
There are always enough regular instruments - such as guitars, sitars, trumpets, and bass guitar - to keep a fan of handmade music interested. The result is a beautiful ethno pop album with an utterly haunting groove which originates from the funk, soul, and disco elements a dancefloor queen like Donna Summer would kill for. A melody here, native tongue lyrics sung in a way that mixes pop and Indian folk music, a sound effect like typical Indian string sections there. Even Bappi Lahiri finally surrendered to electronic music but he still puts it into a rather traditional '70s soul and funk context with some Indian flavors added. Kasam Paida Karnewale Ki is a 1984 movie with a soundtrack that comes as colorful and interesting as Indian '80s pop-disco-funk can be.


Oh, groove it, baby! Bappi Lahiri is a very busy composer, conductor, and music director for the so called "Bollywood" scene, the Indian factory of dreams. Far Eastern Sunshine present a reissue of Bappi Lahiri and Salma Agha's soundtrack for Kasam Paida Karnewale Ki, originally released in 1984. Please add further information if known.2015 release. The list below is compiled from the database of this site and is therefore incomplete. Peel played many of the songs from the album on his show, although interestingly he never played any of the original ABBA songs. "My copy never leaves the house" he claimed on 17 July 2003. The album was originally released in 1981 and was quite rare with not many copies released. Peel discovered their album in 1987 and revealed on his 03 November 1987 show that he received it in the afternoon in John Walters office. Salma has since remarried to someone else and lives with her children in Mumbai, whereas her sister Sabina, did not pursue a career in showbusiness, due to her husband not approving of her being a singer. This was their only collaboration musically and later on life, Salma became an actress, who married Pakistani squash coach Rehmat Khan, who in his previous marriage had fathered Bat For Lashes' Natasha Khan.

During their time in the UK the sisters produced and sang an album of ABBA covers in the Hindi language called "Agha: Sing The Hits of ABBA in Hindi". Their mother Zarina was a classical singer who descended from the Raj Kapoor dynasty-Bollywood royalty. A noted importer of antiques, stones and fur, he was so esteemed that Iranian authorities bestowed upon him the title Agha, a knighthood of sorts, and the family adopted it as their surname. Salma & Sabina were Salma (born 25th October 1956) and Sabina Agha, both Indian sisters born in Pakistan who spent their early years living between India and the UK, traveling with their businessman father, Liaqat Gul Tajik, an Indian Muslim, based in Amritsar, India, who had bases in numerous countries.
