Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Mundian To Bach Ke" in English language version.
But the song is also uncomfortable for those who saw it appropriated. "When it comes on now, people in the Asian music industry will groan. But that's not because of the tune. The tune is powerful," says Friction. "It's because for years it was played whenever anything Asian came on the television – anytime someone cooked a curry on Come Dine With Me. And that took a lot of the cultural meaning away. It showed south Asians how two-dimensional the rest of society saw us."
