{"id":1485,"date":"2015-12-12T20:12:29","date_gmt":"2015-12-12T14:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/?p=1485"},"modified":"2015-12-14T14:13:17","modified_gmt":"2015-12-14T08:43:17","slug":"sanskrit-lyrics-in-telugu-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/sanskrit-lyrics-in-telugu-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanskrit lyrics in telugu movies"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am not a great fan of songs nor listen to them frequently (except for those periodic bouts of playing a hit song in a loop). But, after watching Bahubali<\/a>, I started noticing two things in Telugu movie songs, use of Sanskrit and songs shot on the ‘in action’ hero.\u00a0 This post is dedicated to the former and I will write one on the later some other time.<\/p>\n

Apparently, a movie called Maharshi<\/a> started this way back in 1988 with a disco song in Sanskrit called ‘Oorvasi<\/a>‘. This one\u00a0 – ‘Om Mahapraana Deepam<\/a>‘ – from Sri Manjunatha is also completely in Sanskrit.<\/p>\n

Bahubali has a couple of songs – ‘Dheevara<\/a>‘ (Hindi – ‘Khoya hai<\/a>‘) and ‘Sivuni aana<\/a>‘ (Hindi – ‘Kaun hai voh<\/a>‘) with Sanskrit lyrics. The later actually has ‘Shiva tandava stotram<\/a>‘ in it.\u00a0 Reading a bit about them, I realised that the combo of M.M Keeravani<\/a> (music director),\u00a0 Shiva Shakti Datta (lyricist) and S.S Rajamouli<\/a> (director) produced another favourite of mine, ‘Agni skalana<\/a>‘ in Chatrapati<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Then there is A.R Rahman. Here are a couple from him – ‘Mangalyam<\/a>‘ from Sakhi \/ Alaipayuthe<\/a>y<\/a> and his version of ‘Shiva tandava stotram<\/a>‘ from Lingaa<\/a>. I don’t think any one beats A.R Rahman in mixing classical and devotional songs. (As an aside, just to make my point, listen to ‘Heera<\/a>‘, a Kabir’s doha in Highway<\/a> or ‘Ik onkar<\/a>‘ from Rang de Basanti<\/a> or any of his Sufi <\/a>ones.)<\/p>\n

The other one I can think of, is Bharata vedamuga<\/a> from Pournami<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As I said, I don’t listen to songs that much. Will add to this list as and when, I chance upon songs in Telugu movies with Sanskrit lyrics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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