26 pm
Sure, and I remember when the Taliban was in charge, how they banned Bollywood films. My friends would kid me, saying “Maybe those Taliban guys aren’t all bad.”
November 27th, 2006 at 7:16 pm
OMG. Delightful - yet a strange juxtaposition of movie popcorn with what we typically hear from Afghanistan on the news.
November 30th, 2006 at 11:15 pm
What is it, what is it? I can’t get the audio clip to play :/
December 28th, 2006 at 3:42 am
Maja, it’s a ringtone of “Dhoom Machale”.