
Nora Ali, the first Bangladeshi Miss Junior USA pageant, plays the Bangladeshi and U.S. national anthems.
We’ve been watching the Tribeca Film Festival since it got underway last week. But New York’s movie buffs turned out in droves last night for another film event: the Dhallywood Music & Film Awards. Dhallywood’s where the booming Bangladeshi film industry makes its Bollywood-style movie musicals. Almost 2,000 folks showed up at the Manhattan Center in midtown for the ceremony. Lara Pellegrinelli was on hand at the event — you can hear her here.
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Here’s a video by one of Dhallywood’s biggest stars, Sabina Yasmin:

