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The song "Rang Barse Bhige Chunarwali" which Amitabh Bachchan sings during the film is said to be one of India's best known folk songs. [1] The music director was Shiv-Hari, both also noted classical musicians. The taal (rhythm) of the song is Keherwa of Hindustani classical music, [2] while the lyrics were by poet Harivansh Rai Bachchan, based ...
I am a Vagabond) is a song from the 1951 Indian film Awaara, directed by and starring Raj Kapoor, which was internationally popular. [1] [2] The song was written in the Hindi-Urdu language [3] by lyricist Shailendra, and sung by Mukesh. [4] "Awaara Hoon" immediately struck "a chord in audiences from various classes and backgrounds all over ...
In 2002, BBC World Service conducted an international poll to choose ten most famous songs of all time. Around 7000 songs were selected from all over the world. Vande Mataram, from the movie Anand Math, was ranked second. [53] All India Radio's version and some other versions are in Desh raga. [54]
"Kashmiri Song" or "Pale Hands I Loved" is a 1902 song by Amy Woodforde-Finden based on a poem by Laurence Hope, pseudonym of Violet Nicolson. The poem first appeared in Hope's first collection of poems, The Garden of Kama (1901), also known as India's Love Lyrics .
(Indian, 29 December 1911) Many historians aver that the newspaper reports cited above were misguided. The confusion arose in the Indian press since a different song, "Badshah Humara" written in Hindi by Rambhuj Chaudhary, [34] was sung on the same occasion in praise of George V. The nationalist press in India stated this difference of events ...
"Tunak Tunak Tun" or simply "Tunak Tunak", is a Bhangra/Indi-pop song by Indian Punjabi artist Daler Mehndi, released in 1998. It was the first Indian music video made using chroma key technology. [1] The song and the video were a success in India, cementing Mehndi's status as India's biggest and most popular popstar at the time. [2]
Songs of Kabir (New York: MacMillan, 1915) [1] is an anthology of poems by Kabir, a 15th-century Indian spiritual master. It was translated from Hindi to English by Rabindranath Tagore , a Nobel Prize-winning author and noted scholar.
"Chaiyya Chaiyya" ("[walk] in shade") is an Indian pop-folk song, featured in the soundtrack of the Bollywood film Dil Se.., released in 1998.Based on Sufi music and Urdu poetry, [1] the single was derived from the lyrics of the song "Tere Ishq Nachaya", written by Bulleh Shah, with music composed by A.R. Rahman, written by Gulzar, and sung by Sukhwinder Singh and Sapna Awasthi.