{"id":134,"date":"2009-06-07T11:47:43","date_gmt":"2009-06-07T11:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naresh.blogsome.com\/2009\/06\/07\/kesariya-baalam-a-rich-colourful-marwari-wedding-in-a-sikkimese-winter-2\/"},"modified":"2009-06-07T11:47:43","modified_gmt":"2009-06-07T11:47:43","slug":"kesariya-baalam-a-rich-colourful-marwari-wedding-in-a-sikkimese-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/naresh\/kesariya-baalam-a-rich-colourful-marwari-wedding-in-a-sikkimese-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"Kesariya Baalam – A rich, colourful, Marwari wedding in a Sikkimese winter"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Kesariya Baalam the to aao ni padharo mahre des” (\u0915\u0947\u0938\u0930\u093f\u092f\u093e \u092c\u093e\u0932\u092e \u0925\u0947 \u0924\u094b \u0906\u0913 \u0928\u0940 \u092a\u0927\u093e\u0930\u094b \u092e\u093e\u0939\u0930\u0947 \u0926\u0947\u0938) [O beloved with the saffron coloured turban, I heartily welcome you to my country], is a folk-tune from Rajasthan based on Raag Maand. Part of the Indo-Pak composite culture of Hindustaani music, it is a song of the Thar desert and has been sung through centuries. The tune has been used in movies (Dor<\/a>, in Lekin<\/a> by Lata Mangeshkar with lyrics changed, the Oscar-winning Little Terrorist<\/a>, and recently in 99.9FM by Zila Khan<\/a>), in Classical Music albums (Ustad Zakir Hussein in the album ‘Music of the Deserts’), in TV soaps (Balika Vadhu<\/a>), reality-singing shows (Raja Hasan in Sa Re Ga Ma Pa<\/a>, Aishwarya in Chote Ustad<\/a>), and sung by Singers from both Pakistan (Mehdi Hasan<\/a>, Ustad Naseer-ud-din Saami<\/a>) and India (Allah Jilai Bai<\/a>, Manganiyars 1<\/a>, 2<\/a>, 3<\/a>). As Siddhartha puts it, the Manganiyars are “a great example of Hindu-Islamic synthesis – practicing muslims who sing praise songs to Hindu gods!\u00a0 And that is besides their musicality!”<\/p>\n

In 2005-06, I made a painting<\/a> with the same title<\/p>\n

\"Painting<\/p>\n

After my wedding on 8 December 2003, I had 10-hours of video footage. I’d imagined that I’d edit the video into a 10-minute or 30-minute version (where this song would find a prominent place). I haven’t yet gotten around to doing that (as of 7 Jun 2009), but found some time today to create 4 shorts 30-second music videos from my wedding photos\u00a0 (archa-na-resh wedding)<\/a> using an online tool<\/a>. These 4 versions are based on 4 versions of Kesariaya Baalam sung by different singers. The copyright for the music resides with the respective owners (I’ve used what was available freely on youtube). The photos are mine.<\/p>\n

Let me know which version you like the best.<\/p>\n

Manganiyar version<\/p>\n

[youtube _2wKXiQgWqs 600]<\/p>\n

Instrumental Folk version<\/p>\n

[youtube 7iT0nFF1lGI 600]<\/p>\n

Raja Hasan version<\/p>\n

[youtube 9iwqAORj1RA 600]<\/p>\n

Lata Mangeshar version from Lekin<\/p>\n

[youtube FT3CRJhpun0 600]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Kesariya Baalam the to aao ni padharo mahre des” (\u0915\u0947\u0938\u0930\u093f\u092f\u093e \u092c\u093e\u0932\u092e \u0925\u0947 \u0924\u094b \u0906\u0913 \u0928\u0940 \u092a\u0927\u093e\u0930\u094b \u092e\u093e\u0939\u0930\u0947 \u0926\u0947\u0938) [O beloved with the saffron coloured turban, I heartily welcome you to my country], is a folk-tune from Rajasthan based on Raag … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,40,47,51,60,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archana","category-family-timeline","category-india-places","category-music-movies","category-self","category-watercolor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/naresh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/naresh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/naresh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/naresh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/naresh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/naresh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/naresh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/naresh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/naresh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}