Alu Anday:
Sardonic Schoolboys with a Message
Laaleen Khan
http://blogs.tribune.com.pk/story/8637/alu-anday-sardonic-schoolboys-with-a-message/
This song actually has very little to do with potatoes and
eggs despite ‘Alu Anday’ as its title
and part of its chorus.
Baygairat Brigade’s indie music video is ideally positioned
for the social media community. It’s creative, funny, and unique; ideal traits
for going viral (and it has).
Alu Anday starts
off with quirky dork-humour: the trio transforms their geeky glasses and school
uniforms to a punk-rock-meets-boy-band style complete with loosened ties, childish
face paint and plenty of kooky behaviour. That is, until the urban Lahori
slang-infused lyrics convey a darker sociopolitical reality (eg.“Where
Qadri is treated like a hero”) along with cheeky placards held by the ‘Baygairats’ in various parts of the
video (eg. “Tehreek-i-Insaaf = Good-looking Jamaat-i-Islami”).
And the Alu Anday?
They were the contents of the boys’ lunch boxes that disgusted them in the
opening scenes of the video. The Baigharats
ended up jeering about a lot more than the stinky lunch that their Ammis had prepared for them; it seems the
stench of sociopolitical hypocrisy is more unbearable than soggy, eggy potatoes.
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