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with Zaara: Brown Girl Chronicles

Zaara Azira shines a spotlight on the brown girl experience, exploring everything from family traditions to the realities of modern dating and identity.

New voices. New sounds.

Zaara Azira celebrates the stories, traditions and unforgettable moments that make the brown girl experience so unique.

Reflecting on growing up in a close-knit family of strong women, she explores how Bollywood shaped her ideas of love, why aunties always have questions about marriage and how everyday acts of care, from hair oiling to shared meals, became her first lessons in love.

Zaara mixes humour, heartfelt storytelling and wedding-worthy anthems in a celebration of identity, sisterhood and the women who came before her.

Featuring iconic songs from Kal Ho Naa Ho, Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, Bang Bang!, Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela and more.

Produced in Birmingham by Solis Productions for BBC Asian Network.

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Sunday23:00
BBC Asian Network

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Music Played

  • Karan Aujla

    Tauba Tauba (From Bad Newz)

    • Saregama India Limited.

  • Neeraj Shridhar & Harshdeep Kaur

    Jhak Maar Ke (from Desi Boyz)

    • Desi Boyz.
    • T Series.

  • Sàbba, Jasmeen Akhtar & Dr Zeus

    Hello Hanji

  • Shankar Mahadevan & Ravi “Rags” Khote

    Pretty Woman (from Kal Ho Na Ho)

    • Kal Ho Na Ho.
    • Sony BMG.

  • Karan Aujla & Ikky

    Boyfriend

  • Udit Narayan & Alka Yagnik

    Laal Dupatta (from Mujhse Shaadi Karogi)

    • Mujhse Shaadi Karogi.
    • T Series.

  • Alka Yagnik & Sonu Nigam

    You Are My Soniya (from Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham)

    • Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham.
    • Sony Music.

  • Lata Mangeshkar

    Mere Khwabon Mein (from Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge)

    • Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge.
    • Saregama.

  • Mika Singh & Shefali Alvares

    Subha Hone Na De

    • Desi Boyz.
    • Eros Music.

  • Vishal Dadlani

    I Hate Luv Storys

    • I Hate Luv Storys.
    • Sony BMG India.

  • Vishal Mishra & Rahul Sipligunj

    Naacho Naacho

    • RRR.
    • Lahari Music, T series.

  • Benny Dayal & Neeti Mohan

    Bang Bang

    • Zee Music.

  • Shreya Ghoshal

    Nagada Sang Dhol (feat. Osman Mir)

    • Ram-leela.
    • Eros International.

  • Chani Nattan, Ezu, Gurinder Gill & Inderpal Moga

    Hawawan

    • ChaniNattan Entertainment Ltd..

  • Ed Sheeran

    Sapphire

    • Warner Music.

  • Sunidhi Chauhan & Udit Narayan

    Gun Gun Guna

    • Agneepath.
    • Sony Music.

  • AR Rahman & The Pussycat Dolls

    Jai Ho! (You Are My Destiny) (feat. Nicole Scherzinger)

    • Polydor.

  • Meet Bros Anjjan & Monali Thakur

    Cham Cham

    • Baaghi.
    • T-Series.

  • Shreya Ghoshal

    Chikni Chameli

    • Sony Music.

Broadcasts

  • Last Tuesday22:00
    BBC Asian Network
  • Sunday23:00
    BBC Asian Network