Arts and culture

Banda music

Banda music (banda sinaloense, tambora sinaloense): a Mexican brass-band genre from Sinaloa with clarinets, trumpets, trombones, sousaphone, and tambora drum; consolidated in the late 19th century, standardized after 1920, globalized via technobanda and the regional Mexican streaming boom.

Banda Rancho Viejo

Banda Rancho Viejo is a Mexican banda sinaloense group formed in 2006 in El Limón de los Peraza, Sinaloa, by Julio César Arámburo and his father Julián.

Banda Uó

Banda Uó is a Brazilian tecnobrega-pop trio formed in Goiânia in October 2010 by Davi Sabbag, Mateus Carrilho, and Mel Gonçalves, known for the viral 2011 hit "Shake de Amor".

Bandaa Singh Chaudhary

Bandaa Singh Chaudhary (बन्दा सिंह चौधरी) is a 2024 Hindi action-drama film directed by Abhishek Saxena, starring Arshad Warsi as a Hindu farmer resisting militants in Punjab.

Bandabardò

Bandabardò is an Italian folk-rock band formed in Florence in 1993 by Enrico "Erriquez" Greppi and Alessandro "Finaz" Finazzo, with over 1,600 concerts played by 2019.

Bandage

A bandage is a material that holds a dressing or splint in place or supports an injured body part. The main types are roller, tubular, and triangular bandages.

Bandai Visual

Bandai Visual (バンダイビジュアル), founded August 1983, was a Japanese film, TV and home entertainment production and distribution company and the Bandai Namco Group's visual arm; merged with Lantis into Bandai Namco Arts in 2018, its film business later folded into Bandai Namco Filmworks.

Bandaids (song)

Bandaids is a 2025 Katy Perry single on Capitol Records about her breakup with Orlando Bloom, with a Final Destination-inspired video; UK peak 48, Gold in Brazil, no Hot 100 entry.

Bandalos Chinos

Bandalos Chinos, also known as Bándalos Chinos, is an independent Argentine indie pop band from Beccar, formed in 2009, known for its eighties-influenced synth pop and Latin Grammy nominations.

Bandar (film)

Bandar (बंदर, Monkey in a Cage) is a 2026 Hindi crime thriller directed by Anurag Kashyap, starring Bobby Deol as a TV actor accused of rape; produced by Nikhil Dwivedi, premiered at TIFF 2025, released 5 June 2026.

Bandar-log

Bandar-log (Hindi: बन्दर-लोग, "monkey people") are Kipling's lawless, leaderless Monkey-People in The Jungle Book (1894), who kidnap Mowgli to the Cold Lairs in "Kaa's Hunting" and fear only the python Kaa; unlike the 1967 Disney monkeys, they have no king.

Bandari music

Bandari music (بندری), literally "music of the ports", is a dance and popular-music style from Iran's Persian Gulf coast, built from Iranian, Arab, and African elements.

Bandarshah

Bandarshah (بندر شاه) is a two-part novel by the Sudanese writer Tayeb Salih, published in Arabic as Daw' al-Bayt (1971) and Maryud (1976) and set in the village of Wad Hamid.

Bandaya sahitya

Bandaya sahitya (ಬಂಡಾಯ ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯ), meaning protest literature, is a Kannada literary movement from the 1970s in which Dalit and marginalized writers opposed caste and inequality.

Bandcamp

Bandcamp: online record store and music community founded 2008 by Ethan Diamond in California; artists sell music and merch directly, keeping about 82% of sales; acquired by Epic Games 2022, then Songtradr 2023.

Bande à part (film)

Bande à part (Band of Outsiders) is Jean-Luc Godard's 1964 French New Wave heist film starring Anna Karina, Sami Frey, and Claude Brasseur, famous for its Madison dance and Louvre run; not the restaurant or band of the same name.

Bandeja paisa

Bandeja paisa, also called bandeja de arriero or bandeja montañera, is a large Colombian combination platter from Antioquia and the paisa region, built on beans, rice, meats, fried egg, plantain, arepa, and avocado; its national-dish status and 1950 dating are disputed.

Bandersnatch

The bandersnatch is a ferocious, extremely fast fictional creature invented by Lewis Carroll, first mentioned in his 1871 novel Through the Looking-Glass and his 1874 poem The Hunting of the Snark.

Bandhan (बंधन) (1998 film)

Bandhan (बंधन) is a 1998 Hindi action drama romance directed by K. Muralimohana Rao, starring Salman Khan, Jackie Shroff, Rambha, and Ashwini Bhave; released 2 October 1998, it was a box office hit.

Bandhanasthanaya Aniruddhan

Bandhanasthanaya Aniruddhan (ബന്ധനസ്ഥനായ അനിരുദ്ധൻ, "Aniruddhan in Prison") is a 1914 Malayalam khandakavya by Vallathol Narayana Menon that retells the Puranic love story of Usha and Aniruddha.

Bandhani (બાંધણી)

Bandhani (બાંધણી), also bandhej or sungadi, is a South Asian tie-dye textile technique from Sanskrit bandh, 'to tie'; thousands of hand-tied knots resist dye to form dots, centered in Kutch, Gujarat, with a registered GI.

Bandidos (TV series)

Bandidos is a Mexican action-adventure comedy series released on Netflix in 2024, following a ragtag crew of bandits hunting a Mayan treasure no one has found.

Bandini (बंदिनी) (TV series)

Bandini (बंदिनी), Hindi soap opera by Balaji Telefilms on NDTV Imagine, 19 January 2009 to 29 January 2011, about Santu (Aasiya Kazi) married to Dharamraj (Ronit Roy) in rural Gujarat; later rerun on Zee Anmol.

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Bandini (बन्दिनी) (1963 film)

Bandini (बन्दिनी) is Bimal Roy's 1963 Hindi black-and-white drama starring Nutan, Ashok Kumar, and Dharmendra, adapted from Jarasandha's novel Tamasi; it won six Filmfare Awards and the President's Silver Medal and was Roy's last film.

Bandini Pietà

The Bandini Pietà, also called the Florentine Pietà or the Deposition, is a marble sculpture group Michelangelo carved in Rome between about 1547 and 1555.

Bandish Bandits

Bandish Bandits is a Hindi musical drama on Amazon Prime Video (2020, Season 2 in 2024) created by Amritpal Singh Bindra and Anand Tiwari, starring Ritwik Bhowmik and Shreya Chaudhry as classical singer Radhe and pop star Tamanna, with music by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy in Season 1.

Bandit (film)

Bandit (2022) is a Canadian biographical crime film directed by Allan Ungar, starring Josh Duhamel, Elisha Cuthbert, Nestor Carbonell, and Mel Gibson, based on Robert Knuckle's book The Flying Bandit about robber Gilbert Galvan Jr.; released September 23, 2022 by Quiver Distribution.