Salma agha hot youtube2/14/2023 ABBA, which had dominated the last decade with catchy numbers such as Dancing Queen, Mamma Mia and Super Trouper, was an obvious choice for the second. Amit Khanna, a lyricist and executive producer with Dev Anand’s Navketan Films, was commissioned to write original lyrics for the first album, Boney M in Hindi. It was the brainchild of London-based Pran Gohil, founder of British-Asian music label Multitone, who wanted to do a series of Hindi covers of western musicians for the Indian market. All the other Indian pop albums came afterwards,” recalls the hazel-eyed Salma, who later starred in B R Chopra’s hit film, Nikaah. Titled ‘Salma and Sabina Agha Sing the Hits of ABBA in Hindi’, the album was a unique experiment and a precursor to the Indipop revolution of the 1990s. The songs were sung by two teenagers, Sabina and Salma Agha, and went on to become one of the few non-film albums to be played on Ameen Sayani’s Binaca Geetmala. As the Swedish Super Troupers get together to sing again, Sunday Times revisits a forgotten album of Hindi covers of their top hits In 1981, a year before Swedish pop group ABBA broke up, a group of Indians got together to release an unusual album - Hindi versions of their biggest hits.
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