Indian singing star loves Trini chutney music
Saturday, April 2 2011

TRINIDAD NEWSDAY - By Paras Ramoutar - Indian singing star, Monali Thakur, loves Trinidad's chutney music. In an interview backstage at the Centre of Excellence during the annual Everybody Loves Raymond show last Saturday night at the Centre of Excellence, Thakur said, “I find your chutney music is very infectious, and it has hit India tremendously. It is well loved and sang in India. “It can become a very fruitful industry, by that I mean it can one day stand on its own. The compositions are well-arranged, and I think it has come to stay.” She said it was part of the T&T culture which must be supported and allowed to grow.

“But I do not wish it to be ingrained with any form of human degradation, vulgarity. It must remain so, and it must send a message of goodwill with clean entertainment, and it must be pure so that everyone would enjoy listening to it,” she said. Thakur said she was aware that several of Bollywood songs formed part of this country’s chutney rendition. “I understand that one of my own songs is also recomposed in the chutney vein. “This is my second visit to  your beautiful country. Nice and friendly people,” she added. She was here for the premiere launching of Dulha-Mil-Gaya two years ago. “I would really love to come back, and I await the opportunity,” she added. Thakur came from Mumbai especially for the show.