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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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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.
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An Indian artist, Poojan Sahil, has come up with a Punjabi rendition of the popular revolution song, Bella Ciao in a bid to show support to the farmers protesting at the Singhu borders near Delhi against the Centre s farm laws.
The song is going viral. At the time of writing this, there are over 28,000 views and it s not even been 24 hours since it was uploaded on the YouTube channel.
In the description section of his YouTube channel, Sahil writes, I make socio-political songs and try to promote the act of asking questions and celebrating dissent by letting people sing along to the tunes familiar to them.