MTV Desi is a digital platform from MTV that targeted

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s (people of South Asian origin) in the United States, as the name implies. The network features various styles of music such as electronic tabla music and English-Gujarati hip-hop, interspersed with

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videos. It also broadcasts brief documentary clips profiling Desis/famous Indians in music, comic skits about South-Asian American generational conflicts, interviews with bi-cultural artists and Desi house parties, live performances and animated series. It launched as a cable network in July 2005 and was shut down in 2007. It was relaunched as a digital platform in 2012.

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's video " Bullah Ki Jaana" was the first video played on MTV Desi.

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