The best bit of Inside Man by Spike Lee is the fantastic opening and closing track; Chaiya Chaiya Bollywood Joint. It is apparently from a Bollywood movie called Di Sel and features Punjabi MC amongst others. Bollywood hip-hop, I never thought I’d hear it but hear it I did and love it I am. Good enough that I paid €9.99 on iTunes for the entire movie soundtrack just to get that one track (the rest of the tracks are OK, movie background music really.)
You can watch a music video of Chaiya Chaiya here. It doesn’t have the rapping in the Inside Man version but gives you a reasonable idea of the track (minus the standard over-the-top Bollywood sequences.)
The movie itself is quite good. The usual Spike Lee touches, good cinematography and a resoanably smart plot (though you’ll figure it out a quarter of the way into the movie.) Worth watching.
