The tunes that bind Bollywood and Hollywood, from Deadpool to Lion

American productions give Indian film music a wider audience by adding them to their soundtracks

In the 1994 Tamil film Kadhalan, Prabhudeva gyrated on top of a moving bus to the tune of AR Rahman’s peppy composition “Urvasi Urvasi”. Cut to the Oscar-nominated drama Lion 22 years later. Saroo (Dev Patel) and his girlfriend Lucy (Rooney Mara) are on their way to their friend’s house for a lunch party in Melbourne when the song “Urvasi Urvasi” begins to play in the background. They do a little jig before they step into the house. The song continues to play inside. Their friends are watching Prabhudeva on television and trying to copy his rubbery moves even as