Kekra kekra naam bataaoon
Posted by: Atul on: October 20, 2025
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“Dharti Ke Laal”(1946) was directed by Khwaza Ahmad Abbas for IPTA (Indian People Theatre Association).
The movie had Shombhu Mitra, Usha Dutt, Balraj Sahni, Damayanti Sahni, Anwar Mirza, Tripti Bhaduri Mitra, David, K N Singh etc in it.
Mr Arunkumar Deshmukh, our beloved inhouse encyclopaedia has described the movie as well as the genesis of IPTA in great detail while covering an earlier song from the movie.
The brief story,as given by him that writeup is:
The film is based partly on Sombhu Mitra’s landmark production of Bhattacharya’s play Nabanna for the IPTA. It narrates the story of a family of sharecroppers in Bengal: the patriarch Samaddar, his elder son Niranjan and his wife Binodini, and the younger son Ramu with his wife Radhika. Despite a good harvest and rising grain prices during the war, Samaddar loses his property to a crooked grain dealing zamindar. Ramu, his wife and their newborn baby go to Calcutta followed soon after by the rest of the family along with thousands of similarly dispossessed peasants. The film intercuts Ramu’s frantic search for work with his wife’s descent into prostitution. Before dying, the patriarch enjoins his family to return to their native soil where the farmers get together and, in a stridently celebratory socialist-realist ending, opt for Soviet-style collective farming. Ramu is excluded from their world.
“Dharti Ke Laal”(1946) had ten songs in it. Three songs have been covered in the blog in the past.
Here is the fourth song from the movie to appear in the blog. This song is sung by an unknown male voice and chorus. The song is picturised as a war cry against exploitation by the exploiters. The song is lip synced by Benoy Roy (carrying a dholak) while the expoited public sing in chorus.
Lyricist of the song is not known. Music is composed by Ravi Shankar, who later on would become internationally famous as a sitar exponent.
Song-kekra kekra naam bataaoon (Dharti Ke Laal)(1946) Singer-Unknown male voice, Lyricist-Unknown, MD-Pt Ravishankar
Chorus
Lyrics
kekra kekra naam bataaoon
is jag mein bada luterwaa ho
kekra kekra naam bataaoon
is jag mein bada luterwaa ho
kekra kekra naam
ek huye bin kaam na chalihe
haan haan haan haan
ek huye bin kaam na chalihe
suno kisaan majdoorwaa ho
kekra kekra naam bataaoon
is jag mein bada luterwaa ho
kekra kekra naam
maalik aur mahajan looten
haan haaan haan haan
maalik aur mahajan looten
aur looten chorwa ho
kekra kekra naam bataaoon
is jag mein bada luterwaa ho
kekra kekra naam
julm sitam ka naam mitaao
haan haan
julm sitam ka naam mitaao
ek ho ke sab bhaiyya ho
kekra kekra naam bataaoon
is jag mein bada luterwaa ho
kekra kekra naam
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