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Music: Desi: Bollywood

Music documentaries, in-depth profiles and concerts featuring some of the biggest names

Music documentaries, in-depth profile pieces and concerts recordings featuring some of the biggest names from South Asia and the UK.

Tune into this treasure trove each week for the best in new music documentaries, exclusive interviews, in-depth profile pieces and concert recordings featuring some of the biggest names from South Asia and the UK.

Asian Network Presents: Orchestral Special

Orchestral Special

24/09/2017

BBC Asian Network - Asian Network Presents, Orchestral Special

Asian Network brings together South Asian music and Western symphony orchestras.

Bobby Friction hosts an hour of South Asian, Bollywood and Pakistani music, performed by the BBC's symphony orchestras. Hear cherished classics with fresh ears.

The BBC Asian Network is one of few forces that have the ability to bring a full symphony orchestra and a British Asian, Pakistani or Bollywood singer, together on one stage, to perform some of the biggest hits in Hindi or Pakistani film history. 

The Asian Network has been fusing this cross cultural music and genres together for a number of years now and in this Asian Network Presents, Orchestra Special, Bobby Friction, looks back at some of the most outstanding performances from Sona Mohapatra, Shazia Manzoor, Jaz Dhami, Palak Muchal, Benny Dayal and Quratulain Balouch, who sing alongside the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in what can only be described as a mash-up of epic sounds on an an epic scale.

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