The clarion call for many a revolution manifests in the form of a protest song. From being the mouthpiece of the freedom struggle to securing a firm spot in the current indie scene, Nittal Chandarana traces the journey of ‘movement music’
Let’s begin this with the two dreaded words — cow politics. The grand elephant in the room that has tickled the imagination of an entire nation has also succeeded in placing people on opposite ends of the anti-nationalist/ patriot spectrum. and where healthy debate falls on deaf ears, it’s the ‘protest song’ that brings together all the outrage and ideas of right and wrong. Take Gaiyya by aisi Taisi Democracy for instance. ‘Agle janam mein mohe gaiyya hi keejo’ (‘Bring me back as a cow in my next birth’). Not a terribly wrong statement to make these days considering how, as popular opinion goes, the cow is safer than women in this country.
WAR AND PEACE
In india, as seen even in our freedom struggle against the British raj, music has been a front runner in conveying resistance. as an off shoot of the movement, tracks from Bollywood took on a patriotic tone. Vande Mataram from Anand Math (1952) put our national song to a different tune. Mere Desh Ki Dharti from Upkar (1960) has refused to vacate its spot on the independence Day broadcast list. You may call it natural progression, but the very same songs that were considered tunes of protest became paeans to the now-liberated nation. Protest and patriotism are then two sides of the same coin.
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