Episode 5: Dhamaal India: Small-town Showbiz dreams in the decade of Youtube

As the decade ends, and young people across the country spill into the streets in anger against a state that doesn’t seem to know how to speak to them, other than with ridicule and violence, here is a question, perhaps rhetorical. What do they dream about? This episode of Sound, Fury and 4G, set on a surreal stage, with police in riot gear and teargas and an obscured vision of the future, we venture into the big dreams harboured by young people in small towns, of show biz.   ‘My album, Maja kare Madamji [Let’s have fun, Madam] sold in lakhs. Those were the days of the reel-wali cassette tape. You can get the numbers from the biggest distributors in