Rajasthani Banjara
04/30/2009 · Mansi Shah
Scenes from Tony Gatlif’s Latcho Drom (1993):
Latcho Drom, also known as Safe Journey, is the second film in Gatlif’s trilogy about the Romani (Gypsy) people. The Romani are an ethnic group that presently live in the Central European states and the Balkan peninsula but linguistic and genetic evidence shows their Indo-Aryan origins. The roots of the Romani language being ancient Punjabi and originating from the modern Indian state of Rajasthan.
Latcho Drom follows Les Princes (1983) and precedes Gadjo Dilo (1997).