Summer song: ‘Pasoori’

For the song of the summer series, in India, the summer soundtrack features a toe-tapping tune about the pasoori — or difficulties — of unrequited love and distance. The song “Pasoori” is from Pakistan but has struck a chord around the world, and nowhere as much as in India reports Chhavi Sachdev in Mumbai.

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