Bombay Vikings are a Swedish band that play a unique blend of Europeanized
Indian pop with elements of jazz and classical music. The band began to coalesce
in 1994 when Mats Nordenborg, Oscar Söderberg, and Neeraj Shirdhar all met and
discovered a shared interest in the popular music from India, particularly songs
used in Bollywood films. With Shirdhar installed as the frontman, they played
Indian inflected songs that were predominantly sung in English. They added and
dropped various members over the next five years before releasing their debut
1999 album Kya Soora Hai, a collect...