“I Want To Hold Your Hand,” translated and produced this time via Bombay. (The words come out a bit differently when you rewrite them in another language. Note the translation of the new lyrics):
FOONOTE: When I lived in India I LOVED watching the Indian musicals, even though I could speak virtually no Hindi (or other languages). I used to watch them at New Delhi’s Shelia Cinema and even had some records of sound tracks (until my parents made me throw out my entire old record collection that was stored at their house).
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.