Fun fact. Jhumka gira re, the wildly popular Bollywood classic, isn’t originally the coquettish song as Asha Bhonsle sings it to be in the 1966 movie, Mera Saaya. On the contrary, it’s an age-old Bhojpuri tune about a woman who gets mercilessly beaten up by her mother-in-law, sister-in-law and husband for losing a piece of jewellery at a market in Bareilly. Maybe you didn’t know that. But that’s not your fault. It’s just that in the urban confines of Mumbai, we tend to be disconnected from the wealth of folk music that emanates from every corner of this vast country. “People in small towns, even the youngsters, take more pride in it. I mean, I once met a doctor in Indore who taught me a bhajan,” says Pranita NP, who will perform at a concert called Sounds of India along with Banat Kaur Bagga and Yugm, where they will present traditional Marwari, Bhojpuri and Punjabi tunes, apart from Urdu ghazals.

But the interesting thing is that while they keep the musical compositions intact, the musicians will play around with the words to fit them into a more progressive, 21st-century context. “A lot of these songs have embedded racist and sexist themes, unfortunately. I like to stay away from that,” Bagga says.