{"id":41838,"date":"2022-02-20T15:00:03","date_gmt":"2022-02-20T06:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2022\/feb\/19\/bappi-lahiri-disco-king-of-bollywood-gave-indian-film-a-youthful-injection"},"modified":"2022-02-20T15:00:03","modified_gmt":"2022-02-20T06:00:03","slug":"bappi-lahiri-disco-king-of-bollywood-gave-indian-film-a-youthful-injection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41838","title":{"rendered":"Bappi Lahiri: \u2018disco king of Bollywood\u2019 gave Indian film a youthful injection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The music of Bappi \u2018Da\u2019, who died last week, fueled global hits and was sampled by Dr Dre and MIA<\/p>\n<p>At the height of his fame in the 1980s, \u201cthe disco king of Bollywood\u201d, Bappi Lahiri, who died this week, was composing nearly 15 soundtracks a year.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Kolkata in 1952 to a musical family (his parents were classically trained musicians and the playback singer Kishore Kumar was his uncle), Lahiri\u2019s first soundtrack was for a 1973 movie called Nanha Shikari.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2022\/feb\/19\/bappi-lahiri-disco-king-of-bollywood-gave-indian-film-a-youthful-injection\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The music of Bappi \u2018Da\u2019, who died last week, fueled global hits and was sampled by Dr Dre and MIAAt the height of his fame in the 1980s, \u201cthe disco king of Bollywood\u201d, Bappi Lahiri, who died this week, was composing nearly 15 soundtracks a year.Born in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2919,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[505,71,69,62,61,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bollywood","category-culture","category-film","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2919"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41839,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41838\/revisions\/41839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}