In 1996, New York based filmmaker, Vivek Bald, began making trips to the UK to document a small group of British Asian bands, musicians, and DJs who were weaving together the sounds of their parents with a heady mix of punk, dub, hip-hop, and electronic dance music and a commitment to youth work and anti-racist activism.
Over the next seven years, Bald captured the rise and fall of what was always imperfectly described as the “Asian Underground”. Shot with virtually no budget in a DIY style that mirrored the ethos of its featured artists, Mutiny: Asians Storm British Music is part music documentary, part social history, and now, after twenty years, remains as a time-capsule of the British Asian second generation. Mutiny has screened only once before in Britain. With interviews and performances by: Asian Dub Foundation, Fun^Da^Mental, State of Bengal, Talvin Singh, Anjali, Kaliphz, DJ Ritu, Hustlers HC, Joi, and Black Star Liner.
Shot with virtually no budget in a style that mirrored the ethos of featured artists, Mutiny: Asians Storm British Music is part music documentary, part social history and serves as a time-capsule for the second generation of British Asians.
This screening includes a live-streamed Q&A with director Vivek Bald on Zoom and musician Sarathy Korwar and curator Sweety Kapoor on stage.
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