Sunday, January 17, 2021

Latthe di Chadar

I discovered this Punjabi folk song quite by chance in an Indian Raga medley of folk songs: 


https://youtu.be/_sXcrYZIdEk

Then because one of the tracks sounded familiar I tracked it down to its different versions 

The classic version: https://youtu.be/tFMxhu-n0sA

The recent fusion versions:

https://youtu.be/QAuOqqKH2vs

And 


https://youtu.be/r9E4JJpEygc (which I like the best of all fusions). 

But this is a distant second to the original by Surinder Kaur ji 

A charming song about love. I don't get its meaning entirely. Still looking for a good translation.

Of course Bollywood came along and diluted it in London Thumakda. 

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