{"id":7451,"date":"2011-10-26T04:55:24","date_gmt":"2011-10-26T09:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/?p=7451"},"modified":"2011-10-26T07:02:49","modified_gmt":"2011-10-26T12:02:49","slug":"pakistani-politi-pop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/26\/pakistani-politi-pop\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistani Politi-Pop from Beygairat Brigade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Aalu Anday | Beygairat Brigade\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZEpnwCPgH7g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n<p>The trio of young men from Lahore, Pakistan, in the pop group Beygairat Brigade (The Dishonor Brigade) seem to be singing a catchy little ditty in Punjabi complaining about their mom making potatoes and eggs when they really want to have chicken. But those are just the opening lines of their first song Aalu Anday&#8211;the lyrics appear in English subtitles. Before the video&#8217;s three minutes are up, the group has covered many topics that pack a political punch.<\/p>\n\n<p><em>Dawn&#8217;s<\/em> cultural critic and senior columnist Nadeem Paracha offers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dawn.com\/2011\/10\/18\/enjoying-aaloo-andey-with-the-people.html\">details on a few of the many references contained in the lyrics<\/a> of Aalu Anday.<\/p>\n\n<!--more-->\n\n<blockquote>In a clean, unadulterated sweep that lasts not more than ten seconds, BB wonders about a country where killers like Mumtaz Qadri (who assassinated former Punjab governor Salman Taseer after accusing him of committing blasphemy) are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/asia\/pakistan\/8248162\/The-killer-of-my-father-Salman-Taseer-was-showered-with-rose-petals-by-fanatics.-How-could-they-do-this.html\">treated as royals<\/a>; and where Ajmal Kasab (the Pakistani terrorist who took part in the attack in Mumbai) is a hero; and where mullahs escape wearing a woman\u2019s burqa (like the head cleric of the Lal Masjid); and how no-one ever mentions men like the Nobel-Prize winning Pakistani scientist <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abdus_Salam#Death\">Abdul Salam<\/a> (just because he belonged to the outlawed Ahmadi sect). <em>&#8212;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dawn.com\/2011\/10\/18\/enjoying-aaloo-andey-with-the-people.html\">&#8220;Enjoying \u2018Aaloo-Andey\u2019 with the people&#8221;<\/a><\/em><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>Will Pakistan&#8217;s government crack down on this group, which includes economist Daniyal Malik, 15-year-old Hamza Malik, and local news director Ali Aftaab Saeed? They seem to expect that as well as other kinds of attacks against them. A poster at the end of the video reads &#8220;If you want a bullet through my head &#8216;Like This Video.'&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<p>Though if we take them at face value <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/Bsk6aiTNxes\">in this interview<\/a>, BB might not even believe some of the things they sing about. That&#8217;s some of what I gathered from the English sprinkled into their responses. If you can understand more of the interview and share in the comments, I&#8217;d be interested to know a little more about what they&#8217;re saying in <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/Bsk6aiTNxes\">the video interview<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The trio of young men from Lahore, Pakistan, in the pop group Beygairat Brigade (The Dishonor Brigade) seem to be singing a catchy little ditty in Punjabi complaining about their mom making potatoes and eggs when they really want to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/26\/pakistani-politi-pop\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,3,48],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7451"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7451"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7453,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7451\/revisions\/7453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}