Patriotism voiced through songs
By siliconindia   |   Friday, 12 August 2011, 23:25 IST   |    1 Comments
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Bangalore: This very day, our tricolor unwind, liberated from the British succession and swirled for the first time with dignity and honour in the skies 64 years ago like it does today. India and its people have grown benevolent in the past 64 years; in its perception of the world and in its acquaintance of its vigor... though there are still miles to go, much to achieve, much to reform and much to control... but there's this strong feeling inside every Indian that bridges him directly to his motherland; to the land which has been influential in shaping up his individuality, to the land who has obliged him with his identity, and that feeling is patriotism! Patriotism and Indian music have amalgamated in innumerable melodies, in different moods, in various situations, in variant genres of Cinema... yet all of them stimulate that pure feeling every time you hear them. And what better day to hear to them all, than on the day when we stood free!! So come, lets wander through the lanes of the most famous patriotic tunes, and gratify, in the flavour of patriotism... Vande Matarm
Vande Mataram "I bow to thee, Mother" is a poem in the 1882 novel Anandamath by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay. It is written in a mixture of Bengali and Sanskrit. It is a hymn to the goddess Durga, identified as the national personification of India. It came to be considered the "National Song of India", and it played a part in the Indian independence movement. It was first sung in a political context by Rabindranath Tagore at the 1896 session of the Indian National Congress. The Vande Mataram theme has been used on a few Bollywood movie songs. In 1954, poet Pradeep used the expression in a song in Jagriti: "aao bachchon tumhen dikhaayen jhaanki hindustaan ki is mitti se tilak karo ye dharati hai balidaan ki vande maataram" The most recent song inspired by Vande Mataram is in Lage RahoMunnabhai: Ainak pehne, lathi pakde chalte the woh shaan se Zaalim kaape thar thar, thar thar, sun kar unka naam re. Kadd tha unka chota sa aur sarpat unki chal re Duble se patle se the woh, chalte seena taan ke Bande mein tha dum, Vande Mataram Throughout its history there have been numerous remakes, recreations, and interpretations of this song. The most notable is music composer A. R. Rahman's Vande Mataram released to commemorate fifty years of India's Independence in 1997 produced by Bharat Bala Productions.

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