THE East has met the West. Distanced in time from 1983 when Pankaj Udhas' path-breaking video appeared in Modella ke Sitare, picturising ghazals is no longer rare. Inspired by the success of western music videos—including the well-marketed slipshod ones—the artiste has tuned his temperament to the changed times. The results conform to the western pattern of two decades ago: a video boom in which class and crass waltz in blissful tandem.