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Falak se utrey zameen pe taare
Posted on: November 13, 2012
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Seven thousand. And the mind says, Goodness, are we already there?
A fabulous pace and a fantastic record. The steady pace with which the team is pulling together is simply marvelous. And more than that, it is Atul ji’s single minded devotion to this endeavor. One can barely begin to imagine the amount of time and effort that he is relentlessly putting in, day in and day out. That is nothing less than fantastic.
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Today (13 november 2012) is Deewaali, the festival of light which is the biggest festival of India. This is a special day for this blog as well. We in this blog seek to light up the days of our readers by discussing by bringing some “new” songs to the notoce of music lovers and we have been doing it for the last half a decade now!
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It is often said that most festival songs that continue to be popular are several decades ago and that the festivals as well as the songs about them were no longer the same.
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Aayi deewaali deep jalaao
Posted on: November 13, 2012
Today (13 november 2012) is Deewaali, the festival of light. This is the fifth Deewaali festival for this blog, which is quite an achievement for us, seeing that this blog has not just survived for such a long time, but has in fact progressed and thrived. Now it has become an online collaboration of likeminded music lovers who are contributing their mite and that is helping build up a valuable online musical repository.
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Aayi deewaali deepon waali
Posted on: November 13, 2012
Today (13 november 2012) is Deewaali, easily India’s biggest festival and a festival which also happens to be the time when Indians do their major shoppings of the year because this is supposed to be the most auspicious occasion for such activities. This festival in fact is celebrated as Laxmi Puja, Laxmi being the goddess of wealth and the consort of Vishnu, one of the three major Gods. Of course this festival is also celebrated as the day when Lord Ram (one of the reincarnations of Vishnu) returned back to Ayodhya with Sita and Laxman after completing his period of Vanwas.
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Today (19 september 2012) is Ganesh Chaturthi, a major Indian festival. Today Lord Ganesh’s birthday is celebrated. In Indian calender, Lord Ganesh’s festival comes first and the festivals involving other Gods come then follow during the year. In fact, “Sriganesh karna” has become a Hindi language idiom which means “to begin”.
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This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
daraaren daraaren hain maathhe pe maula
marammat muqaddar ki kar do maula
These lines written by Prasoon joshi for this qawwali in the film Delhi – 6 have a fascination, that in indescribable. But still let me try.
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Guess what song I stumbled upon a brief while ago ! I came across a rare song about Eid on the eve of the festival.
This song is as obscure as any. It is from a movie called “Rashida Dulhan” which was made sometime in late 1940s or early 1950s I guess but was never released. The songs of this movie, or at least this song managed to survive though.
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Eid milo eid
Posted on: August 20, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Lovely greetings for a wonderful Eid celebration today, to one and all.
Today, we celebrate Eid-ul-Fitr, which marks the culmination of the fasting month of Ramzaan. Today is the first day of the month of Shawwaal, the tenth month of the Islamic Hijri calendar. Ramzaan, which is the ninth month of the Hijri calendar, is observed as a fasting period by Muslims who abstain from food and water from sunrise to sunset. Fasting during Ramzaan, helps in developing self-control and is a way of getting closer to Allaah. It is historic record that the Qur’an was revealed to Prophet Mohammed (PBUH) in the last ten days of the month of Ramzaan. Today’s festivities mark the end of the fasting period.
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Hum behnon ke liye mere bhaiyya
Posted on: August 2, 2012
Today (2 august 2012) is the festival of Raakhi. Like most Indian festivals, this date of the festival depends of the Indian Saka calender rather than on the Gregorian calender. As a result, this festival falls on different dates on different years for people familar with the Gregorian calender.
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