BATHINDA/JALANDHAR: The music of protest has bridged language, culture and geographic divides. Songs with roots in Italian folk music and in the sublime genius of Faiz Ahmad Faiz’s ghazals is keeping spirits singing in the farmers’ agitation against the three central agri-marketing laws on the borders of Delhi.
“Wapas Jao”, a Punjabi version of “Bella Ciao (Goodbye, Beautiful)”, an Italian farmers’ protest song from the late 1800s, has gained newfound popularity because of a web series, has been an instant hit, as have been songs themed on Iqbal Bano’s rendition of Faiz’s ghazal, “Hum Dekhenge”, in Punjabi and Tamil.
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Bella Ciao goes Punjabi with sounds of farmers protesting
Bella Ciao, the anthem of resistance across the world, now has a Punjabi version that echoes with the sounds of farmers protesting and 27-year-old Poojan Sahil who created the song canât be happier at its acceptance and success. The video of the song has almost 2.7 lakh views on YouTube in less than a week and is being widely shared across social media platforms. Sahil, who teaches mathematics in a Delhi school, said fear, abuses and disappointments are par for the course for a socially conscious musician but it all seems worth it if his words give strength to the thousands of farmers who have been protesting for the last month to demand a rollback of the three new agri laws.
After anti-CAA protests, now Bella Ciao goes Punjabi with sounds of farmers protesting
The video of the song has almost 2.7 lakh views on YouTube in less than a week and is being widely shared across social media platforms.
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Farmers shout slogans during a protest at the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh state border in Ghazipur on December 20 2020. (Photo | EPS/Parveen negi) By PTI
NEW DELHI: Bella Ciao , the anthem of resistance across the world, now has a Punjabi version that echoes with the sounds of farmers protesting and 27-year-old Poojan Sahil who created the song can t be happier at its acceptance and success.
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‘Farm Laws Wapas Jao’: Punjabi Version Of Money Heist s ‘Bella Ciao’ Is Now Anthem Of Farmers’ Protest
The video of the song has almost 2.7 lakh views on YouTube in less than a week and is being widely shared across social media platforms.
PTI 24 December 2020 Suresh K Pandey PTI 2020-12-24T13:54:50+05:30 ‘Farm Laws Wapas Jao’: Punjabi Version Of Money Heist s ‘Bella Ciao’ Is Now Anthem Of Farmers’ Protest outlookindia.com 2020-12-24T14:05:45+05:30
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“Bella Ciao”, the anthem of resistance across the world, now has a Punjabi version that echoes with the sounds of farmers protesting and 27-year-old Poojan Sahil who created the song can’t be happier at its acceptance and success.
‘Farm Laws Wapas Jao’: This Punjabi version of ‘Bella Ciao’ has become anthem of farmers’ protest
The Punjabi rendition of the iconic protest song is to express solidarity with the farmers’ protest in Delhi, evoking the song s origins in Italy composed to highlight harsh working conditions of women paddy workers. Updated: December 20, 2020 10:33:36 am
Even as farmers continue to protest at Delhi border opposing the Centre’s three farm bills, a Punjabi version of ‘Bella Ciao’ capturing the pulse of the campaign is going viral.
“Thwaade inn kaale, kaatil kaanoonan, Da ikoyi jawab: wapas jao,” says the lyrics of the desi version of the song, echoing the demands of the farmers.