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"Song of India" is a popular song adapted from the aria "Pesni︠a︡ indiĭskogo gosti︠a︡" (Song of the Indian Guest) from Rimsky-Korsakov's 1896 opera Sadko. [1] The melody was also used for the 1918 song " Beautiful Ohio ", which became the official song of the U.S. State of Ohio .
Song of India may refer to: Song of India, common name for plant dracaena reflexa, first described in 1786 "Song of India" (song), aria from Rimsky-Korsakov's 1896 opera Sadko "Song of India", alternative name for "Sare Jahan se Accha", 1904 Urdu poem, later song; Song of India, 1949 American romantic adventure drama, starring Sabu
Song of India is a 1949 American adventure film directed and produced by Albert S. Rogell and starring Sabu, Gail Russell and Turhan Bey. [1] It was produced and distributed by Columbia Pictures . Plot
The poem has been translated into most modern Indian languages and many European languages. There is a German rendering which Goethe read by F. H . van Dalberg. Dalberg's version was based on the English translation done by William Jones published in the Transactions of the Asiatic Society , Calcutta in 1792.
Chak De! India is the soundtrack album to the 2007 film Chak De! India directed by Shimit Amin for Yash Raj Films and stars Shah Rukh Khan. The film's soundtrack featured seven songs composed by the duo Salim–Sulaiman and lyrics written by the screenwriter Jaideep Sahni. The soundtrack was released through YRF Music on 11 July 2007.
Later, Michael Winterbottom used the original version of the song as a soundtrack in his 2011 film Trishna, starring Freida Pinto and Riz Ahmed. In 2020, Rahat Fateh Ali Khan paid homage to his uncle Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan with a cover version of the song, saying, "Sanson Ki Mala [is] a Qawwali very close to my heart, and this time it has been ...
Shyamlal Gupta, popularly known by his pen name Parshad, (9 September 1896 – 10 August 1977) was an Indian poet and lyricist.A song written by him which featured in the 1948 Hindi film, Azadi Ki Raah Par, (sung by Sarojini Naidu), has been accepted as the flag song of India and is sung every year during the flag hoisting ceremony at the Independence Day and Republic Day celebrations.
Born in Andover, Massachusetts, Higgins had his high school education at Phillips Academy, where his father taught English and his mother taught music for many years. He attended Wesleyan University and received all three of his degrees from there: A B.A. as a double major in music and history in 1962, an M.A. in musicology in 1964, and a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology in 1973.