About the Brazilian Song – Bajuan and Maya’s love theme, it is called ‘Não se esqueça de mim” (Don’t Forget me), sung by Nana Caymmi and one of the composers, Erasmo Carlos . Nana ( the woman) and Erasmo performed the song in a scene of the soap at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJAnDvXjVGA. Enjoy it!

Cybelle

The website also has explanations of Indian fashion and architecture…

The weird thing is, the episodes are now dubbed into Spanish, so you look at the actors lips and they are speaking Brazilian Portuguese, the audio is Spanish, and then every so often, you hear the Spanish actor’s voice saying “Achcha……” or “Theek hai”……. followed by a sentence in Castellano.

The episode I caught a glimpse of the other day had the straight-out-of-your-basic-masala-flic boy’s parents having tea at prospective daughter-in-law’s parents’ home, with the lead character Maya being the girl in question. It was interesting to see all these Brazilians decked out in what looked like the contents of a rather gaudy and spangly sari shop. This series has the former Miss Brazil – Vera Fischer – who was also in O Clone (The Clon), which did for Morocco what Caminho das Indias is doing for India.

Somewhere on the website, they also have this brief video “lesson” (and I use the term loosely) on Hindi: http://novelasyseries.univision.com/videos/extras/video/2010-10-15/la-escuelita-de-la-india

The original plot – a forbidden love between people from different castes- had to be somehow adapted as the audience ‘s response to the actor playing Raj was huge and unexpected and sort of changed the central love story.

The author Ms Gloria Perez (and her team of co-writers) however has been doing a very important work , in my opinion, dealing with Schizophrenia , as one of the Brazilians characters is schizophrenic.

The actors, yes, do use some Hindi expressions and I myself received a Glossary by email, explaining their meaning.

As for the music copyrights, they were certainly paid : Globo Network is too big and wealthy here no to do so. Besides, as a marketing tool Globo normally launches 2 CDs per soap opera ( they air 6 soap operas per year, plus 2 mini series , among other programs) : a National one and an International one. For Caminho das ìndias they have launched 2 “National” ones, another one with Indian music and will probably launch the “International” one very soon. Check it at http://www.somlivre.com/?1494/produto/CD/Caminho-das-Indias.As Globo soap operas are sold and presented around the world it means big business for all people envolved.

On last Saturday episode 4 chatacters went to a movie theater, in India and watched “Jodhaa Akbar ” which I had the chance to see in a Film festival here in Sâo Paulo. The Brazilian wife of the Indian character had never seen a Bollywood film, as most of the population to which the soap opera is written for.

Oh, just for the records, the beautiful blonde and blue eyed lady whose character is called Chiara ( an italian name not very common in Br) is a former Miss Brazil , Vera Fisher, now a popular actress.

Bye Cybelle

Carla

I just Would like to say thanks. This is a great post, I love it.

About Freida Pinto, she is not Brazilian? really? I would be able to swear that she was. Bye.

I just Would like to say thanks. This is a great post, I love it.

About Freida Pinto, it is not Brazilian? really? I would be able to swear that she was. Bye.

I am from The Netherlands in Europe and love Brasil and the beautiful people and was several times in Rio de Janeiro and hope to be there in October/November this year 2009. I am very interested in the culture from India and the Middle East and I am wondering how many Desi’s and their descendants are living now in Rio de Janeiro as immigrants who have started a new life there. Please can you respond and confirm reading my comments because I did sent e-mails to the Embassy of India in Brazil but did not receive any response to date.

Kindly Regards,

Cees Koster. Address: Tarbot 106, Residence: 2986 ND Ridderkerk, a small town close to the Worldport of Rotterdam in The Netherlands, Europe.